March, 1979 Nonprofit Organiz. College of the Atlantic U.S. Postage Paid Bar Harbor, Me. 04609 Bar Harbor, Me. Permit #47 COA News Mississippi River Expedition Good News and Honors Ever dreamed of spending a summer drifting down the May 14 is the publication date for AT HOME IN THE Mississippi River? This June faculty members, Stephen SUN, a book on solar energy buildings by NORAH DAVIS Andersen and Robert Weyeneth, will lead a three-month and LINDA LINDSEY (formerly Linda Swartz, faculty in canoe voyage from the river's headwaters in Minnesota Anthropology at COA). The book will be published by downstream 2,500 miles to New Orleans. This expedition Garden Way Publishing Co., Charlotte, Vermont. is an experiment in floating classrooms. The canoeists will combine the romance of Mark Twain's river with an A poem by WENDY EINHORN and a short story by LUCY intensive study of the economic and social history of the HONIG have been selected for presentation at the Spectra I Festival of the Maine Association for Women in the Fine region. and Performing Arts to be held at Westbrook College in The Mississippi was selected because of its critical role in Portland, Maine. American history. Apart from the Mediterranean, no body of water has figured so importantly in the history of a BRUCE BECQUE and MARK SIMONDS have completed people. It is an ideal living laboratory for examining the their feasibility study of residential, wood-fired electricity effect of human settlement on the environment. generation. They presented their findings at the Wood Heat Seminar IV and International Trade Show in The expedition will be chronicled by Norah Davis, a Portland, Oregon. freelance writer, and Joseph Holmes, a freelance HARRIS HYMAN's house in Vermont won an award for photographer. By combining their efforts, they will produce a book on the trip to be published by Sierra Club design in the Housing and Urban Development Passive Books in 1980. Also joining the expedition will be Barbara Solar Residential Design Competition and Demonstration, Gudmundson, who holds a doctorate in botany and water a new element in HUD's solar program conducted in resources. She hopes to conduct a river-long analysis of cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy and the water quality. COA students Rodd Pemble, Ellen Solar Energy Research Institute. The award was shared Kleyman, Nan Moyer, and Marti Gudmundson are with the architect, Robert Melik Finkle. planning to take the trip. WENDY EINHORN received a grant from the Maine State Commission on Arts and Humanities and the Bureau on The group will travel in three wood and canvas canoes, hand built by Maine's Elderly to conduct a ten week writing workshop Chestnut Canoes of New for senior citizens at Sonogee Estates in Bar Harbor. Team Brunswick, Canada. The teaching the course with Wendy are Ted Koffman and students from the "Aging in America Course." Plans are canoes will carry a maxi- being made to publish a collection of poems. mum of fourteen people plus gear down the river. The faculty and students Maine Poets Festival will camp in camp- grounds where possible May 25, 26, and 27, 1979 - A three-day celebration of the and elsewhere on islands art of poetry in Maine consisting of poetry readings, and sandbars. workshops and social events, the festival will bring together poets from throughout the state. COA faculty member, William Carpenter, and student, Katie VanDine, are coordinating the festival. Comings and Goings JOHN BIDERMAN, COA graduate, is Assistant Director to the Manager of Public Relations at the Jackson DORIS TWITCHELL ALLEN is teaching "Human Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. Nature" this term. She is best known for her work in psychodrama and for being the founder of Children's JOE PEACOCK, COA graduate, will be attending Yale International Summer Villages, an international exchange Divinity School in the fall of 1979. program for elementary school students. MICHAEL SHERWOOD, staff attorney for the Sierra Club CYNTHIA JORDAN is continuing her studies as a visiting Legal Defense Fund, Inc., comes to the College from San student in education at the University of Maine at Francisco, CA. He is teaching two courses in Machias. environmental law. LOIE HAYES, in preparation for her senior project, is ANN KUHN is teaching a philosophy course entitled, studying at the Women's Writers Center in Cazenovia, "East & West: Being and the Phenomenon of Religion." New York. She studied under Martin Heidegger at the University of DENA TUCKER is studying photography as a visiting Munich in Germany and has taught at the University of student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Maine at Augusta. RICHARD BORDEN is teaching two psychology courses this term. He is visiting the College from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. His field of study is aggression and aggressive behavior. MARK MELNICOVE is teaching "Creative and Applied Photography." He is a freelance photographer, and will be exhibiting his works in the COA Gallery this spring. ANDREW PERIALE is teaching "The Wooden Actor," a puppetry course. He studied at the University of Maine at Orono and appeared in the original play, "As Others See Us," a project funded by the Maine Council for the Humanities. ALICE LEEDS, COA graduate, is traveling to England where she has accepted an elementary school teaching position. JEFF BAKER, COA graduate, has been promoted to Photo by Stephen Papazidis Transportation Coordinator for the Washington/Hancock County Community Action Project. STEPHEN PAPAZIDIS, COA graduate, has joined the Cathy Johnson prepares to print a picture in the newly staff at the Mount Desert Island YMCA. He is developing renovated COA darkroom. Mark Melnicove, who is and coordinating programs for persons with special needs teaching photography this term, designed and constructed and is in charge of the Island's Special Olympics. the facility which incorporates many innovative features. Internships Summer At COA Internships, off-campus learning experiences, provide Summer short term at COA is designed to meet the needs COA students with an opportunity to work in an area and interests of students with varied experiences and which interests and enables them to redefine or modify goals. Two four week sessions with a total of twelve their concepts of Human Ecology. Carole O'Donnell and courses are planned. Session I offers three courses and is Elmer Beal coordinate this program. scheduled for June 18 to July 13. Session II offers six courses and runs from July 23 to August 17. In addition, HELEN CAIVANO is working with Buddy Chase, a three field courses which meet at varying times are freelance graphic design artist, at Studio 3 in Ellsworth, scheduled within the program. Session I courses include, Maine. Drawing and Painting on the Maine Coast; Maine Coast LISA CARPENTER is spending her internship in Ecology; and Woodworking. Session II offers Marine Titusville, Florida, where she is studying snowy egrets Mammals; Celestial Navigation; Abstractions in Tapestry; and ibises under the direction of Peter Wrege, a doctoral Alternate Energy; Reading, Writing, and Roaming; and candidate from Cornell University. Boatbuilding. Three field courses, Maine History Cruise; Why Wilderness?; and Life on the Mississippi, round out STEVE DONOSO is studying green turtles in the the term. For further information and course particulars Galapagos Islands with the Charles Darwin Foundation. contact: Director of Admissions, Summer School, College JENNY DOUVILLE is teaching at the West Side of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609. Community Nursery School in Southwest Harbor, Maine. This is a continuation of her year-long internship. NANCY GUNNLAUGSSON will be at the New England Aquarium in Boston working as a volunteer in the Aquarium's seal project. She will assist in the care of the seals, study seal behavior, and learn how the Aquarium deals with stranded pups. In this capacity she will act as a liason between the Aquarium and COA's Harbor Seal Network. JEAN HOEKWATER is an instructor and counselor at Elbanobscot in Sudbury, Mass. This residential camp offers environmental science programs to school groups. BILL HOHENSEE is working in Cambridge at Pugh-Roberts, an independent consulting firm which uses systems-dynamics methodology to analyze and evaluate complex business situations. His current project is developing a systems model for a shipping corporation in Photo by John Jacob California. VICKI SMITH assisted in a whale inventory in California Renovation becomes a reality. Bids are being solicited so before beginning a writing internship with the Marine that major work can begin. The College plans to occupy Mammals Division of the National Marine Fisheries. the building by September 1, 1979. Coming Events SPRING CONCERTS Sunday SPRING ECO FILMS April 22 Organ Recital with The Seven Dancers May 2 MOONTRAP Stoddart Smith, organist; Janice Lahti, Choreo- grapher A glimpse of life as it was before industrialization in French Canada. In this very human film, the Friday natives of Ille de Cordes revive the ancient April 27 The Hancock Woodwind Quintet presents works trapping of beluga whales. by Samuel Barber, Eugene Bozza, and a transcription of an organ work by Johan The ECO films are shown on Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m. and Sebastian Bach again at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium. Admission is $.50. Concerts are held at 8:00 p.m. at St. Saviour's Church, Bar Harbor, Maine. The suggested donation is $3.00 for SPRING FILM SERIES adults and $1.50 for senior citizens and students. These concerts are sponsored by the Mount Desert Island April 28 THINGS TO COME Community Arts Committee with cooperation from Directed by William Cameron Menzies with College of the Atlantic. Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson and Cedric Hardwicke. (1936, black and white) Plus short: A TRIP TO THE MOON May 5 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Written and directed by Jean Cocteau. (1946, black and white) Plus short: WHY DO YOU SMILE MONA LISA? May 12 THE 400 BLOWS Directed by Francois Truffaut. (1959, black and white) Plus short: A BIRD'S LIFE May 19 TWO WOMEN Directed by Vittorio DeSica with Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Eleanor Brown. (1960, color) May 25 HARRY AND TONTO Directed by Paul Mazursky with Art Carney. (1974, color) All films will be shown on Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m. in the Auditorium. Admission is $1.50 per film; however, a season discount oto by Keith Patrie pass can be purchased for $1.00 which entitles the holder SPRING SPEAKERS FORUM Using hammer and forge, COA blacksmithing students repair and restore the wrought iron gates at the Turret's April 24 THE HOLISTIC HEALTH MOVEMENT: AN driveway. The course was taught Winter Short Term by OVERVIEW Steve Alsup, an island blacksmith. Dr. Rick Ingrasci, practitioner of holistic medicine in Newton, Mass. May 1 BODY-ORIENTED THERAPIES Environmental Mediation Dr. Josef Dellagrotte, certified graduate of the first four-year Feldenkrais Training Program At a luncheon held in February, College of the Atlantic conducted in the United States. and the Maine Department of Conservation tried something new, environmental mediation, a process of May 8 CHILDREN AND TELEVISION: LESSONS trying to resolve environmental conflicts by meeting FROM SESAME STREET together and looking for common understanding. This is Dr. Gerald Lesser, Charles Bigelow Professor of similar to the technique used in labor arbitration. Education and Developmental Psychology, The meeting was sponsored by the State Department of Harvard University Conservation and included representatives from the May 15 FOREIGN RELATIONS: CHINA AND THE U.S. Maine Public Utilities Commission, the Maine Forestry TODAY Service, the Maine Fish and Wildlife Service, the Natural Resources Council, the State Pesticide Control Board, Thomas S. Gates, former Secretary of Defense Maine Audubon Society, Great Northern Paper Company, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, College St. Regis Paper Company, PEST, the Sportsman's of the Atlantic. Alliance of Maine, the National Coal Project at Georgetown University, the U.S. Forestry Service, and All lectures are held on Tuesday evening at 8:00 p.m. in Clark & McGlennon, a consulting firm. Representing the the auditorium. Admission is free. American Arbitration Society was COA Trustee, Donald Straus. The meeting centered around the process of COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC GALLERY mediation---how to choose the issues, how to establish Spring - 1979 ground rules, and how to keep communication lines open. Dr. Francis X. Murray, a Georgetown University April 23 to May 11 - Drawings and oil paintings by Scarlett professor, described the National Coal Policy Project, one of the most successful environmental mediation efforts to Kinney. date. He said that representatives from both sides of the May 14 to May 26 - Photographs of Mount Desert Island dispute were surprised to find that they actually held by Mark Melincove. common points of view. COA's Visiting Professor of May 28 to June 29 - Photographic works by Berenice Geology, Robert Curry, and Trustee, John Dreier, were Abbott, world-renowned photographer on loan instrumental in getting the meeting organized. They feel from the Marin Gallery that environmental mediation has definite application for disputes in the State of Maine, and that this first Gallery Hours Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 luncheon, although introductory in nature, is an important p.m. step in broadening participating throughout the state. Pride of Maine Holistic Health College of the Atlantic has received a grant from the High on the list of controversial issues is today's approach National Endowment for the Arts/Folk Arts program to to health care. With this in mind, COA student, Priscilla host a Maine folklife fair this summer. The PRIDE OF Bright, spent her internship at the New England Health MAINE fair is being planned so that Maine people can Foundation in Cambridge, Ma. and has designed the learn about and better appreciate their cultural heritage. Holistic Health Course being offered this term. The class The fair will be held July 13, 14, and 15 between the hours is investigating orthodox health methodology, as well as of 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. on the College's grounds. To date taking a close look at the alternatives. Topics for the thirty folk artists from the Acadian, Native American, and course include homeopathic medicine, cleansing and Maine coastal cultures have been invited to participate in fasting, environmental toxicology, megavitamin therapy, the fair. and an introduction to oriental medicine. Not only will there be musical performances, but the fair Visiting speakers include Lawrence A. Plumlee, M.D., will also host tool exhibits, craft and cooking former medical science advisor for the Environmental demonstrations, clog and social dancing, and jokes and Protection Agency; Beatrice Trum Hunter, a well-known storytelling. Keeping to tradition, all fair events will be author and lecturer on food processing and the current outside including the evening performances which will be nutritional scene; William Kent, M.D., Medical Director held in a large tent. for the New England Health Foundations in Cambridge, Ma., William Tims, N.D., Vice President of the The fair is coordinated by Judith Blank, Faculty Member East/West Foundation in Boston; and Richard Delisle, in Anthropology, and COA student, Linda St. Onge. The D.C., from the Whole Health Institute in Leominster, Ma. tool exhibit will be coordinated by Steve Alsup, a Mount Desert Island Blacksmith. The course is a pilot program for the health curriculum at The fair will be open to the public, and a limited number of the College, and students participating in the course will make recommendations as to the direction of future health tickets will be available. Tickets will be $5.00 for all events education at COA. during the weekend or $2.50 per day for adults and $1.00 per day for children under twelve. Day tickets include the evening program--a concert on Friday evening or a dance on Saturday evening. The Folk Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts is funded by the federal government and is dedicated to keeping local American arts alive. By hosting this program, College of the Atlantic adds another dimension to its study of Human Ecology. Final Projects This term several students are doing their final projects in conjunction with several community organizations. Baxter Special Needs in the northern part of the state. PAUL BELTRAMINI is creating a brochure on island woodlot Photo management for the Maine Coast Heritage Trust. SUE Harbor seals bask in the sun on Mount Desert Rock. INCHES is helping a local business oranize a small education manufacturing concern. GREG MERRILL is developing an outdoor education program at the Harbor Seal Network Homestead Project in Ellsworth, Maine. RUTH HILL has been funded by the Economic Development Administra- Because each year stranded harbor seal pups are found on tion to investigate appropriate technology for firewood the coast of Maine, the COA Harbor Seal Network is processing. ANDY LEPCIO is working in the Augusta, organizing an abandoned seal pup rescue effort. Assisted Maine, area for the Sam Ely Community Services group. by faculty coordinator, Steven Katona, the network is studying harbor seal behavior, exploring methods of handraising seals, and deciding on how the pups can best be reintroduced to the wild. The group wishes to stress that not all seals found on the shore have been abandoned, and it is important that the animals not be disturbed. Under the federal government's Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972, it is a crime punishable by a heavy fine or jail sentence to harass or interfere with a marine mammal. The group has been licensed by the National Marine Fisheries Service to handle seal pups, and is requesting that anyone who discovers a seal pup to contact them for instructions. The group will come to the reported site immediately, and plans to observe any pup reported to determine if, in fact, it has been abandoned. To report a pup, the group can be contacted at 800-432-1716. This toll-free telephone number will be in service around the clock from April 20 to May 20 - the time baby seals are born. The Summer reintroduction study has received funding from the National Science Foundation. This grant will allow six members of the group to continue their seal observations at the Indian Point Ledge site on Mount Photo by John Jacob Desert Island. It will also enable the group to determine if healthy, hand-raised pups will be accepted by local seal herds. REMEMBER: To report a pup which may be abandoned or stranded, leave it alone and call 800-432-1716. The COA Wooden actors created by Andrew Periale, instructor for Harbor Seal Network will respond immediately. this term's puppetry class. The puppets are constructed The paste-up for this newsletter was prepared by students from materials gathered in the woods and along MDI's in the Graphic Design Workshop under the direction of beaches. George Spindler.