March 1977 Nonprofit Organiz. College of the Atlantic U.S. Postage Paid Bar Harbor, Me. Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Permit #47 COA NEWS Energy Workshop Foundation Supports Students COA's Energy Conservation Workshop, a group of seven students A two-year grant of $40,000 has been awarded to COA by the and faculty member Roc Caivano, sponsored a public energy Board of Directors of The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, New workshop at the college March 5. York. The Foundation's funds will be used directly for student aid in the academic years 1977/78 and 1978/79. Speakers for the day included Richard Hill from University of The recent award marks seven years of support of COA by The Maine at Orono, Gary Dawbin of the Office of Energy Resources, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation. During the 1976/77 academic Dr. Joel Sprowles of Bates College, and COA's Roc Caivano. year, 25 COA students received support under The Noyes About 75 persons came for the day-long workshop, which Foundation grant. included discussions of weatherization and retrofitting, home heating (oil, wood, solar) and energy in the future. Association of American Colleges Faculty Associates Named Samuel and Mary Kay Eliot, COA vice-president and assistant to the president, attended the Association of American Colleges David Westphal, cinematographer, and Theodore Dunham, Jr., annual meeting in New Orleans in early February. astronomer and physicist, have been appointed Associate Members of the COA faculty. During the two-day session they attended panel discussions and lectures on such topics as "New Directions for Graduate Westphal, of Cranberry Isles, is interested in working on many Education," "Exploring the Dynamics of Change," "Teaching for stages of filmmaking with COA faculty and students. He is a Competence in Problem-Setting and Problem-Solving," and member of the University Film Association, and was a professor of "Society's Expectations of Higher Education." film at Brandeis University from 1967 to 1973. Dunham, of Chocurua, N.H., conducts research in spectroscopy at Harvard College Observatory and is scientific director of the New Faces Fund for Astrophysical Research, Inc. New York. Marianne Monteux, flutist with the Rameau Quartet and co-instructor of The Flute Study (with her husband, Claude Position Open Monteux, in Lamoine) will be a visiting faculty member spring term. She will establish a madrigal group and mixed chorus. COA's Admissions Office is seeking a COA alumnus to fill a Steven Andersen will join COA as a full-time faculty member six-month, full-time position as an admissions assistant. spring term. Andersen, who was a visiting faculty member winter The position will run from Aug. 1, 1977 through Jan. 31, 1978. term 1976, will offer Environmental Economics and Economics of The work will involve admissions work at COA, as well as travel Land-Use Planning spring term. for recruitment of students. Sentiel Rommel, professor of engineering and zoology at Any interested alumnus should contact Gail Stuart, Admissions, University of Maine at Orono, will lead an engineering study group College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor 04609. at COA spring term. (continued) Seniors' Final Projects Donald Brown, retired professor in anthropology, Boston University, will be a visiting faculty member spring term, offering Recently approved final projects by seniors include work in the two courses, Old World Archeology, and Cultural Ecology. areas of marine studies, education, cooperatives and myths. Jeff Baker's final project is on the coop system of Hancock and Washington Counties. He has been involved in work with food Internships cooperatives for the past five years. Marilyn Downs, who has worked with The Cranberry School Two students will begin internships spring term. since it evolved from a Learning Environments Workshop last Nan Moyer, a first-year student from Massachusetts, is to intern year, is going to write and illustrate a children's book, based on the as a legislative assistant to Lawrence "Skip" Greenlaw, folklore and oral history of MDI. D-Stonington, Maine. She will be working on marine-related Scott Kraus, a five-year member of Allied Whale, is compiling a legislation, such as oil conveyance laws, aquaculture site permits, catalogue of photographs of humpback whales. "The Effects of and clam ordinances. The internship is sponsored and financed by Visitor Use on Ocean Drive" are being studied by Hugh Coastal Resource Center. MacArthur. Sue Priest is doing her final project on "Myth and Susan Saxton, from Connecticut, is to work as a teacher and Human Ecology." counselor for the Maine Conservation School at Bryant Pond. Karen Roy Waters' final project is on site selection for Kevin Timoney finished an internship in March as a research aquaculture. Rick Waters is writing on marine research at COA. assistant for the Center for Energy and Environment Research in And David Winship is compiling a study of competency-based Puerto Rico. He was investigating the ecology of reservoirs as part education. of a Hydroelectric Reservoir Project. Tarn Studied Pottery Studio Final touches were added last week to the products of the A Trout Habitat Assessment of the Tarn has been completed by night-class pottery students. COA student Nina Zabinski, under supervision of faculty member COA's pottery studio, with complete facilities for making Fred Olday. The study was cosponsored by COA and Acadia stoneware pottery, is made available to the MDI community each National Park, within which borders the Tarn is located. term through a 10-week pottery course. Ten students were The Tarn, a shallow pond bordered by Route 3 on the east and enrolled in the winter class, including one MDI High School junior Dorr Mountain on the west, is known by many residents of Mount who received credit toward graduation Desert Island for its abundance of water lilies in the summer. The facilities at COA include a clay mixer, 10 potter's wheels, a Zabinski studied conditions in the Tarn which would limit trout glaze room, and 50 cu. ft. gas-fired kiln. Students are instructed in life. Her study determined that, "Very radical changes would have handbuilding, throwing on a wheel, glazing, and kiln firing. to be made in the Tarn to develop a trout fishery While the introduction of warm-water game fish such as bass might be Carole Beal taught the winter term course and Marilyn possible, it would not be desirable to encourage more fishing in McMullen will be teaching the spring term course, which is to such a small, accessible area." begin the week of March 28.