College of the Atlantic NOVEMBER I, 1974 NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER EVENTS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 Poet ROBERT CREELEY reading from his work. 7:30 p.m. COA Auditorium. MONDAY NOVEMBER 4 Poet JOEL OPPENHEIMER reading from his work. 7:30 p.m. COA Auditorium, donation, refreshments. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5 Panel Discussion: "Education and Social Change." Including Edward Kaelber, President, COA; Peggy Dulany, Students Toward Education (STEP), Arlington, Mass.; and Tyrone Cashman, New Alchemy Institute, Cape Cod. 7:30 p.m. Auditorium. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8 SISTER LUCY POULIN of the HOME coop in Orland speaking about the future of self-employed artisans in Maine. 3:00 p.m. COA Dining Room. SCOTT KRAUS, COA Student, presenting a program on Allied Whale and Whales in the Gulf of Maine, including slides and movie. 7:30 p.m. COA Auditorium. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9 MANDALA DANCERS, group from Cambridge, Mass., in a program of folk music and dance. 8:00 p.m. Mount Desert Island High School Auditorium. Admission $2.50. MONDAY NOVEMBER 11 RUSSELL WIGGINS, editor and publisher of the Ellsworth American, will speak on "The Press and Changing Values." 1:30 p.m. Yellow Learning Center. GEORGE LABAR speaking on "Human Impact on Lake Valencia, Venezuela. 7:00 p.m. COA Auditorium. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15 BOB BINNEWIES, Executive Director of Maine Coast Heritage Trust speaking about the future of Maine's open land, its importance aesthetically, ways of preserving it, etc. 3:00 p.m. COA Dining Room. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19 JOHN MCDONALD, Milbridge, will give a lecture/performance on "Theatre as a Strategy for Social Change." 7:30 p.m. COA Auditorium. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23 PORTLAND SYMPHONY STRING QUARTET. Performance by principals of the Portland Symphony Orchestra. 8:00 p.m. Mount Desert Island High School Auditorium. EXHIBITS OCTOBER 22-NOVEMBER 22 Gallery Exhibit: Watercolors by ROBERTA SPRAGUE. Gallery hours 9:00-5:00 Monday-Friday. NOW THROUGH JULY 1, 1975 Outdoor sculpture display of 6 works on loan from RUDOLPH CONDON, sculptor of Somesville and St. Peters, Pa. Sponsored with support from the Maine Arts and Humanities Commission. COA Grounds. PEOPLE Special visitors to COA recently were THEODORE AND BOBBIE DREIER. The Dreiers shared their experiences from Black Mountain College in North Carolina with faculty and students in a seminar. The Dreiers were instrumental in founding Black Mountain, an experi- mental college started in 1933, and worked there for 18 years. The faculty are studying Black Mountain College and a number of current experimental colleges, as part of a faculty development program exploring experimental education and funded by a Lilly Foundation Grant. JOHN BIDERMAN, a second year student, has received a research grant award from the Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund Committee of the American Museum of Natural History, an award usually given to graduates and professionals, to do ornithological research. John will carry out his study next spring in Guatemala along with Dr. Robert W. Dickerman, an ornithologist doing research with Cornell University Medical College. The focus of John's study will be to determine the feeding tech- niques and food preferences of the Boat-billed Heron, a long-time mystery to ornithologists. The bird is a night feeder, and John will be braving the marshes at night using a starlight scope, an optical instrument developed as a spinoff from the Vietnam War, to observe and collect data on the night feeding of this Heron, and compare it with that of the Black-crowned and Yellow-crowned Night Herons. A person to recently join College of the Atlantic is DICK RIANHARD. Dick's skills in finance and administration are being directed toward developing outside support for work ongoing at COA, devising a system of accounting procedures, and coordinating projects in which faculty and students have direct community involvement with state and federal programs which support such activities. Previously Dick has worked at all government levels as a senior systems analyst for management, information systems management, financing and budgets, and prior to that as an industrial engineer. Dick and Eleanor Rianhard, who is a native of Northeast Harbor, and their children are residents of Northeast Harbor. "Ellie" is currently working with Dr. Coffin to establish the Mount Desert day care and nursery school in Northeast Harbor. Three persons representing COA's alternative energy effort appeared October 3rd on PBS Television's program "Comment." Dave Platt, moderator of this nightly program, interviewed DICK DAVIS, ERNIE MCMULLEN, and IVAN RASMUSSEN. Drawing from their experiences of designing and constructing Dick Davis's energy self-sufficient home on MDI, the participants discussed how alternative energy technology has reached a point of practical application, and can be incorporated into conventional home building at a cost acces- sible to the average income owner. DON and ELIZABETH AITKEN, visiting faculty members this term from San Jose State University in California, were featured in the Oct. 3 Ellsworth American. The article included the family's back- ground, interests and a pleasant sense of the Aitkens as individuals which left the reader with a feeling of having visited a very exciting and a l i v e family. SPENCER APOLLONIO, Director of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, visited COA October 11 as one of several persons to address members of the Maine Coast Culture course taught by ELMER BEAL this term. Mr. Apollonio came to speak on and answer questions about the future of the fishing industry in Maine. Other persons speaking this term include representatives of Maine's five major economic areas: fishing, agriculture, tourism, forest products, and cottage industries. Being able to talk directly with experts in these areas has given students a valuable resource in their exploration of Maine Coast Culture. "THERE IS NO QUESTION: FALL HAS ARRIVED" Philip Kunhardt, third year student, gave readers of the October 8 issue of Tuesday Weekly a treat with his creative poetry/prose article on autumn. The full-page article published in the weekly Ellsworth newspaper imparts a refreshing view of this much written about topic. For example: Today, it is colder. A northwest wind has swept the day clear. This is the kind of day that the west coast will never know about, in its perennial haze. Walking around Witch Hole Pond this morning was like moving through another world - sitting on a grassy hillside overlooking the pond, watching shiny patterns of light spread across the water, and disappear; the brisk air, the good feel of a sweater, the chatter of two ducks, the flushed cheeks of the maple trees. These mornings I am able to shake off sleep an hour or two earlier, to pull wool over my body, and to venture in silence or exclamation out into the new day. Outside are the rosehip, the sweet fern (mature now, and odorous), the fallen chestnut and horsechestnut. And here, suddenly, are the colors of autumn. For weeks we had the sneak previews. Now, their presence is definitive. "