COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC NEWSLETTER COA RECEIVES printshop in Dijon. The SPINNERS AND FIRST EDITION book was hand set and WEAVERS IN A recent gift to College of printed on handmade RESIDENCY the Atlantic's endowment paper. It is number 59 of 100 was a first edition copy of copies of the original 1922 A unique academic James Joyce's Ulysses. printing. Ulysses was the program at College of the Given by COA Trustee center of much controversy Atlantic is "Residency." Mrs. R. Amory Thorndike, and was not allowed in the Here students who possess the book was purchased by United States until 1933 outstanding abilities to work her late husband, Amory, when a ban that had been independently enter into while he was a student at placed upon it was lifted by contractual agreements Cambridge University in Judge John M. Woolsey of with the College to prepare England. Amory Thorndike, the New York District programs that allow for in whose memory the COA Court. In 1934, Ulysses assuming full responsibility Library's R. Amory was published and widely for planning, implementing, Thorndike Memorial distributed by Random and evaluating individual Fund for the Arts and House, Inc., a well-known educational goals. The Humanities Collection New York publishing firm. program offers an alterna- was founded, had a life-long This book is a major tive from structured interest in literature. acquisition for College of coursework but does not In 1922 during a visit to the Atlantic's collection and necessarily preclude taking Paris, Amory bought two will become part of its courses. This year several copies of the book from permanent endowment. Its students have entered into Miss Sylvia Beach who ran donor, Mrs. R. Amory "Residency Contracts" Shakespeare and Co., a Thorndike, is Vice Chair- including Laura Edwards, small English bookstore and man of the Executive Abigail Goodyear, and Joy lending library. James Joyce Committee of the College's Knowlton. Each of these had been introduced to Miss Board of Trustees and is an students is interested in Beach by Ezra Pound, and active member of the textile design and prefers to she took his manuscript to a Library Committee. work with natural fibers and natural dyestuffs. Under the direction of Joli Greene, an accomplished fiber artist, these students spent fall term exploring spinning and dyeing techniques. The first half of the term was devoted to studying the history of spinning and dyeing as well as learning about different wool types. During the second part of the term, they experimented with different dyestuffs and mordants substances which set the dye and determine the shade of COA President Edward G. Kaelber thanks Mrs. R. color. With the exception of Amory Thorndike and Mr. John L. Thorndike for their five exotics, the group used recent gift to the College's endowment. local flora for dyeing OUTZEN PHOTO material and worked specifically with wool. Their Spinners and weavers (left to right) Joy Knowlton, Abigail Goodyear, and Laura Edwards exhibit the results of their fall residency project. On display were 25 different shades of naturally dyed wools, several samples of hand-spun yarn, and finished products including the hats they are wearing. JACOB PHOTO dyeing experiments pro- display was a step-by-step a sheep farm in southern duced 25 different colors, description of the dyeing Maine. Abigail Goodyear and the wools were spun and spinning process from who is already an accomp- into yarns of different types raw wool to finished yarn. lished weaver is interested ranging from novelty yarns The method used for in textile research and plans to finely spun fingering. obtaining each color was to raise sheep on her farm in The results of this also described. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Residency Program were Although these three Joy Knowlton hopes to placed on exhibit in the students worked together continue dyeing, spinning, COA library. Samples of for this project, their and weaving. She is each color and yarn were residency goals are interested in preserving the displayed along with somewhat different. Laura natural methods of dyeing products made from the Edwards is interested in used before synthetic dyes yarns. Laura and Abby knit wool production and sheep became available and plans hats and sweaters, and Joy breeding. She is spending to raise flax so that she may wove a rug. Highlighting the spring term on internship at experiment with linen fibers. SYSTEM THINKING AND HUMAN ECOLOGY: THE FORMAL CONNECTION During the fall a course in General Systems Theory focused on the nature of interrelationships familiar to any definition of Human Ecology. Unlike the traditional sciences, systems theory chooses to emphasize not the reduc- tion of phenomenon to parts, but alternatively, the importance of the whole While preparing the computer model for COA's system composed of Systems course, Bill Hohensee contemplates a individuals interacting with systems approach to the study of Human Ecology. BENINGTON PHOTO their environments. Various members of the mathematical structure was for global forecasts in the faculty were involved in manifest in the phenome- popular book, Limits to presenting a trans- non of physics, as well as Growth. In altering some of disciplinary view of topics in sociology. The examination the policy relationships in systems thinking. For of these isomorphisms, seen World III, students were instance, COA philosophy as general systems of able to begin considering professor Dick Davis guided behavior, was one of the key the implication of alternative the students through the focuses of the course. policies on the standard philosophic underpinnings Under the guidance of global scenario while gaining of system theory in the COA student Bill Hohen- the experience of "hands- branch of philosophy see, students became on" simulation modeling. known as process thought. familiar with one means of This course demonstra- History professor Susan formalizing the application ted that system theory, in Mehrtens presented a of systèms thinking in some ways, represents the systemic perspective on System Dynamics or logical progression or different events in history. computer simulation "Formalism," of Human Faculty member in Law, modeling. Here students Ecology. Dan Kane, identified had access to what is known EDITORS NOTE: This transferrable models of as "World III," a simulation article was contributed by behavior, or "isomor- model embodying global Bill Hohensee who organi- phisms," that hold relevant interrelationships. Original- zed the General Systems applicability in fields which ly written by a group of Theory Course for his are seemingly unrelated. researchers at MIT, this senior project. Resonance and similarity in model served as the basis SUMMERTIME College of Education, porpoises, and seals that Summer, 1981, at College University of Maine, Orono, frequent the Maine Coast. of the Atlantic emphasizes and the cost for this course Directing the course are current environmental including room and board is COA Faculty Members in concerns and begins with a $695.00. Biology, Steven Katona and three-week graduate The summer undergra- Sentiel Rommel. Both of program for environmental duate program will offer two these courses are scheduled educators. "Science courses: "Food Production, to take place from July 26 to Education and Social Poison, and Policy" and August 22, 1981. Responsibility," a seminar "Marine Mammals." "Food Also planned are four, scheduled. for lune 28 to Production Poison and wools long sessions of July 18, will integrate four Policy" will try to objectively Hostel and the regular courses: "Environmental determine the advantages Summer Speakers Forum Chemistry," "Alternative and disadvantages of the which takes place on Energy," "Field Ecology," various categories of Wednesday evenings during and "Applied Environmen- pesticides with particular July and August. For tal and Natural History attention given to the specific information contact Subjects" with an evening principal blueberry insecti- Director of Summer seminar, "Values in cide, Guthion. The course is Programs, College of the Nature." The intent of these taught by Walter Litten, Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine courses is to stimulate fresh COA Faculty Associate in 04609, telephone 207-288- perspectives on teaching in Mycology, and promises to 5015. the environmental fields, be an intensive and Brochures describing while the values seminar exhaustive examination of each aspect of the program provides an opportunity for all aspects of the agricultural are available. developing increased pesticides issue. "Marine awareness of the social Mammals," a course which WHALE RESEARCH responsibility for informed has been offered each The July, 1980, edition of citizenship. Credit will be summer since 1976, is a Humpback Whales: A granted through a coopera- practical introduction to the Catalogue of Individuals tive agreement with the biology of the whales, Identified by Fluke Photographs, edited by Steven Katona, Patricia Harcourt, Judith Perkins, and Scott Kraus is now available. This is the second humpback whale catalogue published by COA's Allied Whale and contains 1,010 different whales photo- graphed by nearly 100 people. This project confirmed the value of using natural fluke markings for individual identification of humpback whales and has enabled field researchers to amass a great deal of information on migrations, stock distinctness, repro- duction, and social behavior of different groups of whales. The work was supported by a contract from The National Marine Fisheries Service, North- east Fisheries Center. Persons interested in What is a winter in Maine without the enjoyment of obtaining a catalogue may ice skating? COA student John Dandy agreed and write Allied Whale, c/o built an ice rink on the site of the Turrets tennis College of the Atlantic, Bar courts. The COA community took advantage of Harbor, Maine 04609. The John's efforts, especially during the cold days of cost for each catalogue is $12.95 which includes January. BENINGTON PHOTO postage and handling. THE FUTURE This January the Winter Short Term was devoted to a seminar concentrating on speculation, evaluation, and investigation of the future. The course, aptly titled Human Ecology: The Future, brought 13 faculty members and 80 students together to share and explore political, cultural, technological, and econo- mic outlooks. Disciplinary boundaries were crossed when teams of faculty members worked with small groups of students on the material covered in the daily lectures, films, and readings. This first "all- college course" created a dynamic learning environ- ment for all the participants. With no "experts" present at the sessions to precisely map the unknown, faculty and students explored The study of Human Ecology includes the arts. together the theoretical and Photography student George Benington discusses realistic options and choices his recent photographic exhibit with Nadine Gerdts, we face in the future. Ideas Assistant Director of Admissions. were exchanged among DORITY PHOTO individuals whose contacts with each other might intensive three- and four- 1981 Winter Short Term otherwise have been limited hour sessions daily. ended on the 30th of to friendly greetings at Students said the course January. As was stated at Take-a-Break. enabled them to perceive the final class meeting, "We Although the College the trends, problems, and hope that the thoughts, emphasizes its interdisci- challenges of agricultural ideas, compassions, and plinary curriculum, it was development, energy policy, concerns shared by this rare before this January to technology, education, and group will grow and find an anthropologist, a global cooperation in a more disseminate to influence an carpenter, a mathematician, integrated way. Many said evergrowing number of and a group of students with this was an opportunity to concerned citizens." equally diverse back- determine individual fears EDITORS NOTE: This grounds grappling with and aspirations. article was contributed by issues of personal and It is unlikely that the Assistant Director of cultural values and the questioning and searching Admissions Nadine Gerdts, world-wide consequences that dominated the minds of who is a determined futurist. of Western progress for those participating in the GOOD NEWS AND HONORS NINA 7 GORMLEY Wendell Gilley Museum in Southwest Harbor, ME., which will house a collection of more than 200 of Gilley's bird carvings. The solar- heated building was designed by COA faculty member ROC CAIVANO, and former Trustee ROBERT W. PATTERSON helped found the museum. Maine's 13 independent institutions of higher education formed the Maine Bringing COA closer to energy efficiency is an Independent College energy audit planned by Jay Bickford, Bob Giles, Association whose purpose David Gray and Rick Schauffler. They will measure is to provide a medium for the buildings and make heat loss calculations, which closer cooperation among Rick (above) is preparing for computer analysis. They the member institutions. hope their recommendations will reduce energy COA President EDWARD costs. BENINGTON PHOTO G. KAELBER was elected to the association's execu- Experiments, a reference working toward a Masters tive committee. manual for mammalian degree. COA student KIRSTEN geneticists, was published During the Winter Short BACKSTROM gave a by Macmillan Press, Ltd, of Term, COA faculty poetry reading at Mt. London. He is Director members in Biology Wachusett Community Emeritus of The Jackson WILLIAM DRURY and College in Gardner, MA. Laboratory and is a visiting STEVEN KATONA led Two of her works, "Crows" faculty member who whale watching trips off of and "Eagle and Deer," were teaches genetics and Baja, CA. These trips are accepted for publication statistics at COA. sponsored by the Friends of in Maine Life magazine. RICH BORDEN, COA the Museum of Compara- faculty member in Psycho- tive Zoology at Harvard ALISON MINER, a COA senior, has organized a logy, recently authored two University. chapters for environmental LAWRENCE HADLEY program for pre-schoolers at the YWCA in Bar psychology texts. "Diffusion recently joined the College's of Environmental Responsi- Board of Trustees. Prior to Harbor. It is basically a play group, but she offers music, bilities," will appear in a his retirement from the art, and creative movement book edited by Lance Olsen National Park Service, he for the children. titled, Toward a Psycholo- was Superintendent of COA faculty member in gy of Wilderness, and Cape Cod National Economics STEPHEN "Personality and Ecological Seashore. He replaces DR. ANDERSEN was appointed Concern," will appear in SELDON BERNSTEIN O the Board of Directors of Ecological Beliefs and who resigned from the the Washington/Hancock Orientations edited by Board. Community Agency. As a David Gray. Both books are COA student SUE member of the Planning and scheduled for publication PERDRIZET was appointed later this year. to the Board of Directors of Evaluation Committee, he will be responsible for CHERYL NORTON, a the Center for Human setting long-range objec- COA graduate, was Ecology, Freeport, ME. tives for the agency. accepted into the Environ- LISA HAWKINS, a 1980 EARL L. GREEN's book, mental Education program COA graduate, is coordina- at the University of ting small farm management Genetics and Probability in Animal Breeding Michigan. She will be workshops for the center.