Nell Newman (left) gives her mother, Joanne Woodward, a big hug at the graduation ceremony. student is required to write. He spoke of College of the Atlantic as being, for him, "a place to learn about responsibility COA NEWS and decision making, about personal power and how it can be used." Dr. Donald Meiklejohn, 78, vowing to continue to write his own essay in Human Ecology "into an indefinite SUMMER 1987 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR, MAINE future," received an honorary Bachelor of Arts in Human Ecology, presented by to fulfillment, to celebration, to survival, trustee John Dreier. Meiklejohn has and to the gratitude of children for a life been a faculty member in Public Policy COA Celebrates 15th on a planet that survived because of you." at COA since 1979 and is well known An academy award winner for her role both for his Socratic technique of Commencement in Three Faces of Eve, Woodward is teaching by asking questions and for his politically active as a member of contribution to the COA community by Planned Parenthood, Another Mother assisting in the development of COA's BAR HARBOR, ME - "Be shepherds for Peace, and as the director of a recent participatory system of self-governance. of time," guest speaker Joanne production, first introduced on Broad- "In this respect," said Dreier, "Meikle- Woodward told the 26 graduates at way, The Depot, a play about a middle- john feels that the COA community College of the Atlantic's 15th aged nurse who becomes committed to constitutes a special opportunity for commencement on Saturday, May 30. the cause of nuclear disarmament. genuine preparation for the human The mother of Nell Newman, one of Woodward's daughter, Nell, as one of experience - an experience in which the COA's graduating seniors, Woodward the graduating class speakers, exhorted graduating class is today starting a new stressed that the earth, like time, is her fellow classmates, as well as others chapter." finite. It can all "go out like a candle," who sometimes feel "married to their Initiating this new chapter for the 26 she said, "unless we stop running away work," not to burn themselves out. "It is graduates, Chairman of the Board of from the knowledge of the possibility of not enough to fight for the environment: Trustees Edward McC Blair awarded to that obliteration. To manage our fear of it is important to enjoy it while you can, them the Bachelor of Arts in Human that looming possibility, she concluded, while it is still here," she said. Ecology, a degree attained through an we must turn around and face it. "Turn James Batchelder, another senior interdisciplinary liberal arts study around and stay turned around," she speaker, presented his essay on Human focusing on the delicate balance between urged. "That's the way to life, to peace, Ecology, a paper every senior COA humans and their environment. 1 Summer Interns Greene Receives Funds To Research Eleven COA students are currently enrolled in summer internships, many MDI Flora of which will benefit Bar Harbor and other Maine communities. Tim Cole - Field Assistant on Mt. Craig Greene, Professor of Botany, Desert Rock off Mt. Desert Island has received a grant from the National Park Service to research and revise the Chris Cousins - Agricultural As- sistant in Partial Farm, Inc. in flora of Acadia National Park and Mount Desert Island. This work is Monroe, ME Bob Danford - Gardener in Beatrix being done in collaboration with the Farrand Gardens at COA Critical Areas Program of the State Inger Espalin and Susan Stuart - Planning Office in Augusta. A study of Field Assistants with Steven Garman this kind, which would include in Acadia National Park determining the present status within Valerie Giles - Animal Caretaker at the Park of threatened and endangered Care and Rehabilitation of Wildlife, vascular plant species, has not been Inc. in Sanibel, FL thoroughly assessed since 1929. Linda Gregory and Smoot Major "This project is of particular interest Field Assistants with Dr. Craig Greene to me," states Greene, "because of my in Acadia National Park research interests in the region's flora Beth Manahan and Ben Shadis and various aspects of rare plant Agricultural Assistants at Fish Pond biology. Updating the checklist of Watson Fellow David Heckscher ('87) Farm in West Topsham, ME plants of the region will give us some Megan McOsker - Intern for Maine potatoes, and potatoes have made idea of what changes in the vegetation Whalewatch off Mt. Desert Island many cultural and agricultural the last 90 years have wrought. By Dawn Meisenheimer - Cataloging demands on the people who grow mapping and censusing populations of Intern at the Taxidermy Lab at COA them. My work in the Andes could be rare plants in the region, we will Edward Monat - Video Production seen as a case study in human ecology, generate base-line information to serve Coordinator for Summer Field Studies in studying relationships between as a foundation for long-term studies Program at COA people and their environment." to better understand the reproductive Heckscher is the fifth COA senior to Richard Simis - Architectural Intern biology of the plants. The data we with Brecher-Hyman Associates in Bar receive a Watson Fellowship since collect will help Acadia National Park Harbor, ME 1983, the first year COA was invited develop sound management strategies by the Watson Foundation to to protect its endangered or threatened participate along with 50 other selected plant species. The project is also an independent colleges. Last year's excellent opportunity for student Heckscher Receives recipient, Carol Laliberte, is currently interns to learn the flora and contribute studying sustainable farming methods to sensible stewardship of natural in India and Japan. The 1985 resources in the face of mounting 1987 Watson Fellowship winner, Sally Greenman, human pressure." conducted a comparative study of the Greene and his interns will be visiting Fellowship social and economic impact of the herbariums on Mount Desert Island, fishing industry in Japan and Norway, the University of Maine at Orono, respectively. Richard Epstein, awarded University of New Hampshire at Recent graduate David Heckscher has a Fellowship in 1984, studied Durham, and the New England been awarded an $11,000 grant from vernacular architecture in Japan and Botanical Club at Harvard University the Thomas J. Watson Foundation to the People's Republic of China. Peter where representative specimens of the study the potato culture in parts of Wayne, the first COA recipient, was island, some over 90 years old, are South America. Graduating from awarded a Fellowship in 1983 to study preserved. COA in May, Heckscher will spend a the terrestrial ecology of North Greene will prepare a final report to year studying the traditional potato Atlantic islands. Acadia National Park summarizing his culture of the Andean peoples, The Watson Fellowship is a national findings, and will provide a investigating the scientific research and competition which supports inde- comprehensive list of plant species in economic pressures that are changing pendent study and travel abroad for the Park and on the island for the culture, and exploring alternatives recent college graduates. Fellows are publication by the Critical Areas for the future of agriculture in the selected by the Watson Foundation for Program. This list will include Andes. their commitment to a particular field accepted scientific names, common "The excitement of this study for me of interest and for their leadership names, and will indicate which plants will be in discovering how the Andean potential within that field. Students are native, introduced, uncommon, or Culture has evolved with the potato from three other Maine colleges, rare in the region. over thousands of years," Heckscher Bowdoin, Colby, and Bates, also won says. "Humans have bred and changed Watson Fellowships this year. -Lisa Norton 2