March 1978 Nonprofit Organiz. College of the Atlantic U.S. Postage Paid Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Bar Harbor, Me. Permit #47 COA News which is to be built spring term by COA students in Merrill Bunker's carpentry class. Recycled materials, including Playgrounds discarded elmwood trees, old tires, and sawmill scraps are to be used to keep costs low. Robin de Jong will be working as Designed coordinator of the playgrounds project. Swings, skating rinks, and "a great big, wavy slide, curly, bumpy, with tunnels," were among the recommendations made by Mount Desert Island elementary school students when asked by COA students what equipment they would like to see added to their playgrounds. Students of Roc Caivano's 3-D Design class joined with School Union #98 administrators and teachers over winter term to plan playground additions for the island's elementary schools: Emerson and Connors in Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert Elementary School in Northeast Harbor, Pemetic in Southwest Harbor, and Tremont Elementary School Using dozens of letters and drawings submitted by the elementary school children, and asking themselves what they might like to have on a playground, the 15 students in Caivano's class came up with equipment ranging from an inviting maze and tunnel to be made of different lengths of logs to a fanciful Proposed Northeast Harbor Funhouse. Design by Lisa swing with pony heads and tails. All plans were submitted to Damtoft, Lisa Zouck, and Lisa Hawkins. school principals for review at the end of winter term. Drawing by Zouck. The towns have approved funds for the new equipment, College Exchanges New Faces COA faculty and staff recently welcomed visits from An introductory course in entomology, the study of insects, will representatives of two schools to discuss possibilities for be offered spring term by guest instructor Norman S. Bailey of greater student and faculty exchanges. Swans Island. Bailey is co-founder and trustee of the Swans Marlboro College President Thomas Ragle, Dean of the Island Marine Station. He was Chairman of the Department of College Robert Skeele, and Professor of Physics and Sciences at Bradford College for 20 years and an instructor for Astronomy John McArthur spent a day at COA meeting with three summers at the National Science Foundation's Summer COA President Edward Kaelber and several faculty members Institutes in Marine Biology at Bowdoin College. to discuss means of making exchanges of faculty and staff Merrill C. "Tinker" Bunker, of Bar Harbor, is joining the COA easier. faculty to teach carpentry and construction. Bunker is a In April, Ed Kaelber and several COA faculty members plan carpenter, woodworking instructor, and sign maker. He was to travel to Marlboro, Vermont to return the visit and continue for 20 years a research assistant at the Jackson Laboratory and discussion of exchanges. has been a cytogenetic consultant. Similar discussions have been held with representatives of University of Maine at Orono, which has already been partner Writing instructor for spring term will be Wendy Einhorn, in numerous exchanges with COA. (Two faculty members, published poet and English instructor. Einhorn's poetry has Susan Zell and Sentiel Rommel, have both shared appointments appeared in New Maine Writing, Poet's Gallery, The between UMO and COA.) Coldspring Journal, Voices of the Atlantic, and to So. Solon UMO President Howard R. Neville and Vice-President for Press Poems-on-Postcards Series. She has done graduate study Research Fred Hutchinson visited COA in January, spending a in writing at the University of Washington, and has been a day with students, faculty and staff. This visit was returned by Poet-in-the-Schools at Mount Desert Island High School and COA faculty member Dan Kane and several students. Southern Aroostook Community High School. Cinematographer David Westphal, of Cranberry Isles, a Guest Artist Faculty Associate of COA, will be teaching a course in Advanced Filmmaking spring term. Westphal's latest film, Wood will be taken in hand by students of guest artist Tilo Shinto and Its Art, was made for Japan Society of New York. Kaufman, sculptor from Stockbridge, Mass., who will teach He has done films for the National Science Foundation, creative woodworking as well as the skills of basic joinery and National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Broadcasting carpentry spring term. Service, universities, and corporations. Kaufman was for 12 years shop director in creative woodwork at the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge. He has done marine woodwork, trained Internships apprentices, taught woodworking in secondary schools, and COA's position in public relations will be filled by shown his sculpture in galleries in New York, New Jersey, student/intern Paul Beltramini spring term. Beltramini has Connecticut and New Hampshire. done extensive writing while at COA, including a feature article published in the Ellsworth American. He will be Briefly continuing the public information work of Beth MacLeod, who will be leaving COA after two years of public relations work. A luncheon for COA trustees and guests was hosted in New Health and nutrition are career interests for Priscilla Bright, York City February 1, by Trustee Donald B. Straus. Dr. Rene who will intern spring term with the New England Health Dubos, retired Rockefeller University microbiologist, and past Foundation in Cambridge. Bright will spend one month COA trustee, spoke on the importance of the humanities as an preparing to teach a seminar on "Soil Fertility and its Relation ingredient in helping people understand their environment. to the Nutritional Quality of Plants", for the Foundation's The Maine State Energy Resources Office has awarded a $3,000 Nutrition and Holistic Health Conference in May. Following the grant to COA. Part of the grant will be used to finish the conference, she will apprentice with the doctor and staff of the student-designed and -constructed workshop, where Foundation, working in sales, information and public relations, woodworking classes are now held. The grant will also support and counseling. systems-monitoring of the three solar houses on Norway Drive. An interest in ornithology led Wendy Greene to her spring Students were involved in the design and construction phases term internship as research assistant to Cornell graduate of these three houses. student Peter Wrege, who is studying communication among The first formal evaluation of COA's environmental design Snowy Egrets and White Ibises in Florida. curriculum, supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), was held Monday and COA Birdwatchers Tuesday, Feb. 6 and 7 at COA. The evaluating team included Walter Hill, Richard Hill, Robert Patterson, Mel Cote, Seldon A brigade of COA bird watchers is spending spring break in Bernstein, and COA faculty and staff involved in the design Everglades National Park, Florida, hosted by a founding curriculum. trustee of COA, John Good, who is now superintendent of that Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) monies available park. to COA students has nearly doubled over the last year, These are not casual bird watchers, but students of COA according to COA Director of Financial Aid Ted Koffman. faculty member in ornithology Will Russell, who is assisted in About 42 COA students, 35 percent of enrollment, are leading this extended field trip by COA alumnus Craig currently receiving some form of financial aid: work-study, Kesselheim. National Direct Student Loan, COA gifts, or BEOG. Twenty The 15 students on the 10-day trip will split into three groups students have received federal BEOG assistance this year. for special study projects while in the Everglades. One group will be studying the feeding ecology of water birds; another will Echo, COA's research log, welcomes in its latest issue a study the behavioral patterns of colonial nesting herons; and contribution by COA Trustee John Drier. "Alaskan Journey" the third will work on census techniques for certain indigenous tells of John and Asa Dreir's trip to Alaska in September 1977. species. Trustees, alumni, and past faculty members of COA are invited Bald eagle censusing, and taxonomic studies of the Great to submit descriptive or analytic papers to Echo Editors Dodie Jordan and Paul Beltramini. Blue and "Great White" Herons will be done for Everglades National Park.