June 1977 Nonprofit Organiz. College of the Atlantic U.S. Postage Paid Bar Harbor, Me. Permit #47 Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 COA NEWS » Ф - Commencement 1977 The class of 1977 at College of the Atlantic hosted its provided by "Frenchman's Bay." Commencement Celebration Saturday, June 4, sharing with In the main address, Samuel Eliot, Vice-president and the large gathering many of their images and impressions of the Senior Advisor, spoke of Human Ecology as "Closely connected college they helped create, Mount Desert Island which has been to sharing and teaching." He suggested that Human Ecologists, their home, and of their common concern, Human Ecology. as Shakespeare's Prospero in The Tempest, learn to remake The fifteen graduates began the celebration by entering their world through understanding and acceptance of all its St. Saviour's Church to the sounds of jigs and reels, provided contradictory aspects. by Jeff Baker and Carol Manahan on fiddle, Alexandra Brown, Fifteen degrees in Human Ecology were conferred by Hugh MacArthur and Samuel Eliot on autoharp, and Fran Edward Kaelber, President, and John Dreier, Chairman of the Pollitt and Sarah Hinckley on recorder. Board of Trustees, and graduate Scott Kraus announced that David Winship read from Walt Whitman's "Song of the the class of 1977 would award COA's first honorary degree in Rolling Earth," and spoke of "The Earth (as) our greatest ally." Human Ecology, to founding trustee The Rev. James A. And Fran Pollitt described COA as "A place where people are Gower. acting on their dreams." A "Celebration Song," reception at the college, and an Images of life on Mount Desert Island were offered by evening dance at Jordan Pond House rounded out the Fifth Susan Priest in a reading of her poetry, and more music was Commencement Celebration. Graduates A number of seniors will be going directly to work following commencement. Scott Kraus will for the-second summer offer whale sighting cruises out of Northeast Harbor. He will be running three cruises per week. Alexandra Brown will head to Labrador, Quebec, where she will be working in small communities for the Quebec-Labrador Foundation, Inc. Sarah Hinckley will return to Alaska to study whales with Charles Jurasz. Rick Waters will be working with Joel White at his boatbuilding shop in Brooklin, Maine. John Biderman will be joining the annual Drury expedition to Alaska for continued bird studies during the summer. Jeff Baker has been hired as assistant director of the President Edward Kaelber, one of eight guests during the Washington-Hancock Community Agency, which is based in spring term speakers series at COA, presented a slide program Machias, Maine. and talk on Nigeria, where he lived for two years, working on Fran Pollitt is working for the Massachusetts Audubon an education-development program. Society on membership and fundraising from their Lincoln office. And Hugh MacArthur will be based in Augusta, Maine, position with Maine Reach, an educational institution for high working on development of a recreation and conservation plan school and college age students. Maine Reach is headquartered for the major islands off the coast of Maine for the Bureau of in Wiscasset, Maine, but Craig will be traveling statewide, Parks and Recreation. coordinating study programs and leading wilderness trips. Kate Darling is now living in College, Alaska, working for a Alumni Update Headstart center. She has applied to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, for graduate studies in education. Several COA alumni, have recently sent news of their latest John March, freelance writer based in Nordlund, Washing- locations and endeavors. ton, has had an article on the Lobo Wolf and the E.H. McCleery Sally Morong, who worked for the Maine State Planning Lobo Wolf Foundation accepted by Audubon magazine. Office in Augusta since graduation in 1976, has been hired by Christine Ridenour, 1975 graduate of COA, is now working the Washington County Regional Planning Commission, offices in Cambridge, Mass. for a company which conducts internation- in Machias, Maine. al cost-of living analyses. After a winter's work with Headwaters in Canada, Craig And Cathy Johnson, '74, has remained in Nepal and is Kesselheim has headed to Alaska to assist COA faculty member working for a private trekking company out of Kathmandu, Bill Drury in bird studies, and in the fall Craig will return to a after several years work in Nepal for the Peace Corps. Seabrook Action term 1977. And student David Winship, who organized the Bar Harbor Fifteen COA students expressed their anti-nuclear concerns by participants in the Seabrook occupation, brought anti-nuclear participating in the non-violent occupation of the Seabrook, power information, such as the film, "Lovejoy's Nuclear War," N.H. proposed nuclear power plant site Saturday, April 30. to the college prior to the Seabrook demonstration. The students were among the 1400 arrested for criminal trespass and held in New Hampshire armory/jails, some for as long as 12 days. Briefly Several of the COA students were among those who paid The COA Board of Trustees annual meeting is scheduled for bail, were released and now await a District Court hearing. Monday, July 11 at the college. Others were part of the mass "not guilty" plea and mass hearing. Their case has been appealed to Superior Court; they The 200 passengers aboard the May 21 Whale and Seabird were released on personal recognizance. One COA student, Cruise, sponsored by COA out of Portsmouth, N.H., were Marilyn Downs, chose to stand trial individually. She was treated to a full day of sightings of numerous whales and a released on personal recognizance with the others and awaits variety of seabirds. trial in District Court. Marilyn is now organizer of a Maine coalition for the The next scheduled COA Whale and Seabird Cruise is to be Clamshell Alliance, which is the New England-wide organiza- October 22, again from Portsmouth, N.H. to Jeffries Ledge. tion which planned the Seabrook occupation. Marilyn coordin- ated a June 12 meeting of anti-nuclear power activists from Loie Hayes, reading poetry, and Robin Casey, singing and around the state of Maine to plan future courses of action. playing guitar, were participants in the Hancock Women's The Seabrook anti-nuclear action was only the most recent Festival held in Ellsworth May 20 and 21. The Festival, action by COA students in regards to nuclear power. Two years attended by about eight COA women, was part of the National ago, students Tim Milne and Norman Sibley researched nuclear Women's Year activities. power and prepared an educational slide program on the issue. This slide show has been made available for presentation to Richard Davis, COA faculty member in philosophy, has organizations and in schools. recently been elected Chairman of the Maine Council for the Some students have been active in the local chapter of Safe Humanities and Public Policy, the state agency for the National Power for Maine, an anti-nuclear group which organized in 1974 Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). when a power plant was proposed for Sears Island. As part of an alternative energy workshop at COA in Davis also recently completed participation in a national 1974-75, Dave Wersan did extensive research into nuclear research and planning grant from NEH to determine the role of power, both light-water and breeder reactors. This information self-imagery in various phases of Maine life, and the feasibility was used as resource material by the participants in the of media approaches to solutions of the problems. Elmer Beal, Seabrook action. COA faculty member in anthropology, served as a special The topic of nuclear power was recently discussed from the consultant to the research team, which included six humanities point of view of an economist, COA faculty member Stephen scholars and the management of the Maine Public Broadcasting Andersen, in one of a series of faculty seminars during spring Network. Las Aboard Beluga, Carl Ketchum, center, explains the use of a Summer Work bathythermograph, which was used by members of his oceanography class to measure temperatures vs. depth in COA students may be found anywhere from Maine to Somes Sound. Washington serving internships, beginning senior projects and tackling temporary jobs in many different fields this summer. Jim Shamberg will be doing soil investigation and mapping Beluga Broken In for Ralph S. Baker, licensed Site Evaluator, in Blue Hill, Maine. Garrett Conover will be in Vermont working as leader of the ------ :- L. MAE 27 fact labotem Leng Trail Detrol for the Creen Meuntain Club Deiuyu, good biology interning and the oceanography class. Docked in Southwest Harbor, the and promoter for Clivus Multrum, Inc. in Cambridge. On Little boat has several times already taken college crews up Somes Cumberland Island, Georgia, Cathy Ramsdell will be a research Sound or out in Frenchman Bay for various sightings or assistant studying loggerhead turtles. And in North Carolina, testings. Ann Fitt will work to help establish a new museum. The boat, given to the college last year, will be used Rick Moss is to be a counselor and tripleader for the Emma extensively during the summer by the Marine Mammal class, Kaufman Camp, run by the Pittsburgh Jewish Community instructed by Steven Katona, and also by participants in the Center in Pennsylvania. And Keith Farrar will be in Gardener, Mount Desert Rock Whale Sighting Station. Washington, doing research and caretaking of wolves for the E. H. McCleery Lobo Wolf Foundation, Inc. Land-Use Workshop Joan Feeley's internship this summer will be as research assistant for COA faculty member Stephen Anderson, Students in a Land-Use Workshop spent a winter term investigating the potential for a small business marketing studying the COA campus - its present state and what it might association (described elsewhere in COA News). Joan will be be like in the future, and have spent spring term implementing joined in this work by Andy Lepcio, who will also be working various recommendations. for the Wild Gardens of Acadia. Short and long-range goals were first established, including Tree Tauras will intern as an agricultural assistant at Green restoration of damaged trees and shrubs, creation of a college Power Farm which is affiliated with the Weston Youth kitchen garden, design of a root cellar for food storage and Commission in Weston, Mass. Ferris Tilley is headed to London plans for a nature path connecting different areas of the to intern with the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain. campus, from Sea Fox (student residence) to the north end of Several students will be serving second or continuing intern- campus. ships this summer, including Loie Hayes, who will be a crew Work done spring term includes expansion of the college leader and counselor for the Youth Conservation Corps at gardens, creation of a rose and autumn olive hedge along Route Mount Katahdin, Maine; Jackson Gillman will be a forest and 3, initial work on the nature path and grooming of trees and farm project assistant at Merck Forest, Vermont, for the shrubs. The root cellar, constructed under the student shop, is Student Conservation Association; and Lolly Cochran will be a nearing completion and will store the fall harvest from the watch officer for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School. college kitchen garden. At least one other student will be at sea. Nan Moyer has found summer employment as galley assistant on the Victory New Faces Chimes, a three-masted charter schooner operating out of Camden, Maine. COA will welcome two new full-time faculty members fall term. Tripp Royce will be building a solar heated green house for Susan Mehrtens, Ph.D., is coming from Queens College, New Sam and Mary K. Eliot this summer and also continuing efforts York, where she has taught a wide-variety of history courses to develop tools for alternative energy studies at COA. He since 1971. She is the co-author of Earthkeeping: Readings in plans to work on COA's wind mill and research funding for Human Ecology. increased workshop facilities. Judith Blank, Ph.D., has taught for three years at College of A senior project will take Gene Lesser to Little Duck Island, the Holy Cross, Massachusetts. Her specialization in the field of where he will do bird population census, vegetation and wildlife anthropology has been the ethnography of traditional folk arts inventory, monitoring of human visitation, and assessment of and crafts, including dance, drama, folk song and folklore in the island's potential as an educational resource. This work is different cultures. being done for the National Audubon Society. COA Visitor Center A spring term COA workshop with seven participants has planned a Visitor Center to open at the college this summer. SUMMER The workshop was formed to find means of sharing with the public information on work being done at the college. Six exhibits have been planned for the Visitor Center, which will use the COA main building and the new student shop. Sally Swisher is preparing photographs and other display materials on endangered and extinct species. Alison Minor's contribution will be a photographic exhibit on World Cultures. FORUM Nina Zabinski is working on two areas: organic gardening, including information on "Natural enemies for biological control," and also an exhibit on the human body as an environ- ment, "a home for billions of micro-organisms, many of which July 6 "MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, GEO- aid in making food usable by the body and which protect one GRAPHIC AND POETIC CENTER," from infections." by Richard Grossinger, anthropolo- Information on the college as an institution of higher education is being prepared by Mary K. Eliot. Jonathan gist, author, "Cranberry Islands." Turnbaugh is preparing a presentation of work done at the college in the field of alternative energy. And a display on July 13 -- "SONGS OF THE LUMBERWOODS," environmental pollution is being prepared by Michael Prior. a program by Maine folkhistorian Summer Session and folklorist Sandy Ives. The 1977 Summer Session at the college got underway June 13 July 20 -- "THE GREEKS' WORD FOR IT: when members of Richard and Norah Davis' "Why Wilder- EUTHANASIA - A GOOD DEATH," ness?" class packed up their gear and headed to the woods for some wilderness living as well as philosophical consideration of by A-J Rock Levinson, executive the wilderness. director of the Euthanasia Educa- Three other classes will begin July 5: "Poetry Workshop" tion Council, New York. with Joel Oppenheimer, "Flora of the Maine Coast" with Fred Olday, and "Marine Mammals" with Steven Katona. The final class of the session is William and Joanne Carpenter's "Maine July 27 "LANDSCAPE IN SCIENCE & ART," Coast History and Architecture," which will begin August 1. illustrated and discussed by Some 30 students are participating in the summer session, biologist/naturalist Thomas Hall. with some students enrolled in more than one of the five classes offered. Aug. 3 -- "THE LOCH NESS MONSTER," will "Rock" Sighting Station be discussed by Charles W. Wyckoff, photographic scientist The Mount Desert Rock Whale Sighting Station will begin its be coordinator of this year's sighting efforts from the Rock, an Ness expedition. island 25 miles off Mount Desert Island. Volunteers are still needed to man week long shifts on the Aug. 10 -- "AN ENERGY POLICY FOR MAINE," island. (Male volunteers only; Coast Guard regulations.) Transportation to the Rock will this year be provided by the by Robert A. G. Monks, first college's new boat, Beluga. No particular knowledge of whales Director of the Maine Office of is necessary, though photographic experience is helpful. Energy Resources. Interested persons may contact Greg Stone at COA. Maine Coast Trails Aug. 17 -- "FEMINIST VISION, THEORY & WORK," by Charlotte Bunch, editor, Local potential and needs for a marketing association will be "Quest: A Feminist Quarterly," and researched this summer by two COA students and one COA fellow, Institute for Policy Studies. faculty member, in a project entitled Maine Coast Trails, sponsored by Stephen Anderson, COA faculty member in economics, and by Coastal Resource Center, Bar Harbor. Aug. 24 -- "ROUNDING OUT THE GOOD LIFE," The purpose of such an association would be to provide a by Scott and Helen Nearing, au- market and promotion for local craftsmen, farmers and thors of "Living the Good Life." fishermen. This summer's work, by Joan Feeley, Andy Lepcio and Andersen, will include an inventory of resources, an Aug. 31 -- "ETHIC FOR A SMALL PLANET," assessment of need and potential for such an association, and by Elizabeth Dodson Gray, author, establishment of membership criteria. "Growth and Its Implications for Coastal Resource Center, was founded in December 1974 with cooperation from COA, as a non-profit institution which the Future," co-director, The provides local research and technical assistance in the field of Bolton Institute. resource development. COA Auditorium * 8 p.m. * Free Admission Problem Solving A new booklet, entitled Problem Solving, educational tool and goal, has recently been published by COA's admission and internship offices. Gallery The 16-page booklet includes profiles of seven COA students, illustrating "the variety of interest areas that are currently Selections from "Maine Forms of Architecture," an exhibit on being approached from the perspective of human ecologists at loan from Colby College and the Maine State Commission on the College of the Atlantic." Arts and Humanities, will be on display in COA's Gallery Persons interested in reading about this college's "problem through July. The exhibit includes photographs and dioramas solving approach" to education may write to the Admissions and covers architectural forms from early Indian shelters to Office, requesting a copy of Problem Solving. modern designs.