March, 1979 Nonprofit Organiz. College of the Atlantic U.S. Postage Paid CC Bar Harbor, Me. 04609 Bar Harbor, Me. Permit #47 COA News Mississippi River Expedition Good News and Honors Ever dreamed of spending a summer drifting down the May 14 is the publication date for AT HOME IN THE Mississippi River? This June faculty members, Stephen SUN, a book on solar energy buildings by NORAH DAVIS Andersen and Robert Weyeneth, will lead a three-month and LINDA LINDSEY (formerly Linda Swartz, faculty in canoe voyage from the river's headwaters in Minnesota Anthropology at COA). The book will be published by downstream 2,500 miles to New Orleans. This expedition Garden Way Publishing Co., Charlotte, Vermont. is an experiment in floating classrooms. The canoeists will combine the romance of Mark Twain's river with an A poem by WENDY EINHORN and a short story by LUCY intensive study of the economic and social history of the HONIG have been selected for presentation at the Spectra I Festival of the Maine Association for Women in the Fine region. and Performing Arts to be held at Westbrook College in The Mississippi was selected because of its critical role in Portland, Maine. American history. Apart from the Mediterranean, no body of water has figured so importantly in the history of a BRUCE BECQUE and MARK SIMONDS have completed people. It is an ideal living laboratory for examining the their feasibility study of residential, wood-fired electricity effect of human settlement on the environment. generation. They presented their findings at the Wood Heat Seminar IV and International Trade Show in The expedition will be chronicled by Norah Davis, a Portland, Oregon. freelance writer, and Joseph Holmes, a freelance HARRIS HYMAN's house in Vermont won an award for photographer. By combining their efforts, they will produce a book on the trip to be published by Sierra Club design in the Housing and Urban Development Passive Books in 1980. Also joining the expedition will be Barbara Solar Residential Design Competition and Demonstration, Gudmundson, who holds a doctorate in botany and water a new element in HUD's solar program conducted in resources. She hopes to conduct a river-long analysis of cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy and the water quality. COA students Rodd Pemble, Ellen Solar Energy Research Institute. The award was shared Kleyman, Nan Moyer, and Marti Gudmundson are with the architect, Robert Melik Finkle. planning to take the trip. WENDY EINHORN received a grant from the Maine State Commission on Arts and Humanities and the Bureau on The group will travel in three wood and canvas canoes, hand built by Maine's Elderly to conduct a ten week writing workshop Chestnut Canoes of New for senior citizens at Sonogee Estates in Bar Harbor. Team Brunswick, Canada. The teaching the course with Wendy are Ted Koffman and students from the "Aging in America Course." Plans are canoes will carry a maxi- being made to publish a collection of poems. mum of fourteen people plus gear down the river. The faculty and students Maine Poets Festival will camp in camp- grounds where possible May 25, 26, and 27, 1979 - A three-day celebration of the and elsewhere on islands art of poetry in Maine consisting of poetry readings, and sandbars. workshops and social events, the festival will bring together poets from throughout the state. COA faculty member, William Carpenter, and student, Katie VanDine, are coordinating the festival. Comings and Goings JOHN BIDERMAN, COA graduate, is Assistant Director to the Manager of Public Relations at the Jackson DORIS TWITCHELL ALLEN is teaching "Human Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. Nature" this term. She is best known for her work in psychodrama and for being the founder of Children's JOE PEACOCK, COA graduate, will be attending Yale International Summer Villages, an international exchange Divinity School in the fall of 1979. program for elementary school students. MICHAEL SHERWOOD, staff attorney for the Sierra Club CYNTHIA JORDAN is continuing her studies as a visiting Legal Defense Fund, Inc., comes to the College from San student in education at the University of Maine at Machias. Francisco, CA. He is teaching two courses in environmental law. LOIE HAYES, in preparation for her senior project, is ANN KUHN is teaching a philosophy course entitled, studying at the Women's Writers Center in Cazenovia, "East & West: Being and the Phenomenon of Religion.' New York. She studied under Martin Heidegger at the University of DENA TUCKER is studying photography as a visiting Munich in Germany and has taught at the University of student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Maine at Augusta. RICHARD BORDEN is teaching two psychology courses this term. He is visiting the College from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. His field of study is aggression and aggressive behavior. MARK MELNICOVE is teaching "Creative and Applied Photography." He is a freelance photographer, and will be exhibiting his works in the COA Gallery this spring. ANDREW PERIALE is teaching "The Wooden Actor," a puppetry course. He studied at the University of Maine at Orono and appeared in the original play, "As Others See Us," a project funded by the Maine Council for the Humanities. o ALICE LEEDS, COA graduate, is traveling to England where she has accepted an elementary school teaching position. JEFF BAKER, COA graduate, has been promoted to Transportation Coordinator for the Washington/Hancock County Community Action Project. STEPHEN PAPAZIDIS, COA graduate, has joined the Cathy Johnson prepares to print a picture in the newly staff at the Mount Desert Island YMCA. He is developing renovated COA darkroom. Mark Melnicove, who is and coordinating programs for persons with special needs teaching photography this term, designed and constructed and is in charge of the Island's Special Olympics. the facility which incorporates many innovative features.