COA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Volume 8 · Number 1 · Spring 2012 Editorial Editor Editorial Guidance
Editorial Consultant Alumni Consultants
Donna Gold Heather Albert-Knopp '99 John Anderson Rich Borden Darron Collins '92 Julia De Santis '12 Michael Griffith '09 Jennifer Hughes Chris Petersen Matt Shaw '11 Scott Swann '86, MPhil '93 Bonnie Tai Bill Carpenter Jill Barlow-Kelley Dianne Clendaniel
dEsign Art Director Designer
Rebecca Hope Woods Danielle Meier '08
Coa administration President Dean of Admission Dean of Development Associate Dean for Faculty Administrative Dean Academic Dean Dean of Student Life Associate Dean for Advanced Studies
Darron Collins '92 Sarah Baker Lynn Boulger Ken Cline Andrew Griffiths Kenneth Hill Sarah Luke Sean Todd
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t takes an island to nurture a college, a college to nurture an island, and a designer to nurture a magazine. To celebrate College of the Atlantic's fortieth year, COA's first alumnus president, and the fifteenth issue (has it really been that many?) of
COA, the magazine, we are introducing a new design. Speaking personally, as editor, I have been gratified by the appreciation with which COA is always greeted — and frustrated with my inability to get critical feedback. Turns out, I should have been asking designers. Since January, designers Rebecca Hope Woods and Danielle Meier '08, with the help of Darron Collins '92, our president, have come up with numerous ideas for enhancing what you are now holding in your hands. Rebecca and Dani have the kind of eyes that see beyond what is, to what could be. Of course, this penetrating vision is what launched College of the Atlantic decades ago. The vision of our founding trustees, Leslie C. Brewer and Father James Gower, and the subsequent trustees, presidents, faculty, staff, alumni, and students, is celebrated every day at COA. This issue honors the very real impact that this vision has had on Mount Desert Island — and the nurturing that MDI has in turn given to our students, offering them a whole island as a campus, teaching all of us the meaning
Coa Board of trustEEs Ronald E. Beard Leslie C. Brewer Nikhit D'Sa '06 William G. Foulke, Jr. Amy Yeager Geier George B.E. Hambleton Elizabeth D. Hodder Philip B. Kunhardt III '77 Anthony Mazlish Suzanne Folds McCullagh Sarah A. McDaniel '93 Linda McGillicuddy
Jay McNally '84 Philip S.J. Moriarty Phyllis Anina Moriarty Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Walter Robinson Nadia Rosenthal Marthann Lauver Samek Henry L.P. Schmelzer William N. Thorndike, Jr. Joan Van der Grift Paul Van der Grift Cody van Heerden
of community, and making it possible for COA to welcome
life trustees James M. Gower Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. John N. Kelly Susan Storey Lyman William V.P. Newlin John Reeves Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. Clyde E. Shorey, Jr.
trustee Emeriti David Hackett Fischer Sherry F. Huber Daniel Pierce Helen Porter Cathy L. Ramsdell '78 John Wilmerding
Thank you all.
so many passionate, smart, creative students, and then to send them off into the world — some to start theaters and theater companies on MDI, and some to save whales and oceans halfway around the globe.
Donna Gold, COA editor
The faculty, students, trustees, staff, and alumni of College of the Atlantic envision a world where people value creativity, intellectual achievement, and diversity of nature and human cultures. With respect and compassion, individuals construct meaningful lives for themselves, gain appreciation of the relationships among all forms of life, and safeguard the heritage of future generations.
COA is published biannually for the College of the Atlantic community. Please send ideas, letters, and submissions (short stories, poetry, and revisits to human ecology essays) to: 9:39:43 AM
COA Magazine, College of the Atlantic 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 dgold@coa.edu
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Front and back cover: The cover photographs are the work of Ben Macko '01, who also teaches eighth-grade math at Conners Emerson Elementary School. Ben makes small sculptures out of wire and granite. These photographs that Ben took of one of his sculptures reflect much of what COA inspires: campus and island, local and global, artist and educator, heart and mind, but most of all, the immediacy of the present and the hope of the future. –DG