College of the Atlantic Association Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 May 1988 Edition, Vol. 3, No. 3 COAA Mentor Program Gains Momentum Question: What do public health, wilderness educa- tion, mediation, Waldorf education, microbiology, genetics, architecture, homemaking, peace, social work, massage, NOLS, landscape architecture, visual art, law, construction, community fund raising, field biology, finance, real estate, business, graphic art, land use planning, public housing policy, journalism, advertising, elementary, secondary and post secondary education have in common? Answer: All are career areas in which COAA Mentors are currently working. To date, 34 Mentors including alumni, trustees and dis- tinguished friends of College of the Atlantic have registered in the Alumni Office, making themselves available to COA students and recent graduates interested in their line of work. Hailing from Alaska to Bar Harbor and various lo- COA student Phil Lichtenstein participates in Alumni phonathon. cales in between, Mentors will become a valuable resource See story on page 3. (continued on page 6) Pioneer Alumnus Remembers COA's Pilot Program Last spring I happened to strike into that first hopeful summer by a from all others as well: philosophical, up a conversation with a fellow neighbor from Lincoln, Mas- literary, historical, a multi-viewed traveler on the Eastern Express flight sachusetts, by the name of Ed Kael- perspective. between Boston and Rockland. He ber. Bill had worked for the previous "I guess I took greatest advantage turned out to be Bill Janes, one of two summers for the Appalachian of Bill Carpenter, the English profes- COA's first students, from the Pilot Mountain Club near Echo Lake, and sor. I had always wanted to read Program of the summer of 1971. one day had run into Ed on the Island. Tolstoy, so Bill and I read War and Recently, I spoke with him by phone And that was that. Having just Peace, and met to discuss it twice a in his office at the Lincoln Property finished his junior year in high school, week. We'd meet to talk right out Company in Washington, D.C. Bill turned out to be the youngest stu- front on the porch, well what used to It turns out that Bill was lured dent at COA, out of a total group of be the porch, of the old green man- about 15 students, including, among sion. It was fantastic. others, Edwin Geisler. Two out of the Meeting Set "The girls all lived in the mansion three original professors never made that summer, and the guys were over The COAA Annual Meeting is it back to the COA faculty, but one in the carriage house. It was a really scheduled for the morning of May did: he was Bill Carpenter, on loan good group of people -- incredibly 28, Graduation Day, from 10-12 that summer from the University of diverse. Some were in college, some a.m. in the COA Auditorium. The Chicago. were taking time off, some were agenda will include a brief annual "That summer was a great intel- graduate school students, and some report, elections, an open discus- lectual experience for me," Janes were recent high school graduates. sion and a light lunch. Please reminisced. "The thing that I really I've stayed in touch with a few people: come and participate. COA liked best was that the College with Alex and David Payne and also graduation will be at 1 p.m. approached the environment not from with Ed Geisler. the scientific point of view only, but "I returned to my senior year in (continued on page 4) Editor's Note GOD College of the Atlantic Association This issue marks my third as Editor, and completes another cycle for COAA Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 News. In the year just passed, we have continued the good work of earlier newslet- ters, and made a few improvements. We have a new logo, a new crisp, computer- COAA NEWS is published Fall, aided layout, a stapled binding, are using more pictures, and are negotiating with Winter and Spring by College of the suppliers to start printing on recycled paper. We still do not have a new name so Atlantic Association, COA's alumni we have decided to extend the "Name that Newsletter Contest" until the nest issue, organization since 1982. hoping that you will continue to suggest names! We still are laboring under an ex- tremely slow printing process, the snail's creep of bulk mail and the inability to af- May 1988 Edition, Vol. 3, No. 3 ford two colors. This year's five COAA Board members live in Portland, New York and Editor, Washington D.C. and Becky Buyers-Basso lives in Bar Harbor. Since we take Philip B. Kunhardt, III '77 turns hosting the bi-monthly meetings, there is a certain amount of travel involved. Production Editor, As a board, we meet not only to put out this newsletter but to work on Col- Rebecca Buyers-Basso '81 lege/Alumni relations. We sponsor the Mentor Program, encourage special events Layout, such as the Tenth Reunion last year and we help coordinate fund raising cam- Jamien Jacobs '86 paigns such as Annual Giving. Attempting to represent a cross section of the COA Association, we also represent you to the Trustees and Administration of the Col- COAA 1987-88 Board Members lege. The newsletter serves as a conduit for your letters, for the "Campus Store" Michael Kaiser '85, Secretary and for forums such as our ongoing Readers' Forum, in which faculty and As- Jean McHugh '81, Treasurer sociates can share important books and articles with one another. It is interesting George Benington '82 to note that both faculty member Craig Greene and alumnus Bruce Bender have Joy Knowlton '82 recommended James Gleick's book Chaos: Making a New Science. Philip B. Kunhardt, III '77 At the Tenth Reunion last year we began to talk together about what human ecology means to each of us in our lives now, ten years after COA. I'd like to see The college logo combines three runic symbols: that conversation continued in upcoming issues of this newsletter. Please write to me, or to Becky, and tell us how the real world and human ecology converge in th is for tree, M for humans, and your life today. When we put a few of these together, they will make a fascinating and helpful statement. for ocean, intertwined in a circle For the Fall Issue we are also looking for photos of your children. More and more alums and associates have children now, both large and small. We'd like to symbolizing the earth and universe. run a gallery of faces, beaming out from the page. Please mail them directly to Becky at the College. I have recently been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Cathedral of St. Table of Contents John the Divine, in New York City. Not only has this huge and active Cathedral been thoroughly commited to the problems of the urban poor, to interfaith rela- Mentor Program page 1 tions, and to the world of the arts, but it has long had a deep involvement with is- Pioneer Alum page 1 sues of human ecology as well. Its preachers have included Bishop Tutu and Wendell Berry. It is associated Editor's Note page 2 with the Gaia Institute and with people like Lynn Magulis, James Lovelock and Phonathon Roy Rappaport. The Cathedral sponsors the Lindisfarne Association which has page 3 recently established a program for Biology, Cognition and Ethics. I'd like to see Readers' Forum page 3 whether a Cathedral/COA connection of some kind might be found. My point in Personal Notes page 4 mentioning this now is to ask you what other connections might be out there, wait- ing to be made? Those yet-to-be-made interconnections are part of what makes Campus Store, Notices our membership in COAA so filled with promise! and Update Form page 7 Hoping to see many of you at the COAA Annual Meeting on May 28. Warmly, Philip B. Kunhardt, III 2