COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC NEWSLETTER COA's 1979 graduating class joins hands in song at ceremonies held at the Shrine. Photo by Kay Hudgens. GRADUATION At graduation ceremonies companied by kazoos play- TOFT's intership involved held at the COA campus in ing Pomp and Circum- working at a graphics firm June, 19 seniors received stance) marched off to in San Francisco, Cali- the Bachelor of Arts in attend a champagne recep- fornia, where she wrote, Human Ecology. President tion held in their honor at illustrated, and designed a Edward G. Kaelber pre- the terrace. Later that children's book for her sided over the ceremonies evening a dance at the senior project. JOAN which included brief read- Jordan Pond House was FEELY developed market- ings by graduates, choral enjoyed by the graduates ing information and strate- presentations, and a grad- and their families and gy for Mount Desert Island uation address by Richard friends. area craftspeople for her Davis, COA faculty in Once again, COA's grad- internship. Her senior pro- philosophy. Davis said that uates have addressed ject was a study of alle- if there is a distinctive themselves to the study of lopathy in organic garden- feature to this class as a Human Ecology in Dif- ing. During her internship, whole, it is the attention ferent ways. PAUL BEL- BROOKIE GALLAGHER which they have given to TRAMINI interned as COA was a draftsperson for clarifying their values, the public relations coordinator Herrick Corporation in Blue depth of the commitments, and produced an island Hill, Maine. Her senior and their continuing efforts forestry management book- project was a study of social to explore and live them. let for the Maine Coast change movements and He also said that world Heritage Trust for his strategies. CHUCK GEM- making in the next decades senior project. For her ME interned as an outdoor will not be a matter of internship, PRISCILLA education leader at the flashes of lightning or steel BRIGHT worked at the New Princeton Education Center girders, but rather of the England Health Founda- in New Jersey. For his quiet strength which knows tion, a private clinic that senior project, he develop- even in tragedy that life is stresses preventive medi- ed and implemented a joy and never abandons cine and later coordinated a natural science program for hope. After degrees were pilot course for a health MDI special education stu- conferred by Ed Kaelber, curriculum at COA as her dents. During her first the graduation class (ac- senior project. LISA DAM- internship, LOIS HAYES was a teaching assistant in During his internship, COA campus master plan. a private elementary RICH MOSS was a coun- JAMES SHAMBERG in- school; her second intern- selor and an environmental terned as an assistant to a ship was spent as a counse- education coordinator at local soil scientist and site lor and leader with the the Emma Kaufmann JCC evaluator. His senior pro- Maine Youth Conservation Camp outside of Pitts- ject was a paper entitled, Corps. Her senior project burgh, Pennsylvania. He "Human-Land Relation- was a collection of her own prepared an analysis of the ships: A Crisis of Percep- poetry and an essay on the constitutional background tion and Piety." DAVID art and politics of Olga of the National Environ- WERSAN worked at Pine Broumas. BOB HOLLEY mental Protection Act for Tree Legal Assistance dur- interened as a tutor/coun- his senior project. During ing his internship and later selor for an Upward Bound his internship, STEVE completed a study of the Program in Canton, New ORANSKY was a carpen- organization of parents' York. His senior project ter/builder on renovation advocacy groups for special brought him closer to his projects in Bar Harbor and education for his senior interest in education when Seal Harbor. He designed project. WENDY GREENE he became an observer/ and developed a plan for a completed an internship as teacher in the MDI High passive solar house for his a research assistant study- School "Focus" program. senior project. CHELI ing shore birds on Merritt SUE INCHES fulfilled her JOHNSON PINGREE in- Island, Florida, and is internship as an employee terned as an apprentice on completing a bird study on of Clivus Multrum, Inc., a an organic farm, and her Little Duck Island for her distributor of composting senior project was a feasibi- senior project. GREG toilets. Her senior project lity study for a small dairy. MERRILL completed an was an analysis and feasibi- TRIPP ROYCE's intership internship as an outdoor lity study of the processing was spend designing edu- education teacher at the and distribution of organic cational materials on alter- Tennessee Valley Wilder- food in Maine. KENT native energy sources for ness School and is develop- KATZ interned as a volun- use in secondary schools by ing an outdoor education teer mental health worker the Maine Audubon Socie- program for the Homestead at Butler Day Hospital in ty. His senior project was a Project, a live-in school for Providence, Rhode Island. landscape design for the troubled youths. His senior project was a paper entitled, "The Myth of Human Ecology." AN- DREA LEPCIO worked in WINTER SHORT TERM Representative George Brown's (D-Calif.) Wash- COA's Winter Short Term and Peace; Sources of In- ington office on agricultural offers a concentrated pro- vention; Drawing Natural policy legislation for her gram of study which History Subjects; Classical internship. For her senior enables students to spend Mechanics; Surviving In project, she co-coordinated the four-week session in a and Studying the Winter a series of statewide single, intensive learning Environment; Statistical meetings aimed at develop- experience. Visiting faculty Methods for Social ing new agricultural poli- members add a special Sciences; Folk Songs and cies for Maine. WHITNEY dimension to the Short Dances of Eastern Europe; MASSEY was involved in Term, and courses are also Cell Biology; Residential marine research at the open to visiting students Construction; and The Poli- College of Marine Studies, from other academic insti- tics of Design. Persons University of Delaware tutions. Scheduled for interested in enrolling in during his internship and January, 1980, the term the Winter Short Term are completed a physical ocea- offers twelve courses in- asked to contact the Col- nographic study of heat cluding: The Truth About lege's Director of Admis- transfer over Frenchman Families; Editing the Pride sions for a brochure and an Bay for his senior project. of Maine Fair Tapes; War application form. INTERNSHIPS COA's internship program provides an opportunity for students to apply their education and training in Human Ecology to an employment situation. This term several students are completing their intern- ships in many interesting and different ways. BRUCE BECQUE is working as a mason's apprentice in Rhode Island. CINDY JOR- DAN FISHER is student teaching in the second grade at the Rose Graffney Elementary School in Ma- chias, Maine. CAREN GHEEN is an environmen- tal education teacher at Camp Union, a residential program for school groups in Greenfield, New Hamp- shire. MARTI GUDMUND- COA Trustees inspect the renovation work at The SON is apprenticing with a Turrets during this year's annual meeting. weaver in Oak Ridge, Ten- Photo by Greg Stone. nessee. SANDY KAPLAN is helping to organize food ANNUAL MEETING cooperatives in Maine. Highlighting this year's graduation at their home LISA HAWKINS is an annual meeting of the school, COA students are apprentice draftsperson Board of Trustees was a given access to the facilities and builder at Dimetrodon, tour of The Turrets' newly of UMO which allows them an alternative energy de- refurbished second and to augment their studies in sign group in Warren, Ver- Human Ecology. UMO stu- mont. RUTH HILL is draft- third floors. Roc Caivano, project manager, announc- dents can benefit from the ing and assisting in re- interdisciplinary, environ- search for the "Coastal ed that the building would be operational in the fall mentally oriented curricu- Almanac Project" at the and that students would be lum offered at COA. The Conservation Foundation in occupying the dormatory Trustees also approved the Washington, D.C. JAN wing. Currently the build- College's environmental KELLER is teaching at an ing houses the admissions eduation program which, alternative public school in office, student services, the when approved by the State Seattle, Washington. LES- internship office, student of Maine, will enable LIE McCONNELL is teach- records, and faculty offices. students to complete work ing at The School Around Also discussed at the toward teacher certification Us in Arundel, Maine. meeting was the newly here at the College. At the KEITH PATRIE is appren- completed resource sharing meeting Thomas S. Gates ticing with a dulcimer agreement between Uni- was reelected Chairman of maker in Deer Isle, Maine. versity of Maine at Orono the Board of Trustees, John ANDY PEAKE is working and College of the Atlantic. S. Dreier was reelected on the Cascadian Farm, a By creating a student ex- Chairman of the Executive cooperatively run organic change program whereby Committee, and Dr. Seldon farm in Rockport, Washing- students may take courses E. Bernstein became Vice ton. KIM RUDKIN is plan- at the other institution and Chairman of the Executive ning, mapping, and draft- receive credit toward Committee. ing for the Greater Portland Council of Governments in Maine TUCKER is a teaching Susan Mehrtens, a COA taught this 14 week course assistant at the Internation- faculty member whose starting each fall. Her stu- al Center of Photography in specialty is medieval his- dents have included fisher- New York City. PETER tory, teaches a United men, lobstermen, boat de- ANDERSON is working States Coast Guard Cap- signers, pleasure cruisers, with an architect building a tain's License Preparatory and merchant seamen. The passive solar home in Course eacy year. After re- course covers such topics as Colorado. ceiving her Ph.D., she de- Rules of the Road, First cided that it would be wise Aid, Weather, Vessel Con- to broaden her job-related struction, Engine Main- skills. Since she was at JUDITH BLANK presented tenance, Sailing Vessels, Queens College in New Charts and Plotting, and a paper at the annual York which is located near Signalling. Response to this meeting of the Northeast- the East River, she felt that course has been so great ern Anthropological Asso- a good alternative occupa- that Susan will offer a navi- ciation. Her paper, "His- tory of the Work Ethic in tion was boat piloting, so gation course this summer she obtained a Navigator's which is designed to meet Maine," was part of a session on maritime anthro- Rating from the United the community's needs. States Power Squadron. This is another aspect of pology and change in the When she came to Mount the College's commitment small community. Desert Island, she saw a to Human Ecology, as what need for a captain's license could be more fitting a ALIDA CAMP, COA Trus- course which would be medieval historian teaching tee, received an honorary offered on a regular basis navigation and piloting. doctorate in humane letters and has subsequently from Colby College at graduation ceremonies held GOOD NEWS AND HONORS last spring. CARL KETCHUM received MARCIA DWORAK is cur- a grant from the National LUCY HONIG's short rently serving a three year Science Foundation which works of fiction have been term on the Standing Ad- is enabling him to spend his visory Committee on Con- published in the summer sabbatical year analyzing issue of The Carleton Mis- tinuing Education (SACCE) hydrographic data from the of the Maine Library cellany and the winter Georges Bank area in the Association. Antaeus. Gulf of Maine. BILL CARPENTER receiv- SALLY LUTYENS' opera, DICK DAVIS is spending "The Light Princess" was his sabbatical year re- ed the 1979 Pablo Neruda searching and writing a award in poetry for "The performed at the Newport book on ecological value Yacht," which was pub- Opera Festival in Rhode Island. Its premiere per- theory. He also attended a lished in the Beloit Poetry formance received out- seminar on bioethics at the Journal, summer, 1979. standing reviews. Poynter Center at Indiana The Pablo Neruda award is University. sponsored by the University RICH BORDEN spoke at of Tulsa and the National the Canadian Peace Re- Endowment for the Arts. search Institute at Carleton ED KAELBER represented University in Ottawa, de- COA on a panel of college BILL DRURY gave the livered a paper at the presidents at a conference keynote address at the Rare Wilderness Psychology sponsored by the Maine and Endangered Plant Conference in Great Falls, State Planning Committee Species in New England Montana, and participated of Women in Higher Edu- Symposium sponsored by in a symposium on environ- cation of the American the New England Botanical mental psychology at the Council of Education. He is Club and the U.S. Fish and American Psychological also president of the Higher Wildlife Service. His talk Association meetings in Education Council of was entitled, "Thoughts on New York City. Maine. Rare Species." TURRETS CONCERT (Editor's note: Following are excerpts of a critique on the Turrets benefit concert written by Masanobu Ike- miya. Mr. Ikemiya is a concert pianist and teacher who resided in Surry, Maine. He has organized a Chamber Music series which will be presented throughout the winter in Blue Hill, Maine.) Despite an unpleasant mis- ty rain, a good sized audience came to the pre- view of the benefit concert for the Turrets by pianist Thomas Brockman in Au- gust. He opened the pro- gram with the Adagio in B "Roo," a harbor seal rescued by COA's Harbor Seal Minor and the Gigue, K. Project, and Nancy Gunnlaugsson at the New England 574, by Mozart. Next Aquarium. followed a difficult group of pieces by Schumann HARBOR SEAL PROJECT by Katie Van Dine Davidsbundler Dances. Each year a number of make it easy for persons Here Mr. Brockman seem- harbor seal pups are found finding abandoned pups to ed to have warmed up and abandoned along the coast report them to the work- relaxed to the piano. Many of Maine, and in 1977 COA shop. of the finest moments of the students cared for two of afternoon were during these pups. Unfortunately Throughout the early sum- these delightful pieces. one died, but the other was mer a total of seven pups released into the wild herds were reported to the group. For the second half of the at Indian Point on the The first five were sent to program, Mr. Brockman western edge of Mount the New England Aqua- opened with the Chopin Desert Island. Because of rium (NEA) where Nancy Mazurka in C# Minor Op. 30 No. 4 and the F Minor this success, several stu- Gunnlaugsson was intern- dents in the fall of 1978 ing and studying the care Ballade, both of which belong to the group of conceived of the idea of and handling of seal pups. raising, releasing, and At the aquarium she kept finest compositions by the Polish composer. Next monitoring abandoned track of the pup's progress came a new composition by pups for a COA workshop. and reported back to the Samuel Barber, Ballade Six students submitted a workshop. The last two proposal to the National pups died within 24 hours Op. 46, which was fresh Science Foundation of their rescue. and rather interesting. He then played Albieniz's through the student-origi- The summer study involv- Navarra which was simply nated studies program to ing Nancy Gunnlaugsson, delightful. Mr. Brockman fund the project. The grant Rachel Snow, Cathy Straka, seemed to have enjoyed was accepted in March, and Justine Logan, Tammy this charming Spanish the program got underway Bodge, and Katie Van Dine number also. The last com- officially on June 3rd to last originally planned to re- position of the recital was until August 25. lease the pups into the wild one of the most extroverted In preparation for the herd and monitor their compositions by Debussy, summer studies, fifteen progress. However, when L'Isle Joyeuse. As an students enrolled in the the time came, three of the Mr. Brockman nlav- comminer term workshon to pups at NEA had died, and pups. They audience received him worked together to or- The study adjusted to this warmly and seemed to have ganize a public information situation by concentrating enjoyed the afternoon. It is program. Pamphlets and on updating previous work too bad that Mr. Brockman done at the Indian Point posters which outlined this was handicapped by a cold problem and explained the site and by studying the room, but despite the diffi- best procedure to follow if a feasibility of a release culties, one can tell that he pup was found were distri- program in the future. The is a fine pianist of consi- buted along the Maine group collected data on derable accomplishment. coast. A tollfree "800" birthings, weaning times, number was obtained to mother/pup interactions, COMINGS and lone pup interactions with other seals; counts and AND GOINGS Artists-in-Schools program comparisons were made of in the State of Maine. He age classes (pup, juvenile, NATHANIEL WARREN- also taught English for and adult), haul out rates, WHITE is teaching a mime "Upward Bound" pro- and ledge use and distur- theater course this term. grams and at the Portland bance. Previously he performed School of Art. with the Celebration Mime The group will send a final Theater and participated in report to the National the Artist-in-Residence The new format for COA Science Foundation in Program in Phillips, Maine. NEWS was designed by Rita James as a project for Washington, D.C., and two DON CASS is a recent the graphic arts workshop. of the study members will addition to COA's faculty. It is edited by Ann Outzen. present an oral report in He comes from Kenyon Washington in December. College, is teaching chem- istry, and is interested in energy/resource flow schemes for natural sys- tems. TRICIA HANSCOMB join- ed the Development Office staff as a secretary. She is a recent graduate of Mount Desert Island High School. DONALD MEIKELJOHN is teaching a course in Public Policy. Before his semi-re- tirement he was head of the graduate and undergrad- uate programs in Public Affairs and Citizenship at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. DAN KANE has returned to COA after a year's leave of absence which he spent Works from "Four Furniture Makers," a COA Gallery in Portland, Maine estab- exhibit organized by Jamie Johnston (COA faculty lishing a patent law prac- member in carpentry/construction), that featured tice. furniture individually designed and built by Jay Peters, JIM BISHOP is a member Mark Perry, Joe Tracy, and Jamie Johnston. The of the Writing Pool this Gallery is directed by Joanne Carpenter, COA faculty term. He has been a member in art history. resident poet for the Photo by Joe Gennaro