December 1977 College of the Atlantic Nonprofit Organiz. U.S. Postage Paid Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Bar Harbor, Me. Permit #47 COA News Island Resources Anne Kozak of Bar Harbor will be the winter term instructor for COA's ongoing writing seminar. Kozak has taught English COA faculty and students joined Mount Desert Island teachers at St. John Fisher College, Indiana University and Lansing and representatives of other island institutions for a Community College. "Community Resources Workshop" Friday, October 7. And Peter Roy, Ellsworth attorney and partner in Markos The workshop, sponsored by School Union #98, was an and Roy, a graduate of the University of Maine Law School, opportunity for island educators - primary, secondary, and introduce COA students to "Legal Entanglements in Everyday college - to discover what "human resources" are available in Life". their own backyard, Mount Desert Island. Abouth ten faculty members, ten students and two staff members from COA participated in the workshop held at MDI Captain's License Course High School. They described work going on at COA such as A 14-week U.S. Coast Guard Captain's License Prep Course whale research, filmmaking, nuclear power studies, and will be offered by COA beginning February 4. organic agriculture. COA's public programs - speakers series, The course, to be taught by COA faculty member Susan gallery, and film series were also described for workshop Mehrtens, will meet for two hours each Saturday morning. participants. Topics to be reviewed include: rules of the road, safety, construction of vessels, weather for mariners, marine New Faces electronics, engine maintenance, signalling, piloting, plotting, and first-aid. COA welcomes six new faculty members winter term. Visiting Mehrtens is a U.S.C.G. Captain, holds a a Navigator's Rating faculty will offer courses in psychology, writing, weaving and in the U.S. Power Squadron, and has seven years experience. law, and permanent faculty have been appointed in engineering The course is open to the public at a fee of $50. Interested and contracting/building. persons should contact Mehrtens at COA by January 13. Doris Twitchell Allen, professor emeritus in psychology from the University of Cincinnati, will be teaching a course in psychodrama and offering several psychodrama workshops to Community Support the COA community. Doris Allen lives in Trenton, Maine. COA wishes to thank the Mount Desert Island businesspersons Harris Hyman, engineer and surveyor from Middlebury, who have recently made financial contributions to COA which Vermont, will offer a course winter term in major systems for will serve as matching funds in the College Accreditation residential buildings. Hyman has been an independent Awards Program of the C.I.T. Foundation, Inc. consultant for civil, structural and environmental engineering, Businesspersons who have thus far contributed matching computer programming, and land surveying. funds include: Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Co., Bar Harbor; Cabinet-making, furniture-making and fine carpentry will be Dr. Robert A. Beekman, Bar Harbor; Criterion Theatre, Bar taught by Jamie Johnston, self-employed cabinetmaker and Harbor; Don's Shop & Save, Bar Harbor; Echo Vista carpenter from East Blue Hill. Restaurant, Mt. Desert; Frank M. Graham & Co., Bar Harbor; Susan Nestel, self-employed handweaver and instructor from Mt. Desert Cleaners, Inc., Northeast Harbor; S.T. Tracy Shop, Longmeadow, Mass., will be offering a course in weaving Northeast Harbor; Lee S. Wilbur & Co., Manset; Dr. Gordon S. handskills and the textile world. Young, Bar Harbor. "Latina vivit" farms and commercial truck farms. Andersen, an agriculture and resource economist, is co-authoring a book on world food Susan Mehrten's interest in Latin flourished rather unexpect- problems. edly at COA this fall. Mehrtens, who joined COA as faculty Their combined interests created a course covering the U.S. member in history this fall, after six years of teaching at agricultural system, looking at marketing, support industries, Queens College, mentioned that anyone interested in an integrated pest management, production functions, labor informal Latin study group might see her. To her surprise, practices and problems, size efficiencies and energy use. eight students, more than the number of students in many COA The class's survey, which seeks to know more about classes, came to her with interest serious enough to warrant small-scale farming practices in the U.S., was sent to more than formation of a course for credit. 450 agricultural experimental stations, state cooperative Students are taking the course for a variety of reasons: to extension services, soil conservation departments, and farmers' help in the study and use of English grammar and vocabulary; organizations across the country. to use as a tool for work in fields such as sciences and law; to Lepcio will be using the results of the class's survey during read classical literature. her internship in the office of Rep. George Brown (D-Calif.), a The class is not attempting classical literature yet, but member of the agricultural sub-committee. She will intern Mehrtens hopes they may be by spring term. She dreams of winter term as a legislative assistant, focusing her efforts on having students at COA who have the skills and interest in the Family Farm Act, a proposal by Brown for governmental Latin which would allow them to assist in some of her research. support of family farms. She is working on a biography of a 15th century Dutch countess, whose letters, household notes and legal documents Off-Campus Projects are in Old French and Latin. For winter term, however, the Latin class at COA will Internships, independent studies and final projects lead many continue to work on vocabulary and grammer: laboro, laboras, students to work off-campus. Of the students involved in laborat. off-campus work during fall and winter terms, the majority have gone no further than the Hancock County area to find Farms Focus of Study experiences in their fields of interest. Lolly Cochran completed her final project work fall term with What do you think is the single most effective effort the seventh grade science and math classes at Pemetic School in government could make to encourage family farms? is a Southwest Harbor. She worked directly with Pemetic teacher question asked in a survey conducted by members of the Cindy Edwardson. Agricultural Economics course which was team-taught fall Tripp Royce and Mary Beth Deller, on an independent study term by faculty member Stephen Andersen and student Andy project with the Washington-Hancock Community Agency Lepcio. (WHCA), developed energy conservation curriculum packets Lepcio, a second-year student from Weston, Mass., was and presented them to high schools throughout the two administrator last year of a Land-Use Workshop at COA, she counties. managed the college gardens during the summer, and Also through the WHCA, a student yet to be chosen will be coordinated harvesting this fall. She has been a farm worker in organizing a Farmers Market in Hancock County. This project Massachusetts and New Hampshire on community project will involve inventorying producers, establishing needs, and