COLLEGE OF M THE ATLANTIC NEWSLETTER COA's 1979 graduating class joins hands in song at ceremonies held at the Shrine. Photo by Kay Hudgens. GRADUATION At graduation ceremonies companied by kazoos play- TOFT's intership involved held at the COA campus in ing Pomp and Circum- working at a graphics firm June, 19 seniors received stance) marched off to in San Francisco, Cali- the Bachelor of Arts in attend a champagne recep- fornia, where she wrote, Human Ecology. President tion held in their honor at illustrated, and designed a Edward G. Kaelber pre- the terrace. Later that children's book for her sided over the ceremonies evening a dance at the senior project. JOAN which included brief read- Jordan Pond House was FEELY developed market- ings by graduates, choral enjoyed by the graduates ing information and strate- presentations, and a grad- and their families and gy for Mount Desert Island uation address by Richard friends. area craftspeople for her Davis, COA faculty in Once again, COA's grad- internship. Her senior pro- philosophy. Davis said that uates have addressed ject was a study of alle- if there is a distinctive themselves to the study of lopathy in organic garden- feature to this class as a Human Ecology in Dif- ing. During her internship, whole, it is the attention ferent ways. PAUL BEL- BROOKIE GALLAGHER which they have given to TRAMINI interned as COA was a draftsperson for clarifying their values, the public relations coordinator Herrick Corporation in Blue depth of the commitments, and produced an island Hill, Maine. Her senior and their continuing efforts forestry management book- project was a study of social to explore and live them. let for the Maine Coast change movements and He also said that world Heritage Trust for his strategies. CHUCK GEM- making in the next decades senior project. For her ME interned as an outdoor will not be a matter of internship, PRISCILLA education leader at the flashes of lightning or steel BRIGHT worked at the New Princeton Education Center girders, but rather of the England Health Founda- in New Jersey. For his quiet strength which knows tion, a private clinic that senior project, he develop- even in tragedy that life is stresses preventive medi- ed and implemented a joy and never abandons cine and later coordinated a natural science program for hope. After degrees were pilot course for a health MDI special education stu- conferred by Ed Kaelber, curriculum at COA as her dents. During her first the graduation class (ac- senior project. LISA DAM- internship, LOIS HAYES was a teaching assistant in During his internship, COA campus master plan. a private elementary RICH MOSS was a coun- JAMES SHAMBERG in- school; her second intern- selor and an environmental terned as an assistant to a ship was spent as a counse- education coordinator at local soil scientist and site lor and leader with the the Emma Kaufmann JCC evaluator. His senior pro- Maine Youth Conservation Camp outside of Pitts- ject was a paper entitled, Corps. Her senior project burgh, Pennsylvania. He "Human-Land Relation- was a collection of her own prepared an analysis of the ships: A Crisis of Percep- poetry and an essay on the constitutional background tion and Piety." DAVID art and politics of Olga of the National Environ- WERSAN worked at Pine Broumas. BOB HOLLEY mental Protection Act for Tree Legal Assistance dur- interened as a tutor/coun- his senior project. During ing his internship and later selor for an Upward Bound his internship, STEVE completed a study of the Program in Canton, New ORANSKY was a carpen- organization of parents' York. His senior project ter/builder on renovation advocacy groups for special brought him closer to his projects in Bar Harbor and education for his senior interest in education when Seal Harbor. He designed project. WENDY GREENE he became an observer/ and developed a plan for a completed an internship as teacher in the MDI High passive solar house for his a research assistant study- School "Focus" program. senior project. CHELI ing shore birds on Merritt SUE INCHES fulfilled her JOHNSON PINGREE in- Island, Florida, and is internship as an employee terned as an apprentice on completing a bird study on of Clivus Multrum, Inc., a an organic farm, and her Little Duck Island for her distributor of composting senior project was a feasibi- senior project. GREG toilets. Her senior project lity study for a small dairy. MERRILL completed an was an analysis and feasibi- TRIPP ROYCE's intership internship as an outdoor lity study of the processing was spend designing edu- education teacher at the and distribution of organic cational materials on alter- Tennessee Valley Wilder- food in Maine. KENT native energy sources for ness School and is develop- KATZ interned as a volun- use in secondary schools by ing an outdoor education teer mental health worker the Maine Audubon Socie- program for the Homestead at Butler Day Hospital in ty. His senior project was a Project, a live-in school for Providence, Rhode Island. landscape design for the troubled youths. His senior project was a paper entitled, "The Myth of Human Ecology." AN- DREA LEPCIO worked in WINTER SHORT TERM Representative George Brown's (D-Calif.) Wash- COA's Winter Short Term and Peace; Sources of In- ington office on agricultural offers a concentrated pro- vention; Drawing Natural policy legislation for her gram of study which History Subjects; Classical internship. For her senior enables students to spend Mechanics; Surviving In project, she co-coordinated the four-week session in a and Studying the Winter a series of statewide single, intensive learning Environment; Statistical meetings aimed at develop- experience. Visiting faculty Methods for Social ing new agricultural poli- members add a special Sciences; Folk Songs and cies for Maine. WHITNEY dimension to the Short Dances of Eastern Europe; MASSEY was involved in Term, and courses are also Cell Biology; Residential marine research at the open to visiting students Construction; and The Poli- College of Marine Studies, from other academic insti- tics of Design. Persons University of Delaware tutions. Scheduled for interested in enrolling in during his internship and January, 1980, the term the Winter Short Term are completed a physical ocea- offers twelve courses in- asked to contact the Col- nographic study of heat cluding: The Truth About lege's Director of Admis- transfer over Frenchman Families; Editing the Pride sions for a brochure and an Bay for his senior project. of Maine Fair Tapes; War application form.