COA News MARCH 1986 VOL. 9 NO. 1 New Building Bright & Spacious by Elsa Haas When someone gestures towards the north end of campus and says, "I'll meet you up at the new building," we all know he's referring to the new laboratory, studio, classroom, faculty office, writing clinic, and greenhouse building - all 15,600 square feet of it, completed in time for fall classes. In actuality, the only entirely new building on campus is the buildings and grounds shop. Paradoxically, it took some of us a little longer to get used to the "new building" precisely because it is attached to the three physical components of the "old building" (Kaelber Hall) which survived the 1983 fire: the auditorium, computer room, and hallway. Some students and staff report that during the first few weeks of their acquaintance with the mostly new building, they frequently experienced the eerie sensation of stepping off into a dreamworld at the end of the familiar hallway - a dreamworld in which buildings widely separated in real time and place are merged. Expecting an abrupt step down onto a painted- cement floor, they stepped instead onto The New Building a carpeted, wheelchair-accessible ramp. Turning right, they saw not the tan door leading to the women's room with its blackboard graffiti-collectors, Prospective Students Visit COA but an unfamiliar blue fire door leading to a larger women's room equipped by David Malakoff with a pay shower. Stuffed owls and For 22 high school and transfer giving prospective students and their moles don't hang out in the hallway of students interested in attending COA, parents a solid introduction to COA's this new building; they have their own Winter Tour '86 was not just an unique curriculum. Faculty, current home in an uncramped taxidermy lab. ordinary weekend college visit. Besides students, and alumni all gave short But as of this writing, potted plants line the usual time spent visiting classes and presentations on some aspect of the the hallway beside the greenhouses, talking with professors, the students academic program, such as which are experiencing technical also were introduced to another side of internships, and also shared their heating difficulties temporarily beyond college life, COA-style - potluck thoughts on the philosophy that guides our control. A five-foot-tall whale skull, suppers, cross-country skiing, and bird the school. like an unhurried doorman, leans watching. "We put our students and faculty in casually against a wall where two other "We wanted them to get a sense of front of the visiting students, and tried hallways meet. how COA is different," said Larry to give them a true sense of what having No one has yet reinstituted the Clendenin, Director of Admissions. the freedom to pursue your own bathroom blackboards, but the "Not just to pick up facts and interests means at COA," Larry said. occasionally off-color nature of COA's information, but also to get a sense of "It was important to put a lot of time school spirit lives on. "I like the pink," the unusual spirit behind those facts." into showing them how unusual the says student Ed Monat, referring to the Eating and skiing aside, the Winter curriculum is," said Sarah Chisolm, a (Continued on page 7) Tour (held February 13-16) emphasized (Continued on page 7) Eight Distinguished New Trustees During the past year COA has made years; Board of Trustees, National of Wisconsin; Ph.D., Duke; honorary significant progress in strengthening its Health Council; B.A., Yale; LL.B., degrees from Duke, the U. of Board of Trustees. Eight members from Columbia; formerly President, Board of Wisconsin; Southeastern Massachu- a wide range of professions and Trustees for the Coalition for Health setts U., Montclair State College; geographic locations have been and Environment; named "Man of the formerly, Ford Distinguished Research elected. Among them, the fields of Year" by Philanthropy Monthly in 1983. Professor at the Graduate School of government service and research, Robert Eddy Suminsby Industrial Administration of Carnegie- philanthropy, law, journalism, national President, The Knowles Company in Mellon, and Marsh Visiting Professor at and local voluntary service, and finance Northeast Harbor, an incorporated the U. of Michigan. are represented. insurance and real estate agency; Alice Eno Neva Goodwin, Chairman of the supervising appraiser in the revaluation Board Member, Stony Brook and Mt. Nominating Committee, stated, "We of 18 municipalities in ME and VT; B.S. Desert Garden Clubs; attended Mt. feel extremely fortunate to have been in Education, U. of Maine. Vernon College and U. of Texas; able to gain the talents and experience James H. Wakelin, Jr. former President, the Chapin School of such distinguished leaders." Has held a number of technical and and Planned Parenthood of Princeton, administrative posts in industry and N.J., Chairman of COA Phoenix Fund. Edward J. Meade, Jr. government; Trustee of National Maurine Rothschild Chief Program Officer, Ford Geographic Society and member of its Vice President, Robert and Maurine Foundation, responsible for school and Committee on Research and Rothschild Fund; Vice Chair, youth program; B.A. and M.A., Exploration; A.B., Dartmouth; M.A., Northeast Health Foundation; Trustee, Montclair (N.J.) State College; Ed.D., Cambridge; Ph.D. in Physics, Yale; Radcliffe College, Fund for Peace, Harvard; formerly member of New formerly Assistant Secretary of the Camden Shakespeare Company, Jersey State Board of Higher Education Navy, responsible for Research and Islesboro Maine Historical Society; and first chairman of N.J. Public Development; Head, U.S. Delegation President, William A. Farnsworth Broadcasting Authority; has been an to the first session of the Library and Art Museum; Board advisor to six U.S. Commissioners of Intergovernmental Oceanographic Member, Maine State Commission on Education, three Secretaries of HEW, Commission on UNESCO, Paris, 1961; the Arts and Humanities. several state governments, and the Navy Distinguished Public Service Peter H. Sellers Departments of Defense, Education, Award, 1961 and 1964. Faculty member, Rockefeller U.; Board and the Navy. Leonard S. Silk Member, Nicholas Newlin Foundation; Clyde Everett Shorey, Jr. Economics Columnist, New York member of various mathematical Consultant for March of Dimes in Times, and formerly member of its organizations and author of numerous Washington, D.C., having been Vice Editorial Board; Distinguished Visiting mathematical publications; Ph.D., U. of President for Public Affairs for ten Professor of Economics, Pace; A.B., U. Pennsylvania. Human Ecology, 1986 Whale Research Project In Antarctic The 1986 meeting of the Society for Human Ecology will be held at COA, COA alumnus and research October 17-19. The theme of the associate Greg Stone is collaborating conference will be "Human Ecology: with Dr. William Hamner of UCLA to Research and Applications." put together a catalog of identified humpback whales. Stone will be in the The Society's first major meeting, in Antarctic for six weeks this spring to May of 1985, was held at the University Livia Munch and Mike Kimball work on the project. of Maryland's College of Human Ecology. Rich Borden, faculty member Foreign Internships Working on an icebreaker called the and Provost at COA, and Vice Polar Duke, Stone will have the dual President of the Society, attended that Two COA students will travel to responsibility of research diver and meeting with a group of COA students foreign countries this spring to do photographer of antarctic humpback and faculty. internships. whale flukes. Mike Kimball will be a human ecology Several human ecologists from intern at the University of Edinburg. As Sweden, Denmark, and Britain visited assistant to Dr. Ulrich Loening at the "When whales dive," Stone explains, COA afterwards. Centre for Human Ecology, he will "they throw up their tails. You can coordinate European workshops in identify individual humpback whales by The 1986 meeting will include tours of human ecology and other activities of the individual markings on the Acadia and boat trips for whale, seal, the center. underside of their tails." and seabird watching, as well as formal Livia Munck will intern at and informal opportunities for Gothenburg University in Sweden. She COA has collected 3,500 exchanges between the human will be a research assistant at the photographs of humpback whale flukes ecologists of COA and those from Institute for Human Ecology and Peace and is the central curating facility for the elsewhere in the world. Studies. North Atlantic. New Faces For Curriculum Enriched Annual Fund Up-Date Development By Visiting Faculty At the close of February, as the News And Public Affairs And Group Studies was going to press, gifts and pledges to the 1985-86 Annual Fund totaled Seven visiting faculty offered a $338,500, approximately $33,740 ahead variety of courses to augment the COA of the total realized for the same period curriculum during the fall and winter last year. terms. In addition three group studies "With exactly four months left to took place involving Bach choral achieve our goal of $600,000, we must Photo by Jarred Crawford works, winter camping, and women raise a minimum of $261,500," reports and nature. Charles Hesse, Vice President for John Visvader, who has worked at Development and Public Affairs. the Naropa Institute and Husson "Although March, April and May in past College as well as at COA, returned to years have proven to be strong months teach Roots of the Modern World. for contributions to the Fund, we must Diane Kopec, curator of the Abbe Gary Friedmann and Carolyn call upon everyone who has given in Museum and Director of a Maine Dow, the new development and the past to not only renew their support Historic Preservation Commission public affairs team. this year, but also to increase the project, taught Introduction to amount of their gift as much as possible. Archaeology and Maine Prehistory. Gary Friedmann and Carolyn Dow "One of the most encouraging Elizabeth ("Tibby") Russell, a COA began their responsibilities as Assistant developments has been in the area of trustee who has been a staff scientist at Director for Development and corporate matching gifts. The number the Jackson Lab, taught The Future of of donors who are taking advantage of Assistant Director for Public Affairs, Subsaharan Africa. Joan Sanchez, who the matching gift programs offered by respectively, in February. has worked with numerous dance their employers is steadily growing. It is A native of Pennsylvania, Gary holds companies and choreographers in as exciting to the donors as it is to the a Bachelor's Degree in Earth Sciences Portland and elsewhere, taught College to realize their gifts are worth at from Wesleyan University. He comes Modern Dance. least twice as much through these to COA from the Maine Coast Heritage Also in the fall, student Jim programs - and the added Trust in Northeast Harbor where he Batchelder directed the group study contribution is credited to the individual was in charge of fund raising, Choral Works of Bach, which donor. publications, and conservation land culminated in a performance at St. "I see the Annual Fund as the management. From 1978 to 1982 he was Saviour's Episcopal Church. Students springboard for the long term well being an exploration geologist in Anchorage, in the Women and Nature group study of the College," adds Hesse. "Each Alaska. Gary is conducting extensive read and discussed books like year, by achieving the Annual Fund research on funding sources for the Dreaming the Dark by Starhawk goal, COA is able to meet its operating Phoenix Fund, the capital campaign to Harvest Moon, and hosted several costs for the immediate year. The rebuild the college in the wake of the speakers, including Marjorie Spock. College is then in a position to move devastating 1983 fire. He is also In the winter term Joli Greene taught forward with strength into the next providing support for all other aspects another course in weaving, this time year." of financial development at COA. His equipped with nine floor looms, which Gifts to The Annual Fund help the wife, Glenon, is a fourth year student at were loaned or donated. Karen Saum, college to maintain its high educational COA. who grew up in Panama and has taught standards. The Fund provides for Carolyn is a native of Boston and at UMO and Vermont College, taught salaries, and such basic operating costs holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from Marxism and Christianity in Latin as the Library and other educational Harvard Graduate School of Education America. Stephanie Fisher of Marin services, including the outstanding and a certificate in Public Community College in Kentfield, Natural History Museum and Outreach Communications from Boston California, taught Writing Seminar I. programs. University. She comes to COA from Students in the Winter Camping group The Ellsworth American where she study made trips to Machias, Camden worked as a feature writer and Hills, and Baxter State Park, and proofreader. She has also worked as a hosted several presentations, including freelance communications coordinator a slide show by alumni Alexandra and and as the program administrator for Garrett Conover of Northwoods Ways the department of landscape on their toboggan expeditions in architecture at the Harvard Graduate Canada. School of Design. Her duties at COA Stephanie will teach Writing II in the include maintaining contact with the spring. Melita Brecher, who has taught media, preparing press releases and at SUNY and the Trinity Center in feature stories, assisting in the Buffalo, N.Y., and at the U. of Nairobi in coordination of public events and Kenya, will teach Sculpture at COA for publications, and developing increased the second time. John Buell, free-lance President Louis Rabineau chats regional, statewide and national writer and former associate editor of with student Susie Newborn. publicity. One of her priorities has been The Progressive, who has also been an to produce the first COA newsletter of instructor at Smith, will return to teach became a Certified Permaculture 1986. She is also preparing seven Philosophical Perspectives on Designer through the Michigan Land photographs representing COA for a Consumer Economics. John Navazio, Trust, will teach Gardens and year-long exhibit at the Maine Publicity who was the volunteer coordinator of Greenhouses in Janet Andersen's Bureau in Kittery. the COA garden last summer and absence. A Whirlwind Calendar For Natural History Museum SUMMER '85 JAN. '86 in Freeport, Me. Purpose of display: 8,750 visitors (1500 more than Vicki Nichols, acting director of the to bring attention to the Non-Game summer '84) Museum, went to Washington, D.C., Wildlife Fund. 1,000 visitors to museum programs to get ideas and to "spread the at Sieur de Monts in Acadia word." She met with various National Park directors of Smithsonian marine and APRIL '86 (750 more than summer '84) mammal education departments and Article on COA Natural History with officials at the National Zoo and Museum to appear in Downeast FALL '85 the Botanical Gardens. Magazine. 277 schoolchildren participated in on-campus programs (no on-campus programs last year) MARCH '86 MAY '86 668 participants in fall outreach Display of off-shore birds at L.L. Bean Vicki will host an environmental programs education Girl Scout weekend. (490 more than fall '84) Agenda: Whales-on-Wheels Mobile Moose Program went to Program, slide shows, nature walks, Chewonki, an environmental intertidal zone exploration, sea education organization in shanty sing-alongs, tour of a lobster Wiscasset. boat. Channel 6 cable T.V. featured 4-part series on Museum. Part I: Summer and Winter SEPT. '86 Programs Whale Weekend: joint program to be Part II: How to Make Backgrounds developed with Audubon Society in for Taxidermic Exhibits Falmouth, MA. Agenda: slide shows Part III: The Making of Taxidermic on whales and seabirds of Gulf of Exhibits Maine, all-day whale watch, Whales- Part IV: Outreach Programs - This young lady came back for on-Wheels, Naugahyde Whale, fluke Naugahyde Whale, Whales on more after an introduction to the and fin matchings, whale story by Wheels Whales-on-Wheels program. Jackson Gillman '78. COA Wins Grant For Teacher Education College of the Atlantic has been program. The report reads, "The type sign language, and conducting awarded an $80,000 grant from the of students we met (at COA) are the environmental education field trips for Fund for the Improvement of type of people the children of Maine the deaf. Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) of deserve to have as classroom Currently, COA graduates who the U.S. Department of Education. The teachers." choose to seek Maine teacher grant was one of 60 funded from among The grant money will be used to certification must apply for transcript 2,028 applicants. The grant money, to create a new full-time faculty position in analysis. Recent legislative changes in be supplied over a three-year period, will be used to improve COA's human education, to support the program's certification guidelines, to become development under Education effective in 1988, will allow students ecological teacher education program. Coordinator and faculty member Peter majoring in liberal arts to qualify as The grant proposal, written by Corcoran, and to increase the number certified teachers. These new faculty members Peter Corcoran and of hours faculty member and Provost guidelines should allow more COA Richard Borden, states, "Human Richard Borden can devote to graduates to bring their broad-based ecology seeks to go one step further education courses. human ecology education into the than the traditional liberal arts classrooms of Maine. COA is applying curriculum by including the Approximately 20% of COA's for approval of its program as an consequences of human action within graduates are employed in the field of innovative route toward teacher the natural world Human ecological education, either as classroom education at the elementary level in all teacher education will provide future teachers or as environmental subjects and at the secondary level in teachers with new multidisciplinary educators in museums, nature centers, science. ways to view the world." or parks. Students have developed a "We are fortunate to have the number of projects which have College in our backyard," wrote School Included as an appendix to the grant contributed to their development as Union #98 Superintendent Richard E. proposal was a report by a Maine State professional educators. These include McFalls in a letter of recommendation Board of Education subcommittee teaching a two-week course on Third for the FIPSE grant. "Funding through which visited COA in late January to World issues, exploring peace issues this grant would make a good project evaluate the teacher education with sixth-graders, teaching a deaf child even better." Who We Are Carl Ketchum, faculty Larry Clendenin, staff Any victim of math anxiety would Articulate, enthusiastic, dedicated - breathe a sigh of relief as a student of Larry Clendenin, COA's new director Carl Ketchum. Concerned about the of admissions, is committed "to finding inadequacies of math teaching the right kinds of students for this methods, Carl is developing an distinctive college." interactive computer graphics program Having earned a B.A. from St. to help students obtain a visual picture John's, a small college in New Mexico, and understand the math functions Larry is attracted to the small college they are working on. environment. "As opposed to most bigger colleges, COA has a distinctive Sarah Chisholm, student mission," he states. "Many students are reaching college Larry sees COA as having an appeal with very limited math skills which "It was hard to take the leap, but I to students who have different interests automatically eliminates them from have never regretted it," says Sarah and different ideals than the average many fields of study that have a strong Chisholm, who transferred to COA college-bound student. "Our math component," states Carl. Carl's after a year and a half at Connecticut prospective students share certain new program and the style of teaching College. "I didn't like the conservative values," he explains. "They are strong being developed may open many more nature of Connecticut," she explains. individuals and don't see themselves avenues for COA students. "It was important to me to have some conforming to popular trends. Their freedom of choice and direction in my individual needs can be met here. own education." Carl is also involved with a salmon "Students' practical needs can be During her two years at COA Sarah farming controversy. He recently met here as well," he adds, "because we has been taking advantage of this testified before the Department of do offer practical activities, freedom. In keeping with COA's Marine Resources on behalf of the participatory governance and problem- interdisciplinary approach, she is Somes Sound Association against the solving approaches to learning. They exploring many avenues in order to get proposal of the Stonington Packing acquire skills you don't always get in a clearer idea of career direction. Company to build a salmon hatchery in bigger colleges." Her discovery of plants and botany at Valley Cove. As a result of this Larry will be channeling his energy COA led to an internship in Wild testimony the town of Mt. Desert has toward improving the admissions Gardens of Acadia, during which she asked Carl and Don Cass (COA process on many fronts. He wants to did some garden maintenance and professor of math, chemistry and build an effective data management design. She also served as an physics) to draft a short paper on the system, create publications that convey interpreter for the public regarding aspects of Somes Sound that need to the right message "in an exciting and botany of the island. be understood to make an intelligent high-quality way," build a series of For her senior project Sarah is alumnae clubs that would back up the planning decision regarding the Sound. building a botanical collection for the recruitment effort as well as work on college greenhouse. She has traveled to development. In addition he would like "It's aesthetically inappropriate to five east coast college and university to get the whole community thinking take a beautiful place like Somes Sound greenhouses and collected specimens about what kinds of experiences and put a hatchery there," says Carl. "It for propagation and has received students are having at COA to make also strongly interferes with the numerous private donations of well- sure their needs are being met. recreational use of the environment." established plants. In concluding her "COA seems to be a real gem," project she is writing a plant care states Larry. "There's no reason why manual with information on plant with a thoughtful marketing effort we culture and relevant botanical couldn't grow in terms of numbers of information. students and retain our quality at the Sarah also has an interest in the same time." college admissions process. To get a With this bright enthusiasm and more comprehensive view she is energetic direction, Larry himself currently doing an internship with the seems to be a real gem for COA. COA admissions office. Her duties have included office work, assisting with surveys, serving on the admissions committee, and putting together a brochure to encourage prospective students to visit the college. "I'm working my way up," she laughs. One of her greatest challenges involved coordinating Winter Weekend this February, during which prospective students visited COA. Although Sarah is in a process of career discovery, she seems to have found her niche at COA. "COA is a very caring place," she affirms. "I have developed a lot as a person." Briefly Elmer Beal's song, "Fashioned in the Association of Collegiate Registrars in National Wildlife in an article which Clay", is the title cut on an album and Admissions Officers in Sturbridge, hailed Stan's course on taxidermy as released by Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Massachusetts, November 6-8. the only teaching program of its kind in Muir, and Ed Trickett. "Different the nation. Shoes", the folk-music group to which Anne Kozak attended a writing Elmer belongs, recently released its first conference at Harvard University on Lou Rabineau has been asked to serve album, "One Size Fits All". Elmer wrote October 4-5. She participated in on the Governor's Committee. This three of the twelve songs on the album. workshops concerning the role of peer February he traveled to Washington, tutors, use of computers in teaching D.C. to discuss concerns about federal Elmer has taken leave for the 1985-'86 writing, and teaching writing in other cutbacks and their effects on financial academic year in order to pursue songwriting and music more intensely. disciplines. aid with a congressional delegation. Rich Borden will participate in a half- Candice MacBeth is the new night David Mahoney became a COA day symposium at the May 1986 and weekend supervisor at the library. admissions counselor in October. meeting of the American Association Ernie McMullen is working on a series During the fall he visited high schools for the Advancement of Science of a large-scale paintings that explore and attended college fairs throughout (AAAS) in Philadelphia. The topic of New England. In January David the "uneasy relationship" between the submitted an article about COA to be the symposium is "New Directions in architecture of the past and the ugly Human Ecology". Rich has also been published in Voices of Youth, a and reprehensible" buildings of the invited to lecture on his research on publication of the Meiklejohn present (e.g., Dunkin' Donuts outlets). Education Foundation. ecological beliefs at the "Ecosystems - Other themes in his current work 1986" conference in Hamburg, include aviation and trompe-l'oeuil Susan Newborn, 1985 Kloman Germany, May 12-17. In addition, he is ("fool-the-eye") scenes. Ernie is also Fellow, is working with Steve Katona organizing the 1986 meeting of the devoting a lot of time to playing jazz and Bob Bowman, Director of Maine Society for Human Ecology, to be held sax. Whale Watch, to establish a catalogue at COA in October. of individually identified finback whales Marcia Dorr attended a conference in and minke whales seen in Maine waters Stewart Brecher is now a member of October at Colby College on the American Institute of Architecture for the past 13 years. interlibrary loan. The conference drew in Portland. Stewart, Harris, and a academic librarians from all parts of Peter Corcoran recently completed a group of COA students began a new New England. doctorate in science and environmental studio project this winter term education at the University of Maine at planning the future of the Bar Harbor Bill Drury recently wrote an article for Orono. He has been re-elected vice YMCA building. Now under American Birds on the re- chairperson of the nature conservancy, construction, the 1600-square-foot establishment of a breeding population Maine chapter. He has been elected addition to the Hancock County of great cormorants. The birds were secretary of the University of New Extension Service building in Ellsworth exterminated along the Northeast Hampshire/University of Maine Sea was designed by COA student Lars coast in the 19th century. Grant Advisory Committee. Henrikson. Marcia Dworak spoke at a conference Harris Hyman recently wrote a series JoAnne Carpenter's first one-person sponsored by the Small Public Library of articles on building design and show was exhibited at the Hancock Association of Maine this October in construction, which were published in Auditorium November 8 through Vasselboro. Her topic was "Planning The New England Builder. In October, for Disasters". December 3. The show was entirely of he conducted a seminar on foundation watercolors. Craig Greene has applied for a grant design in Hartford, Connecticut for the to work with Acadia National Park on a Bill Carpenter served on the faculty of New England Solar Energy the Maine Summer Arts Program, the revised species list of the Island's Association. Stonecoast Writers Conference, and plants. Craig continues to research the Steve Katona attended the the Robert Frost Place last summer at rarest plant in eastern North America, International Conference on Pelagic the Center. Bill now serves on the Potentilla robbinsiana (cinquefoil, Biogeography in Amsterdam, the literature panel of the Arts and which is found only on Mt. Washington) Netherlands. He presented a paper, Humanities Commission. He is lead with Dr. Tom Lee of UNH. Craig "Speculations on the Ecological scholar on the Maine Humanities published a paper on the reproductive Importance of Cetacea". Steve also Council project The Spirit of Place, biology of shadbushes. Both the flora attended the Sixth Annual Conference which will compare the literature of and shadbush projects are assisted by on the Biology of Marine Mammals in Ireland and Maine. His recently students enrolled in Craig's tutorials. Vancouver, British Columbia. Steve is published book Rain received the 1985 Joli Greene has been selected by the heading a Humpback Whale Study in Samuel French Morse prize in poetry. Maine State Commission on the Arts the Virgin Islands. Funded by the World Don Cass spent another summer and Humanities to participate in the Wildlife Fund and by private collaborating with UMO and the Cary Maine Touring Artists Program. Joli is contributions. COA staff member Arboretum on the collection of acid fog currently conducting workshops for Harriet Corbett is also participating in and rain, and a paper should soon high school groups throughout the the study. appear in Nature. He has completed state. Joli has also been appointed to designs for furnishing the new the Percent for Art Commission, and Dan Winkler coordinated the will join a six-member panel in deciding volunteer effort for the behavioral chemistry lab and a grant proposal to fund them. how to spend $23,000 allocated for health risk survey conducted by the artwork in the new chemical Maine Cooperative Extension Service Sally Crock attended the annual engineering wing at UMO. and the Mount Desert Island Hospital. Dan assisted with the survey as part of meeting of the New England Stan Grierson was recently featured an independent study project. New Building (Continued from page 1) pink door of the men's room. Asked time the teachers got office space. It's come decorating progress - at least at how the door got to be pink, Ed replied, easier to reach them when you know the more northern end of campus, "No comment." where to find them." where the old greenhouse is now the For students who first came to COA Ann Kozak says that her new office, new pottery studio, after major in the fall of 1983, immediately after the the Writing Clinic, provides ample structural modifications. Unlike most fire, the new building represents major space for her, the writing tutors, and others, the potters on campus find changes. Because of the shortage of their clients. Looking down at the wall- themselves with a little less space this space that fall, Introduction to to-wall carpeting and up at the skylight, year. "But it's a lot easier, Education was held in a downstairs she adds, "My last office had a crack psychologicaly, to work in here than in room of Seafox, the largest dorm. right down the middle of the floor." the old pottery shed," says Barclay Lining the walls were the handcarved Seventeen people, rounds of basket McCurdy, a student. Ernie McMullen cherry shelves of the original "summer reed, basins of dye, and nine floor agrees, "Everybody who works in this cottage " - and a four-poster bed, looms (seven borrowed and two space likes it. There's much better which provided a comfortable donated) fill a first-floor studio. This lighting, and a better feeling in general. alternative to folding chairs. There term's weaving course, taught by Joli We're going to put in a Japanese rock appears to be but a single soft piece of Greene, would not have been possible garden right outside there, and set up a furniture in the whole of the new during last year's room-sharing crunch. workspace under an awning. It should building - a sofa in the center of the In this studio, bright-colored wool have a wonderful ambiance." painting studio, surrounded by samplers drape the walls. The rooms Back at the mostly new building, the numerous works-in-progress and the themselves are acquiring a lived-in look, last classes of the day are over, but space to step back and look at them. but the halls and stairwells are still in many of the doors to the rooms remain Allison Martin, a student who came their White Period. Outside the open. Every one of them is a fire door. to COA in the spring of the post-fire painting studio, with its half-finished or When we re-opened our doors in the year, says, "Lab period in the recently completed renditions of vases, fall, we had a lot more doors to open. herbarium was a joke. It's much more cups, bridges, a church, a rodent skull, Now we have a lot more to remember comfortable to have room to work." By and human feet, the long hallway is to close. At some point, when an even "herbarium", she means the trailer that adorned only with two lonely trees in a newer building is constructed, we'll served as a temporary lab until this fall. pen-and-ink drawing by Ziao Jingran, a have to come up with a more distinctive The view to the ocean is now new student from Beijing, China. nickname for this Laboratory/Studio unobstructed. Allison adds, "It's about With the spring, however, should Complex, the "new building". In Class At The New Building Students Visit COA (Continued from page 1) senior who organized the weekend as part of her work in the Admissions Office. "I know they found the internship presentations interesting, and appreciated being able to sit in on classes." Many of the prospective students, who came from as far away as California and Wisconsin, were interviewed by Admissions staff during their stay. Others, incuding several high school juniors looking towards the Kim Pepper is absorbed in Craig Greene talks with future, used the weekend to explore weaving a basket. prospective students about botany. COA and Mount Desert Island. Led by COA students and faculty, the visitors spent one crisp afternoon skiing, sledding, and birding around the island. "They thought that was pretty unique," said Sarah. "One student said that this was the only college visit he had been on where he got to go tobogganing." For an encore to the Winter Tour, the admissions office is planning to host a Spring Tour in April. Spring weather should permit such activities as hiking, mountain climbing, bird and whale Students work on a boat-building For Allison Martin it's all watching. problem. chemistry. Address Correction Requested Permit #47 Bar Harbor, ME 20-288-8515 U.S. Postage Paid Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Nonprofit Organization College of the Atlantic Student Teachers Sally Greenman Scholarships For In Island Schools Hosts Charles Hesse Maine Residents Ten COA students are currently In Tokyo COA has been awarded a four-year, involved with teaching projects in local In late October Charlie Hesse, vice $20,000 grant from The Betterment schools. president for development and public Fund to provide scholarships for Maine The following is a brief summary of affairs, spent two weeks in Japan residents. student projects: visiting his son. A highlight of his trip The Betterment Scholarships, a part Patti Clark Southwest Harbor. Human Ecology Education. Grade 3. was a weekend he spent seeing Tokyo of the COA effort to recruit more with COA graduate Sally Greenman as students from Maine, will be available to Dorie Stolley Kid kits for gifted a guide. new, full-time students enrolling for the students. Anatomy, evolution, ecology, Sally, the recipient of a 1985 Thomas 1986-'87 school year. Bar Harbor. Grades 2-JHS. J. Watson Fellowship, will spend a year The Betterment Fund was Marcia Jaquith and Stephen Pulaski studying the social and economic established under provisions of the will Native American education. Bar impact of the fishing industry on life in of William Bingham, II, a resident of Harbor, grade 8. Japan and in Norway. Bethel who died in 1955. Bingham's Paul Boothby Kid kits on astronomy. Hesse reported, "I was extremely trustees have directed funds to benefit Bar Harbor. Grades 2-JHS and tutoring impressed with how well Sally could the medical and educational areas in grade 1. communicate with the Japanese through support of Maine educational Glenon Friedman History with a human ecological perspective. Bar already. She had made many contacts organizations and the Bingham with businessmen in the fishing industry Program for rural medicine in Maine. Harbor, grade 3. Christopher O'Connor Chemistry. and was being welcomed with great "COA, feels a keen moral and civic Mount Desert Island High School. enthusiasm. Her success was especially responsibility to help serve students in Katrina Hodgkins Maine native impressive when you realize there are the state," said COA president Louis few, if any, women in Japan who work Rabineau. "COA's Maine students Americans. Carrabasset Valley at the management level in that have consistently proven to be among Academy, grade 8. industry." our most enthusiastic and capable Paul Adler The Future. Bar Harbor, students. We are grateful to The grade 8. COA NEWS MARCH 1986 Mark Cosgrove Natural History and Editor Carolyn Dow Betterment Fund for helping Maine's Outdoor Education, grades K-5. Student Assistance Elsa Haas young people to realize their Terri Rappaport (COA staff) Logo David Malakoff educational ambitions in their home Computer programming. Bar Harbor, Photography Carolyn Dow state at College of the Atlantic." Jarred Crawford Applications for the scholarships grade 4. Printing Bar Harbor Times Print Shop should be submitted by April 1.