Nonprofit Organiz. February, 1984 U.S. Postage Paid x College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor, Me. CC Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Permit #47 COA News COA at the Smithsonian Under the direction of Sentiel (Butch) Rommel, eight students are spending winter term at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. From their study and inventory of the museum's collection of cetacean skeletons, the largest of its kind in the world, the students are compiling a guide to cetacean skeletal characteristics which will be used for biomechanical and taxonomic analysis. To fulfill their three-credit course requirement, the students are also doing individual projects. In exchange for the information gathered by the students, Dr. James Mead, Curator of Marine Mammals, and Charles Potter, Museum Specialist, have permitted students to attend organized dissections as well as whale strandings on the east coast. Carey Bell has begun a photographic inventory of vertebrate skeletons and is instructing the class in various photographic techniques. Students Jeff Rothal, Karin Anderson, and Sara Wendt are doing research and inventories on three of the Bill McLellan with beaked whale anthropology exhibit halls. Jeff is writing a manual about western civilization while Karin is developing a guide to the Hall of Native Indians and Eskimos. These will be used as teachers' guides by the museum's Office of Education. Sara is collecting information in the Hall of Human Origin for a study of physical and cultural evolution. By examining the vestigial organs and bones of different vertebrate species in the museum's skeleton collection, Bill McLellan is studying evolution. Eric Roos' study of the feeding behavior of loggerhead turtles may result in a published article. Lisa Baraff and Matt Hare are gathering preliminary data for their senior projects. Lisa is studying sternal morphology in whales and Matt skeletal variations in the bottlenosed dolphin. Charmaine Kinton has begun her senior project: research on a proposed rehabilitation center for stranded seals at COA. Besides attending weekly films and lectures at the Smithsonian Institute, the group is exploring Washington's Matt Hare with specimens varied culture. New Director of Public Affairs and Development Charles T. Hesse was welcomed by the community on January 16 when he assumed his new position as Director of Development and Public Affairs. He comes to COA with a broad background in arts administration, development, and public relations and has had extensive experience with educational institutions, including museums and legitimate theatre. A graduate of Harvard University, Hesse most recently was Administrative Director of The Children's Art Carnival (CAC) in New York City. Founded in 1969 in Harlem as a pilot outreach program of the Museum of Modern Art, CAC is a school of the arts which provides instruction in the visual and communication arts as a bridge to individual development for young people, ages 4- 20, mostly from minority backgrounds. In addition to organizing the fund-raising and public relations aspects of the operation, Hesse, a member of the original group of Founders of CAC, established a graduate-level arts management internship program for minority students. Hesse's experience also includes two years in Charlotte, North Carolina, as Executive Director of the Arts and Science Council, an arts advocacy and fundraising organization serving 56 independent art and science organizations and six years as Vice President for Public Affairs at Old Sturbridge Villege in Massachusetts. In addition, he established the first Department of Development for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, as Director of Development, and prior to that, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as Manager of Development and Membership. Hesse also served as a consultant and Charles T. Hesse advisor to numerous professional associations and community groups and, in 1961, studied major museums stituencies of the college. By bringing people, idea in Europe through a travel grant from the Metropolitan the unique assets of COA together we can gain g Museum of Art. recognition and support and thus achieve the over In an initial assessment of his position, Hesse said, "I of the college. I am excited by the opportunity to see myself as a catalyst playing a creative role, through part in helping this young and already outstanding fundraising and promotion, among the various con- institution grow and realize its full potential." Phoenix Fund Update drawing board for the new buildings. Rather, as Judith A proposed master plan for the development and Swazey pointed out, an on-campus planning committee rebuilding of the COA campus was presented by architect and the executive committee of the Board of Trustees will Dan Scully to the college community on January 17, and review current plans before further steps are taken. to island residents at an MDI Phoenix Fund breakfast on January 18. Highlights of the plan included the new Thomas S. Gates Auditorium and a new Kaelber Hall- Support for Curriculum Thorndike Library complex near the site of the old Kaelber Hall; the latter will house kitchen and dining facilities, Development meeting rooms, audio-visual and computer rooms, and Both the Lilly Endowment and the Exxon Educational social areas. Remodeling the Carriage House for Foundation have awarded the college grants this winter to laboratory, design, and arts facilities will complete the assist in developing our program in human ecology. The building program. Mr. Scully's plan calls for the careful Lilly Endowment has chosen College of the Atlantic to integration of landscaping to capitalize on the many ocean participate, along with 23 other colleges, in a summer views and preserve the natural features of the terrain and workshop on the liberal arts. COA will send a four- gardens surrounding new and existing structures. member team including Stewart Brecher, faculty member The college and community presentations marked the in design, William Carpenter, Dean- of Faculty, and Paul official launching of the Phoenix Fund, a three-year, $5 DuBois, Dean of Administration. The team will explore the million capital campaign established by the Trustees in the issue of ecological literacy and the COA core curriculum. wake of the July 25 fire that destroyed Kaelber Hall and The Lilly Endowment sponsors this workshop the Thorndike Library. annually, and COA was fortunate to attend a similar event Before initiating a broad public campaign, the various ten years ago. This year's workshop will be held at committees of the Phoenix Fund, co-chaired by Mrs. Colorado College in Colorado Springs from June 17 to Amos Eno and Mr. Lawrence Hadley, are beginning their July 4. The workshop provides the participating institutions fundraising efforts to obtain advance and special gifts. At an opportunity to explore in-depth a specific liberal arts the January 18 island kick-off, President Judith Swazey issue, and allows participants to attend seminars announced that early gifts and pledges, plus the fire addressing issues confronting liberal arts colleges and insurance money, had brought the Phoenix Fund over the universities. $1 million mark. In addition, the college has received a $10,000 grant Although initially contracted by the college to design from the Exxon Educational Foundation to assist in the the Thomas S. Gates Auditorium, Dan Scully, since the development of a Human Ecology Program. These funds fire, has been responsible for designing the entire campus will be used over the next year to strengthen the core master plan. While Vice President of Total Environmental curriculum in human ecology and, if appropriate, to Action, a firm focusing on solar design and building in implement ideas generated at the workshop in Colorado Harrisville, N.H., Scully won awards for the design of a Springs. nature center in Englewood, N.J. and engineered a 19,000 square-foot hazardous waste cleanup facility in Nashua, N.H. During the presentations in Bar Harbor, he emphasized that there are no definitive plans on the