COA News Spring 1985 Vol. 8 No. 2 RABINEAU NAMED PRESIDENT "I fell in love with the spirit and commitment of the people here," said Dr. Louis Rabineau, shortly after his selection as president was announced by Dr. Thomas S. Hall, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. The April 8 announcement marked the culmination of a presidential search conducted by a committee consisting of students, staff, faculty, and trustees. Five finalists, including Lou, met individually with the entire college community in interviews, meetings, lunches, and formal gatherings. At a special session of the All College Meeting, community input was solicited by the search committee which then made its recommendation to the Board. ''It is exciting to be a part of the development of this special college, both in its human ecology mission and in the rebuilding program which is getting underway," said Lou, who has been serving as interim president since last September. "COA is poised to take its place as one of the outstanding innovative institutions of higher education in the nation." Dr. Mona Rabineau, Lou's wife, who remained in Colorado during Lou's interim presidency, will soon join him in Bar Harbor. Mona is currently on the faculty of education at the University of Denver. Lou Rabineau and Jackson Gillman Diane Whitmore photo COA HOLDS THIRTEENTH At Colloquium on Teacher Education: COMMENCEMENT CELEBRATION "MAKE AMERICAN EDUCATION LOOK LIKE The thirteenth commencement celebration be. He observed that while the revered COA" of College of the Atlantic was held Saturday, eagle almost always flies alone or in twos, contributed by John Kauffmann June 1, at St. Saviour's Church in Bar the goose flies -- and migrates hundreds of Harbor. Thirteen students received the miles — cooperatively with many other Developing the need and desire to learn Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Ecology geese. And when the lead goose drops back, and the joy of achievement are central to from Dr. Thomas S. Hall, chairman of the another is prepared to take its place as solving America's education predicament, Board of Trustees. Five students who leader. and teachers should be the most important received degrees this year were not present, "Many of us would like to see ourselves people in our society. What teachers do for having stood with last year's class. Nine as eagles," he said, "solitary, self-sufficient, us has tremendous effect for the rest of our other seniors who will complete degree and strong. But we are what we are; that's lives, and without them there would be no requirements this summer stood with their something we cannot choose. And although one with intellectual training. class at Saturday's ceremony. many of us might like to be seen as an These were among the views offered by Entertainer and storyteller Jackson eagle, I think that God made us more like six authorities on American education who Gillman, a member of the first class at COA the goose." met at College of the Atlantic for a in 1972, spoke to the graduates and visiting Speaking directly to the graduates, Mr. Colloquium on Teacher Education. family, friends, and alumni. With humor and Gillman said, ''You have a very rich Sponsored by the Academy for energy he related anecdotes from his days education in human ecology perspective. As Educational Development (AED) and chaired as a student at COA. Then, as a storyteller, you go out into our very needy world, be a by former U.S. Commissioner of Education he communicated his message of very active part of your communities Francis Keppel, the panel examined myths, community. He told of a friend who had a And when it's appropriate for you to take purposes, and choices in teacher education. goose and how he learned that a goose is (Continued on Page 7) Other participants included Gene Maeroff, not an eagle - and that it doesn't need to VISITORS SERIES BRINGS sponsored by School Union 98. A recipient of the Educational Press Association Award EDUCATORS TO COA for Excellence and author of Open COA brought nationally-known educators Mind/Whole Mind: Parenting and Teaching to campus during winter and spring terms Tomorrow's Children Today, Samples also as part of the COA Distinguished Visitors conducted a workshop for Hancock teachers. Series. The visitors participated in education Lord Asa Briggs, eminent social historian classes and met informally with students; currently on world tour, visited COA in April. evening lectures were open to the public. The author of Social Thought and Social Director of the State Planning Office Dr. Action, Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace: Impact Richard Barringer opened the series on and Images of the Industrial Revolution, and January 23 speaking on the topic "Public A Social History of England, Briggs Education in Maine: The Challenge of the discussed "Innovation in Higher Education: Future." An International View." "Educational aspirations may well be the single most important key to general economic and social prosperity for the CLENDENIN IS NEW people of Maine," he said. "The issue DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS before us is less one of dollars than it is one of personal habits and public values; a matter of increasing our expectations of one Larry Clendenin will fill the position of another; of raising the aspiration levels of COA admissions director on July 15, taking our students; and of rewarding outstanding over for faculty member Elmer Beal who Sally Greenman Mike Meyerheim photo performances and achievement." served on an interim basis. Dr. Barringer met with students to discuss Larry brings enthusiasm and a fresh GREENMAN RECEIVES their concerns for Maine's future perspective to his new position; ''I have WATSON FELLOWSHIP environmental problems and conducted an come to realize that the best professionals education seminar. in the field are those who approach their How does one combine a love for fish and Also in January, Dr. Gordon Klopf of Bank work partly as students, always looking for an interest in business? For Sally Street College of Education in New York more information that can help them be Greenman, the answer is to study the spent several days on campus discussing more effective in their work, and partly as practical economics of the fishing industry. leadership values and political action. In a teachers, charged with the responsibility of Thanks to a $10,000 Thomas J. Watson public lecture he addressed the topic of sharing what they learn with others." Fellowship award, Sally will be doing just "Participatory Governance in Institutions of Larry was formerly director of Admissions that in two of the world's biggest fishing Higher Education: Possibilities and and Financial Aid at Prescott College in markets: Oslo, Norway, and Tokyo, Japan. Limitations." Arizona and associate dean of Admissions Sally is the third COA senior to receive a Dr. Theodore Kauss, executive director of at the University of Denver. He has also Watson Fellowship. Last year's recipient, The Frost Foundation, presented the topic worked as an admissions counselor and as a Richard Epstein, is currently studying "An Inside View of Foundations," at an conference programs director. vernacular architecture in Japan and the assembly in the COA auditorium in March. Larry's wife and four-year-old daughter People's Republic of China; 1983 Fellowship Bob Samples, author, curriculum writer, will be joining him this September in Bar winner Peter Wayne studied wildlife and and researcher in wholemindedness and Harbor. vegetation on the outer islands of the North creativity, spoke at COA during a visit co- Atlantic. The Watson Fellowship Program is a national competition which supports independent study and travel abroad for REBUILDING recent college graduates. Fellows are selected by the Watson Foundation for their commitment to a particular field of interest and for their leadership potential within that field. COA HITS AP NEWS WIRE AP education writer Lee Mitgang visited campus in January researching an article on institutions that offer outstanding educations in unconventional settings. Three days later, after attending classes, meeting with students at Jordans, chatting with faculty and staff at the Ledgelawn Inn, visiting alumni, talking with trustees, and conducting countless on-the-spot interviews, he returned to New York to tap out the COA segment of his three-part series "Higher Education's Best-Kept Secrets." The article hit the Associated Press news wire in late April. With the aid of a map to show where in the world Mt. Desert Island is located, people who read the education sections from the Dallas Morning News to Rebuilding is underway! The maintenance shop is dwarfed by new construction which the New Haven Register know we're here! will house science labs, design studios, and offices Mike Meyerheim photo INVOLVED: COA STUDENTS WORK WITH PUBLIC SCHOOLS realize the importance of their natural After Chris Hamilton returned from a six- Lou Petruzelli in Education Seminar I turned heritage and work harder on its behalf, in month trip to Africa. he decided to share his into a program of tutoring and substitute the way the native Americans of this area experiences and concerns with students in understood their environment." teaching in Island schools. the World Cultures class at MDI High Lou's project, a three-day presentation of School. Chris developed the idea of a two- the social studies of Southwest Africa and week college-level course for high school the United Nations, was received with SOVIET DIGNITARIES students as his term project for his class in enthusiasm by both seventh-grade students Environmental Education at COA. VISIT COA and their teachers at the Northeast Harbor With the high school students, Hamilton Middle School. As a result, Lou was invited Soviet dignitaries Natalya Dolgopolova and examined the problems of desertification to substitute-teach as an undergraduate. Dimitri Mamleev visited College of the and deforestation. He also explored Lou is one of many students in Education Atlantic on Friday, May 10. The public was population problems and the contributing Seminar I to become involved in teaching invited to discuss peace issues with the factors, a subject he studied as part of his projects at local schools. Other projects Soviets in the COA auditorium. senior project: A Critical Analysis of Family included computers, winter botany, and The Soviets' visit was sponsored by the Planning in Kenya. drama. Maine Coalition for Bridges for Peace. Based What began as a teaching project for in Vermont, United States-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Bridges for Peace is a SUSAN NEWBORN NAMED KLOMAN RECIPIENT project initiated by groups of United Church Susan Newborn has been selected to dumping of radioactive waste. She has of Christ churches. receive the Helm Kloman Memorial worked on projects in coordination with the Through a series of exchange visits Fellowship for 1985. University of Athens and the Greek between American and Soviet citizens, US- The Kloman Fellowship was established in government to establish a marine reserve USSR Bridges for Peace hopes to establish memory of Helm Kloman Jr., a student in for protection of the nearly extinct regular and nationwide exchanges. The COA's summer course in Ecology in 1975. Mediterranean monk seal and has served as project"s goal is to eliminate, through His family and friends established the an advisor to the Council of Europe to stop education, the communication problem fellowship after his death in 1980 to the hunting of dolphins in Turkish waters. between the US and the USSR which annually support a summer of field work by Most recently, she helped renovate a 107- currently threatens world peace. a COA student. foot gaff-rigged Baltic trader built in 1913, Dolgopolova and Mamleev were among While a Kloman Fellow, Susi will work the Fri, which transported equipment and nine Soviets visiting New England. with Dr. Steven Katona, COA biologist, and medical aid to developing countries in the Dolgopolova is senior researcher at the Bob Bowman, director of Maine Whale Caribbean region. Institute for US and Canada Studies. Watch, to establish a catalog of individually- "This is a great opportunity for me to Mamleev is department editor of the identified finback whales and minke whales work at sea with the animals themselves publication, Sovietskaya Kultura. seen in Maine waters. and to see how information is gathered that All nine of the Soviet visitors are Now in her second year of studies at will ultimately be used for their protection," members of the Soviet Peace Committee, a COA, Susi brings to her work a strong Susi said. "In the project we will be looking large public organization in the USSR background in environmental protection and to see whether certain whales tend to supported by churches and other Soviet wildlife conservation. After editing World of return annually to Mt. Desert waters. groups. Wildlife magazine in London, she was "As a foreigner (from Britain) I appreciate employed by Friends of the Earth and was a the wealth of your natural environment founding member and director of Greenpeace although I feel there is much headway to be TWO FOR THE SHOW in Europe, where she worked on issues such made in conservation efforts. Maybe with a as whaling and the transportation and different perspective on nature people would A slide/tape show highlighting COA's IS UNDERWAY! rebuilding efforts is being produced for use in promoting the Phoenix Fund capital campaign. Karan Sheldon and David Weiss of Sheldon-Weiss Productions, Blue Hill, Maine, spent several weeks on campus gathering information for the 8-10 minute show. "This will provide us with a compelling Coll of the Atlantic and effective way to explain our mission and goals to people outside of the immediate STAGE I OF REBUILDING PROGRAM community," said Vice President for Laboratories, Studios, & Classroom Facilities Development and Public Affairs Charlie ARCHITECT/ENGINEER Brecher-Hyman Associates Hesse. The multi-image presentation will CONTRACTOR Voikon Corporation include the voices and faces of students, CAMPUS PLANNER Scully/Monahon staff, faculty, and trustees. Architects "Community participation in the show has been excellent," said Karan. "The willingness of people to talk to us and show us their projects and work has provided us with great material." David explained that the show combines a casual interview format with the look and feel of a documentary. In addition to its presentation as a slide/tape show, the production will be Days later, with construction progressing in the background, visiting alumni and transferred to videotape to allow wider trustees gathered with students, faculty, and staff to officially celebrate the beginning of distribution. The show will be completed in the rebuilding program. Mike Meyerheim photo early July. EUROPEAN HUMAN Denmark, and Philip Stewart from Oxford VISITING FACULTY OFFER ECOLOGISTS VISIT COA University in England. As a human ecologist and teacher, Eva DIVERSE CLASSES stated an important goal, "Teachers should For Swedish physician Ole Malmberg, be coaches, seeing in each student a best Textiles, philosophy, law, drawing, and medicine is communication as much as it is ability and giving the student the will to journalism were the subjects taught by science. As a Swedish public employee - achieve that bestness." visiting faculty members during winter and overworked and overloaded - Ole finds Britta, director of the Human Ecology spring terms. The talented cast offered a patients willing to help cure themselves if Program at Gotesborg, is concerned with variety of courses which augmented the training and re-training people to be aware curriculum. they are told as much as possible about of problems of resource and environment In Textiles, Colors, and Fibers Joli Greene their problems and treatments. "I see myself as a teacher," he said recently at COA. "I misuse. "When you are conscious of the taught yarn spinning, wool dyeing with must teach the patient all I can, in a circulation of energy, you can use it at natural dyes, usage and conservation of language he understands. The most difficult appropriate times," she stated. "In order for local dye plants, and primitive and off-loom part of this is taking the time from a very you to see that natural energy cycle, you weaving techniques. busy schedule, and sometimes I get in have to change the way you construct your John Visvader of Guilford, Maine, taught trouble with so much to do." surroundings. It is very hard to be in touch Philosophies of Human Nature. He designed Ole's father, Torsten Malmberg, is a with nature when you live inside four the course to explore human nature as a straight walls." vision of the individual self, its relation to scientist, a popularizer of science, and Chairman of the Nordic Society for Human Jorgen, co-director of the Center for the social community, and its relation to the Human Ecology at Arhus, said, "Human natural world. Ecology. "You must be able to communicate to everyone," he said. In Sweden, Torsten ecology raises questions concerning the Law and Society in the United States: talks on radio and television to communicate kind of future we want and tries to Private Property and Public Policy introduced a new way of combining perspectives of construct a forum for discussing these the legal process, explored common good science and humanities called human ideas and how we can plan for a humane and property rights, and examined the and liveable future." regulation of private land use. Instructor ecology. "Because human ecology is cross- Philip finds words limiting in describing Michael Weinberg brought his experience as disciplinary using many different approaches in solving problems - it is the and communicating human ecology. "People a Fullbright Lecturer, Assistant Professor of most necessary of disciplines." want to know 'what' I am," he said to a History and Literature at Harvard University, Ole and Torsten, along with other human group of COA students. "As a 'human and Associate Professor of History at ecologists from Sweden, Denmark, and ecologist,' my actions are stronger than my Washington University to the classroom. Britain, were guests of College of the words. Human ecology is far too important For John Gallagher, teaching Drawing Atlantic and faculty member Richard Borden for us to let it be pigeon-holed by brief from the Natural Order was a way to from April 29 to 31. labels and titles." continue, as a teacher and artist, exploring The group's visit followed the Society for However hard it is to describe human totemic and ritualistic qualities in natural ecology in simple terms, it is clear that it is forms. The class developed observational, Human Ecology's annual meeting, held a growing field. Throughout the world, from compositional, and basic freehand-drawing April 26 through 29 at the University of Maryland. They visited COA because it is the U.S. to Europe, from Japan to South skills through the study of natural objects. one of the leading centers for human America, social institutions and the natural John has studied painting at the Rhode world are gaining the interest of researchers Island School of Design and has exhibited ecology study in the United States. and practitioners. Meetings like the recent his work throughout the East Coast. Joining Torsten and Ole Malmberg were ones at the University of Maryland and at To teach students how to write and Eva Ekehorn and Britta Jungen from Gotesborg University in Sweden, Jorgen College of the Atlantic are signs of this market environmental articles was the goal Ringgaard from Arhus University in growing international network. of Clinton Trowbridge in his Environmental Journalism class. From Sedgwick, Maine, Clinton has been able to write and market his own works, including The Crow Island COA FORUM INTRODUCED Journal and The Man Who Walked Around the World. COA FORUM was introduced in January ADMISSIONS HOLDS when Millard Dority, director of Buildings & RECEPTIONS Grounds, and senior Sara Wendt performed jazz standards and talked about their First in Portland, Maine; next at the New interest in jazz. They set the tone for the England Aquarium in Boston. This spring, at FORUM series held semi-monthly in the the Academy of Natural Sciences in Great Hall where people gathered informally Philadelphia, the Garden Center of Greater to enjoy the diversity of one another's Cleveland, and the New York Botanical interests, skills, and experiences. Garden. Director of Admissions Elmer Beal FORUM participants included students, and his band of human ecologists (COA faculty, and staff from COA as well as students and faculty) traveled to science and members of the Island community. Senior natural history centers to host receptions for Meg Scheid shared her study of beavers of prospective students, bringing College of the Mt. Desert Island; a representative from the Atlantic and human ecology to major cities Alternative Market in Bar Harbor discussed throughout the Eastern United States. vegetarianism; and Butch Rommel's At the Academy of Natural Sciences, physiology class pre-tested people for faculty members Steve Katona, Harris fitness and then explained the significance Hyman, and Janet Anderson, and student of tests such as blood pressure, lung John Long presented their versions of COA capacity, and metabolic rate at the FORUM to prospective students and their parents. gathering. Millard Dority and Sara Wendt perform at first COA Through slide shows, talks, and informal Other FORUM subjects included Rocky FORUM. discussion they communicated the message Mountain plant life; spinning, weaving, and of COA as no catalog or brochure can do: dyeing; dowsing; and folk music. Mike Meyerheim photo directly and personally. WHO WE ARE: A Wellesley graduate with teaching experience in Bar Harbor and Blue Hill elementary schools, Sally Crock came to COA in 1978 as an administrative assistant for several academic committees. In January 1983, following an extensive search, Sally was named registrar. In addition to maintaining student transcripts, Sally keeps track of COA alumni and prepares reports on COA's progress for various outside agencies and institutions. This spring she chaired the Admissions Director Search Committee. She is active in NEACRAO and AACRAO, the New England and American Associations of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. Sally reports that fewer than 10% of each graduating class consists of four-year John Long Photo students. "Since COA offers innovative Rob, Marshall, student education, we seem to attract transfer Peter Corcoran, faculty students intending to spend about three Ask Rob Marshall about salt marshes and years at COA." Peter is a native of Maine with a B.A. from as he talks, you will find him easily and She believes that the fundamental values Antioch College and a Master's of Education comfortably discussing human ecology as of students are the same now as they were from UMO. He hopes to complete his doctorate well. in the earlier years of COA. "Maybe this fall. Rob is doing his senior project in and students nationally are more career- Although education was not originally around the salt marshes of his native oriented, but COA students are not more planned as a program area at COA, as Massachusetts. "The salt marsh is the materialistic than in the '70s. graduates and undergraduates began to central theme of my project," he said, "We are maintaining our identity more choose educationally-focused areas through "which includes a study of the seaside than changing it, and with that, our image is which to put human ecological ideals into sparrow, a salt marsh catalog of flora and improving," Sally says. "We've had some practice, the College decided to hire a half- fauna, a photographic essay of field work, rough years, but we can look back on them time education coordinator. In 1981, Peter and working to educate local community as a time of growth." was hired to fill that position. members about salt marshes." Peter is currently the internship director Although well into his senior project, Rob one-third time, which involves career will not graduate until 1986. He has chosen services and graduate school counseling to spend an extra year at COA so that he However, most of his time is spent working can find the time and energy he needs to as faculty member in ecological education bring together such a comprehensive study. and as education coordinator, serving as "I'm working to save the salt marshes and liaison between COA and other educational the plants and animals, which survive only institutions and organizations. He also in these delicate habitats, from the man- serves on several boards and committees, made problems of over-development and representing COA rash planning. Yet I cannot fault the people Peter's goal is to "create a program in who love the ocean and want to build their human ecological teacher education so that homes on the coast. Their practical and we can prepare teachers who can help aesthetic needs should also be accounted effectively convey the perspective of human for. ecology through teaching." "What I can do is get people interested in "I think education has always been a salt marshes. Then we can begin to discuss central thought of COA," Peter says. "This what is appropriate. Once we begin to is a college of educators. discuss appropriateness -- combining "We're doing something innovative and values and necessities - we are talking exciting that comes directly out of what Mike Meyerheim photo about human ecology." Sally Crock, staff human ecology is all about." discussed his views on education and for Advancement of Education for the Ford PROMINENT EDUCATOR answered questions concerning his views Foundation. He was the first chancellor of MEETS WITH COA on COA as well. State University of New York. "You're really ahead in terms of As president of AED, Dr. Eurich leads an COMMUNITY educational focus," he said. "An organization which has become one of the experimental college (like COA) is started to largest nonprofit, international research and Dr. Alvin Eurich, a leading educator for fill a need - a vacuum - that exists. I think consulting organizations in the field of more than five decades, visited COA and COA is a very exciting institution." education. Founded in 1961, the Academy met informally with students, faculty, and Dr. Eurich, who received his Ph.D. from assists colleges and universities in staff. Dr. Eurich is president of the Academy the University of Minnesota, received his developing long-term plans for for Educational Development (AED)where he M.A. in psychology in 1926 from the administration and finances, as well as is an associate of COA President Lou University of Maine at Orono where he held education. Former U.S. President Gerald Rabineau, who has served as part-time his first teaching job. Ford is the chairman of the board of the consultant for the Academy. Dr. Eurich has served as president of Academy, which has offices in New York; In the Turrets Gallery, Dr. Eurich Stanford University and director of the Fund Washington, D.C.; and Austin, Texas. Janet Biondi, ('81) was married to continuing with his studies at COA. All of BRIEFLY Chauncey Parker last October 8 in Yosemite the photographs used in the article are National Park. They are living in Del Mar, Greg's. California. Erin Saunders' first grant proposal, written Thorndike Library Director Marcia Dworak as part of an independent study project with has been appointed by the president of the MUSEUM NEWS: Charlie Hesse in Development, was among Maine Library Association to serve on its NEW BOARD MEMBERS NAMED the semi-finalists in the Brunswick Intellectual Freedom Committee. Foundation Small College Competition Nina Gormley and Charlie Hesse are new Program. Anne Kozak, coordinator of COA's Writing members of the Natural History Museum Clinic and a faculty member in Human Advisory Board. Four new members have been elected to the Studies attended a conference for teachers Nina, a COA alumna, is director of the Board of Trustees. They are Edward McC. of technical writing at Roger Williams Wendell Gilley Museum in Southwest Blair of Chicago, Peter Sellers of College in Rhode Island and a conference Harbor. Philadelphia, Leonard Silk of New York, and for personnel of writing centers at the Charlie, who is vice president for Maurine Rothschild of New York and University of Hartford. Development and Public Affairs, was named Islesboro. president of the Board. He brings to that Rich Borden was invited to a conference for Norah Davis is chief editor of the Maine position his experience with other 17 of New England's undergraduate and Alumnus magazine at the University of museums, including work with the graduate programs in Environmental Studies Maine at Orono. She is also working on a Metropolitan Museum of Art and Old and Human Ecology held at Williams novel and recently did a story on COA for Sturbridge Village in Connecticut. College's Center for Environmental Studies Down East magazine to be published in in February. Rich has edited and distributed August. the first issue of the Bulletin of the Society COA graduates Frank Twohill ('79) and for Human Ecology which will be a semi- Marie McCarty ('83) are attending the annual publication of the Society. He will Vermont Law School in South Royalton, also serve as editor of the conference Vermont, where they are candidates for the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Juris Doctor Degree. Society for Human Ecology, which will be published as a special volume. Art shows spring term included "Looking In" with photography by Mike Don Cass is working with Dr. Jaegels from Meyerheim, a mixed-media show with UMO monitoring acid fog. Allied Whale works by seniors Cynthia Chisholm-Borden personnel will be collecting samples for this and Neil Mick, and a family show featuring project during the summer on Mt. Desert the works of Paul, Ann, Tara, and Teisha Rock. Breeden, who is a first-year student at COA. Craig Greene is continuing research on the Andrew Borden gets a closer look at the Museum Steve Pulaski did an internship this spring reproductive biology of shadbushes in Maine Snapping Turtle exhibit. Mike Meyerheim photo in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico where he helped and his paper on this subject, done with Dr. with carpentry, landscape, and design while Chris Campbell of UMO, has been accepted WINTER PROGRAMS OFFERED working with a priest in the community to for publication in the American Journal of For the first time, The Natural History learn about the culture. Botany and will probably appear in a Museum remained open during the winter. summer issue. Norene Kuznezov now handles the mail One day each week Museum exhibits were and switchboard at the front desk while available to visitors. Charlie Hesse was guest speaker at the making COA folks and visitors alike feel January meeting of the MDI Rotary, where Acting Director of the Museum and welcome. Director of the Outreach Education he spoke on "Vision and Revision; An Overview from Cadillac Mountain." Practicum Vicki Nichols, along with Jim Senter, on a grant from the Nature members of the Practicum class, hosted Conservancy, has been doing botanical field Steve Katona was elected to chair the visitors and groups throughout the season work in western Maine. He's on the lookout Western North Atlantic Marine Mammals with special events including Kids' Day, for rare plant species and associations of Research Association while he was in which brought kids with their bag lunches species in areas of limestone bedrock. Mexico. In February he participated in a for a Saturday of hands-on exhibits and workshop at the New England Aquarium to Visiting faculty member and philosopher special programs draft recovery plans for the North Atlantic John Visvader will present a paper, The Museum numbers speak for Right Whale Allied Whale and the "Education for a Liveable Future," at the themselves: a total of 2,045 people enjoyed Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies are September 1985 conference of the National Museum programs during the school year, jointly studying the breeding and ecology of Association for Environmental Education to either at the Museum or through traveling the Humpback Whale in the Virgin and be held in Washington, D.C. Outreach programs. Leeward Islands. A final report to the Senior Peter Heller and the Reverend National Marine Fisheries Service has been William Booth of Bar Harbor attended a submitted. Steve presented a paper on the CHORUS PRESENTS Jewish-Christian dialogue on April 21 and migrations and stock affinities of humpback SPRING CONCERT 22 at the Temple Shalom in Auburn, Maine. whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Heller and Booth were members of the North Atlantic at the International The COA Chorus presented a spring steering committee for the conference, Conference on Pelagic Biogeography in concert on May 22 at St. Saviour's Church which was organized to promote Amsterdam. in Bar Harbor. The program included songs understanding and cooperation between from the Sacred Harp and works by J.S. Ernie McMullen spent spring term in Siena, Christians and Jews at the community level. Bach, Randall Thompson, and others. The Italy, studying Italian language and art. Peter studied comparative religions for his Chamber Singers performed a selection of Renaissance madrigals and Bach chorales. senior project. Greg Stone's article, "I Dive for Scallops," The Chorus is a student-initiated group Playwright Samuel Taylor visited the was published in the February issue of directed by second-year student James Experiments in Form class during winter Yankee magazine. It describes his Batchelder. Chorus members include term and discussed how he became experience establishing a business diving faculty, students, and a COA trustee, as well interested in playwriting as a career. for scallops during the winter months while as members of the Bar Harbor community. COMMENCEMENT The following students, representing Senter Bryophytes of Mt. Desert Island; Pati twelve states and listed with the titles of (Continued from Page 1) Vitt How Plants Live, a book for children; their final projects, received degrees: the lead, when you have some expertise or Sara Wendt Experiments in Fiction and the David Flynn - Traditional Wooden Boat some energy to share, do so. Lead with production of Voices; and Karen Wennlund Building; Chris Hamilton - Critical Analysis strength and health and love." Annotated Bibliography on Sustainable of Family Planning in Kenya, Africa; Peter Student speaker Sally Greenman Agriculture. Heller A Study of Mysticism; Neil Mick continued the theme of community. "As Music for the ceremony included senior The Creative Process; Steve Millett - Exhibit diverse as our physical Island, each student, Patti Clark on flute; the COA Chorus and for the Natural History Museum; Joanne faculty and staff member at the college is a Chamber Singers under the direction of Rodgers -Combined Materials for Functional special entity; together we complete, if you student James Batchelder; and a song Art; Mary Roper - COA Site Evaluation and will, an orchestra. composed by COA faculty and staff member Landscape Plan; Karen Miranda Ryan - A "Classes at COA do a remarkable job of Elmer Beal for the class of 1985 entitled Jungian Interpretation of Christianity; Erin bringing together traditionally separate "Open My Eyes." Saunders Distinguished Visitors Series; Jim disciplines. In science we learn about art, in architecture we learn about religion, and in construction we learn about soil science everything does relate. This is just the beginning of the interdisciplinary education we receive at COA." Student speaker Chris Hamilton, who recently returned from six months in Africa, talked about community on a global scale. "I went to explore other cultures and their environmental problems. The most important thing I learned was how important a human ecological perspective is in solving Africa's problems." "We must see that what they do in Africa does affect what goes on here," he said. "The problems are huge and very complex and there are no easy solutions. But we must look at things in a human ecological framework, which means that we have to see how everything is interconnected." President Lou Rabineau addressed the graduates briefly at his first commencement as president of COA. "It is wonderful, joyous, and great," he said. ''I hope everyone feels the fullness of the day." President Rabineau and Dr. Hall then awarded honorary degrees to college College founder and trustee Les Brewer receives honorary degree from Ann Peach as founding president founder and trustee Mr. Leslie C. Brewer Ed Kaelber and current president Lou Rabineau look on. and Dr. Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Jr., founding trustee. Mike Meyerheim photo COLLOQUIUM rebuild it. He and other panelists attacked as time of passive acquiescence is the kind myth the belief that modest salaries alone (Continued from Page 1) that requires passion, and yet, for all the cause disinterest in teaching, and cited expressed concern about apathy and education writer for The New York Times; social and morale factors, as well as small indifference, passion is never mentioned Theodore Kauss, executive director of the class size as more important. with regard to education. I do not believe Frost Foundation; Edward Meade, program Maeroff criticized an emphasis on that an educator can ever be or needs to be director of the Ford Foundation; Gordon teaching methods at the expense of "leaving neutral." Greene called for bringing local Klopf, dean of the Center for Leadership elementary teachers free to become professionals into the teachers colleges and Development, Bank Street College of experts" in an academic field, and Meade the schools themselves to open them "to Education; and Sharon Franz, director of called "ironic" the increased emphasis on the live world." AED's School Service Division. Professor job-oriented educational programs while In summarizing the colloquium, Chairman Maxine Greene of Columbia University mid-career industrial workers seeking Keppel listed as myths the assertions that Teacher's College could not attend but further education often ask for humanities young people cannot be encouraged to participated with a written statement read courses that will give meaning to their lives. teach, that teacher education can reform by Peter Corcoran of the COA faculty. Klopf, however, criticized schools for not itself, that teaching must be undertaken at a Paraphrasing a recent report, Kauss giving their teachers a chance to update certain time of life, that salaries are most emphasized the need for such colloquia in their teaching education that is often years important, that equal pay is necessary, and saying, "If a foreign nation had imposed our out of date. that slum high schools are unsolvable mediocre education system on us, we might In her paper that lent a strong problems. He suggested as an important have considered it an act of war. But we did philosophical tone to the colloquium, choice for the future a greater reliance on it to ourselves!" Greene defined teaching as "an undertaking the humanities in which to root teacher Teacher recruitment is "a new ballgame" oriented to empowering people to become education. Building upon a compliment from now that talented women can enter many different, to think critically and creatively, to Gordon Klopf that College of the Atlantic's professions other than teaching, formerly pursue meanings, to make increasing sense human ecology curriculum has "tremendous one of their few choices, noted Keppel, a of their actually lived lives." She defined opportunity to set the direction for a whole former Harvard dean. Maeroff pointed to an education as "provoking persons to care; to dimension of education, Keppel added: alarming drop in student interest in teaching be mindful, concerned, fully present and "Make American education look like COA." careers and called for an organized effort to alive. The practice I would like to see in this 51 Permit #47 Bar Harbor, ME U.S. Postage Paid Nonprofit Organization 6/1 PM 9861 4 90H ALLIED WHALE IN BERMUDA: "OUR BEST YEAR YET!" Do We Have Thanks to an $11,944 research grant for research and exploration from the National Your Correct Geographic Society, COA's Allied Whale Address? researchers studied the humpback whales of Bermuda this spring for the sixth consecutive year. Leader and faculty member Steve Katona called this year's expedition "our best year yet." This is the second year that Allied BORDEN TO HEAD SOCIETY Whale's Bermuda research has been supported by a grant from the National Faculty member Richard Borden was College of the Geographic Society. The grant proposal was elected vice president and president-elect of written by Steve and research assistant and COA volunteers answer telephones during the the Society for Human Ecology at the public broadcasting television pledge drive. (Charlie COA alumnus Greg Stone ('82). annual meeting April 26-28 at the Hesse and Ted Koffman were co-anchors for the Joining Steve and Greg on the three-week University of Maryland. evening.) expedition were research assistant Judy Rich reported that plans are being made Beard, former COA student Ed Lameer, and to hold the next meeting of the Society at research assistant and COA alumna Lisa College of the Atlantic in October 1986. The Baraff ('84). DEVELOPMENT meetings bring together human ecologists ''It was really an excellent experience," from around the world to present papers on COMMITTEE FORMED said veteran expedition member Lisa, who human ecology. first traveled to Bermuda with Allied Whale To assist the Development Office and the as a student. 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