December 1978 Nonprofit Organiz. College of the Atlantic U.S. Postage Paid Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Bar Harbor, Me. Permit #47 COA News Mortgages Burned EXIT College of the Atlantic celebrated its tenth year of existence by paying off and burning its three mortgages totaling $320,000.00 for the purchase of the college's Maine coast property. With obvious satisfaction, Ed Kaelber, President of the college, touched the flames to each of three mortgages which were held over wastebaskets by College Treasurer Leslie C. Brewer, Albert Cunningham, an early board member, and Liane Peach, College Business Manager. Congratulatory speeches were given by Ed Kaelber, Leslie Brewer and the Rev. James Gower who praised and thanked those who have supported the college. Burning the mortgages at College of the Atlantic, Bar The college was conceived in 1968 by Father James Gower and Leslie Brewer who took the idea to several Mount Harbor, Maine are (left to right) Albert Cunningham, Father James Gower, Leslie C. Brewer, Elizabeth Russell, Desert Island residents. These people supported the idea Liane Peach, Robert T. Smith, and Frederick C. Burrill. and ultimately became the founding trustees of the college. The college opened for business in 1972 with 32 Photo by Stephen Papazidis students and four faculty members. Today there are 142 students and 17 full-time equivalent faculty members. Winter Short Term Amid the cheers of happy onlookers, Ed Kaelber remarked, "The founding trustees of this college took on A solution for the January blahs is being offered in the the formidable task of operating a college at a time when form of Winter Short Term at COA. This is a four-week many said it wouldn't work. Today, the college has more term where students may step away from their usual roles qualified applicants than it can possibly accept and is on and pursue outside interests or explore new areas. It is an its way to establishing a sound financial base. All of this opportunity for total involvement, as courses will be required a great deal of work on the part of many. But condensed into the four-week session, thereby allowing today, it has paid off.'' He also the student an intensive program of study. Visiting noted that COA's other faculty, Steve Alsup, Robert Weyeneth, Robert Curry, milestones, namely Alan Schapiro and Langdon Winner, will add a special accreditation and dimension to the short term. Course offerings will include: graduations, would not Blacksmithing, Campus Building Project, Geology and have been possible with- Ecology An Advanced Seminar, History of the out sound financial Mississippi, Perspectives on Learning, Oral History management. Workshop, Primer for the Tutankhamén Exhibit, Structural Design, Tai Chi-A Chinese Martial Art, and Technology and Politics. Persons desiring further information should address their inquiries to: Director of Admissions, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609. Comings and Goings GREG STONE traveled to Iceland during September to work on the University of Rhode Island's research vessel. JANET ANDERSEN is teaching botany this term. She is STEVEN KATONA participated in a panel discussion at currently working on a Ph.D. in Plant Science at the the Peabody Museum in Salem, Mass. The panel dealt University of Maine at Orono. with future problems in the conservation of marine GARY PATZLAFF is teaching chemistry this term. He has mammals and other ocean resources. previously taught chemistry and environmental health at SCOTT KRAUS, COA graduate, is working on the Aerial the University of Maine at Augusta. Observation Team at the University of Rhode Island. LUCY HONIG will be taking over DODIE JORDAN'S STEVE SAVAGE, COA graduate, is working for the position as Registrar. She comes to COA from Calais National Marine Fisheries Service, Marine Mammals where she was a freelance writer. DODIE is leaving to Program. He recently returned from his third trip to the continue undergraduate work at Boston University. Arctic where he participated in the Bowhead Whale KATHLEEN SIKKEMA has joined the staff as the Census. Future plans include working on the Grey Whale Development Office and Internship and Placement Office Census in Monterey, Ca. Secretary. JOHN MacARTHUR is visiting professor from Marlboro College teaching climatology this term. His visit to COA is Internships part of the larger exchange program with Marlboro BARBARA BOARDMAN is working with her brother in College. Fayette, Me., designing and building a barn and forge. CHARLES SAVAGE is currently teaching a Landscape This is her second internship; her first was as a Design Course. He is well known for many works blacksmith's apprentice at Strawberry Banke in including the Thuya Gardens in Northeast Harbor. Portsmouth, N.H. FRED OLDAY has left the college to join the faculty at PRISCILLA BRIGHT is continuing her internship at the University of Illinois, Urbana. New England Health Foundation in Cambridge, Ma. She is counseling patients on nutrition as well as helping to MARGUERITE BERNSTEIN has joined the Development develop educational programs on soil fertility. Office to assist in proposal writing. LISA DAMTOFT is interning at Artel Graphics in San COA'S DIGITAL COMPUTER has arrived and is blipping Francisco, Ca. She is learning the technical aspects of the away. Workshops to acquaint students with the machine trade and operation of the presses. and to teach the BASIC language are currently being held. STEVE DIEPENBROCK is an apprentice at the Rural JUDY BEARD is working with the Allied Whale group. Center of the Farallones Institute in northern California. She comes to the College from The Coastal Resource He is currently working on the design and construction of Center. a barn and solar-heated shower houses. SALLY CROCK has joined the staff as Administrative JENNY DOUVILLE is teaching at the West Side Assistant to the Steering and the Personnel Committees. Community Nursery School in Southwest Harbor. She will Previously she taught school in Bar Harbor and Blue Hill. work part-time for the entire year. JAKI ERDOES is teaching at the Children's Center in FRANK TWOHILL is researching biomass productivity at Ellsworth, a preschool program for children with special the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forests in W. Thornton, educational needs. N.H. CHUCK GEMME is working with Mel Cote at the LISA ZOUCK is an apprentice at NACUL Center for Princeton Education Center in New Jersey. His Environmental Design, an architectural and planning responsibilities range from teaching a ropes course, to group in Amherst, Ma. building a nature trail, to cutting and splitting wood for the conference center. LYNN HURWICH is working in the Planning Development Department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey researching the Clean Air Bill and its relationship to a proposed industrial park. NOEL KESSELHEIM'S duties at the Lobo Wolf Foundation in Gardner, Wa. include the daily care of the Turrets wolves and leading public tours. STEVE KING is studying the Quichua Indians in Peru in conjunction with an international group of anthropologists. Update BOB MAY is a physician's assistant at the Clymer Health Clinic in Quakertown, Pa., a clinic specializing in Working toward winter- naturopathic medicine. izing the Turrets, the granite stonework repair MARIA MIGLIORINI interned as a chef's apprentice at has begun, the antique the Shambala Gardens Natural Foods Restaurant in Port flashing has been re- Jefferson, New York. Her second internship is at the stored and electrical Natural Foods Store in New York. power is now in the building. The sewer pump has been EILEEN McMORROW is teaching environmental studies installed and is operational, and the at the Otter Lake Conservation School in Ocean Park, water system is being tested over the winter. Meetings Maine. with the State Fire Marshal are underway so that the LAURIE REDFERN is mapping indoor and outdoor building will meet all safety and fire regulations in order recreational facilities for the Regional Planning for major renovations to begin. The project team, Commission in York and Oxford Counties. Roc Caivano, Harris Hyman and Barbara Sassaman, is pleased to report that all of the work finished to date has LINDA ST. ONGE is a teacher's aid in special education at come in under the budget projections. Financing for the a public elementary school in Farmington, New Mexico, a major remodeling and structural work has been obtained school with a mixed population of Anglo, Spanish, Black from The Farmers Home Administration, and work is and Indian Children. scheduled to get underway in February. Solar House Wins American "We've Got Steam Heat" Institute of Architects Students Mark Simonds and Bruce Becque are studying the mechanical and economic feasibility of wood-fired, Research Corporation Award electrical-generating systems. Using a grant from island resident, T. Roland Slingluff, to support their research, Roc Caivano and Harris Hyman, the only architect and they are looking into a 100 kilowatt system which would engineer team not affiliated with a large professional firm, provide electricity for three homes. If this project gets past received a commission from the American Institute of the theoretical stage, a five kilowatt prototype will be Architects Research Corporation to create a passive solar built. Their emphasis has been placed upon using a energy house which would be feasible in northern states. reciprocating steam engine as the power plant, thus Their design was one of 20 commissioned by the A.I.A. bringing the Industrial Revolution's technology into a Research Corp. under a grant jointly funded by the modern day context. Co-generation, or the use of waste Department of Energy and the Department of Housing heat for home heating, is also being considered. Although and Urban Development. In order to develop new the concept of wood fired, power generation is not new, standards for heating efficiency for residential housing, this project is unique because of its scope. It involves HUD and DOE required that the houses be as energy studies of wood energy, steam thermodynamics and efficient as possible, require no sophisticated technology electrical engineering. and cost no more than a comparable conventional house. Hyman and Caivano were given the Binghamton, New York area which, of all the areas in the study, receives the least amount of sunlight. Their plan for an 1,800 square foot, three-bedroom house with a garage and partial basement relies on a southern exposure and a large thermal mass heat storage capacity. It has a projected price of $56,000.00, the second to the least expensive of the twenty designs. Because of the lack of sunlight in the Binghamton area, the house would require some supplemental heat-approximately the amount of heat supplied by 1/2 to 3/4 of a cord of dry hardwood. Because the house has such a dense structure, a 15 to 18 day heat-storage capacity, it would be a zero energy house in Bar Harbor. Woodheat Workshops Like a phoenix, the new Solar Greenhouse is rising to meet the sun The part of the on going camnus and wood supply entitled, A GUIDE TO WOOD HEAT FOR MAINE PEOPLE, was prepared and offered free of Winter Film Series charge to all persons who attended the workshops. Information on wood supply, harvesting wood, 8:00 p.m. - COA Auditorium - Admission $1.50 woodburning safety, stove types and efficiencies, home design and stove location, and the woodsupply business January 6 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - 1940, black and was presented at each workshop by experts in the various white. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard with Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Maureen fields. The workshops, funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, were O'Sullivan, Mary Boland, and Ann Ruther- presented as a public service to Maine residents as an ford. An excerpted film version of Jane alternative to the rising costs of fossil fuels and an effort to Austin's novel portraying the romance of increase the safety factors of woodheat. Two follow-up Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy. It also workshops on woodlot management are currently being depicts the emergence of a strong middle- class and the conflicts which existed between planned for the spring. it and the upper strata of English society. January 13 THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Fairbanks version) Fairbanks produced the film which is one of Urbiculture Comes to COA the few screen attempts at pure fancy and utilizes elaborate sets that stagger the The student-generated Urban Studies Seminar grew out of imagination. The nimble thief portrayed by the feeling that the study of human ecology is incomplete Fairbanks travels to the Citadel of the Moon without an investigation of large metropolitan areas and by way of the Defile of the Mountains of Dread their related problems. Creating the course around this Adventure, the Cavern of Enchanted Trees, need, students and advising faculty chose four areas of the Valley of Fire, the Valley of the Monsters, concentration: Urban History, Urban Planning and and the Midnight Sea. There he claims the Design, The Urban Crisis (finance, housing, crime and cloak of invisibility and the magic chest which unemployement), and Urban Politics and Community help him win the Sultan's daughter. Action. January 20 SINGING IN THE RAIN - 1952, color. Various experts on urban policy including Dr. John Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Petersen of the Municipal Finance Officers Association, Stars Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Dr. Lewis Siegel, Economist with the Bureau of Labor Reynolds and Jean Hagen. A fun-filled, Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, and Daniel charming musical which combined nostalgia Chodorkoff, faculty member at Goddard College and and sentiment. It is a gentle spoof on the advisor to the East 11th Street Project in New York, were styles and manners of the late 20's. brought to the college to express their views on the present status and future prospects of cities. January 27 GRAND ILLUSION - 1937, black and white. Directed by Jean Renoir, with Jean Gabin, Students participating in the Urban Studies Seminar are Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim and hoping that this course will generate enough interest Marcel Dalio. A film developed from a series within the community to lead to an Urban Center for of adventures of a soldier in a prison camp. College of the Atlantic. Moving toward this goal, a The film illustrates the baroque qualities of one-term workshop is being planned in an urban area. ordinary life. Good News and Honors Comparative Physiology ROC CAIVANO is currently exhibiting architectural Under the direction of Sentiel Rommel, the Comparative drawings at the LaMont Gallery at Phillips Exeter School Physiology students at COA are undergoing a unique in Exeter, N.H. The exhibit, entitled, "New Visions in learning experience. The laboratory emphasis is on human Architecture in New England," was organized by Nick physiology with each student's own body acting as the Dawson. prime experimental animal. Students are measuring their metabolic rates, keeping records on body temperatures, MARCIA DWORAK received a high commendation on her studying their sensory systems, measuring activity and Masters Thesis, "Illinois Public Library Administrators: A rest times, and taking a look at their bio-rhythms. This Training Needs Assessment." Her thesis will be information is collected and compared with other animals published by the Center for the Study of Middle-Sized Cities, Sagamon State University, Springfield, Illinois. -notably a sheep, a dog, and an owl. Emphasizing noninvasive biology in that no animal is sacrificed for BILL CARPENTER was awarded the Henry Dumas Prize experimental purposes, Rommel hopes to give each for the best poem of 1977. He received his prize at a student an excellent working knowledge of how his own meeting in August, 1978. The contest was sponsored by body functions while offering the opportunity to explore the Hiram Poetry Review. other species. Rommel's students are asking for more projects, proof of the success of this unique course. WILLIAM DRURY was invited to give a paper at the 100th Anniversary of the Linnaean Society of New York, American Museum of Natural History. His paper, "Coastal Surveys in the Northeast and Northwest," was part of the Colonial Waterbird Group's presentation. Library Open House At a Library Open House on Tuesday, November 14, the college's new librarian, Marcia Dworak, was introduced to area librarians and island residents. Mrs. R. Amory Thorndike, one of the library's strongest supporters, presided over the tea table. Guests were given tours of the library and had a chance to meet and talk with students. Marcia Dworak comes to COA from Sagamon State University in Springfield, Illinois, where she received a Masters Degree in Administration and was assistant professor of Library Instructional Services. She received On the lookout for Whales, Mount Desert Rock, Summer her B.A. in History and M.S. in Library Science at 1978. Photo by Greg Stone California State University in Fullerton, Ca. The library lists several new titles. Among these are: 1 Anthony Vall and Paul Rogers; THE POOR OF THE EARTH by John Cole; EMERGING METHODS IN With the cooperation of the U.S. Coast Guard, the Mount ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND PLANNING edited by Desert Rock Whale Watch successfully completed its 6th Gary T. Moore; WOMEN IN CRISIS: LIVES OF year. Since observations there are made from land, whales STRUGGLE AND HOPE by Robert Coles and Jane can be observed without the possible disruptive effects of Hallowell Coles; and CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING boats. For this reason, "The Rock" supplies valuable data by Sherman E. Lee. College of the Atlantic's Library hours on the natural behavior of whales and has been an are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. excellent training lab for whale observers. A final report on the past year's work on Mount Desert Rock is being compiled by Greg Stone. Steven Katona is principal investigator under a subcontract awarded to COA by the Bureau of Land Management. The prime contractor, the University of Rhode Island, is conducting a census of whales and sea turtles along the east coast from North Carolina to Nova Scotia. COA personnel will concentrate their efforts in the Gulf of Maine. Assisting in this study will be Ben Baxter, Judy Beard and Greg Stone. The October 7 whale/seabird trip sponsored by Allied Whale was a great success. One of the rarest whales in the North Atlantic, a Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis), was observed along with finback and minke whales and a great variety of birds including Fulmars, Gannets, Shearwaters, a Skua, and a Parasitic Jaeger. Future trips are scheduled for May 6, 12, 13, 19 and 20 aboard M/V Viking Queen out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Reservations can be made by sending a check ($20.00 for adults; $15.00 for children under 12) to Allied Whale, Whale/Seabird Trips, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609. Confirmed reservations and instructions will be sent by return mail. A proposal is now being prepared to develop a research project to investigate whether hand-reared, abandoned harbor seal pups can be reintroduced to the wild population after weaning. If permits and funding are obtained, this work will be carried out during spring and Enjoying a cup of tea at College of the Atlantic's Library summer, 1979. Open House are, from left to right, Mrs. R. Amory Thorndike, Mrs. Thomas Roderick and Marcia Dworak, College of the Atlantic Librarian. Photo by Paul Beltramini