COA News MARCH 1986 VOL. 9 NO. 1 New Building Bright & Spacious by Elsa Haas When someone gestures towards the north end of campus and says, "I'll meet you up at the new building," we all know he's referring to the new laboratory, studio, classroom, faculty office, writing clinic, and greenhouse building - all 15,600 square feet of it, completed in time for fall classes. In actuality, the only entirely new building on campus is the buildings and grounds shop. Paradoxically, it took 000 some of us a little longer to get used to the "new building" precisely because it is attached to the three physical components of the "old building" (Kaelber Hall) which survived the 1983 fire: the auditorium, computer room, and hallway. Some students and staff report that during the first few weeks of their acquaintance with the mostly new building, they frequently experienced the eerie sensation of stepping off into a dreamworld at the end of the familiar hallway - a dreamworld in which buildings widely separated in real time and place are merged. Expecting an abrupt step down onto a painted- The New Building cement floor, they stepped instead onto a carpeted, wheelchair-accessible ramp. Turning right, they saw not the tan door leading to the women's room with its blackboard graffiti-collectors, Prospective Students Visit COA but an unfamiliar blue fire door leading to a larger women's room equipped by David Malakoff with a pay shower. Stuffed owls and For 22 high school and transfer giving prospective students and their moles don't hang out in the hallway of students interested in attending COA, parents a solid introduction to COA's this new building; they have their own Winter Tour '86 was not just an unique curriculum. Faculty, current home in an uncramped taxidermy lab. ordinary weekend college visit. Besides students, and alumni all gave short But as of this writing, potted plants line the usual time spent visiting classes and presentations on some aspect of the the hallway beside the greenhouses, talking with professors, the students academic program, such as which are experiencing technical also were introduced to another side of internships, and also shared their heating difficulties temporarily beyond college life, COA-style - potluck thoughts on the philosophy that guides our control. A five-foot-tall whale skull, suppers, cross-country skiing, and bird the school. like an unhurried doorman, leans watching. "We put our students and faculty in casually against a wall where two other "We wanted them to get a sense of front of the visiting students, and tried hallways meet. how COA is different," said Larry to give them a true sense of what having No one has yet reinstituted the Clendenin, Director of Admissions. the freedom to pursue your own bathroom blackboards, but the "Not just to pick up facts and interests means at COA," Larry said. occasionally off-color nature of COA's information, but also to get a sense of "It was important to put a lot of time school spirit lives on. "I like the pink," the unusual spirit behind those facts." into showing them how unusual the says student Ed Monat, referring to the Eating and skiing aside, the Winter curriculum is," said Sarah Chisolm, a (Continued on page 7) Tour (held February 13-16) emphasized (Continued on page 7) Eight Distinguished New Trustees During the past year COA has made years; Board of Trustees, National of Wisconsin; Ph.D., Duke; honorary significant progress in strengthening its Health Council; B.A., Yale; LL.B., degrees from Duke, the U. of Board of Trustees. Eight members from Columbia; formerly President, Board of Wisconsin; Southeastern Massachu- a wide range of professions and Trustees for the Coalition for Health setts U., Montclair State College; geographic locations have been and Environment; named "Man of the formerly, Ford Distinguished Research elected. Among them, the fields of Year" by Philanthropy Monthly in 1983. Professor at the Graduate School of government service and research, philanthropy, law, journalism, national Robert Eddy Suminsby Industrial Administration of Carnegie- President, The Knowles Company in Mellon, and Marsh Visiting Professor at and local voluntary service, and finance Northeast Harbor, an incorporated the U. of Michigan. are represented. insurance and real estate agency; Alice Eno Neva Goodwin, Chairman of the supervising appraiser in the revaluation Board Member, Stony Brook and Mt. Nominating Committee, stated, "We of 18 municipalities in ME and VT; B.S. Desert Garden Clubs; attended Mt. feel extremely fortunate to have been in Education, U. of Maine. Vernon College and U. of Texas; able to gain the talents and experience James H. Wakelin, Jr. former President, the Chapin School of such distinguished leaders." Has held a number of technical and and Planned Parenthood of Princeton, administrative posts in industry and N.J., Chairman of COA Phoenix Fund. Edward J. Meade, Jr. government; Trustee of National Maurine Rothschild Chief Program Officer, Ford Geographic Society and member of its Vice President, Robert and Maurine Foundation, responsible for school and Committee on Research and Rothschild Fund; Vice Chair, youth program; B.A. and M.A., Exploration; A.B., Dartmouth; M.A., Northeast Health Foundation; Trustee, Montclair (N.J.) State College; Ed.D., Cambridge; Ph.D. in Physics, Yale; Radcliffe College, Fund for Peace, Harvard; formerly member of New formerly Assistant Secretary of the Camden Shakespeare Company, Jersey State Board of Higher Education Navy, responsible for Research and Islesboro Maine Historical Society; and first chairman of N.J. Public Development; Head, U.S. Delegation President, William A. Farnsworth Broadcasting Authority; has been an to the first session of the Library and Art Museum; Board advisor to six U.S. Commissioners of Intergovernmental Oceanographic Member, Maine State Commission on Education, three Secretaries of HEW, Commission on UNESCO, Paris, 1961; the Arts and Humanities. several state governments, and the Navy Distinguished Public Service Peter H. Sellers Departments of Defense, Education, Award, 1961 and 1964. Faculty member, Rockefeller U.; Board and the Navy. Leonard S. Silk Member, Nicholas Newlin Foundation; Clyde Everett Shorey, Jr. Economics Columnist, New York member of various mathematical Consultant for March of Dimes in Times, and formerly member of its organizations and author of numerous Washington, D.C., having been Vice Editorial Board; Distinguished Visiting mathematical publications; Ph.D., U. of President for Public Affairs for ten Professor of Economics, Pace; A.B., U. Pennsylvania. Human Ecology, 1986 Whale Research Project In Antarctic The 1986 meeting of the Society for Human Ecology will be held at COA, COA alumnus and research October 17-19. The theme of the associate Greg Stone is collaborating conference will be "Human Ecology: with Dr. William Hamner of UCLA to Research and Applications." put together a catalog of identified humpback whales. Stone will be in the The Society's first major meeting, in Antarctic for six weeks this spring to May of 1985, was held at the University Livia Munch and Mike Kimball work on the project. of Maryland's College of Human Ecology. Rich Borden, faculty member Foreign Internships Working on an icebreaker called the and Provost at COA, and Vice Polar Duke, Stone will have the dual President of the Society, attended that Two COA students will travel to responsibility of research diver and meeting with a group of COA students foreign countries this spring to do photographer of antarctic humpback and faculty. internships. whale flukes. Mike Kimball will be a human ecology Several human ecologists from intern at the University of Edinburg. As Sweden, Denmark, and Britain visited assistant to Dr. Ulrich Loening at the "When whales dive," Stone explains, COA afterwards. Centre for Human Ecology, he will "they throw up their tails. You can coordinate European workshops in identify individual humpback whales by The 1986 meeting will include tours of human ecology and other activities of the individual markings on the Acadia and boat trips for whale, seal, the center. underside of their tails." and seabird watching, as well as formal Livia Munck will intern at and informal opportunities for Gothenburg University in Sweden. She COA has collected 3,500 exchanges between the human will be a research assistant at the photographs of humpback whale flukes ecologists of COA and those from Institute for Human Ecology and Peace and is the central curating facility for the elsewhere in the world. Studies. North Atlantic.