May, 1983 N College of the Atlantic Nonprofit Organiz. SS Bar Harbor, ME 04609 U.S. Postage Paid Bar Harbor, Me. Permit #47 COA News Thomas S. Gates 1906-1983 the firm of Drexel and Company in Philadelphia and later as president and chairman of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York. Taking a leave from his banking career in the 1950s, he held positions as Undersecretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Navy, Deputy Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Defense during the Eisenhower Administration. For his service he was awarded the Medal of Freedom. From 1976-77, he also served as chief of the United States Liaison Mission in China, an appointment that came a decade after he first proposed talks with Peking on renewing diplomatic relations. Tom became involved with College of the Atlantic shortly after its founding and, as former president Ed Kaelber recalls, played a critical role in the school's development. "I first met Tom Gates in the summer of 1970 at a party in Northeast Harbor. He came over, introduced himself and said he understood we were trying to start a college. I allowed as how that was the case. He said he thought it was a lousy idea, we didn't need any more colleges. I realized many years later that this was a typical Tom Gates opener. He really was testing us to see if we believed in what we were trying to do and if we could make a case for it. He came to believe in the case to the extent that in 1972 he joined the Board of Trustees and in 1978, after his return from China, agreed to chair the Board. Whatever the enterprise, Tom was very much concerned with high quality, and his tough-mindedness assured that the college would not willingly settle for second Thomas S. Gates best. There's no question in my mind that without Tom Gates' leadership, the college would not have made it." Thomas S. Gates, Jr., a longtime friend, supporter and Although Tom stepped down from his position as trustee of College of the Atlantic, died Friday, March 27, in chairman of the board in 1982, he remained its honorary Philadelphia following an extended illness. He was 76. chairman until his death. As a final gesture of support for the The son of a former president of the University of college, his family requested that in lieu of flowers at his Pennsylvania, Tom was a native of Philadelphia. From his funeral, contributions be sent to the college in his memory. boyhood, he summered in Northeast Harbor and enjoyed His leadership and loyalty will be greatly missed. sailing in the waters off Mt. Desert Island. He is survived by his wife, Millicent Anne, and three After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in daughters, Anne Ponce of Berwyn, Pa., Patricia Norris of 1928, he pursued a career in investment banking, first with Bedford, N.Y., and Katharine McCoy of Malvern, Pa. Internships: COA's Answer To when the stranded animals were released. Students have used their backgrounds in botany and Vocational Education horticulture in a variety of internship settings. Debbie Abransky is currently a horticulture assistant at the New York In a time of increasing student concern about acquiring Botanical Garden in New York City and Janis Miller worked vocational skills as well as liberal arts training, COA's last summer at the New England Wildflower Society's Garden internship program is one of the college's greatest assets. This in the Woods in Framingham, Ma. Helen McCain appren- year, 57 interns worked in 16 states, three Canadian ticed on an organic farm in Maine last fall; Rose Avenia provinces, the District of Columbia and Trinidad. Through worked at the Coolidge Center for the Advancement of their positions in a wide variety of public and private Agriculture, an experimental farm in Boxford, Ma.; and Ken organizations and businesses, they developed skills that will be Punnett is currently working on an organic farm in New York useful in both academic and career pursuits. state. Finally, Julie Erb spent last fall in Boulder, Co., as an In keeping with past COA internships, a large number of employee of Green Mountain Herbs. this year's interns found research positions in the natural In keeping with COA tradition, a number of students sciences, particularly the marine sciences. Lisa Baraff and found internships teaching or working in environmental Holly Devaul both worked last summer for the Whale education. Vickie Nichols, John Tapper and Charlotte Research Group of the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Faulstick all worked as teaching assistants in MDI schools; as Lisa studied entrapment of cetaceans in fishing gear and a second internship, Margie Blanding assisted Project Holly did an accoustical study of humpback whale sounds. Adventure in Gloucester High School; Bernie Alie is a Other COA interns made significant contributions to the teaching assistant in a private alternative school in Orono, accumulation of data on marine mammals in the Gulf of Me.; Tammis Coffin is teaching environmental sciences this Maine. Margi Blanding worked for the Cetacean Research spring at the Stone Environmental School in Ocean Park, Unit of the Gloucester Fisherman's Museum, Jeff Rothal for Me.; and Cindy Krum's position last summer as teaching the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies and Phil intern at Mast Landing Day Camp in Freeport, Me., has led Degolyer for Allied Whale in Bar Harbor. Matt Hare spent to a position as a regular staff member this summer. Louise the summer and early fall in Lubec, Me., studying Right Dodson's internship as museum assistant at the Marine whales under the direction of COA graduate Scott Kraus. Resource Center in North Carolina provided her with the Not everyone in the natural sciences focused on skills, knowledge and experience to return to COA and build cetaceans. Shan Burson was an ornithology intern at aquariums for the Natural History Museum. Manomet Bird Observatory in Manomet, Ma., and Jeff We had two additional students working for museums Rabjohn is participating in a spruce budworm project this last summer. Sara Wendt prepared a booklet entitled spring through the Forest Entomology Department of the Skeletons: A Comparative Approach to Bones. This University of Maine, Orono. Peter Thompson is currently booklet will be used by fifth and sixth-grade teachers in working with Atlantic Salmon at the Green Lake National conjunction with class visits to the Smithsonian's National Fish Hatchery in Ellsworth Falls, and Charmaine Kinton just Museum of Natural History. Skip Buyers-Basso worked with returned from Palos Verdes Estates, Ca., where she interned taxidermists at the New Brunswick Museum in St. John and at Marineland. Charmaine's internship was particularly well- at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Ottawa, timed: the severe rain storms on the west coast during the Ontario. winter caused the stranding of many sea lions and other Several students worked in the communications field. marine animals. One of her tasks was to care for these Peter Jeffrey and Beth Blugerman are both editorial interns animals and her work was acknowledged on national TV for Not Man Apart, a periodical published by Friends of the