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COA News, June 1989
Michael Broyer welcomes commence-
ment speaker, Wendell Berry. Photo
by Darrold Dorr.
Petrillo's speech was followed by the
awarding of honorary degrees to two
COA NEWS
long-time trustees, Mrs. Frederic E.
Camp (Alida) and Donald B. Straus.
"She knows how to celebrate life," said
fellow trustee Father James Gower in
eulogizing Alida Camp. After introduc-
JUNE 1989 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR, MAINE
ing Straus, Trustee Cathy Ramsdell '78
read a poem she had written, whose
Osker said that while studying penguins
closing lines brought down the house:
COA CELEBRATES
during her internship she had observed
"Roses are red. Violets are blue./We
the raucous and joyful sounds they
are delighted to make again a bachelor
SEVENTEENTH
make when they are all together. "You
of you!"
COMMENCEMENT
will be hearing these same ecstatic
Following a choral performance by
callings from the seniors today," she
the COA chorus directed by visiting
declared.
music instructor Henry Elliott, commen-
As though on cue, morning fog lifted
Senior speaker Dina Petrillo, con-
cement speaker Wendell Berry, author,
and bright sunshine provided a perfect
fessing that this was her first attempt at
farmer and ecologist spoke earnestly of
backdrop for COA's 17th commence-
public speaking, reminisced about her
the problems and opportunities lying
ment on Saturday, June 3. Over 500
first visit to COA. "What I was im-
ahead for this generation. "We have
parents, relatives and friends gathered
pressed by at the time was the spirit of
hardly begun to grasp the gravity of the
under a huge green-striped tent to wit-
the place," she said. "It was an exception-
mess we are in," he told the audience.
ness the graduation ceremony during
ally harsh winter and yet there was so
"We have become a nation of fantasists.
which 34 seniors received a bachelor of
much warmth and intensity." Her voice
We believe, apparently, in the infinite
arts in human ecology, awarded by Presi-
full of emotion, she urged her
availability of finite resources." The
dent Louis Rabineau and Chairman of
classmates to respect the differences in
question to be addressed, he continued,
the Board of Trustees Edward McC.
peoples' ideas and practice, to celebrate
is not how to care for the planet, but
Blair.
creativity and diversity in the way they
"how to care for each of the planet's mil-
COA graduations are traditionally
handle and explore issues. "It is through
lions of small pieces and parcels of
warm, poignant and personal. This one
this respect," she said, "that this human
land Our understandable wish to
was no exception. In welcoming the
ecological revolution we are participat-
preserve the planet must somehow be
graduation guests, senior Megan Mc-
ing in will be relevant and effective."
reduced to the scale of our com-
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petence," he said. In closing he advised
tended to three faculty members who
the interconnections between humans
the graduates: "Make a home. Help to
will be leaving COA to begin new posi-
and their environment. The ceremony
make a community. Be loyal to what you
tions elsewhere. In acknowledging
closed with a song composed by graduat-
have made....Find work, if you can, that
education instructor Peter Corcoran,
ing senior Jim Cole, accompanying him-
does no*damage. Enjoy your work.
math and oceanography instructor Carl
self on guitar.
Work well."
Ketchum, and permaculture instructor
Innovative and traditional, casual
These final words were echoed in
John Navazio for their contributions to
and formal, happy and sad, full of the ex-
the Graduation Pledge of Environmen-
COA, Dean of Faculty Bill Carpenter
citement and passion and purpose that
tal and Social Responsibility presented
said, "I can't think of a better way to
all beginnings generate, this commence-
by seniors Barbara Meyers and Kirsten
take human ecology out into the world
ment could perhaps best by summed up
Triplett. The pledge reads:" I pledge to
than through education, numbers, and
by Dina Petrillo's closing words: "We
thoroughly investigate and take into ac-
vegetables."
are here today to celebrate the diversity
count the social and environmental con-
Then President Rabineau and Chair-
of ideas and approach of all those
sequences of any job opportunity I
man Edward Mc.C. Blair conferred the
present and remembered, and to affirm
consider."
bachelor of arts in human ecology on 34
our belief that the struggle is
Good-byes and farewell were ex-
graduates whose studies had focused on
worthwhile."
Top row: Chairman of the Board Ed-
ward McC. Blair and President Louis
Rabineau; Mrs. Alida Camp Ben
Verbeck. Middle row: Jessie Greenbaum
and Katrina Hodgkins; Donald B.
Straus; Dina Petrillo. Bottom row: Jim
Cole serenades the graduates. Photos
Kernan to the Governors' Task Force,
NEW TRUSTEES
Northern Forest Lands Study, a
$250,000 federally sponsored study to
ELECTED
determine how to maintain the integrity
of the northern woods of New England
and New York while providing for con-
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ed-
tinued economic growth in the area.
ward McC. Blair has announced the elec-
Morfit graduated from Harvard
tion of three new members to the Board:
University with a B.A. Cum Laude in
J. Mason Morfit and Mr. and Mrs. John
English in 1963. He received an M.B.A.
F. Stockwell.
from Columbia University Graduate
Morfit is currently the Executive
School of Business in 1971 with a dual
Director of the Maine Chapter of the Na-
concentration in Finance and Interna-
ture Conservancy and a vice president of
tional Business.
the national organization. Under his
The Stockwells, whose daughter Lilea
leadership the Maine Chapter was recog-
is currently a senior at College of the At-
nized by the national Nature Conservan-
lantic, are residents of Boxford, Mass.,
cy as "Outstanding State Program" in
and have a summer home in Vinalhaven.
1988 and received the Down East
Chairman of the Board Edward
magazine Environmental Award for
McC. Blair noted that the Board has es-
1989.
J. Mason Morfit
tablished a new category of annual trus-
For over a decade Morfit has been
teeship to be awarded each year to
committed to land conservation in
parents of current students or graduates,
America. As Vice President and Direc-
"as a way to recognize and involve more
tor of Development for the national Na-
of the diverse range of friends who com-
ture Conservancy from 1980-85, he was
prise the College's constituency."
successful in raising total cash contribu-
tions from less than $18 million in 1979
A 1957 graduate of Yale University,
to over $53 million in 1984. Between
Mr. Stockwell is currently employed
with A.G. Edwards & Sons, an invest-
1976 and 1977 he was the Eastern
ment firm in Portsmouth, NH. Mrs.
Regional Director of a special Bicenten-
Stockwell attended L"Ecole des Beaux
nial program of the Conservancy to ac-
Arts in Paris and graduated from Mills
quire one outstanding natural area in
College in California in 1956. She works
each of the fifty states. His major
at the Brookwood School in
achievement during that period was
Manchester, N.H. as the head of Crea-
negotiating the purchase of a 1,500 acre
tive Arts. The Stockwells are active mem-
Maine island and raising $1.2 million to
bers of the Massachusetts Audubon
pay for it.
Society and the Newburyport, Mas-
He is currently one of three delegates
sachusetts Maritime Society.
appointed by Maine Governor John Mc-
John and Deicy Stockwell
Summer Lecture Series:
*Senator William Cohen, U.S. Senator
Summer Calendar
from Maine, Wednesday, August 16,
Dr. John Anderson, Professor of Zool-
8:30 pm.
ogy, COA. "Endangered Species." Wed-
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COA News, June 1989
COA News was published from 1977 until 2002.