June 1978 X Nonprofit Organiz. College of the Atlantic U.S. Postage Paid SC Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Bar Harbor, Me. Permit #47 COA News College of the Atlantic's Sixth Commencement Celebration took place on Saturday, June 3, as this remarks. A musical blessing was also offered by its year's 23 recipients of the Human Ecology degree author Jackson Gillman, on piano, accompanied by welcomed family and friends to a joyous ceremony at Sally Swisher on flute and sung by Cathy Ramsdell. St. Saviour's Church in Bar Harbor. In the main address, faculty member and Senior Seniors entered the church to Bach's Brandenburg Advisor Elmer Beal, Jr. drew from the many ambitious Concerto #2, arranged and played for the occasion by final projects of this year's class, remarking that a COA music instructor Sally Lutyens on piano, and written transcript inadequately conveys the significant students Cathy Johnson on Violin, Jan Keller on flute, efforts made by COA graduates. The quality of the work and Liza Carter on recorder. done by this year's graduates, he said, contributed to Following a welcome by Cathy Ramsdell, Sally his sense that "something is being done about the roots Swisher played a duet for flute and piano of her own of serious world problems - human alienation from composition, accompanied by Sally Lutyens on the nature, from each other, and from ourselves." piano. Participation in the ceremony by other members The 23 degrees were conferred by Chairman of the of the class included Garrett Conover and Kevin Board of Trustees John C. Dreier and President Edward G. Kaelber. Timoney reading poetry, and Nina Zabinski, Michael Kendall, Jackson Gillman, and Joseph Peacock offering Following the commencement ceremony was a reception outdoors at the college, and a dance later in the evening at the Jordan Pond House. Graduates Internships Among plans for the summer and beyond made by this About 20 COA students will be serving internships this year's graduates are the following: summer. Among them are several in the area of education Lolly Cochran will return to the Hurricane Island including: ecology teaching assistant at Sandy Neck Outward Bound School, where she served her internship, Beach on Cape Cod; tutor and counselor in the Upward as a watch officer. Bound program at St. Lawrence University; and Peter Cohen will be staying in Florida where he has counselor in the Upward Bound program at St. Lawrence worked through the spring as a research assistant University; and counselor, instructor, and trip leader for studying porpoise language acquisition. the Tennessee Valley Wilderness School. Garrett Conover is returning to the Green Mountains of Other internships this summer include: field research Vermont where he will be a crew leader for the Long Trail on Cape Cod; crew leaders for the Youth Conservation Patrol, a position he held on internship from COA. Corps in Camden Hills and Mount Blue State Parks; Jim Frick will remain at COA in the new capacity of administrative assistant for the Boston Redevelopment admissions assistant. Authority; research assistant studying communication Jonathan Gormley is continuing in his already among Snowy Egrets and White Ibises in Florida; established position of Business Manager at the Mount assistant at the New England Health Foundation in Desert Island Biological Laboratory. Cambridge, Massachusetts; oceanographic research Tim Milne will be the piano player for the cast and crew assistant at the University of Delaware; and draftsman of the Deck House restaurant in Bass Harbor. and mapmaker for Landplan, a landscape architecture Bruce Philips will be date gatherer and monitor for a firm in Southport, Connecticut. study of Little Duck Island by the National Audubon Society. New Faces And Cathy Ramsdell has returned to Alaska as a seabird research assistant in the final year of faculty member Bill Drury's four-year seabird study. COA will be welcoming two new full-time administrative personnel during this summer. Marcia L. Dworak will be assuming the position of head librarian. Lynn Dermott, after seven years with COA, is leaving to become a full- Aquaculture Symposium time mother. Marcia comes to COA from Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois where she has served since 1974 as Assistant Professor of Library Instructional On May 13, COA hosted a symposium on the subject of Services. aquaculture as a possible future industry in Maine. The Ann B. Outzen will be coming aboard as the new Public agenda for the day-long meeting included discussions led Information Officer for COA. Ann will be replacing by experts in the fields of shellfish, Norwegian salmon, student intern Paul Beltramini who has held the job since phytoplankton, lobster nutrition, and business of Beth MacLeod's departure last March. Ann has been a aquaculture. The symposium was organized by COA resident of Bar Harbor for several years now and has over students Vicki Smith and Judith Schwartz. 10 years of diverse public relations experience. The playgrounds project was coordinated by Robin DeJong of Sullivan, Maine, who surveyed elementary school students across the island for their recommendations about playground needs. These recommendations, in the form of essays and drawings, were taken into consideration by members of the design class at the college. Final drawings were presented to and approved by the school principals and Island school superintendent Mary Helen White. Whale Watch Continues The Mount Desert Rock Whale Sighting Station began its sixth year of operation on May 30. Until last September the Rock, a small rocky island 25 miles off the coast of Mount Desert Island, was a manned Coast Guard Lightstation; whale watchers for the past five years have been allowed to work on the Rock as guests of the Coast Guard. Since September, however, Mount Desert Rock has been fully automated and there was some concern that the Rock would not be available as a sighting station The new COA designed and built playground structure at this year. Data collected on the Rock is very important to the Pemetic School. whale research since whale behavior can be observed and recorded at close range without the possibly disruptive influence of a boat. Playground Built Permission from the Coast Guard to use the Rock was granted on May 25 after lengthy negotiations carried out Playground equipment designed by students of Roc by Mount Desert Rock Whale Watch Coordinator and Caivano's winter term 3-D Design class for Mount Desert COA student Greg Stone and COA president Edward Island elementary schools, came off the drawing boards Kaelber with great help and support from Captain Smith and into the COA student shop during spring term. The of the Southwest Harbor Group of the United States Coast fourteen students in Merrill Bunker's spring term Guard, which maintains the lightstation. Carpentry and Building course, six of whom had Transportation for whale watchers on the Rock this participated in the design class, rounded up materials, summer will be provided by COA's boat Beluga. Back-up constructed, and transported the largely wooden transportation will be provided by the Island Queen, structures to sites at the Pemetic School in Southwest which, under the direction of COA alumnus and research Harbor and the Mount Desert Elementary School in assistant Scott Kraus, will be running whale and seabird Northeast Harbor. sighting trips out of Northeast Harbor this summer.