COA News November 1986 College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine Vol. 9No. 2 Leaders From Five Continents Meet At COA Over 150 scholars from approxi- mately 20 countries including Australia, Brazil, India, Israel, and Japan gathered at the College the weekend of October 17-19 for the second international conference of the Society for Human Ecology. Their purpose was to discuss how a human ecological perspective can be used to promote the improvement of human and environmental well-being throughout the world. Against a background of brilliant autumn foliage, the participants exchanged ideas and knowledge in an attempt to jointly gain a broader perspective towards addressing the complex problems of the world. "College of the Atlantic is gaining world recognition as a leader in Human Ecology, and therefore was a logical setting for this forum of international leaders of many disciplines," states Richard Borden, COA Professor and newly elected President of the Society Jamien Jacobs '86 (center) exhibits the certificate of recognition awarded to her for for Human Ecology. "We currently outstanding efforts in assisting with the coordination of the Human Ecology Conference. With Jamien is Wolfgang F.E. Preiser (left), past president of the Society for Human Ecology have the broadest interdisciplinary (SHE), and Richard J. Borden (right), new president of SHE. program in Human Ecology in the world - that makes us especially interesting as a model for programs elsewhere." The Conference was coordinated by COA Wins Major Federal Grant Borden and assistants, Jamien Jacobs (COA '86) and Carol Mead, a former The award of a $591,000 grant to the the confidence the COA Board of COA student. College for the purpose of Trustees and COA donors have shown Leading off the Conference as one of strengthening academic quality and in the college. In addition, it reflects the five keynote speakers, COA administrative capacity was announced positively on the accomplishments of Professor William Carpenter spoke in early October by President this 15-year-old institution's Rabineau. about Human Ecology as an "aesthetic distinguished faculty, students, alumni, science." Human Ecology, like art, Funded under the Strengthening and staff. The grant comes at a very strives for "a wholeness of vision," said Program, Title III of the Higher important time for COA. It will allow the Carpenter. "Human Ecology has gone Education Act of 1965, the grant is the College to accelerate the achievement a long way toward integrating the social largest ever received by the college, of long-range goals, and COA's and natural sciences into a working according to Rabineau. The funds will increasing emergence as a dynamic and arrangement. As the scope and be received by the college over a three- strong institution." aspirations of Human Ecology expand year period to develop and implement The Title III Program operates as a into the future, we must include art and activities in three areas: institutional part of the Division of Institutional aesthetics as full partners only then research, computer resources, and Development, Bureau of Higher and will it become a complete vision of who ecological education. Continuing Education, U.S. "We are proud and elated," stated Department of Education. Continued on page 3 Rabineau. "The Title III grant validates 1 Three Students Receive Betterment Scholarships Three COA students have been selected as recipients of Betterment Fund scholarships. Both Missy York and Dawna Bemis are native residents of Maine who graduated from high school last Spring. Missy attended Lake Region High School near Bridgton, Maine, and Dawna finished her studies in Bangor, Maine. Robin Seel, the third scholarship recipient, has been a Maine Allen Photo resident for the past five years. She Dennis Bracale poses in front of the new Japanese garden which he assisted in designing as took two years off from school after part of his summer internship. graduating from George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, Maine. During this time, she says, she discovered Internships COA, which appealed to her desire to attend a small personable college. A graduation requirement at COA, an Kim Robertson marine mammal internship is a work experience which researcher for Maine Whalewatch, Bar Last winter, COA was awarded a allows students to apply knowledge, Harbor, ME. $20,000 grant from The Betterment develop skills, and clarify career goals. Fund to assist in the college's ongoing Bruce Robinson assistant to the Internships can take many challenging effort to recruit more Maine students. president of Shorebirds Systems in forms, as illustrated by this year's COA The grant is directed toward students Manset, ME. students and their projects. who resided in Maine prior to their Mara Silver and Kirsten Tripplett application at COA. Currently, 15% of Summer Interns 1986 horticultural assistants at Wild the students enrolled at the college are Dennis Bracale - working with COA Gardens of Acadia Maine residents. In the next five years, maintenance and grounds crew as Susan Stuart - research assistant at COA hopes to boost its enrollment of landscape designer at COA. Wolf Park in Battleground, IN. students from Maine to approximately Lynne Marie Brach weaver's Betts Swanton - museum assistant at 20%. assistant with Jayne Thomas of Blue Abbe Museum in Acadia National Park "COA, as an institution in Maine, Hill, ME. feels a keen moral and civic Mark Cosgrove park aid with Acadia responsibility to help serve the students National Park, Bar Harbor, ME. in the state of Maine," says COA Fall Interns President Louis Rabineau. With the James Cox transcriptionist for Bill Allen research assistant for help of The Betterment Fund, COA Stewart Stern in Westport, CT. Cultural Survival, Inc., Cambridge, hopes to "help support undergraduate Jonathan Ellsworth assistant MA. studies for resident Maine students," director of the Blue Hill Society for adds Ted Koffman. Children Summer Adventure Program. Paul Boothby intern at Norlands Living History Museum in Livermore The Betterment Fund is a private Kevin Geiger organizational Falls, ME. trust created by the will of William development intern at Nicaragua Ellen Lerner assistant to the Bingham II who was, before his death in Network in Washington, D.C. Environmental Education Director and 1955, a resident of Bethel, Maine. The Lauren Gilson teacher/naturalist at to the Land Stewardship Director at philanthropies of The Betterment Fund the Science Center of New Hampshire Maine Audubon Society in Falmouth, have been directed primarily toward Julie Girton coordinator of the ME. the development of Maine educational Elderhostel Program at COA and medical areas through the support Chris O'Connor student teacher in of Maine educational organizations. David Heckscher planning assistant Chemistry at Mt. Desert Island High for Hancock County Planning School. Inquiries regarding Betterment Fund Commission, Ellsworth, ME. scholarships should be submitted to Alexandra Stockwell - research Ted Koffman, Director of Financial Aid Susan Lentfer laboratory assistant assistant for Hamilton Equine Services by April 1. for Darling Center in Walpole, ME. in Beverly, MA. Jean Pelletier research assistant for Susan Stuart - volunteer at Kenai - Josh Winer the Maine Geological Survey Fjords National Park in Seward, AL. 2 Summer Graduate Program Stimulates Calling All Alumni Fresh Perspectives The next issue of COAA News will be published in January, according to Jean McHugh '81, College of the This summer 140 teachers from 20 Atlantic Association board member states attended the Field Studies by the and editor of the newsletter. Sea program at College of the Atlantic. The deadline for FORUM Two-week intensive workshops were submissions is Dec. 1. This issue's offered in oceanography; whales, FORUM topic will be "A Sense of porpoises, and seals; technical diving; Place." field ecology; geological foundations; "Which qualities, events, or rituals and environmental chemistry. A three- celebrate and conjure up the 'sense week course on plant taxonomy was of place' you inhabit? Tap into also offered. The classes were taught by another level of perception. Rather COA faculty members Carl Ketchem, than taking for granted the everyday Steve Katona, Craig Greene, and Don sights of your environment, stop and Cass, and by research associate Greg look at it - what makes it unique? Stone. From the University of What associations do you have with Maryland, James O'Connor was also a different seasons, other places in Field Studies instructor. your past?" (from COAA NEWS, Since 1981 this summer graduate June 1986). program has stimulated fresh Send your responses to: COAA perspectives on teaching in the NEWS, c/o Jean McHugh, 78 sciences and environmental fields. Webster Street, Arlington, MA Developed for practicing teachers, 02174, (617) 646-5685. graduate students and others with keen Your poetry, photographs and interest in environmental studies, Allen Photo graphic art are also welcome. classes emphasize fieldwork and Information for the Class Notes Summer Field Studies students examine laboratory work in a seminar/discus- mountain flora during Craig Greene's section is being collected by Rebecca sion format. Ecology Workshop which stressed the Buyers-Basso, Coordinator of A former Field Studies student, Ellen relationships among plants, animals and the Alumni Activity. She will accept Mattesen, commented, "You just can't environment. news c/o her attention, College of beat the combination of the comraderie the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 of people who share your interests with until Dec. 5. Becky reports a the physical beauty of the mountains tremendous response to the letter meeting the sea! I can't wait to come she sent out to alumni in August. back!" Conference (Continued from page 1) we are and what we can become," he frequently repeated in describing the Toulouse, France, Phillips LeFevre- concluded. human ecological approach were: Witier, commented, "Human Ecology Other invited speakers of the Human "Specializing in generalizing, is the opposite of specialized Ecology Conference 1986 were: "balance," "multi-focal,' "synthesizing" education." A COA student who Andrew P. Vayda, Rutgers University; and "thinking interdependently." An attended various sessions of the Zena Daysh, Commonwealth Human example of Human Ecology at work in conference concluded, "Any person Ecology Council, London; Torsten the world was cited by Zena Daysh, who attempts to bring together two Malmberg, Nordic Society for Human who described the work of the different areas while being aware of the Ecology; and Paulo de Almeida interrelation of the two is in my mind a Machado, Cidade Universitaria, Human Ecologist." "The common denominator was the Campisina, Brazil. In addition to the special themes presented by the recognition of the need to communicate Sponsors of the Human Ecology keynote speakers, the Conference in a cooperative spirit." Conference 1986, in addition to College - Rich Borden of the Atlantic, were: the Academy for program included over 70 presenta- Educational Development, a private, tions in the form of symposia, paper non-profit educational services and sessions and round-table discussions. Commonwealth Human Ecology consulting organization in New York Topics ranged from family dynamics to Council (CHEC) in improving the City; and the Frost Foundation in international health problems, human and environmental well-being of Denver, Colorado, which is especially domestic architecture, wildlife the people of Malta, a newly interested in creative and innovative management and third-world cultures independent island country. projects focusing on meeting critical and development. Dr. Machado of Cidade Universitaria, societal needs and possessing the During the three-day conference the Brazil, stated that "Human Ecology is potential to be replicated successfully. principles of Human Ecology were the study of man within his Further support was received from a expressed in many ways. Words circumstance." An educator from private, anonymous donor. 3 biology. He hopes to instill this excitement in his students. "The beauty of COA is people thinking across disciplines," he says. "I want to encourage students to be interdiscip- linary thinkers so that they will be better prepared to examine issues from many perspectives." Bill has taught previously at State University College of Potsdam and St. Lawrence University. He is currently involved with studies of acid rain in the Adirondacks. John Visvader's courses in philosophy integrate his interests in COA's new faculty members take a break from their busy schedules. From left: John Chinese philosophy, Eastern religions, Visvader, Skip Basso, Bill Marshall, Lucy Bell Sellers, John Buell. Western civilization and natural history. After being a visiting professor at COA New Faculty Stress The Learning Process for three years, "I fell in love with the place," he says. "I wouldn't teach anywhere else. I was impressed with the COA's five new faculty members into the College and more a part of the students and liked the community." have chosen to teach at COA because community." He also wants to John wants to give students an of a strong affinity for the COA encourage the students to do all the appreciation for the history and community and a desire to be part of its Museum displays themselves. philosophy of ideas so they will growth. Experts in their respective Originally from Portland, Skip has understand contemporary environ- fields, they also want to encourage worked previously as a supervisor in a mental problems. He is also team- students to look for ways each steel fabricating plant and as a teaching the Human Ecology Core discipline relates to or supports taxidermist in Ottawa. Skip's wife course with Rich Borden and Bill another. Asked about the themes of Becky, also a COA graduate, recently Carpenter, where he hopes students their respective courses, each joined the staff as an admissions will come away with a better instructor spoke less about the course counselor and alumni activities understanding of how design, human content than the importance of the coordinator. studies and science are related. learning process. Visvader has taught previously at the University of Colorado, Husson For John Buell, teaching at COA is College in Bangor, Maine, and Lesley Lucy Bell Sellers, a summer very satisfying because he can get to College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. resident of Mount Desert Island, is at know students as more than "just faces In 1974 he received an Outstanding COA this fall to direct and coordinate in a large lecture hall." An instructor of Educators of America award. the production of a Shakespearian play political theory, John says he As You Like It. Hoping that this will be appreciates the chance to teach at the beginning of an on-going drama COA because the College is striving to program, she wants the students taking build a broad interdisciplinary part in the production to find it a curriculum and a governing structure "fascinating process." "My husband which allows students the opportunity Alumni and I have been interested in COA from to participate in a wide range of its beginning. The College is like family community concerns. "I hope my to us," says Lucy Bell. Her husband students will be better able to evaluate Banquet Peter, a faculty member at Rockefeller the political dimension of current University, is a trustee of COA. A approaches to the ecological crisis of graduate of Radcliffe College, Lucy Bell modern industrial societies," he says. COA Alumni will be inviting alumni, has done extensive acting and play Formerly an instructor at Smith parents, trustees and other friends to a directing in Philadelphia, her College, Buell has also been an gala dinner event to be held in hometown. associate editor of The Progressive, a Boston/Cambridge on April 11. The monthly journal of political thought. event will be in honor of founding president Ed Kaelber and longtime Skip Basso is the new Acting trustee Betty Thorndike. Proceeds Bill Marshall sees himself as a from the sale of tickets and Curator of the Natural History Museum and instructor of the museum geologist who has "taken the blinders sponsorships will benefit the Phoenix preparation practicum. A 1983 off." Involved with a project to Fund, to help rebuild Kaelber Hall and graduate of COA, he is happy to be reconstruct Maine colonial trade routes the Thorndike Library. Mark this date back. "I'm excited to be at a place that's by identifying ballast rocks, he has on your calendar, and look for further announcements and details this winter! growing," he says. "The Museum can discovered the excitement of cutting be a major drawing card for the College. across the fields of nautical I want to see it become more integrated archaeology, maritime history and 4 The O.O.P.s Trip: Faculty Duo Complete Somes Sound Study Experiment And COA professors Donald Cass and evaluated along with chemical analysis Adventure Carl Ketchum have recently completed of several streams flowing into the an independent study of Somes Sound. sound. "Phosphate concentrations The following is a personal account This study was the result of questions significantly higher than those reported by Keith Goodrich, a first-year COA raised at a December 1985 public for similar streams in the White student, concerning COA's Outdoor hearing in the town of Mt. Desert Mountains of New Hampshire" was one Orientation Program. - Editor. concerning a proposed commercial of the report's findings. Phosphates, Each fall before classes begin at Atlantic salmon hatchery for Somes along with nitrates, can promote algae Sound. Cass and Ketchum were COA, new students have the chance to growth if in high enough concentra- commissioned by the Somes Sound tions. participate in the College's Outdoor Association and the Town of Mt. Orientation Program. The O.O.P.s The effects of two secondary sewer Trip, as it has been affectionately Desert to conduct the study because, treatment plants that drain into Somes dubbed, gives groups of 12 to 14 as the report states, "the hearing Sound - at Somesville and Northeast students a chance to get to know each demonstrated how little was actually Harbor, were also investigated. The known about the waters of Somes other and form lasting friendships. The report states that the total phosphate trips take place in the wilds of Northern Sound." Local residents also pointed to entering the sound from these plants is "decreases in local fish in the sound Maine where students canoe across about five percent of all phosphate in lakes and down white-water rapids. But and, over the years, an increase in algae the sound. Nitrogen input is about 5.5 the trip is more than a week of mosquito growth on mooring lines and other percent of all nitrogen. bites, cold mornings, wet clothes and structures." To make the report Although sections of the report are complete, many aspects of the sound unique cooking. It is the diverse still being completed, the sound, as and its environs needed to be looked at. stated in The Bar Harbor Times, "is in individuals that come to COA and go on the O.O.P.s trip that make the trip Salinity, temperature and fresh water very good health." flushing time in the sound were - Jim Cole special. Like the bits of shell, broken china, glass fragments and tile that form the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, the students all fit together to form an COA Strives For Teacher Education intricate structure that relies upon itself to withstand the outside world. Program Approval My O.O.P.s trip experiences changed my outlook on myself and This fall, College of the Atlantic played Peter Corcoran, COA's Education others. I learned to respect a person for host to an official site visitation team Coordinator, is excited about this what he or she is, not what another says representing the State Board of evolving process. He presented a "Self- about them. Once you gain the respect Education and the Maine Department Study" to the visiting officials and an of another person a bond is formed. of Educational and Cultural Services. Education Curriculum designed and When you are with a group of unknown From November 9-12, COA's teacher developed by Peter and a newly formed people, whether it be at a party or on an education program was officially committee of students and alumni who O.O.P.s trip you have two choices. You reviewed for approval to certify call themselves Apple Core. can play the part of the wallflower or the teachers. This potential approval is of The approaching winter term will mixer. All the members of my group significant value to COA students provide a range of courses in methods decided to play the mixer. We all had interested in becoming certified to and philosphy of Education. Peter will something in common. Some of us teach at the elementary or secondary be joined in the winter by a new faculty were from the same state, or shared science level. A Maine teaching member, Candace Julyan, from the common beliefs, or just had the same certificate is reciprocal with 38 other Harvard Graduate School of attitude about certain things. The states; for a future graduate in the field Education. Together they will serve as group made people feel comfortable of education this reciprocity provides resources for the training of future and relaxed. In the canoes, we had an array of opportunities nationwide. educators. conversations about such a broad Aside from devoting his energies range of subjects that the original topic toward the growing Teacher Education was forgotten. Program at the College, Peter can also When I asked people to define the be found twice weekly in the Gallery trip in five words or less they said, "It expeditions. The trip makes you look at classroom overlooking Frenchman's was a good time." your life and the lives of others and Bay and Bar Island. There, he instructs Good times ranged from hauling the makes you realize how important a tightly knit group of students in large wooden boxes called wanagons friends can be. Environmental Education. "We seek to over long distances, complaining about - Keith Goodrich nurture the growth of these students in the weight of their contents or what the becoming the kind of people our brown lumps in the food were. children deserve as teachers, to have For me the chance to be with these them assess their values, to honor their people was enough. They all had so commitment to a difficult profession, many experiences to share with us. We and to celebrate their potential to make had people that were involved with the world a better place through Outward Bound, Nature's Classroom, education," comments Corcoran. women's rights movements, and desert - Lisa Norton 5 A Whale of a Summer for Natural History Museum HIGHLIGHTS David Folger (COA '81) pertained to Outreach programs 10,088 visitors (1350 more than "Seabird Nesting Ecology" offered by the Museum. summer '85) Steve Mullane (COA '81) Puffins Slideshow Whale Weekend - September 13-14 556 visitors on one rainy Sunday, August 17! Sponsored by Maine Audubon Summer Field Studies For Children visitors from 45 states and 12 Society, Maine Whalewatch, and 40 children, ages 8-11 explored foreign countries Natural History Museum. Activities mudflats, salt marshes, shores, Naugahyde Whale Program included whale-watching; Whales- and woodlands; canoed, reached nearly 750 people at Sieur on-Wheels; Naugahyde Whale; talks de Monts kayaked, swam, and hiked by Bob Bowman, Steve Katona and mountains. (See story, p. 8) Jackson Gillman. SUMMER PROGRAMS '86 New Traveling Program Wednesday Evening Speaker Series "Birds on Wings" (final project of Gordon and Virginia Mott Jane Halbeison, COA '86) NEW DISPLAYS "Maine Coyotes" Greg Stone (COA '82) Summer '86 Outreach Programs The Great-Horned Owl and "Underwater Life of The Naugahyde Whale Striped Skunk prepared by Steve Northern Waters" made an appearance at Maine Baird (COA '83) and Rick Jackson Gillman Lobster Festival in Rockland (Aug. Schauffler (COA '83) storytelling 1-2) Leach's Storm Petrels prepared by Craig Green was part of Summer Reading and Steve Baird, Skip Basso (COA '83) "Tree Identification" Writing Program at Asa Adams and Linda Gregory (COA '87) Walter Litton School in Orono Arctic Tern and its young prepared "Mushrooms, Other Fungi by Charlie Treyball (former COA and Human Affairs" Vicki's Radio Interview student), Steve Baird and Rick Meg Scheid (COA '85) Vicki's voice was heard by almost 5 Schauffler "Beaver's Life" million listeners on 100 Midwestern Interactive Tidepool - Final Project Scott Marion radio stations in 7 states as part of of Lisa Burton (COA student) "Bart, the Bald Eagle" Minnesota SeaGrant. The Interview Photographs by Bob Bowman The Halls already been acquired through the fund by the Thorndike Library, including two books written by Dr. Hall. Three Honored By members of the Board have formed a book fund committee, including Ms. Library Fund Neva Goodwin, John Dreier, and Sellers. A trustee of COA since 1975, and A fund has been established in honor Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dr. Thomas S. and Mary T. Hall to from August, 1984, to July, 1986, Dr. enable COA's Thorndike Library to Hall is Professor Emeritus of Biology purchase and build a collection of and History of Science and former science and history of science books. Dean of the College of Arts and At a meeting of the Board of Trustees Sciences at Washington University in last winter, Dr. Peter Sellers proposed St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of that something be done to honor Dr. three books, one in science and one in and Mrs. Hall in acknowledgement of the history of science, and has won their devotion and service to the recognition for teaching and research, College. The idea of a fund for science as well as for public service. books was suggested by Steve Katona, Mary T. Hall has made a lifetime COA professor and provost. mg commitment to community welfare in At the annual Board meeting on July St. Louis, holding leadership roles in 12, Dr. Sellers asked for and received many organizations, including the unanimous approval of the motion to Missouri Association for Social Welfare establish the Thomas S. and Mary T. From The Fund In Honor Of in St. Louis, the United Nations Hall Fund. At this time Teisha Breeden, Thomas S. and Mary T. Hall Association, and the Missouri a third-year COA student, displayed a Children's Code Commission. She was bookplate which she had designed, Teisha Breeden '88 was inspired by a scene the founding chairman of the COA based on a scene of Dr. and Mrs. Hall's from the garden of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Summer Lecture Series 1986. garden. The bookplate will be placed on Hall when she designed this bookplate. The Halls have been longtime the inside cover of each new science summer residents of Mount Desert book acquisition. About 50 books have Island in Maine. 6 FACULTY/STAFF Year-End NEWS NOTES Total Reaches Jill Barlow-Kelly is taking a graduate Terri Rappaport is taking a graduate course in Community Counseling at course at University of Maine at Orono New Heights University of Maine at Orono. Jill and in "Newer Practices in Reading." Vicki Nichols are working with Jeff Lou Rabineau, as one of 100 delegates When final tallies were made for the Dobbs, a local film and T.V. producer, from the Harvard Graduate School of 1985-86 fiscal year, ending June 30, the on an eight-part cable-TV series Education, attended Harvard's 350th total in gifts and grants received by featuring COA students in the Anniversary celebration September 4- COA was the largest for any single year community (museum projects, 6. He was also a platform guest at a in the College's history. Charles Hesse, internships, island school projects, and special convocation marking the Vice President for Development and community service work). centennial of Yeshiva University in New Public Affairs, reports that a total of Becky Buyers-Basso '81 won first York City. He was a featured speaker $1,910,447 for all purposes including prize for her three-part series on South at the MDI Health Promotion Annual, Capital and Endowment funds Africa which appeared in The Bar Workshop in July. This fall he also was achieved. This represents an Harbor Times in November and attended the Higher Education Council increase of $759,650 or 66% over the December, 1985. This award for the Executive Committee meeting in total raised in 1984-85. best weekly series of 1986 was Augusta and the "Bombs Away" "We owe much of this year's success presented at the Maine Press symposium in Bangor, sponsored by to the leadership of the Board of Association Conference in September. Physicians for Social Responsibility. Trustees," comments Hesse. "An important aspect of the College's Bill Carpenter is giving a seminar Greg Stone '82, along with Steve financial position is the successful series this fall for high school teachers Katona and Edward B. "Teddy" Ticker, management of its annual operating in New England literature, called "The Bermudian underwater archaeologist income and expenses. Through their Spirit of Place." The series is funded by and naturalist, recently published the fund-raising efforts as well as their own the Maine Humanities Council. results of their six-year collaboration gifts, the trustees enabled the College Peter Corcoran has been elected to studying the ecology of humpback to raise a record $915,000 through the board of the American Nature whales at Bermuda. See "Humpback Annual Giving and thus break even. In Study Society. He has also been re- Whales Half-Way at Bermuda." fact, we were able to show a modest elected vice-chairperson of The Nature Whalewatcher (J. Amer. Cetacean gain of over $13,000. Conservancy. Society) Summer, 1986. Vol. 20(2)3-7. "Gifts for endowment and capital Carolyn Dow will attend two seminars funds were also record-setting, with a in Boston this November: "Newsletter total of $995,437 realized, an increase of Editing and Production" and almost $355,000 over the prior year. In "Productive Public Relations and Summer Lecture all areas of giving, one factor is Publications for the Small Shop." particularly encouraging - - the number Series Is Well of new donors as well as donors who Marcia Dworak gave a presentation, "The Preparation of an Emergency continue to give and increase their gifts Preparedness Manual," at the Fall Attended is growing steadily each year. This bodes well for the future of the Conference of the Maine Library Association Conference at the The 1986 Lecture Series on Key College." Issues was an ambitious effort to Waterville Holiday Inn. provide MDI residents with Steve Katona attended the North opportunities to participate in and Atlantic Marine Mammal Association enjoy programs of topical and cultural workshop on individual identification of interest. A total of over 1200 people finback whales at Provincetown, MA, came to the College to hear the three along with COA research Associates distinguished speakers: Leonard Silk, Judy Beard, Ben Agler, Harriet John Wilmerding, and Paul Nitze, all Corbett, Lisa Baraff, Bob Bowman, longtime summer residents of MDI. NOVEMBER 1986 and other COA students and COA News is published three researchers. Due to the overwhelmingly times a year. It is circulated to enthusiastic response to COA's Anne Kozak attended a three-day Alumni, Parents, Staff, Summer Lecture Series 1986, the conference at the University of New Faculty, and Friends. Reader College and a planning committee of Hampshire on New Directions in contributions are welcome. eight trustees are already coordinating Composition: Kindergarten through Editor another series for the summer of 1987. Carolyn Dow College. "It was a very valuable and Student Assistants Bill Allen With hopes of future well-subscribed productive meeting that highlighted Jim Cole events, the college looks forward to the parallels at all levels of writing," Keith Goodrich time when it can expand its campus comments Anne. Lisa Norton facilities to include a new auditorium Josh Winer Vicki Nichols '84 is taking a graduate that will enable the college to hold a course at University of Maine at Orono range of cultural events throughout the in "Designing Your Environmental year for both the college community Curriculum." and the public. 7 8 and able to give them that opportunity.' Nichols of COA's Natural History Museum. world and that there are adults willing Summer Field Studies for Children, a seven-day exploration of ecosystems led by Vicki many small natural wonders of their Barrett Silver and Aaron Brignull aren't clamming up about their discoveries during children willing to actively explore the entertainment that there are some with technological wonders and passive optimism to know that in a world filled preserving it. It gives one a feeling of will one day have a greater interest in understand their natural environment respect, care for, and attempt to reason that children who learn to Studies for Children: "It stands to Nan Lincoln in an article on Field Says Bar Harbor Times journalist native flora and fauna. advantage of the museum's displays of through forests. They also took mud flats, and hiked up mountains and canoes in salt marshes, investigated They kayaked along the coast, paddled Museum - Field Studies For Children. program at COA's Natural History graders participated in a nature study This summer 41 fourth, fifth and sixth Wonders Highlight Summer Nonprofit Organization College of the Atlantic U.S. Postage Paid Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Bar Harbor, ME 207-288-5015 Permit #47 IN THIS ISSUE Title III Grant page 1 Maine Scholarships page 2 New Faculty page 4 Museum Up-Date page 6