Nonprofit Organiz. February, 1984 U.S. Postage Paid College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor, Me. Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Permit #47 COA News COA at the Smithsonian Under the direction of Sentiel (Butch) Rommel, eight students are spending winter term at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. From their study and inventory of the museum's collection of cetacean skeletons, the largest of its kind in the world, the students are compiling a guide to cetacean skeletal characteristics which will be used for biomechanical and taxonomic analysis. To fulfill their three-credit course requirement, the students are also doing individual projects. In exchange for the information gathered by the students, Dr. James Mead, Curator of Marine Mammals, and Charles Potter, Museum Specialist, have permitted students to attend organized dissections as well as whale strandings on the east coast. Carey Bell has begun a photographic inventory of vertebrate skeletons and is instructing the class in various photographic techniques. Students Jeff Rothal, Karin Anderson, and Sara Wendt are doing research and inventories on three of the Bill McLellan with beaked whale anthropology exhibit halls. Jeff is writing a manual about western civilization while Karin is developing a guide to the Hall of Native Indians and Eskimos. These will be used as teachers' guides by the museum's Office of Education. Sara is collecting information in the Hall of Human Origins for a study of physical and cultural evolution. By examining the vestigial organs and bones of different vertebrate species in the museum's skeleton collection, Bill McLellan is studying evolution. Eric Roos' study of the feeding behavior of loggerhead turtles may result in a published article. Lisa Baraff and Matt Hare are gathering preliminary data for their senior projects. Lisa is studying sternal morphology in whales and Matt skeletal variations in the bottlenosed dolphin. Charmaine Kinton has begun her senior project: research on a proposed rehabilitation center for stranded seals at COA. Besides attending weekly films and lectures at the Smithsonian Institute, the group is exploring Washington's Matt Hare with specimens varied culture. New Director of Public Affairs and Development Charles T. Hesse was welcomed by the community on January 16 when he assumed his new position as Director of Development and Public Affairs. He comes to COA with a broad background in arts administration, development, and public relations and has had extensive experience with educational institutions, including museums and legitimate theatre. A graduate of Harvard University, Hesse most recently was Administrative Director of The Children's Art Carnival (CAC) in New York City. Founded in 1969 in Harlem as a pilot outreach program of the Museum of Modern Art, CAC is a school of the arts which provides instruction in the visual and communication arts as a bridge to individual development for young people, ages 4- 20, mostly from minority backgrounds. In addition to organizing the fund-raising and public relations aspects of the operation, Hesse, a member of the original group of Founders of CAC, established a graduate-level arts management internship program for minority students. Hesse's experience also includes two years in Charlotte, North Carolina, as Executive Director of the Arts and Science Council, an arts advocacy and fundraising organization serving 56 independent art and science organizations and six years as Vice President for Public Affairs at Old Sturbridge Villege in Massachusetts. In addition, he established the first Department of Development for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, as Director of Development, and prior to that, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as Manager of Development and Membership. Hesse also served as a consultant and Charles T. Hesse advisor to numerous professional associations and community groups and, in 1961, studied major museums stituencies of the college. By bringing people, ideas, and in Europe through a travel grant from the Metropolitan the unique assets of COA together we can gain greater Museum of Art. recognition and support and thus achieve the overall goals In an initial assessment of his position, Hesse said, "I of the college. I am excited by the opportunity to play a see myself as a catalyst playing a creative role, through part in helping this young and already outstanding fundraising and promotion, among the various con- institution grow and realize its full potential." Phoenix Fund Update drawing board for the new buildings. Rather, as Judith A proposed master plan for the development and Swazey pointed out, an on-campus planning committee rebuilding of the COA campus was presented by architect and the executive committee of the Board of Trustees will Dan Scully to the college community on January 17, and review current plans before further steps are taken. to island residents at an MDI Phoenix Fund breakfast on January 18. Highlights of the plan included the new Thomas S. Gates Auditorium and a new Kaelber Hall- Support for Curriculum Thorndike Library complex near the site of the old Kaelber Hall; the latter will house kitchen and dining facilities, Development meeting rooms, audio-visual and computer rooms, and Both the Lilly Endowment and the Exxon Educational social areas. Remodeling the Carriage House for Foundation have awarded the college grants this winter to laboratory, design, and arts facilities will complete the assist in developing our program in human ecology. The building program. Mr. Scully's plan calls for the careful Lilly Endowment has chosen College of the Atlantic to integration of landscaping to capitalize on the many ocean participate, along with 23 other colleges, in a summer views and preserve the natural features of the terrain and workshop on the liberal arts. COA will send a four- gardens surrounding new and existing structures. member team including Stewart Brecher, faculty member The college and community presentations marked the in design, William Carpenter, Dean- of Faculty, and Paul official launching of the Phoenix Fund, a three-year, $5 DuBois, Dean of Administration. The team will explore the million capital campaign established by the Trustees in the issue of ecological literacy and the COA core curriculum. wake of the July 25 fire that destroyed Kaelber Hall and The Lilly Endowment sponsors this workshop the Thorndike Library. annually, and COA was fortunate to attend a similar event Before initiating a broad public campaign, the various ten years ago. This year's workshop will be held at committees of the Phoenix Fund, co-chaired by Mrs. Colorado College in Colorado Springs from June 17 to Amos Eno and Mr. Lawrence Hadley, are beginning their July 4. The workshop provides the participating institutions fundraising efforts to obtain advance and special gifts. At an opportunity to explore in-depth a specific liberal arts the January 18 island kick-off, President Judith Swazey issue, and allows participants to attend seminars announced that early gifts and pledges, plus the fire addressing issues confronting liberal arts colleges and insurance money, had brought the Phoenix Fund over the universities. $1 million mark. In addition, the college has received a $10,000 grant Although initially contracted by the college to design from the Exxon Educational Foundation to assist in the the Thomas S. Gates Auditorium, Dan Scully, since the development of a Human Ecology Program. These funds fire, has been responsible for designing the entire campus will be used over the next year to strengthen the core master plan. While Vice President of Total Environmental curriculum in human ecology and, if appropriate, to Action, a firm focusing on solar design and building in implement ideas generated at the workshop in Colorado Harrisville, N.H., Scully won awards for the design of a Springs. nature center in Englewood, N.J. and engineered a 19,000 square-foot hazardous waste cleanup facility in Nashua, N.H. During the presentations in Bar Harbor, he emphasized that there are no definitive plans on the snow COW invades campus inspired by over 30 inches of snowfall in January, COA students prepare for the 1st annual snow sculpture contest. Good News on Enrollment During the 1984 winter term, COA experienced the logged volumes were placed in a freezer in the Hancock largest increase in student enrollment for any winter term County Cold Storage in Ellsworth to arrest mildew in the history of the college. On January 2, we welcomed damage. 15 full-time newly matriculated students and 2 visiting The library is salvaging the books by carefully students, giving us an enrollment of 132. One of our defrosting them and has called upon volunteers from the visitors is from Hampshire College and the other from college and community. Since the first week in February, Connecticut College. when the books were removed from the freezer, volunteers Judy Knudson, Director of Admissions, reports that from all over the island have been carefully drying them there are other encouraging signs regarding future out page by page with hair dryers and electric fans. enrollment. As of December 31, the number of As a result of the overwhelming generosity of people applications received is almost double what it was last year all over the country who donated books to the library at the same time, and the number of inquiries has following the fire, the college finds itself with many the hard work of the admissions office staff who, with the books. These will be offered for sale May 9-12 in the assistance of several student workers, sent out over COA auditorium. The first day of the sale will be restricted 20,000 pieces of correspondence this fall. to students and faculty members from the college, many of Joy Knowlton, a 1982 COA graduate, was whom lost their own books in the fire. The following three contracted by the college to represent COA at various days will be open to the public. The library hopes to raise college recruitment programs during September and $1000 to purchase new books and equipment. October. She traveled throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic states and as far south as Washington, D.C. attending local, regional, and national college fairs where she talked to potential students as well as high school guidance personnel. Watson Fellowship Nominee Announced Evolution Library College of the Atlantic has nominated Richard Epstein Given to College for a 1984 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Rick, chosen from 6 candidates by the COA selection committee, has College of the Atlantic has received the 3000-volume proposed a study of vernacular residential housing evolution library of the late Philip Darlington. An author structures along the 40th north latitude in Italy, Greece, and professor emeritus of zoology at Harvard University, China, and Japan. Such a project will reveal the major Darlington died December 16, 1983, at the age of 79 design determinants in traditional homes in a variety of after a long illness. The concentration of the library given cultural and environmental settings. If selected from the to COA is animal and human evolution. approximately 170 nominees nationwide, Rick will be one Considered by COA faculty member Craig Greene to of 70 fellows to receive a $10,000 stipend to support be "the best library on evolution owned by an individual in independent travel abroad for one year. this hemisphere," the collection will be housed on the The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program is a fourth floor of Turrets until the new Thorndike Library is national competition which awards grants totaling built. The collection includes the complete works of Charles $770,000 to graduating seniors from 50 small private Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace, a nineteenth-century colleges and universities throughout the United States. Last naturalist. The library will be of great value to advanced year the college's nominee, Peter Wayne, was chosen as a science students at the college. Watson Fellow. He spent the summer and early fall Darlington, an award-winning author, wrote many conducting vegetation studies on islands off Nova Scotia. books, including: Zoogeography: The Geographical This winter he is attending meetings of conservation Distribution of Animals, Biogeography of the Southern associations throughout England and in late spring will End of the World, and Evolution for the Naturalist. A begin field work on terrestrial ecology on islands in the member of the staff of the Museum of Comparative North Atlantic. Zoology at Harvard since 1932, Darlington was known This is the college's second year as a participant in for his research on beetles, reptiles, and amphibians. the program sponsored by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, a charitable trust established in 1961 by the Adopt or Buy a Book late Mrs. Thomas J. Watson, Sr., in memory of her husband, the founder of International Business Machines When Kaelber Hall burned last July, community Corporation. The quality of this year's applications was members, faculty, and students raced to save water- excellent; finalists for the nomination from COA included damaged books from the Thorndike Library; 480 water- Meg Scheid and Matt Hare. Allied Whale Heads Briefly for Tropics Comings and goings Jim Perkins, COA alumnus and Expeditions to the Silver Bank of the Dominican member of the buildings and grounds crew for the past 3 Republic and to Bermuda highlight the list of Allied years, resigned from his position effective the end of Whale's research projects on humpback whales for the December in order to pursue independent work. He and remainder of the school year. From February 11 to March his wife will continue to reside on Indian Point Road, Bar 25, Allied Whale researchers Steven Katona, Greg Stone, Harbor. Elizabeth Tyler has resigned her position as and Ann Rivers will join the Cetacean Research Program secretary to the Development Office and has been of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies and the replaced by Terri Gildow, formerly COA's receptionist. Ocean Research Education Society on Silver Bank in the Ingrid Bengis, essayist and novelist, is a visiting 144-foot Barkentine Regina Maris. In addition to instructor in writing this term. Conflict in the Erogenous identifying from photographs as many individual humpback Zone, a collection of essays on the love-hate duality, was whales as possible, the researchers will note the number of nominated for a national book award. Her first novel, I mothers with calves and the number of courtship groups. Came Here To Be Alone, received wide acclaim, and The World Wildlife Fund, the National Marine she is currently finishing a second novel. Fisheries Service, IBM, the M. Kramer Manufacturing Company, and the Center for Environmental Education are contributing either funds or equipment for the project. In April research will continue in Bermuda. Katona Publications Why?, Why?, Why?: Teaching and and Stone will study the distribution and ecology of Learning Medical Sociology in the People's Republic humpback whales as they migrate from their winter feeding of China by Renée Fox and Judith Swazey, an account areas to their summer breeding grounds. Thanks to a gift of the authors' six-week research trip to China in the of hydrophone equipment from Mr. and Mrs. H. B. summer of 1981, has just been completed for the Guthrie, the team will also record humpback whale songs. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Richard Borden has compiled A Directory of Human Ecologists to be published jointly this spring by College of the Atlantic and the Society for Human COA Faculty Dean Ecology, of which Borden is Vice President. The directory will provide information on the academic and professional Awarded Grant interests of human ecologists worldwide who wish to be involved in a collaborative human ecological inquiry. William Carpenter, Dean of Faculty at College of the Anne Kozak's paper "The Editor as a Teacher of Atlantic, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Writing" was published in the Fall, 1983 edition of The Arts Individual Artists Fellowship Grant in creative writing Writing Instructor, an issue devoted in part to exploring for 1984-85. ways in which individual writing teachers prepared Carpenter, one of two recipients in Maine and one of themselves for the profession. 113 nationwide, was selected from an application pool of 1500 writers. In making the selections, a panel of 9 writers reviewed credentials and samples of recent writing sub- mitted by each applicant. Honors Joanne Carpenter's water color painting NEA grants allow artists and writers to work without "Winter Garden" was accepted for The Juried Exhibition worrying about monetary obligations. Carpenter plans to for Maine Artists, sponsored by the William A. a DOOK of poetry currently in progress and possibly start a exhibition, which features the work of 52 Maine new one. artists selected from 397 entries, opened in Rockland on Sunday, January 22, and will continue until March 18. As a result of his research assignment in Japan last year while on sabattical, Stephen Andersen is currently helping to organize U.S. corporate and environmental participation in the 1984 Shiga Prefecture Conference on Conservation and Management of World Lake Dates to Remember Environments. Graduation Day: June 2, 1984, 2:00 p.m. at the shrine, One of Elmer Beal's new songs performed by the weather permitting. group in which he sings, Different Shoes, has been Speaker: Helen Nearing recorded by Gordon Bok on The February Tape, a collection of sing-alongs and other music to combat the Summer Programs February blues. Elderhostel: June 17-23 July 29-August 4 June 24-30 August 12-18 More on whales Allied Whale has a new computer, an IBM PC-XT, thanks to a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Field Studies Graduate Program for Teachers Henry B. Guthrie. Whale workers Judy Beard, Harriet and Environmental Educators: July 15-28 Corbett, and Ann Seymour are hard at work recreating the computer files that were lost in the Kaelber Hall fire. Marine Mammals Course for High School Alumnus Scott Kraus and faculty member Steve Students: July 1-13 Katona presented papers at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Marine Mammology last November at the Joint COA-New York Botanical Gardens Course New England Aquarium in Boston. "Gardening by the Sea:" August 5-10 For more information contact: Summer Programs, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Trips and tours Allied Whale is sponsoring whale and seabird trips on the weekends of May 19-20 and 26-27. The trips will leave from Newburyport, Massachusetts aboard New England Whalewatch's M/V Cetacea. Tickets for the full-day trip to either Stellwagen Bank or HELP US KEEP IN TOUCH Jeffrey's Ledge are $25.00. For reservations send check If you change your address, clip this coupon and and preferred date to Allied Whale at COA. return to the PR office/COA/Bar Harbor, Me. 04609. In June, Janet and Stephen Andersen's river Name touring company, Destinations, Inc., will sponsor a spectacular trip on the Dordogne River, France. Not only Old Address are the oldest European cave dwellings found along the New Address banks of the Dordogne, but the region is also the center of Date Effective Perigord Cuisine - famous for paté, truffles, and regional wines. Write The Andersens, c/o COA for more information.