Philanthropy Report • Fiscal Year 2025

EDITOR

Kelly Dickson MPhil ’97

DESIGN

Corey Blake Z Studio Design

Cover: Greta Bernier ’27 sketches the intricate patterns of birch bark during a drawing class. Photo by Sage Lach ’28

Board of trustees

OFFICERS

Cynthia Baker Chair WASHINGTON, DC

Martie Samek Vice chair NEW YORK, NY

Ronald Beard Secretary BAR HARBOR, ME

Clay Corbus Treasurer SAN FRANCISCO, CA

BOARD MEMBERS

Michael Boland ‘94 BAR HARBOR, ME

Joyce Cacho WASHINGTON DC

Heather Richards Evans VERO BEACH, FL

Allison Fundis ’03 NEW HAVEN, VT

Beth Gardiner LONDON, UK

Marie Griff ith ST. LOUIS, MO

Andy Griff iths BAR HARBOR, ME

Chris Groobey MIAMI, FL

Cookie Horner BAR HARBOR, ME

LIFE & EMERITI TRUSTEES

David Hackett Fischer WAYLAND, MA

William Foulke, Jr. BEDFORD, NY

Howard Lapsley NEEDHAM, MA

Casey Mallinckrodt DENVER, CO

Chandreyee Mitra ’01 AURORA, IL

Roland Reynolds ALEXANDRIA, VA

Laura McGiffert Slover WASHINGTON, DC

Laura Stone NEW YORK, NY

Stephen Sullens NEW YORK, NY

Amy Geier SANTE FE, NM

Samuel Hamill, Jr. PRINCETON NJ

Elizabeth Hodder CAMBRIDGE, MA

John Kelly YARMOUTH, ME

Anthony Mazlish CHEVY CHASE, MD

Philip Moriarity HINSDALE, IL

Jay McNally ’84 CENTENNIAL PARK, AUSTRALIA

Claudia Turnbull GREENWICH, CT

Cathy Ramsdell PORTLAND, ME

Hamilton Robinson, Jr. NEW YORK, NY

Nadia Rosenthal NORTHEAST HARBOR, ME

Will Thorndike BOSTON, MA

EX OFFICIO

Sylvia Torti President BAR HARBOR, ME

Dear friends,

From our classrooms alive with conversation to farms and research fi eld stations, College of the Atlantic hums with purposeful curiosity. It’s a place where learning and life meet, and where people work together to advance equity and sustainability through daily practices rooted in experience, collaboration, and care. What continues to strike me about this community is how deeply our mission is lived, not just spoken. Human ecology isn’t just an academic framework at COA—it shapes how we approach problems, relationships, and possibilities. It calls us to connect ideas that might otherwise remain apart. It asks us to listen as carefully as we speak, and to act with integrity even when the path forward is complex.

Two recent acknowledgements highlight COA’s deep and lasting commitments to our environment, our people, and our island home.

For the tenth consecutive

year, College of the Atlantic has been named the #1 Green College in the nation by The Princeton Review, a ranking based not only on energy or composting metrics, but on the high value we place on both environmental and social sustainability in our curriculum and in our operations. Pairing with this is the recent COA Economic Impact Analysis (see page 5). The report highlights the college’s contribution to social sustainability, demonstrating how our students, staff, and visitors generate more than $17 million in economic activity annually while supporting nearly 200 jobs across Hancock County, and how our alumni go on to enrich the region.

Additionally, from 2020–2024 alone, COA’s capital projects generated a cumulative $29.2 million in added value to the state and local economy, and supported more than 300 jobs during construction, renovation, and property improvement efforts. The college’s combined expenditures, wages, and student spending generated approximately $1.2 million in state and local tax revenues, plus another $108,987 in direct property tax payments.

The work you’ll learn about in these pages is both local and far-reaching. It starts in the classroom, in the fi eld, and in discussions around shared tables, and it extends outward through the purposeful lives our students and alumni are building.

Giving at a glance $10.2M OVERALL GIVING AND PLEDGES

3,903 GIFTS

1,638 DONORS

Their projects, research, and ventures refl ect the same question that drives us all: How can we live responsibly and with imagination, building communities and enterprises that sustain both people and the planet?

As you explore the report, I hope you’ll feel the same excitement and confi dence we experience on campus. Your interest and generosity make this work possible. I invite you to continue supporting the students, faculty, and staff whose efforts are shaping meaningful change—here on campus and beyond.

With gratitude,

Sylvia Torti, PhD President

FINANCIALS

ANNUAL FUND AND RESTRICTED GIFTS

Fiscal year 2025 was a year of transition at the highest levels of Advancement. It marked our first full year with new president Sylvia Torti, and the last year of Shawn Keeley’s tenure leading the Advancement Team. From July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025 COA donors contributed nearly $1,585,000 to the college’s Annual Fund. While shy of last year’s peak of $1,670,000, this represents an increase in the number of supporters: 1,638 donors contributed this fiscal year vs 1,334 donors in the last fiscal year. Alumni giving also increased, from 20% to 23%. The amount raised in February’s 24-Hour Challenge was $336,213—the best yet, with a record number 798 donors participating, the majority being alumni. COA also received a number of generous restricted gifts. Leading the way was a gift of $2,385,000 from the Shelby and Gale Davis Charitable Fund to support the Davis United World College Scholars. Friends and family of longtime trustee Bill Newlin endowed a faculty lecture in his memory, and a foundation pledged $750,000 to rebuild our campus IT system. Overall, a total of $10.2 million was raised over FY25 for the Annual Fund and special projects. Many thanks to all who supported the college last year!

ANNUAL FUND

ENDOWMENT

Global financial markets continue to show growth with COA endowment earning a return of +9.1% over the course of FY25. This performance moved the COA endowment from the $85.3 million mark on June 30, 2024, to $90.5 million on June 30, 2025. The COA endowment has returned approximately +9.1% on investment since its 2011 inception. Our annual endowment draw represents a vital source of funding for program operations, equating to roughly $10,000 in annual revenue per student for the 2024-2025 academic year.

ENDOWMENT

Why I give

While at COA, Malia Demers ’18 studied education and food systems, with a focus on how these interconnected structures can better serve people and the planet. “COA taught me how to learn, how to ask good questions, connect and communicate ideas, and take action, which prepared me well for my role as manager of program impact for FoodCorps Maine,” she says. “Today I run a program that partners with school districts to support them in making sustainable, student- and communitydriven changes to their meal programs, from incorporating more local and scratch-cooked foods to involving students in menu decisions. I believe COA is worth supporting because it empowers students to become thoughtful, systems-minded leaders who create meaningful change in their communities.”

An incredible undergraduate experience

Porcia Manandhar ’17 recently earned a PhD in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Part of her thesis work involved investigating locally suitable solutions to support COVID-19 vaccine and routine immunization acceptance and uptake in Nepal, where she is from. Porcia believes that her time at COA prepared her for postgraduate success.

“From day one, Dave Feldman provided unwavering encouragement and guidance, directing me to classes that aligned with the A-levels system I entered with and supporting me throughout my time at COA. I was first introduced to programming languages from his classes. John Anderson, Chris Petersen, Helen Hess, and Steve Ressel played pivotal roles in fostering opportunities for me to conduct field-based research on the islands, which led to academic and summer biomedical internships at The Jackson Laboratory, where I met another great set of academic mentors. Netta van Vliet supervised my senior project in medical anthropology. Her mentorship gave me the confidence to conduct field research, which later helped me develop expertise in my public health career.”

The power of unrestricted giving

An unrestricted gift to the Annual Fund is one of the most powerful ways to support College of the Atlantic. Tuition and endowment revenue combined are not sufficient to meet all operating expenses; unrestricted donations close this gap and allow us to provide financial aid for students, offer innovative education programs, and maintain our campus.

Unrestricted gifts give us the flexibility to allocate resources where they will make the greatest difference. For a college of our size, COA has an outsized impact.

When you give to COA, you are making an investment in people, this place we love, and the planet.

PEOPLE

At College of the Atlantic—the first institution of higher ed to offer a degree in human ecology— education is interdisciplinary and hands-on, connecting students directly to the natural and social systems that shape our world.

Our field stations—Beech Hill Farm, Peggy Rockefeller Farm, the Edward McC. Blair Marine Research Station on Great Duck Island, the Alice Eno Field Research Station on Great Duck Island, our North Woods Ways property, and the Yucatán program—are living laboratories where students can gain confidence, learn new skills, conduct research, and become leaders in environmental sustainability. Additionally, the Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery—an sustainable enterprise accelerator—allows students to earn credit while walking the entrepreneurial high wire with a safety net and support. Unique opportunities like these help our students innovate and think outside the box, preparing them to be the problem solvers of tomorrow.

EUN-JAE NORRIS ’26

Unrestricted gifts support students like Eun-Jae Norris, a third-year student exploring the intersection between marine biology and creative writing. Eun-Jae received national recognition as a winner of the Norton Writer’s Prize, an award open to undergraduates across the country. Eun-Jae’s essay, “A Guided Tour of the Underworld,” stood out for its vivid exploration of the communities that form around deep-sea whalefalls—massive marine corpses that sink to the ocean floor and become entire ecosystems.

PLACE

College of the Atlantic’s roots run deep on Mount Desert Island and in Hancock County. As the college continues to grow, so does its economic and cultural influence. A new economic impact study—prepared by RKG Associates, Inc., in collaboration with The Musson Group and College of the Atlantic—evaluated how COA contributes to the Bar Harbor community, the MDI region, and the greater Hancock County economy.

Learn more: coa.edu/economicimpact

COA alumni have global impact, working in 70+ countries as scientists, educators, policymakers, and entrepreneurs, advancing sustainability and social change. They are shaping climate policy, expanding food security, and leading important conservation initiatives.

ANEESA KHAN ’17

Aneesa studied international environmental law and politics at COA. She also explored themes of environmental inequity and justice through visual storytelling and graphic narrative. She went on to earn an MSc in environmental policy and regulation from the London School of Economics. Based in London, Aneesa now serves as senior communications officer at Oil Change International, a nonprofit organization that works to expose the true costs of fossil fuels and advance a just transition to clean energy.

GREG STONE ’82

Greg Stone—one of the world’s most influential ocean scientists—began his career at COA with Steve Katona and Allied Whale. He has advised the UN and appeared in documentaries for Discovery and National Geographic. Greg cofounded the Ocean Health Index, redefining what a “healthy ocean” means by integrating human use with ecological well-being—a framework now shaping global ocean governance. He now serves as chief ocean scientist for The Metals Company, guiding research on sustainably sourcing metals essential to electric vehicles and a renewable-energy future.

DAVIS UNITED WORLD COLLEGE SCHOLARS PROGRAM 25th Anniversary

Twenty-five years ago, eight students of the incoming class of 2004 traveled to Bar Harbor, Maine to start their college education. Hailing from China, Poland, Ethiopia, Nepal, Albania, Zimbabwe, and Belarus, they had only this in common: they’d recently graduated from one of the many United World colleges located around the globe.

Most had never heard of Mount Desert Island, much less College of the Atlantic. Some had never seen snow. They were recruited as part of a new scholarship program to bring UWC graduates to US colleges, and were eager to have an opportunity to study in the States with a full scholarship. So to Maine, they came.

Since then, an additional 430 United World College (UWC) graduates have come to COA as part of the Davis United World College Scholars Program with an investment of over $40 million. Shawn Keeley ’00, who currently serves as the college’s director of the College of the Atlantic Summer Institute, says the arrival of the Davis scholars marked the moment “when COA began a new chapter and became a more serious, diverse, and consequential school.”

The Davis UWC Scholars Program started thanks to the chance meeting of two men: Shelby Davis and Dr. Phil Geier. After working together to support the UWC program, they turned their attention to motivated UWC graduates with limited means. “The idea was to expand educational opportunities for students and to encourage American college campuses to become more international communities in the 21st century,” says Dr. Geier.

The pilot program began with 43 students at five colleges: College of the Atlantic, Princeton, Wellesley, Colby, and Middlebury. Today, the Davis UWC Scholars Program has more than 4,500 scholars from all over the world on over 100 American college campuses. Cumulatively, the Davis UWC Scholars Program has supported over 15,000 students with over $1 billion in scholarships. It is a staggering investment, and perhaps the most powerful soft power program in the US today.

Says Dr. Geier, “It is our profound hope that creating such connections and relationships will foster greater international understanding, build more mutual respect, and improve the chances for a more peaceful world than we know today.”

2025 SUMMER INSTITUTE

Near-perfect weather and a lineup of extraordinary speakers drew 1,600 registrants to the 2025 COA Summer Institute: Path Breaking at the end of July. The institute was designed to highlight individuals across society and history who have inspired us and shaped our world for the better. We began the week learning about path breaking in the arts with Thelma Golden and Glenn Lowry, followed by the sciences with Frances Collins and Kizzie CorbettHelaire, to philanthropy and service with David Rubenstein and Marie Arana, to a discussion of abolitionists like Charles Sumner with Zaakir Tameez and Dorothy Wickenden. Mid-week brought a back-to-back session on war and peace in Northern Ireland with Patrick Radden Keefe, Daniel Zelewski, and Senator George Mitchell

and a deep dive into the life and legacy of Alexi Navalgny with David Remnick and Craig Kennedy. Modern day politics and the new generation of political leaders was discussed by David Hogg and Hannah Pingree while Doris Kearns Goodwin reflected with Ted Widmer on the formative years of the 1960s and the path breakers who shaped our modern times. Looking to the future, Nick Thompson and Navrina Singh kept the audience at rapt attention as they shared real time insights on the state of AI and how it will continue to shape our society.

Summer Institute sessions are archived on the College of the Atlantic YouTube page: youtube. com/collegeoftheatlantic

ENDOWED CHAIRS

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Chair in Earth Systems and Geoscience

Sarah R. Hall, PhD

During the 2024-25 academic year I was on leave for a Science & Technology Policy Fellowship sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I was stationed at the US Geological Survey in the Washington DC area, and worked on the Natural Hazards Mission team, focused on landslides and other geohazards.

As part of this work, I led in the development, launch, and management of a new National Landslide Hazards Risk Reduction Working Group, and coordinated efforts to design and implement projects supported by Disaster

Supplemental Funds in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Fiona in 2023. I helped launch and manage the landslide hazards grants program, new in 2024, which funded landslide risk reduction work in states, Tribes, territories, and local governments.

Over the course of the year, I’ve given multiple presentations at regional and national conferences about my work at the USGS and had the opportunity to present to the Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, on behalf of the Landslide Hazards Program (see photo).

These experiences will allow me to bring new opportunities to students at COA in the 2025-26 academic year. I can help them consider science policy and engage with active research projects related to natural hazards risk reduction. I am grateful for funds from the Bass Chair, which funds a wide range of fi eld and labbased opportunities for students.

While I was on leave, Dr. Scott Braddock taught courses for me, including on-going geoscience courses such as Geology of MDI and Geology of National Parks, as well as new courses such as Earth Systems and Glaciers and the Landscape.

Photo: Presenting on behalf of the USGS Landslide Hazards Program to Secretary Haaland.

Established in 2011 by Anne and Bob Bass as part of the Life Changing, World Changing capital campaign.

Richard J. Borden Chair in Humanities

Bonnie Tai, EdD

A final academic year is a time of transition and opportunity. My teaching centered long-standing curricular contributions with a new course that reflects my current research and practice. Changing Schools, Changing Society, a course first co-planned with former educational studies directors Ken Hill and Judith Cox, has been and will continue to be a gateway course that introduces students to a transdisciplinary study of education. COA alum and education leader Todd West ‘00 will offer this course in spring 2026. A new course adapted an advanced tutorial offered mid-pandemic when students hungered for more in-person, experiential learning. Mind Matters: Contemplative Education and Liberatory Praxis introduced students to the practice, science, and education of contemplation from a variety of traditions, including but not limited to Native Hawaiian epistemology, Buddhist insight meditation, qi gong and Tai Chi, shinrin yoku or forest bathing, and contact improvisational dance.

Established in 2011 by COA trustees and alumni to honor longtime COA professor and academic dean, Richard J. Borden.

Continued learning during a winter term sabbatical focused on preparations for this new course. I took a Tai Chi teacher training program offered by Peter Wayne ‘83, COA alum and author of the Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi, and attended Harvard Divinity School’s annual Burning Refuge conference. Additionally, I attended a Guo Gu retreat at the Barre Center of Buddhist Studies on Chan Buddhism; a series on Power, Shadow, and Spiritual Teaching with Sara Shapouri, Sebene Selassie, Morgan Stebbins, and Noah Lopez; and co-facilitated a weekend retreat for Mind Matters students at North Woods Way with queer, Haitian, ecologist, artist, and mindfulness instructor Flore Costumé. I also mentored four graduate students. Two of these co-authored a report with me on teacher professional development associated with the launching of Portland

Several competent colleagues will continue to staff and administer programs I have led at COA for many years. With associate director of educational studies Linda Fuller’s impending retirement in June 2026, we hired several outstanding educators, including COA alum Jasmine Smith ‘09 – founder of The Community School – and talented poet and educator, Eloise Schultz ‘16, to ensure continuity in courses for the 2025-2026 academic year. COA’s Opportunity and Access Program continues to serve students who identify as first-generation college students and/or from low-income circumstances, thanks to the current leadership of new Provost Kourtney Collum.

I have unequivocal appreciation for the hundreds of inspiring students and alumni, dedicated staff and faculty colleagues, generous trustees, and collaborative school and community partners, who have energized my teaching, supported my research, and guided my service.

Public Schools’ Wabanaki Studies PK-12 curriculum.

Rachel Carson Chair in Ecology

Suzanne Morse, PhD

Over the summer, Lilia Machado ‘25 joined me in the work of managing the COA Community Garden as a two-credit independent study. In addition to planting, pruning, weeding, watering, and harvesting, she interviewed several gardeners about the importance of the COA garden and of community gardens in the greater Hancock County. This work is helping us frame planning around the future of this venerable garden on our campus.

Before the beginning of the fall term, I returned to the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and taught for two weeks in the Agroecology MSc course, and presented a seminar on “The meanings of agroecology.”

In the fall I taught Agroecology and The Biology and Politics of Seeds. Class projects ranged from the development of a seed library to be housed in Jesup Library to explorations of in situ Chestnut conservation, seed sovereignty, and wild seed conservation.

In the winter, I taught The Art and Science of Fermented Foods, which culminated with a sumptuous and wellattended fair where the students shared their exquisite wares, including fermented pine drinks, miso, delicious sourdough breads and pastries, different kinds of krauts, and explained the role of ferments in both preservation of foods and gut health.

In the spring, I team-taught a new course with Beech Hill Farm co-managers Anna Davis and David Levinson titled Organic Farm Planning and Production, which included multiple farm visits within a 100-mile radius of the college, a deep

dive into finding land, setting farm goals, mastering multiple planting schemes, and understanding financials. When not on a farm or in class, students became excellent wranglers of the spreadsheet, and with the data, they produced strong plans that could serve as a great starting place for a future farm. In addition, I also taught Functional Plant Morphology, where students explored how the diversity of plant forms has been generated even though the basic body plan only includes stems, leaves, and roots.

Established between 1998-2007 by many donors to honor the renowned marine biologist, conservationist, and author of Silent Spring.

I also directed two independent studies (Placebased Soil Science, Art, and Agricultural Applications with Evie Gillott ‘26 and Community Garden Management with Lilia Machado ‘25), one residency ( An Ethnobotanical Study of Italian Biocultural Diversity with Larkin Rutherford ‘26), and a senior project with Anna Heiting ‘25 on the exploration of farmer-to-farmer learning among milk producers in the Lower Rhineland, Germany.

Administrative work included serving on the dual arts faculty search committee, coordinating the faculty retreat, and developing and presenting the strategic plan with the food and farming systems working group. I continue to serve on the Academic Affairs Committee and the Landscape subcommittee, and oversee the greenhouses, community garden, and herbarium. Outside of COA, I am the vice chair of the board of Native Gardens of Blue Hill, teaching volunteer for MOFGA, and schemer with the Maine Heirloom Seed Network.

As always, I am deeply thankful for the support of my work through the Rachel Carson Chair of Human Ecology.

Darron Asher Collins Chair in Music and Sound Studies

Jonathan Henderson, PhD

During the 2024-25 academic year, with support from the Collins Chair, I mentored 19 advisees, taught four courses, organized and presented 10 concerts, and launched two ongoing curricular initiatives.

Samba Percussion Ensemble offered students (with a range of prior music experience) an opportunity to participate in a large performance ensemble based on Brazilian percussion music traditions: the escolas de samba of Rio de Janeiro, and the blocos afros of Salvador. Black Atlantic Music surveyed the multi-directional music history of the region, which formed during the transatlantic slave trade. The Sound Studies Practicum course (team-taught with Galen Koch) exposed students to the field of sound studies through hands-on sound design and composition projects. Final projects formed an immersive installation in the Thorndike Library Reading Room that offered a “sonic portrait” of COA’s three field stations.

This chair was established in 2024 by trustees and friends of the college to honor COA’s first alumnus president, Darron Collins ‘92, who served from 20112024. This investment celebrates Darron’s lifelong love of music, ensuring that music will always be woven throughout the culture and curriculum of COA.

The concerts I organized helped COA maintain a vibrant performing arts scene—not only for students, but for the broader Mount Desert Island community. Events are always open to the public, several drawing strong attendance from both onand off-campus audiences. A few of the incredible performers we hosted from 2024-25 included Indian classical virtuoso Debashish Battacharya, Eastern European folk music band Kotwica, classical pianist Antonio Galera, and Palestinian oud player Zafer Tawil.

In addition, COA music ensemble classes performed in the surrounding community in 2024-25, directly engaging with local youth at Conners Emerson, Hancock Grammar School, and The Community School of Mount Desert Island.

Finally, in 2024-25, I launched two new programs to sustain and expand the COA music curriculum. The Peer Music Tutoring Program employed four work-study student tutors to support peers in meeting their music learning goals. The new Applied Music Lesson (AML) structure allows students to take a series of private lessons for credit with a local professional. Both ongoing initiatives express and amplify my intention to create a sustainable, inclusive, rich, varied, and academically rigorous program in music and sound at COA. Beginning fund balance $1,261,188

T.A. Cox Chair in Studio Arts

Neeraj Sebastian, MFA

2024-25 was my second year teaching at COA, and I’ve had the pleasure of working with some wonderful students—they’re talented and hardworking, and have grown as people and artists in the time I’ve gotten to know them. It’s been really rewarding as a teacher to work with students who engage seriously with the ideas and material presented in class, and I’m constantly surprised at the ambitious work that COA students create.

I teach classes in which students focus on technique (such as how to mix paint to create new colors), as well as classes in which students explore broader conceptual questions.

In Drawing Intensive/Developing a Studio Practice, students respond to a series of prompts to create a large body of work that they then develop and refine over the course of the term. In this class, students also engage with the work of a broad range of artists and critics. Artists have always

asked questions about the world and their place in it through their work, and I hope that students begin to think about making art as having a conversation—with the work of other artists, society, and the world around them. I hope to continue to support the students as they take risks, challenge themselves, and grow as artists and individuals.

Established by former COA trustee Tom Cox and hundreds of friends, family members, and trustees who gave to the chair after Tom passed away in 2019.

Beginning fund balance $1,545,904 Net return and contributions 147,673

William H. Drury, Jr. Chair in Evolution, Natural History, and Ecology

John G.T. Anderson, PhD

This chair was established in honor of Bill Drury, an eminent ecologist and former research director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, who died in 1992. Bill lectured on evolutionary biology and ecology at Harvard University for over 20 years before joining the COA faculty in 1976.

In the 2024-25 academic year, I taught seven classes, including the increasingly popular Islands Through Time course for high school students. I team-taught this with Ken Cline and Neeraj Sebastian, and I cannot speak too highly of the sheer fun that working with these two brings! Without question, the most challenging courses I taught were elements of the Great West Monster Course, again with Ken Cline. These classes involved driving over 13,000 miles from Bar Harbor to California, south through Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and eventually across the border in Nogales, Sonora. The goal of the Great West Course is to expose students to the natural history, public policy, and literature of the western United States. I have always felt that it was the best of place-based immersive learning. The students had the opportunity to interact with a broad range of peoples and landscapes, the likes of which would never come to 105 Eden Street.

Back on campus, I sponsored five senior projects, which examined issues including microplastics in gulls, fire ecology in the Southwest, attitudes of wildlife rehabilitators, public education around Avian Influenza, and songbird migration. I was a reader of seven human ecology essays, an exercise from which I always learn. As I approach retirement, I have been cutting back on accepting new advisees, but still advised 18 students and was the

“unofficial advisor” for a growing number of others.

In the spring, seabird research resumed, and— thanks to a generous grant from Friends of Acadia and Acadia National Park (ANP)—we were able to continue surveys of ANP islands and the deployment of GPS tags on gulls, both of which allow us to track the birds during breeding and non-breeding seasons. We had a very successful season on Great Duck Island, with eight students working on projects ranging from gull movements to nesting ecology, soil chemistry, and fish ecology in the island’s brackish Slough of Despond. We also continued our long-term monitoring of petrels and black guillemots, with both projects continuing to produce surprise and delight.

I chaired and presented in a session at the Northeast Natural History Conference on seabird ecology. I co-authored a paper in Conservation Biology with alums Kate Shlepr ‘13 and Wriley Hodge ‘24 and a colleague from Bowdoin addressing questions regarding gull management in the Gulf of Maine. I served as the campus coordinator for the national Goldwater Fellowship and successfully coached Autumn Pauly ‘26 to a successful application. I also continue to serve as co-archivist and book review editor for The Waterbird Society, and sit on the Education Advisory Committee of the Hurricane Island Center for Leadership and Research.

Charles Eliot Chair in Ecological Planning, Policy, and Design

Brook Muller, MArch

In academic year 2024-25, I delivered five courses and taught 68 students: Sustainable Architecture (fall 2024), Water, Design, and Environmental Futures (winter 2025), Ecologies of Cities (spring 2025), and two Ecological Design Research Studios, one focused on sensitive landscape design interventions in the Cox Protectorate (winter 2025), and the other investigating ecologically and climate-responsive design interventions on Bar Harbor’s Shore Path (spring 2025).

Toward the end of the fiscal year, I submitted a book proposal, Regrowth Architecture: Design in Solidarity with Life, to the University of Texas Press that included a prospectus and two completed chapters. I see this as a sequel of sorts to my previous book, Blue Architecture (also published by the University of Texas Press). As I describe in the introduction, “Regrowth Architecture describes a contemporary design stance committed to vastly improving the environmental quality and livability of urban spaces and buildings, and, in the process, reducing extractive relationships with the extraurban landscapes and peoples the city relies upon. In the most straightforward sense, systems-based ecological and passive design strategies serve to elevate the livability of the built environment while sharply decreasing consumption.”

In June 2025, I delivered a paper of the same title at the 18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics and 11th International

Established in 2000 by Dan and Polly Pierce. Dan was a COA trustee, grandson of landscape architect Charles Eliot, and great grandson of Harvard President Charles William Eliot.

Degrowth Conference “Building Socially Just Postgrowth Futures” in Oslo, Norway. Conference attendees appreciated my paper and how design thinking can complement their work in the social sciences (economics, political ecology, urban studies, etc.) as we develop collective visions for environmentallyjust futures. I am thankful that funds from this chair enabled me to attend an event that brought such a rich diversity of perspectives to a collective commitment to equality and climate resilience. I feel fortunate to teach at an institution in which the questions that drive me as an academic and a creative practitioner are the very ones that attract students to my classes. I bring students through a rigorous methodological and theoretical framework for the first half of the term, exposing them to ways of thinking about design and the built environment, and sharing numerous case-study examples. Then, in the latter portion of the term, I ask them to step up, build upon the framework they have been exposed to, and develop schematic design propositions or design “briefs” germane to the topic at hand. Through this process, I impart the notion that everyone is a creative thinker and designer, even if some classroom participants never thought of themselves as such. Something truly magical has occurred in my water course in particular; whether a student has a passion for law, art, marine biology, or philosophy, they see themselves having a creative role in envisioning possible urban water futures.

Andrew S. Gri iths Chair for the Dean of Administration

Bear Paul, Administrative Dean and CFO

Established in 2018 during the Broad Reach capital campaign by COA trustees to honor Andrew “Andy” S. Gri iths, the college’s well-respected administrative dean who served for more than 15 years.

The endowment of the Andrew S. Griffiths Chair for the Dean of Administration provides important budget relief to administrative operations to allow funds to flow to mission critical activities, initiatives, and capital projects, and aptly recognizing the years of dedication of the chair’s namesake to the institution.

Some of the more exciting developments over the course of the 2024-2025 academic year include:

• Initiated and closed participation in the spring of 2025 MHHEFA bond pool, which provided funding for the purchase of 22 Roberts Avenue and 2 Bloomfield Road in the town of Bar Harbor. Further, it will provide funding to split the Peggy Rockefeller Farmhouse into two units, all of which provides additional housing

options for the college. Participation in the pool will also provide funding to further address deferred maintenance.

• Planned and furthered the process of acquiring or building five to seven additional housing units for the college.

• Furthered the effort to broadly rebuild and refresh the college’s Information Technology systems.

The administrative dean/CFO continues to chair the Personnel Committee, serve on the Campus Planning and Building Committee, and lead the budget setting process. The Andrew S Griffiths Chair’s primary focus remained that of supporting the college’s ongoing financial and operational health.

Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Studies

Sean Todd, PhD

During the last fiscal year I taught a total of 93 students in five classes, three senior projects, and four independent studies. Classes taught included Marine Mammal Biology, Polar Ecology and Exploration, Introduction to Statistics and Research Design, and two separate offerings of Introduction to Oceanography. I had an advisee roster of 21 undergraduate students and one graduate student, reviewed 10 human ecology essays, and supervised two internships.

I assisted with the management of the Edward McC. Blair Marine Research Station on Mount Desert Rock in the 2024 field season. Fifteen students at the field station worked on projects that incorporated marine mammalogy, biological oceanography, intertidal science, pottery, underwater passive acoustic monitoring, natural history illustration, and marine bird ecology. Four of the 15 took on leadership roles, helping to run the field station, with two further students learning as apprentices in anticipation of the 2025 field season. The island also hosted an overnight visit from the Islands Through Time class.

This year marked the second year of GOMSIP II

(Gulf of Maine Stable Isotope Project), a five-year project undertaken by Allied Whale to further examine climate-induced changes in whale feeding behavior. We achieved a good sampling rate for animals local to the Gulf. This year, our previous work was finally published in the peer-reviewed journal, Aquatic Mammals; this was one of three peer-reviewed publications for which I was listed as an author. Other authors included Lindsey Jones ’18, Peter Stevick ’81, Megan Maloney ’26, Dan Dendanto ’91, and Natasha Pastor MPhil ’20.

In FY25 I continued to serve on the Faculty Development Group, and helped streamline the process for obtaining expeditionary funding at the college. In addition to directing Allied Whale and

Established in 2007 by COA trustees, alumni, and friends of the college to honor COA’s fourth president and founding faculty member.

overseeing operations at MDR, I also worked on the Graduate Committee, assisted with various admission functions, and helped organize the annual Faculty Retreat. During school breaks, I traveled aboard expedition vessels Seabourn Venture and Seabourn Pursuit to collect data for humpback whale photo-identification catalogs for Antarctica, Greenland, and Iceland. I attained certifications necessary to continue this kind of work, including my Polar Guide certification, Wilderness First Responder certification, and a polar bear rifle safety class.

Chair funds were used to help purchase research equipment for Allied Whale, as well as costs for operations at Mount Desert Rock. Funds also supported equipment purchases, professional development, and virtual attendance for myself and 14 students at the Right Whale Consortium.

Over the course of the year, I helped raise ~$180,000 for Allied Whale research and the Marine Mammal Stranding Response Program from a foundation and a corporate supporter.These funds were essential in supporting our work, given the uncertainties and substantial cuts in federal funding this year. Beginning fund balance $2,371,628

McNally Family Chair in Philosophy and Human Ecology

Heather Lakey ’00, MPhil ’05, PhD

Established in 2019 by Jay McNally ’84 as part of the Broad Reach capital campaign.

The 2024-2025 academic year was both exciting and memorable! I enjoyed my first sabbatical and taught four courses: Utopia/Dystopia; Problems and Dilemmas in Bioethics; Sex, Gender, Identity, Power ; and Philosophies of Death and Dying. In total, I taught 50 students, read 12 human ecology essays, directed one independent study and one senior project, and mentored 10 advisees. In addition, I had the rewarding opportunity to serve as a guest speaker for Ken Cline’s class, The Rights of Nature, and Matthew Shaw’s class, 4-D Design. I continue to be impressed by the intellectual curiosity, energy, and creativity of COA students.

Alongside my teaching responsibilities, I took on several administrative service roles. I continued my work with the Academic Affairs Committee and the Academic Priorities Working Group. I stepped into a new role as Chair of the Ethical Research and Review Board, where I oversaw feedback on six projects and discussed the ethics of human subject research with multiple students, staff, and faculty. Finally, I served on the search committee for a new position at COA, executive director of the Summer Institute, which resulted in the hire of Shawn Keeley ‘00, COA’s former dean of institutional advancement.

My fall sabbatical was intellectually stimulating and psychologically rejuvenating! I enrolled in two online classes, which allowed me to switch roles from teacher to student and gain valuable pedagogical insights. I took Introduction to Tantra: Wisdom is Already Present, taught by Buddhist teacher and author, Ethan Nichtern, in collaboration with Dharma Moon, an online platform focused on Buddhist education. The second class, Big

Books in Continental Philosophy, was led by Mark Linsenmayer, who hosts one of my favorite philosophy podcasts, The Partially Examined Life. It was great fun to discuss Buddhist and Continental philosophy with an international group of scholars, students, and thinkers.

In November, I attended a philosophy colloquium at Berkeley centering on the work of contemporary philosopher Evan Thompson. Thompson delivered a paper titled “When Death Comes,” which analyzes Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich to illuminate problems with Heidegger’s understanding of death in Being and Time. I teach both texts, and it was exciting to hear Thompson’s innovative analysis of Heidegger and Tolstoy.

I dedicated a significant portion of my sabbatical to my own writing projects. Specifically, I revised a paper I presented for the COA library lecture series, titled “Rethinking Regret: Simone de Beauvoir, Abortion, and Moral Decision Making.”

I incorporated helpful feedback from the COA community, and the paper is currently under review for publication. I wish to express my deep gratitude to the McNally Family for endowing this chair and supporting philosophical studies at COA.

Elizabeth Battles Newlin Chair in Botany

Susan Letcher, PhD

Service to the college was a primary focus for me over the past fiscal year. I served as faculty moderator, coordinating and moderating the faculty meeting. I also balanced a busy slate of minor committee assignments: I continued to serve on the Review and Appeals Committee, I worked on the successful Interdisciplinary Computing faculty search which brought the phenomenal Torrie Edwards to campus, I mentored new faculty member in marine ecology Kara Gadeken in her first year at COA, I served on a continuing review committee, and I volunteered with the Restorative Practices Team. In that last capacity, I worked with the team to rewrite the college’s bias response policy and prepare for several All College Meetings and cabinet briefings.

Over the course of the year, I did some outreach for the Admission team, including a reception at the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History and a last-minute gig as a shuttle driver for the Fall Fly-In. I helped Katie Rasmussen ‘26 (who took Sheep to Shawl class last year) start a club on campus dedicated to spinning wool: the COA Spinsters. My office is the club headquarters, jam-packed with wool and spinning wheels.

In terms of academics, I offered classes across a broad spectrum from introductory to advanced in FY25. I joined the team teaching the Human Ecology Core Course in the fall. In the winter, I offered an advanced class in Biostatistics, and Kara Gadeken and I teamed up to teach Cellular and

Molecular Processes of Life. In the spring, I taught the introductory course Economic Botany and a newly revamped version of the advanced course Ecosystem Ecology: Biogeochemistry. I also advised three senior projects and two independent studies, serving 86 students during the academic year. I read seven human ecology essays and worked with 16 advisees, along with numerous meetings to offer guidance on experimental design and statistics for students conducting research.

Established in 1996 by Elizabeth Battles Newlin’s children, Lucy Bell Sellers and her husband Peter, and Bill Newlin and his wife Louisa (née Foulke) as part of the college’s Silver Anniversary Campaign

In my scientific work, I continued to collaborate with an international network of scientists studying tropical forests and their responses to major disturbances. We published a paper in Global Ecology and Biogeography entitled “Tropical forest succession increases tree taxonomic and functional richness but decreases evenness,” led by Masha van der Sande at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. I attended virtual meetings with a network of scientists interested in assessing tree diversity at a multi-continental scale. I reviewed a number of manuscripts for journals in my field and evaluated seven grant proposals as a member of the European Science Foundation’s College of Expert Reviewers.

It’s been another busy and rewarding year in Bar Harbor! I look forward to a sabbatical in fall 2025, when I plan to focus on some long-delayed writing projects.

Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems

Kourtney K. Collum, PhD

Academics: This was my ninth year serving as the Partridge Chair. In the fall, I taught Transforming Food Systems, my flagship course for students eager to study food systems through the lens of social justice and agroecology. Twenty students brought remarkable energy to the work, developing theories of change to address challenges ranging from seed sovereignty to food access for marginalized communities.

Established in 2008 by Polly Guth, a long-term supporter of COA and Beech Hill Farm, and the Partridge Foundation.

In the winter, I cotaught a new course with my colleague Zach Soares ‘00, Prison Food Systems: An Audio Production Course. Together with 13 students, we examined the ways food is used in carceral contexts—often as a tool of dehumanization, yet sometimes as a vehicle for healing and rehabilitation. We hosted 10 experts and visited three Maine prisons. Students developed audio production skills—interviewing, recording, mixing, and editing—that led to the creation of “Entry Point,” a podcast series advancing the conversation on transforming prison food systems. Funds from the Partridge Chair made possible the travel, guest lectures, and podcast production that brought this course to life. We are excited to release the students’ episodes in November 2025.

hands-on experience in beekeeping. This year, the Food Systems Working Group co-sponsored a new on-campus farmers market, providing meat, eggs, and produce from COA’s farms at a discount to students and employees, while also supporting our annual Food & Farming Workshop Series – 13 skillbased workshops ranging from chainsaw safety to fruit tree pruning.

Service and professional development: I was on sabbatical in the spring, which allowed me to deepen my scholarship and professional contributions. I presented a talk on my research with beekeepers and blueberry growers at the Maine Science Festival’s “5 Minute Genius” event, delivered two papers at the Society for Human Ecology Annual Meeting in Mons, Belgium—one on migrant farmworkers and one on the prison food systems course—and was honored to give the inaugural Bill Newlin Distinguished Faculty Lecture with Zach Soares ‘00 in May. I also delivered a paper, titled “Invisible Workers: Local Food Systems & Global Migration,” as a keynote at the Mid-Maine Global Forum’s Linda Cotter Speakers Series at Colby College.

Beyond the classroom, I advised 20 students, directed six senior projects and three independent studies, chaired the Faculty Development Group and the Food Systems Working Group, and managed the college’s apiary, giving students

During this time, I also prepared for my transition to Provost, which began on July 1, 2025. To support this new role, I completed the Institute for Education Management at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an intensive program for academic leaders. I gained an invaluable network of colleagues through that program.

I remain deeply grateful to the Partridge Chair, which made possible so many of these teaching innovations, collaborations, and opportunities for students.

Emily and Mitchell Rales Chair in Ecology

Kara Gadeken, PhD

This past year was a busy start to my academic tenure at COA!

I began last year teaching two sections of a new class, Intertidal Ecology, that got students out observing coastal ecosystems first-hand and practicing the first few key steps of the scientific method. Winter term involved team-teaching the introductory biology course on Cellular Processes of Life with Susan Letcher, and teaching a new course on Deep Sea Biology. Spring term provided the opportunity to dive into another of my favorite topics with students, Invertebrate Zoology Altogether I taught 91 students across five courses, all of which were new courses for me.

Preparing and teaching so many new courses this year left little time for other pursuits, but that investment of time and effort was well worth it, as the courses were very well received and provided a foundation for future marine and coastal science offerings at COA. While it was an incredibly hectic first year, the passion students have for studying the ocean has been inspiring, humbling, and a constant reminder of what makes COA a special place to learn, teach, and grow.

This year I took on some advisory work, and became the director for a student’s senior project exploring the intertidal near her home in Lebanon, and provided thoughts and feedback on another student’s human ecology essay about the experience of living and working at the Edward McC. Blair Marine Research Station on Mount Desert Rock. During the spring term, Jodi Baker and I advised students preparing their senior project presentations for the COA community and Board of Trustees just before graduation. I also served as a member of a search committee in the spring.

Funds from the Rales Chair have allowed me to acquire and maintain essential marine science

equipment. Most recently, funds were used to purchase a large tank, support platform, and plumbing materials to begin building a holding tank for marine organisms for future teaching and research.

With this also being my first full year living in Maine, I focused in particular on building my sense of place, getting to know members of the local coastal communities, and familiarizing myself with the unique aspects of life downeast. The entwined nature of people’s lives with the coast was what initially drew me to Maine, and learning more about those relationships by connecting with people and attending meetings like the Maine Fisherman’s Forum last spring have been profoundly educational experiences. Opportunities abound for collaboration and community-centered coastal science, and I see great potential in this area in the years to come. I am now turning an eye towards research opportunities focused on local coastal issues, such as aquaculture, introduced species, changes driven by a warming Gulf of Maine, and harvesting from the oceans. Beginning

Established in 2020 by Emily and Mitch Rales as part of the Broad Reach capital campaign.

Lalage and Steven Rales Chair in Chemistry

Reuben Hudson, PhD

Chemistry at COA has been a growing discipline for several years as we continue to bring in grantfunded equipment and personnel to enable student-centered research and teaching.

Established in 2020 by Lalage and Steven Rales as part of the Broad Reach capital campaign.

Allocations from the Rales Chair and the Guthrie Chemistry Enhancement Fund were used as institutional matching funds (for the purchase of lab supplies) for a $50,000 EPSCoR RID Grant from the Maine Space Grant Consortium. We also had support from the American Chemical Society ($70,000) and INBRE ($110,000). Chemistry students used a state-ofthe-art gas chromatography mass spectrometer to identify and quantify trace chemicals in plant, tissue, and sediment core samples. We quantified biochemical markers indicative of humans in 14 carbon-dated lake sediment cores going back thousands of years.

Our small research group is starting to gain more of an international profile. Brazilian postdoc Thiago Altair finished his third year at COA. Sarah Kheireddine from Lebanon spent part of a second year at COA as a postdoc after finishing her PhD in France. After a long ordeal trying to extract postdoc Vitalii Polubinskyi and lab manager Anastasiia Pustovoit from Ukraine, they finally landed at COA in February 2024. Each of these chemists, along with Hudson, co-supervised students in their areas of expertise, allowing our single-faculty department to offer a wider range of projects for COA students.

Origin of life research from postdoc Thiago Altair and COA alum Sofia Dragoti ‘25 was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Ukrainian chemists Anastasiia Pustovoit and Vitalii Polubinskyi brought vitality to the sciences at COA during their time here.

David Rockefeller Family Chair in Ecosystem Management and Protection

and T.A. COX FUND IN ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION

Kenneth S. Cline, JD

Classes: My classes this year had a strong emphasis on public lands and national parks. In the fall, I taught Acadia: The National Park Idea. This course introduces first- and second-year students to the history, policy context, and wonders of Acadia. With weekly field trips into the park and guest speakers such as Acadia’s superintendent and other park personnel, this is an immersive learning experience. I followed this up in the winter term with Our Public Lands, an upper-level course that focuses on the history and management challenges presented by the vast array of public lands including national parks. In the fall, I taught my most difficult course, Advanced International Environmental Law Seminar to a group of upper-class students who have participated in international negotiations or have done other sophisticated legal work. My final course—Introduction to the Legal Process—focused on domestic legal issues and current social justice debates. We looked at institutional racism within the criminal justice system and ways that law can be used as a tool to reduce those inequities. I directed six senior projects and an independent study related to the Rockefeller Chair and Cox Fund. These projects focused on Maine environmental legislation, marine law, New England wilderness, international water policy, and wilderness canoe travel.

National Park work : I continue to strengthen the Acadia National Park (ANP)-COA partnership by introducing students and new faculty to opportunities to collaborate with the National Park Service. For the first time, ANP was able to fund the Acadia Scholars program and we placed two COA interns with the park’s Wildlife Division for the summer. I continue to do advocacy work and submit legal comments on proposed actions in Acadia that will affect park resources. Several students this year also did projects or research in Acadia. Through my position on the board of directors for Schoodic

David Rockefeller established this endowed chair in 2010. Tom Cox, a COA trustee and friend of David and Peggy Rockefeller, established the fund that supports the work of the chair.

Institute at Acadia National Park, I am involved in supporting and designing early-career science opportunities in Acadia.

Co-management research and advocacy: I continue to lead the national Sierra Club’s efforts to improve its working relationships with Indigenous groups in the US. I have participated in a national task force to write and implement a co-management policy for the Sierra Club. Related to this work, I presented some of my research on tribal-federal co-management of public lands this fall at the International Society for Human Ecology Conference in Tucson with Sophie Chivers ‘24, my research assistant.

Conservation advocacy and research: I continue to be deeply engaged in conservation advocacy work with national, local, and international conservation organizations. I have worked extensively with the Sierra Club on how it can effectively pursue its conservation mission in collaboration with native peoples in the US. I also am part of national Sierra Club efforts to protect legally designated wilderness and advance the Club’s 30×30 campaign. To this end, I helped organize a virtual conference for the national Sierra Club on wilderness in the 21st century.

ROCKEFELLER CHAIR

Sharpe-McNally Chair in Green and Socially Responsible Business

Jay Friedlander

Henry and Peggy Sharpe initiated the funding of this chair, and Jay McNally ’84 completed its endowment in 2004.

In the fall, I co-led the inaugural Camino Monster Course, where a dozen students and four faculty walked the 500 miles of the Camino Frances. Students followed the path that millions of pilgrims have walked since the end of the 9th century. On this human ecological journey of self-discovery and contemplation, students spent each day walking, interacting with other pilgrims, exploring history, and examining how the Camino has shaped the place, economy, and society along the route.

Student research projects spanned botany, art, economics, grief, food systems, the impact of tourism, soundscapes, and other areas. Other faculty included: Ursula Hanson, LCSW; COA trustee emeritus Jay McNally ‘84; and retired medical doctor Teresa Tierney.

In the winter term, I taught Business and Nonprofit Basics. In this class, students merge ideas and actions as they explore fundamental areas of enterprise such as creativity, marketing, financials, and leveraging capital. Students crafted marketing plans for a small farmer with an excess of root vegetables. After presenting their plans, they were given 25 pounds of different vegetables, such as beets, daikons, turnips, and carrots to implement their plans. Team Turnip transformed their vegetable into an event that raised over $1,500 to fund the education of three Nepali students. This spring, students in the Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery (detailed in the Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery Endowment Report) developed and refined enterprises in restorative justice, rural

economic development, food service, online retail, the arts, planning intentional communities, early childhood education, and postpartum care. Approximately 50 people attended the Hatchery Expo at Havana restaurant in Bar Harbor, where students presented overviews of their work at the end of the term.

Along with Sustainable Business Program Manager Kerri Sands ‘02, I served on the Thesis Committee for a graduate student studying the effectiveness and potential of his nature retreat business—a project he had developed in last year’s Hatchery cohort.

In the broader community, I participated in groups strengthening entrepreneurship and the local economy in Maine and beyond. I gave presentations to start-ups building their business acumen, and groups such as lobstermen who are facing economic transition. Some partners included Island Institute, Ignite Presque Isle, Maine International Trade Center, and others. The Camino team also presented at the XXVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology in Mons, Belgium.

As the COA liaisons for Projects for Peace, Kerri and I supported the 2024 project of Valentina Dereani ‘27, to develop seed banks and resilient food systems in Kenya. COA’s 2025 Projects for Peace awardee, Raheem Khadour ‘25, carried out his project documenting stories of Syrian prison survivors in the summer of 2025.

Lisa Stewart Chair in Literature and Women’s Studies

Karen E. Waldron, PhD

The year 2024–2025 continued to deepen College of the Atlantic’s strength in literature, women’s studies, and writing. The Literature and Writing Group met regularly as a team to plan offerings, and it is clear that adjustments have started to take hold that help our students deal with the multiple, multimodal, and now AI-influenced contexts of their writing and learning.

We regretfully saw the departure of Blake Cass MPhil ‘19, our Writing Center director, and enthusiastically welcomed Valeria Tsygankova, whose expertise in writing studies adds new depth to our curriculum. Further contributions by Palak Taneja (Anglophone literature and writing) have helped us cover a wider range of literature, and during the winter term, she and I co-taught a course entitled Epic Heroines: Feminist Retellings. The course was designed around the relatively recent spate of novels retelling both Greek and Hindu mythology from the perspective of otherwisenamed but ignored female characters. Works by Vaishnavi Patel and Madeline Miller were highlights of the term, but we also read retellings of Medusa, Sita, and Galatea. We had a large group who read eagerly and actively considered the effect of myths on ideas and constructions of womanhood. Despite the ancient nature of many of the original stories, their present relevance as well as their

persistence in popular culture were clearly noted, leading to some fascinating questions about gender, culture, religion, and identity. Winter 2025 also saw me teaching Native American Literature.

Established in 2012 by William P. Stewart in memory of his daughter, Lisa Stewart Target. Lisa was a personable, intelligent, and accomplished woman who started Bowen Asia, a successful investment firm in Hong Kong, specializing in the Asian economy. She spoke five languages and lived all over the world. Her three children attended COA’s Summer Field Studies program.

In fall 2024, my classes were Literature, Science, Spirituality (fiction, drama, and poetry about science and religion from Francis Bacon to Gloria Naylor), and The Contemporary World of Women’s Novels (with works from every continent except Antarctica). The Contemporary World of Women’s Novels class is particularly relevant for considering similarities and differences among both female characters and female authorial strategies in a wide variety of cultures.

Spring 2025 was devoted to my most demanding class, The Nature of Narrative, and a very eager group of students whose minds were stretched by considering questions of what makes a novel a novel. We read a significant amount of literary theory and what might be deemed 20th and 21st-century “experimental novels,” ranging from works by Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner to Lindsey Drager’s 2024 The Avian Hourglass. Drager generously Zoomed into our class during week 10, leaving students inspired and in awe. Her work has already influenced several senior projects and independent studies that I am involved with in fall 2025.

Allan Stone Chair in the Visual Arts

Catherine Clinger, PhD

During the 2024-2025 academic year, I taught three printmaking courses, one drawing course, and two art history courses. My two art history classes contrasted active artists (Contemporary Artist as Activist and Researcher, fall 2024) with the contemplative (Range of Sublimity in the Artist Mind, winter 2025). From exoteric work by artists such as Cannupa Hanska Lugar and Rose B. Simpson to the esoteric productions of Hiroshi Sugmoto and Katie Paterson in the winter term, students studied how to activate a community and/or intensify mystery in the human mind.

Established in 2008 by Clare Stone in memory of her husband Allan Stone, who died in 2006. Allan was celebrated for his visionary eye which incorporated an eclectic approach and early advocacy of pivotal artists of the 20th century and beyond. Alongside being a leading authority on Abstract Expressionism, he gave Wayne Thiebaud his first New York show and represented him for over 40 years. He was a passionate collector of anything that appealed to his eye, including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Joseph Cornell, John Chamberlain, and many less-known artists. In addition to modern masterworks and contemporary art, Allan collected tribal and folk art, Americana, important decorative arts, furniture, and Bugattis.

I continue my direction of COA’s Kippy Stroud Artist-In-Residence Program. Edie Fake, the 2024 Artist-inResidence, bridged the summer and fall arts seasons in the Ethel H. Blum Gallery. In Fake’s work, the terrestrial, architectural, and ecological potentialities of queer space in the world are evident in meticulous and nonconformist creations. Fake’s public lecture was remarkable.

During the winter term, the spirited, wry, and playfully sardonic Annika Earley visited the college for two weeks as the Maine Emerging

Artist. She offered two workshops for our students linked to the Advanced Printmaking Class. In the spring term, artist Pia-Paulina Guilmoth joined me on the Gates stage for the Kippy Stroud Memorial Lecture and Conversation to reveal the depth of her beautiful nocturnal work; photographs that exposed the uncanny nature of the night and latent danger found paradoxically in a familiar place, a remote rural home.

I continue to serve on the Faculty Development Group and this past year on a search committee tasked with finding two new full-time arts faculty following the retirements of Nancy Andrews and Dru Colbert. In the Maine arts community, I served again as a reviewer for foundation funding. My work as a scholar was cited in the Exhibition Catalogue for Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2025. Beginning fund balance

Cody Van Heerden Chair in Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences

Duc Hien Nguyen, PhD

In my first year at COA, I began introducing students to how economics has been used to justify and maintain a structurally unequal economic system, and how it can also be used to disrupt “business as usual.” Through five classes— Introduction to Microeconomics, Introduction to Macroeconomics, Introduction to Marxian Political Economy, Economics of Identity and Discrimination, and Political Economy of Gender—I worked with students to examine a range of issues, from monopoly power in the tech sector and the impact of trade tariffs on households’ cost of living, to the role of identity-based discrimination in the labor market, and the socioeconomic disparities facing sexual and gender minorities in the United States.

I quickly learned that teaching at COA was challenging, rewarding, and inspiring at the same time. While students in my classes varied in their familiarity with quantitative methods and social science theories, they all brought remarkable thoughtfulness to the classroom. We dove into complex issues with an openness to explore ideas from multiple perspectives and using interdisciplinary lenses. This was demonstrated in students’ final projects, such as one from my Political Economy of Gender class that combined an astute critique of the birth rate crisis and the abortion debate with an artistic articulation of the intersection of race, gender, and social justice.

Besides teaching, I continued my research on LGBTQ discrimination and experimented with innovative methodologies such as randomized controlled trials with photo manipulation. My work examining how gender expression affects hiring outcomes in care-service occupations was published last year in a special issue of the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, contributing evidence about how the social organization of care is both gendered and racialized.

Funds from the van Heerden Chair enabled me to bring four COA students to the annual International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) conference in summer 2025, where I presented this work. In the current climate, when evidence-based research—especially work on gender, sexuality, and LGBTQ people that is often labeled as “woke gender ideology”—faces withdrawal of funding and hostile reception from federal institutions, professional conferences like IAFFE become vital spaces for building solidarity, deepening academic connections, and strategizing how to push forward with essential research.

Seeing COA students at the IAFFE conference demonstrated to me what becomes possible when we approach quantitative social sciences as a tool for human ecology and social transformation. This kind of transformative education depends on institutional commitment to scholarship that challenges economic orthodoxy and helping students reimagine how economics can be a tool for good, not greed. I am deeply grateful that the Cody van Heerden Chair makes this possible.

Established in 2019 by David and Robin Reis, COA trustees, sta , and faculty as part of the Broad Reach capital campaign to honor former trustee Cody van Heerden, MPhil ‘17, who passed away in 2018 at the age of 58 after a short battle with ALS.

Beginning fund balance $1,105,228

Kim M. Wentworth Chair in Environmental Studies

Brittany Slabach

’09,

PhD

My first year back at COA was exciting and busy! I worked with 90 students in five classes over this first year. I offered several new courses, including Vertebrate Zoology, Wildlife Ecology, and Collecting Nature: Exploration of Scientific Collection. I also was part of the teaching team to offer Ecology: Natural History and Biology: Form and Function. Students in these classes participated in ongoing research as part of their course experience. Students in my Wildlife Ecology class were part of collaborative research teams that partnered with Acadia National Park biologists and University of Maine graduate student Marisa Monroe to conduct research on amphibians and flying squirrels, compiling written technical reports.

what we value when and why. In this course, we traveled to the L.C. Bates Museum and Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, getting a behind-the-scenes tour of three of their collections. We talked to curators and learned curatorial techniques. Students applied their knowledge to catalogue and care for our own natural history collections. I also served as a co-advisor for two senior projects. These projects focused on the relationship between PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as “forever chemicals”) and white-nose syndrome in the eastern small footed bat, and a survey of the natural resources of COA.

Established in 2019 by Kim and Finn Wentworth as part of the Broad Reach capital campaign. When establishing the chair, Kim said “We need to inspire and equip future generations to be able to improve some of the conditions we face. We want to address the legacy issue: we, the baby boomers, may have recognized some of the problems early on, but we didn’t do enough.”

Vertebrate Zoology students assisted in monitoring coyote activity at College of the Atlantic Peggy Rockefeller Farm when some chickens were taken; and Ecology: Natural History students participated in monitoring the small mammal communities on the summit of Cadillac Mountain, as part of an ongoing effort to understand the effects of vegetation restoration on community ecology. My Collecting Nature course is a new course aimed at investigating the history of scientific collection. Natural history collections are true artifacts of human ecology, demonstrating

I continued to research the relationship between vertebrate ecology and evolution, and various disturbance types with students. In addition to my long-term projects, I inherited faculty emeritus Steve Ressel’s spotted salamander project, where we investigate the effects of salinity, temperature, and UVB exposure on salamander growth rates. We also conducted a carnivore occupancy study on MDI— the first of its kind—led by a student as an independent study.

I manage a research space on campus that provides a sterile workspace for studies of microplastics and genetics. Funds from the Wentworth Chair were instrumental in providing students with equipment and support for all these different opportunities, both in and outside of classes. They also supported travel for me and a student to participate in a regional scientific meeting. I’m excited to continue this important work and see what the new school year has in store!

Beginning fund balance $1,433,494 Net return and contributions 136,223

James Russell Wiggins Chair in Government and Polity

and PHILIP GEYELIN FUND FOR GOVERNMENT AND POLITY

James McKown, PhD

This past year, and the fall term in particular, was an exceptionally busy period for all things related to government and politics here at College of the Atlantic. Election season always generates a great deal of student interest and energy, and, like most of the United States, that interest is “off the charts” in presidential election years.

In my capacity as the Wiggins Chair and holder of the Geyelin Fund, much of my work is focused on helping students troubleshoot issues around registration, absentee balloting, and other voting access challenges. Research shows that helping first-time student voters navigate the procedural hurdles that often come with voting access can generate momentum for lifelong electoral engagement.

I also endeavor to prepare all COA community members, whether students or not, to make an informed decision when they go to the polls. To that end, we hosted a number of nonpartisan voter education and engagement events last fall, including information sessions on the cruise ship vote and other hot-button issues. Ballot initiatives can stir up a great deal of passion and controversy in ways that candidate elections don’t. As you might imagine, we take great care in not “putting our thumb on the scale” when it comes to how we present voter information about any of these issues.

We also hosted a series of presidential debate watch events throughout the fall, and I can say without any reservation that we had the largest student turnout I have ever seen in my time at COA. The lecture hall was entirely packed to capacity for each, with students out in the hallway unable to get a seat.

The Wiggins Chair honors the memory of former COA trustee

James Russell Wiggins, a respected journalist whose career spanned three-quarters of a century, including 20 years as editor of the The Washington Post. After his retirement, he served as US Ambassador to the United Nations and became owner and editor of The Ellsworth American.

Another former trustee, Philip L. Geyelin, a Pulitizer Prize winning author, initiated the idea of the Wiggins Chair and led the campaign to create it. When Phil died, COA honored him by creating this fund to support programs in government, international a airs, and politics.

In the last fiscal year I was also able to offer a new incarnation of our Electing A President seminar. The students in my class were able to cover a bevy of various issues around the history, conduct, and granular details of presidential elections in the US. They broke into teams to track the key electoral battleground states throughout the term, then did a lengthy deep dive into the results in the final weeks of the term. Plans are underway to offer similar classes in the spring and fall of 2026.

WIGGINS CHAIR

168,854

allocations/withdrawals (98,554)

$1,853,069

GEYELIN FUND

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman Chair in the Performing Arts

Jodi Baker, MFA

Last year, I co-taught Objects and Performance with the great Nancy Andrews, as well as a practical study of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and two movement training courses. I directed two performance-related senior projects, served as an academic advisor and a primary reader for several human ecology essays, and I co-directed senior project presentations for the board of trustees with marine ecology professor Kara Gadeken. I also co-chaired the Dual Interdisciplinary Arts Faculty Search with music professor Jonathan Henderson. This search began in summer of 2024 and was completed in winter of 2025. It resulted in the successful hire of two truly extraordinary new interdisciplinary artists, Anna Ialeggio and Melissa Ferrari. We are all incredibly excited to have these folks teaching at COA.

in historical and contemporary techniques for effective conflict engagement in connection with clown theory and training practices.

Established in 2019 by several anonymous donors as part of the Broad Reach capital campaign, in honor of the renowned actors Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, whose daughter, Nell Newman, graduated from COA in 1987.

In the spring, I was invited to teach as a guest artist as part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellows Program at the University of Maine in Orono (UMO). I led a short series of movement training workshops for UMO students and faculty based on methods I’ve developed over the last decade with our students. I also had the opportunity to bring some terrific guest artists to COA. Montana-based performance artist and UCSD Professor Emeritus Charlie Oates visited the Art and Resiliency class and led a physical performance workshop for all students. Dwight Dunston and Donna Oblongata visited campus to offer students a workshop

Last year, I also took a sabbatical. I spent a portion of that time traveling to see new work from many of the artists I teach in my courses at COA, and to connect with some professional contacts and former students whose work I deeply admire. I saw new work at Holland Festival, a special event at the Frank House influenced by the work of William Kentridge, and I spent time at the STRAAT, Rijksmuseum, and Tate Modern. I saw significant contemporary theatre, film, and sound art at the National Theatre, the British Film Institute, and Vinyl Factory. In New York, I conducted research at the New York Public Library and the Public Theatre. Additionally, I began work on a new introduction/ contextual analysis for a revised edition of Federico García Lorca’s House of Bernarda Alba (Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama). All this work directly informs the courses I teach and the projects I build with COA students and colleagues.

My work at COA is, of course, made possible by the Woodward and Newman Chair and other generous endowments that fuel art and performance study at COA. I remain incredibly grateful for the exceptional teaching and learning opportunities these funds provide.

ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS

NANCY ARONSON SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was established during the Broad Reach capital campaign to benefit students with financial need.

Recipient: Adi Gamache ’27 (Pawtucket, RI)

Beginning Balance: $132,199 Ending Balance: $137,570

BROOKE AND VINCENT ASTOR SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2012 through a generous bequest from Brooke Astor and gifts from the Vincent Astor Foundation. It is awarded to Maine students with financial need.

Recipients: Gemma Bradney ’27 (Swanville, ME)

Beginning Balance: $1,042,553

Ending Balance: $1,084,226

CHRISTINA AND WILLIAM BAKER SCHOLARSHIP

Family and friends of Christina ‘Tina’ Baker established this four-year scholarship in 2013 in memory of Tina. After the passing of Tina’s husband, William ‘Bill’ Baker in 2021, the family added Bill to the scholarship name and amended the criteria. This scholarship is awarded to students with financial need with a preference towards first-generation and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) students.

Recipient: Ruby DeWilde ’25 (Portland, OR)

Beginning Balance: $129,861 Ending Balance: $146,215

JUDITH BLANK AND STEVE ALSUP SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2019 by David Milliken to honor two wonderful people who have lived on MDI for many years. Both talented makers: Judith a very gifted fiber artist mixing the colors of the woods and waters magically in her rugs. Steve a builder and artisan in metals. To sit around a fire with a cup of tea chatting of many thoughts and things was as fine a way to spend time as could be thought of. Student selection criteria: fiber arts, metal arts, handcrafts.

Recipient: Jasper Blake ’25 (Stratham, NH)

Beginning Balance: $120,857 Ending Balance: $125,231

THE LYNN BOULGER YOUNG WRITERS SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2020 as part of the Broad Reach capital campaign in honor of Lynn Boulger. This scholarship is awarded to students who demonstrate financial need and great talent in writing.

Recipient: Dominick Tricoche ’25 (Warminster, PA)

Beginning Balance: $139,108 Ending Balance: $146,141

BRIGHT HORIZONS SCHOLARSHIP

The Bright Horizons Scholarship was established by Bar Harbor Bank & Trust as part of the Life Changing, World Changing capital campaign. The scholarship

is awarded to local Maine students who are graduates of high schools in Hancock and Washington Counties.

Recipient: Hope Rankin ’25 (Bucksport, ME)

Beginning Balance: $294,398 Ending Balance: $308,849

ROC AND HELEN MCGREGOR CAIVANO SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2019 by David Milliken to honor two heartfelt and wonderful people, full of kindness and knowledge. From the beauty of a flower to the architecture of shelters, buildings and cities. Student selection criteria: architecture, landscape design.

Recipient: Anna Heiting ’25 (Emmerich am Rhein, Germany)

Beginning Balance: $149,812

Ending Balance: $155,690

HELEN CALDICOTT SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2019 by David Milliken to honor Helen Caldicott, an Australian physician, author, and antinuclear activist who has founded several associations (Physicians for Social Responsibility among them) to educate the public about the ongoing dangers of nuclear weapons proliferation and war. Student selection criteria: social responsibility, advocacy, renewable energy.

Recipient: Ellie Jackson ’25

(Twin Falls, ID)

Beginning Balance: $120,857

Ending Balance: $125,231

ALIDA CAMP SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2018 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student with characteristics and interests in birding and preservation of wild habitat, service, loyalty, care, and attention to detail.

Recipient: Haysie Maurer ’25 (Wheaton, IL)

Beginning Balance: $124,165 Ending Balance: $128,831

RACHEL CARSON SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2018 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student with characteristics and interests in investigation, deep seeing, dot connecting, exposing of toxins in environment, and revealing the destruction of nature and natural habitats.

Recipient: Chloe Meyer ’26 (Churchville, MD)

Beginning Balance: $124,165 Ending Balance: $128,831

CHRISTENSEN SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2005 with a gift from the Christensen Fund. It is awarded to students with financial need, with a preference towards international students.

Recipient: Piper Myers-Poppay (Boise, ID)

Beginning Balance: $371,443 Ending Balance: $386,398

REBECCA CLARK MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN MARINE SCIENCES

The scholarship was established in 2004 in memory of Rebecca Clark, a COA graduate who lost her life in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Thailand. The fund was started with a lead gift from trustee Edward McC. Blair and support from many friends and family of Rebecca. The scholarship is awarded to a rising junior or senior, exemplary in dedication, enthusiasm, passion and scholarship in the field of marine science and/or marine conservation.

Recipient: Rosie Chater ’25 (Pony, MT)

Beginning Balance: $557,083 Ending Balance: $589,201

ANNE COLEMAN SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2023 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student developing skills in outdoor leadership and exploration.

Recipient: Sierra Abrams ’26 (Conway, NH)

Beginning Balance: $116,839 Ending Balance: $125,054

RICHARD SLATON DAVIS AND NORAH DEAKIN DAVIS SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2004 by Norah Deakin Davis, the widow of Richard S. Davis (Dick), a founding faculty member who passed away at the age of 41 in 1982. Mrs. Davis’s pledge

spurred additional gifts from friends and former students of Dick. Recipients are outstanding students in the contemplative, aesthetic, and philosophical aspects of human ecology that Dick loved.

Recipient: Alder Ame ’27 (Corvallis, OR)

Beginning Balance: $156,163 Ending Balance: $162,601

Dreier Scholarships

Beginning Balance: $44,394 Ending Balance: $450,050

JOHN C. DREIER SCHOLARSHIP

The scholarship was created in 2006 by the children and friends of John and Louisa Dreier. It is given to a junior who has shown leadership in building community spirit both on campus and in the college’s surrounding communities.

Recipient: Leila Hammoudeh ’26 (Ramallah and Al-Bireh, PALESTINE)

LOUISA R. DREIER SCHOLARSHIP

The scholarship was created in 2006 by the children and friends of John and Louisa Dreier. The scholarship is given to a junior who embodies the spirit of joy in the arts.

Recipient: Anna Celia Morton ’25 (Stockholm, Sweden)

SAMUEL AND MARY KATHRYN ELIOT SCHOLARSHIP

The scholarship was established by COA’s trustees to honor Sam Eliot as he retired from COA after 11 years as vice president. Mary Kathryn served as fundraising assistant to COA’s first president and designed the college’s iconic logo. It is awarded to Maine students with financial need.

Recipient: Rachel Wheeler-Karakose ’25 (Mount Desert, ME)

Beginning Balance: $186,005

Ending Balance: $194,034

ANNE FRANCHETTI SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2018 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student with characteristics and interests in the study of oceans, making, chemistry, medicine, curiosity, dowsing, whimsy, laughter, global thinking, and ceramics.

Recipient: Sofia Dragoti ’25 (Athens, Greece)

Beginning Balance: $124,165

Ending Balance: $128,831

GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP

The General Scholarship Fund was established in 1984. The fund contains hundreds of unrestricted gifts given by friends of the college. We continue to accept donations for this important endowment. Many students receive aid from this fund; here are a few:

Recipients: Abigail Thornton ’26 (Audubon, PA), Leander Laga-Abram ’26

(Santa Fe, NM), Issa Pizzimenti ’26 (Ferndale, MI), and Nicholas Lapic ’26 (Pottstown, PA)

Beginning Balance: $764,556

Ending Balance: $806,934

CRAIG GREENE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created to honor the late Craig William Greene. It is awarded to two rising juniors or seniors who have excelled in botany and general biology classes, and who share Craig’s passion for the world of flora.

Recipient: Conrad Kortemeier ’26 (Bristol, ME)

Beginning Balance: $107,345 Ending Balance: $111,574

SAM HAMILL SCHOLARSHIP IN COMMUNITY PLANNING AND ECOLOGICAL POLICY

Judy Perkins led the initiative to create this scholarship in 2023 to honor COA Life Trustee Sam Hamill and his professional contributions to the fields of regional and environmental planning and his legacy of service to the college.

Recipient: Cora Tietgen ’27 (Occidental, CA)

Beginning Balance: $531,943

Ending Balance: $575,734

HARTZOG-KAUFFMANN SCHOLARSHIP

This award honors both George B. Hartzog and John M. Kauffmann. Kauffmann, who passed away in 2014, was a former COA trustee, and retired to MDI after a long career at the National Park Service, most notably in

Alaska where he helped define the boundaries of the Gates of the Arctic National Park. George Hartzog, head of the National Park Service from 1964–1972, was a hero of John’s and revered by many for the way he managed the agency and defended the NPS during his tenure. It is awarded to students who have an interest in the management and protection of ecosystems— especially wilderness and rivers.

Recipient: Sofia Dragoti ’25 (Athens, Greece)

Beginning Balance: $462,734

Ending Balance: $480,647

AUGUST HECKSCHER SCHOLARSHIP

The scholarship was created in 1997 through gifts from friends and family of August Heckscher, an artist, author and public servant whose life and work encompassed many of the values and principles underlying the study of human ecology. It is awarded to students, preferably juniors, with preference for those whose work focuses on public lands, government, or the arts.

Recipient: Sierra Abrams ’26 (Conway, NH)

Beginning Balance: $192,093

Ending Balance: $199,608

JUSTINE HOOPER SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2018 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student interested in art, craft, and landscape design.

Recipient: Autumn Pauly ’26 (Saint Peter, MN)

Beginning Balance: $124,165 Ending Balance: $128,831

LOUISE H. AND DAVID S. INGALLS SCHOLARSHIP FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

This scholarship was created in 2018 with a gift from the Louise H. and David S. Ingalls Foundation. It is awarded to students with financial need, with a preference towards international students.

Recipient: Malek Hinnawi ’25 (Damascus, Syria)

Beginning Balance: $101,173 Ending Balance: $104,864

LARRY LUTCHMANSINGH SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2019 by David Milliken to honor a college professor who in the best sense of the teaching craft opened the eyes and hearts of his students to art and art history. Student selection criteria: education, teaching, humanities, art history.

Recipient: Jackie Brooks ’26 (Burke, VA)

Beginning Balance: $120,857 Ending Balance: $125,231

Scholarships held at Maine Community Foundation

EDWARD G. KAELBER SCHOLARSHIP FOR MAINE STUDENTS OF OUTSTANDING PROMISE

COA and the Maine Community Foundation created this scholarship to honor Ed Kaelber for his leadership and contributions in the fields of education and community development. The scholarship provides opportunities for Maine students who possess the boldness, commitment, and leadership personified by Ed Kaelber, and who are using their skills and talents to improve their communities.

Recipient: Conrad Kortemeier ’26 (Bristol, ME)

ALICE BLUM YOAKUM SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 1996 by former trustee Robert Blum in honor of his daughter Alice. It is awarded to students who plan to actively work for biodiversity and especially for the preservation of underwater species in various parts of the world.

Recipient: Megan Maloney ’26 (Salem, NC)

Maine Student Scholarship Fund

The Maine Student Scholarship Fund is an endowment created through generous gifts to the COA Silver Anniversary campaign from the organizations listed below.

Beginning Balance: $872,919

Ending Balance: $905,916

BETTERMENT SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 1995 through a gift from the Betterment Fund, and supports students from Bethel, Oxford County, and the State of Maine, in that order of priority.

Recipient: Catherine Tibbets ’27 (Raymond, ME)

H. KING AND JEAN CUMMINGS SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was established with a gift from the H. King & Jean Cummings Charitable Trust. Mr. Cummings led his family’s business, Guilford Industries, a textile manufacturer in Guilford, Maine. He later served as CEO of Sugarloaf ski area and played decisive roles in the founding of Carrabassett Valley Academy and Maine Community Foundation. The scholarship is awarded to students from western Maine.

Recipient: Michaela Payne ’26 (Shapleigh, ME)

KENDUSKEAG SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 1995 with two gifts from Dead River Company and the Kenduskeag Foundation. It is awarded to Maine students with financial need.

Recipient: Haven Haskell ’26 (Spruce Head, ME)

JOHN MCKEE SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2019 by David Milliken to honor John McKee, a master of black and white and color photography who uses his knowledge of the medium to awaken student awareness to framing the shot, to the play of shadow and light, to notice color and color saturation. It is awarded to a student who pursues excellence in photography.

Recipient: Nathan Morgan ’26 (Rapidan, VA)

Beginning Balance: $120,857 Ending Balance: $125,231

PHOEBE AND GERRISH MILLIKEN SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2018 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student with characteristics and interests in birding and preservation of wild habitat, service, loyalty, care, and attention to detail.

Recipient: Jackie Brooks ’26 (Burke, VA)

Beginning Balance: $148,931 Ending Balance: $154,731

PAMELIA MARKWOOD NEFF SCHOLARSHIP

The scholarship was established by Craig Neff “to honor the extraordinarily creative, loving, generous, energetic person Pammie was. She had an incredible passion for taking care of the planet, protecting wildlife and habitat, and encouraging everyone to learn more about nature and science. I know COA’s commitment to those values is strong and we have always admired the school, the staff and the wonderful students and graduates we have come to know.”

Recipient: Lydia Burnet ’25 (Asheville, NC)

Beginning Balance: $159,226 Ending Balance: $167,467

BARBARA PIEL SCHOLARSHIP

The scholarship was created in 2004 through a bequest from Barbara Piel. She was a great friend of the college, deeply interested in the natural world and inspired by “the intense individuality of students and staff ” at COA. This annual scholarship is awarded to students with financial need.

Recipient: Layne Kirk ’26 (Phillipsburg, NJ)

Beginning Balance: $576,001 Ending Balance: $598,524

KATE DAVIS QUESADA SCHOLARSHIP

Awarded to an undergraduate student(s) with demonstrated need for financial aid, with a preference for students who have an interest in ornithology.

Recipient: Autumn Pauly ’26 (Saint Peter, MN)

Beginning Balance: $129,543

Ending Balance: $138,872

MAURINE P. AND ROBERT ROTHSCHILD GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 1997 with a gift to the Silver Anniversary endowment campaign by trustee Maurine P. Rothschild and her husband Robert Rothschild. The scholarship is awarded to qualified graduate students with preference for those pursuing work in the field of education.

Recipients: Emily Ginn ’26 (Landenberg, PA) and Ariel Morgan ’25 (Belfast, ME)

Beginning Balance: $318,332 Ending Balance: $331,107

ROBERT H. RUBIN SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was established by friends and family of Robert Rubin after his death in 2020. It will be awarded to students with financial need, with a preference for students who have an interest in community planning and sustainability on Mount Desert Island—especially efforts focused on linking the issues of environmental stewardship, economic health, and social equity together.

Recipient: Mabon Young ’26 (Portland, ME)

Beginning Balance: $60,385 Ending Balance: $64,895

MICHAEL AND ROSE RUSSO SCHOLARSHIP

The scholarship was created in 2013 with a gift from Jay McNally ‘84 to honor his maternal grandparents. This four-year scholarship provides financial assistance to a high-achieving student who is a great fit with the mission of COA and would otherwise not be able to attend.

Recipient: Morgan Daley ’27 (Bar Harbor, ME)

Beginning Balance: $760,197

Ending Balance: $789,538

CHARLES AND KATHARINE SAVAGE SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2018 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student who exhibits compassion, empathy, and community leadership, and who loves wood, landscapes and gardens, books, art, music, letters, and the winter structure of plants.

Recipient: Colleen Nelson ’27 (Elkton, MD)

Beginning Balance: $124,165

Ending Balance: $128,831

SUSAN SHAW SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2023 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student studying oceans and environmental health.

Recipient: Mallory McElhenny (Clinton, PA)

Beginning Balance: $116,839

Ending Balance: $125,054

RALPH AND MARION STANLEY SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2018 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student with an interest in boat building, woodworking, and the working waterfront.

Recipient: Natalie Rodriguez-Dickens ’26 (San Rafael, CA)

Beginning Balance: $137,231

Ending Balance: $143,050

DONALD STRAUS SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2008 with a gift from Donald and Beth Straus. It is awarded to a rising junior or senior who shows promise in working for cultural change and collaboration in the field of human relations and/or leadership.

Recipient: Alexandra Löfgren ’25 (Dvärsätt, Sweden)

Beginning Balance: $262,598 Ending Balance: $273,186

JOAN AND DIXON STROUD SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was created in 2018 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship honors the Strouds’ love of family and care of community, and their embrace of beauty and aesthetics, respect for the past, and belief in the future. It is awarded to a student with interest in the investigation of unpolluted water and riparian habitats as an essential support of life. Student selection criteria: water quality, wildlife habitat, and community service.

Recipient: Hannah Gaudet ’25 (Dixon, NM)

Beginning Balance: $124,165 Ending Balance: $128,831

YAVERLAND SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was established by trustee Heather Evans and her family during the Broad Reach Capital Campaign to benefit students with financial need.

Recipient: David Wasinger ’25 (Durango, CO)

Beginning Balance: $398,009 Ending Balance: $449,930

Annual scholarships

(not endowed)

ALUMNI CLIMATE ACTION SCHOLARSHIP

The scholarship was created in 2021 by David Bonner Winship ’77, Rich Van Kampen (’13), Kyle Shank ’14, and Taj Schottland ’10. This annual scholarship is awarded to students with financial need who are engaged in environmental and climate activism and action.

Recipient: Linnea Goh ’25 (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

ELEANOR T. AND SAMUEL J. ROSENFELD

SCHOLARSHIP

The scholarship was created in 2000 by Eleanor T. and Samuel J. Rosenfeld. This annual scholarship is awarded to students with financial need.

Recipient: Leander Laga Abram ’26 (Santa Fe, NM)

WATER IS LIFE SCHOLARSHIP FUND

This two-year scholarship was created in 2021 by Ellen Seh ‘75. It is awarded to students with financial need, with a preference for women who have an interest in freshwater resources— especially efforts focused on the protection of water quality and ecological integrity. The scholarship will be initially awarded to a third-year student and be renewed for a total of two years, so long as they remain enrolled at the college.

Recipient: Sam Nguyen-Jones ’26 (Brooklyn, NY)

ENDOWED FUNDS

Barbarina M. and Aaron J. Heyerdahl Beech Hill Farm Endowment Fund

Anna Davis and David Levinson

Beech Hill Farm had another productive and successful year. Throughout the season, we grew over 100,000 pounds of organic vegetables, which were sold through our farm stand, wholesale accounts, the COA dining hall, Take-a-Break, and a 100-person summer and fall Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.

We worked with community partners to supply nearly 5,000 pounds of produce to Healthy Acadia’s Gleaning Initiative, provided 2,000 pounds of food to the Bar Harbor Food Pantry, and supervised coordinators of Share the Harvest, our student-run food access project. Share The Harvest provides free produce to low-income residents of Mount Desert Island, and offers 50% discounts in the farmstand to those using SNAP and WIC.

We co-taught Organic Farm Planning and Production with botany and agroecology professor Suzanne Morse. The course led students through the process of planning a farm, from creating a production plan to understanding cash flow and enterprise budgets.

Many island residents attended our Food and Farming Workshop Series, which offered instruction in things like chainsaw safety and tractor operation. Other events hosted on the farm included the 2025 Beech Hill Farm Summer Concert Series (featuring local musicians each month in the summer), a community potluck for A Climate to Thrive, and three successful Share the Harvest fundraiser events.

Established in 1999 by Barbarina M. Heyerdahl ’88 and Aaron J. Heyerdahl ’87 when they donated Beech Hill Farm to COA.

We worked closely with the Food Systems Working Group to develop a Farms and Garden Strategic Plan for Beech Hill Farm, Peggy Rockefeller Farm, and the COA Community Garden. Through this close collaboration, the group established five strategic goals and implementation plans for the long-term sustainability and viability of the farms and garden. We continue to work towards building soil health and fertility by increasing cover cropping, mulching, beneficial insect plantings, and reduced tillage practices. We are also working on expanding our growing season through the construction of our ninth high tunnel.

We employed over 20 work-study students in the spring and the fall, sponsored three summer internships, and hired 15 full-time staff. We hosted numerous school visits, including those from The Community School, MDI High School, and various COA classes.

The Expeditionary Fund Kathryn Davis Fund for Global and Civic Engagement

WASHINGTON, USA

interviewing wildlife rehabilitators; performing music

CALIFORNIA, USA

traveling across the country by train; exploring notions of convenience and social class

NEVADA, USA

participating in a COA monster course

ARIZONA, USA

learning how to tan hides and make leather shoes; creating documentary films

MEXICO

participating in a COA study abroad program; studying theater peformance

COSTA RICA

participatingin a COA monster course; studying medicinal plants

NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA

studying whale stranding and fishing communities

MAINE, USA studying the social ecology of skateboarding

NEW YORK, USA creating a guide to perfumery; exploring bookbinding techniques

MARYLAND, USA studying insect photography

KENTUCKY, USA

interning at a primate rescue center

NORTH

CAROLINA,

USA researching the anthropology of Appalachia

This program was initially endowed by Kathryn W. Davis. Now generally referred to as “the Expeditionary Fund,” it allows COA students the opportunity to learn while travelling as part of their college experience. Each student may apply for up to $1,800 for credit-bearing activities such as travel expenses, residencies, independent studies, internships, senior projects, and attendance at off-campus conferences or meetings.

In 2025, students used their grants to pursue projects around the USA and in countries across the world, including Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Egypt, France, Lebanon, and Thailand.

SWEDEN

FRANCE studying European political institutions and French language

working in public radio for an indigenous community

AZERBAIJAN attending a United Nations Climate Change Conference

LEBANON studying intertidal organisms

BHUTAN

studying archery and the relationship between humans and cranes

THAILAND

studying preveterinary medicine

JAPAN completing a marketing internship

BELGIUM attending the Society for Human Ecology conference

GERMANY studing Hildegarde von Bingen

EGYPT training in freediving

This research fund was established to support the work of the W.H. Drury Chair, in honor of Bill Drury, an eminent ecologist and former research director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, who died in 1992. Bill lectured on evolutionary biology and ecology at Harvard University for over 20 years before joining the COA faculty in 1976.

W.H. Drury Research Fund

John G.T. Anderson, PhD

The Drury Fund grew out of Bill Drury’s original “Guillemot Fund,” named after his sailboat that he sold to finance work among the islands of Maine. After his passing, the fund was renamed the W.H. Drury Research Fund, and I was asked to use the proceeds to ensure that the kind of work Bill would have wished to pursue continues. Since 1999, the fund has primarily been spent on running a program for students at the Alice Eno Field Research Station on Great Duck Island, where students are encouraged to develop their own lines of research and to present it at local, national, and international meetings. This was a busy and exciting year for the fund.

In January, I was able to send five COA students to the joint meetings of the Waterbird Society and the Pacific Seabird Group in San Jose, Costa Rica, where each presented their work on Great Duck Island or Mount Desert Rock from the previous summer. In April, I took seven students to the Northeast Natural History Meetings in Springfield Massachusetts, where again they presented their

original work and I chaired a session on seabird ecology and the marine environment. In spring and summer, I took a team of eight students to National Park Service islands to the west of us to conduct population surveys and to obtain samples relating to possible infection with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). We also deployed four more GPS tags, which allow us to track where the adults are foraging and how a juvenile bird behaves as it is first leaving the colony.

Another exciting development this year was the establishment of live-streaming cameras on both Great Duck Island and Mount Desert Rock. This effort was made possible through the expertise and generosity of COA Research Associate Alan Mainwaring, who provided essential equipment and technical support—including multiple cameras and the networking systems required to bring them online. We are also grateful to Jennifer Starr, whose gift funded cameras on Great Duck Island. These cameras can be viewed through the Alice Eno Field Research Station website (enostation.org), skillfully constructed by Haysie Maurer ’25 as part of her senior project. Together, the new system allows us to monitor both stations throughout the winter and capture the earliest signs of nesting each spring.

This is the last year where I will be responsible for the fund, and I would like to end with a heartfelt “thank you” to the people whose generous donations have funded literally decades of research along the coast of Maine. Because of you, more than 100 students have been able to conduct original research among the islands. Many have gone on to be scientists, professors, lawyers, veterinarians, and farmers…and I think that Bill would have been very proud indeed. You are the wind beneath our wings.

Fund for Maine Islands

Todd Little-Siebold, PhD, Galen Koch, Natalie Springuel ‘91, Hillary Smith

This year, we team taught numerous classes in marine studies and community-based research that built on a decade of growing our footprint in the communities and the curriculum at COA. Our ongoing collaboration with the Island Institute on the podcast From the Sea Up saw its third season come to a conclusion with six episodes focusing on innovations in Maine’s marine industries. Production on season four of the podcast will conclude in December 2025 with four new episodes about climate adaptation and resilience in the fisheries. Similarly, our ongoing collaborative work with Maine Sea Grant provides students with the opportunity to produce episodes of Coastal Conversations, the long-standing public affairs radio program that airs monthly on WERU Community Radio. This year, two students produced two 30-minute episodes as part of their senior projects. Our community-engaged exhibits continue to garner attention and listenership. The Bar Harbor Exhibit and Soundwalk is on display for its second season at the Bar Harbor Historical Society. This public element of communicating our research is a core component of the work we do.

The integration of classes that support the ongoing interviewing of local community members along with fieldwork by Galen Koch and a team of students has ensured that our archive of interviews is growing as we deepen relationships with coastal communities. Our ongoing collaborations with Maine Sea Grant and the University of Maine School of Marine Studies has increased our bandwidth at a time when institutional collaborations in communityengaged work feels more important than ever. One concrete outcome of the collaboration was that seven current and past students had their oral history work (senior projects, class projects, and independent study work) published in a recent compendium of fisheries-related oral histories for The Maine Policy Review

Work that has grown out of the Navigating Change class taught in 2023 has led to several additional grant-funded projects. A collaborative project led by Hillary Smith on women and climate change has involved students in teaching, research, and outreach. Two COA workstudy students have been involved in data management, analysis, and interpretation of key themes from the oral history data set using qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques. One COA student completed a summer internship analyzing oral history interviews on climate change and invasive species and produced and edited a radio story about the potential of invasive European green crabs in Maine’s food system. A community-engaged data science project by computer science faculty member Laurie Baker, now teaching at Bates College, has complemented this with analysis of spatial data from our interviews. Taken together, this work has helped pave a strong pathway for student participation in community-based research, advocacy, and media work.

Established in 2014, this partnership between Island Institute and COA seeks solutions to sustain island and coastal ecosystems. Funded by a challenge grant from the Partridge Foundation and the support of many other donors, the fund addresses four areas of critical concern for Gulf of Maine residents: agriculture and food, energy, education, and adaptation to climate change.

David Hales Sustainability Fund for the Director of Energy

David Gibson, CEM LEED AP BD+C

The 2024-25 academic year has been a year of many changes for the Community Energy Center. We have had many successes, and have faced daunting headwinds with federal funds retracted from the program.

Last summer, with funding from the Buildings Upgrade Prize, we launched the “Maine Energy Upgrade Program” (MaineUP.org). We had five summer interns working with the Community Energy Center. Becca Tarczy, Nicole Grohoski, and three interns worked on Great Cranberry Island, while two interns worked with the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Sipayik. We completed more than 30 home energy audits and distributed hundreds of LED light bulbs and high-efficiency shower heads to residents.

Our AmeriCorps grant from Campus Compact was renewed, and we brought on Rashmi Mohan as our new full-time AmeriCorps member to take over Becca Tarczy’s role. Through her year-long service term, Rashmi helped with writing and revising five grant proposals, learned how to conduct home energy audits, received BPI certification as a Building Analyst Technician, spearheaded and coordinated data collection for our STARS reporting, and participated in implementation of insulation improvements in six buildings.

During the fall term, I taught End-Game Decarbonization, a new course that delves into technical requirements of the clean energy transition, including beneficial electrification,

energy efficiency, and renewable energy, but with an emphasis on societal shifts needed to accelerate economy-wide decarbonization.

During the winter term, I taught Maine Energy and Climate Advocacy, another new course in which students tracked legislation and submitted public input, while learning about past energy and climate policy through guest speakers and presentations.

In December, we submitted 500 pages of documentation to the US Department of Energy to verify that we had completed all the requirements of Phase 2 of the Buildings Upgrade Prize. We should have received $200,000 for completion of this phase, but the program has been paused indefinitely since January.

Nicole Grohoski transitioned to half-time to fulfill her responsibilities as Maine state senator during the legislative session. After being assigned to chair a new Task Force on Taxation, she stepped down from her role at COA in May 2025 to focus on statelevel responsibilities. Her leadership, organizational skills, and support are sorely missed.

Across the year, I presented at several conferences

and forums. In October and January, I led training sessions for AmeriCorps members as part of the Campus Compact EnviroCorps Program. In February, I presented on a panel at the PassivHaus Maine Forum. We brought Rashmi Mohan and several students (Cavan Doherty ‘28, Jasper Freeman-Gritter ‘28, Mabon Young ‘26) to attend the forum. I presented “Insulation is Resistance: Resist Heat Loss, Renew Old Buildings, Regenerate Our Communities” at the Climate Convergence hosted by the Center for an Ecology-Based Economy in Norway, Maine in May, and brought one student, Mabon Young ‘26, to attend as well.

I oversaw a senior project for Rudolfs Lukasevics ‘25 focused on renewable energy options and microgrid design and oversaw independent studies for Helen Lloyd ‘27 (solar design), Mabon Young ‘26 (making Bar Harbor more walkable and bikeable), Tyler Hebert ‘27 (marketing for energy audits), Henry Gilpin ‘26 (design, construction, and deployment of underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), and Recycling Plastic Bottles into 3D Printer Filament), and Rutherford Zollmann ‘27 (functional art).

The Community Energy Center work-study team assisted with insulating the Turrets attic, the farmhouse at Beech Hill Farm, and some of COA’s off-campus homes.

Established by Peggy and Henry Sharpe to honor COA’s fifth president, David Hales, upon his retirement. Hales led environmental policy and sustainability programs for the US Agency for International Development, and was the first American to serve as chair of the World Heritage Convention.

In May, we were awarded $23,900 from the Governor’s Council on Aging to continue our energy auditing and outreach work on the Cranberry Isles. We were also awarded $349,925 from the Environmental Justice for New England Region One Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program, but the announcement included news that “due to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) unlawful termination of our funding, EJforNE is unable to proceed with grant awards at this time.” Despite the funding retraction, winning this highly competitive grant reflects a significant achievement for our team.

We had intended to continue the AmeriCorps program and hire Rashmi Mohan full-time into the energy project manager role, but due to a lack of housing for faculty and staff, we were unable to retain either of these positions. This will significantly reduce the capacity of the Community Energy Center for the coming year, but we will continue to take steps toward COA’s goal of becoming fossil fuel-free by 2030.

Thomas and Mary Hall Library Fund

This fund was established in 1986 with the purpose of helping Thorndike Library build a collection of science and history of science books. The Hall family helped the fund grow further when, upon Thomas Hall’s death in 1990, they requested that donations be directed to this fund. Each year, selections are made based on requests, class needs, and academic as well as general interest. This year’s selections include:

• The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman (2020)

• The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets by Thomas Cech (2024)

• Clams: How to Locate, Dig, and Cook Them by Curtis J. Badger (2024)

• The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World by Lixing Sun (2023)

• Medical Microbiology by Patrick R. Murry (2021)

• Medicinal Lichens: Indigenous Wisdom and Modern Pharmacology by Robert Dale Rogers (2025)

• Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us by Herman Pontzer (2025)

• Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop by Catherine Zabinski (2020)

• Anesthesiology Manual: Best Practices and Case Management by A Hadzic (2025)

• Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds by Boria Sax (2020)

• Bayesian Models: A Statistical Primer for Ecologists by Thompson N. Hobbs (2025)

• Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science by Aubrey Clayton (2021)

• Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change by William H. Schlesinger (2020)

• The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman (2023)

• Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith (2021)

• The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path For Women in Science by Dava Sobel (2024)

• Field Guide to Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of the East Coast of North America by David A. Ebert (2024)

• Fundamentals of Bionanomaterials by Ahmed Barhoum, Jaison Jeevanandam, Michael K. Danquah Eds. (2022)

• In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life it Brings by James C. Scott (2025)

• Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music by Dave Soldier (2021)

• The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infection Disease by Pabst M. Battlin, Leslie P. Francis, et. al. Eds. (2021)

• The Power of Prions: The Strange and Essential Proteins That Can Cause Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Other Diseases by Michel Brahic (2024)

• The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs by Gregory S. Paul (2024)

• White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus in Our Cells, in Our Food, and in Our World by Jack Lohmann (2025)

• White Pine: The Natural and Human History of a Foundational North American Tree by John Pastor (2023)

Robert P. and Arlene Kogod Visiting Artist Fund

Ken Hill, PhD

The following courses o ered by visiting instructors in the 2024-25 academic year were made possible through this fund:

• Advanced Photography, June Kim

• Sound Studies Practicum, Galen Koch

• Ceramics I, Kreg McCune

• Music Fundamentals: Intro to Reading/Hearing/Writing/ Playing, Adam McLean

• Beginning Contemporary Dance Technique, Dani Robbins

• Documentary Video Studio, Matthew Shaw ’11

• 3D Studio: Introduction to Three-Dimensional Art and Design, Kristy Summers

• Advanced Photography, June Kim

• 10X Dramatic Writing Studio, Andrea Lepcio ’79

• Folk Music Ensemble, Adam McLean

• Introduction to Glass Blowing and Sculpture, Linda Perrin

• Sourcing the Body: Disability as Human Ecology, Dani Robbins

• Four-Dimensional Studio, Matthew Shaw ’11

• Mixed Media Sculpture, Kristy Summers

• World Percussion, Michael Bennett

• Musicianship, Adam McLean

• Dance Improvisation Ensemble, Dani Robbins

• Landscape Cinema, Matthew Shaw ’11

Established by Bob and Arlene Kogod in 2000 as part of the Silver Anniversary Campaign to bring talented artists to COA at a time when the college did not have a robust arts faculty. Today, the fund is used to enhance our o erings by bringing lecturers and visiting faculty to COA who o er courses in subjects such as photography, ceramics, and cinema. The fund also supports the purchase of art supplies and equipment, travel, professional development, and student opportunities that otherwise would not be possible. Beginning fund balance $1,705,046

Teaching assistants for:

• Documentary Video Studio

• Introduction to Photography

• Four-Dimensional Studio

• Advanced Photography

• Ceramics I

• Audio Production as a Compositional Tool

• The Contemporary Landscape in Photography

Field trips, equipment, repairs, and class support including:

• Piano tuning

• Audio recording equipment

• String instrument repairs

• Upright bass repair

• New instruments (two violins, cello, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, stands)

161,512

McCormick Library Director Fund

Trisha Cantwell, MLS, and Catherine Preston-Schreck, MA, MSc

Established in 1998 by Nancy Hoskinson McCormick, the widow of Charles Deering McCormick, through the Chauncey & Marion Deering McCormick Foundation.

During the academic year 2024-25, library staff continued to create a space where students, faculty, staff, and the wider public could find information and support, share ideas, and build connections with others. Staff expanded library resources, collaborated with faculty and staff across campus, and worked closely with students and multiple interns. We attended conferences and classes for professional development with topics ranging from digital archiving to international librarianship, as well as meeting human ecologists from all over the world at the Society for Human Ecology conference in Mons, Belgium, expanding the library’s network of professional contacts throughout New England, the US, and internationally.

One of the defining projects of the year was a $56,750 grant from the Leon Levy Foundation to support archives work. Under the direction of archivist Elliot Santavicca ‘20, this grant supported three collaborative archival efforts—digitizing Allied Whale’s humpback whale catalog, the Herbarium, and the history of the founding of COA. Grant funds supported the construction of a research room, the acquisition of digitization equipment and shelving, and four internship positions.

Additionally, library staff installed the new Ashley Bryan Special Collection, a browsable selection of books from his personal library gifted to Thorndike Library by the Ashley Bryan Center and his family last June. The library also benefited from the donation of professor emerit Dru Colbert’s collection of zines and artist books, which resulted in the creation of two new special collections. At the same time, librarians have worked to resolve

older parts of our collection, successfully cleaning up and integrating journals into the collection that had been in long-term storage, and reorganized sections of our microfiche collection. We found good homes for surplus books in two well-attended annual book sales.

The library had another record-breaking year of resource instruction sessions. We mentored 36 work-study students, and hosted numerous events and community building activities. These included faculty talks, karaoke, craft and game nights, poetry readings, Art Crawl exhibits, and displayed work from classes, independent studies, and senior projects.

Library staff maintained their positions as valuable executive members of the Balsam Consortium, a group of over 40 small Maine libraries, and the History Trust, a collaborative group of local libraries and historical societies. Library staff worked to bolster our support of students interested in library careers, working with advancement and the business office to establish a library fund dedicated to supporting future librarians.

Thorndike staff are thrilled to have had such an abundant and productive year and look forward to another, filled with connecting individuals and classes with our resources, expanding our connections, and growing our library community at COA and beyond.

Peggy Rockefeller Farm Endowment Fund

April Nugent

The Peggy Rockefeller Farm Endowment Fund supports the positions of the farm’s two managers. The farm continued to manage its various livestock enterprises and host educational and community events.

Highlights from the season included the development of several hands-on adult education workshops. These included a lambing intensive, and instruction on poultry and lamb processing. The farm also hosted two public open-barn days in which the community was welcomed into the lambing barn to learn about the program and meet with COA students to discuss their work here. The second of these visit days featured an interview with a reporter and a feature on News Center Maine’s evening broadcast.

The farm also hosted its “Leaping into Spring” event this season. We expanded our flock of organic laying hens to meet rising demand for eggs, and are working to develop parasite resistant traits in our flock of Katahdin sheep. The farm increased distribution of farm food to local avenues like the COA Community Fridge and the Southwest Harbor soup kitchen. We also established a new self-serve farmstand on the

property that allows visitors to purchase farm goods with digital payments.

Established by David Rockefeller, Sr. in 2011 when he donated the Carmen and DeLaittre Farms to the college and supported their operations with a generous endowed gift.

The farm continued to employ approximately 20 different work-study students throughout the school year, and the farm manager hosted several COA courses on the farm. Courses such as Field Sketching, Wildlife Ecology, Human Ecology Core Course, and Entomology visited the farm as part of their curriculum.

The farm continued its partnership with Maine NRCS’s Ag Allies, fledging at least 20 juvenile bobolinks, and numerous savannah sparrows and tree swallows. Ag Allies also hosted a public field walk in July to educate the public about Maine’s disappearing grassland bird species and the importance of protecting their habitats.

Beginning fund balance $1,460,888 Net return and contributions 138,369 Less allocations/withdrawals (80,746) Ending fund balance $1,518,512

Physical Plant Funds

ETHEL H. BLUM GALLERY FUND

The Ethel H. Blum Gallery was dedicated in 1993 to Ethel H. Blum (1900-1991), an accomplished watercolorist who studied at the Art Students League and the Brooklyn Museum Art School, and exhibited widely in her lifetime. A long-time summer resident of MDI, she took special pleasure in painting Maine coast views.

BREWER-GOWER-SAWYER -GARBER FUND

Established by founding trustees Les Brewer and Father James Gower, and local businessmen Charles Sawyer and Michael J. Garber, to support campus grounds improvements.

KATHRYN W. DAVIS CENTER BUILDING AND GROUNDS FUND

This fund was created by gifts from the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation in support of the maintenance and upkeep of the Kathryn W. Davis Center for International & Regional Studies. The Davis Center houses faculty and staff offices, classes, and the educational studies program. The Davis Carriage House is used for employee housing.

DEERING COMMONS FUND

Originally a summer cottage built in 1886 named “Sea Urchins,” this building was fully renovated in 2008. It features a student lounge, a cafe, and offices for staff, the college nurse, and mental health counselors. This fund, created to support maintenance of the facility, was established by Barbara Deering Danielson.

THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER FUND

The Gates Center is used for lectures, theatrical productions, music and dance performances, and large meetings or workshops. The hall has a stage with optional podium, seating on the main floor and in a balcony, a lighting and sound booth, and a digital projector with screen.

THORNDIKE LIBRARY / KAELBER HALL FUND

THE TURRETS FUND

The Turrets was designed in 1893 for John J. Emery of New York by Bruce Price, designer of Québec’s famous Château Frontenac. In 1975, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is still one of the most important examples of cottage-era architecture in Maine. The Turrets currently houses classrooms and administrative and faculty offices.

Thorndike Library was named in honor of Robert Amory Thorndike (1900-1972) and his wife Elizabeth (1908-1992) in recognition of their support and contributions to COA. Kaelber Hall, named for founding president Ed Kaelber (1924-2018), is the large natural-shingled building located in the center of campus. It overlooks the water and houses the Thorndike Library, the Blair Dining Hall (Take-ABreak) and kitchen, and the admission office.

Doug Rose GIS Enhancement Fund

Gordon Longsworth ’90

The Doug Rose GIS Enhancement Fund has continued supporting Geographic Information Systems (GIS) education through investments in technology and equipment. Over the past 30 years, the fund has enabled new approaches to GIS teaching while maintaining archives of student and faculty work. This year’s investments show our commitment to educational technology and preserving institutional knowledge.

service subscription protects our 35-year archive of GIS data and projects, providing essential backup for work not published to ArcGIS Online. This systematic approach ensures that previous years’ projects remain accessible while clearing lab system space for new academic work. The archive represents decades of institutional knowledge and student innovation.

Established in 1994 by family and friends of Doug Rose, a COA student and avid rock climber who died while climbing Great Head in Acadia National Park. This fund supports the purchase of software and equipment, as well as student attendance at conferences related to Geographic Information Systems.

Artificial Intelligence Integration: The fund is supporting our pilot implementation of Claude AI in GIS classes, marking an important step forward in educational technology. We are testing how students can use this AI tool to better understand complex spatial analysis concepts, find the right analytical tools for their applied projects, and solve technical problems. This pilot integration is designed to help students translate their subject knowledge into practical GIS applications. This pilot shows promise for how AI can bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical software use, supporting student learning while maintaining academic standards.

Remote Access Solutions: our RemotePC subscription provides students with remote access to powerful computers running ArcGIS Pro and other programs, capable of processing large models and datasets. This solution enables students to use any device—including MacBooks, Chromebooks, or tablets—to connect to highperformance lab computers for intensive spatial analysis work.

Data Storage and Management: The IDrive cloud

Aerial Imagery Processing: Our Pix4D subscription continues to expand capabilities in drone imagery processing and storage, with increasing integration into web-based mapping applications. Recent processing includes drone flights from regional islands and the RV Osprey, with all projects archived and accessible for ongoing research and educational use. This platform connects field data collection with classroom analysis. Pix4D access is open to any community member wanting to process and make maps from their drone imagery.

Learning Environment Improvements: an extensive donated book collection and aesthetic enhancements reflect our understanding that physical learning environments contribute significantly to student engagement and academic success.

The Doug Rose Fund continues to support both educational innovation and community-based projects. Through strategic investments in new technologies, infrastructure maintenance, and learning environment improvements, the fund ensures that our GIS program remains at the forefront of spatial analysis education.

Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery Fund

Jay Friedlander

COA’s venture incubator was endowed by a grant from the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation in 2015. The Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery provides eligible students with academic credit, professional services, and access to seed funding to develop a sustainable for-profit or nonprofit business. Most collegiate venture incubators are co-curricular and create an entrepreneurial dilemma—forcing students to choose between their interests and education. The Hatchery removes these barriers, aligning education and individual passion by providing students with a full term of academic credit. Sustainable Business Program Manager, Kerri Sands ‘02, and I manage the program, and have built a bespoke curriculum so that any student at COA can develop their ideas and be fully immersed in the entrepreneurial experience.

Students selected for the Hatchery:

• perform a series of increasingly high-fidelity prototypes over 10 weeks

• learn essential business skills necessary for success in any enterprise

• receive guidance from professionals in prototyping, branding, social media, legal, and accounting

• have access to office space and up to $5,000 in seed funding

This year, we had 10 students pursuing eight ventures. The enterprises included:

• The Sunflower Preschool—supporting families with holistic early childhood education

• Pastos Libres—raising funds to expand Nicaraguan cheese production and rural prosperity

• mad.i.person—producing visual and functional art and hosting artist collective events

• Intentional Community Helper—providing energy and site analysis services to intentional communities

• Pita Coast—a Middle Eastern food truck serving fast, sustainable meals

• Musuhi—an online shop connecting exceptional Japanese rural products to urban markets

Established in 2015 with the support of The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation. A venture incubator, The Hatchery provides eligible students with academic credit, professional services, and access to seed funding to develop sustainable for-profit or nonprofit businesses.

• Labyrinth Postpartum Care —caring for women so they can care for their newborns

• Beyond Saydnaya—rebuilding lives of former Syrian political prisoners to rebuild Syria

Hatchery students learned sustainable enterprise fundamentals, developed numerous prototypes, experimented with new products and sales channels, solicited meaningful feedback from customers, outlined operations plans, developed growth strategies, and ultimately came to see themselves as professionals offering products and services of value. At the end of the 10-week term, students, families, and supporters from around the world attended the Hatchery Expo, where students presented overviews of their work.

In 2025, ten years after receiving our endowment, over 100 students have completed The Hatchery experience, and we have launched an impact study with past Hatchery participants. Preliminary results from our survey indicate that 100% of Hatchery alumni would recommend the experience to their peers. In addition, 65% either continued their Hatchery venture or are working as business owners and entrepreneurial leaders using the skills they acquired during their Hatchery experience at COA. We look forward to the next 10 years of putting human ecology into action through entrepreneurship.

Elizabeth Thorndike Library Fund

In 2001, Thorndike family members started a fund in honor of Betty Thorndike, for whom Thorndike Library is partly named. Each year, this fund pays for the Thorndike “Senior Books” which are selected by the graduating class for inclusion in the library’s collection. In 2015, the family made an additional contribution to the fund to support library resources. This year’s selections include:

UNEXPECTED:

A Retrospective of Patagonia’s Outdoor

Photography

by

Jane Sievert

From the peak of a mountain or the barrel of a wave, Patagonia has collected some of the most spectacular sports imagery in history. Unique for a business enterprise, Patagonia’s catalog devotes fully half its space to nonselling editorial content, to environmental and sport essays, and above all to extraordinary photographs of wild places and active pursuits for which the company makes its clothes. Since 1980, Patagonia has invited customers and wilderness photographers to submit their best, most unexpected shots of life outdoors, of alpine climbing, bouldering in the desert, skiing untracked bowls, surfing secret spots, ocean crossings, first kayak descents, and travel in unfamiliar places. Jane Sievert and Jennifer Ridgeway, Patagonia’s current and founding photo editor, respectively, have been calling, and culling, the shots for three decades. This is their compendium of the 100plus most compelling photos and a celebration of wilderness and outdoor-sport photography as an art and a practice. –Amazon

Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by

Elie Mystal

MSNBC legal commentator Elie Mystal thinks that Republicans are wrong about the law almost all of the time. Now, instead of talking about this on cable news, Mystal explains why in his first book. Allow Me to Retort is an easily digestible argument about what rights we have, what rights Republicans are trying to take away, and how to stop them. Mystal explains how to protect the rights of women and people of color instead of cowering to the absolutism of gun owners and bigots. He explains the legal way to stop everything from police brutality to political gerrymandering, just by changing a few judges and justices. Mystal brings his trademark humor, expertise, and rhetorical flair to explain concepts like substantive due process and the right for the LGBTQ community to buy a cake, and to arm listeners with the knowledge to defend themselves against conservatives who want everybody to live under the yoke of 18th-century White men.

–Amazon

Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd

Before Darwin, before Audubon, there was Merian. An artist turned naturalist known for her botanical illustrations, she was born just sixteen years after Galileo proclaimed that the earth orbited the sun. But at the age of fifty, she sailed from Europe to the New World on a solo scientific expedition to study insect metamorphosis, an unheard-of journey for any naturalist at that time, much less a woman. When she returned, she produced a book that secured her reputation, only to have it savaged in the nineteenth century by scientists who disdained the work of amateurs. Exquisitely written and illustrated, Chrysalis takes us from golden-age Amsterdam to the Surinam tropics to modern laboratories where Merian’s insights fuel a new branch of biology. Kim Todd brings to life a seventeenth-century woman whose boldness and vision would still be exceptional today.

–Amazon

16,499

$182,882

R. Amory Thorndike Memorial Fund

• Abolition Geographies: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2022)

• America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)

• America’s Largest Classroom: What We Learn from Our National Parks by Jessica L. Thompson and Ana K. Houseal Eds. (2020)

• Boundary Troubles in American Vanguard Art, 1920-2020 by Lynne Cooke Ed. (2022)

• Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future For All by Jennie Stephens (2024)

• Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America by Raúl Zibechi (2024)

• The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story by Richard Parker (2025)

• Drawn from Courtly India: the Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection by Ainsley M. Cameron (2015)

• The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel by Ocean Vuong (2025)

• Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner (2021)

• Graphic Liberation: Image Making and Political Movements by Josh MacPhee (2024)

• Hip-Hop is History by Questlove (Ahmir Thompson) (2024)

• Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen by Matthew Fox (2002)

• Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (2025)

• The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America: A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences by Joseph Jacob Cohen (2024)

• John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg (2024)

• Kitchen Lithography: Hand Printing at Home by Laura Sofie Hantke (2017)

• The Language of Trees: A rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten (2023)

• Libraries of the Mind by William Marx (2025)

• Lucian Freud by Lucian Freud (2022)

• Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly (2025)

This fund was established in 1979 in memory of longtime supporter and friend, R. Amory Thorndike. College of the Atlantic’s library was subsequently named for Mr. Thorndike and his wife, Elizabeth. The purpose of this fund is to strengthen and enlarge the college’s library collection materials in the fi elds of the arts and humanities. This year’s selections include:

• The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why by Jeff Sebo (2025)

• Mundane Methods: Innovative Ways to Research the Everyday by Helen Holmes and Sarah Marie Hall (2020)

• Mythical Creatures of Maine: Fantastic Beasts From Legend and Folklore by Christopher Packard (2021)

• Open Socrates: The Case For a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard (2025)

• Original Sins: The (Mis) education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing (2025)

• The Pullman Strike by William H. Carwardine (2024)

• Revolution as an Eternal Dream: The Exemplary Failure of the Madame Binh Graphics Collective by May Patten (2011)

Waterfront Director Fund

Toby Stephenson ’98

The waterfront continues to be a vibrant and productive environment for our community, with several updates and announcements worth mentioning. Though some events were not as positive as others, they all work to advance our safety and productivity in the future.

Established by an anonymous donor during the Broad Reach capital campaign to endow the waterfront director’s position and maximize the educational potential of our o shore islands— Mount Desert Rock and Great Duck Island.

This year, we hired a second captain to help run RV Osprey during the summer, and assist in sailing and other maritime instruction during the spring and fall. Rowan Fraley comes to us from the Maine Maritime Academy, as well as being a resident of Somesville, born and raised! He has been a delightful addition to our program.

The season started off with an expensive repair to RV Osprey due to residual failures from her grounding two seasons prior. Fortunately, this expense will be covered by insurance as it relates to small amounts of water that infiltrated the engine

and transmission during her 2021 grounding event. The net result was a new transmission and engine cylinder-liners, which gives her a new start to life.

Boating continues to elicit its usual fervor and excitement with many students learning to handle both large and small craft, power and sail. With 20 work-study students filling crew positions, we have a lot of learning happening. Our two Rhodes 19 boats and the Halman 20 (donated by John Gower) are used regularly when the wind is up and classes are out. SV Rebecca also continues as a training platform for students learning how a larger sailboat handles. In July, she hosted three sailors from Holland for a week-long private charter, and in September, she conducted her second OOPs sailing program with five incoming students. Both events were extremely successful.

Our learning continues into the crafts as we assemble a large post-and-beam canoe and kayak shed for the outdoor club. This was the result of Regan Greer ‘22’s senior project, in which she designed and provided the material to build a 20’x 40’ structure next to the Davis shop to help extend the life of our canoe and kayak fleet. We will also be overseeing a boat building senior project for a student starting in the winter term in the Davis shop. This will preempt more boat building projects through classes and studies as we create greater opportunities for our students to explore connecting hands to minds.

STATISTICS

RV Osprey : 50+ trips, 630 passengers, 6 COA research days, 6 summer field studies trips

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Writing for the Future Fund

Su Yin Khor, PhD

The 2024-25 academic year was productive and focused on strengthening the foundation of the Writing Program in order to support students’ writing and literacy development. We expanded course offerings to provide students with additional options. Two of these courses were developed by lecturer Katharine Turok: Journeys: Writing for Voyagers, Trekkers, Wanderers; and Writing Goes Wild: Environmental Adventures and Impacts. Su Yin Khor also developed a new course, College Seminar: “Soda, Pop, or Coke?”: Linguistic Diversity. A new co-taught course; Ethics, AI, and Authorship; was developed to address rapid technological advancements that are deeply shaping writing, literacy, and education. It was cotaught by Gray Cox and Su Yin Khor.

To continue the professionalization of the Writing Center and to prepare for the end of his chapter at COA, Blake Cass MPhil ‘19 worked with two tutors, Paloma Jofre Videla ‘26 and Dominick Tricoche ‘25, to develop a guide for the incoming director and tutors to prepare for the transition. Part of this work also included teaching and training two new cohorts of tutors to prepare for the next academic year. In addition, a new student position was created to provide curricular and administrative

support to streamline day-to-day activities for both the program and the center. Through this work, more resources have been created to support tutors, as well as faculty and staff. The Writing Program website has been significantly expanded to include more information about current course offerings, a guide for selecting courses, writing resources, FAQ, and information about publishing opportunities.

Collaborations with other units continued and were solidified through ongoing conversations about student support and resources, particularly with Thorndike Library and the Career Exploration Laboratory.

A collaboration with Scott Woolsey, our new first-year experience coordinator, resulted in an initiative to integrate writing tutor participation in the Human Ecology Core Course, which will provide additional support for incoming students.

Established in 2018 by former COA trustee, Walter Robinson, as part of the Broad Reach capital campaign. The fund provides faculty support in composition and technical writing, expands COA’s writing tutor program, and institutes new methods of communication to ensure COA students are prepared for today’s labor market.

The year was productive and ended with a celebration of the tremendous accomplishments Blake Cass had achieved during his time at COA, in particular, the transformative work he did to build a Writing Center for all students and writers. It was also a way to celebrate graduating tutors and to welcome new tutors. We hope for another productive year filled with creativity and collaborations.

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Kathryn Alayan ’06

Eben Albert ’03

Sharon Knopp & Enoch Albert

Heather Albert-Knopp ’99

Alyson Albitz ’01 & Jonathan Albitz

Jane Alexander

Irene S. Alie

Aleksandra Aljakna ’07

Judy Allen

Susan & Robert Allen

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Valerie Altmiller ’28

Janet & Craig Altobello

Debbie Ambro

Diane & Alan Amendt

Heather & Richard Ames

Lori Andersen

Karen & John Anderson

Lauren Anderson

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Lucy Atkins ’12

Shlomit Auciello ’17

Maro Avakian

Rosemarie Avenia ’86

Dawn Averitt

Savannah Averitt ’25

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Elizabeth Rousek Ayers ’95

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Mary Dohna Bacon ’80 & Wells Bacon ’80

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Laurie Baker & Spencer Egan

Rebecca Baker & Ryan Plasky

Robert Baker

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Cynthia Baker & Jonathan Zeitler

Ashley Bakken-Martin ’06

Marissa Altmann Balfour ’13

Azilee Ball ’25

Nicki & Christopher Ball

Julie Banzhaf-Stone & Steve Stone

Barbara Tennent & Steven Barkan

Natalie Barnett ’11

James Barrett

Meg Barry ’10

Lavon Bartel & David Struck

Julie Barth ’92

Cheryl Bartholomew ’80

Ted Bartles ’94

Becky Bartovics

Anne T. & Robert M. Bass

Kate Baxter

Molly & John Beard

Sandi Read & Ron Beard

Emily Beck & Geoff Young

Ursa Beckford ’17

Bruce Becque ’81

Alyson Bell ’10

Joe Bellavance

Felicia Bellows

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Bruce Bender ’76

Sara Bender & Evan Bender ’04

Fred Benson

Margaret Vettese & Edward Benz, Jr.

Jaime (Duval) Beranek ’00

Heather ’08 & Sean ’08 Berg

Nathaniel Berger

Glen Berkowitz ’82

Marie & Gerald Berlin

Jason Bernad MD ’94

Geena Berry ’10

Laura Berry ’17

Robert Hunt Berry

Stefanie & Alan Berry

Sara Faull ’98 & Eugenio Bertin ’97

Deodonne ’06 & Ranjan ’04 Bhattarai

Anne Oldach & William Bickley

Annick Bickson (’12)

John Biderman ’77

Janet Biondi ’81

Charles Bishop ’07

Linda Mejia Black ’09

Joanie & Jamie Blaine

Michael Blair ’95

Jasper Blake ’25

Sofia & Bob Blake

Sofia Blanchard

Arthur Kettle ’84 & Margaret Blanding ’83

Debi & Art Blank

Jerome Bley (’78)

Jarly Bobadilla

Sarah Bockian ’05

Julia Bogardus / Point Harbor Fund of the Maine Community Foundation

Deirdre Swords & Michael Boland ’94

Pamela Bolton (’79)

Joanna Bombadil

Paul Boothby ’88

Lynn Boulger & Tim Garrity

Charlotte Bourg

Allison & Avery Bourke III

Kathleen Bower

Jason Boyd

Marie Boyle

Kristin & Bryan Bradley

Jessica Bradshaw ’03

Alyce & John Brady

Ellen Brandt

Keagan Bray ’25

Milja & Tony Brecher-DeMuro

Amy Breen ’94 & Cody Johnson

Katherine & James Brennan

Alan Brewer

Christine Brewin

Antoinette & Benjamin Brewster

Jill K. Briggs

Rachel Briggs ’13

Kristen Britton

Miriam Broady

Brenda Brodie

Steven Brown

Deborah Bruns-Thomas

Jason Bryson-Alderman ’91

Michelle & Mike Brzezowski

Elizabeth Bullock

Amanda (Walker) Bunker ’98

Jean & Ordway Burden

Bobbie Burdick

Leon Archias & Sarah Burger

Charles & Jane* Burger

Cherie & Jason Burke

Shan Burson ’83

Charles Butt

Mariana Cadena Robles ’18

Bernice & Tom Cahill III

Helen Caivano ’80

Stefan Calabria ’09

Mariana Calderón ’13

Lindsay Calef

Trisha Cantwell-Keene

William Luther ’06 & Seth Carbonneau ’05

Amanda Carlson

Kiara Carman ’24

Linda K. Carman

Sarah Carney

Sheila Cusack & Gerard Caron

Donna Gold & Bill Carpenter

Giuliana Centurion ’00

Erin Chalmers ’00

Lucy Hull & E. Barton Chapin III

Mary Ann & Harry Charlston

Kathy Chazen & Larry Miller

Grace Cherubino ’11

Taj Chibnik ’95

Cynthia Chisholm ’86

Gabriela Maldonado-Codina & Jim Chivers

Sophie Chivers ’24

Marge Connelly & Julie Christopher

Alyne & Joseph Cistone

Chip Clark

Katherine Clark ’91

Kelly Clark

Lane Taylor & Virginia Clark

Shannon Clark

Sheila W. Clark

Susanna Porter & Jamie Clark, Jr.

Gail & Ham Clark III

Lisa Clarke

Hannah Clatterbuck ’26

JoAnne Carpenter

Melissa ’00 & Matthew ’99 Carroll

Barbara Carter

Melinda ’00 & Ellen Casey-Magleby

Ann Caswell

Amber Colvin

Tracy & Gifford Combs / Combs Family Fund

Sherry & Glenn Conklin

Mairi Connelly ’14 & Spenser Simis

Heidi Conner

Karen Conners

Alexandra Conover Bennett ’77

Abigail Conrad

Barbara Conroy

Iain Cooley ’21

Steven Corbato

Elizabeth Hodder Corbus &

Clay Corbus

Sarah Corson & Dick Atlee

Matthew Corum ’03

Margaret & Jay Costan

Adam Cote

Edith Rodrigue & Mel Cote Jr.

Jill ’83 & Ben ’84 Cowie-Haskell

J. Gray Cox (’71)

Margaret Cox

Malinda Crain

Ryan Claunch

W. Richard Clendaniel

Chris Clevenger

Jen Hughes & Ken Cline

Catherine Clinger

Lillian & Arthur Clinger, Jr.

Andrew Coate Wenkdith ’10

Janis Coates

Pamela Cobb Heuberger ’83

Elisabeth & John Cochran

Reinhard Coenen

Millard Coff in

Laura Cohn ’88

Diana Cohn ’85 & Craig Merrilees

Dru Colbert & Nancy Andrews

Jacquie Colburn

Timothy Cole ’88

Pancho Cole ’81

Ruth M. Colket

Sarah Colletti ’10 & Kyle McMillan

Karen & Darron Collins ’92

Kourtney Collum & Patrick Lyons

Michelle Andre & Shannon Collum

Leza & Jim Colquhoun

Jennifer ’93 & Kevin ’93 Crandall

Tracy Crane

Michael & Susan Cranmer

Lynn & James Crawford

Nadia Kasparek ’15 & James Crawford ’15

Marily Crews

Tom Crikelair

Sally Crock

Gideon Bezalel Culman ’02

Benjamin Cumberland

Callie & Randy Curtis

R.H. Cushman Family

Hannah Cuvin ’25

Jean Morris & Steve Cuvin

John Czerkowicz

Mary D’Alessandro

Dede & Dan Daigle

Lisa Damtoft ’79

John Dandy (’84)

Larry Dark

Adam Dau ’01

Kara ’96 & Matt ’98 Daul & Family

Caleb Fuller Davis ’02

Hornor Davis & William Hague

Leticia Davis

Lucinda & Fred (’75) Davis

Nancy Davis

Norah Davis

Gale & Shelby Davis

Kate & Andrew Davis

Nicole d’Avis ’02 & Mark Anderson

Reba Duckett

Asa Duffee

Peggy Dulany

Aimee Dunn

Colleen Dunn

Frederick Dupree

Jennifer & Mark Feldman

Julia Feller

Sugar & Nat Fenton

Adrian Fernandez ’15

Michael Fetters

Allison Fichter

John & Nisha Dawson

Hilary Rose Dawson ’18

DJ & George Deans

Carol & Gary DeBarba

Misti DeGroot & Todd DeGroot ’97

Rose (’88) & Steve ’80 Demers

Megan Smith ’90 & Daniel DenDanto ’91

Beth Rendeiro & Steven DePaul

David DePrez

Danyelle Desjardins

Lise Desrochers

Cerissa Desrosiers ’00 & Jessica Hannon

Phoebe Desrosiers

Adrianne Deupree ’02 & Michael Netzer ’01

Linda & Edouard DeVarennes

Holly Devaul ’84

Catherine Devlin ’93

Elana Diaz

George & Kelly Dickson MPhil ’97

Judith Dickson

Derek Dilaj

Sbonga Dlamini ’17

Stephanie Doherty

Ellen & Bill Dohmen

Pat & Bill Dommermuth

Molly Donlan ’20

Andrika Donovan

Mary Kay & David Donovan

Millard Dority

Mary & Frank Dorsey

Julia Doten

Markéta Doubnerová ’13

Yvonne Leicht

& Cameron Douglas

Cameron Hale Douglass ’02

Richard Dow

Stephen Dowdy ’19

Peggy & Steve Downing

Lorri Downs

Sofia Dragoti ’25

Estate of Susan Dreier

Walt Drkula ’12

Sunny Dupree

Anna Durand ’86

Lily Dutton ’25

Mike Duvarney

Ellen Dux

Marcia L. Dworak

Donna & Bill Eacho III

Molly & Justin Earle

Kimberly Eason ’95

Meg & Larry Eaton

Malaika Eaton

Martha & Ned Edmonds

Samuel Edmonds ’05

Susan & David Edson

Mary K. Eliot

Devyn Elliott

Suzanne Elliott

Laura Ellis

Deborah Ellwood

Nathan Emley

Peter W. Emmet ’92

Karin Tilberg & Ben Emory

Peg Emple

Jeff Engel

Gary Engler

Rebecca English

Joel & Arline Epstein

Julie Erb ’83

Florence & Spencer Ervin

Miriam Ervin

Mary Ervin

Maria Escalante ’15

Nickilynn Estologa ’07

Robert Evan

David & Jean Evans

Heather Richards Evans

Chandler & Oliver Evans

Deb Evans ’82 & Ron Schaaf

Sarah & Preston Everdell

Rudi Eyerer

Sally Fairbank

Stefanie Fairchild

Mary Fairfield

Casey Jones & Bill Faller

Misha Mytar

& Daniel Farrenkopf ’93

Joan Feely ’79

Molly Finch ’19

Mary Ann Cunningham & Thomas Finkle

Robert Finn ’92

Alan Finnecy

Noelle Fischer ’94

Cynthia Jordan Fisher ’80

David Fisher

Helen Dickey Fitz & David G. Fitz

/ Helen Dickey and David G. Fitz Charitable Fund

Marie & John Fitzgerald

Anna Flanagan ’13

Elsie Flemings ’06 & Richard Cleary

Angie Flores Quispe ’24

Janine Flory

Mary Laurence Flynn

Joanna Fogg ’07

Judi & Howard Fogt

Joanne Rodgers Foster ’85

Wendy & Bill Foulke, Jr.

Barbara & Dick Fox

Sophie Jo Frandsen ’25

Adrienne Frank

Samuel Franklin ’25

Susan Freed ’80

Jim Frick ’78

Jay Friedlander & Ursula Hanson

Glenon ’86 & Gary Friedmann

Martha Frink

Joanne & Richard Fuerst

Bianka Fuksman ’95

Bernard Fuller

Scott Fuller

Rena Zurn & Spencer Fulweiler, Jr.

Allison Fundis ’03 & Stein Servick ’05

Ann & Garth Fundis

Dana Fuqua

Kara Gadeken

Penelope Gadreault ’26

Richard Galena ’98

Carla Ganiel

Oliver Gardiner

Beth & Will Gardiner

Marina Garland ’12

Missy Gaston

Mark Gauthier & Arthur Keller*

Amy & Phil Geier

Helen Geils

Charles Gemme ’79

Katie & Steve George

Nadine Gerdts (’76) & Steve Lacker

Rona & Nir Gertner

Susan Getze

Toni Geyelin

Sahra Gibson ’20

Willow & David Gibson

Izzy Gilhooley

Christina M. Gillis

Jackson Gillman ’78

Carley & Michael Gillott

June LaCombe (’75) & Bill Ginn ’74

Annika Maia Ginsberg ’99

Jim Givens

Angela Glasser

Maroulla Gleaton

Pamela Gleichman & Karl Norberg

Louise & Tom Glenn

Eleanor Gnam ’23

Emily & Evan Gnam

Megan Godfrey ’77

Lyman Goff

Gerda Paumgarten & Lawrence Goldfarb

Nina Goldman & Douglas Legg

Vicki Nichols Goldstein ’84

Judith Goldstein

Jill & Sheldon Goldthwait, Jr.

Eugenie Sibeud & Walter Gomolka

David Eric Gooch ’01

Jaki Erdoes ’80 & Terry Good ’80

Marie Malin ’01 & Wing Goodale MPhil ’01

John Goodman

Paul Goodof

Abigail Goodyear ’81 & John Allgood

Diane Gordon

Nina ’78 & Jonathan ’78 Gormley

Tree Goulet ’78

Marie Gower

Gerd Morris Grace

Carrie Graham

Sandra Graham

Terri & George Graham

John Grasso Jr.

Cynthia Gray

Susan Butler & Vernon Gray

Anne & Jim Green

Hilary Green

Estate of Eleanor Greenan

Regan Greer ’22

Gina Greer

Linda Gregory ’89

Nelle Gretzinger

Edward Grey

Kandi Grey ’25

Katherine E. Griff in ’00

Mary (Nelson) Griff in ’97

Richard Griff in ’80

Jane & Jeffrey Griff ith

Marie Griff ith & Leigh Schmidt

Susan Dowling & Andrew Griff iths

Judith & Philip Grimley

Nancy Griscom

Nicole Grohoski

Carolyn & Chris Groobey

Nancy & Bill Grove

Eileen & Paul Growald

Emma Rearick ’08 & Jay Guarneri ’06

Peggy & Mike Gumpert

Merna & Joe Guttentag

Carol & Dick Habermann

Susan Simons & John Hagerty

David Hahn (’83)

Vicki & Scott Hahn

Heather Hallett-Thurston

Irene Haisma & Jaap Ham

Claus Hamann

Molly & David Hamann

Janet Hamel

Sam Hamill, Jr.

Carla Seddio & Michael Hamilton

Chris Hamilton ’85 & Patti Munsey

Rebecca Hamilton ’13

William Hanley

Jamie Hanson ’21

Joshua Harkness ’25

Leslie Harlow

Heather Harrell

Jennifer ’94 & Christopher Harris

Kelly Harris ’12

Nicholas Harris ’12

Steff i & Bob Harris

Tyler Harshman ’10

Helene Harton

Louise Hartwell

Hana Harvey ’25

Victoria Harvey

Patricia & John* Hatton

Michelle Hawken

Julie MacLeod Hayes ’78

Loie Hayes ’79

Ed Haynsworth III ’98

Atsuko Watabe ’93 & Bruce Hazam ’92

Katherine Hazard ’76

Tyler Hebert ’27

Mary J. Heffernon

Beth Heidemann ’91

Anna Heiting ’25

Daniel Held

Tara Harper & Peter Heller ’85

Hillary Smith & Jonathan Henderson

Jim Henderson & Jan Tedder

Gail Henderson-King ’82

Evan Henerberry ’17

Julia Moore & John Herron

Brandi Hess

Katherine Hester ’98

Jennifer Niese & William Hetzel

Betsy & John Hewlett

Rayanna Higley

Archer Hill

Ingrid & Ken Hill

Barbara Hilli

Scott Hines ’14

Malek Hinnawi ’25

Sue & Bob Hipkens

Lissa Hodder

Anne Wright Hodge & Byron Hodge

Juliet Hodge ’95

Noah Hodgetts ’10

Katie Hodgkins ’16 & Corey Hodgkins

Juan Hoffmaister ’07

Margaret Hoffman ’97

Rose Voce & Andy Hoffman

Kass Hogan ’81

Emily Holdman

Lisa ’80 & Bob ’79 Holley

Clara Porter & Daniel Holliday

Betsey Holtzmann & Abe Noyes

Russ Holway

Lothar Holzke ’16

Beverly Homich

Nikki Hooper ’02

Amanda Hopkins Tirrell

Cookie & Bill Horner

Lynn & Jeff Horowitz

Jenna Horton & Steve Boucher

Ellie & Paul Horwitz

Wendy Waldron & Neil Houghton Jr.

Charles J. Houston III

Jon Howarth

Laura Howes Noonan ’09

Donna & David Hreniuk

Nora Gibson & William Hudson

Denise Hue

Emily Peterson Huggins ’15 & Connor Huggins ’16

Kate & Steve Hughes

Jane Hultberg

Lisa Humphreys

Kathryn Hunninen ’03 & Jose Luis Sagastegui

Peter Hunt & Family

Miranda Hunt Borden / Point Harbor Fund of the Maine Community Foundation

Leslie Hunt Palumbo / Point Harbor Fund of the Maine Community Foundation

Sarah Huntington (’86)

Lyn Hurwich ’80

Anna Hurwitz ’84

Dana Hussein

Travis Hussey ’00

Maria Hutchins

James Hyland

Katherine & Craig Hyland

Ruth & Keisuke Iida

Tomoko & Masanobu Ikemiya

Sue Inches ’79

Corrie Ingall ’16

Lauren & Alan Ingall

Bill & Keefer Irwin

Devina Viswanathan Iyer ’16

Joanna Izaguirre

Ellie Jackson ’25

Madeleine Jackson

Nancy Knowlton

& Jeremy Jackson

Carol & Pat Jackson

Mary Jo Jakab

Abigail Jakub ’21

Shelley Latham

& Kenton Jakub

Jane & David James

Nishad Jayasundara ’05

AJ Jaydeokar ’23

Peter ’84 & Margaret Jeffery

Christa Jehle

Jonathan Jehle

Danielle Jenei

Jasmine Smith ’09 & Nick Jenei ’09

Amanda Spector ’08 & Peter Jenkins ’09

Yardly & Scott Jenkins

Patricia A. Jennings (’71) & James Hatch

Sonja Johanson ’95 & Richard Gordet

Cathy Johnson ’74

Little Johnson ’25

Eliana Johnston ’06

Louise Johnston

Jody Johnstone

Ronan

Johnston-McWilliams ’22

Bruce Jones ’81

Deborah Keisch ’96

Joan & Jeff Kellam

Ivy ’05 & Nathaniel ’04 Keller

Michael Keller ’09

Maggie & Jack Kelley III

Sally Anne Kellogg

Lindsey Jones MPhil ’18

Leslie Jones ’91 & Max Williamson

Peggy Schultz & Fred Jones

Brianne ’02 & Brian Jordan

Patricia D’Angelo Juachon ’92

Ann & Lee Judd

Jen Judd-McGee (’92) & Sam McGee

Laura & Michael Kaiser ’85

Cate & Paul Kalenian

Nancy & Bucky Kales

Tempest Kane-McCarthy ’25

Arshad Karumbamkandathil

Ali & Steve Kassels

Jennifer Kastelic ’98

Susan Lerner

& Steven Katona

Gail Amalia Katz & Lee Katz

Nan & Peter Katzenbach

Puranjot Kaur ’05

Helen & Colin Keeler

Sarah ’05

& Shawn ’00 Keeley

James Keen

Selina Kelly ’13

Betsy & John Kelly

Nan & Stephen Kennedy

Kathleen & Patrick Kennedy

Craig Kesselheim ’76

Ashlesha Khadse ’08

Aneesa Khan ’17

Barbara & Steven Kiel

Jill ’99 & Joseph ’01 Kiernan

Alya Kiiashko ’25

Lynn Kilpatrick

Sang Kim

Lydia Kimball

Morgan Kimball

Brice King ’97 & Naomi Gross ’97

Kenyon King

Steve King ’80

Robert Kinkel

Debra Kleban

Roberta & Melvyn Klein

Susan & John Klein

Joan & Allan* Kleinman

Barbara Knowles

Greg Koehlert ’96

Aleda Koehn

Joan & Ted Koffman

Arlene & Bob Kogod

Claudia Kohl

Jonathan Kohrman ’84

Elisheva Korenstein ’07

Elena Garanina & Alexey Korneev

Tanvi Koushik ’23

Kaitlyn Kowaleski ’19

Anne Kozak

Paul Kozak ’86

Wayne Simmons ’94 & Catherine Kozaryn ’94

Andreigha Kraemer ’26

Rosalind Rolland & Scott Kraus ’77

Stephen Krause

Natasha Krell ’16

Noah Krell ’01

Sandy & Mark Kryder

Mary Kubiak

Robin Kuehn ’10

Robert Kumpa (’95) & Bianka Fuksman ’95

Margaret & Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77

Philip Bradish Kunhardt IV ’11 & Maria Laura Torre Gomez

Carolyn Kurek

Maude Kusserow ’15

Maryellen Kyriazis

Linda & Philip Lader

Grietje Laga

Heather Lakey ’00, MPhil ’05

Joan Lamb

Jude Lamb ’00

Rebecca & Michael Lambert

Carrol Lange ’99

Laura Crawford & Mathew Langenberg

Sydie Lansing

Gardiner & Nicholas Lapham

Burks B. Lapham

Karen & Howard Lapsley

Marci & Robert Lash

Jennifer Lasher

Georgia Lattig ’24

Jolie Lau ’19

Marjorie Lau ’81

Tiffany Laufer

Virginie Lavallee-Picard ’07 & Alexander Fletcher ’07

Clark Lawrence ’92

David Lebwohl

Courtney Lederer & Mark Thierfelder

Melissa LeDonne

Catherine LeDuke

Kimberly Lemear

Jacquelyn & Dawn Lemoine

Debra Lentz

Caroline Leonard ’01

Lizzie Leone ’93

Andrea Lepcio ’79

Francesca Preston & Doug Lerch ’03

Brenda Les

Randy Lessard ’92 & Melissa Lessard-York ’90

Robin Lester & Jodi Nooyen

Trinket Lester ’27

Susan Letcher

Charles-Olivier Lévesque ’23

Donna Hanke & Rob Levin

Monty Lewis

Linda & Jonathan Lewis

Lois & Larry Libby

Jessie Greenbaum ’89

& Phil Lichtenstein ’92

Stephen Liebrock

Cynthia & Dan Lief

Daniel Lindner, Jr. ’11

Ms. Ingrid Lindstrom (’09)

Maryalice & Brian Little

Peggy Beaulac & Carl Little

Neith Little ’09

Abigail Littlefield ’83

Tanya Hanke & Jeffrey Logee

John Long ’86

Maria Vanegas Long ’84

Margaret Longley ’10

Danielle & Gordon Longsworth ’90

Roberta & Ralph Longsworth

Megan Loomer

Jill Lord & Stephen Byrd

Babette & Peter Loring

Jacob Love

Susan & K. Prescott Low

Barbara & Muhammad Lowe

Hélène Lowe Dupas

Haley Harwood Lowell ’11

Sara Löwgren ’20

Tanya Lubansky

Josh Luce

Devin Lueddeke

Rudy Lukasevics ’25

Adrian Lyne ’23

Isabel Mancinelli

& Sam Coplon

Jane Mandelbaum

Rachel & Tom Maniatis

Pamy Manice

Susan Flynn Maristany ’82

Andrea Lynn ’90

Meaghan Lyon ’16

Blaise Maccarrone ’01

Betsy MacDermid

Lisa MacDonald

Scott MacKenzie & Jerry Cruz

Kate & Ben Macko ’01

River Macrum ’28

Luke Madden ’12

Christina Maguire

Ariel Sydney

Hansen Mahler ’10

David Mahoney ’86

Jonathan Mahoney ’25

Amy Young & David Malakoff ’86

Mayur Malde

Rachel & Pradip Malde

Casey Mallinckrodt

Leeds Mallinckrodt-Reese

Wanda & Jim Maloney

Porcia Manandhar ’17

Tami Mark

Santiago Marquez

Chloe Marr-Fuller ’00

Jacomien Mars

Valeska & Erik Martin ’98

Jay Mason

Susan Mason

Bianca Massacci ’20

Maria Asoni & Guido Massacci

Kathleen Massimini ’82 & Steven Callahan

Adele Ursone & George Matteson

Michael Mattison

Haysie Maurer ’25

Hilary Maybaum

Anna Maynard

Anne Conlee Mazlish & Tony Mazlish

John C. McCann

Madeleine McCann

Angela Hondros-McCarthy & Dennis McCarthy

Whitney & Jeffrey McCarthy

Leslie McConnell ’81

Sarah McDaniel ’93

Bill McDowell ’80

Donna McFarland & Alan Richins

Judy McGeorge

Linda & Clem McGillicuddy

Alisson Mchale

Nina & Archie McIntyre

Suzanne Durrell & Scott McIsaac (’78)

Lauren McKean ’83

Sigrid McKelvey ’28

Linda Parker & Jamie McKown

Bill McLellan ’88

Eva McMillan ’24

Jay McNally ’84

Donald K. McNeil

Megan McOsker ’90

Betsy & Nelson Mead, Jr.

Jane & Bob Meade

Alison & Charles Meadows

Ian D. Medeiros ’16

Rebecca Melius ’01

James ’07 & Lara ’04 Meloan

Khristián Mendéz Aguirre ’15

Tree & Scott Mercer

Caitlin Meredith

Sandra & Hubert Merrick

Krystal Meservey

Chloe Meyer ’25

Mary Lynn & David Meyer

Barbara Meyers ’89

Sheri Millbury

Adrienne Miller

Eileen & Ethan Miller

Jeffrey Miller ’92

Josh Miller

Josselyn Miller ’19

Kendra ’01 & Jake Miller

Mary Miller

Rebecca & Steve Milliken

Linzee Weld & Peter Milliken (’76)

Margot & Roger Milliken, Jr.

Anne & John Milliken

Gail & Gerrish Milliken

Brenda Beckett & Howie Motenko

Hanako Moulton ’25

Bridget Mullen ’91 & Chris Kenoyer

Linda Faville & Brook Muller

Brenda Mulrooney

Sean Murphy ’14

Bethany Murray ’03

Mark Murrill

George Mutrie

Gene Myers (’80)

Amy Naimi

Raymond Nance

Susan & Bob Nathane, Jr.

Sarah Neilson ’09

Meta & Benjie Neilson

Colleen Nelsen ’27

Angela Nelson

Erika Nelson

Steven Neuhauser

Jeffry Neuhouser

Jackson Newell

Alexandra & Jacques Newell Taylor

Sally & Tom Newhall

Louisa & Bill* Newlin

Nell Newman ’87

Duc Hien Nguyen

David G. Milliken

Beth Ferry & David Mills

Irene Driscoll & Lincoln Millstein

Deb & Bob Milotte

Todd Miner

Elizabeth & John Minott

Chandreyee Mitra ’01 & Eric Shuman

Abby Moffat

Amanda & Alan Mogridge

Karen & John Moniz

Karla Tegzes & Peter Moon ’90

Mary Moreau

Phyllis Anina Moriarty

Amy Morley

Terry Morley

Hale Morrell ’12

Sarah ’02 & Chase ’00 Morrill

Abigail Morris ’21

Martha & Wistar Morris

Jackie Nielson

Jennifer & Robert Niesel

Hakim Noah ’18

Elizabeth Nolan

Alice Shin & Mark Norris

Sigrid Coff in & Wesley Norton

Ellanor & Russell Notides

Gisela Nucciarone ’22

Carol ’93 & Jacob ’93 Null Lauren Nutter ’10

Alisa Nye ’15

Jacob Oakes ’02 & Asha Maren ’02

Caroline Oatway

Chaz O’Brien ’93 & Harrison Bains

Bill O’Donnell

Eliza Oldach ’15

Elizabeth O’Leary ’03

Hope Olmstead

Ken Olson

Clifton McPherson III ’84

Emily McQueen

Patricia Johnston-McWilliams & Patrick McWilliams

Suzanne Morse & Noreen Hogan ’91

Celia Morton ’25

Elaine Mostoller

Moira O’Neill

Sarah Gribbin ’12 & Phinn Onens ’13

John Ordway

Cathy Orme

Ned Ormsby ’91

Paul Ort

Lynn & William Osborn

Shirley Oskamp & Gary Lindorff

Yasmine Osseiran ’27

Pam Overmann

Keenan Ovrebo-Welker ’27

Suzanne & Jim Owen

Tammy Packie ’97

Andrea & Jon Pactor

Linda & Eliot Paine

Eleanor & Michael Pancoe

Asher Jay Panikian ’24

Laurie Pansa ’92

Haleigh J. Paquette ’17

Johnny Pauker ’19

Holly & Ken Paul

Susanne & Bear Paul

Peter Pavicevic ’07

Kayla Payne ’26

Cynthia Peach & James Chaput

Daniel Peach

Jeanne Peacock

Valerie Lambert Peacock (’98) & Tobin Peacock ’95

Eva Pearlingi ’25

Susan & Bob Peck

Valerie Peer-Court

Karla Peña

Tyra Penn-Gesek

Susan & Robert Pennington

Mary Pensiero

Lauren Pepperman ’16

Rain Perez ’12 & Benjamin Byrne (’13)

Judith S. Perkins

Margit & Nicolai Peters

Helen Hess & Chris Petersen

Sharyn Peterson

Susan Peverley

Alexa Pezzano ’00

Bruce Phillips ’78 & Susan Erickson

Carey Pickard III & Christopher Howard

Roger Pierce

Susan Pierce ’77

Daniel Pierce, Jr. Family

Barbara & Charles Pierce, Jr.

Sara W. Pierce

Laura & Vassar Pierce, Jr.

Meghan Piercy ’91

Lisa & Jay Pierrepont

Livi Pignataro ’25

Drake ’03 & Finn ’02 Pillsbury

Joanna Pittari ’25

Catherine Baker-Pitts & Will Pitts III

Marguerite Pitts

Ned Platner

Carole Plenty

Rebecca Plona

Charlotte Podolsky

Shiva Polefka ’01

Frances Pollitt ’77 & Frank E. Briber III

John Pollock

Anne & Bruce Pomeroy

Karl Porter ’82

Nico Porter Holliday ’25

William Powell

David Preston

Joyce & Robert Preston

Elisabeth Preston-Hsu

Catherine Preston-Schreck

Katie Pritchard ’00

Sheila Sonne Pulling

Esther & Christopher Pullman / The Pullman Charitable Fund

Kenneth Punnett ’84

Bambi Putnam

Kathy & George Putnam III

Celian Putnam

Karin & Scott Pynes

Richard Quandt

Dierdre & Peter Quesada

Strandy & Ric Quesada

Hillary & Kevin Quist

Galia Rabinkin & Donald Smith

Nishi Rajakaruna ’94

Lalage & Steve Rales

Emily & Mitch Rales

Ancil Ramey

Mauro Ramirez Azofeifa ’23

Cathy L. Ramsdell ’78

Hope Rankin ’25

Katherine Rasmussen

Sarah Rasmussen ’14

Pamlea & Mark Rath

Tina Rathborne

Mary Purdy-Read & Robert Read

Lisa & Keith Reed

Mona Reeder & Jim Stiff

Helene Reeves

Julie Reiff

Jason Reiser

Melissa Relyea ’91 & Peter Ossanna

Diana & Roland Reynolds

Michele Riccio ’88

Jason Rich ’96

Jean Richards

Joanne Scott & Wayne Rickert

Louis Ricou ’25

Louise Riemer & William Locke

Urs Riggenbach ’12

John Ring

Andrea Roberto ’92

Jared I. Roberts

Gerald Robinson ’89

Roxana & Tony Robinson, Jr.

Walter M. Robinson III

Ryan Robison ’18

Sydney Roberts Rockefeller

Susan & David Rockefeller, Jr.

Susie Rodriguez & Charles Lowrey

Olivia Rodriguez Bobadilla ’09

Karla Rusch

Ronald Russell

Sandy Wilcox & Jack Russell

Ann Ryan

Patty Ryan

CedarBough T. Saeji ’93

Linn Sage

Jessica Glynn ’06 & Santiago Salinas ’05

Martie & Ed Samek

Addams Samuel ’11

Pat & Roger Samuel

Eric Sándor Nagy

Kerri Sands ’02 & Edward Muennich ’01

Dan Sangeap ’90

Rosemary Santoro ’21

Sardo Sardinsky ’84

Jodi Sargent MPhil ’06 & Family

Rolanda Sarkis ’00

Barbara Sassaman ’78

Philip Sasse

Mitsuko & Steven Savage ’77

Mary & Dave Savidge

Noah Sawyer ’14

Natalie Rodriguez Dickens ’25

Alba Mar Rodriguez Padilla ’18

Patricia & James Rogers

Patricia & Ronnie Rogers

Amy Falls & Hartley Rogers

Eric Roos ’87

Mary Ropp ’09

Derren Rosbach ’95

Karen Rose

Noah Rosenberg ’18

Mary Lee Stein & Mark Rosenman

Eileen & Richard Rosenthal

Lisa Kay Rosenthal ’09

Nadia Rosenthal & Alan Sawyer

Jess & Rich Ross

Sabrina Rossi

Beverly & Max Rothal

Trisha & John Roths

Gordon Rowe

Abby Rowe (’98) & Emma Brodeur

Pamela Rowland

Melinda & Tripp Royce ’79 / Harrison Royce

Architecture Corp

Dana & Andrew Ruel

Eliza Ruel ’13 & Ian Yaffe

Katie Adams Schaeffer & Anthony Schaeffer

Anais Tomezsko ’04 & Noah Scher ’04

Cynthia E. Livingston & Hank L.P. Schmelzer

Anna Schmidt

Marina Schnell ’25

Andrea Schober

Taj Schottland ’10

Daniel Kojo Schrade

Casey Schuller Jordan

Emily ’11 & Brandyn ’09 Schult

Eloise Schultz ’16

Janet Schuman

Kirsten Schwarz ’00

Amy & Ryder Scott ’97

Jayakiran Sebastian

Neeraj Sebastian

Ellen Seh (’75)

Jeri Presser & Charlie Seitz III

Julia Seixas ’20

Bryan Selee

Lucy Bell Sellers

Frances Stead Sellers & Tim Sellers

Kevin Selter

Therese Servas Nolan

Rosemary Seton

Dorothy & Roland Seymour

Alsu Shagieva ’24

Sarah Sharpe

Sam Shaw

David Evans Shaw

Susan Sheehan & Andrew Flanagan

Catherine Sheehy

Kate Sheely ’07

Margie & John Grace Shethar

Helena Shilomboleni ’09

Sandra Shipley

Lynda Jo & Noah Shlaes

Ruth Shoemaker Wood

Jan Sieger-Fisher

Carol Dean Silverman & Family

Julie Simmons

Katy Homans & Patterson Sims

Patricia Maes & Karl Sims

Heather Sisk ’93

Albane Six

Freidric Slabach

Katherine Moloney & David Steinberg

Andrea Perry ’95 & Toby Stephenson ’98

Frankie FitzGerald & James Sterba

Edward W. P. Stern ’03

Hannah Stevens ’09

William N. Stevens ’84

Maureen & Bill Stewart

Eric & Lydia Stiles

Dorie Stolley ’88

Clare Stone

Pamela Stone ’87

Sandy Stone

Sarah Stovicek ’25

Kathryn Strand

Sarah Strauss

Sherry Streeter & Jon Wilson

Silvija Strikis

Noelle Stroud

Janice Strout

Anna Stunkel ’13

Caren Sturges

Peggy & David Sugerman

Linda & Dave Suitor

Mary Schuler & Stephen Sligar

Mary Sloan

Laura McGiffert Slover & Bill Slover

Bradley Smith

Erickson Smith ’15

Molly Lanzarotta & Tim Smith

Roberta Smith

Zach ’00 & Autumn ’01 Soares

Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler ’14 & Anna Curtis-Heald

Jamie S. Somes

Julie Spahr

Tim Spahr ’86

Jordan Speers ’27

Renee Speh

Diana Davis Spencer

Heather & Jason Sperling

Tracie & Joseph Spranger

Lynne & Mike Staggs ’96

Charles Stanhope

Jennifer Starr

Laura Starr ’84

Ute Stecker

Zachary ’05 & Paige ’06 Steele

Henry Steinberg ’06

Lois & Ken Thomsen

Genie & Will Thorndike, Jr.

Joanie Thorndike

Deanie Thorsell

Krista Thorsell ’10

Ellen Thurman

Ann Tikkanen & Mark Sullivan

Nancy Tisdale Clark

Jo Todrank ’76 & Giora Heth

Maria Hagen Tohn ’17

Laura Stanton & Kim Tomlinson

Kevin Tompkins

Christopher Toomey

Magdalena Toran

Adrian Torti

Frances Torti

Sylvia Torti & Scott Woolsey

Winifred Hentschel & Philip Trackman

Kathy Tran ’26

Meg Trau-Serrano ’12

Christopher Tremblay ’03

J. Louise Tremblay ’91

Linda Beattie & Paul Tremblay

Allison & Steve Sullens

Nonie & John Sullivan, Jr.

Catherine Sulllivan

Stu Summer ’82

Ingrid Sunzenauer

Timothea Sutton-Antonucci ’94 & Neal Antonucci ’95

Anne Swann ’86

Betts Swanton ’88

Douglas Sward ’96

Sarah Swazey

Virginia Sweatt

Seann Sweeney

Cecily Swinburne ’09

Palak Taneja

Jasmine Tanguay ’98

Julie Tanner

Anne & Charles Target

Davis Taylor

Julianne Taylor ’06

Maura Tearno

Joss Tennille

Tracey Teuber ’98

Michael Thamann

Nina Therkildsen ’05

Mari Huang Li Thiersch ’17

Donna Thomas

Riley Thompson ’13

Daphne & Andrew Trotter

Ben Troutman ’24

Juliana Trujillo Mesa ’24

Kristen Tubman ’03

Helene Tuchman

Diane & Charles Tucker

Judith Tucker

Elena Tuhy-Walters ’90 & Carl Walters II

Claudia & Carey Turnbull

Susan Turner

Shea Turner-Matthews ’26

Katharine Turok

Abby Tusing (’01)

Georgia Tuttle

John Twiss

Frank Twohill ’79

Caitlin Unites ’03

Mary Kay Long & Dennis Unites

Kate Unkel ’14

Orr Uzan-Tidhar ’25

Bonnie & Jim Van Alen II

Matthe van Dam

Marlene & Andrew Van Dyke

Wendy Van Dyke (’80)

Christiaan van Heerden ’09 & Family

Lindsay HopkinsWeld & Minot Weld

Jeffrey Wells ’92

Karen Wennlund ’85

Kim & Finn Wentworth

Todd West ’00

Meg Westfox ’00

Richard Van Kampen (’13)

Colleen & Daniel van Pelt

Netta Van Vliet

Courtney Vashro ’99

Jackie Vatsend

Patti Vernon

Mindy Viechnicki & Tom Fernald, Jr. ’91

Kathy Vignos

Leo Vincent ’92

Jennifer Vinck ’93

Shamsher Virk ’07

Corie & Bruce Visscher

Liza & Tom Volkmann ’90

Luciana Pandolfi ’98 & Luke Wagner ’99

Suzanne & David Wakefield

Karen Waldron & Richard Hilliard

James W. Walker

Ben Walters ’81

Andrea & Jeremy Ward

HannahMathilde Waschezyn ’13

Linda Washburn

Holly Waterhouse

Paul Watkins

Catherine Thibedeau & Patrick Watson ’93

Allison Gladstone Watters ’00

Peter Wayne ’83

Helen & Paul Weaver

Katherine Weinstock ’81

Jacob Weisberg ’10

Sally Weiss

Ellen Pope & Patrick Welch ’78

Lisa & Paul Welch

JoAnne Yates

Alice Blum Yoakum

Owen Young

Christine & Norb Young, Jr.

Ana Zabala ’20

John Zanca

Scott & Kate Weymouth

Debby & Alexander Wheeler

Isabel Whiston

Kelly White

Cory Whitney ’03

Amos Tappan Wilder

Ramah P. Wilder ’02

Judy Williams

Madison Williams ’26

Peter Williams ’93

Rebecca Hubert Williams & Rhys Williams

J. Michael Williamson

Nellie Wilson ’04

Janey Winchell ’82 & Timothy Mangini

David Winship ’77

Margaret Winslow / Robin Gamble Grinnell Foundation, a Giving Fund

Caralee Wirges

Julia Criscitiello & Kenneth Wise

Sofie Wise ’25

Carol & Joe Wishcamper

Joplin Wistar ’84

Loretta & Tom Witt

Shaun Witten

Chelsea Nash-Wolfe & Alexander Wolfe

Emily Wood

Max Woodfin ’03

Sally Faulkner & Berry Woolley

Margaret Woolley & Gerard Vasisko

Carol Woolman

Janice & Rick Woychik

Cathleen Wyman

Margy & Jimmy Yanacos

Anne Zara

Judy & Lou Zawislak

Michael Zboray ’95

Kristen Zerbato

Logen Zimmerman

Elie Zimring ’26

Disty Pearson & Phil Zuckerman

Caroline Andrews & David Zuk

Trudi Zundel ’13

Kristin Zunino ’25

Erin ’04 & Mike ’01 Zwirko

Amanda Zych ’06

ORGANIZATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS

Anonymous (3) Acadia Goldendoodles

American Book Producers Association

Artemis Gallery

Asti-Kim Corporation

Bains Family Foundation

Baird Foundation

Bar Harbor Savings & Loan

Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co.

Beal’s Lobster Pier

Beard Family Charitable Trust

The Blossom Fund

Boston Family Off ice

Stewart Brecher Architects

Builders Initiative Foundation

Florence V. Burden Foundation

Campus Compact

The Casco Foundation at Spinnaker Trust

The Kathy Chazen Family Charitable Trust

Community Foundation of Jackson Hole

Community Foundation of New Jersey

Community Foundation of South GA., Inc.

Cromwell Harbor

Supporting Foundation, Inc.

The Crosby Company

James Deering Danielson Foundation

The Darling-Spahr Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation

The Shelby and Gale Davis Charitable Fund

Davis Family Foundation

Davis Projects for Peace

Davis United World College Scholars Program

The Dayton Foundation

Downeast Chapter of Maine Audubon Society

Downeast Windjammer Cruises

The Eacho Family Foundation

Elevance Health

The Endeavor Foundation

ERQ Educational Foundation at Spinnaker Trust

The Chandler B. and Oliver A. Evans Foundation

Exelon Foundation

Amy Falls and Hartley Rogers Foundation

First National Bank

The FJC Fdn of Philanthropic Funds

Fore River Foundation

Friends of Acadia

Maine Space Grant Consortium

Mass Mutual

McGraw-Hill Foundation

MDI Biological Laboratory

The Minneapolis Foundation

The Mooring Barkeep, LLC

Nate Holyoke Builders

Susan and Roberth Nathane, Jr Charitable Fund of the East Bay Community Foundation

National Center for Research Resources, NIH

National Philanthropic Trust

(NPT-UK)

Nautilus Foundation Incorporated

The Nelson Mead Fund

New England Board of Higher Education

The New York Community Trust

Newman’s Own Foundation

Northern Trust

Ocean Properties, Ltd.

Park Loop Charitable Foundation

Post-Landfill Action Network

Raymond James Charitable

Friends of Sears Island

Galyn’s Galley

Garden Club of Mount Desert

Good Hope Family Foundation

Harborside Hotel & Marina

Harris Family Fund of Princeton Area Community Foundation

John W. and Clara C. Higgins Foundation

Hillman Charitable Foundation

IBM

Intel Foundation Matching Gifts to Education Program

Ironbound Restaurant & Inn

The Howard Johnson Foundation

Leon Levy Foundation

Lunaform, LLC

Maine Beer Co LLC

Maine Coast Sea Vegetables

Maine Community Foundation

Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund

Uplands Family Foundation

UPS Foundation

WaterStone

Rosalie J. Coe Weir Foundation

The WELWE Foundation

Whales and Nails

Yaverland Foundation

GIFTS IN-KIND

Cynthia Baker & Jonathan Zeitler

Whitney Buckley

Mary Kay & David Donovan

Coventry Edwards-Pitt

Maine Beer Co LLC

Bruce McCullom

Jess & Rich Ross

Sweet Monkey Business LLC

GIFTS OF TIME AND TALENT

Kate Aitchison

Becky Anderson

Susan Bennett-Armistead

Ben Bobowski

Brad Borst

Carleton Bowekaty

Jacob Bretz

Eric Keeling

Katja Knoll

Dayana Krawchuk

Elissa Kretsch

Lori Krupke

Cindy Lambert

Danielle Levesque

Alan Mainwaring

Michael Marino

Liz Marnik

Kaitlin Martin & Kevin Berend

Ana Mattson

Jay McNally ’84

Emily Michaud ’18

Mary Miller

Marisa Monroe

Kate Morren

Jordan Motzkin ’11

Laura Muller

Carol Null ’93

Alexa Parkinson ’22

Steve Parmenter

Susanne Paul

Jamison & Karen Pauly

Vivian Phillips

Claire Picard

Sarah Pottle

Destiny Powell ’20

Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation

Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation

Sanofi

Sawyer’s Specialties

Greta Brown

Alberta Comer

Katie Coppens

Brian Cote

Meggie Curtis ’19

Frank Davis

Second Century Stewardship

Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc.

The Sims/Maes Foundation, Inc

State Street Bank and Trust

Sterling College

Lisa Stewart Family Fund

Marion Boulton “Kippy”

Stroud Foundation

Susanna Porter & James Clark Giving Fund

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Tonamora Foundation

Trinity University

Turnbull Family Foundation Inc.

UBS Wealth Management USA

University of Maine - Off ice of Research Administration

Maggie Denison ’23

Cristina Devora

Patrick Donnelly

Heather Dority ’96

Ana Dunn

Amanda Dyer

Nabil Elhady

Olivia Ellenbecker

Lindsay Eyesnogle

Eileen McGlinchey Fahey

Mark Fincher

Caroline Fournier

Lyn Gatz

Tyler Gilbert

Melanie Greene

Billie Jean Guerrero

Karina Guzman

Albert & Pat Harmer

Gunnar Hubbard

Tonya Prentice

Renee Quebbeman

Liz Rabasca

Chandra Raymond

Karen Ricketts

Megan Rilkoff

Dani Robbins

Jaylene Roths

Julia Ambagis Rowe MPhil ’02

Kate Shlepr ’13

Rachel Singh

Jasmine Smith ’09

PJ Solomon

Ashley Stanley

Jon Stein

Leeann Sullivan

Meryl Sweeney ’96

Teresa Tierney

Wallace Events

Kaity Walsh

Peter Wayne ’83

Bik Wheeler ’09

Kenny Wintch

Rebecca Woods

Ron Wrobel

The Champlain Society

The Champlain Society is COA’s premier giving society. Member support is critical to strengthening our academic program and providing students with opportunities to innovate, learn, discover, and apply their education in real-world settings.

Anonymous (17)

Sally & Bill Arata

Edgar & Nancy* Aronson

Mary Dohna Bacon ’80 & Wells Bacon ’80

Cynthia Baker & Jonathan Zeitler

Becky Bartovics

Anne T. & Robert M. Bass

Kate Baxter

Sandi Read & Ron Beard

Emily Beck & Geoff Young

Fred Benson

Joanie & Jamie Blaine

Sofia Blanchard

Julia Bogardus

Antoinette & Benjamin Brewster

Brenda Brodie

Amanda (Walker) Bunker ’98

Jean & Ordway Burden

Charles & Jane* Burger

Bernice & Tom Cahill III

Linda K. Carman

Mary Ann & Harry

Charlston

Susanna Porter & Jamie Clark, Jr.

Gail & Ham Clark III

Elisabeth & John Cochran

Ruth M. Colket

Elizabeth Hodder Corbus & Clay Corbus

Sally Crock

R.H. Cushman Family

Adam Dau ’01

Gale & Shelby Davis

Kate & Andrew Davis

Beth Rendeiro & Steven DePaul

Ellen & Bill Dohmen

Estate of Susan Dreier

Peggy Dulany

Sunny Dupree

Donna & Bill Eacho III

Mary K. Eliot

Laura Ellis

Deborah Ellwood

Peg Emple

Miriam Ervin

Heather Richards Evans

Chandler & Oliver Evans

Deb Evans ’82 & Ron Schaaf

Helen Dickey Fitz & David G. Fitz

Wendy & Bill Foulke, Jr.

Rena Zurn & Spencer Fulweiler, Jr.

Beth & Will Gardiner

Mark Gauthier & Arthur Keller*

Amy & Phil Geier

Christina M. Gillis

Pamela Gleichman & Karl Norberg

Louise & Tom Glenn

Judith Goldstein

John Goodman

Anne & Jim Green

Hilary Green

Estate of Eleanor Greenan

Gina Greer

Susan Dowling & Andrew Griff iths

Carolyn & Chris Groobey

Nancy & Bill Grove

Eileen & Paul Growald

Carol & Dick Habermann

Susan Simons & John Hagerty

Sam Hamill, Jr.

Steff i & Bob Harris

Louise Hartwell

Lissa Hodder

Betsey Holtzmann & Abe Noyes

Cookie & Bill Horner

Peter Hunt & Family

Miranda Hunt Borden

Leslie Hunt Palumbo

Tomoko & Masanobu Ikemiya

Bill & Keefer Irwin

Carol & Pat Jackson

Yardly & Scott Jenkins

Sonja Johanson ’95 & Richard Gordet

Leslie Jones ’91 & Max Williamson

Brianne ’02 & Brian Jordan

Susan Lerner & Steven Katona

Maggie & Jack Kelley III

Sally Anne Kellogg

Arlene & Bob Kogod

Margaret & Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77

Linda & Philip Lader

Sydie Lansing Gardiner & Nicholas Lapham

Karen & Howard Lapsley

Courtney Lederer & Mark Thierfelder

Francesca Preston & Doug Lerch ’03

Scott MacKenzie & Jerry Cruz

Casey Mallinckrodt

Rachel & Tom Maniatis

Pamy Manice

Jacomien Mars

Anna Maynard

Judy McGeorge

Linda & Clem McGillicuddy

Jay McNally ’84

Betsy & Nelson Mead, Jr.

Mary Miller

David G. Milliken

Rebecca & Steve Milliken

Linzee Weld & Peter Milliken (’76)

Margot & Roger Milliken, Jr.

Anne & John Milliken

Deb & Bob Milotte

Abby Moffat

Phyllis Anina Moriarty

Meta & Benjie Neilson

Louisa & Bill* Newlin

Nell Newman ’87

Ellanor & Russell Notides

Carol ’93 & Jacob ’93 Null

Chaz O’Brien ’93 & Harrison Bains

Bill O’Donnell

Cathy Orme

Linda & Eliot Paine

Susan & Bob Peck

Judith S. Perkins

Bruce Phillips ’78 & Susan Erickson

Carey Pickard III & Christopher Howard

Daniel Pierce, Jr. Family

Barbara & Charles Pierce, Jr.

Lisa & Jay Pierrepont

Catherine Baker-Pitts & Will Pitts III

Frances Pollitt ’77 & Frank E. Briber III

John Pollock

Anne & Bruce Pomeroy

Bambi Putnam

Kathy & George Putnam III

Celian Putnam

Dierdre & Peter Quesada

Strandy & Ric Quesada

Emily & Mitch Rales

Lalage & Steve Rales

Tina Rathborne

Diana & Roland Reynolds

Walter M. Robinson III

Susan & David Rockefeller, Jr.

Amy Falls & Hartley Rogers

Nadia Rosenthal & Alan Sawyer

David Evans Shaw

Margie & John Grace Shethar

Carol Dean Silverman & Family

Jamie S. Somes

Diana Davis Spencer

Jennifer Starr

Maureen & Bill Stewart

Sandy Stone

Caren Sturges

Allison & Steve Sullens

Nonie & John Sullivan, Jr.

Joss Tennille

Genie & Will Thorndike, Jr.

Joanie Thorndike

Laura Stanton & Kim Tomlinson

Christopher Toomey

Jess & Rich Ross

Linn Sage

Martie & Ed Samek

Katie Adams Schaeffer & Anthony Schaeffer

Cynthia E. Livingston & Hank L.P. Schmelzer

Ellen Seh (’75)

Jeri Presser & Charlie Seitz III

Lucy Bell Sellers

Frances Stead Sellers & Tim Sellers

Allison Fundis ’03 & Stein Servick ’05

Sylvia Torti & Scott Woolsey

Daphne & Andrew Trotter

Claudia & Carey Turnbull

Mary Kay Long & Dennis Unites

Christiaan van Heerden ’09 & Family

Kathy Vignos

Suzanne & David Wakefield

Katherine Weinstock ’81

Lisa & Paul Welch

Kim & Finn Wentworth

J. Michael Williamson

Carol & Joe Wishcamper

Margaret Woolley & Gerard Vasisko

Alice Blum Yoakum

Christine & Norb Young, Jr.

Disty Pearson & Phil Zuckerman

Erin ’04 & Mike ’01 Zwirko

The Alumni Leadership Circle

Anonymous (4)

Heather Albert-Knopp ’99

Elizabeth Rousek Ayers ’95

Mary Dohna Bacon ’80 & Wells Bacon ’80

Cheryl Bartholomew ’80

Sara Bender & Evan Bender ’04

Jason Bernad MD ’94

John Biderman ’77

Deirdre Swords & Michael Boland ’94

Paul Boothby ’88

Amanda (Walker) Bunker ’98

Shan Burson ’83

Helen Caivano ’80

Diana Cohn ’85 & Craig Merrilees

Pancho Cole ’81

Karen & Darron Collins ’92

Mairi Connelly ’14 & Spenser Simis

Adam Dau ’01

Kara ’96 & Matt ’98 Daul & Family

Megan Smith ’90 & Daniel DenDanto ’91

George & Kelly Dickson MPhil ’97

Deb Evans ’82 & Ron Schaaf

Joanne Rodgers Foster ’85

Allison Fundis ’03 & Stein Servick ’05

June LaCombe (’75) & Bill Ginn ’74

Katherine Hazard ’76

Tara Harper & Peter Heller ’85

Lisa ’80 & Bob ’79 Holley

Sue Inches ’79

Sonja Johanson ’95 & Richard Gordet

Leslie Jones ’91 & Max Williamson

Brianne ’02 & Brian Jordan

Jen Judd-McGee (’92) & Sam McGee

Sarah ’05 & Shawn ’00 Keeley

Rosalind Rolland & Scott Kraus ’77

Margaret & Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77

Philip Bradish

Kunhardt IV ’11 &

Maria Laura Torre Gomez

Francesca Preston & Doug Lerch ’03

Suzanne Durrell & Scott McIsaac (’78)

Jay McNally ’84

Clifton McPherson III ’84

Linzee Weld & Peter Milliken (’76)

Karla Tegzes & Peter Moon ’90

Sarah ’02 & Chase ’00 Morrill

Nell Newman ’87

Carol ’93 & Jacob ’93 Null

Chaz O’Brien ’93 & Harrison Bains

Valerie Lambert

Peacock (’98) & Tobin Peacock ’95

Bruce Phillips ’78 & Susan Erickson

Frances Pollitt ’77 & Frank E. Briber III

Andrea Roberto ’92

Abby Rowe (’98) & Emma Brodeur

Melinda & Tripp Royce ’79

Ellen Seh (’75)

Zach ’00 & Autumn ’01 Soares

Cecily Swinburne ’09

Elena Tuhy-Walters ’90 & Carl Walters II

Christiaan van Heerden ’09 & Family

Luciana Pandolfi ’98 & Luke Wagner ’99

Katherine Weinstock ’81

Ellen Pope & Patrick Welch ’78

David Winship ’77

Erin ’04 & Mike ’01 Zwirko

The Northern Lights Society

The Northern Lights Society is an association for individuals who have made planned gifts to benefit COA. These gifts include bequests, charitable gift annuities, and gifts of life insurance, to name a few.

If you have already included COA in your estate plans but do not see your name listed, please contact the advancement office to inform us of your gift intentions.

Anonymous (4)

Edgar & Nancy* Aronson

Elizabeth Rousek

Ayers ’ 95

Sandi Read & Ron Beard

Emily Beck & Geoff Young

Fred Benson

John Biderman ’ 77

Lynn Boulger & Tim Garrity

Norah Davis

Fran Day

George & Kelly

Dickson MPhil ’ 97

Mary K. Eliot

Donna & Gordon Erikson, Jr.

Heather

Richards Evans

David Hackett Fischer

Wendy & Bill Foulke, Jr.

Mary & Phil Galperin

Barbara McLeod & David Hales

Diana & George* Hambleton

Sam Hamill, Jr.

Jan & George* Hartman

Tomoko & Masanobu Ikemiya

Sue Inches ’ 79

Carol & Pat Jackson

Betsy & John Kelly

Margaret & Philip B. Kunhardt III ’ 77

Kathleen Massimini ’ 82 & Steven Callahan

Sarah McDaniel ’ 93

Meredith & Phil Moriarty

Rick Moss ’ 79

Susan Tieger & Ralph Nurnberger

Linda & Eliot Paine

Roxana & Tony Robinson, Jr.

Karen Rose

Steve Ross

Cynthia E. Livingston & Hank L.P. Schmelzer

Ellen Seh (’ 75)

Stu Summer ’ 82

Ingrid Sunzenauer

Debra & John Piot

The Black Fly Society

Honoring COA’s mascot, the Black Fly Society was created to make donating easier and greener. Members give monthly, offering COA a steady and sustainable source of ongoing support.

Anonymous (5)

Eben Albert ’03

Heather Albert-Knopp ’99

Elizabeth Anne ’11

Emily Argo ’10

Jessica Arseneau ’18 & Roman Bina ’16

Shlomit Auciello ’17

Cheryl Bartholomew ’80

Sandi Read & Ron Beard

Ellen Brandt

Melinda ’00 & Ellen Casey-Magleby

Erin Chalmers ’00

Cynthia Chisholm ’86

Jen Hughes & Ken Cline

Pancho Cole ’81

Sarah Colletti ’10 & Kyle McMillan

Heidi Conner

Matthew Corum ’03

Jill ’83 & Ben ’84 Cowie-Haskell

Lynn & James Crawford

Marily Crews

Kara ’96 & Matt ’98 Daul & Family

Cerissa Desrosiers ’00 & Jessica Hannon

Holly Devaul ’84

Jennifer Dussault ’02

Samuel Edmonds ’05

Rebecca Hamilton ’13

Kelly Harris ’12

Juliet Hodge ’95

Noah Hodgetts ’10

Margaret Hoffman ’97

Russ Holway

Kathryn Hunninen ’03 & Jose Luis Sagastegui

Anna Hurwitz ’84

Jane & David James

Robert Finn ’92

Helen Geils

June LaCombe (’75) & Bill Ginn ’74

Nina ’78 & Jonathan ’78 Gormley

Tree Goulet ’78

Carla Seddio & Michael Hamilton

Amanda Spector ’08 & Peter Jenkins ’09

Brianne ’02 & Brian Jordan

Jen Judd-McGee (’92) & Sam McGee

Sarah ’05 & Shawn ’00 Keeley

Greg Koehlert ’96

Natasha Krell ’16

Jude Lamb ’00

Virginie Lavallee-Picard ’07 & Alexander Fletcher ’07

Monty Lewis

Jessie Greenbaum ’89 & Phil Lichtenstein ’92

Benjamin Liff

Blaise Maccarrone ’01

Rachel & Pradip Malde

Chloe Marr-Fuller ’00

Angela Hondros-McCarthy & Dennis McCarthy

Lauren McKean ’83

Bridget Mullen ’91 & Chris Kenoyer

Sarah Neilson ’09

Jackie Nielson

Shirley Oskamp & Gary Lindorff

Johnny Pauker ’19

Rain Perez ’12 & Benjamin Byrne (’13)

Drake ’03 & Finn ’02 Pillsbury

Shiva Polefka ’01

Michele Riccio ’88

Jason Rich ’96

Andrea Roberto ’92

Gerald Robinson ’89

Patricia & Ronnie Rogers

Mary Ropp ’09

Derren Rosbach ’95

Eliza Ruel ’13 & Ian Yaffe

CedarBough T. Saeji ’93

Jodi Sargent MPhil ’06 & Family

Eloise Schultz ’16

Janet Schuman

Kirsten Schwarz ’00

Amy & Ryder Scott ’97

Kate Sheely ’07

Zachary ’05 & Paige ’06 Steele

Henry Steinberg ’06

Andrea Perry ’95 & Toby Stephenson ’98

William N. Stevens ’84

Timothea Sutton-Antonucci ’94 & Neal Antonucci ’95

Julianne Taylor ’06

Davis Taylor

Mari Huang Li Thiersch ’17

Ellen Thurman

Meg Trau-Serrano ’12

J. Louise Tremblay ’91

Elena Tuhy-Walters ’90 & Carl Walters II

John Twiss

Caitlin Unites ’03

Karen Waldron & Richard Hilliard

Ben Walters ’81

HannahMathilde Waschezyn ’13

Sally Weiss

Peter Williams ’93

David Winship ’77

Cathleen Wyman

Christine & Norb Young, Jr.

Anne Zara

Amanda Zych ’06

Mission

College of the Atlantic enriches the liberal arts tradition through a distinctive educational philosophy—human ecology. A human ecological perspective integrates knowledge from all academic disciplines and from personal experience to investigate—and ultimately improve—the relationships between human beings and our social and natural communities.

Vision

The faculty, students, trustees, staff, and alumni of College of the Atlantic envision a world where people value creativity, intellectual achievement, and the diversity of nature and human cultures. With respect and compassion, individuals will construct meaningful lives for themselves, gain appreciation for the relationships among all forms of life, and safeguard the heritage of future generations.

If this report has inspired you to support our mission, please contact Vice President for Institutional Advancement Lynn Boulger at lboulger@coa.edu or call 207.801.5620

You can also learn more about College of the Atlantic’s endowment needs or make a gift online at coa.edu/giving.

College of the Atlantic students explore Great Duck Island.

Photo by Maxie Langenberg ’27