COA News JULY 1986 VOL. 9 NO. 2 COA Celebrates 14th Commencement Forty-one jubilant students graduated from College of the Atlantic with a Bachelor's degree in Human Ecology on Saturday, May 31. Parents and friends of the graduates, including many returning alumni, crowded into St. Saviour's Church to witness COA's 14th commencement. True to the spirit of College of the Atlantic, the ceremony was informal and personal. Massive bouquets of spring flowers decorated the church, and a huge banner with a pink and green hummingbird in flight, designed and made by members of the graduating class, hung above the pulpit. Following a greeting by Dr. Thomas Hall, chairman of the board of trustees, COA president Dr. Louis Rabineau addressed the graduates briefly. "COA is what you carry in your heart and mind," he said. "You carry this wisdom wherever you go and in that sense College of the Atlantic is for you and for all of us a world-wide academy. We wish you the best as you now become both a student and a teacher in that world- Warm hugs all around after the graduation ceremony. Patti Clark and Tenia wide academy." Bannick congratulate each other. Gordon Bok, well-known folksinger and former COA instructor, then filled the church with his music. He was All About Whales joined for his finale by long-time friend Elmer Beal, also a folksinger and COA instructor. Beal invited the graduates to Friday, September 12 through director, Vicki Nichols, will lead two sing along, "because it will be the last Sunday, September 14 will be the hands-on programs at College of the time you will sing together," he said. weekend to learn "All About Whales". Atlantic in which participants assemble Bok's sonorous baritone led the refrain The staff from College of the Atlantic's the "Whales On Wheels" minke "Where you go, go well. And a fair wind Allied Whale project, the Natural skeleton and the "Naugahyde Whale". home." History Museum and Captain Bob Vicki will be joined by Dr. Steven Following Bok's music came a song Bowman of Maine Whale Watch will be Katona, co-author of the field guide, of a different kind in the form of a eulogy combining their expertise to present a Whales, Porpoises, and Seals of the and the awarding of an honorary degree wide range of activities for this special Gulf of Maine and Eastern Canada, in human ecology to Mr. John C. family weekend. who, with other Allied Whale staff, will Dreier, COA trustee and former guest On Friday evening, Captain Bowman share some of their latest research and lecturer. In introducing Mr. Dreier, will present a slide preview in findings. Finally, to end on a humorous Neva Goodwin, Vice Chairman of the anticipation of a Saturday whalewatch note, local storyteller and COA COA Board of Trustees, said, "John has trip to Mt. Desert Rock. During the graduate Jackson Gillman will spin probably held more different positions cruise, participants may see a some tales of whales and whale than any other individual at COA." combination of finback and minke watching. According to Goodwin, phrases of whales, harbor porpoises, white-sided For reservations, contact the Field praise used by many to describe the dolphins, gray and harbor seals, a Trip Office at the Maine Audubon distinguished academician, statesman variety of seabirds, and, with luck, a Society, 118 U.S. Route One, humpback or right whale. On Sunday Falmouth, Maine 04105, 781-2330. (Continued on page 7) the Natural History Museum's acting 1 President Keeps Busy Spring Schedule COA President Louis Rabineau's recruitment, development and reported on College of the Atlantic. "Few schedule this spring has included retention. These areas of concern were places," he said, "have such personal several meetings with key leaders in the remarkably similar, the chief relationships and shared governance." community and the greater New differences lying in degree of Copies of COA's literary-art England and New York areas. magnitude. It was agreed that certain publication Voices, a senior project, In April Rabineau attended a meeting promotional possibilities should be were handed out. of the Governor's Committee on investigated, including the funding of a Closer to home, Rabineau spoke at a Scholastic Achievement in New York project to raise the aspirations of Maine May 21 Rotary Club meeting in Bar City. Rabineau was one of the founding Youth, a joint sponsorship of an event Harbor. In putting COA into historical members of the Governor's Committee for business and/or legislators, a joint context he said, "A handful of people which provides scholarships to sponsorship of a concert by the Bangor wanted to develop a college which academically gifted and talented young Symphony Orchestra, which might would be a credit to the community, be men and women primarily from New take place on different campuses over a of high quality not just another York high schools who are financially given period of time, and the possibility college. It has tried to do just that. I feel unable to pursue a higher education at a of distributing placemats to area COA has an informal understanding college of their choice. Recently restaurants with the theme "The to fulfill that original objective to be a Rabineau was instrumental in obtaining Educational Heartland of Maine." credit to Bar Harbor and to Mount scholarship support from the At a meeting of the Higher Education Desert Island." After discussing COA's Governor's Committee which has Council for the State of Maine in May, three major areas of concern - enroll- chosen COA as one of approximately Rabineau received an update on the ment, finance, and faculty he three dozen colleges outside of New Maine Science and Technology Board, reported on the career paths of recent York who qualify for that kind of help. whose purpose is to help forge graduates and summer programs On April 9 Rabineau hosted a productive relationships among the offered at the College. In conclusion meeting of Bangor area presidents to private and public sectors. At this Rabineau stated "We feel we are a part discuss areas of mutual concern. meeting the future role of the Higher of the community, not apart from the Institutions represented were Unity Education Council of Maine was community, even though, like every College, Husson College, Maine discussed. A subcommittee was other institution.. we must maintain Maritime Academy, University of established to develop a strategy for our identity in order to do the best for Maine at Orono, and Eastern Maine future directions as well as to review the everyone." Vocational Technical Institute. Each feasibility of an Executive Director. institution summarized its current At the Annual Meeting of the Board status, finding common denominators of Directors of the Academy for in financial problems, enrollment drops, Educational Development in honor of and general issues of faculty President Gerald Ford, Rabineau Summer Interns Pursue Diverse Interests Nine COA students are currently and the coastal erosion of Maine's bays of computer software. enrolled in internships that range and saltmarshes using core sampling Bette Swanton is an intern at the across New England. The following is a techniques. Robert Abbe Museum in Acadia brief summary of these internships: Kim Robertson is an assistant on National Park where she is designing Lynn Brach is refining her weaving the Maine Whale Watch voyages that new exhibits about local Indian skills with Ms. Jayn Thomas, noted embark from Northeast Harbor. anthropology as well as upgrading the weaver and teacher of Ellsworth, Bruce Robinson is an intern at current ones. Maine. Shorebird Systems Inc. where he is Kirsten Tripplett is an intern at the Lauren Gilson is teaching natural assisting in the development and selling Wild Gardens of Acadia National Park. history and environmental science at the Science Center of New Hampshire. Julie Girton is assisting Ted Kloman Fund Tops Goal Koffman with the organization and management of COA's Elderhostel In January of this year the Helm With several recent gifts, the goal has program. Kloman Memorial Fund achieved its been surpassed. It is hoped that the David Heckscher is an intern at the initial goal of $10,000. The Fund was Fund will continue to grow through gifts Hancock County Planning Commission created in memory of Erasmus H. in the future, to enable the amounts in Ellsworth. His work involves (Helm) Kloman Jr., who had been a awarded and extent of the research undertaking research trips and writing student in COA's course in Ecology in projects to increase. The interest regional planning reports. 1975. When cancer ended his life in earned each year on the principal Jean Pelletier is working as a November, 1980, his family and friends determines the size of the Fellowship. research geologist for the Federal and established the Fund to annually Announcement of the recipient of the State Geological Surveys. He is support a summer of field work on 1986 Fellowship award appears in studying offshore sediment migration whales by a COA student. another part of this issue. 2 Keppel Joins Board of Trustees President Rabineau announced in May the appointment of Mr. Francis Keppel to the Board of Trustees. Keppel is a Senior Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Chairman of the Board of Appropriate Technology International of Washington, D.C. Born April 16, 1916, in New York City, Keppel received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1938, studied sculpture for a year at the American Academy in Rome, and resumed academic studies while serving as an Assistant Dean at Harvard from 1939-41. At age 32, he was appointed Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Keppel also has served as U.S. Commissioner of Education and as Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (for Education). In 1980 Keppel was appointed by the Carol Laliberte Canadian government to the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre in Laliberte Wins Watson Fellowship Ottowa. He is also a member of the Board of the Lincoln Center for the Combining a love for farming with a how national policies support or Performing Arts, Inc. and former desire to make a difference in other impede agricultural change. Chairman of the Board of the Lincoln parts of the world, Carol Laliberte will Laliberte is the fourth COA senior to Center Institute, the Center's program travel abroad on a $11,000 Thomas J. receive a Watson Fellowship since for the arts in education. Watson Fellowship to study farming 1983, the first year COA was invited to "We feel very fortunate to have communities in transition to more participate by the Watson Foundation. gained the talents and experience of sustainable farming methods. Last year's recipient, Sally Greenman, such a distinguished leader," said Dr. Graduating from COA this May, is currently studying the practical Rabineau. "Mr. Keppel's broad LaLiberte plans to spend the year 1986- economics of the fishing industry in knowledge of higher education and in- '87 working hand-in-hand with small Japan and Norway. The 1984 depth experience in academic farming communities in India, Japan Fellowship winner, Richard Epstein, administration will be a great asset to and Europe, focusing her studies on studied vernacular architecture in College of the Atlantic." communities that have been inspired by Japan and the People's Republic of the Japanese agriculturist, Fukuoka, China. Peter Wayne was awarded a who has developed a system of Fellowship in 1983 to study the Chase Photo sustainable agriculture. terrestrial ecology of North Atlantic "Agriculture is in flux," states islands. Laliberte, "and changes need to be The Watson Fellowship is a national made. But transition is always difficult competition which supports and risky, and there are many factors to independent study and travel abroad look at." Factors in Laliberte's study for recent college graduates. Fellows will include farming community size, are selected by the Watson Foundation geography, planting seasons, for their commitment to a particular distributive marketing techniques, field of interest and for their leadership community support or antagonism, and potential within that field. COA NEWS - JULY 1986 Editor Carolyn Dow Student Assistant William Allen Have you moved? We'd like to know. Send address change to: COA News, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Dr. Francis Keppel 3 Bright Prospects Drury Receives Grant For Enrollment Dr. William Drury has received a $10,000 grant from an anonymous Larry Clendenin, Director of donor to help support his work on a Admissions, reports that there are new book, Ecology for Naturalists. many encouraging signs regarding "I want to convince people that we enrollment. At the present time are taught some seriously mistaken applications are up 67% and deposits up assumptions about ecology and human 164% over last year. In addition the new nature," explains Dr. Drury. "For class will be comprised of more example, concerning Natural freshmen than has been the case for GIVE BLOOD Selection: the theory that some some time. "This office is promoting the individuals dominate resources and principle that COA must develop a produce more children has recently greater retention atmosphere in order enjoyed a renaissance as a tool for to experience sustained, long-term understanding organic nature. Winners growth," says Clendenin. "We have in nature neglect the interests of the attempted to do this by focusing losers, and as human societies get attention on academic advising, a larger and more anonymous, so do client-sensitive curriculum, and an human winners. Until we acknowledge articulated campus residence program. the interests of losers, and stop We have also called together a expecting them to live out lives of quiet retention committee with broad Student volunteer bloodmobile desperation without causing trouble in campus representation." coordinators Bill Allen and Lilea society, we will continue to have The Admissions Office has Stockwell support student blood donor confrontational politics, war and conducted five major research projects David Malakoff. depletion of resources." this year: 1) a survey of non- matriculated students who were Giving The Gift Of Life Drury intends to explore the interactions between geology, botany, accepted last fall; 2) data on entering In a tradition that stretches back to and animal behavior, moving from the freshmen; 3) a survey of students to 1976, College of the Atlantic held orderliness of geology through the loss learn why students choose COA; 4) a another successful Spring blood drive. of predictability among plants and survey of enrolled students to Roughly half of the COA community animals serving their individual determine developmental characteris- turned out on Friday, April 25, to ease a interests in changing environments, to tics; and 5) a compilation of retention severe, state-wide blood deficit. the human potential for charity, data. Red Cross blood drives at COA are compassion and creativity. In addition to the publication of a new primarily student organized events. "The point of the book is to stimulate catalogue, the Admissions Office also Those who could not give blood people's curiosity about how nature created a mini-view booklet that was generously provided their time, support really works and to dispel myths about sent to some 3000 students who had and baked goods to ensure that how nature ought to work. Humans indicated a wide range of academic everything ran smoothly. Red Cross need to acknowledge the considerable interests. This was part of Admissions' attendants noted that the college intellectual baggage we inherit from our participation in the College Board community had sustained a strong animal ancestors. Yet we have the Student Search Service. A total of donation record and that they look potential to anticipate the 55,000 pieces of correspondence were forward to working with the new consequences of and assume sent out by the Admissions Office this student organizers of the next drive to responsibility for our behavior," notes past year. be held during the 1986 fall trimester. Drury. The Flying Whale The Naugahyde Whale and Vicki Nichols, Acting Director of the Natural History Museum, took to the skies on Monday, May 5, for a three-day visit to "The Big Apple". Maurine Rothschild, COA Trustee, invited Vicki and the whale to New York where she had arranged for Vicki to conduct several programs in Manhattan. The schools included: Bank Street School, The Friends Seminary and St. Johns Cathedral School. Vicki and "Naugie" flew on Bar Harbor Airlines; it was the whale's first flying adventure. "We received a lot of weird looks," says Vicki, "but it was well worth it." Vicki Nichols presents the Naugahyde Whale program which captivated over 150 New York City school children this May. 4 Happiness Is Graduation Clockwise, David Malakoff, Patti Clark, Tenia Bannick, Ann Handley, Glenon Friedmann and John Long tell "The Senior Story"; relaxing at the commencement party at Jordan Pond House are Anne Napier and Charles Hesse; COA trustee John Drier receives an honorary degree from trustees Neva Goodwin and Thomas Hall; David Malakoff and John Long; Elmer Beal joins commencement special guest Gordon Bok in a song for the graduates; also at Jordan Pond House from left to right, David James, Harriet Corbett, Ann Handley and Elmer Beal. COA Summer Programs 1986 ELDERHOSTEL - For adults age 60 NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM EVENING SPEAKER PROGRAM* or older July2 Virginia and Gordon Mott, mushrooms for identification.) June 16-20 "Maine Coyotes" New New Building. June 23-27 Building. June 30-July 4 Aug.6 Meg Scheid, "Beavers" Workshops: July Greg Stone, "Underwater Auditorium. Writing, Maine Coast Architec- Life of Northern Waters" ture, Field Studies by the Sea, New Building. Planet Earth, Chemistry for Aug. 13 Scott Marion, "Bart the Bald Consumers, Contemporary July 16 Jackson Gillman, "Professor Eagle" Auditorium. Black Women Writers Offenwall Returns!" New Building. Adults, $3.00, Aug. 20 David Folger, "Seabird FIELD STUDIES BY THE SEA - For children, $1.50. Nesting Ecology" New high school teachers and environ- Building. mental educators from 20 states. July 23 Craig Greene, "Tree ID" (A July 6-12 walk around COA campus Aug. 27 Steven Cress, "Re-establish- July 13-25 identifying trees.) New ing Puffins in Maine." Building. Auditorium. July 27-Aug. 8 Aug. 10-22 July 30 Walter Litten, "Mushrooms, *Unless otherwise noted, time is 7:30 Workshops: Other Fungi, and Human p.m. and admission is: Adults, $1.50 Oceanography; Whales, Affairs" (Bring your unknown and children $.50. Porpoises, and Seals; Technical Diving; Plant Taxonomy; Environmental Chemistry; Ecology; Geology. RUNNING CAMP Aug. 25-Aug. 29 Sponsored by the Maine Running and Outing Magazine Dow Photo SUMMER FIELD STUDIES FOR CHILDREN - For children entering grades 4,5, and 6 July 7-10 and 14-16 July 21-24 and 28-30 Aug. 11-14 and 18-20 Activities will include hiking, salt- water kayaking, canoeing, bird- watching, tracking, habitat study, specimen collection, drawing from nature, and learning to use a variety of nature guides. ON-GOING SUMMER PROGRAMS AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Every day at 11:00 a.m. - Whales- on-Wheels or the Naugahyde Whale Afternoon programs: Birds on Wings, Footprints, and Owl Pellets. Every Monday and Friday afternoon at Sieur de Monts: The Puffin Naugahyde Whale Impressive Key Issues To Be Fundraising Results Theme Of New Reported By Hesse Speaker Series A committee chaired by Mrs. Gifts to COA for all purposes, Thomas S. Hall has organized a including the Phoenix Fund and the Summer Lecture Series to be held at Annual Giving Campaign, will total over COA. Included on the committee are $1,800,000 by June 30, 1986, the end of eight other members of the Board of the College's fiscal year, reports Trustees: Mrs. Amos Eno, Ms. Neva Charles Hesse, Vice President for Goodwin, Mrs. Robert Rothschild, Development and Public Affairs. This Mrs. Donald Straus, Edward McC. Blair, represents an increase of approximately Sr., William G. Foulke, Robert E. $650,000 over the previous year's total, Suminsby, and James H. Wakelin. he noted. The Summer Lecture Series is as As of June 20, when this issue went to follows: press. over $920.000 in gifts and pledges July 9 - Leonard S. Silk had been received for the Phoenix Economics: America and the World Fund - the $6-million campaign to The New York Times rebuild the COA campus after the fire Economics: America and the World Jim Batchelder gesticulates intently to of July, 1983. The total raised since the his chorale group at their May 25th July 23 - John Wilmerding beginning of the campaign is slightly performance. Deputy Director, National Gallery over $2.8 million. of Art In addition, the College has received COA Chorus Presents Winslow Homer: The Nature of gifts and pledges of $778,103 in the Artist unrestricted funds to its Annual Fund, Spring Concert approximately $80,000 above the gift of August 20 - Paul H. Nitze $696,000 necessary to balance the Under the grand old beams of St. Special Advisor to the President and operating budget. "This is the largest Saviour's Episcopal Church in Bar the Secretary of State on Arms Harbor, the College of the Atlantic Control Matters amount ever raised by the College in one year for unrestricted purposes. Chorus presented its annual Spring Negotiating With The Russians This showing is especially impressive concert on Sunday, May 25. All lectures will take place in the COA during a time when we also are James Batchelder, COA student and auditorium at 8:30 p.m. conducting a capital campaign to Choral Director, led the 20-member rebuild the campus. We are very chorus, composed of local residents as encouraged by the number and size of well as COA students. The the gifts we have received from both performance, which was the third that new and regular donors in response to Batchelder, a third-year student, has our latest appeal," stated Hesse. organized, featured music from the early 16th century composer Josquin des Pres, a piece by Orlando di Lasso, several early American songs and a Allied Whale recent work by Randall Thomas. COA faculty member Peter Corcoran Receives Grant enhanced the performance with poetry To Catalogue North readings of Walt Whitman and Susan Griffin, accompanied with flute Atlantic Finbacks improvisations by COA student Patti Paul H. Nitze Clark. The second largest animal on earth is the finback whale, yet very little Museum Initiates Speakers Network information is available about this marine mammal. A grant from the COA's Natural History Museum is The object of the network will be to Maine Department of Inland Fisheries forming a statewide speakers network provide organizations with a means to and Wildlife will provide $2,000 for in an attempt to help community quickly find information on individuals Allied Whale of Bar Harbor to continue groups, schools, and environmental who have the expertise and ability to cataloguing the movements of finbacks. education organizations to find and speak on a variety of environmental This research, under the direction of schedule outstanding lectures from a topics. The network will help to Dr. Steven Katona, is one of several variety of the environmental sciences. eliminate the time and cost involved in studies made possible by Maine's The Museum will contact and keep a finding speakers. Applications have Endangered and Nongame Wildlife file on individuals well qualified and been mailed to those individuals with Grants program. willing to speak on subjects as diverse whom COA has had previous contact. This ongoing study will ultimately as whales in the Gulf of Maine, salt- Recommendations are most welcome. lead to a clearer understanding of the water marsh ecology, acid rain and Please call 288-5015 if you know of an natural history of the endangered alternative energy. experienced, interesting speaker. finback whale. 5 Faculty/Staff News Notes Sally Crock attended the annual research team will spend the Summer Commission on the Arts and meeting of the American Association of at the Mt. Desert Rock Whale and Humanities. Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Seabird Observation Station. Research Marcia Dworak, Marcia Dorr and Officers in Baltimore this April. She Associate Harriet Corbett, who is Sandra Modeen attended the Maine acted as recorder for one program back from a winter of studying Library Association Annual session and attended a meeting of the humpback whales on the Virgin Banks Conference at UMO in May. Marcia Nontraditional Education Committee off the U.S. Virgin Isles, will supervise Dworak moderated a panel on (NEC). Sally also participated in the project for the third time. She will be "Disaster in the Library". planning for the presentations of the joined by Research Associate Lisa next annual meeting of the NEC, which Baraff (COA 1984), who has assisted in Gary Friedmann recharged his will be held in Las Vegas. the curation of the Humpback Whale fundraising batteries at the seminar Craig Greene co-authored his second Catalogue this year. Research "Winning Grants in '86" conducted by paper on the reproductive biology of Associate Ann Rivers will join them David Bauer, which was held in April in later in the summer to continue her Washington, D.C. the shadbush. It has been accepted by the American Journal of Botany and is birdbanding project. Walter Litten presented a research expected to appear in next winter's Research Associate Greg Stone paper at the New England Mycologists issue. His field studies of a rare, alpine (COA 1981) returned from a successful Conference at the University of Rhode plant called the Robbin's Cinquefoil research trip to Antarctica, where he Island on the fungi which live on the have been cut short by an unusually photo-identified over 20 humpback roots of Maine blueberry plants and early flowering season. Craig's revision whales as part of a project to create an make possible prolific production of of a checklist of the vascular plants of Antarctic Humpback Whale blueberries on poor soil without the use Mt. Desert Island continues with the Catalogue. The work was funded by of manures or manufactured fertilizers. assistance of students from his winter World Wildlife Fund U.S. and the Walter is working with Don Cass and 1986 tutorial on the Flora of Coastal Hooper Foundation. Greg also served researchers at the University of Maine. as a research diver investigating the Washington and the University of Stewart Brecher participated in a biology of krill for Dr. William Hamner Innsbruck on the chemical analysis of of UCLA. pigments of the mushroom genus panel which addressed ways of Cortinorius. Walter is also the editor of incorporating architecture into Susan Lerner has been working to Mcllvainea, the annual journal of curricula during a Workshop for bring outside artists to COA. Through amateur mycology. Educators and Architects. grants from the Maine State Commission on the Arts and John Navazio will be conducting pea Melita Brecher completed a major Humanities, textile artist Jamien and brussel sprouts varietal trials in the commission in early June, just before she, Stewart and their children left on a Moorehouse led a flag and banner COA community garden this summer making workshop in May, and mixed- using over 25 varieties of edible podded trip to Melita's native Finland. The media artist Abby Shahn will be an peas from around the world and a piece is an 18-foot-tall sculpture for an architect's office building in Cambridge, Artist-in-Residence for 10 days next dozen varieties of brussel sprouts from Massachusetts. winter. Susan is also working with Lucy northern Europe. These two vegetables Bell Sellers who will offer a Drama will be observed for characteristics of: Steven Katona and Research Workshop next autumn. heat and/or cold tolerance, susceptibility Associate Judith Beard attended a to insects and disease, yield, and flavor. workshop at NOAA's National Marine Larry Clendenin attended the New Mammals Laboratory in Seattle to help England Transfer Association Bill Carpenter was the commence- set up a central catalogue of individually ment speaker at Mount Desert Island conference in Newport, R.I. He identified humpback whales from the High School this June. presented two workshops at Gould Pacific Ocean. An important task of the Academy in Bethel, Maine, as part of a workshop was testing and refining new Planning for College program. At the Don Cass and COA oceanographer techniques developed at the national annual meeting of the Maine Carl Ketchum have begun a study of lab for computer-assisted identification Association for Counseling and the waters of Somes Sound for the and sorting of fluke photographs. Development at the University of town of Mt. Desert and the Somes Beverly Agler, a Research Associate, Maine, Orono, he hosted the dinner Sound Association. They were assisted and gave a presentation about COA. during two spring cruises by COA has completed an initial catalogue of students Chris O'Connor and Marc over 150 individually identified finback Peter Corcoran was re-elected to a Matthews. The team collected whales from the Mt. Desert Rock third term as vice-president of the region and the eastern Maine coast. approximately 200 water samples on Board of the New England After assisting in a five-week study of these trips which are being analyzed for Environmental Evaluation Alliance. He osprey biology in Massachusetts, she nutrients and contaminants. This June, is currently seeking re-election to the will collect more photos of finbacks in in-flowing streams will undergo similar National Board of the Conservation her capacity as naturalist for Maine analysis. Don has also been serving on a Education Association. Peter has also Whalewatch. county-wide committee to identify been re-appointed by Governor important water-related projects to For the 14th consecutive summer, a Brennan to the Maine State submit for state funding. 6 (Continued from page 1) and conservationist included "scholarly people's welfare," she said, "or erode don't know." In earnest they chanted, common sense", impressively their rights or deprive them of the free "Would you choose COA again? knowledgeable but not pedantic", "an choices ordinary people are entitled to Maybe, maybe, maybe, yes!" extraordinarily good listener" and have. It is when people come together The happy-sad feelings inherent in a "understanding all points of view, while like that - to object to a nuclear plant's rite of passage such as a keeping the best interests of COA in opening, to demand day care centers, commencement were captured in a mind." Formerly an advisor to the U.S. to save a national park, to open a song "I'll Open My Eyes" composed by Delegation to the General Assembly of shelter, to build a playground, to Elmer Beal. the United Nations and Director of the establish a local theatre - that a public Time goes on by, our work here is Inter-American Center at the School of takes shape, that a public space opens done. Advanced International Studies at up." She talked of extending our Still it's only beginning, like a race Johns Hopkins University, Dreier also "landscapes", our felt realities, from the being run. held various positions in U.S. local to the global, from our own lived Old friends are near to the parting of government agencies in the fields of worlds to a space we inhabit with others ways; conservtion and land utilization. He is in order "to cherish and preserve a Will they hold me still dear, will the currently Director of the Maine Coast common world." picture be clear Heritage Trust in Northeast Harbor. "And that," concluded Greene, "is in the oncoming days? Maxine Greene, William F. Russell what I wish for you who have And then forty-one Bachelor's Professor in the Foundations of discovered your own landscapes and degrees in Human Ecology were Education at Teachers College, may be able to recover the American conferred. Forty-one students who had Columbia University, was guest landscape in your own places, your own committed themselves to the study of speaker. She told the graduates that public spheres." interrelationships between man and his solving the problems confronting Following Greene's address, six environment, who had used their time society today will require more than COA students told in lively prose, at college to discover their own people "holding hands across poetry, and song, of the "landscapes" "landscapes", were about to step into America." "I mean individuals they themselves had discovered at many new and different landscapes consciously coming together in speech COA. In jest they chanted, "What can extending beyond a college degree. and action to do something about the you do with a degree in Human consequences of decisions that affect Ecology? I don't know, I don't know, I COA Student Visvader Joins Faculty Receives Fellowship COA will welcome Dr. John comes to COA with an extensive Visvader in fall term, 1986, as instructor background in Philosophy Education, of philosophy. John is a familiar face at most recently having taught To Study Porpoises COA, having taught three previous Environmental Psychology at the courses in philosophy, as well as Audubon Expeditions Institute in lecturing, directing three independent Lubec, Maine, in Spring, 1986. John is Kim Robertson was selected to be studies and one senior thesis. John was currently coauthoring a book with the 1986 recipient of the Helm Kloman granted his Ph.D. in Analytic Philosophy COA faculty member and Provost Memorial Fellowship. and the Philosophy of Science at the Richard Borden. While a Kloman Fellow, Kim will University of Minnesota in 1966. He work with Dr. Steven Katona, COA biologist, and Bob Bowman, Director of COA To Host International Gathering Maine Whale Watch, to estimate the Of Human Ecologists population of harbor porpoises in waters surrounding Mt. Desert Island, Human Ecologists from across six of developing countries. and to assist in ongoing studies of continents will convene at College of Richard Borden, faculty member and finback and humpback whales. The the Atlantic from October 17-19 for the Provost at COA, and Vice President of work on harbor porpoises will extend 1986 meeting of the Society for Human the Society, is leading the organization research started by COA graduate Ecology. The conference is entitled of this international event with project Holly Devaul during summer, 1983, and "Human Ecology: Research and assistant Carol Mead and COA supported by a Kloman Fellowship. Applications", and it will be attended by graduate Jamien Jacobs. They hope to The Kloman Fellowship was an estimated 100 representatives of involve as many COA community established in memory of Helm Kloman human ecology programs from 20 members as possible in a symposium Jr., a student in COA's summer course countries. Thirty participants will that will include tours of Acadia in Ecology in 1975. His family and present their papers and there will be National Park as well as opportunities friends established the fellowship after round table discussions on topics for the human ecologists of COA to his death in 1980 to annually support a including biological ecology, exchange ideas with those from summer of field work by a COA environmental design, education, elsewhere in the world. student. urban ecology and the human ecology 7 Address Correction Requested Permit #47 Bar Harbor, ME 207-288-5015 U.S. Postage Paid Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Nonprofit Organization College of the Atlantic Banners Aloft - Turrets Receives New Adornment Looking more like a medieval castle teeth, high wire hero Koffman then from the days of Camelot than a 19th inched his way back up the ladder. century summer home, The Turrets at After slipping a looped rope over the tip COA now displays three brightly of the lightning rod, he was able to raise colored banners on its highest peaks. the banner to the approved height. The Turrets' new adornments were "How does she look?" he yelled down created by COA students at a flag and to the earthbound jurors. "Wonderful!" banner workshop taught by Jamien "Super!" "Breathtaking!" they agreed. Morehouse of Rockport. Part of a "I can't tell you how much I can't wait community arts program, the to see it from down there," replied workshop received partial support Koffman dryly. from the Maine State Commission on The other two banners took their the Arts and Humanities through the places somewhat less ceremoniously Hancock County Auditorium's on two lower spires of The Turrets. Yet Regional Site Program. the elation felt by the COA community In designing the banners, the students will endure, as a tradition has now been began with a centralized image of the accompanied by students Dan Winkler established. It is the intention of banner circle, which reflects the COA logo. and Elsa Haas, climbed through a trap workshop director Susan Lerner for Wavey lines in a vibrant pink and blue door to the roof of The Turrets. A each graduating class to create a class fabric rippling away from the circle and ladder was hoisted from the ground and banner characterizing their period of across the largest banner symbolizes secured, SO that Koffman could reach time at the College. "We wanted to the vital energy generated during the the tallest spire, 50 feet above the make flags which can wave from The creative process. ground, to attach the largest banner. Turrets tops," explains Lerner. "Happy The creation of the banners, When the deed was done, the signs that our castle is a safe and lively however, is only part of the story. spectators who had gathered below to place, as all schools should be. Each Securing the multi-colored streamers witness this demonstration of aerial spring new banners will wave from The to the tops of The Turrets' lightning courage, voiced their praise - and Turrets, displaying the creative design rods is another tale. volunteered advice. "Higher! It needs to talents of many students and bringing Armed with helmets and belay ropes, be higher!" they shouted. color and vitality into our environment COA administrator Ted Koffman, With a pipe clamped between his after the long cold winter." 8