December 1977 College of the Atlantic Nonprofit Organiz. U.S. Postage Paid Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Bar Harbor, Me. Permit #47 COA News Island Resources Anne Kozak of Bar Harbor will be the winter term instructor for COA's ongoing writing seminar. Kozak has taught English COA faculty and students joined Mount Desert Island teachers at St. John Fisher College, Indiana University and Lansing and representatives of other island institutions for a Community College. "Community Resources Workshop" Friday, October 7. And Peter Roy, Ellsworth attorney and partner in Markos The workshop, sponsored by School Union #98, was an and Roy, a graduate of the University of Maine Law School, opportunity for island educators - primary, secondary, and introduce COA students to "Legal Entanglements in Everyday college - to discover what "human resources" are available in Life". their own backyard, Mount Desert Island. Abouth ten faculty members, ten students and two staff members from COA participated in the workshop held at MDI Captain's License Course High School. They described work going on at COA such as A 14-week U.S. Coast Guard Captain's License Prep Course whale research, filmmaking, nuclear power studies, and will be offered by COA beginning February 4. organic agriculture. COA's public programs - speakers series, The course, to be taught by COA faculty member Susan gallery, and film series were also described for workshop Mehrtens, will meet for two hours each Saturday morning. participants. Topics to be reviewed include: rules of the road, safety, construction of vessels, weather for mariners, marine New Faces electronics, engine maintenance, signalling, piloting, plotting, and first-aid. COA welcomes six new faculty members winter term. Visiting Mehrtens is a U.S.C.G. Captain, holds a a Navigator's Rating faculty will offer courses in psychology, writing, weaving and in the U.S. Power Squadron, and has seven years experience. law, and permanent faculty have been appointed in engineering The course is open to the public at a fee of $50. Interested and contracting/building. persons should contact Mehrtens at COA by January 13. Doris Twitchell Allen, professor emeritus in psychology from the University of Cincinnati, will be teaching a course in psychodrama and offering several psychodrama workshops to Community Support the COA community. Doris Allen lives in Trenton, Maine. COA wishes to thank the Mount Desert Island businesspersons Harris Hyman, engineer and surveyor from Middlebury, who have recently made financial contributions to COA which Vermont, will offer a course winter term in major systems for will serve as matching funds in the College Accreditation residential buildings. Hyman has been an independent Awards Program of the C.I.T. Foundation, Inc. consultant for civil, structural and environmental engineering, Businesspersons who have thus far contributed matching computer programming, and land surveying. funds include: Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Co., Bar Harbor; Cabinet-making, furniture-making and fine carpentry will be Dr. Robert A. Beekman, Bar Harbor; Criterion Theatre, Bar taught by Jamie Johnston, self-employed cabinetmaker and Harbor; Don's Shop & Save, Bar Harbor; Echo Vista carpenter from East Blue Hill. Restaurant, Mt. Desert; Frank M. Graham & Co., Bar Harbor; Susan Nestel, self-employed handweaver and instructor from Mt. Desert Cleaners, Inc., Northeast Harbor; S.T. Tracy Shop, Longmeadow, Mass., will be offering a course in weaving Northeast Harbor; Lee S. Wilbur & Co., Manset; Dr. Gordon S. handskills and the textile world. Young, Bar Harbor. "Latina vivit" farms and commercial truck farms. Andersen, an agriculture and resource economist, is co-authoring a book on world food Susan Mehrten's interest in Latin flourished rather unexpect- problems. edly at COA this fall. Mehrtens, who joined COA as faculty Their combined interests created a course covering the U.S. member in history this fall, after six years of teaching at agricultural system, looking at marketing, support industries, Queens College, mentioned that anyone interested in an integrated pest management, production functions, labor informal Latin study group might see her. To her surprise, practices and problems, size efficiencies and energy use. eight students, more than the number of students in many COA The class's survey, which seeks to know more about classes, came to her with interest serious enough to warrant small-scale farming practices in the U.S., was sent to more than formation of a course for credit. 450 agricultural experimental stations, state cooperative Students are taking the course for a variety of reasons: to extension services, soil conservation departments, and farmers' help in the study and use of English grammar and vocabulary; organizations across the country. to use as a tool for work in fields such as sciences and law; to Lepcio will be using the results of the class's survey during read classical literature. her internship in the office of Rep. George Brown (D-Calif.), a The class is not attempting classical literature yet, but member of the agricultural sub-committee. She will intern Mehrtens hopes they may be by spring term. She dreams of winter term as a legislative assistant, focusing her efforts on having students at COA who have the skills and interest in the Family Farm Act, a proposal by Brown for governmental Latin which would allow them to assist in some of her research. support of family farms. She is working on a biography of a 15th century Dutch countess, whose letters, household notes and legal documents Off-Campus Projects are in Old French and Latin. For winter term, however, the Latin class at COA will Internships, independent studies and final projects lead many continue to work on vocabulary and grammer: laboro, laboras, students to work off-campus. Of the students involved in laborat. off-campus work during fall and winter terms, the majority have gone no further than the Hancock County area to find Farms Focus of Study experiences in their fields of interest. Lolly Cochran completed her final project work fall term with What do you think is the single most effective effort the seventh grade science and math classes at Pemetic School in government could make to encourage family farms? is a Southwest Harbor. She worked directly with Pemetic teacher question asked in a survey conducted by members of the Cindy Edwardson. Agricultural Economics course which was team-taught fall Tripp Royce and Mary Beth Deller, on an independent study term by faculty member Stephen Andersen and student Andy project with the Washington-Hancock Community Agency Lepcio. (WHCA), developed energy conservation curriculum packets Lepcio, a second-year student from Weston, Mass., was and presented them to high schools throughout the two administrator last year of a Land-Use Workshop at COA, she counties. managed the college gardens during the summer, and Also through the WHCA, a student yet to be chosen will be coordinated harvesting this fall. She has been a farm worker in organizing a Farmers Market in Hancock County. This project Massachusetts and New Hampshire on community project will involve inventorying producers, establishing needs, and identifying community garden sites. COA has recently been awarded two grants: one unrestricted Brookie Gallagher interned fall term in Blue Hill with Sky grant, and a grant for research of shore birds. Duffy, architect for Herrick Corporation. She will continue The North Atlantic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) designing and drafting work with Duffy during winter term. awarded a grant of $130,000, under the Outer Continental Shelf Whitney Massey did an independent study with Dr. Cornelia Environmental Assessment Program, for William Drury, COA Cameron, inventorying peat resources in Hancock and faculty member, to continue research of sea birds, water fowl Washington counties. and shore birds in the Bering Strait, Alaska during 1978. Wells Bacon spent fall term doing construction and The Booth Ferris Foundation, New York, granted COA alternative energy work on COA faculty member Ernest $50,000 for unrestricted use. McMullen's solar home. For a combined internship and senior project, Steve Allied Whale, COA's ongoing whale research group, will be Papazidis will be writing a novel winter term. represented by students Cathy Ramsdell, Kim Rudkin and Tim Milne will be interning as lay assistant for St. Saviour's Peter Cohen at the Second Conference on the Biology of Marine Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor under the Rev. Michael Mammals in San Diego December 12 to 15. The conference will Dugan. Milne will participate in many aspects of the lay be followed by a field trip to Mexican waters to sight whales ministry, particularly the youth ministry. and seals. Andy Lepcio will travel to Washington, D.C. for an internship as legislative assistant in the office of Rep. George Roc Caivano, COA faculty member in design, attended a Brown (D-Calif.). November meeting in Chicago of project directors under grants And Cheryl Norton will intern winter term with the Rhode from the Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education Island Department of Environmental Management, organizing (FIPSE). Caivano is directing the development of a model a conference for all environmental groups in the state. educational curriculum covering many elements of environ- mental design. COA is one of 200 institutions selected out of Briefly more than 2000 applicants for FIPSE support. Thomas Gates, Former U.S. Ambassador to China and Former Granby, Connecticut has a good idea! Money raised through the Secretary of Defense, has returned as a member of COA's town's recycling effort has been used to develop the Granby Board of Trustees. Gates served as a COA trustee from 1972 Environmental Scholarship, which was recently awarded to until 1976, when he resigned upon his appointment as COA student Leslie McConnell, of Granby. ambassador to China. The First Annual Islands Association Christmas fair was A double update on alumnus Bill Ginn ('74): The Board of held December 2 and 3 in Bar Harbor by the Islands Associa- Trustees of the Maine Audubon Society appointed Ginn the tion, the product of a COA and Coastal Resource Center survey new Director of the Society as of December 1. Ginn, a COA of local independent producers. The survey, conducted last Trustee, has been assistant director of the Falmouth-based summer by students Joan Feeley and Andy Lepcio, Audubon Society since 1974. And, on September 24, Bill and investigated the needs for marketing cooperation. A directory June LaCombe, former COA student, were married. June is of Islands producers and a summer fair are future projects Education Director of the Maine Audubon Society. being considered by the Association. Song and Dance The fall term efforts of COA dancers and musicians culminated in two performances for the college community at term's end. On the last day of classes before Thanksgiving, students of visiting artist Sally Lutyens' class and student Vicki Smith's dance group performed original music and dance. The chorus performance was repeated at the Thanksgiving feast, held Sunday, Nov. 27. Lutyens, former head of the music department at The Cambridge School and now a resident of Manset, taught a fall term course, "Language of Music," which focused on the composing process. Lutyens has composed an opera, based on Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil, which was performed last year in Boston and is to be performed this spring at Juilliard. As visiting artist at COA, Lutyens also directed a 20-member chorus. On Wednesday, Nov. 23, the chorus performed works ranging from a 15th century English song to a 20th century song by Virgil Thompson. Students of the composition course performed seven original pieces, including several rounds played on flute and piano. An original three-part round by student Tim Milne was performed by Milne on piano, Jim Frick on guitar, and Peter Stevick on flute, with an accompanying dance choreographed by Vicki Smith, danced by Smith, Joan Feeley and Justine Barclay. Fifteen people studied dance fall term with Vicki Smith. Smith, a first-year student, has nine years of dance experience, including two years with the Ram Island Dance Films You Have Not Seen Company. Tired of love stories, earthquakes, and French connections? Ripogenus Gorge Come view, instead, "Films You Have Not Seen," a series of films to be shown Monday afternoons and evenings during During COA's Outdoor Orientation Program (00P) in winter term as part of a course in "Anthropological Approaches September, students in Dan Kane's group canoed some of the to the Documentary," taught by Judith Blank. Penobscot, a river which, like many natural areas of Maine, has The films will be shown at 4 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. in the attracted attention from groups with opposing interests. COA auditorium. The public is invited free of charge. The National Forest Service has recommended that the river January 2 -- "Nanook of the North," a 1921 silent film by be federally designated a Wild and Scenic River, which would Robert Flaherty, and "Song of Ceylon," by protect the river from any development. The Great Northern in England and the U.S. lake. January 9 -- "In the Land of the War Canoes," Edward COA student Peter Stevick canoed the Penobscot on OOP, he Curtis, 1914, and "The Kwakiutl of British and nine others from the college took a much closer look at the Columbia," by Franz Boas, 1930. Two ap- elements at issue when they rafted Ripogenus Gorge in proaches to documentation: fact and fiction. October, and he has studied the legal process of the federal January 16 "Return of an Adventurer," a 1965 cowboy film designation of Wild and Scenic Areas as a project for Kane's fall from Nigeria. By Moustapha Alassane. course, "Introduction to the Legal Process." January 23 "Dance and Human History," a cross-cultural In the following editorial, published in the student weekly study of the relationship of dance style to social newsheet, Off The Wall, Stevick offers his viewpoint and structure and technology, by Alan Lomax. proposes formation of a winter term workshop to continue work Also, "Microcultural Incidents in Ten Zoos," on this issue. The workshop members - about 8 students and by Ray Birdwhistell. A cross-cultural study of faculty members Dan Kane and Stephen Andersen - plan to non-verbal interaction of parents and children research the economics of the proposed dam and to prepare and looking at animals in zoos. disseminate to the public information on the river, the federal January 30 "Four Families: Karba's First Years," "A designation and the proposed dam. Balinese Family," "Bathing Babies in Three # # # Cultures." An evening of Gregory Bateson and Ripogenus Gorge on the Penobscot River is a stretch of Margaret Mead films on early childhood. Maine river unparalleled in beauty and ruggedness. Its sheer February 6 "Bitter Melons," "Melon Tossing," N/um rock walls rise to primitive forests penetrable only on foot. The T'chai: the Ceremonial Dance of the Kung torrent which flows through it has been aptly described as Bushmen", "A Joking Relationship." Films by "three miles of Niagra." John Marshall on the Bushmen of the For decades the Great Northern Paper Company has used Kalahari. the Penobscot for running logs to their mill at Millinocket. The *February 14 4 p.m. "Les Maitres Fous," an African relig- end of the log drives has made the gorge of less value to Great ious movement which connects two worlds. Northern, but has also opened it to river rafting and therefore 7 p.m. "Chronicle of a Summer," an experiment to the public. Now, at least the stout hearted can see and feel in urban anthropology: Paris, 1961, with the power and beauty of this wild river. French sociologist Edgar Morin. Both films by Great Northern, however, has other ideas. They find power Jean Rouch, French founder of the Cinema boating, waterskiing, and lake scenery far more enjoyable than Verite movement. *A Tuesday schedule for one rafting and wilderness gorges. They have slated the Penobscot week only. river for a small hydrodam which would promptly turn February 20 "Happy Mother's Day," by Richard Leacock. Ripogenus Gorge and miles of surrounding forest lands into one "The Things I Cannot Change." Two films in more flat-water lake. Cinema Verite style. Are our wild rivers of no value other than in their ability to February 27 -- Jon Child, independent filmmaker, will dis- cut the power bills of our big companies? Northern Maine is one cuss the relationship between the filmmaker of the East coast's few remaining areas of wilderness character. and the subjects of a film and show three video Can we stand by and watch it go down the drain? tapes of a work in progress. Some of us at COA think not. We therefore are starting a March 6 -- "Intrepid Shadows," by Al Clah, Navaho. workshop this winter to study the dam proposal and to take an "Meshes in the Afternoon," by Maya Draen. activist role in stopping the dam from being built. Two films on seeing and the mind. Peter Stevick 1978 College of the Atlantic Summer COA's Summer Studies has been sion. TUITION is $350 per credit month. Admission is by application, expanded to two full sessions for course; $150 for non-credit courses; with a $10 non-refundable fee. For 1978. Each course offers 3 semester most courses carry ADDITIONAL application and additional informa- hours of CREDIT; one non-credit FEES. HOUSING is available on tion write: Director, Summer Ses- course* is being offered each ses- the COA campus at a fee of $100 per sion, COA, Bar Harbor 04609. Session I June 19 to July 14 Orientation: June 17 and 18 Marine Mammals Landscape Photography Basic marine mammal biology studied through first-hand Color and black and white photography. A complete experience and extensive readings in current scientific course of instruction for large and small format in every- literature. Two days a week devoted to field studies of thing from basic through advanced photography with harbor and grey seals, harbor porpoise, and finback, emphasis on landscape stills, not wildlife. No artificial humpback and minke whales. Field research techniques, light or portrait techniques. Readings from Ansel Adams including oceanographic and biological data gathering, and study of the work of many masters. whale and seal observation and identification will be Instructor: Joe Holmes, professional landscape photo- covered. grapher. Instructors: Scott Kraus and Steve Savage, COA Alumni/Research Associates in Marine Biology at COA. Wilderness Writing Individual tutorials in writing skills will be offered with Electricity wilderness canoeing and backpack trips as the backdrops. An introduction to the generation, storage and consump- Designed for all levels of ability, from those needing tion of electricity. Hands-on work with generators, remedial work to those interested in publication. Assign- batteries, motors, heaters, and inverters. The emphasis ments will relate to locales: an argumentative paper to a will be on design of simple units such as would be used in threatened wilderness area, a descriptive paper to an the electrical system of alternative energy homes. area of natural beauty, a narrative paper to a longer Instructor: Butch Rommel, COA faculty, electrical adventure. engineer. Instructor: Norah Davis, freelance writer and COA instructor in writing. Shakespeare Outdoors An intensive course in Shakespeare's comedies which are Body-Mind Integration set in forest glades and ask questions about innocence, *Consideration and evaluation of eating habits, body align- experience, existence away from civilization and the ment and flexibility, aerobic conditioning, principles of possibilities for "new" societies (e.g. A Midsummer movement, relation between body and emotions. Yoga, Night's Dream, As You Like It, Two Gentlemen of dance, breathing exercises, running, bicycling, hiking Verona). Opportunity to perform scenes in an Elizabe- and swimming will be used to test physical and than manner on COA's grotto-like outdoor shrine. psychological limits. A non-credit course. Instructor: Charlotte Bonica, COA faculty in literature Instructor: Lynn Hammond, COA faculty in literature, and drama. former Outward Bound Instructor, back-country ranger. Session IT L..1.. to 10 Amicntation Maine Coast Flora take place in woods camps along isolated lakes. Canoe Mount Desert Island, located in the transition zone paddling and poling skills to be practiced prior to travel between the northern hardwood and spruce-fir forests, from base camp. The ways of the Penobscot Indians, the offers a unique opportunity to become acquainted with lives of loggers and riverdrivers, and the activities of plants found in the northeastern U.S. and eastern present-day timber cutting operations and hydroelectric Canada. Field trips are planned to study plants in a projects will be studied to help visualize the effects of variety of habitats including the shore, lakes and each on this pocket of Maine wilderness. streams, bogs, subalpine areas, fields and forests. Instructors: Alexandra Brown, COA alumnus, and Emphasis upon techniques of plant collection, preserva- Francis E. and Eunice Fahey, all experienced woods- tion, and identification. Consideration given to the persons. evolutionary relationships among major plant groups and ecological factors which influence plant distribution. Poetry Workshop Instructor: Fred Olday, COA faculty in plant and soil An exploration and testing of participants' poetry, sciences. discussion of poetry past and present, and exercises in the mechanics of the poetic line. Writing skills at all Alternative Energy levels to be worked on in individual conferences. Most of today's energy comes from fossil fuels or thermo- Readings, primarily from Ezra Pound's anthology, From nuclear disintegrations; fossil fuels are limited and Confucius to Cummings, will be used to stimulate nuclear fuels create extremely toxic by-products. production and to look at the inherent creative values of Meanwhile, the sun pours 50,000 times all human usage poems. of energy onto the planet each year. Some of this can be Instructor: Joel Oppenheimer, Poet-in-Residence, City captured and put to use. Course will cover the College of New York, author of The Woman Poems and availability, application, and implications of three other books of poetry; columnist, Village Voice. alternative energy sources: direct solar, wind and wood, and will consider the design of solar heaters, woodburn- Celestial Navigation ing air conditioners and windmills. The rudiments of celestial navigation, beginning with a Instructor: Harris Hyman, COA faculty, engineer and survey of plotting techniques, use of charts, tide and surveyor current tables, the sextant, the Nautical Almanac, sight reduction theory and methods. Students will sail several Wood Works "armchair cruises" and work up sights on the sun, moon, Finished carpentry and furniture making will be stars and planets. approached first through readings and lectures on the use Instructor: Susan Mehrtens, COA faculty in history, and maintenance of hand and power woodworking tools, U.S.C.G. Captain, holds Navigator's Rating in U.S. followed by projects using the tools and technique Power Squadron. essential to cabinet work. Instructor: Jamie Johnston, COA faculty, independent Dyeing and Spinning cabinet-maker, carpenter. *Dyeing, from collection and identification of materials, to mordanting, boiling and drying, and spinning, from Maine Woods Ways sorting of wool fleece and other spinnable fibers, covering An exploration of the histories of the woods, waters, and drop spindle and an introduction to other wheels, to people of north central Maine. First half of session to be skeining. This is a non-credit course. based in Chesuncook Village, an old meeting grounds of Instructor: Kate Lisy, independent spinner and the major log and pulp drives. Latter part of session will weaver.