March 1977 Nonprofit Organiz. College of the Atlantic U.S. Postage Paid Bar Harbor, Me. Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Permit #47 COA NEWS » Ф » Energy Workshop Foundation Supports Students COA's Energy Conservation Workshop, a group of seven students A two-year grant of $40,000 has been awarded to COA by the and faculty member Roc Caivano, sponsored a public energy Board of Directors of The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, New workshop at the college March 5. York. The Foundation's funds will be used directly for student aid in the academic years 1977/78 and 1978/79. Speakers for the day included Richard Hill from University of The recent award marks seven years of support of COA by The Maine at Orono, Gary Dawbin of the Office of Energy Resources, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation. During the 1976/77 academic Dr. Joel Sprowles of Bates College, and COA's Roc Caivano. year, 25 COA students received support under The Noyes About 75 persons came for the day-long workshop, which Foundation grant. included discussions of weatherization and retrofitting, home heating (oil, wood, solar) and energy in the future. Association of American Colleges Faculty Associates Named Samuel and Mary Kay Eliot, COA vice-president and assistant to the president, attended the Association of American Colleges David Westphal, cinematographer, and Theodore Dunham, Jr., annual meeting in New Orleans in early February. astronomer and physicist, have been appointed Associate Members of the COA faculty. During the two-day session they attended panel discussions and lectures on such topics as "New Directions for Graduate Westphal, of Cranberry Isles, is interested in working on many Education," "Exploring the Dynamics of Change," "Teaching for stages of filmmaking with COA faculty and students. He is a Competence in Problem-Setting and Problem-Solving," and member of the University Film Associaton, and was a professor of "Society's Expectations of Higher Education." film at Brandeis University from 1967 to 1973. Dunham, of Chocurua, N.H., conducts research in spectroscopy at Harvard College Observatory and is scientific director of the New Faces Fund for Astrophysical Research, Inc. New York. Marianne Monteux, flutist with the Rameau Quartet and co-instructor of The Flute Study (with her husband, Claude Position Open Monteux, in Lamoine) will be a visiting faculty member spring term. She will establish a madrigal group and mixed chorus. COA's Admissions Office is seeking a COA alumnus to fill a Steven Andersen will join COA as a full-time faculty member six-month, full-time position as an admissions assistant. spring term. Andersen, who was a visiting faculty member winter The position will run from Aug. 1, 1977 through Jan. 31, 1978. term 1976, will offer Environmental Economics and Economics of The work will involve admissions work at COA, as well as travel Land-Use Planning spring term. for recruitment of students. Sentiel Rommel, professor of engineering and zoology at Any interested alumnus should contact Gail Stuart, Admissions, University of Maine at Orono, will lead an engineering study group College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor 04609. at COA spring term. (continued) Seniors' Final Projects Donald Brown, retired professor in anthropology, Boston University, will be a visiting faculty member spring term, offering Recently approved final projects by seniors include work in the two courses, Old World Archeology, and Cultural Ecology. areas of marine studies, education, cooperatives and myths. Jeff Baker's final project is on the coop system of Hancock and Washington Counties. He has been involved in work with food Internships cooperatives for the past five years. Marilyn Downs, who has worked with The Cranberry School Two students will begin internships spring term. since it evolved from a Learning Environments Workshop last Nan Moyer, a first-year student from Massachusetts, is to intern year, is going to write and illustrate a children's book, based on the as a legislative assistant to Lawrence "Skip" Greenlaw, folklore and oral history of MDI. D-Stonington, Maine. She will be working on marine-related Scott Kraus, a five-year member of Allied Whale, is compiling a legislation, such as oil conveyance laws, aquaculture site permits, catalogue of photographs of humpback whales. "The Effects of and clam ordinances. The internship is sponsored and financed by Visitor Use on Ocean Drive" are being studied by Hugh Coastal Resource Center. MacArthur. Sue Priest is doing her final project on "Myth and Susan Saxton, from Connecticut, is to work as a teacher and Human Ecology." counselor for the Maine Conservation School at Bryant Pond. Karen Roy Waters' final project is on site selection for Kevin Timoney finished an internship in March as a research aquaculture. Rick Waters is writing on marine research at COA. assistant for the Center for Energy and Environment Research in And David Winship is compiling a study of competency-based Puerto Rico. He was investigating the ecology of reservoirs as part education. of a Hydroelectric Reservoir Project. Tarn Studied Pottery Studio Final touches were added last week to the products of the A Trout Habitat Assessment of the Tarn has been completed by night-class pottery students. COA student Nina Zabinski, under supervision of faculty member COA's pottery studio, with complete facilities for making Fred Olday. The study was cosponsored by COA and Acadia stoneware pottery, is made available to the MDI community each National Park, within which borders the Tarn is located. term through a 10-week pottery course. Ten students were The Tarn, a shallow pond bordered by Route 3 on the east and enrolled in the winter class, including one MDI High School junior Dorr Mountain on the west, is known by many residents of Mount who received credit toward graduation. Desert Island for its abundance of water lilies in the summer. The facilities at COA include a clay mixer, 10 potter's wheels, a Zabinski studied conditions in the Tarn which would limit trout glaze room, and 50 cu. ft. gas-fired kiln. Students are instructed in life. Her study determined that, "Very radical changes would have handbuilding, throwing on a wheel, glazing, and kiln firing. to be made in the Tarn to develop a trout fishery. While the introduction of warm-water game fish such as bass might be Carole Beal taught the winter term course and Marilyn possible, it would not be desirable to encourage more fishing in McMullen will be teaching the spring term course, which is to such a small, accessible area." begin the week of March 28. Canoe Season Off The Wall As the snow melts, skis are set aside and talk turns to spring A new communications forum has been established at COA by activities, which at COA often means canoeing. students Andy Lepcio and David Winship. Off the Wall, which first COA owns five canoes, available for use by any member of the appeared February 4, has become a weekly sheet of news and COA community. The canoes have been obtained over the past two views. Editorial contributions may be made by anyone in the COA years by gift and purchase. community, and copies of the mimeographed paper are distributed The first canoes purchased, two 17' river canoes, were put to to everyone. immediate use during Outdoor Orientation 1975, a trip down the Off the Wall has published discussions of COA's development, St. Croix River and Grand Lake Chain, led by faculty member Dan thoughts on feminism, a report on the dining service, a questioning Kane. A 17' aluminum canoe with lake keel was later added to the of the role and/or limits of vivisection, students' poetry, comments collection as gift of Norah and Dick Davis. on nuclear energy and recipes from "America's finest college kitchen!" Two 20" fiberglass river canoes, hand-made by Lorenzo Creamer and staff at the Golden Anchor Inn, Bar Harbor, were broken in during last spring's course, "Whitehead and White- Briefly water," which included a series of weekend canoe trips in Hancock and Washington Counties, led by Dan and Marion Kane and Dick COA's solar home community was covered in an article by Norah and Norah Davis. One of the two canoes was purchased from Deakin Davis, published in Maine Times December 17, 1976. Creamer and the second was a gift from COA Trustee Leslie Reprints of the article are available from COA now, while a new Brewer. COA whitewater enthusiasts thank Creamer and his staff, "Solar Homes" brochure is being published by COA. The brochure, and Brewer for the assistance in successful canoeing last season, with photographs, drawings and data on all three Bar Harbor solar and seasons yet to come. homes, should be available in May. Alumnus John March is fund raising for The Dr. E. H. McCleery Summer Studies Lobo Wolf Foundation in Gardener, Washington. The Foundation directs a 30-acre preserve, where the only remaining Great Plains, Applications for COA's Summer Studies on the Maine Coast are or buffalo wolves, are bred and maintained. coming in every day. Instructors' course descriptions, in more detail than the brief The Environmental Conditions and Trends chapter of the Annual description given on the poster, are now available for the six Report of the President's Council on Environmental Quality will courses offered: highlight and/or discuss results of the seabird studies of William Why Wilderness?, Mushroom Identification, Poetry Workshop, Drury, COA faculty member. Marine Mammals, Flora of the Maine Coast, and Maine Coast History and Architecture. (Tuition, $330. per course, plus Competency-based education will be the focus of a conference the field-work fees.) last week of March in St. Louis. Samuel Eliot, Richard Davis and Interested persons are reminded that the deadline for David Winship plan to attend the conference, which is sponsored application is April 1. by Change magazine. moreover Art On The Walls The halls and offices of COA have been brightened during winter term by many colorful silkscreen designs and woodcut prints, products of visiting faculty member Polly Cote's class members and workshop participants. In addition to the twice-weekly meetings of the 12 class members, Polly has organized several week-end workshops and afternoon "painting parties" to allow any and all members of the COA community to try their hands with paints and inks, chisels and screens. Spring Speakers Series April 7-George Demas, theater instructor at MDI High School, will speak on "Producing a One-Act Play Festival". April 14-Edward Kaelber, COA president, will show slides and speak on Nigeria, where he worked in education in 1968- 69. April 21-The Rev. Robert Bryan, Founder and Executive Dir- ector, The Quebec-Labrador Foundation, Inc., a non- profit, educational foundation working for people in iso- lated communities in northeastern Canada and northern Maine. April 28-Hardy Vogtman, Swiss organic gardener, guest of Eliot Coleman, on a tour of U.S. colleges. May 5-Tony Leeds, professor of anthropology, Boston Univer- sity. Will present, "Visualand Aural Experience, Ambi- guity and Anthropological Epistemology: a photographic and taped essay." May 12-Wm. J.J. Gordon, author of Synectics, "The Development of Creative Capacity." President of The Invention Re- search Group, Cambridge, and lecturer at Harvard Uni- versity. May 19-Shru de Li Ownbey, harpist, will play, discuss and demon- strate the art of the harp. All speakers programs are held at 7:30 p.m. Inter-Institutional Seminar The MDI Inter-Institutional Seminar, a series of weekly informal Laboratory, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, and COA Whale and Seabird Cruises will resume with a spring cruise College of the Atlantic. from Portsmouth, N.H. Saturday, May 21. The day-trip to Jeffries Ledge will be aboard the M.V. Viking Queen, leaving Portsmouth The lectures, held Wednesdays at 4 p.m. at COA, began March Harbor at 8:30 a.m. By Reservation only; fee $15. Reservations 2, with COA faculty member Steven Katona speaking on whale may be made by sending payment to Whale and Seabird Cruises, research at COA. E. Leiter, Jackson Laboratory, gave a program on underwater photography on March 9. College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609. Proceeds from the cruises go toward whale research at COA. March 16-L.C. Skow, "Cage culture fish in a power plant cooling reservoir." The Marine Mammal Commission has granted a $2800 research March 23-B. Schmidt-Nielsen, "Cell-volume regulation." grant to COA for compilation of a catalogue of photographs of March 30-J. Eveloff, "Transport into flounder kidney brush humpback whales from the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, including border vesicles." whales in the waters of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, the Gulf of April 6-I. Ramirez, "Obesity." Maine, and the Caribbean. April 13-J. Womack, "Comparative gene mapping." COA student Scott Kraus has begun compilation of more than 126 identifiable photographs of whale flukes. Humpback whales can be identified individually by variations in the color pattern or Film Series disposition of scars and scratches. Comparison of these photographs will help reveal the migration paths of individual whales and will also allow for modified estimates of population Sunday, April 3 --Macbeth, directed and produced by Orson sizes, according to the grant proposal. Wells; stars Wells and Roddy McDowall. Sunday, April 17 --The Pharmacist, and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, a W. C. Fields double-feature. COA faculty members Steven Katona and Susan Lerner were guide and cruise director on a week-long whale watching cruise Sunday, April 24 -Cries and Whispers, directed by Ingmar along the Pacific coast of Baja, California and coastal islands in Bergman; stars Liv Ullman and Harriet Anderson. January. Sunday, May 1 -- Hiroshima Mon Amour, directed by Alain Resnais. Student Steve Savage will be going to Point Barrow, Alaska spring term to conduct a census of beluga and bowhead whales for Sunday, May 8 -- The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorva. the National Marine Fisheries Department. Savage's whale studies will constitute his COA final project. Sunday, May 15 -- The Nightcomers, directed by Joesph E. Levine; stars Marlon Brando and Stephanie Alumnus Sydney Rathbun will be aboard a Polish research Beacham. vessel in Cape Cod Bay, Jeffries Ledge and the Bay of Fundy from Sunday, May 22 -- Forbidden Planet, sci-fi, stars Walter Pidgeon, March 9 to 20, participating in an observer program supported by Leslie Nielson, Ann Francis. the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Sunday, May 29 -- The Romantic Englishwoman, directed by She will be observing whales and seabirds. Others aboard, Joseph Losey; stars Glenda Jackson, Michael including scientists from Woods Hole, will be conducting herring Caine, Helmut Berger. research, under an international cooperative studies program. All films to be shown Sundays at 8 p.m. in the COA auditorium. Silkscreen by Lisa Damtoft. Concert Set for April 16 Gallery The final concert in a series of four co-sponsored this winter by the April-Environments in clay, cloth and plastic by Gina Halpern, MDI Community Arts Committee and COA is scheduled for Stonington. Saturday, April 16 at St. Saviour's Church, Bar Harbor. This concert features Matthew Raimondi, violin, and Seymour May-"Maine Forms of Architecture", on loan from Colby College, Bernstein, piano. Raimondi is a member of The Composer's in collaboration with The Maine State Commission on the Quartet, which performs at the Neighborhood House, Northeast Arts and Humanities. Includes dioramas, photographs, and Harbor, in the summer. Bernstein has been a guest artist for the paintings of Maine's key buildings and architectural styles Northeast Harbor concerts. from the 17th through 20th century. The April 16 concert is to begin at 8 p.m. Suggested donations, June-COA students' work from classes and workshops during adults $3.00, students and senior citizens $1.50. 1976-77 academic year. This concert is supported by a grant from the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities. The COA gallery is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.