Kresge Approves Challenge Grant lege of the usiness impact The Kresge Foundation approved in II Total late April a challenge grant of $150,000 toward the construction of $6,150 $18,600 the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community $15,000 $8,200 $24,820 Center - the 8,300 square-foot meet- ing hall and academic facility planned $37,500 $20,500 $62 at College of the Atlantic. In announcing the challenge grant, Gates Community C COA President Louis Rabineau em- phasized that the college must first complete the $1.75 million building campaign by a deadline of January 1, 1993, before COA can receive the ac- tual grant funds. At the time of the Kresge Foundation's approval of the challenge grant in April, the college had raised nearly $1.4 million for the building and still needed $368,795 to complete the campaign. With more than $122,000 in gifts and pledges received since then, that figure has onny Cough of Bar Harbor (center) stands with Leslie Brewer and Tina Hinckley been reduced to $246,535. the reception which marked the beginning of the MDI Campaign for the Gates Edward McC. Blair, chairman of community Center. Brewer and Hinckley serve on the MDI Campaign Committee both the board of the college and of the Gates Community Center fund ong with fellow COA Trustees John Reeves and Robert Suminsby. raising campaign, expressed particular satisfaction with the Kresge challenge grant - a first for COA. "We are ex- ceedingly grateful to The Kresge Foun- dation for its support and for this COA NEWS continued on page 2 Also In This Issue SUMMER 1992 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR, MAINE Gates Center Facts 2 Commencement 1992 3 COA Kicks Off Local Campaign College Given Land 4 or Gates Community Center New Trustees Join Board 4 Koeppl Leads Youth Project 5 he Mount Desert Island Campaign tina Hinckley, of Hinckley Yachts in Gates Gallery Named 5 r the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Com- Southwest Harbor, and Lynda Tyson, unity Center got off to a lively start Marketing Director and CEO of the Museum Turns Ten 6 n June 17 in the Newlin Gardens on Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce. Watson Winners Profiled 7 e College of the Atlantic campus, ad- Hinckley said the Gates Center will cent to the site where the Gates Cen- not only fulfill long-standing space Founding Faculty Feature 8 r will be constructed. needs of the college, but will also Students Learn about Rivers 9 Members of the MDI chambers of benefit the larger community by af- ommerce and local media came to a fording greater access to college Admission News 9 Business After Hours" reception, co- events and by providing meeting space Howe Presents Lecture 10 osted by College of the Atlantic and for businesses and other groups in the e Bar Harbor Chamber of Com- community, such as the Enterprise Wastewater Workshop Held 10 erce, to learn more about the Gates Council, Hospice, MDI Tomorrow, Selected Senior Projects 12 community Center. In addition to and the Frenchman Bay Conservancy. ewing architectural plans and render- Tyson expanded on the idea of the Newsnotes 14 gs of the building that were on dis- Gates Community Center as an economic benefit to the local business PLUS a special section dedicated lay, those who attended heard brief to William H. Drury, Jr. resentations from COA Trustee Bet- community. She said, "Right now the continued on page 8 Gates Community Center Facts Named for Thomas S. Gates Jr., Chairman of the College of the Atlantic Board of Trustees from 1978 - 1982, and Trustee from 1973 1982 Designed by Turner Brooks of Burlington, Vermont, who was named one of the top 100 architects internationally by Architectural Digest in 1991. Projected ground-breaking: July 1992 Projected completion date: September 1993 General contractor: Nickerson & O'Day, Bangor, Maine Campaign Chair: Edward McC. Blair, Chairman of the COA Board of Trustees Honorary Campaign Chair: Mrs. Thomas S. (Anne) Gates, Jr. Project cost: $1.75 million A model of the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center. Kaelber Hall is on the Raised to date: $1,503,465 Balance needed: $246,535 right and the Arts and Sciences building is on the left. 8,300 Total Square Feet 300-seat meeting hall Kresge Approves $150,000 Challenge Grant 55-seat lecture hall five faculty offices continued from page 1 art and exhibition gallery tremendous vote of confidence in Col- a conference center, which is greatly a music room/greenroom lege of the Atlantic," he said. Blair needed by the college and by the area ceremonial lobby added that with receipt of the chal- business and professional community." lenge grant it is highly probable that The Kresge Foundation is an inde- Environmental Design construction will begin this summer. pendent, private foundation which Considerations The college's trustees have agreed that makes capital grants to institutions triple glazed windows construction will begin only after all operating in the areas of higher educa- low-flow toilets the funds required for the building tion, health and long-term care, arts energy efficient heating system project have been raised. and humanities, social service, science passive solar heating in the lobby COA Vice President for Develop- and the environment, and public af- bio-regional and non-hazardous ment Dallas Darland said, "The fairs. In 1991, the Foundation awarded building materials campaign's success in raising over $1.5 grants totalling nearly $63 million to heated water at the source million to date is due to the support 174 charitable organizations in 36 super insulated and great generosity of the college's states and the District of Columbia. trustees and many friends. The Kresge Five grants were made in areas outside challenge now provides the momen- the United States. tum for bringing the final phase of the Grants are made toward projects in- COA News is published three times a year. It is circulated to alumni, parents, building campaign to a speedy and suc- volving construction or renovation of cessful conclusion." and other friends of College of the facilities and the purchase of major Atlantic. The community is eagerly awaiting capital equipment or real estate. Most Editor: Elena V. Tuhy the completion of the multi-purpose grant recipients have raised initial center, which is named for former funds toward their respective projects Writers: John Anderson, John Bider- Chairman of the COA Board of Trus- before requesting the Foundation's as- man, Patti D'Angelo, Dallas Darland, tees Thomas S. Gates, Jr.. Award-win- sistance. Grants are then made on a Michael Flaherty, Gary Friedmann, Steven Katona, Colleen O'Brien, ning architect Turner Brooks challenge basis, requiring the raising Sharon Reiser, Dianne Riley, April incorporated high standards of energy- of the remaining funds, thereby insur- Taylor, Steve Thomas, Elena Tuhy, efficiency and use of non-toxic ing the completion of the projects. Michael Zboray, Yazmin Zupa materials into a design that insures the The Kresge Foundation was created Darkroom Manager: Jason Devine facility will serve both college and by the personal gifts of Sebastian S. Printer: Furbush-Roberts community needs. COA Trustee and Kresge and is not affiliated with any local businessman Leslie Brewer said, corporation or organization. Bod printed on recycled paper "One expected use of the building is as COA NEWS 2 SUMMER 1992