The College of the Atlantic Magazine Volume 2 | Number 1
WINTER 2006
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features
COA EDITOR
Donna Gold
COA’s Fifth President ~ p. 3
EDITORIAL BOARD
Noted Environmentalist, David Hales
John Anderson Sarah Barrett ’08 Richard J. Borden Nicholas Brazier ’06 Noreen Hogan ’91 Shawn Keeley ’00
Of Graffiti, Graft & Green Business ~ p. 14 Jay McNally ’84 and the Human Ecology of Electronic Discovery
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT
Bill Carpenter
From Undersea Chemistry to COA Presidency ~ p. 16 A Personal Look at Steve Katona’s Legacy by Gregory Stone ’82
ALUMNI CONSULTANTS
Shawn Keeley ’00 Jill Barlow-Kelley COP Y E D I TOR
Taking on the Big Picture ~ p. 26
Jennifer Hughes
Allied Whale “Graduates” Move into Environmental Policy
DESIGN
Mahan Graphics
The Colors of Susan Lerner ~ p. 28 A Pause for Reflection
PRINTING BY
JS McCarthy Printers, Augusta, Maine
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A Conversation with Leslie C. Brewer ~ p. 32 The Man Who Has Made Things Happen from the Very Beginning
Haeckel Project ~ p. 35 The Artistry of Nature, the Natural Science of Art
Falling ~ p. 38 A Short Story by Becky Buyers-Basso ’81
Poetry ~ p. 43 Poems by Shamsher Virk ’07
departments Letter from the President ............p. 2 COA Beat ........................................p. 4 Class Notes ......................................p. 44 Faculty & Community Notes........p. 49 Remembering ~ p. 51 Josh Jones, Samuel Hamill, Jesse Tucker, David McGiffert
Annual Report ~ p. 52 Scenes from a Homecoming ~ p. 64 Amy Toensing ’93 Follows the Colorado Lynx Restoration for National Geographic
Grinning in the Garden ~ p. 65 The Human Ecology Essay Revisited
Steven Katona President Kenneth Hill Academic Dean, Associate Dean of Academic Services John Anderson Associate Dean for Advanced Studies Andrew Campbell Associate Dean of Student Life David Feldman Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Andrew Griffiths Administrative Dean Karen Waldron Associate Dean of Faculty BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Chairman Elizabeth D. Hodder Vice Chair Casey Mallinckrodt Vice Chair Ronald E. Beard Secretary Leslie C. Brewer Treasurer TRUSTEES
Edward McC. Blair, Sr. Life Trustee
Eliot Coleman Kelly Dickson, M.Phil., ’97 William F. Dohmen Alice Eno David H. Fischer William G. Foulke, Jr. Timothy Fuller, ’03 James M. Gower Life Trustee George B. E. Hambleton Charles Hewett Sherry F. Huber John N. Kelly Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77 Elizabeth & Peter Loring Susan Storey Lyman Life Trustee Suzanne Folds McCullagh Sarah A. McDaniel ’93 Jay McNally ’84 Stephen G. Milliken Philip J. Moriarty Phyllis Anina Moriarty William V. P. Newlin Daniel Pierce Helen Porter Cathy L. Ramsdell ’78 John Reeves John Rivers Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Walter Robinson, M.D. Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. Life Trustee Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Donald B. Straus Life Trustee Ann F. Sullivan Cody van Heerden John Wilmerding
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Letter from the Board
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