Philanthropy Report • Fiscal Year 2023 by College of the Atlantic

COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC Philanthropy Report | Fiscal Year 2023

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2023 TRUSTEE OFFICERS

LIFE TRUSTEES

Beth Gardiner, chair, London, UK Marthann Samek, vice chair, New York, NY Hank Schmelzer, vice chair, Somesville, ME Ronald E. Beard, secretary, Bar Harbor, ME Clay Corbus, treasurer, San Francisco, CA

Samuel M. Hamill, Jr., Princeton, NJ John N. Kelly, Yarmouth, ME William V.P. Newlin, Washington, DC

TRUSTEE MEMBERS Cynthia Baker, Washington, DC Timothy Bass, Washington, DC Michael Boland ’94, Bar Harbor, ME Joyce Cacho, Washington, DC Alyne Cistone, Mount Desert, ME Sarah Currie-Halpern, Boulder, CO Heather Richards Evans, Wilmington, DE Allison Fundis ’03, Vallejo, CA Marie Griffith, St. Louis, MO Cookie Horner, Bar Harbor, ME Nicholas Lapham, Washington, DC Howard Lapsley, Needham, MA Casey Mallinckrodt, Denver, CO Anthony Mazlish, Chevy Chase, MD Chandreyee Mitra ’01, Aurora, IL Roland Reynolds, Alexandria, VA Nadia Rosenthal, Bar Harbor, ME Laura McGiffert Slover, Washington, DC Laura Z. Stone, New York, NY Steve Sullens, New York, NY Claudia Turnbull, Greenwich, CT

TRUSTEES EMERITI David Hackett Fischer, Wayland, MA William G. Foulke, Jr., Bedford, NY Amy Yeager Geier, Santa Fe, NM George B.E. Hambleton, Charleston, SC Elizabeth D. Hodder, Cambridge, MA Jay McNally ’84, Bar Harbor, ME Philip S.J. Moriarty, Hinsdale, IL Cathy Ramsdell ’78, Portland, ME Hamilton Robinson, Jr., New York, NY William N. Thorndike, Boston, MA John Wilmerding, New York, NY

EX OFFICIO Darron Collins ’92, president, Bar Harbor, ME

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Front and back cover: College of the Atlantic’s Color Festival was held during Culture Week in April 2023. The event was modeled on Holi, the Hindu festival celebrating the triumph of good over evil and the arrival of spring. Each color has meaning; for instance, red is the color for love and fertility, green for rebirth, and orange for strength. Photos by Benjamin Troutman ’24

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TABLE OF CONTENTS OPENING LETTER

Cody van Heerden Chair in Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences 29

FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

Kim M. Wentworth Chair in Environmental Studies

James Russell Wiggins Chair in Government and Polity and Philip Geyelin Fund for Government and Polity 31

YEAR IN REVIEW THE DAVIS UNITED WORLD COLLEGE SCHOLARS PROGRAM

ENDOWED CHAIRS

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Chair in Earth Systems and Geoscience 7 Richard J. Borden Chair in Humanities

Rachel Carson Chair in Human Ecology

T.A. Cox Chair in Studio Arts

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman Chair in the Performing Arts 33

ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS

ENDOWED FUNDS

Cox Protectorate Fund

David Hales Director of Sustainability Fund

Barbarina M. and Aaron J. Heyerdahl Beech Hill Farm Endowment Fund 43

William H. Drury, Jr. Chair in Evolution, Natural History, and Ecology and W.H. Drury Research Fund 12

Kathryn Davis Fund for Global and Civic Engagement 44 Robert P. and Arlene Kogod Visiting Artist Fund

Charles Eliot Chair in Ecological Planning, Policy, and Design 14

Fund for Maine Islands

McCormick Library Director Fund

Peggy Rockefeller Farm Endowment Fund

Doug Rose GIS Enhancement Fund

McNally Family Chair in Philosophy and Human Ecology 18

Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery Fund

Thomas and Mary Hall Library Fund

Elizabeth Battles Newlin Chair in Botany

R. Amory Thorndike Memorial Fund

Elizabeth Thorndike Senior Class Book Fund

Waterfront Director Fund

Writing for the Future Fund

Physical Plant Funds

FY23 SUPPORTERS

Year After Year

Alumnx Leadership Circle

Black Fly Society

Northern Lights Society

Andrew S. Griffiths Chair for the Dean of Administration 15 Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Studies

Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems 21 Emily and Mitchell Rales Chair in Ecology

Lalage and Steven Rales Chair in Chemistry

David Rockefeller Family Chair and T.A. Cox Fund in Ecosystem Management and Protection 24 Sharpe-McNally Chair in Green and Socially Responsible Business 26 Lisa Stewart Chair in Literature and Women’s Studies 27 Allan Stone Chair in the Visual Arts c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

We may be an unlikely college, but we are essential… to communities around the globe where human ecologists are helping to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Dear COA donors, This publication, titled The Philanthropy Report, could also be titled, The Donor Impact Report. At COA, philanthropy and impact go hand in hand. Your generous gifts—whether inspired by our students, our mission, or as may be the case for alums, a desire to give back to a college that helped shape you—have real and tangible impacts on our students and the study and practice of human ecology. And the wonder of education is that these impacts only grow as students move into the world, applying their knowledge, values, and skills to challenges we face. Our hope is that this report brings you a little closer to the program we offer here at COA. Through faculty and staff reports on endowed chairs and funds, you’ll get a window into the types of classes, field experiences, and other opportunities donors have made possible for our students. I hope you’ll take a moment to read through our year in review (pages 4–5), peruse the scholarships we awarded students (pages 35–40), consider the magnitude of investment the Davis family has made in COA through the Davis United World College Scholar Program (page 6), and look for your friends on the donor lists. You may notice some funds that honor people who are no longer with us, but whose generosity lives on thanks to their forethought and our careful management of their funds invested in our endowment. Most of all, I hope you take pride in being among an amazing community of supporters who share our belief in the power of an education in human ecology. We may be an unlikely college, nestled here on the coast of Maine between Frenchman Bay and Acadia National Park, but we are an increasingly essential college. Essential not only to our local community where so many of our alums have made their homes and livelihoods, but to communities around the globe where human ecologists are helping to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges, and to the world of higher education that continues to incorporate COA’s approach to education. Our impact—your impact—is growing. With gratitude,

Shawn Keeley ’00 Dean of Institutional Advancement

GIVING AT A GL ANCE 2

$12.7M

2,475

1,197

OVERALL GIVING AND PLEDGES

GIFTS

DONORS

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FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY NUMBER of DONORS

This fiscal year our donors contributed $1.6M for the college’s Annual Fund, the highest amount ever. Broad

(Total = 1,197)

Reach Capital Campaign pledge payments, new gifts to

BUSINESSES & ORGANIZATIONS 10% TRUSTEES 3%

endowment funds, and contributions to new and ongoing projects added another $11.1M for a total of $12.7M raised. Each and every one of our 1,197 donors were a part of this success. Thank you all!

ALUMS 39%

PARENTS 12%

ENDOWMENT FRIENDS 36%

Global financial markets showed significant year-over-year improvement in returns over the course of FY23 (+15.4%) versus the returns of FY22 (-16.8%). This performance, along with additional Broad Reach Capital Campaign receipts, moved the COA endowment from the $69.7 million mark on June 30, 2022, to $78.8 million on June 30, 2023. The three- and five-year annualized returns of the endowment stand at 7.4% and 5.9% respectively as of the close of June 2023.

ALLOCATIONS

The generosity of our supporters sustained the college through the challenges faced in the global asset markets of 2022, as well as in the everyday life of the college’s annual operations. Our annual endowment draw represents a vital source of funding for program operations, equating to roughly $9,450 in annual revenue per student for the 2022–23 academic year. The following pages include reports of the many funds within the endowment and how they support the fulfillment of the mission of the college.

ANNUAL FUND 13% PROJECTS* 42%

BROAD REACH CAPITAL CAMPAIGN pledge payments

$100M

33%

$80M $60M $40M

ENDOWMENT 12%

$20M $0 FY00

FY05

FY10

FY15

*Projects include things like Allied Whale, faculty research, Summer Institute, and energy improvements.

FY20

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YEAR IN REVIEW JULY: Boston-based artist Sophie Tuttle created a mural on the back of Thomas S. Gates Jr. Community Center over the course of one week during the 2022 Summer Institute, Our One and Only Ocean, held in partnership with The National Geographic Society. The mural features humpback whale migration routes (representing Allied Whale research) and sea birds (representing student research on Great Duck Island).

SEPTEMBER: The COA Mount Desert Center and The Salt Market (owned by Maude Kusserow ’15) opened on 141 Main Street in Northeast Harbor. This year-round project, including housing for 15 students and a staff/faculty apartment, was the result of a collaborative partnership with Mount Desert 365.

NOVEMBER: The “Bed Subcommittee,” a team of speedy COA students, won the Bar Harbor Bed Races (part of the annual Pajama Sale) in a course-breaking time!

AUGUST: Chase Morrill ’00 of Maine Cabin Masters joined our Coffee & Conversation series with host faculty member Heather Lakey ’00, MPhil ’05. The pair discussed Morrill’s journey from COA to a beloved TV show that profiles his work restoring historic Maine cabins.

OCTOBER: Off-shore research, coastal island expeditions, and novel ways to extend COA classrooms onto the water are all part of the program for Rebecca, a 44-foot sailboat restored by scores of COA students and launched in October 2022.

2022 DECEMBER: Doreen Stabinsky and Ken Cline took seven COA students to the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montréal, Canada. In addition to hearing prominent speakers such as the Prime Minister of Canada and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, students were able to attend two weeks of intense negotiations over the future of the world’s biodiversity. The COA delegation worked to improve legal documents pertaining to the conservation of biodiversity that came out of these negotiations. c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

JANUARY: COA’s outdoor leadership program helps students develop wilderness survival skills while generating confidence, building community, and experiencing the beauty and awe of Maine’s rugged landscape. Dozens of COA students take part in the program, becoming Wilderness First Aid certified in the process. Many of these students will lead COA Outdoor Orientation Programs (OOPs) trips for incoming students in the fall.

MARCH: COA hosted three performances of César Alvarez’s avant-Americana musical Futurity, which looks back to the Civil War to raise questions about the role of technology in visions for liberation. Futurity was the work of COA students enrolled in a term-long monster course taught and co-directed by Jonathan Henderson and Jodi Baker.

MAY: Culture Week, organized by students, culminates in an incredible show held in the Thomas S. Gates Jr. Community Center. The Color Festival, featured on the cover of this publication, was one of many festive events held over the week.

2023 FEBRUARY: The 24-Hour Challenge is COA’s biggest fundraising event. We keep a fire going throughout the day and night, welcoming students and alums to warm themselves by the fire and share how the college has influenced their lives. Our community truly stepped up, contributing a total of 495 gifts over the 24 hours. We exceeded our goal of $100,000 to unlock an additional $100,000 in matching gifts for a grand total of $232,681! c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

APRIL: Ken Cline taught his Human Ecology of Wilderness class for the first time in 12 years. This interdisciplinary class culminated in a two-week field trip to Georgia and Florida to visit the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Cumberland Island Wilderness, and the Suwannee River, where students were able to witness and apply course concepts.

JUNE: Alums and their families were welcomed back to campus June 22–25, staying in residence halls like Seafox, Peach, and Cottage. Everyone enjoyed eating at Take-a-Break, exploring Acadia, going on guided hikes, kayaking, and taking trips out to Great Duck and Mount Desert Rock. The event culminated with a lively performance by ’80s cover band Destroy Them My Robots.

The Davis United World College Scholars Program Shawn Keeley ’00, Dean of Institutional Advancement The moment College of the Atlantic and the Davis UWC Program joined forces is arguably the most important moment in COA’s 52-year history. After 13 years as president here at COA, one of the things I will miss the most upon my departure is the constant learning I experience from engaging with these absolutely incredible students. The extraordinary commitments of the Davis Scholarship Program has helped catalyze an entire generation of students who will make fundamental improvements to the world around us.

—Darron Collins ’92, COA President Throughout our campus and in this report, you will see the impacts of the Davis family in academic buildings, student residences, and funds like the Expeditionary Fund (pages 44–45), all of which have greatly enhanced our college. But the Davis UWC Scholars program stands out as having the greatest impact on COA’s cultural and learning environment. From the fall of 2000, when COA was part of an initial five American colleges to enroll Davis Scholars, to today, the number of Davis United World College Scholars has reached an astounding 13,544 with 99 colleges

participating in the program. Among these colleges, COA has the highest percentage of its student body—over 20%—made up of Davis Scholars. With these scholars representing a full fifth of our student body, nearly every aspect of the COA experience— academics, student activities, food, culture, language, religious studies, etc—is enhanced by the international context they bring. The study and practice of human ecology increasingly confronts intertwined challenges that often have a global context. Our students’ abilities to understand different perspectives is greatly enhanced by friends and

classmates who come from places very different from their own. This was the goal of founders Shelby Davis and Phil Geier when they set this program in motion. When you visit COA today, it is clear that the college has become a hub of international thought and culture here in Maine. COA, our local community, and our global communities have all benefited immensely from this program. To learn more about the impact of the Davis United World College Scholars program at COA and beyond, visit davisuwcscholars.org.

DAVIS UWC $34.9M

TOTAL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDING FOR DAVIS SCHOLARS SINCE THE PROGRAM BEGAN IN 2000

20%

277

DAVIS SCHOLARS CURRENTLY ENROLLED

COUNTRIES REPRESENTED BY CURRENT DAVIS SCHOLARS

OF COA STUDENTS ARE DAVIS SCHOLARS

COA GRADUATES ARE DAVIS SCHOLARS

YEARS THAT DAVIS SCHOLARS HAVE ATTENDED COA

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ENDOWED CHAIRS

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Chair in Earth Systems and Geoscience Chairholder: Sarah R. Hall, PhD The Bass chair funds a range of field and lab-based opportunities. During the fall and winter terms, I taught a total of 43 students and mentored 16 student advisees. I served as the EcoLeague and Goldwater Fellowship campus representatives and served on the Faculty Development Group. With students and local collaborators, I continued work with partners at Acadia National Park and the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory on local and regional water quality research projects. Externally, I completed my second term as president of the Geological Society of Maine and served as a Cooperating Curator of the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine. Courses I taught during the 2022–23 year:

• Geology of MDI (fall): This field-based course introduces students to various topics in geoscience through the exploration of the MDI bedrock and landscapes.

• Dynamic Landscapes (fall): Building on introductory

geoscience, this new class asked students to consider the vast time and space scales impacting landscape features. We spent a Saturday exploring sites throughout the

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Anne and Bob Bass established this endowed chair in 2011 as part of the Life Changing, World Changing Capital Campaign.

Penobscot Bay, considering how geologic and human activities shape the coastal Maine landscape.

• The Anthropocene (winter): In this course, which I co-

taught with faculty member Netta van Vliet, students read current and historical text from the scientific literature, human studies, and the current media to consider questions about difference and to experience and exercise translation between disciplines.

• Geology of National Parks (winter): In this course, students

learned the principles of geology through the lens of US National Parks. They each chose a national park from anywhere in the world to study throughout the term and built a story map using the ArcGIS Online software.

In May, I traveled to Costa Rica for two weeks to participate in part of the Tropical Ecology Monster course with faculty member Steve Ressel and Dorr Museum Director Carrie Graham. With my training in tectonic geomorphology and paleoclimatology, the landscape of Costa Rica was a perfect location for me to supplement student learning as a visiting geoscience faculty member.

During my spring 2023 sabbatical, I made up for missed travel due to the pandemic. I studied and worked with colleagues and students in the Yucatán. While part of my time in Mérida was dedicated to language learning, I also have been gathering information for adding a potential future field course in that region. I hope to connect landscape forming processes to the rich cultural learning opportunities students have through our existing Spanish language immersion program based there. During the 2022–23 academic year, I worked with students Delphine Demaisy ’26 and Ludwin Moran Sosa ’24, who assisted with water sample collecting, curricular resource creation, and outreach to local schools. Another work study student, Lily Dutton ’25, focused on documenting and visualizing the recent land-use history of the Breakneck Watershed. Six students conducted extended independent study subprojects which they presented at the Acadia National Park Science Symposium: Ben Capuano ’23, Adam Feher ’23, Lenka Slamova ’24, Ludwin Moran Sosa ’24,

Lily Dutton ’25, and Joshua Harkness ’25. During the 2023–2024 academic year, I’m on unpaid leave to pursue a Science & Technology Policy Fellowship sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I am stationed at the US Geological Survey in the Washington DC area and am working as part of the Natural Hazards Mission team, specifically focused on landslides and other geohazards.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$2,262,698 333,203 0 (116,400) $2,479,501

During my time at COA, the thing that has resonated with me most is the trust and responsibility that is placed in students, enabling us to contribute to and actively shape our own education. Through the classes I have taken, I have been able to expand upon my education without traditional boundaries. At COA, every discipline converges to address realworld challenges. COA is more than just a college; it’s a living, breathing community where I’ve had the chance to explore not only my academic interests but also my place in a complex, interconnected world. BEN TROUTMAN ’24

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Richard J. Borden Chair in Humanities Chairholder: Bonnie Tai, EdD My teaching and advising last year contributed to the Human Studies resource area, the graduate program, student participation in college governance, student life wellness and support programs, and the Educational Studies program. In the fall, I taught Changing Schools, Changing Society, which is a gateway course to Educational Studies and those seeking to teach in schools, whether as Maine certification candidates as well as any student interested in better understanding the relationship between the history of education and contemporary school change initiatives in the US and beyond. In the spring, I taught Experiential Education, which is a placebased and practice-focused course intended for students interested in working in informal educational settings such as farms, national parks, or museums. Students were introduced to the philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and practice of experiential education in a variety of contexts. I also co-directed an independent study on student civic engagement and a senior project developing an inclusive curriculum to help new and returning writing center tutors better understand and contribute effectively to the experiences of multilingual and neuro-divergent students. Together with several seniors, I began a book project in which participants in the first cohort of COA’s College Opportunity and Access program (COA2) reflect on their experiences as low-income, racially minoritized, and/or first-generation college students. After peer review of a proposal and receiving approval from COA’s Ethical Research Review Board, chapter authors and I met over the last several months to discuss individual chapters, as well as an introduction and conclusion that I drafted—the c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

latter based on a synthesis of the student-authored chapters. Four chapters are complete or near completion, with three others in various stages of development. In addition to the book project, COA trustees and I conducted research to develop alumnx established this a new course I am teaching this chair in 2011 to honor fall called Culturally Sustaining long-time COA professor and Revitalizing Education. This and academic dean, included reviewing literature, Richard J. Borden. meeting with colleagues who teach in this area, and participant observation during a professional development workshop for Portland Public School teachers on a module of their Wabanaki Studies curriculum. Finally, in support of a new course called Contemplative Practice, Science, and Education projected for spring 2025, I attended an Insight Meditation Society retreat on the four Brahmaviharas, and began a year-long mindfulness teacher training program through Inward Bound Mindfulness Education, accredited by the International Mindfulness Teacher Association.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,622,879 238,857 0 (86,500) $1,775,235

Rachel Carson Chair in Human Ecology Chairholder: Suzanne Morse, PhD During the 2022–23 academic year, I taught 70 students and mentored 14 advisees. I also directed four senior projects that addressed wet meadow seed banks in Acadia National Park (Taylor Palmer ’23), the development of cooking skills for hungry ecologists (Adam Burke ’23), the long history of the humandandelion relationship (Mycena Phillips ’23) and farming systems in Laos (Navaluck Phalyvong ’23*). In the fall, I joined faculty and students in the Human Ecology Core Course. My teaching module in this foundational course explored different ways of knowing with a focus on the contrast between sensory experiences and the mediated experiences of books, lectures, film, and museums. In my advanced Seeds course we used the community garden as our classroom and explored the theory and practice of seed saving, the genetics of natural hybrids, and established a seed inventory. Together with crop Between 1998–2007, breeder and seed producer many donors Heron Breen, we planned contributed to the a seed event for the MDI establishment of community in mid-February. this chair honoring Despite a snow storm, we came the renowned together, swapped seeds, marine biologist, discussed current vulnerabilities conservationist, and of the seed systems, and the author of Silent Spring. potential of working together towards more communitybased seed systems. We shared a meal of sweetheart beets, Canadian crookneck squash, and rutabagas—all varieties from or being further developed in the state of Maine. The event was created with the immense help, enthusiasm, and energy of chef Adam Burke ’23, designer Emily Fetter ’24, and group facilitators Helen Poertner ’23, Quinn Jonas ’24, and Alex Pesek ’23. Open Table MDI kindly offered their space for this event. In the winter term, I taught a foundational biology course on cellular processes that concluded with a capstone experience on the techniques and use of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) for understanding zebrafish development at the MDI Biological Laboratory. I also taught an advanced seminar titled Cross Kingdom Interactions, where we

evaluated the role of symbioses in the ecology and evolution of life. Ian Medeiros ’16 gave an exceptional presentation on lichens as a model holobiont and insights into the extent to which fungalalgal relationships change over different ecological gradients. Spring term was brought in with my course Theory and Practice of Organic Gardening. The gardens established during the spring term flourished throughout the summer and produced abundant cut flowers for college events, vegetables for The Howdy Houghton Memorial COA Community Food Pantry & Fridge, a sensory garden for children, and a seed trial garden in collaboration with the seed savers exchange. Over the summer Tanvi Koushik ’23, seed saver and gardener extraordinaire, helped with maintenance of the community garden and seed work for the fall course. My COA committee service includes the Landscape subcommittee, Academic Affairs, and the Food Systems Working Group. Outside of COA, I continue to be a board member for Native Gardens of Blue Hill, volunteer for MOFGA, teach and advise masters students at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), and share stories about Rachel Carson. In August 2022, I taught a two-week module at NMBU and developed a day-long workshop exploring the different meanings of agroecology within and beyond Europe. In addition, I established a Memorandum of Understanding that supports the exchange of students between NMBU and COA. As always, I am deeply thankful for the institutional support of my work through the Rachel Carson Chair.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,283,700 188,900 0 (68,800) $1,403,800

*Deceased

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T.A. Cox Chair in Studio Arts Chairholder: Nancy Andrews, MFA It has been an honor and pleasure to serve as the T.A. Cox Chair in Studio Arts. I am excited to share some of the events that transpired over the previous academic year. I taught four courses: Documentary Video Studio, Making Art: Effort, Resilience, and Persistence, Animation 1, and Four-Dimensional Studio. I also took one term as a “zero-class term”, meaning one fulfills committee work and student advising, but takes a term to focus on professional projects. My major focus was my solo exhibition, Homebodies, showcased at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art from May 27 to September 10, 2023. The exhibition was a blend of various artistic practices (sculpture/drawing/video/installation), exploring themes of display, femininity, and societal perceptions. “In this show, the domestic environment is upended, surreal, even violent. Andrews tackles a delirious array of themes, including sexual submission and exploitation, possibly alcoholism (there are toiles patterned with beer and spirits as well as packs of cigarettes), so-called ‘women’s work’ (albeit employed in explicit or suggestive imagery, like one of many phalluses that protrude from between the legs of figurines), loneliness (on one shelf, the figurines face the wall, turning their back on the viewer, as if even these kitschy collectibles shun us) and much more. The show feels free-associative and feverishly hallucinogenic.” ~Jorge S. Arango, Portland Press Herald. During the past couple of years, I had the honor of co-creating a full-length album titled A Passing Cloud in collaboration with Linda Smith, a lo-fi, DIY icon. This album, featuring all original songs

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

written and recorded by the both of us, encapsulates decades of shared creative vision and enduring friendship. Linda and I were housemates in Baltimore back in 1983, and our musical journey together culminated in the April 2023 release of this album. The record was mixed by Zach Soares ’00, COA’s Director of Audio Visual Services.

I Like Tomorrow, a film I created with Jennifer Reeder, was invited to be part of the January issue (#83) of Labocine, titled “Scientific Musicals.” This issue explores the intersection of scientific experiments and art through musicals, operas, performances, and spoken word poetry. Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes was also invited to be featured in this vibrant issue. On campus, I actively contributed to the community by organizing the Art Crawl, a delightful evening of arts showcased during the tenth week of each term, which included open studios which promote student artists and courses, and to foster celebration of the arts. In April 2023, I had the opportunity to visit New York City for a WFMU interview with Linda Smith, and I was able to make time for cultural exploration, immersing myself in the artistic offerings of renowned museums such as the MOMA, The Whitney, the Drawing Center, and the New Museum. This experience enriched my understanding of diverse contemporary art exhibits, informing my role as the Chair in Studio Arts. The funds provided through this endowed chair have been instrumental in realizing these activities and more—buying books, equipment to support courses and the like. As we pursue studio arts in the rubric of a human ecology education, we remain steadfast in our commitment to advancing artistic education, nurturing talent, and fostering a sense of community through creative expression and study.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

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$1,323,533 1,323,533 0 (60,000) $1,458,825

William H. Drury Jr. Chair in Evolution, Natural History, and Ecology Chairholder: John G.T. Anderson, PhD This has been a busy year, in spite of—or perhaps because of—a sabbatical in winter 2023.

Waterbirds, and serve on editorial boards for two other professional journals.

I taught Ecology and the Human Ecology Core Course in the fall, Wildlife Ecology and the campus-based portion of Island Life in the spring. I had 31 advisees, sponsored three senior projects and two independent studies, and coordinated our bird research on Great Duck Island and Mount Desert Rock.

In August, I had the opportunity to visit the Innerpeffray Library. This is the oldest free library in Scotland, dating to the 17th century, and contains many important books on natural history. Examination of some of the texts sparked the “next-after-theGreat-Duck book” concept: The Mirror of the World. I also visited Cambridge, staying in Darwin’s old college (Christ’s), and was able to see some of his original notes from the Beagle voyage.

I completed my term on the Waterbird Society Council, but continue as Book Review Editor for the international journal

While on sabbatical, I conducted research for my book on the ecology of Great Duck Island, and the role of the island as a model for a certain form of education. I completed drafts of several chapters and met with my editor to discuss progress. I was co-author on a paper titled The Value and Necessity of Natural History Studies of Waterbirds with an international cast. I also did an oral presentation at The Waterbird Society annual meeting, and organized, presented at, and chaired a session at the Northeast Natural History Conference. I was able to get grant funding from Friends of Acadia to survey National Park Service islands in our region. The 2023 “Duckling” crew, plus the students in Island Life, counted birds on 10 park-owned islands, placed GPS tags on several birds, and mapped and banded nesting individuals. This work will help us understand population dynamics in regional gulls, and to assess the risk of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in our area.

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W.H. DRURY RESEARCH FUND This fund allowed two students to join me and present at the annual meeting of The Waterbird Society in Texas, plus seven students to join me and present at the Northeast Natural History Conference in New York. In addition, the fund made it possible for six students and an alum to work with me at the Alice Eno Field Research Station on Great Duck Island. This year we began the season early, starting in April with the arrival of the gulls, and continued until August. Of particular note was the presence (and removal) of three otters, who were feeding on Leach’s storm petrels. It seems likely that in the absence of the COA team, the island’s petrel population would have suffered

WILLIAM H. DRURY, JR. CHAIR Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,519,866 223,623 0 (82,000) $1,661,489

W.H. DRURY RESEARCH FUND Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$320,687 47,219 0 (16,700) $351,206

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greatly. Through the hard work of the students, we now have the first comprehensive map of all gull nests on the island, as well as something of a phenology of arrival. We will all present our work at an international conference in October 2023. As always, I am deeply grateful to the donors of the endowed chair and this fund for making this work possible.

This endowed chair and research fund were established in honor of the 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.

Charles Eliot Chair in Ecological Planning, Policy, and Design Chairholder: Brook Muller A year ago, a friend and COA alum shared the posting for the Charles Eliot Chair in Ecological Planning, Policy and Design, and my mind exploded: this is the position I would have written for myself! It struck me as the perfect place to advance the work I am passionate Dan and Polly Pierce about while nurturing a next established this endowed generation of ecological chair in 2000. Dan design thinkers. Pierce was a COA trustee, grandson of landscape I practiced architecture before I architect Charles Eliot, had the opportunity to serve as and great grandson co-project leader for the design of Harvard President of the environmentally friendly Charles William Eliot. National Institute for Forestry and Nature Research (IBN) in Wageningen, The Netherlands. But I knew from my time in graduate school that teaching had to be central to my future, teaching that embraces a systems-based approach to design with a strong focus on water (my name is Brook after all). My recent book, Blue Architecture: Water, Design, and Environmental Futures (University of Texas Press, 2022) explores ecologically responsive strategies for designing with water, and celebrates its never-failing capacity as a connective medium between sustainable architectures and climate-adapted urban landscapes. My arrival at COA coincides with the next phase of projectbased work with colleagues in Cairo, Egypt who operate in neighborhoods suffering from poverty, food insecurity, failing infrastructure, climate change impacts, and other severe challenges. I served on the design team and ran an international field school that led to the recently completed al-Khalifa Heritage and Environment Park, a much-needed open green space primarily intended for women and children in the heart of medieval Islamic Cairo. The approach involves intercepting water from leaky pipes damaging 13th century shrines that my colleagues are working to restore, treating it, and directing it to vegetation in the park. In other words, the medium causing harm becomes the very resource to make a new system go; such is the logic of systemsbased ecological design!

We have very recently started to investigate how to apply the logic of water reuse to the neighborhood in its entirety, with a focus on urban food production and evaporative cooling measures to reduce the urban heat island effect in this desert city. I am so excited about engaging COA students in this work, not only in Cairo, but more broadly in applying ecological design principles to urban contexts in the cause of environmental quality and environmental justice.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$351,206 279,012 110 (101,000) $2,073,819 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Renovated DeLaittre Barn at Peggy Rockefeller Farm

Andrew S. Griffiths Chair for the Dean of Administration Chairholder: Bear Paul, Administrative Dean and CFO The endowment created by this chair provides important budget relief to administrative operations, allowing funds to flow to mission critical activities, initiative, and capital projects. Some of the more exciting developments over the course of the 2022–23 academic year included:

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A full renovation and electrification of the Delaitre barn at Peggy Rockefeller Farm, in preparation for the installation of a solar array. The barn is now being used to house livestock.

• Expansion and improvements to the farmstand at Beech Hill Farm, allowing it to open earlier in the season and stay open later into the fall.

• Transitioning of Witchcliff off fossil fuels. • Installation of heat pump water heaters in Blair Tyson,

significantly reducing the college’s use of fossil fuels in these dormitories.

• Undertaking building efficiency work that reduced our heating oil purchase by roughly 30%.

• Completing a number of deferred maintenance projects,

including replacing the roofs of 14 COA buildings, including seven off-campus houses, Blair Tyson, Witchcliff, the Dorr Museum, and many more.

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• Transitioning the school

budget reporting from a cash accrual hybrid format to a full accrual format.

The Andrew S. Griffiths Chair was one of nine chairs created during the Broad Reach Capital Campaign. The endowed fund was established in 2018 by COA’s board of trustees to honor Andrew “Andy” S. Griffiths, the college’s long-serving and wellrespected administrative dean who served for more than 15 years.

I continue to chair the Personnel Committee and lead the budget-setting process. Additionally, examining the condition of campus buildings and developing a facilities condition analysis has come into focus as a priority, as has supporting the IT department in refreshing the information infrastructure here at the college. The 2022–23 academic year was a productive one, and we are excited to address the challenges of 2023–24.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$495,043 74,487 111,000 (25,400) $655,130

Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Studies Chairholder: Sean Todd, PhD Over the 2022–23 academic year, I taught a total of 83 students in four classes, two senior projects and one independent study. Classes taught include: Marine Mammal Biology, Biology Form and Function (team-taught with Susan Letcher), Introduction to Statistics and Research COA trustees, hundreds Design, and Introduction to of alumnx, and Oceanography. I had an official friends of the college advisee roster of 20 students, established this including one graduate student, endowed chair in 2007 and reviewed three writing to honor COA’s fourth portfolios and three human president and founding ecology essays. faculty member. I assisted with the management of the Edward McC. Blair Marine Research Station on Mount Desert Rock in the 2022 field season. A total of 15 students worked at the field station on projects that incorporated marine mammalogy, biological oceanography, intertidal science, soundscape, photography, and marine bird ecology. Four of the 15 took on leadership roles, helping to run the field station. The island also hosted an overnight visit from the Islands Through Time class. With the Gulf of Maine Stable Isotope Project (GOMSIP)—an examination of climate-induced changes in Gulf of Maine whale feeding behavior—ending in 2022, we turned our attention to finalizing analyses and collating samples. We also used the time to review the project in terms of successes and challenges. A resounding conclusion was the need to extend our research into a

second set of five years—a project dubbed GOMSIP II, for which we are now fully permitted. Our work continues in part funded by Katona Chair discretionary funds. We began to write up some of the earlier work for publication within the year. During the 2022–23 academic year, I continued to serve on the Faculty Development Group, and devoted significant energy to chairing a task force that ultimately recommended that COA instructor Karla Peña become full-time faculty, a proposal that was fully supported by the institution as long overdue. In addition to directing Allied Whale and overseeing operations at Mount Desert Rock, I also worked on the Islands Committee, Graduate Committee, and assisted with various Admission functions. I also took a sabbatical in winter 2022, using the time to collect data for the Antarctic Humpback Whale Catalog aboard the expedition vessel Seabourn Venture, during which time I improved my seamanship and ability to operate vessels in polar conditions. I helped with the inaugural voyages of Venture in summer 2022, visiting eastern Greenland, Jan Mayen, Iceland, Norway and Svalbard, reaching 82°N. I continue to serve on the Maine Coalition for the North Atlantic Right Whale, and I now also serve on an advisory board that acts as a consultative body to the development of offshore wind energy in the Gulf of Maine. Chair funds were used to help purchase research equipment for Allied Whale, as well as for operating costs at Mount Desert Rock. Funds also supported virtual attendance for nine students to join me at the Right Whale Consortium, and supported course teaching assistants, equipment purchases, and travel costs associated with my sabbatical. c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Over the course of the year, I successfully raised approximately $160,000 for Allied Whale research and Marine Mammal Stranding Response Program activities, including:

• Anonymous foundation, $20,000 • Oceanside Properties, $20,000 • Cestone Foundation, $20,000 • NOAA Prescott Health and Stranding Program, $100,000

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$2,051,593 301,911 0 (110,200) $2,243,304

With the freedom and responsibility to design our own course of study, abundant opportunities for getting involved in research, and having faculty closely engaged in and supporting our individual learning and development, COA in many ways felt like ‘graduate school for undergraduates’. NINA OVERGAARD THERKILDSEN ’05

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McNally Family Chair in Philosophy and Human Ecology Chairholder: Heather Lakey ’00, MPhil ’05, PhD The 2022–23 academic year was a busy, engaging, and Jay McNally ’84 productive one. I renewed and established this revised five courses: Utopia/ endowed chair in 2019 as Dystopia; Sex, Gender, Identity, part of the Broad Reach Power; Problems and Dilemmas in Capital Campaign. Bioethics; Rethinking the Canon; and Philosophies of Death and Dying. Overall, I taught a total of 61 students, read nine human ecology essays, directed one independent study on Ancient Greek literature, mentored 17 advisees, and directed four senior projects.

including The Bias Response Policy and a revision to the Energy Policy. In addition, Steering facilitated a number of community conversations on important topics such as the five-year strategic plan, flags at graduation, and the job contours for upcoming faculty searches. I am a strong advocate for COA’s participatory governance structure because it facilitates valuable learning opportunities and it fosters productive community discussions regarding challenging issues. In addition to my work with Steering, I served on the Summer Institute Planning Committee. It was a pleasure to work with a dynamic group of COA staff and board members to plan this year’s Institute, Reimagining Exploration. Another notable administrative experience was serving on the search committee for the faculty position in Ecological Planning, Policy, and Design. Finally, I convened a working group over the summer to assess the human ecology essay assignment and its place in COA’s curriculum. To support COA’s commitment to place-based learning and community engagement, I invited three visitors from Northern Light Health to Philosophies of Death and Dying: Vanessa Little, a Palliative Care Service Line Medical Director; Erin Kerns, the Manager of Northern Light Hospice in Ellsworth; and Tim Soucy, Spiritual Counselor and Bereavement Coordinator. Their visits generated excellent class conversation and they provided interesting examples to inform our philosophical discussions.

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In January, I attended the seventh annual Reproductive Ethics conference in Galveston, Texas. I presented a version of my paper, Rethinking Regret: Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethics of Abortion. I received valuable feedback from bioethicists, philosophers, and health care providers, and attended some excellent sessions which will enrich my courses on bioethics and feminist philosophy. I want to express my deep gratitude to the McNally family for endowing this chair and supporting philosophical studies at COA.

In addition to teaching, I assumed a number of administrative service roles. I served as co-chair of the Steering Committee with Ken Cline for the fall and winter terms, and as the sole chair during the spring when Ken was on sabbatical. This year, the All College Meeting passed several important policies,

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$899,059 143,302 198,889 (31,300) $1,209,949 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Elizabeth Battles Newlin Chair in Botany Chairholder: Susan Letcher, PhD I was granted a sabbatical in the fall of 2022, which provided a much-needed opportunity to focus on research, writing, and course development. I worked on a new course in plant systematics for the fall of 2023. I also did some volunteer work transcribing herbarium specimen labels through the online platform Digivol. I wasn’t able to travel in the fall, so I took advantage of fall on MDI to do lots of hiking and enjoy the stunning autumn foliage. In the winter, I taught Biostatistics, an upper-level exploration of statistical methods and research design, and Plants and People: Economic Botany, an introductory course on plant use in human societies. In the spring, I taught an upper-level course in theoretical ecology, Population and Community Ecology, and I team-taught the introductory course Biology: Form and Function. I also supervised three independent studies and three senior projects, serving just over 100 students during the academic year. I helped a number of undergraduate and graduate students with experimental design and statistical analysis for projects. I worked with my 15 advisees to find paths through human ecology that serve their interests and aspirations. In service to the college, I worked with the Admissions Committee to evaluate applications for the class of 2028. Once again, I was amazed by the range of talents and the broad array of human experiences among the students, and was confident that the committee identified an outstanding incoming class. I also served on Review and Appeals, reviewing residency applications and c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

helping students navigate the curriculum. In July 2023, I had the fantastic opportunity to interview author Kim Stanley Robinson for COA’s Coffee & Conversation series. In service to the scientific community, I reviewed seven Two of Elizabeth Battles manuscripts for scientific Newlin’s children, Lucy journals and eight postdoctoral Bell Sellers and her fellowship proposals for husband Peter, and European Science Foundation Bill Newlin and his wife grants. I performed preLouisa (née Foulke) publication reviews of two Newlin established this book-length manuscripts. I gave chair in 1996 as part several online talks in Spanish of the college’s Silver to a restoration ecology course Anniversary Campaign. at the University of Costa Rica. In June 2023, I traveled to Costa Rica as a visiting faculty member on a graduate course in tropical field ecology offered by the Organization for Tropical Studies, where I helped students with experimental design and conducted a field project on forest dynamics. Thanks to collaborations with other scientists around the world, I published two scientific papers in the 2022–23 academic year: one titled Forest Ecology and Management with Dr. Yi Ding’s research group at the Chinese Academy of Forestry, on the impacts of drought on forest recovery in southern China; and one

titled Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences with an international group of colleagues led by Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez (UNAM, Mexico) on the ways that regional forest cover affects the predictability of forest recovery from major disturbances. Three additional papers are currently in review. Overall, it’s been another busy and delightful year at COA. I am grateful to the family of Elizabeth Battles Newlin for supporting my work.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,138,445 167,539 0 (60,900) $1,245,084 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems Chairholder: Kourtney K. Collum, PhD With the generous support of the Partridge Chair, the 2022–23 academic year was one for the books. In the fall, I taught my signature course, Transforming Food Systems, to a group of 20 students eager to envision and enact a socially just, ecologically sustainable food system. I also taught a challenging new course, Food & War. Our contemporary food systems are the product of war—from innovations in refrigeration and canning during the First World War to skyrocketing grain prices due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The 13 students in the course explored one central question: how has food been both a weapon of war and a tool of diplomacy? In the winter, I took a long-delayed sabbatical, but returned in the spring to teach two courses. In Anthropology of Food, we brought back the always-popular TAB Takeover, where students in the course worked with the dining hall staff to present meals of personal and cultural significance. This year, students introduced the community to their versions of Spam masubi, thai boba tea, croquettes, and Maine red snapper hot dogs, to name just a few. It may have been the best year yet for this culinary tradition. The highlight of my year was teaching Active Optimism for the second time. In this advanced course, I guide students as they apply their knowledge and skills to tackle food systems problems on our own campus. The brilliant, giant-hearted students in this years’ cohort engaged in multiple projects, including developing free Sunday “COAmmunity” dinners, creating food security training for orientation, launching a food access resources webpage, and expanding The Howdy Houghton Memorial COA Community Food Pantry & Fridge to include weekly deliveries of fresh meat, produce, and alternative protein products. In addition to my courses, I advised 27 students, directed two independent studies and two senior projects, and served as a reader for nine human ecology essays. In the fall, the Food Systems Working Group hosted the 16th annual COA Farm Day, featuring a dinner of COA-grown meat and produce, a concert, and farm tours for nearly 200 COA students and staff. After multiple delays due to the pandemic, I finally took my first sabbatical in the winter. The highlight was traveling to the Yucatán Peninsula to join Karla Peña’s Spanish immersion program. Karla graciously let me audit Spanish I in the fall and then, in the winter, facilitated opportunities for me to visit agricultoras and apicultoras across the peninsula while practicing c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Kourtney Collum with COA students and alums at the Maine Food Convergence in May

Spanish. I also used my sabbatical to complete two co-authored manuscripts, published this summer: Human Organization and Trees, Forests, and People. In May, Dr. Hillary Smith and I presented a workshop on blue food systems at the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society conference in Boston.

This chair was established in 2008 through the generosity of Polly Guth, a long-term supporter of COA and Beech Hill Farm, and the Partridge Foundation.

I continued to participate in the MDI Food Access Project, and was able to expand my participation in the Downeast Restorative Harvest Project, Hancock County Food Security Network, and on the board of the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. This summer, two students—Molly Hetzel ’25 and Darcy Kerr ’24—interned with the MDI Food Access Project, and helped glean and distribute food to feed our community. This work was all made possible by Patridge Chair funds. I am deeply grateful.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$3,953,940 567,300 0 (211,400) $4,309,839

Emily and Mitchell Rales Chair in Ecology Chairholder: Chris Petersen, PhD This year my coursework has been focused on ecology and policy in Downeast Maine with an introductory marine biology class (21 students) and the Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing Communities class that I teach Emily and Mitch with Natalie Springuel ’91 (15 Rales established this students). The fisheries class endowed chair in 2020 as had students visiting sites all part of the Broad Reach over Downeast Maine, from Capital Campaign. Penobscot to Eastport, and we did several service projects with local community members, talking with more than 20 fishermen, aquaculturists, officials, and advocates for sustainable communities and fisheries. This class is a great mix of biology, fisheries, community, and policy, and probably has more human ecological themes than any other course I teach. With a deep bench at COA in marine socio-ecological systems including Natalie Springuel ’91, Galen Koch, Hillary Smith, Laurie Baker, Todd Little-Siebold, Sean Todd, and John Anderson, I’m confident that this and other classes will continue to give students great offerings in marine studies. In addition to chairing the Bar Harbor Marine Resources Committee, I spent a substantial amount of time talking to town leaders in the state co-managed clam fishery as part of a grant from an anonymous fund at Maine Community Foundation on how to improve communication and management of the fishery in Downeast Maine. I’m currently analyzing the data with alum Elle Gilchrist MPhil ’21, and hope to have a report to give back to community members around the end of 2023. Another area where I’m working on the intersection of biology and policy is the restoration of river herring populations and townbased fisheries. I’ve been active in the river herring network, and helped introduce new faculty member Laurie Baker to this great group of people. Laurie is currently co-principal investigator on a grant to strengthen this network, and I am playing an advisory role. I continue to serve on the board of the Somes-Meynell

Sanctuary, and play an active role in the restoration of alewives in Somesville with Sanctuary staff and a large group of volunteers. I continue to do research in Acadia National Park, but this year the focus was a collaborative effort with the park, Schoodic Institute, and the Town of Mount Desert on the health of Otter Creek. I co-presented this work at the Acadia Science Symposium in October 2022 in a talk titled Perspectives on a Community Science project: Thriving Earth Exchange’s “Assessing the Health of Otter Cove and Potential Pathways to Remediate Problems”. I also work with several regional partnerships and state groups. These include the Downeast Fisheries Partnership and the Downeast Conservation Network. As I get ready for retirement in December 2024, I’m working on creating a smooth transition in the college’s representation in these groups. I’ve already begun the transition as principal investigator in the Maine INBRE biomedical grant at COA; next year Reuben Hudson will take over that role. This year, we had two summer fellows and nine academic-year fellows at The Jackson Laboratory, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, and COA. Finally, I continue to work on providing paid internship opportunities for students. I worked with the Advancement Office to place student interns through our grant from the Seth Sprague Family Charitable Foundation, and continue to work on a yearly ‘Research and Education Opportunities for the Sciences’ document to give all students access to information on local and regional internships with faculty and our partners.

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$726,422 123,181 191,738 (8,900) $1,032,442 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Lalage and Steven Rales established this endowed chair in 2020, as part of the Broad Reach Capital Campaign.

Lalage and Steven Rales Chair in Chemistry Chairholder: Reuben Hudson, PhD Chemistry at COA was an exciting place to be in the 2022–23 academic year. As a relatively new faculty member, I’m just starting to loop around to some of the classes I taught in previous years. The familiar topics allowed me to expand class sizes for some of my higher-demand courses (Introductory Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry). I also taught a new advanced electrochemistry course with visiting scholar Thiago Altair. An allocation from the Guthrie Chemistry Fund was used as institutional matching funds (for the purchase of lab supplies) for a $25,000 Faculty Seed Grant from the Maine Space Grant Consortium. We also had support from the American Chemical Society ($70,000), the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence ($110,000) and the Davis Family Foundation ($60,000). The support from the Davis Family Foundation was used to purchase our first state-of-theart, research/teaching grade analytical chemistry equipment at COA: a gas chromatography mass spectrometer (GC-MS). With this instrument, we quantified biochemical markers indicative of humans in carbon-14 dated lake sediment cores going back thousands of years. Students working on this project in Analytical Chemistry continued this research in ancient coprolites (fossilized feces) from mammoths, rhinos, rangifer, and bison to establish the viability of these analytes for species identification. Students who received hands-on training on c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

the GC-MS went directly from their undergraduate career into graduate school or into industry as GC-MS technicians. Our small research group is gaining more of an international profile. Thiago Altair joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow after finishing his PhD at the University of in São Paulo, in Brazil. Thiago is spearheading a collaboration between COA and researchers in Brazil, Japan, Germany, and the UK. Sarah Kheireddine of Lebanon also joined our lab as a postdoc after finishing her PhD in France. Sarah focuses on sustainable and recyclable polymer-immobilized catalysts for a range of organic transformations in collaboration with researchers from Canada and Japan. We’re delighted that Thiago and Sarah chose COA to carry out their research and teaching activities in conjunction with our undergraduate students.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$451,628 102,479 200,000 (8,000) $746,108

David Rockefeller Family Chair and T.A. Cox Fund in Ecosystem Management and Protection Chairholder: Kenneth S. Cline, JD CLASSES In the fall, I taught my seminal course, Environmental Law and Policy, an advanced class focusing on common law, federal environmental statutes, and constitutional litigation. This was followed in the winter by David Rockefeller Wildlife Law, which is a very established this endowed advanced law course for chair in 2010. Tom Cox, a students with a background COA trustee and friend in law and wildlife ecology. It of David and Peggy is rare to have a large enough Rockefeller, established cohort of students for me the fund that supports to teach a class at this level the work of the chair. at COA, and this was an exceptional group with a solid background in law and wildlife. I also taught the Human Ecology of Wilderness class for the first time in 12 years. This interdisciplinary class culminated in a

two-week field trip to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Cumberland Island Wilderness, and the Suwannee River, where students were able to witness and apply course concepts. I also had the opportunity to teach the legal dimensions of the rights of nature to all of the sections of the Human Ecology Core Course. Finally, I supervised senior projects focused on land protection, aquatic restoration, and active transportation. CO-MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY I continue to lead an effort within the Sierra Club to improve the Sierra Club’s working relationships with Native Peoples in the US. I have helped organize two national virtual conferences that have centered Native views on environmental protection. An outcome of this work is the writing and approval of a new co-management policy for the Sierra Club. My sabbatical was spent researching current examples of successful co-management, and I will present some of this work with a student this fall at the International Society for Human Ecology Conference in Tucson. I also spent time in Congress this spring lobbying Congressional offices on this and related subjects.

Above: Acadia Scholar Chloe Meyer ’25 with Bik Wheeler ’09, MPhil ’18, Acadia’s lead wildlife biologist

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UNITED NATIONS BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE Doreen Stabinsky and I took seven advanced students to the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montréal, Canada. In addition to hearing prominent speakers such as the Prime Minister of Canada and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the students were able to attend two weeks of intense negotiations over the future of the world’s biodiversity. Nations of the world looked for ways to expand protected areas, safeguard endangered species, ensure adequate resource mobilization, and promote their own environmental and economic interests. The COA delegation worked to improve legal documents pertaining to the conservation of biodiversity that came out of these negotiations. I used my network of connections through the IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas and the IUCN’s World

DAVID ROCKEFELLER FAMILY CHAIR Beginning Fund Balance $1,414,677 Net Return on Investments 208,126 Contributions 0 Less Allocations/Withdrawals (75,900) Ending Fund Balance $1,546,903

Commission on Environmental Law to introduce students to experts in the international environmental law field. NATIONAL PARK WORK I continue to develop and strengthen the Acadia National ParkCOA partnership by introducing students and new faculty to opportunities to collaborate with the National Park Service. With support from a Davis Conservation Foundation grant, we were able to place a COA Acadia Scholar intern with the Wildlife Division in Acadia for the summer. I also continue to do advocacy work and file legal comments on proposed actions in Acadia that will affect park resources. I continue to serve on the Board of Directors for Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park and chair their Science and Education Committee.

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$311,975 46,276 0 (8,800) $349,451

United Nations Biodiversity Conference c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Sharpe-McNally Chair in Green and Socially Responsible Business Chairholder: Jay Friedlander The Sustainable Business Program renewed local and international ties this year. In the fall, while on sabbatical, I visited the Learning Planet Institute in Paris, which focuses on interdisciplinary exploration, research, and sharing new ways of learning and cooperating to meet the needs of the youth and the planet. There, I met with their leadership team to discuss COA, teaching, and ideas on how to remake higher education. I also visited COA’s partner in Japan, the Setouchi Global Academy, to lay groundwork for a monster course next fall. In addition, I spent three weeks walking roughly 500 miles on the Camino de Santiago from St. Jean Pied-de-Port, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Henry and Peggy Sharpe At the end of my sabbatical, initiated the funding I officially launched Profit of this chair and Jay Decoder™, a new web app that McNally ’84 completed gives small business owners the its endowment in 2004. power to take control of their financials and succeed. The app was highlighted in several masterclasses I led for small business owners and entrepreneurs focused on improving profitability with groups like SCORE, Maine Center for Entrepreneurs, Maine Innovation Nights, and others. I returned to COA for the winter term and taught Designing Your Life and Solutions. In Designing Your Life, students examined their values and interests to generate several possible futures for themselves to test and refine. To augment the course, we brought in guests from backgrounds that included baking, academia, television, counseling, international development, aquaculture, and other professions to discuss their pathways through life. Solutions had teams of students who sought to research problems, develop a theory of change, and ultimately use a methodology developed by Google Ventures to design the launch of their solution. Student projects included: expanding income of subsistence farmers in Central America; reducing waste from the “move out” process at COA; making personal testing for toxins widely available; unifying information to clean up the Penobscot River; and reducing household food waste.

Cycling in Move Free apparel

This spring, students in the Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery developed and refined enterprises in sustainable development, visual storytelling, sailing data science, fair trade tea, trans fashion, discarded resources, and renewable energy storage. Approximately 50 people from around the world attended the Hatchery Expo that was live at Havana restaurant and simulcast over Zoom, where students presented overviews of their work at the end of the term. A graduating senior, Patrick Caron ’23, was accepted into the Dirigo Labs Accelerator Program to develop his athletic apparel business, Move Free. Patrick has been building this business—and integrating it with his coursework—during his entire time at COA, and this spring, he had the opportunity to share a pitch stage with select entrepreneurs from around the country. In the broader community, I participated in groups fostering entrepreneurship and the local economy in Maine and beyond. As part of these activities, I was invited to review a new edition of a book on finding sustainable careers. Kerri Sands ’02, the Sustainable Business Program Manager, once again represented COA as a preliminary judge in a capstone competition for Manomet’s 2023 class of U360 Business Sustainability interns. Kerri and I were also active participants in the Downeast Innovation Network and Maine Accelerates Growth. These groups seek to understand and improve our entrepreneurial ecosystem across Maine.

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$2,237,329 329,240 0 (120,000) $2,446,569 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Left: Detail from cover of Mama Day; right: portrait of Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë by Patrick Branwell Brontë

Lisa Stewart Chair in Literature and Women’s Studies Chairholder: Karen E. Waldron The 2022–23 academic year was an eventful one, as I was compelled to take a medical leave during the fall 2022 term. However, the leave gave me the opportunity to avidly return to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and her sisters, and George Eliot in preparation for the Austen, Brontë, Eliot class I am planning to teach in the winter 2024 term. I was able to supervise the Writing Program remotely and to mentor Palak Taneja, who is also teaching courses in women’s studies from a postcolonial and world literature perspective. When I returned in winter 2023, I taught The Nature of Narrative and Native American Literature; in the spring, I taught Literature, Science, Spirituality and African American Literature. All my classes include at least fifty percent works by women writers and use elements of narrative theory, historical context, and language analysis to probe both content and form of literary art. The Nature of Narrative is especially focused on literary and narrative theory, and it was a fabulous group of students who read 11 challenging novels from around the world in English. Each student presented their rereading of one of the texts from their own theoretical perspective. The Native American and African American literature classes look at the rich and complex contributions of these minoritized populations to US c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

William P. Stewart established this endowed chair in 2012 in memory of his daughter, Lisa Stewart Target. Lisa was a remarkably 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.

literary history, realizing how they help to complete their understandings of the culture that surrounds them. In Literature, Science, Spirituality, there is a focus on the so-called divide between religion and science in terms of how literature reveals the changing ideas and normative values in each. We move from Francis Bacon, founder of the Royal Society, to Gloria Naylor, whose Mama Day features a strong black matriarch and how she connects, and questions, her beliefs in the divine, her herbal knowledge, and her personal power. Students in this class realized that science is not what is in their biology textbook, anymore than religion or spirituality is what lies in a catechism. They became avid questioners, seekers, and knowers about both as a result.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,478,423 217,557 0 (79,400) $1,616,580

Allan Stone Chair in the Visual Arts Chairholder: Catherine Clinger, PhD After three years of work on developing an expanded Studio Art Residency Program at COA with board members of the Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Foundation, the effort resulted in an endowment of $1 million for the Kippy Stroud Artists-in-Residence program in December 2022. This program will bring artists and public events to COA in the late summer and throughout the academic calendar year, benefiting both COA students and the local community.

Clare Stone established this chair in memory of her husband Allan Stone 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 Expression, 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 and important decorative arts, industrial design, furniture, and Bugattis.

I hosted and worked for over a month with Maine artist Heather Lyon—our final Kippy Stroud Resident Artist associated with a three-year pilot program that concluded in 2022. Heather worked with students to present a public performance of ECHO, a work-in-progress in collaboration with Juliette Sutherland. ECHO was a two-channel video installation accompanied by COA students in a live performance within a large projection in the Ethel H. Blum Gallery. The work was shot on location in Echo Lake during September 2022 using underwater cameras and free-diving techniques. ECHO explores underwater realms and movement creating a transportive, immersive environment inviting the viewer to experience the otherworldly space. I served as chair of the yearlong search for the Charles Eliot Chair in Ecological Planning, Policy and Design. We undertook the challenging task to find a new colleague

who would fill the shoes of Isabel Mancinelli, who retired in 2021. The successful search resulted in the fall 2023 arrival of our new Charles Eliot Chair, Brook Muller. The entire committee was thrilled by his acceptance of the appointment. As my practice as a scholar/artist dictates, I spent considerable time in archives, public and private art collections, and at exhibitions throughout the United States and Canada this past year. My studio work activity progresses over years at a time, mediative and active, according to the temperament of the work. I continue a cycle of work that is allegorical and autographic in nature—always accompanied by writing and research. My teaching concentrated on the courses that I offer in printmaking and drawing. In 2022–23, my art history courses focused on contemporary artists who work within an innovative modality of transdisciplinary praxis, specifically in relation to the displacement of the living across the globe, a result of climate shift accelerating and political machinations. One of the great teaching experiences at the college is the supervision of senior projects. In the spring of 2023, I co-supervised the spectacular and multivalent work of Nati Rijo de Leon ’23, Anna Parsons ’23, Mafe Farias Briseno ’23, and Liv Soter ’23. This form of co-teaching often goes without comment in our literature on curriculum. It is an immense honor to share in their final expression here.

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$1,982,206 292,165 2,000 (102,400) $2,173,971 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Cody van Heerden Chair in Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences Chairholder: Davis F. Taylor, PhD Along with teaching and advising, my professional work over this—my final year as a full-time professor at College of Atlantic—was dominated by the development of an exciting new course in complexity economics. I have always greatly enjoyed responding to student interests and new developments in the intellectual world, and it seemed like a course in complexity would accomplish both of these things, as well as being a great way to end my 28 years at the college.

David and Robin Reis, along with dozens of COA trustees, staff and faculty, established this endowed fund in 2019. Cody van Heerden, MPhil ’17, was a trustee who passed away in 2018 at the age of 58 after a short battle with ALS.

greatly simplified) relationships. My new course used concepts of complexity, a tapestry of interrelated ideas that includes nonlinear dynamics, emergence, fractals, scaling, cellular automata, networks, evolution, and related concepts, to explore selected economic phenomena that greatly augments the existing neoclassical framework, and permits an examination of much more real world phenomena, which—of course—is something that students at College of the Atlantic always appreciate. A complexity approach allowed us to explore economic and social phenomena such as the behavior of financial markets, wealth distribution, the evolution of technology and business practices, climate action, and scaling in firms, urban areas, and sociopolitical units. I used my chair funds to accumulate a small library of books and other resources on complexity (and also for Thorndike Library to acquire similar materials), and dove into the material voraciously. I also used the time to extend my knowledge of agent-based modeling and associated NetLogo software. In addition to this new course and my long-standing introductory course, I was delighted to be able to offer in my final year two of my favorite non-standard economics courses: Economics of Cooperation, Networks and Trust, and Leaving Capitalism. I augmented both courses with new material and perspectives, and really appreciated how the students responded to the material.

Steve Ressel, Jane Hultberg, and Davis Taylor process into the tent at COA’s 2022 Commencement. The three retired at the end of the spring 2022 term.

I benefited greatly from a sabbatical during the winter term of 2023, and used much of the time to develop the new course. Complex systems (such as economies) exhibit long memories (history matters), extract and process information from their environment, and evolve in ways that defy prediction. Mainstream neoclassical economics, on the other hand, comprises a set of tools and approaches that can be extremely powerful in some contexts, but are limited by their focus on modeling simple (or c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

In essence, I used my final year at College of the Atlantic to celebrate some of the awesome opportunities regarding research and teaching that the college has afforded me. As always, it entailed a lot of time and effort, but was extremely rewarding.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$869,259 133,755 36,123 (28,200) $1,010,937

Kim M. Wentworth Chair in Environmental Studies Chairholder: Stephen Ressel, PhD The 2022–23 academic year had special significance to me because it represented my last year of professional service at College of the Atlantic with my upcoming retirement. As such, I set goals for the year that were both necessary, i.e. completing aspects of an ongoing research project; and meaningful, i.e. offering two popular field-based courses to students one last time. In the fall, I used my sabbatical leave primarily to revise three previously submitted manuscripts for future publication that had been under review. To that end, I finalized drafts of two separate species accounts to the editors of Maine Amphibian and Reptiles, second edition, to be published in 2024. I also devoted significant time to revising a manuscript that addresses six years of field research on salt tolerance in salamanders. During this process, I worked closely with Kim and Finn Wentworth two students, Georga Lattig ’24 established this endowed and Wriley Hodge ’24, who used chair in 2019 as part programming skills acquired in of the Broad Reach a data science course taught by Capital Campaign. When Laurie Baker to revise the results establishing the chair, section. The manuscript, which Kim said “We need to has Emma Damm ’22, Wriley inspire and equip future Hodge ’24, Georgia Lattig ’24, generations to be able Tess Moore ’23, Westly Reason to improve some of the ’22, Judith Tunsted ’22, and conditions we face. We Jasper White ’22 as co-authors, want to address the was subsequently accepted legacy issue: we, the for publication in Northeastern baby boomers, may have Naturalist for later this year. recognized some of the problems early on, but we didn’t do enough.”

In the winter term, I taught the foundational biology course Cellular Processes of Life and Winter Ecology. In my final offering of Winter Ecology, I revamped my weekend field trips to make more extensive use of North Woods Ways, the college’s newly acquired property in interior Maine. In the spring term, I co-taught Neotropical Ecology and Conservation, a three-credit expeditionary program, with Dorr Museum Director Carrie Graham. Prior to our six-week immersion teaching in Costa Rica, she and I worked closely to incorporate her expertise in

entomology and scientific illustration into my existing coursework in neotropical and conservation biology. Student work in the three integrated courses culminated in a public exhibit in the Dorr Museum of Natural History upon our return. I also supervised two senior projects that melded educational outreach, science, and art in two very different ways. One project involved designing and implementing educational material based on the biology of a live reptile for an environmental education center in Lewiston, Maine. Here, the student constructed new housing for a lizard species that was part of COA’s live animal collection, wrote background interpretative material to be used in future programs, and designed and produced interpretative signs for the enclosure. A second senior project used original images and text of the habitat, fauna, and flora of the student’s native country of Colombia, South America as the basis for a book and museum exhibit. The student’s intentions were to educate readers of her book and viewers of her exhibit on the rich and varied biodiversity found within her home country. Finally, I participated in college governance as a standing member of the Academic Affairs Committee, Museum Committee, and the Expeditionary Program Taskforce throughout the academic year.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,197,847 177,495 0 (37,900) $1,337,442 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

James Russell Wiggins Chair in Government and Polity and Philip Geylin Fund for Government and Polity Chairholder: Jamie McKown, PhD, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs This past year was one of exciting and transformative possibility for faculty here at College of the Atlantic. While the recent wave of faculty and staff retirements has left us missing the presence of long-standing colleagues, the infusion of new faces taking their place has opened new opportunities for collaboration and experimentation. This past fall I offered a retooled version of my Equal Rights, Equal Voices class that looks at the history of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States by studying public speeches by activists of the period. We have recently adjusted the nature of the course to make it more accessible to incoming first-year students and to add more foundational hands-on applied training in the use of digital history archives for research work. While the class is open to all students, our hope is that new incoming students will take advantage of the opportunity to conduct applied research and, in the process, become more familiar with the wide array of archival resources that are digitally available to them. These skills will be useful to them in future classes and independent work. November brought with it the midterm elections, and the usual array of related campus activities including voter registration drives, assistance with absentee ballots, nonpartisan voter information sessions, and our election day Get Out the Vote c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

The Wiggins Chair honors the memory of former COA trustee James Russell Wiggins, one of the most respected and influential figures in American journalism. His career spanned three-quarters of a century, including 20 years as editor of the Washington Post. After his retirement, he was nominated by President Lyndon Johnson to serve as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Over the course of his final three decades, he was owner and editor of the Ellsworth American. Another former trustee, Philip L. Geyelin, initiated the idea of the Wiggins Chair and led the fundraising campaign to create it. At the time of Phil’s death, COA wanted to honor the renowned Washington Post senior editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and extend the project by creating this fund to support programs in government, international affairs, and politics

(GOTV) programs. This year we added a new and quintessential COA flair to the GOTV effort. Our new faculty member in music, Jonathan Henderson, happened to be teaching his samba

percussion class on the afternoon of the election. Rather than practicing in Gates Auditorium, Jonathan had his class march around campus drumming an infectious rhythm, encouraging students to follow them like Pied Pipers back to the shuttles that were heading out to the polls. I cannot say for certain whether this new strategy led to any large increases in turnout, but it certainly added a wonderfully fun and festive element to the entire day and perhaps set a precedent for future election days. In the winter term, I once again taught my seminar on Conspiracy Theory and Politics. This seminar has long been popular with students, though I am not entirely excited by just how salient and timely the content is of late! Throughout this past year I have entertained numerous requests for interviews and public talks on the topic, though unfortunately my administration duties currently

JAMES RUSSELL WIGGINS CHAIR Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,543,793 227,133 0 (83,800) $1,687,126

limit that availability. I do anticipate that my time as Associate Dean will be coming to end soon, and I look forward to being able to dedicate more energy to engaging our students in various research projects in the area. In the spring, I had the chance to work with a small group of five students in an advanced seminar on election law and policy in the United States. The advantage of having such a small seminar is that it allowed us to spend some time deciding what topics we wanted to cover. In addition to some core historical material, we covered a number of topics related to the Voting Rights Act, gerrymandering, compulsory voting, voter holidays, and alternative electoral systems such as ranked choice voting, approval voting, and single transferrable votes.

PHILIP GEYELIN FUND Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$197,458 29,054 0 (10,600) $215,912

COA drew me with its sustainable goals and plans, and pulled me with the closeness of a family. But on top of anything else I was convinced that at COA I could express who I am in the most authentic and unique ways. Whether I am interested in photography, videography, drones, marine biology, birds, and even guitar— COA will accept that form of me. ILHAM SANTOSO ’24

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Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman Chair in the Performing Arts Chairholder: Jodi Baker Performance study at COA evolved in some exciting ways this year. I was able to collaborate with students and colleagues in multiple different contexts, and my own work grew exponentially from those experiences. I taught both foundational and advanced level coursework, contributed to the governance and function of the college, and had the opportunity to connect with a handful of artists from outside the COA community whose work intersects with the college in all sorts of interesting ways.

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In the fall of 2022, I collaborated with seven other COA faculty members on the Human Ecology Core Course and also offered my American Dream course, which investigates 20th century cultural and political history through dramatic literature and performance practice. In the winter, I co-taught a three-credit large-scale Several anonymous practicum with music professor donors established this Jonathan Henderson. Together endowed faculty chair in with a group of 22 students we 2019 as part of the Broad researched, rehearsed, and Reach Capital Campaign, produced our own rendition in honor of the renowned of César Alvarez’s and the actors Joanne Woodward Lisps’ contemporary folk and Paul Newman, musical Futurity. As part of this whose daughter, Nell process, we had the luxury of Newman, graduated working with electroacoustic from COA in 1987. sculptor Mark Dixon. Many of Mark’s musical instruments were featured prominently in the show, and both Mark and César Alvarez were able to visit campus to assist and experience the work. The students’ deep commitment to this project and the high level of work they produced was extraordinary. It was a gift to be a part of. Anna Parsons ’23 served as lead dramaturg for this production, and was accepted soon after into the graduate program in International Dramaturgy (Arts and Culture) at the University of

Amsterdam, one of the most prestigious programs of its kind in the world (we are all of course, super proud). In the spring, I co-taught Politics, Body and Representation in collaboration with Netta van Vliet, professor of cultural and political anthropology. PBR is an advanced level course that combines postcolonial and feminist theory (among other texts) with theatrical physical training methods in an effort to investigate the ways in which the body directly and indirectly challenges assumptions about politics and representation.

I also reworked Dramatic Mechanics, fundamentally a form and function course that looks closely at the style and structure of a wide variety of old and new plays, considering how they are built and, as importantly, how different choices in production create new meaning. Additionally, I managed to recruit a long-time friend and colleague, performance artist Donna Oblongata to come to COA in the spring as part of our budding Arts Fellows Program. Donna workshopped her new musical about the Earth First! movement, and also taught a class in clowning methods and practice. Donna is a tremendous artist and her courses provided an incredible and unique opportunity for COA students. I am so happy we were able to make it happen. Beyond this, I directed two senior projects, four independent studies, and served as academic advisor for 10 students. I once again helped direct and produce the end-of-year senior project presentations for the Board of Trustees. All this work was made possible by funds from this endowed chair and several other intersecting and generous endowments that fuel art and performance study at COA. I remain incredibly grateful for the exceptional teaching and learning opportunities these funds provide.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$919,455 135,653 0 (41,900) $1,013,208 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS Nancy Aronson Scholarship

Sidney and Hazel Demott Bahrt Scholarship

This scholarship was established during the Broad Reach Capital Campaign to benefit students with financial need.

The scholarship was created in 2008 through a bequest from Sidney and Hazel Bahrt to COA. The four-year scholarship is awarded to a Washington Academy graduate from Pembroke. Depending on COA’s enrollment, the scholarship may also be awarded to other students from Washington Academy or from the greater Washington County community.

RECIPIENT: Erica Gross ’23 (Minneapolis, MN) BEGINNING BALANCE: $108,642 ENDING BALANCE: $123,008

Brooke and Vincent Astor Scholarship This scholarship was created in 2012 through a generous bequest from Mrs. Brooke Astor to COA, as well as gifts from the Vincent Astor Foundation. It is awarded to Maine students with financial need. RECIPIENTS: Gabrielle Peñalver Dumas ’23 (Peaks Island, ME), Isabella Pols ’24 (Brunswick, ME), Megan Waters ’23 (Starks, ME) BEGINNING BALANCE: $901,358 ENDING BALANCE: $986,336

Christina and William Baker Scholarship Family and friends of Christina ‘Tina’ Baker established this fund 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 four-year 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: $89,840 ENDING BALANCE: $113,716

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RECIPIENT: Sage Bagley ’23 (East Machias, ME) BEGINNING BALANCE: $866,111 ENDING BALANCE: $954,491

Judith Blank and Steve Alsup Scholarship Created in honor of 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: Simone LePage ’23 (Brooklyn, NY) BEGINNING BALANCE: $105,578 ENDING BALANCE: $113,810

Lynn Boulger Young Writers Scholarship This scholarship was created in 2020 as part of the Broad Reach Capital Campaign in honor of Lynn Boulger to recognize COA students with gifts in writing and provide them with the chance to develop those skills through the COA curriculum. This scholarship is awarded to students who demonstrate

financial need and great talent in writing. RECIPIENT: Tanvi Koushik ’23 (Bengaluru, India) BEGINNING BALANCE: $68,786 ENDING BALANCE: $89,026

Bright Horizons Scholarship The Bright Horizons Scholarship was established by Bar Harbor Bank and 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 located in Hancock and Washington Countiess. RECIPIENT: Hope Rankin ’25 (Bucksport, ME) BEGINNING BALANCE: $187,318 ENDING BALANCE: $243,210

Roc and Helen McGregor Caivano Scholarship Created 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: Josiah Hansen ’23 (North Haven, ME) BEGINNING BALANCE: $129,114 ENDING BALANCE: $140,869

Helen Caldicott Scholarship Created to honor Helen Caldicott, an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear 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: Liz Morrison ’24 (Doyle, TN) BEGINNING BALANCE: $105,578 ENDING BALANCE: $113,810

Alida Camp Scholarship

Sage Bagley ’23

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 working in fields of related interest to the individual honored by the scholarship. Characteristics and interests that speak to the honoree include: oceans, community, craft, sailing, humor, integrity. RECIPIENT: Sil Kiewiet de Jonge ’23 (Monnickendam, Netherlands) BEGINNING BALANCE: $109,866 ENDING BALANCE: $117,799

Rachel Carson Scholarship Isabella Pols ’24 Rosie Chater ’25

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 working in fields of related interest to the individual honored by the scholarship. Characteristics and interests that speak to the honoree include: investigation, deep deeing, dot connecting, exposing of toxins in environment, and revealing the destruction of nature and natural habitats. RECIPIENT: Savannah Averitt ’25 (Nellysford, VA)

Lenka Slamova ’24

BEGINNING BALANCE: $109,866 ENDING BALANCE: $117,799

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: $449,227 ENDING BALANCE: $511,705

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: Lenka Slamova ’24 (Říčany, Czech Republic) BEGINNING BALANCE: $320,969 ENDING BALANCE: $351,430

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. RECIPIENTS: Odin Gage ’24 (Thorndike, ME), Philéas Dazeley-Gaist ’23 (Nantes, France) BEGINNING BALANCE: $134,763 ENDING BALANCE: $147,600

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

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THE DREIER SCHOLARSHIPS

Heather Richards Evans Scholarship

BEGINNING BALANCE: $37,711 ENDING BALANCE: $41,472

This scholarship was established during the Broad Reach Capital Campaign to benefit students with financial need.

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.

John C. Dreier Scholarship

RECIPIENT: Adam Feher ’23 (Strongsville, OH)

RECIPIENTS: Jennifer McNamara ’23 (Bernard, ME), Finley O’Connor ’24 (Harwinton, CT)

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.

BEGINNING BALANCE: $110,857 ENDING BALANCE: $294,422

BEGINNING BALANCE: $93,246 ENDING BALANCE: $101,652

Anne Franchetti Scholarship

Hartzog-Kauffmann Scholarship

RECIPIENT: Sarah Ottinger ’25 (Colfax, WI)

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: Simone LePage ’23 (Brooklyn, NY)

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: Ella Giroux ’25 (Vassalboro, ME) BEGINNING BALANCE: $159,817 ENDING BALANCE: $175,462

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 working in fields of related interest to the individual honored by the scholarship. Characteristics and interests that speak to the honoree include: study of oceans, making, chemistry, medicine, curiosity, dowsing, whimsy, laughter, global thinking, ceramics. RECIPIENT: Raheem Khadour ’25 (Syria) BEGINNING BALANCE: $109,866 ENDING BALANCE: $117,799

General Scholarship The General Scholarship Fund was established in 1984. The fund contains gifts given by hundreds of friends in every amount for unrestricted student scholarships. We continue to accept donations for this important endowment. There are many students who recieve aid from this fund. Here are a few::

RECIPIENT: Ella Reilich Godino ’23 (Steuben, ME) BEGINNING BALANCE: $418,902 ENDING BALANCE: $438,515

August Heckscher Scholarship

BEGINNING BALANCE: $1,076,526 ENDING BALANCE: $1,184,982

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 two students, preferably juniors, with preference for those whose work focuses on public lands, government, or the arts.

Craig Greene Memorial Scholarship

RECIPIENTS: Marlon Andrew ’24 (New Canaan, CT), Margaret Denison ’23 (Schaghticoke, NY)

RECIPIENTS: Gillian Teall ‘24 (Ann Arbor, MI), Abigail Thornton ‘26 (Audubon, PA), Benjamin Troutman ‘24 (Montville, ME), Megan Waters ‘23 (Waterville, ME)

This scholarship was created to honor the late Craig William Greene, former Elizabeth Battles Newlin Professor in Botany. It is c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

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.

BEGINNING BALANCE: $173,308 ENDING BALANCE: $181,953

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 working in fields of related interest to the individual honored by the scholarship. Student selection criteria: art, craft, landscape design.

MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION HELD SCHOLARSHIPS Edward G. Kaelber Scholarship for Maine Students of Outstanding Promise

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

COA and the Maine Community Foundation created the Edward G. Kaelber Scholarship for Maine Students of Outstanding Promise to honor Ed Kaelber for his leadership and for his contributions in the fields of education and community development. The scholarship provides opportunities for Maine students who possess the potential for the kind of boldness, commitment, and leadership personified by Ed Kaelber, and who will use their skills and talents to impact their communities in equally significant ways.

RECIPIENT: Malek Hinnawi ’25 (Palestine/Syria)

RECIPIENT: Conrad Kortemeier ’26 (Bristol, ME)

RECIPIENT: Rosie Chater ’25 (Pony, MT) BEGINNING BALANCE: $109,866 ENDING BALANCE: $117,799

Louise H. and David S. Ingalls Scholarship for International Students

BEGINNING BALANCE: $88,524 ENDING BALANCE: $95,077

Larry Lutchmansingh Scholarship In honor of 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: Eva Pearlingi ’25 (Arcata, CA) BEGINNING BALANCE: $105,578 ENDING BALANCE: $113,810

Alice Blum Yoakum Scholarship This scholarship was created in 1996 by former trustee Robert Blum, honoring 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: Bailey Tausen ’23 (Taneytown, MD)

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: $791,760 ENDING BALANCE: $826,947

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: Eva McMillan ’23 (Rangeley, 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: Cheyanne Goroshin ’24 (Sumner, 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: Hayden Platteter ’24 (Phippsburg, ME)

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John McKee Scholarship

Barbara Piel Scholarship

Created in honor of a master of black and white and color photography who uses his knowledge of the medium to awaken the awareness of a student to framing a shot, to the play of shadow and light, to notice color and color saturation. A wonderful, thoughtful and kind man. Student selection criteria: photography.

The scholarship was created in 2004 through a bequest from Barbara Piel to College of the Atlantic. 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: Ben Troutman ’24 (Montville, ME)

BEGINNING BALANCE: $498,648 ENDING BALANCE: $544,598

BEGINNING BALANCE: $105,578 ENDING BALANCE: $113,810

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 working in fields of related interest to the individuals honored by the scholarship. Characteristics and interests that speak to the honorees include: birding and preservation of wild habitat, service, loyalty, care, attention to detail. RECIPIENT: Levi Sheridan ’24 (Lansing, MI) BEGINNING BALANCE: $124,367 ENDING BALANCE: $140,084

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: $129,758 ENDING BALANCE: $144,098 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

RECIPIENT: Maddy Stevens ’23 (Kent, CT) Eva McMilan ’23

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) BEGINNING BALANCE: $13,311 ENDING BALANCE: $14,361

Maurine P. and Robert Rothschild Graduate Scholarship

Leander Laga Abram ’26 Malek Hinnawi ’25

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 given to those pursuing work in the education field. RECIPIENTS: Olivia Paruk ’24 (Gorham, ME), Ruvan de Graaf ’22, MPhil ’24 (Eveni, Swaziland) BEGINNING BALANCE: $276,300 ENDING BALANCE: $301,958

Jennifer McNamara ’23

Michael and Rose Russo Scholarship The scholarship was created in 2013 through a gift made by 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: Autumn Pauly ‘26 (Saint Peter, MN) BEGINNING BALANCE: $686,914 ENDING BALANCE: $720,453

Charles and Katharine Savage Scholarship Maddy Stevens ’23

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 working in fields of related interest to the individuals honored by the scholarship. Characteristics and interests that speak to the honorees include: Love of wood, landscapes and gardens, books, art, music, lifelong love of learning, letters, winter structure of plants, compassion and empathy, love and leadership in community. RECIPIENT: Jennifer McNamara ’23 (Bernard, ME)

Raheem Khadour ’25

BEGINNING BALANCE: $109,866 ENDING BALANCE: $117,799

Maggie Denison ’23

BEGINNING BALANCE: $109,866 ENDING BALANCE: $117,799

ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS (NOT ENDOWED) Alumnx Climate Action Scholarship This scholarship was created in 2020 during the Broad Reach Capital Campaign by four alumnx—Taj Schottland ’10, David Winship ’77, Kyle Shank ’14, and Rich Van Kampen (’13)— to recognize students with a passion for environmental and climate activism. RECIPIENT: Emiliana Reinoso ’24 (Valparaiso, Chile)

Great Lakes of Africa 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, collaboration, in the field of human relations and/or leadership. RECIPIENT: Aishwarya Devarajan ’24 (Edison, NJ)

RECIPIENT: Ninoska Ngomana ’23 (Massinga, Mozambique)

BEGINNING BALANCE: $227,376 ENDING BALANCE: $248,424

Water is Life Scholarship

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, care of community, embrace of beauty and aesthetics, respect for the past, and belief in the future. Interest in the investigation of unpolluted

RECIPIENT: Maggie Denison ’23 (Schaghticoke, NY)

This scholarship was created in 2007 with the goal of providing a COA education for a student from the Great Lakes region of Africa who is a secondary school graduate and demonstrates an affinity for human ecology and embraces the vision and mission of COA.

Donald Straus Scholarship

Cheyanne Goroshin ’24

water and riparian habitats as an essential support of life. Student selection criteria: water quality, wildlife habitat, community service.

This scholarship was established in 2021 by Ellen Seh (’75) for students with demonstrated need, with a preference for women who have an interest in freshwater resources—especially efforts focused on the protection of water quality and quantity for drinking water and ecological integrity. RECIPIENT: Sarah Ottinger ’25 (Colfax, WI)

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ENDOWED FUNDS Cox Protectorate Fund Staff Supervisor: Darron Collins ’92, President Over the years, the Cox Protectorate has provided opportunities for COA students to study wildlife, botany, geology, history, GIS mapping, and more. In 2023 it was an important site for students in John Anderson’s Wildlife Ecology class. He took them to the Protectorate on multiple class field trips, and they also went as small groups to check game cameras and do small mammal trapping. This was critically important for students who subsequently worked with Brittany Slabach ’09 on her Second Century Research grant. Brittany is currently teaching at Trinity University in Texas, and she is conducting a study of small mammals in Acadia National

Park. She recruited multiple COA students to assist her in the work, and their experiences on the Cox Protectorate were key to their being useful in this important study. Additionally, every student in the incoming 2023 class spent a three-hour lab session exploring the Cox Protectorate. Done in individual sections of 13-16 students, Ken Cline focused his module in the Human Ecology Core Course on the Cox Protectorate. The lab consisted of a walking tour of the property and a discussion with each section about the opportunities presented by the Protectorate and what its future should be. Porcupines, Barred owls, numerous birds, and brilliant fall foliage greeted the various student group sections while they explored the landscape.

The Cox Protectorate is a 101-acre tract of undeveloped property near the center of Mount Desert Island that was donated to COA by former trustee Tom Cox in 2010, along with a fund to tend the property. The property encompasses Mill Brook, part of the headwaters of Northeast Creek. The Protectorate has walking trails for recreation, but is mainly used for an array of interdisciplinary courses, projects, and research, including annual surveys by students in COA’s Wildlife Ecology class.

And finally, in 2023 the COA Board of Trustees enjoyed a trip to the Protectorate to consider using part of the site for critically needed faculty and staff housing—a use that accords with the donor’s original intent. Given the generous size of the property, we believe it can serve multiple needs.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$119,233 17,525 0 (9,200) $127,558

Students weigh a deer mouse as part of their fieldwork on the Cox Protectorate. c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

David Hales Director of Sustainability Fund Staff Supervisor: David Gibson, CEM, LEED AP BD+C, Director of Energy Peggy and Henry Sharpe established this fund in honor of 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.

This year we have continued to make strides towards our goal of eliminating fossil fuel use on campus by 2030.

In September, we installed a whole-building ducted heat pump in Witchcliff. This replaced the 1984 kerosene furnace, and extinguished fossil fuel consumption in the building. The old system burned about 1,500 gallons of kerosene each year, so this upgrade provided COA with a net savings of around $5,000 in the first year, after accounting for the increased electrical usage. The new system performed very well all winter, and provides air conditioning in the summer. During the fall term, I taught Practicum in Sustainable Energy. The course offered students the opportunity to directly participate in energy efficiency improvements on campus. We installed a basement vapor barrier, insulated the attic of an off-campus housing unit, and led a Window Dressers workshop on campus. Window Dressers are insulating window inserts that add a double-pane of plastic on the interior of existing windows, significantly reducing heat loss. More than 80 volunteers participated in the workshop, including students, faculty, staff, and MDI community members. We built 350 window inserts for nearly all of the single-pane windows on campus.

In November, we installed a commercial split-system heat pump water heater in the Blair Tyson dormitory as part of an Efficiency Maine pilot program. This is the first system of its kind in the state. It provides domestic hot water for all the showers, sinks, and laundry, reducing demand on the oil boiler. This is estimated to save 2,000 gallons of heating oil or more annually, and will demonstrate the viability of the technology for other buildings across the state. We saved approximately $10,000 on contractor costs by insulating the new pipes ourselves. Over winter break, I had five hard-working students who installed a full vapor barrier in the Turrets basement. This blocks moisture from the ground from getting into the building, which reduces mold, mildew, and rot, and makes a dramatic improvement in air quality. We did the prep work for a contractor to spray foam the basement walls. Following the installation of the spray foam, the Turrets basement was warmer on a record-cold day in February than it had been on a 40-degree day before insulation. I collaborated with the Building Performance Association on a successful workforce development grant, which funded three students as summer interns, and enabled the students in my spring course to complete certificates in Building Science Principles. In June, COA collaborated with the non-profit Envirolution to lead a three-day professional development workshop for middle- and highschool teachers. The workshop offered hands-on efficiency and clean energy lessons, which we connected with local career opportunities in the clean energy sector. We took the teachers on a tour of the energy improvements on campus, took a field trip to the solar array at Peggy Rockefeller Farm, and joined Toby for a harbor tour on M/V Osprey. In addition to Envirolution, we collaborated with ReVision Energy, Versant Power, the Governor’s Energy Office, and Maine Climate Action Now for activities and presentations. Participating teachers received a set of classroom materials to lead lessons with their students. With the success of this pilot project, we are planning to expand the program to a full week-long workshop with 20-25 teachers from across the state on campus next summer.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$720,648 106,036 0 (38,800) $787,884 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Barbarina M. and Aaron J. Heyerdahl Beech Hill Farm Endowment Fund Staff Supervisors: Anna Davis and David Levinson, Farm Co-Managers Here at Beech Hill Farm we had another productive and successful year. Throughout the season, we grew over 100,000 lbs of MOFGA certified organic vegetables which were sold through our farm stand, wholesale accounts, and 100-person summer and fall Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.

working with our community partners. We supplied nearly 5,000 pounds of produce to Barbara M. Heyerdahl ’88 Hancock County community and Aaron J. Heyerhdahl ’87 established this members through Healthy endowed fund in 1999 Acadia’s Gleaning Initiative. when they donated Beech We also provided 2,000 Hill Farm to COA. pounds of food to the Bar Harbor Food Pantry through the Good Shepherd Food Bank’s Mainers Feeding Mainers program. We continued to supervise and work closely with student coordinators Hannah Crea Frink ’23, Charly Sperling ’24, Mycena Phillips ’23 of our student-run food access project, Share the Harvest. Through Share The Harvest, we provided free produce to low-income residents of Mount Desert Island, as well as 50% discounts in the farmstand to all SNAP and WIC users through our “Double your Dollar” program. We hosted multiple on-farm events, including the Share the Harvest annual fundraiser concert featuring The Soul Benders, a spring plant sale, and a seed-starting and crop-planning workshop. Beech Hill Farm also partnered with Healthy Acadia and Impact Justice to host a fundraising dinner to support the Chefs in Prisons and Downeast Restorative Harvest projects. We continue to work toward building soil health and fertility through improved management practices, such as increasing cover cropping, mulching, beneficial insect plantings, and reduced tillage practices.

We finished construction on our farmstand renovation and expansion project which included a 400-square-foot addition, spray foam insulation, a 100-square-foot walk-in cooler, and heat pumps. This project will allow us to extend the sales season, improve produce management during the hot summer months, and increase production through expanded storage. This season we also constructed two new greenhouses, adding 4,500 square feet of protected growing space. With the added greenhouses, we will be able to grow more produce in the shoulder seasons to better serve our community and grow more food for campus while classes are in session.

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 class visits from The Community School, MDI High School, and from various COA classes.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$91,200 13,400 0 (5,300) $99,301

We continued to expand our food access outreach through c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

CANADA

Attending the United Nations Biodiversity Conference

ALASKA, U.S.A.

Interning as a naturalist aboard tourism excursions

CANADA

Meeting community who have experienced the Mammalian Diving Reflex Theatre Company

WASHINGTON, U.S.A.

MAINE, U.S.A.

Creating a multimedia installation exploring the relationship between winter and rest for both farmers and the land

TEXAS, GEORGIA & SOUTH CAROLINA, U.S.A. Sampling microplastics within urban retention ponds

Wood-firing pottery

MARYLAND, U.S.A.

Studying economic impacts of battlefield preservation, historical tourism, Civil War marketing, and social capital

COSTA RICA Examining ecology and biotic diversity in key habitats

MEXICO

Interning in Educational Sexology Leading a movement workshop at Gathering: Autonomies in Practice festival

FRENCH POLYNESIA

Sailing from the Caribbean to Tahiti via Panama, Galapagos, and the Marquesas (and snorkeling, of course!)

COLOMBIA

Working at a national park

CHILE

Learning wilderness and leadership skills in Patagonia

URUGUAY & ARGENTINA

Researching deconstruction of the “Latin America” idea

THE Kathryn Davis Fund for Global and Civic Engagement

EXPEDITIONARY 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.

FUND

In 2023, students used their grants to pursue projects in countries including Canada, Mexico, French Polynesia, Uruguay, Mozambique, Kazakhstan, and Japan.

KAZAKHSTAN Developing bilingual educational software presenting Kazakh culture and history to high school students

GERMANY

Merging food systems with textile art and visiting professional quilters

EGYPT

Studying comparative global politics

FRANCE

Exploring the crossroads of wine/fermentation, agriculture, food, local culture, and stories/history

INDIA

Working on a farm

Exploring the relationship between place and people of Osakikamijima island

Conducting interviews for a documentary

Participating in French language immersion program

SPAIN

JAPAN

MOZAMBIQUE

Surveying coral, invertebrate, and fish species while completing a Divemaster diving internship

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$2,521,326 370,042 0 (251,500) $2,639,868

The Robert P. and Arlene Kogod Visiting Artist Fund Faculty Supervisor: Ken Hill, PhD, Provost The following courses offered by visiting instructors in the 2022–23 academic year were made possible through income from this fund. Bob and Arlene Kogod established this endowed fund 20 years ago to create opportunities to bring talented artists to COA at a time when the college did not have a robust art faculty. COA has grown since then and has professors in the performing arts, painting and drawing, filmmaking, graphic arts and design, music, landscape design, art history, and printmaking. Today, the Kogod Fund is used to enhance our offerings through lecturers and visiting faculty who offer courses in things like photography, ceramics, and cinema. The fund also supports art supplies and equipment, travel, professional development, and student opportunities that otherwise would not be possible.

DESMOND BEACH

ADAM MCLEAN

• Introduction to Painting

• Musicianship

MICHAEL BENNETT

ERNIE MCMULLEN

• World Percussion • Advanced World Percussion

• The Theory and Mystery of Color

RYAN BLOTNICK

DONNA OBLONGATA

• Improvisation in Music • Guitar Fundamentals

• The Art of Clown • EF!: A New Musical Workshop

CAROLINE COTTER

• Introduction to Songwriting

LINDA PERRIN

SAFFRONIA DOWNING

• Introduction to Glass Blowing and Sculpture

• Craft Ecologies • Intro to Ceramics (2) • Silt to Shard • Craft Ecologies; Mount Desert Island

MICHAEL REMY

• Music Fundamentals DANI ROBBINS

JUNE KIM

• Beginning Contemporary Dance Technique • Contemporary Dance Composition • Sourcing the Body: Experiential Anatomy

• Introduction to Photography

MATTHEW SHAW ’11

FRANCE HILBERT

• Figure Drawing • Introduction to Drawing

• Landscape Cinema HEATHER LYONS

• Into Watery Realms: Image Making as Ritual

ZACH SOARES ’00

• Audio Production and Engineering

ROCKY MANN

• Intermediate Ceramics

KRISTY SUMMERS

• Mixed Media Sculpture A student in Saffronia Downing’s class

Income from the Kogod Fund also helped supplement the cost of COA field trips, equipment, and class costs—including costumes for the Futurity monster course—and paid for teaching assistants for the following courses: Animation Ceramics COA Gallery Documentary Video Dramatic Mechanics Futurity: Monster course Production

4-D Design Graphic Design Studio II Installation Art Making Art: Effort, Resilience, Persistence Studio Printmaking

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,475,437 217,110 0 (79,400) $1,613,146 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Fund for Maine Islands Faculty Coordinator: Todd Little-Siebold, PhD This year, the partnership with the Island Institute has made a dramatic leap forward with the development of several major grant proposals, a new oral history project, a speaker series on blue humanities, and the launch of a collaborative interdisciplinary course called Navigating Change: History, Place, Stories. All of these built upon the partnership’s success, as well as almost decade-long relationships built with support from the fund. The team we have built over the last few years includes Galen Koch of The First Coast, Natalie Springuel ’91 of Maine SeaGrant, Hillary Smith of the University of Maine, Laurie Baker (who teaches data science at COA), and the college’s faculty member in history, Todd Little-Siebold, who continues to serve as program director. The projects rely on student interns, alumnx, and a wide range of community partners. This professional training pipeline has led this year to a soundwalk in Deer Isle, an Island Institute Fellowship on Swan’s Island, podcasting production work, and ongoing oral history projects. The team approach that has emerged as our modus operandi leverages the skills of a diverse set of professionals to undertake a wide range of projects far beyond what was originally envisioned when we launched the partnership. Leveraging and building on the work funded by the Fund for Maine Islands (FMI), we have been able to secure an additional grant of $196,896 from an anonymous fund at Maine Community Foundation to support Mapping Ocean Stories and additional funds for a NOAA project exploring gendereddimensions of climate change. The new Navigating Change class involves a four-member interdisciplinary team with expertise in geography, data science/ data visualization, audio production/community storytelling, and history. The team will launch an immersive place-based course c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

focused on Frenchman Bay. Students selected for this threecredit course will take only this course during the term, learning about the bay from different perspectives while visiting communities, honing skills, and then undertaking project-based learning for five weeks.

The Island Institute and College of the Atlantic launched this partnership in 2014 to seek solutions to sustain island and coastal ecosystems. Funded by a $2M challenge grant from the Partridge Foundation and the support of many other donors who helped secure the match, the fund addresses four areas of critical concern for Gulf of Maine residents: agriculture and food, energy, education, and adaption to climate change.

We also launched the Frenchman Bay Oral History Project with current students (Tiegan Paulson ’25 and Katie Culp ’24) and an alum (Camden Hunt ’22) to collect local traditional knowledge about the bay and its environs. Finally, the team has had success with grant-writing that builds on and complements the work funded by FMI. These include a project on women and climate change and a mapping project associated with the ongoing Atlas of MDI Fisheries. As we approach our 10th anniversary as partners, the Fund for Maine Islands reveals the power of partnerships, and is a model for how to build effective cross-institution partnerships at COA in the future.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,979,588 291,409 1,000 (105,900) $2,166,097

McCormick Library Director Fund Staff Supervisor: Jane Hultberg, MLS, Library Director This year, the library— comprised of Information Nancy Hoskinson Services, the College McCormick, widow Archives, and Audio-Visual of Charles Deering Services—started the summer McCormick established by conducting a collections this endowed fund inventory. This involved through the Chauncey scanning every item with a & Marion Deering barcode to ensure our catalog McCormick Foundation accurately reflects the items in 1996. in our collection. In spring 2022 we initiated a project to redesign, print, and install new permanent library signage. This work was completed with the help of a library work-study student interested in graphic design. Throughout the year, we helped work-study students interested in libraries to find various opportunities, including an internship position with the Balsam Consortium (a group of small Maine libraries to which we belong), a volunteer position with the Conners-Emerson school library, a work-study position with the Oral History Project, and a work-study position to familiarize patrons with some of the Thorndike’s new accessibility resources. We also hosted a student intern from the library program at the University of Maine (Augusta). We had several generous donations and grants this year. The Endeavor Foundation funded a six-month trial (January-June) of a streaming service called Kanopy Base. The Higgins Foundation, which has supported the library’s juvenile and education collections

for years, nearly doubled their contribution with a $2,500 award. Finally, we learned in June that the library received a $40,000 grant from the Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation to make accessibility improvements to the entrance of Kaelber Hall and within the library. This grant also allows us to purchase electronic learning and reading aids and software that will be available to our patrons, as well as the Balsam Consortium via interlibrary loan. We were busy with many of our regular activities, with the help of more than 40 library work-study students. Library staff provided library instruction in classes and met individually with students, interlibrary loan was active, and we continued to build community by coordinating or hosting multiple events and presentations, class exhibits, and senior project displays. Finally, in addition to their regular duties, two library staff members presented a session called Zines: how to inform and enhance representation in collections at the Maine Libraries Association annual meeting in May. In the archives, this year’s focus was catching up on backlogged work and assisting those needing archive materials. Director of Audio Visual Services Zach Soares ’00 and his work-study students supported 97 events. He was also responsible for overseeing the design, purchase, and installation of $30,000 worth of new lighting in Gates Auditorium. Finally, this year I announced my retirement to coincide with the end of the 2023 academic year. I am so grateful for everyone I’ve had the opportunity to get to know and work with over the past 20 years, but none more than those in the library. I am so excited to know that my leaving has presented new opportunities for the library staff. Trisha Cantwell and Catherine Preston-Schreck will be library co-directors, and Hannah Stevens ’09 will step away from her archive duties and assume more library responsibilities. A new librarian/archivist will be hired, and Director of Audio Visual Services Zach Soares ’00 will begin reporting directly to the Provost (Ken Hill). I look forward to the next chapter in the library’s history and am thankful to have been part of its history for the past 20 years.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$614,260 90,179 0 (55,700) $648,738 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

The Peggy Rockefeller Farm (PRF) Endowment Fund was established in 2011 when David Rockefeller donated the Carmen and DeLaittre Farms to COA (which were combined to form the current PRF), along with a generous endowed gift to support farm operations.

Peggy Rockefeller Farm Endowment Fund Staff Supervisor: April Nugent, Farm Manager Through the 2023 season, the Rockefeller Endowment supported the position of the Peggy Rockefeller Farm (PRF) Manager April Nugent, a new 10-month production assistant, and ongoing facilities operations. The farm continued to manage its other livestock enterprises at a slightly increased scale of production. Highlights included the expansion of the meat Community Supported Agriculture program available to residents of MDI and Hancock County. The expansion of production included a laying flock of approximately 150 organic hens yielding approximately 70 dozen eggs a week, 1,400 pounds of lamb, more than 1,600 pounds of pork, 2,000 pounds of organic chicken, and 1,200 pounds of beef. MHHEFA funds were used to renovate the old equipment barn at 660 Norway Drive into a functional cattle facility and dry hay storage barn. PRF continued to partner with The Howdy Houghton Memorial COA Community Food Pantry & Fridge to donate a variety of protein options to the campus community. The farms also recently began a partnership with alum-run local business Fogtown Brewing to utilize mash byproduct as feed for the swine on the farm. The farm’s animal breeding programs are expanding, particularly our flock of sheep. Animal breeding, on-farm educational opportunities, and community partnerships are expected to expand in future seasons. c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Numerous students were able to engage via the work-study program, summer internships, farm workshops, class visits, and placed-based farm courses. In the fall term of 2023, April will teach an on-farm organic poultry practicum course. Several professors incorporated the farms in their classes this season, including students from the Human Ecology Coure Course, Ornithology, Bees and Society, Agroecology, Sheep to Shawl, and Sustainable Energy. Community interactions have continued with numerous school groups and organizations engaging in educational farm tours to learn more about Peggy Rockefeller Farm and COA. The 2023 COA Farm Day was hosted by PRF again this year and featured local music, tabling, farm tours, and a community dinner utilizing farm products.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,264,288 186,036 0 (68,000) $1,382,324

Doug Rose GIS Enhancement Fund Staff Supervisor: Gordon Longsworth ’90, Director of the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Lab The Doug Rose Fund has continued to play a crucial role in advancing GIS in important ways. Here are some highlights of the fund’s contributions:

• Transfer of Mavic Mini drone to Earth Sciences: The fund

facilitated the transfer of a Mavic Mini drone to the Earth Sciences department, enabling them to utilize it for mapping erosion of pathways on the College of the Atlantic main campus. This drone was also taken to México and used to map several agricultural study areas.

• Acquisition of Mavic Mini 3 drone: This drone features

integrated video and apps. Unlike the previous setup that required students to use their personal phones to operate the drone, this new drone provides a self-contained solution, making it more accessible for Family and friends of students. Importantly, it weighs Doug Rose established less than 250 grams and does this fund in 1994. Doug, a not require special training or COA student in the 1990s FAA certification. Students and avid climber, died have been actively engaged climbing Great Head in using drones for mapping when the weather turned. and surveying on campus, on This fund supports the Great Duck Island, at the North purchase of software Woods Ways property, and at and equipment, as well as student attendance the Cox Protectorate property. at conferences related to Pix4D.com subscription: Geographic Information Pix4D continues to be Systems. instrumental in processing and storing drone imagery. There

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was cost sharing between GIS, and Earth and Marine Sciences of the yearly fee for the cloud service. An increasing number of students, some with their own drones, have been using Pix4D. Imagery can be directly integrated into ArcGIS for further analysis and visualization.

• IDrive.com subscription: The fund supported a subscription to IDrive.com, a cloud service for backing up and sharing critical data. This has ensured the safety and accessibility of the 30year history of the lab’s work, up to the current projects.

• Enhancing collaboration: The GIS Lab is not just a collection of individual workstations but also a space for collaboration and group projects. The fund was used to add a second couch to the GIS lounge area, making the lab a comfortable and inviting space for students to have conversations and share ideas about the work they are engaged in.

Overall, the Doug Rose Fund has played a vital role in advancing GIS technology and its applications in education and research. It has enabled students to engage in innovative projects and has created a collaborative environment for GIS enthusiasts at the lab.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$45,182 6,679 0 (1,800) $50,062 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery Fund Faculty Supervisor: Jay Friedlander, Sharpe-McNally Chair in Green and Socially Responsible Business COA’s venture incubator was endowed by a grant from the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation in 2015. The Diana Davis Spencer (DDS) Hatchery provides eligible students with academic credit, professional services, and access to seed funding to develop a sustainable for-profit or nonprofit business. While the vast majority of collegiate venture incubators and accelerators are cocurricular, forcing students to choose between their interests and education, the DDS 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 any student at COA can develop their ideas and be fully immersed in the entrepreneurial experience. Students selected for the DDS 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 mentors and professionals in

prototyping, branding, social media, legal, and accounting

• Have access to office space and up to $5,000 in seed funding For the 2022–23 academic year, it was a pleasure to have the DDS Hatchery class in person. We continued to make use of remote technology as students joined the class via Zoom while they traveled to France, Costa Rica, and around the United States to gather information for their ventures. Eight participants pursued seven enterprises reflecting the diverse interests of COA students. Many of the students had already been developing their ventures across a range of classes and years at COA. Enterprises included:

• Current Peak—storing solar energy to return it to the grid at

• COA Second Chance

Thrift—providing an on-campus thrift shop for gently used discarded resources

• Visionarios de Paz—

educating Costa Rican youth and restoring the local ecosystem in Palmichal, Costa Rica

The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation endowed COA’s venture incubator in 2015. The Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery provides eligible students academic credit, professional services, and access to seed funding to develop a sustainable for-profit or nonprofit business.

• Detritus—sewing custom fit street wear for trans males • SeaWise—processing sailing data into easy-to-use and

informative tracking maps for racers, the press, and race organizers

DDS 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 live Hatchery Expo in person and over Zoom, where students presented overviews of their work. The DDS Hatchery’s educational model continues to be of interest to organizations both inside and outside academia. I was interviewed and presented the Hatchery model at conferences, workshops, and meetings in the United States, Europe, and globally over Zoom. The program was highlighted for how it merges academic credit with students’ interests to elevate learning and provide entrepreneurs with the skills they need to succeed.

peak times, smoothing demand and maximizing returns for solar providers

• Findi Sahel—boosting income for Nigerian women

through Nigerian fair-trade tea made from West African plants and herbs

• Malek Hinnawi—visual storytelling with videos, photos, and graphic design that brings stories to life

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Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,840,421 270,834 0 (98,800) $2,012,455

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 fund grew further when Thomas Hall died in 1990, and the Hall family requested that donations made in his memory be directed to this fund. Each year, selections are made based on requests, class needs, and academic or general interests. This year’s selections include: Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire (2021) Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History by Kyle Harper (2021)

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx (2022)

Why Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive with the World’s Most Misunderstood Predator by David Shiffman (2022)

Lakes: Their Birth, Life, and Death by John Richard Saylor (2022)

The Blue Revolution: Hunting, Harvesting, and Farming Seafood in the Information Age by Nicholas Sullivan (2022)

Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish by Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz (2022)

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday (2023)

Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs and More by Darren Naish (2023)

Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis In One Generation by Paul Hawken (2021) The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by Seb Falk (2020) Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich (2023) The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy by Moiya McTier (2022) Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants by James Vincent (2023)

Determinants of Addiction: Neurobiological, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sociocultural Factors by Justin R. Yates (2022) Microbia: A Journey into the Unseen World Around You by Eugenia Bone (2018) Composting for a New Generation: Latest Techniques for the Bin and Beyond by Michelle Balz and Anna Stockton (2017)

A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feed by Jo Handelsman and Kayla Cohen (2021)

The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence (2022) The Ice Age by Jurgen Ehlers (2022)

Introducing Stratigraphy by Paul Lyle (2019) First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva (2021)

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2022) Plant Genetic Conservation by Nigel Maxted, Danny Hunter and Rodomiro Ortiz Rios. (2020) Mutualism by Judith L. Bronstein (2015) Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolism (2023)

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R. Amory Thorndike Memorial Fund This fund was established in 1979 in memory of long-time 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 fields of the arts and humanities. This year’s selections include: A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon (2012) Algorithms of Oppression: How Search engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble (2018) Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue by Ron Platt, Dawould Bet, et al. (2022) Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World by Malcom Ferdinand, Anthony Paul Smith, et al (2022)

Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery: The Prelude by Christine Riding, Sarah Thomas, et al. (2022) Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings by Muhammad Ali Khalidi (2005) Modern Fabric: TwentyFive Designers on Their Inspiration and Craft by Abby Gilchrist and Amelia Poole (2020)

Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness by C.A. Conrad (2014)

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina by Adrienne Spinozzi, Simone Leigh, et al. (2022) I Am Because We are: Readings in Africana Philosophy by Fred Lee Hord and Jonathan Scott Lee (2016) Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies: Global Perspectives by Akanmu G. Adebayo, Jesse J. Benjamin, et al. (2016) c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson (2022)

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatillaka (2022) The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution by Ann Travers (2019)

Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art by Peter Weibel (2019)

Wabanaki Modern : The Artistic Legacy of the 1060s “Micmac Indian Craftsmen” by Emma Hassencahl-Perley and John Leroux (2022)

The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by the New York Times (2020)

Ways of Being by James Bridle (2023)

The Invention of Green Colonialism by Guillaume Blanc and Helen Morrison (2022)

Feelings are Facts: A Life by Yvonne Rainer (2013) Fractured Identities: Changing Patterns of Inequality by Harriet Bradley (2015)

Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present by Irene cheng, Charles L. Davis II, et al. (2020)

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry by LeAnne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster, et al. (2020)

Music is History by Questlove (2021)

The Moving Body: Teaching Creative Theatre by Jacques Lecoq, David Bradby, et al. (2020)

Philip Guston Now by Philip Guston, Harry Cooper, et al. (2020)

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race by Naomi Zack (2019)

Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible by Arturo Escobar (2020)

TOTAL COMBINED FUNDING FOR THE THOMAS AND MARY HALL BOOK FUND AND THE R. AMORY THORNDIKE MEMORIAL FUND:

Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction by Paul Robbins (2019) Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham (2017)

When We Cease to Understand the World by Labatut Benjamin (2021)

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$568,334 83,630 0 30,400 $621,564

Elizabeth Thorndike Senior Class Book 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: The Circus of the Earth and the histories of immigrant and Air by Brooke Stevens Indigenous groups…she shows “Author Stevens, who worked as how each negotiates America’s a tiger groom with the Ringling racial hierarchy…” —Bookshop Brothers, and Barnum & Mirrors In The Earth: Bailey circuses, has written an Reflections on Self-Healing amazing first novel that strikes from the Living World by repeatedly at the core notion of Asia Suler the performer, the performance, “Combining poetic nature and the unknown.” writing with exercises and —Eloise Kinney, Amazon reflection prompts at the end of Drawing As a Way of each essay, Mirrors in the Earth Knowing in Art and Science by coaxes us to come as we are: to Gemma Anderson-Tempini discover and tend the inherent “Gemma Anderson’s Drawing brilliance and medicine that as a Way of Knowing in Art lives in each of us.” —Bookshop and Science introduces tested A Short History of the World ways in which drawing as According to Sheep by a research practice can enhance morphological insight, Sally Coulthard “Sally Coulthard weaves specifically within the natural sciences, mathematics and art.” this fascinating story into a vivid and colorful tapestry —Bookshop of engaging anecdotes and Narcissus and Goldmund by extraordinary ovine facts, Hermann Hesse whose multiple strands “Hesse’s novel of two medieval celebrate just how pivotal these men, one quietly content with wooly animals are to almost his religion and monastic life, every aspect of human society the other in fervent search of and culture.” —Amazon more worldly salvation. This conflict between flesh and spirit, between emotional and contemplative man, was a life study for Hesse.” —Bookshop The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions by Vilna Bashi TreitleI “In The Ethnic Project, Bashi Treitler considers the ethnic history of the United States from the arrival of the English in North America through to the present day. Tracing the

Mother Courage and Her Children by Betrolt Brecht “Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling (“Mother Courage”), an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe’s religious wars.” —Bookshop This Place That Place by Nandita Dinesh “This Place That Place is an evocative debut that functions as a bold allegory for militarized occupations anywhere. As much a visual read as it is a literary one, this brilliant literary debut provides new ways to think about the intersections between the personal and the political; between occupier and occupied…” —Amazon Embracing Light: A Year in Acadia National Park & Mount Desert Island by Scott Erskine “The work in this book represents a very personal and deep-felt intimacy with the park and the island that can evolve only by completely immersing oneself into the rhythm and flow of the land and sea, and

then using all of his craft to express this deep love, his soul, that belongs to Acadia.” —Bookshop Herbal Healing For Women by Rosemary Gladstar “Comprehensive and easyto-use, Herbal Healing for Women explains how to create remedies—including teas, tinctures, salves, and ointments—for the common disorders that arise in the different cycles of a woman’s life.” —Bookshop Black Marks on the White Page edited by Witi Ihimaera and Tima Makereti “Here are the glorious, painful, sharp and funny 21st century stories of Maori and Pasifika writers from all over the world. Vibrant, provocative and aesthetically exciting, these stories expand our sense of what is possible in Indigenous Oceanic writing.” —Amazon

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$45,430 6,675 0 (2,600) $49,504 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Waterfront Director Fund Staff Supervisor: Toby Stephenson ’98, Waterfront Director hardware were installed permanently. The transducer was installed into the keel, a differential GPS antennae was added to our mast, and the required computers, heading sensors, and data splitters were installed in our electronics closet to allow for seamless transitions into mapping operations. We are now awaiting the Timezero Professional software pledged by our Nobeltec representative.

Sailing Blue Hill Bay

FALL 2022 Between 30–40 students sailed, or learned to sail, and numerous students learned to operate our small powerboats for safety watch. S/V Rebecca, our 46-foot sloop, took students out more than a dozen times, and the smaller sailboats worked regularly for our growing sailing program. I continue to appreciate the joy our students get from sailing Frenchman Bay. M/V Osprey returned from Wesmac at the end of October (the repair process outlasted her entire construction process by three months!). This was a huge disappointment, but she ran beautifully when she was finally launched. The renovation following her mooring failure at the Bar Harbor waterfront was comprehensive and her hull looks as good as it did when she first launched in 2012. Excluding a small deductible, the nearly $350,000 repair was covered by insurance. We are now keeping Osprey and Rebecca at Abel’s boatyard for winter storage. We accepted a 30-foot Etchells sailboat as a donation in December 2022 that will sail in the fall of 2023 and 2024 before putting her on the market. Her value was put at $44,000, though she will likely sell for less than that. SPRING 2023 Osprey launched in late April. Improvements were made to her hydraulic system and the WASSP multibeam transducer and c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

An anonymous donor established this endowed fund with a gift of $1.25 million during the Broad Reach Capital Campaign to maximize the educational potential of our offshore islands— Mount Desert Rock and Great Duck Island—and the coast itself. The gift endowed our waterfront director’s position, allowing the college to improve access to the Gulf of Maine and enable more faculty members, students, and visitors to use these remarkable assets to their full potential.

A proposed renovation for the Davis Garage that I initially presented at Campus Planning and Building Committee (CPBC) in 2021 passed through CPBC this May, and the construction process began shortly thereafter. The garage will be insulated, roofed, and heated, and attached storage sheds will be created to allow for year-round use of the interior of the building. An 18'x35' shed will be installed on the front of the garage for our numerous inflatable boats, and a 16' shed will be installed along the entire back for bulky gear storage, and drying tents and other camping gear. Until now, this equipment was stored inside the building over the winter, rendering the space impossible to use for other purposes. The renovation will facilitate a year-round workspace for students to engage in boat—and similar—projects downstairs, and Student Life trip planning and outdoor gear storage upstairs. In addition to the garage renovation, we will erect a canoe and kayak pole-barn just to the west of the garage in 2024 to keep all our lake and river boats out of the elements. This project is funded through the Maine Health and Higher Education Facilities Authority.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,298,178 191,131 100 (68,000) $1,421,409

Writing for the Future Fund Teaching Staff Supervisor: Blake Cass, MPhil ’19 Karen Waldron served as interim director of the Writing Program during the 2022–23 academic year, as the search process for the new director was underway. Karen oversaw professors teaching courses that met the writing requirement and, with the help of Palak Taneja, tweaked the recommendation process for first-year writing courses; instead of using college application materials to assess the writing skills of students, the Writing Program solicited feedback from Human Ecology Core Course teachers, an approach which gave us accurate information about student writing abilities and interests. Karen also supervised Blake Cass MPhil ’19, who served as acting writing center director.

successful events designed to encourage students to visit the writing center. In the winter term, the committee hosted a social night that included a display of language diversity, fun writing activities (such as a black-out poetry station), snacks, and plenty of tutors on hand to talk with students. At the start of the spring term, the committee put on a word game night that allowed students to engage with tutors and the center in a non-stressful way. And the committee wrapped up the year by hosting two senior project writing panels, events that promoted and celebrated the breadth of writing at COA.

Having made changes to our hiring practices in the previous spring, the writing center kicked off the year by welcoming 13 new tutors. This demographically diverse cohort consisted completely of returning students with significant college writing experience.

Former COA Trustee Walter Robinson contributed the lead gift in 2018 during the Broad Reach Capital Campaign to establish this endowed fund, which 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 writing center replaced the year-long tutoring training program that consisted of two courses—Methods of Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum and Advanced Composition—with the new intensive Methods of Tutoring Writing, a one-term course focused on writing center research and theory. The new training program was designed to enable a more active learning methodology that stressed tutoring strategies aimed at promoting autonomy and self-corrections through collaborative learning.

To accomplish its many goals for the year and ensure that tutors had a say in the direction of the writing center, tutors broke up into four committees: a committee for promoting the writing center on campus; a committee for making and collecting external resources for students, faculty, and staff; a committee for making and collecting internal resources for tutors; and a library committee that worked with library work-study students to research potential library and writing center collaboration. The hard work of the promotion committee deserves particular mention. Among its many initiatives, the committee hosted several

The writing center began experimenting with tutoring in different physical spaces, such as tutoring in the library, the Blair Dining Hall, and outside in various locations to be more accessible to students and to better advertise the writing center to students on campus. The second annual Anne Kozak Bread and Butter Tutoring Award was awarded to two tutors: Alejandra Morales Torres ’23, for her advocacy for multilingual students and her work designing a more inclusive writing tutor training course; and Silas Sifton ’23, for the work he put into designing a training curriculum on note taking and his ongoing commitment to working with neurodivergent students.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$789,198 120,353 29,209 (35,600) $903,159 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Physical Plant Funds

BREWER-GOWER-SAWYER-GARBER FUND

ETHEL H. BLUM GALLERY

This fund supports campus grounds improvements and was created by founding trustees Les Brewer and Father James Gower, as well as local businessmen Charles Sawyer and Michael J. Garber.

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 longtime summer resident of MDI, she took special pleasure in painting Maine coast views.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$288,286 42,311 0 (29,000) $301,597

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$547,667 80,329 0 (57,100) $570,896

KATHRYN W. DAVIS CENTER BUILDING AND GROUNDS FUND Created by gifts from the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation in support of the maintenance and upkeep of the Davis Center and grounds. The Kathryn W. Davis Center for International & Regional Studies is currently used for faculty and staff offices, classes, and a meeting place for COA’s international population. The Davis Carriage House is a rustic addition to student housing. The Kathryn W. Davis Residence Village is the newest and greenest housing complex.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

$302,724 44,684 0 (13,200) $334,208

THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER Gates is regularly 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 balcony, a lighting and sound booth, and digital projector with screen.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$69,040 10,125 0 (4,400) $74,765

THORNDIKE LIBRARY/KAELBER HALL 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, 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-A-Break) and kitchen, and the Admission Office.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$484,353 71,269 0 (26,000) $529,622

THE TURRETS The Turrets was designed for John J. Emery of New York in 1893 by Bruce Price, designer of Québec’s famous Château Frontenac. In 1975, it was placed 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.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return on Investments Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$325,060 47,712 0 (32,800) $339,971 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

FY23 SUPPORTERS PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE $25,000+ Anonymous (6) Nancy & Edgar Aronson Estate of Donald Russell Bailey Anne T. & Robert M. Bass Antoinette & Benjamin Brewster Gale & Shelby Davis Kate & Andrew Davis Heather Richards Evans Rena Zurn & Spencer Fulweiler, Jr. Beth & Will Gardiner Amy & Phil Geier Anne & Jim Green Sam Hamill, Jr. Sarah & Jason Ingle Meredith & Dane Jensen Tabitha & Stephen King Arlene & Bob Kogod Gardiner & Nicholas Lapham Scott MacKenzie & Jerry Cruz Jacomien Mars Jay McNally ’84 David G. Milliken Rebecca & Steve Milliken Abby Moffat Louisa & Bill Newlin Daniel Pierce, Jr. Family Hope Putnam Family of Kate Davis Quesada Lalage & Steve Rales Emily & Mitch Rales Diana & Roland Reynolds Walter M. Robinson III *Deceased

Lucy Bell Sellers Robert Shannon*/ The Fourth Corner Foundation Peggy Sharpe Diana Davis Spencer Maureen & Bill Stewart Anne & Charles Target Genie & Will Thorndike, Jr. Claudia & Carey Turnbull Carol Weg

FOUNDER $10,000-24,999 Becky Bartovics Mia & Timothy Bass Joanie & Jamie Blaine Elisabeth & John Cochran Mary K. Eliot Wendy & Bill Foulke, Jr. Rena Zurn & Spencer Fulweiler, Jr. Wendy C. Gamble Christina M. Gillis Steffi & Bob Harris Sonja Johanson ’95 & Richard Gordet Casey Mallinckrodt Rachel & Tom Maniatis Anne & Tony Mazlish Nell Newman ’87 Bill O’Donnell Cathy Orme Susie & Bob Peck Bruce Phillips ’78 & Susan Erickson Catherine Baker-Pitts & Will Pitts III Kathy & George Putnam III Bambi Putnam

YEAR AFTER YEAR 40+ YEARS

Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Barbara B. & Charles P. Burton II Lucy Bell Sellers

35–39 YEARS

Helen Caivano ’80 Sarah Corson & Dick Atlee First National Bank Nina ’78 & Jonathan ’78 Gormley Katherine Hazard ’76 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Kass Hogan ’81 Betsey Holtzmann & Abe Noyes Cathy Johnson ’74 Laura & Michael Kaiser ’85 Betsy & John Kelly Arlene & Bob Kogod Margaret & Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77 Phyllis Anina Moriarty Meta & Benjie Neilson Louisa & Bill Newlin Linda & Eliot Paine

Roxana & Tony Robinson, Jr. Martie & Ed Samek Cynthia E. Livingston & Hank L.P. Schmelzer Jamie S. Somes Maureen & Bill Stewart Allison & Steve Sullens Nonie & John Sullivan, Jr. Anne & Charles Target Christiaan van Heerden’09 & Family Suzanne & David Wakefield Kim & Finn Wentworth, Jr.

PATHFINDER $5,000-9,999 Anonymous (1) Cynthia Baker & Jonathan Zeitler Sandi Read & Ron Beard Jeannie & Henry Becton, Jr. Elizabeth Hodder Corbus & Clay Corbus Sydney Davis Peggy Dulany Laura Ellis Deb Evans ’82 & Ron Schaaf Chandler & Oliver Evans Carolyn & Chris Groobey Charlotte Hanson Lissa & Mel* Hodder Lynn & Jeff Horowitz Ali & Steve Kassels Linda & Philip Lader Sydie Lansing Pamy Manice Liz & Arthur Martinez

Anna Maynard Linda & Clem McGillicuddy Betsy & Nelson Mead, Jr. Heather & George Mitchell Carol ’93 & Jacob ’93 Null Chaz O’Brien ’93 & Harrison Bains Linda & Eliot Paine Frances Pollitt ’77 & Frank E. Briber III Anne & Bruce Pomeroy Susan & David Rockefeller, Jr. Amy Falls & Hartley Rogers Ellen Seh (’75) Jeri Presser & Charlie Seitz III Margie & John Grace Shethar Joss Tennille Christopher Toomey John Wilmerding Alice Blum Yoakum

DISCOVERER $2,500-4,999 Mary Dohna ’80 & Wells Bacon ’80 Margaret Vettese & Edward Benz, Jr. Deirdre Swords & Michael Boland ’94 Allison & Avery Bourke III Jean & Ordway Burden Susanna Porter & Jamie Clark, Jr. Ruth M. Colket Karen & Darron Collins ’92 Sally Crock Verena & Rod* Cushman Adam Dau ’01 Beth Rendeiro & Steven DePaul Ellen & Bill Dohmen

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Cathy L. Ramsdell ’78 John Reeves* Ellen Seh (’75) John Viele (’81) Ben Walters ’81 Katherine Weinstock ’81

30–34 YEARS

Anonymous (3) Anne T. & Robert M. Bass John Biderman ’77 Donna Gold & Bill Carpenter

Sally Crock Verena & Rod* Cushman Lisa Damtoft ’79 Norah Davis Cynthia Jordan Fisher ’80 Wendy & Bill Foulke, Jr. Barbara & Dick Fox Susan Freed ’80 Jackson Gillman ’78 Neva Goodwin Diana & George Hambleton Kate Russell Henry & Eric Henry (’74)

Lissa & Mel* Hodder Sue Inches ’79 Susan Lerner & Steven Katona S. Lee Kohrman Anne Kozak Bill McDowell ’80 Suzanne Durrell & Scott McIsaac (’78) Jay McNally ’84 Bruce Phillips ’78 & Susan Erickson Susan & David Rockefeller, Jr. Hilda K. Roderick

The Champlain Society was established in 1988 to honor College of the Atlantic’s most generous annual donors. The support of Champlain Society members is critical to advancing the college’s mission, ensuring academic excellence, providing financial aid, and enhancing COA’s campus, island research stations, farms, and other learning environments. For more information on becoming a member of the Champlain Society, please contact Shawn Keeley at 207-801-5620, or visit coa.edu/tcs.

Donna & Bill Eacho III John Goodman Neva Goodwin Carol & Dick Habermann Cookie & Bill Horner Peter Hunt & Family Leslie Jones ’91 Arthur Keller & Mark Gauthier Maggie & Jack Kelley III Karen & Howard Lapsley Linzee Weld & Peter Milliken (’76) Nancy Milliken Irene Driscoll & Lincoln Millstein Phyllis Anina Moriarty Meta & Benjie Neilson Julia & Brooke Parish Judith S. Perkins Tina Rathborne John Reeves* Jared I. Roberts Allison Fundis ’03 & Stein Servick ’05 Carol Dean Silverman & Family Sandy Stone Mary Kay Long & Dennis Unites Kathy Vignos Paddy Wade Katherine Weinstock ’81 Lisa & Paul Welch J. Michael Williamson Christine Witham Erin ’04 & Mike ’01 Zwirko

EXPLORER $1,500-2,499 Anonymous (9) Julie Banzhaf-Stone & Steve Stone Barbara Tennent & Steven Barkan Emily Beck & Geof Young Ann & Fred Benson Lynn Boulger & Tim Garrity Sharon & Bruce Bradley

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25–29 YEARS

Anonymous (4) Murray Abramsky Mary Dohna ’80 & Wells Bacon ’80 Bruce Bender ’76 Edith Blomberg Katherine Kaufel Christoffel Ruth M. Colket Marcia L. Dworak David Emerson ’81 Julie Erb ’83 Carroll & Tom Fernald

Garden Club of Mount Desert Katie & Steve George June LaCombe (’75) & Bill Ginn ’74 Abigail Goodyear ’81 & John Allgood Peggy & Mike Gumpert Sam Hamill, Jr. Loie Hayes ’79 Mary J. Heffernon Barbara Hilli Lisa ’80 & Bob ’79 Holley

Cookie & Bill Horner Lyn Hurwich ’80 Anna Hurwitz ’84 Maggie & Jack Kelley III Craig Kesselheim ’76 Steve King ’80 Joan & Ted Koffman Rosalind Rolland & Scott Kraus ’77 Jennifer Starr & Eugene Lesser ’78 Maine Coast Sea Vegetables Casey Mallinckrodt

Carol Manahan ’77 Sarah McDaniel ’93 Donna McFarland & Alan Richins Linda & Clem McGillicuddy Clifton McPherson III ’84 Jane & Bob Meade Jeffrey Miller ’92 Linzee Weld & Peter Milliken (’76) Karla Tegzes & Peter Moon ’90 Hope Olmstead c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Brenda Brodie Bing & Nat Brown Amanda (Walker) Bunker ’98 Jane & Charles Burger Thomas D. Cahill III Sheila Cusack & Gerard Caron Mary Ann & Harry Charlston Gail & Ham Clark III Pancho Cole ’81 Tracy & Gifford Combs/ Combs Family Fund Stefan Cushman Kerri & Rodger Dowdell III Cindy & Phil Eichenholz Deborah Ellwood Ben Emory Peg Emple Jean & David Evans Dolly & John Fisher Susan Getze June LaCombe (’75) & Bill Ginn ’74 Diana & George Hambleton Louise Hartwell Caitlyn Harvey ’02 Ayn & Steve Hunt Sue Inches ’79 Yardly & Scott Jenkins Peggy Schultz & Fred Jones Susan Lerner & Steven Katona Betsy & John Kelly Susan & John Klein Denise Garone & Stuart Kogod Margaret & Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77 Nancy Erikson Ladd & Sam Ladd III Burks B. Lapham Courtney Lederer & Mark Thierfelder Babette & Peter Loring Carol & Rick Malone Judy McGeorge Suzanne Durrell & Scott McIsaac (’78)

Anne & John Milliken Daphne Milliken Deb & Bob Milotte, Jr. Meredith & Phil Moriarty Rob Whitman & Jeff Munger Kathryn & Tom Nelson Alice Shin & Mark Norris Carey Pickard III & Christopher Howard Laura & Vassar Pierce, Jr. Barbara & Charles Pierce, Jr. Lisa & Jay Pierrepont Marguerite Pitts Sheila Sonne Pulling Celian Putnam Susie Rodriguez & Charles Lowrey Nadia Rosenthal & Alan Sawyer Harrison Royce Architecture Corp Sandy Wilcox & Jack Russell Katie Adams Schaeffer & Anthony Schaeffer Frances Stead Seller & Tim Sellers Jane & Dennis Shubert Julie Spahr Caren Sturges Ingrid Sunzenauer Virginia Sweatt Laura Stanton & Kim Tomlinson Daphne & Andrew Trotter Luciana Pandolfi ’98 & Luke Wagner ’99 Helen & Paul Weaver Sydney & Jonathan Winthrop Margaret Woolley & Gerard Vasisko

$100-1,499 Anonymous (36) Jane & Abass Alavi Sharon Knopp & Enoch Albert Eben Albert ’03 Heather Albert-Knopp ’99 Bernie Alie ’84

Judy Allen Diane & Alan Amendt Heather & Richard Ames Elizabeth Anderson Elly & Sandy Andrews III Sally & Bill Arata Emily Argo ’10 Shlomit Auciello ’17 Elizabeth Rousek Ayers ’95 Cathy Bacon Aminda & John Baird Judy Baker Jeffrey Baker ’77 Natalie Barnett ’11 Cheryl Bartholomew ’80 Jean Beckley Bruce Becque ’81 Felicia Bellows Robin’80 & Paul ’79 Beltramini Sara Bender & Evan Bender ’04 Bruce Bender ’76 Ann Berenfield Glen Berkowitz ’82 Marie & Gerald Berlin Robert Hunt Berry Sara Faull ’98 & Eugenio Bertin ’97 Deodonne’06 & Ranjan ’04 Bhattarai Anne Oldach & William Bickley John Biderman ’77 Janet Biondi ’81 Lisa Bjerke ’13, MPhil ’16 Michael Blair ’95 Debi & Art Blank Edith Blomberg Luke and Sophie Willis Paul Boothby ’88 Patricia Honea-Fleming & Richard Borden Laurent Bouveret Kristin & Bryan Bradley

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Susan & Robert Pennington Judith S. Perkins Daniel Pierce, Jr. Family Frances Pollitt ’77 & Frank E. Briber III Dan Sangeap ’90 Dorothy & Roland Seymour Jane & Dennis Shubert Lynne & Mike Staggs ’96 Alisa Nye ’15 & Davis Taylor Jo Todrank ’76 & Giora Heth Karen Waldron & Richard Hilliard c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Betsy Wisch ’83 Loretta & Tom Witt

20–24 YEARS

Anonymous (3) Heather Albert-Knopp ’99 Bernie Alie ’84 Irene S. Alie Judy Allen Lelania Prior Avila ’92 & Family Elizabeth Rousek Ayers ’95 Jeffrey Baker ’77

Alyce & John Brady Ellen Brandt Laurie Brewer ’96 Jill K. Briggs Ellen & Hank Brokaw Lydia ’05 & Foy Brown Alice & David Bullwinkle Judith Burger-Gossart Lisa Burton ’83 & Christopher Vincenty (’83) Barbara B. & Charles P. Burton II Helen Caivano ’80 William Luther ’06 & Seth Carbonneau ’05 JoAnne Carpenter & Jan Hofstra Donna Gold & Bill Carpenter Liza F. Carter (’78) Melinda ’00 & Ellen Casey-Magleby Erin Chalmers ’00 Lucy Hull & E. Barton Chapin III Diana Choksey ’05 & Jordan Mandel-Iaia Katherine Kaufel Christoffel Alyne & Joseph Cistone Sheila W. Clark Caren Clark Jen Hughes & Ken Cline Lillian & Arthur Clinger, Jr. Janis Coates Pamela Cobb Heuberger ’83 Millard Coffin Eddie & Clarke* Coggeshall Laura Cohn ’88 Diana Cohn ’85 & Craig Merrilees Sarah Colletti ’10 & Kyle McMillan Leza & Jim Colquhoun Heidi Conner Harriet Corbett Margaret & Jay Costan Kelly McEwen & Quentin Cote Edith Rodrigue & Mel Cote Jr. Adam Cote

YEAR AFTER YEAR

Barbara Tennent & Steven Barkan Sandi Read & Ron Beard Bruce Becque ’81 Glen Berkowitz ’82 Deirdre Swords & Michael Boland ’94 Paul Boothby ’88 Teisha A.W. Broetzman ’88 Cynthia Chisholm ’86 Katherine Clark ’91 Jen Hughes & Ken Cline Pancho Cole ’81

Karen & Darron Collins ’92 John Dandy (’84) Lucinda & Fred (’75) Davis Rose (’88) & Steve ’80 Demers Holly Devaul ’84 Kelly MPhil ’97 & George Dickson Millard Dority Donna & Bill Eacho III Mary K. Eliot Carol Emmons Ben Emory

Joan Feely ’79 Thomas Fisher ’77 & Tonya Ridings Glenon ’86 & Gary Friedmann Galyn’s Galley Beth & Will Gardiner Megan Godfrey ’77 Marie & John* Gower Bo Greene Linda Gregory ’89 Mary (Nelson) Griffin ’97 Matt Hare ’84

Roberta Coulter Jill ’83 & Ben ’84 Cowie-Haskell Brett Cramp Marily Crews Tom Crikelair Elizabeth Cunningham ’82 Anne Czechanski Kneeland ’06 Lisa Damtoft ’79 John Dandy (’84) Kara ’96 & Matt ’98 Daul, and Family Norah Davis Nancy Davis Lucinda & Fred (’75) Davis Caleb Fuller Davis ’02 Nicole d’Avis ’02 & Mark Anderson Nisha & John Dawson Bob DeForrest ’94 Rose (’88) & Steve ’80 Demers Megan Smith ’90 & Daniel DenDanto ’91 Robert DeSimone Danyelle Desjardins Cerissa Desrosiers ’00 & Jessica Hannon Holly Devaul ’84 Catherine Devlin ’93 Kelly MPhil ’97 & George Dickson Judith Dickson Pat & Bill Dommermuth Millard Dority Yvonne Leicht & Cameron Douglas Cameron Hale Douglass ’02 Wendy & Michael Downey Margaret & Stephen Downing Priscilla du Pont Jennifer Dussault ’02 Marcia L. Dworak Mary Eaton Fairfield Martha & Ned Edmonds David Emerson ’81 Peter W. Emmet ’92

Carol Emmons Kathleen & Maximillian Ernst Diana Escobedo Lastiri ’09 Nickilynn Estologa ’07 Casey Jones & Bill Faller Dan Falt Joan Feely ’79 Sugar & Nat Fenton Carroll & Tom Fernald Adrian Fernandez ’15 Robert Finn ’92 Grahme Fischer Thomas Fisher ’77 & Tonya Ridings Helen Dickey Fitz & David G. Fitz / Helen Dickey and David G. Fitz Charitable Fund Elsie Flemings ’06 & Richard Cleary Judi & Howard Fogt Joanne Rodgers Foster ’85 Barbara & Dick Fox Susan Freed ’80 Bruce Friedman ’82 Glenon ’86 & Gary Friedmann Mindi Friedwald ’99 Nina Frusztajer Joanne & Richard Fuerst Linda Fuller & Jeffrey Seeley Bernard Fuller Helen Geils Katie & Steve George Carley & Michael Gillott Annika Maia Ginsberg ’99 Maroulla Gleaton Emily & Evan Gnam Erin ’92 & Graham ’91 Goff Karen & Mark Goldberg Nina Goldman & Douglas Legg Jaki Erdoes ’80 & Terry Good ’80 Paul Goodof Nina ’78 & Jonathan ’78 Gormley Marie & John* Gower

Sandra Graham Jane Gray Bo Greene Gina Greer Linda Gregory ’89 Mary (Nelson) Griffin ’97 Marie Griffith & Leigh Schmidt Susan Dowling & Andrew Griffiths Peggy & Mike Gumpert Kath & Kirk Hachigian David Hahn (’83) Heather Hallett-Thurston & Mark Hallett Irene Haisma & Jaap Ham Mary Harney ’96 Jason Harrington ’96 Kelly Harris ’12 Patricia & John* Hatton Jocelyn Hayes Ed Haynsworth III ’98 Katherine Hazard ’76 Matthew Hecht & Mary Olson Mary J. Heffernon Peter Heller ’85 Kate Russell Henry & Eric Henry (’74) Ingrid & Ken Hill Barbara Hilli Juliet Hodge ’95 Deborah & Roger Hodge Anne Wright Hodge & Byron Hodge Noah Hodgetts ’10 Juan Hoffmaister ’07 Margaret Hoffman ’97 Kass Hogan ’81 Eduarta ’05 & Matt Holl Nancy Holler Lisa ’80 & Bob ’79 Holley Betsey Holtzmann & Abe Noyes Lothar Holzke ’16 Donna & David Hreniuk Nora Gibson & William Hudson

Michael Hueter ’14 Jane Hultberg Lyn Hurwich ’80 Anna Hurwitz ’84 Tomoko & Masanobu Ikemiya William Jackson Toini Jaffe Shelley Latham & Kenton Jakub Nishad Jayasundara ’05 Peter ’84 & Margaret Jeffery Jasmine Smith ’09 & Nick Jenei ’09 Patricia A. Jennings (‘71) Cathy Johnson ’74 Louise Johnston Christopher Jonas Brianne ’02 & Brian Jordan Jennifer Judd-McGee (’92) Laura & Michael Kaiser ’85 Susan Kales & Scott Lawliss Nancy & Bucky Kales Sarah ’05 & Shawn ’00 Keeley Joan & Jeff Kellam Nan & Stephen Kennedy Craig Kesselheim ’76 Barbara & Steven Kiel Joan & Allan Kleinman Greg Koehlert ’96 Joan and Ted Koffman S. Lee Kohrman Anne Kozak Paula & Alexander Koziol Rosalind Rolland & Scott Kraus ’77 Natasha Krell ’16 Susan & Keith Kroeger Anna Krstevski ’05 & Alexander Krstevski ’07 Sandy & Mark Kryder Philip Bradish Kunhardt IV ’11 & Maria Laura Torre Gomez Maude Kusserow ’15 Jude Lamb ’00

YEAR AFTER YEAR • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Atsuko Watabe ’93 & Bruce Hazam ’92 Peter Heller ’85 Margaret Hoffman ’97 Jane Hultberg Peter Hunt & Family Missy & Bill Janes (‘71) Peter ’84 & Margaret Jeffery Leslie Jones ’91 Burks B. Lapham Marjorie Lau ’81 Jessie Greenbaum ’89 & Phil Lichtenstein ’92

Abigail Littlefield ’83 Amy Young & David Malakoff ’86 Donald K. McNeil Rebecca & Steve Milliken Olin Eugene Myers Jr. (’80) Lynn & William Osborn Suzanne & Jim Owen Holly & Ken Paul Shoshana Perry ’83 & Hale Powell Helen Hess & Chris Petersen Susan Pierce ’77

Shiva Polefka ’01 Nishi Rajakaruna ’94 Tina Rathborne Roxana & Tony Robinson, Jr. CedarBough T. Saeji ’93 Cynthia E. Livingston & Hank L.P. Schmelzer Sam Shaw Maureen & Bill Stewart Marie Stivers Ellen Thurman J. Louise Tremblay ’91 Frank Twohill ’79

Wendy Van Dyke (’80) Christiaan van Heerden ’09 & Family Peter Wayne ’83 Joplin Wistar ’84

15–19 YEARS

Anonymous (4) Elly & Sandy Andrews III Genevieve Soloway Angle ’00 Susan George Lyons Applegate ’76 D. Gay Atkinson II

Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co. Robin ’80 & Paul ’79 Beltramini Janet Biondi ’81 Patricia Honea-Fleming & Richard Borden Lynn Boulger & Tim Garrity Amanda (Walker) Bunker ’98 Judith Burger-Gossart Lisa Burton ’83 & Christopher Vincenty (’83) Barbara Carter c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Rebecca & Michael Lambert Virginie Lavallee-Picard ’07 & Alexander Fletcher ’07 David Lebwohl Jacquelyn & Dawn Lemoine Jennifer Starr & Eugene Lesser ’78 Otti & Jeffrey Levine Monty Lewis Linda & Jonathan Lewis Jessie Greenbaum ’89 & Phil Lichtenstein ’92 Bobbi & Werner Liepolt Axel Lischke Abigail Littlefield ’83 Nancy Sullivan-Lord & Dan Lord Caroline Pryor & David MacDonald Kate & Ben Macko ’01 Christina Maguire Amy Young & David Malakoff ’86 Carol Manahan ’77 Christine Manzey Maude & John March, Jr. ’76 Chloe Marr-Fuller ’00 Angela Hondros-McCarthy & Dennis McCarthy Bill McDowell ’80 Donna McFarland & Alan Richins Kathleen McGraw Nina & Archie McIntyre Lauren McKean ’83 Linda Parker & Jamie McKown Donald K. McNeil Megan McOsker ’90 Clifton McPherson III ’84 Jane & Bob Meade Rebecca Melius ’01 James ’07 & Lara ’04 Meloan Lee Dunham & James Merrill Mary Lynn & David Meyer Sheri Millbury Nick & Andrea Miller Kendra ’01 & Jake Miller

ALUMNX LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Alumnx gifts are critical to College of the Atlantic. The Alumnx Leadership Circle honors the generosity and philanthropic leadership of alumnx who give $500 or more to COA. Heather Albert-Knopp ’99

June LaCombe (’75) & Bill Ginn ’74

Bruce Phillips ’78 & Susan Erickson

Elizabeth Rousek Ayers ’95

Caitlyn Harvey ’02

Mary Dohna ’80 & Wells Bacon ’80

Peter Heller ’85

Frances Pollitt ’77 & Frank E. Briber III

Lisa ’80 & Bob ’79 Holley

Benjamin J. T. Polloni ’05

John Biderman ’77

Sue Inches ’79

Andrea Roberto ’92

Lisa Bjerke ’13 MPhil ’16

Sonja Johanson ’95 & Richard Gordet

Ryan Robison ’18

Anonymous (5)

Deirdre Swords & Michael Boland ’94

Leslie Jones ’91

Paul Boothby ’88

Brianne ’02 & Brian Jordan

Amanda (Walker) Bunker ’98

Jennifer Judd-McGee (’92)

Lisa Burton ’83 & Christopher Vincenty (’83)

Sarah ’05 & Shawn ’00 Keeley

Harrison Royce Architecture Corp Mitsuko & Steven Savage ’77 Taj Schottland ’10 Ellen Seh (’75)

Helen Caivano ’80

Rosalind Rolland & Scott Kraus ’77

Allison Fundis ’03 & Stein Servick ’05

Diana Cohn ’85 & Craig Merrilees

Margaret & Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77

Allison & Kyle Scot Shank ’14

Pancho Cole ’81

Pamela Stone ’87

Karen & Darron Collins ’92

Suzanne Durrell & Scott McIsaac (’78)

Adam Dau ’01

Jay McNally ’84

Tracey Teuber ’98

Kara ’96 & Matt ’98 Daul, and Family

Clifton McPherson III ’84

Elena Tuhy-Walters ’90 & Carl Walters II

Kelly MPhil ’97 & George Dickson Jennifer Dussault ’02 David Emerson ’81 Deb Evans ’82 & Ron Schaaf Joanne Rodgers Foster ’85 Glenon ’86 & Gary Friedmann

Linzee Weld & Peter Milliken (’76) Karla Tegzes & Peter Moon ’90 Sarah ’02 & Chase ’00 Morrill

Cecily Swinburne ’09

Christiaan van Heerden ’09 & Family Luciana Pandolfi ’98 & Luke Wagner ’99 Katherine Weinstock ’81

Nell Newman ’87

David Winship ’77

Carol ’93 & Jacob ’93 Null

Erin ’04 & Mike ’01 Zwirko

Chaz O’Brien ’93 & Harrison Bains

••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Liza F. Carter (’78) Melinda ’00 & Ellen Casey-Magleby Michele and Agnese Cestone Foundation Erin Chalmers ’00 Taj Chibnik ’95 Susanna Porter & Jamie Clark, Jr. Dianne Clendaniel & Steve Redgate Janis Coates Pamela Cobb Heuberger ’83 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Diana Cohn ’85 & Craig Merrilees J. Gray Cox (’71) Stefan Cushman Gale & Shelby Davis Nicole d’Avis ’02 & Mark Anderson Robert DeSimone Cerissa Desrosiers ’00 & Jessica Hannon Catherine Devlin ’93 Ellen & Bill Dohmen Cameron Hale Douglass ’02

Wendy & Michael Downey Diane Dworkin ’89 Samuel Edmonds ’05 Deb Evans ’82 & Ron Schaaf Marie & John Fitzgerald Joanne Rodgers Foster ’85 Bruce Friedman ’82 Bernard Fuller Carla Ganiel Amy & Phil Geier Susan Getze Nina Goldman & Douglas Legg

Diane Gordon Tree Goulet ’78 Susan Dowling & Andrew Griffiths Carol & Dick Habermann Ingrid & Ken Hill Sonja Johanson ’95 & Richard Gordet Brianne ’02 & Brian Jordan Nancy & Bucky Kales Sarah ’05 & Shawn ’00 Keeley

Arthur Keller & Mark Gauthier Barbara & Steven Kiel Lilian Alvarado & Zack Klyver ’17 Jude Lamb ’00 David Lebwohl Randy Lessard ’92 & Melissa Lessard-York ’90 Maria Vanegas Long ’84 Danielle & Gordon Longsworth Babette & Peter Loring

BLACK FLY SOCIETY

The Black Fly Society is the swarm of sustaining donors who set up a monthly online gift. It’s the paperless way to give to COA. Anonymous (2) Eben Albert ’03 Samuel Allen ’16 Elizabeth Anne ’11 Emily Argo ’10 Jessica Arseneau ’18 & Roman Bina ’16 Shlomit Auciello ’17 Natalie Barnett ’11 Cheryl Bartholomew ’80 Sandi Read & Ron Beard Alyson Bell ’10 Ellen Brandt Lydia ’05 & Foy Brown Melinda ’00 & Ellen Casey-Magleby Cynthia Chisholm ’86 Pancho Cole ’81 Sarah Colletti ’10 & Kyle McMillan Heidi Conner Matthew Corum ’03 Jill ’83 & Ben ’84 Cowie-Haskell Lynn & James Crawford Marily Crews Gideon Bezalel Culman ’02 Kara ’96 & Matt ’98 Daul, and Family Jessie Davis ’00 & Dan Bookham Cerissa Desrosiers ’00 & Jessica Hannon Holly Devaul ’84

Jennifer Dussault ’02 Samuel Edmonds ’05 Adrian Fernandez ’15 Robert Finn ’92 Helen Geils June LaCombe (’75) & Bill Ginn ’74 Annika Maia Ginsberg ’99 Nina ’78 & Jonathan ’78 Gormley Tree Goulet ’78 Carla Seddio & Michael Hamilton Rebecca Hamilton ’13 Kelly Harris ’12 Juliet Hodge ’95 Noah Hodgetts ’10 Margaret Hoffman ’97 Kathryn Hunninen ’03 & Jose Luis Sagastegui Anna Hurwitz ’84 Jane & David James Jennifer Judd-McGee (’92) 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

Bobbi & Werner Liepolt Neith Little ’09 Blaise Maccarrone ’01 Kate & Ben Macko ’01 Chloe Marr-Fuller ’00 Lauren McKean ’83 Sarah Neilson ’09 Jackie Nielson Shirley Oskamp & Gary Lindorff Melissa ’91 & Peter Ossanna Rain Perez ’12 Drake ’03 & Finn ’02 Pillsbury Shiva Polefka ’01 Beth & Benet Pols Michele Riccio ’88 Jason Rich ’96 Andrea Roberto ’92 Gerald Robinson ’89 Mary Ropp ’09 Derren Rosbach ’95 Lisa Kay Rosenthal ’09 Eliza Ruel ’13 & Ian Yaffe CedarBough T. Saeji ’93 Jodi Sargent MPhil ’06 & Family Mitsuko & Steven Savage ’77 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 Michael Stevens ’94 Julianne Taylor ’06 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 Ben Walters ’81 Marcia & Tom Wessels Peter Williams ’93 David Winship ’77 Anna Wlodarczyk ’04 Cathleen Wyman Amanda Zych ’06

Kathy & Jerry Miller Jeffrey Miller ’92 Eileen & Ethan Miller Margot & Roger Milliken, Jr. Gail & Gerrish Milliken Chandreyee Mitra ’01 & Eric Shuman Paul Mogensen Amanda & Alan Mogridge Karen & John Moniz Karla Tegzes & Peter Moon ’90 Leland Moore ’10 Marilyn Morgan Westner Suzanne Morse & Noreen Hogan ’91 Lucinda Nalle Susan & Bob Nathane, Jr. Sarah Neilson ’09 Jackie Nielson Emilie Murphy & Byron Nimocks Thupten Norbu ’06 Sigrid Coffin & Wesley Norton Lauren Nutter ’10 Laura O’Brien ’93 John Oliver ’89 Lynn & William Osborn Melissa ’91 & Peter Ossanna Suzanne & Jim Owen Andrea & Jon Pactor Laura Paine Beebe Eleanor & Michael Pancoe Cassady Pappas Pam Parvin ’93 Holly & Ken Paul Valerie Lambert Peacock (’98) & Tobin Peacock ’95 Susan & Robert Pennington Kim & Keating Pepper Rain Perez ’12 Shoshana Perry ’83 & Hale Powell Helen Hess & Chris Petersen Susan Pierce ’77 Sara W. Pierce

••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Caroline Pryor & David MacDonald Machias Savings Bank David Mahoney ’86 Pamy Manice Lauren McKean ’83 Kendra ’01 & Jake Miller David G. Milliken The Gerrish H. Milliken Foundation Abby Moffat Meredith & Phil Moriarty

Suzanne Morse & Noreen Hogan ’91 Susan & Bob Nathane, Jr. Carol ’93 & Jacob ’93 Null Andrea & Jon Pactor Valerie Lambert Peacock (’98) & Tobin Peacock ’95 Kim & Keating Pepper Dick Pierson Sheila Sonne Pulling Jason Rich ’96 Walter M. Robinson III

Harrison Royce Architecture Corp Jessica Glynn ’06 & Santiago Salinas ’05 Kerri Sands ’02 & Edward Muennich ’01 Mitsuko & Steven Savage ’77 Amy & Ryder Scott ’97 Frances Stead Seller & Tim Sellers Kate Sheely ’07 Margie & John Grace Shethar

Carol Dean Silverman & Family J.W. Sims Diana Davis Spencer Laura Starr ’84 Andrea Perry ’95 & Toby Stephenson ’98 Cathy Straka ’82 Caren Sturges Ann & Dick Sullivan Sally Swisher ’78 Tracey Teuber ’98 Diane & Charles Tucker

Pamela Wellner ’84 & Eugene Dickey (’86) Karen Wennlund ’85 Peter Williams ’93 Nellie Wilson ’04 David Winship ’77 Judy & Lou Zawislak

10–14 YEARS

Anonymous (13) Barbara Dole Acosta (’77) Sharon Knopp & Enoch Albert c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Dick Pierson Drake ’03 & Finn ’02 Pillsbury Shiva Polefka ’01 Benjamin J. T. Polloni ’05 Bonnie Porter Laura Bolz & Lawrence Powelson Esther & Christopher Pullman/ The Pullman Charitable Fund Kenneth Punnett ’84 Nishi Rajakaruna ’94 Cathy L. Ramsdell ’78 Robin & David Ray (’81) Lisa & Keith Reed Helene Reeves Lisa Mechaley & Andy Revkin Elisabeth Reynolds & Max Senter Michele Riccio ’88 Jason Rich ’96 Louise Riemer & William Locke Andrea Roberto ’92 Ryan Robison ’18 Patricia & Ronnie Rogers Patricia & James Rogers Derren Rosbach ’95 Eileen & Richard Rosenthal Beverly & Max Rothal Gordon Rowe Eliza Ruel ’13 & Ian Yaffe Dana & Andrew Ruel CedarBough T. Saeji ’93 Jessica Glynn ’06 & Santiago Salinas ’05 Barbara Sample Dan Sangeap ’90 Jessica & Benjamin Sapp Sardo Sardinsky ’84 Jodi Sargent MPhil ’06 & Family Rolanda Sarkis ’00 Philip Sasse Mitsuko & Steven Savage ’77 Noah Sawyer ’14

Anais Tomezsko ’04 & Noah Scher ’04 Taj Schottland ’10 Candace Schuller Janet Schuman Kirsten Schwarz ’00 Karen Scott Lyta & Robert Seddig Elizabeth & Tarek Selim Dorothy & Roland Seymour Rachael (’05) & Sanjeev ’05 Shah and Family Julia & Chris Shaida Allison & Kyle Scot Shank ’14 Sam Shaw Kate Sheely ’07 Christina Fallon & Sam Sifton Katy Homans & Patterson Sims J.W. Sims Amy Sims ’84 Heather Sisk ’93 & Craig Gordon Laura McGiffert Slover & Bill Slover J.J. & Brian Smith Iona Smith ’92 John D. Speckmann ’87 Amy & David Spurr Lynne & Mike Staggs ’96 Charles Stanhope Laura Starr ’84 Katherine Moloney & David Steinberg Henry Steinberg ’06 Andrea Perry ’95 & Toby Stephenson ’98 Michael Stevens ’94 Dorie Stolley ’88 Pamela Stone ’87 Susan Shaw & Cynthia Stroud Ann & Dick Sullivan Douglas Sward ’96 Cecily Swinburne ’09 Sally Swisher ’78

Twila Tardif Julianne Taylor ’06 Alisa Nye ’15 & Davis Taylor Tracey Teuber ’98 Ander Thebaud Nina Therkildsen ’05 Mari Huang Li Thiersch ’17 Stanley Thomas Lois & Ken Thomsen Deanie Thorsell Ellen Thurman Jo Todrank ’76 & Giora Heth Winifred Hentschel & Philip Trackman Meg Trau-Serrano ’12 J. Louise Tremblay ’91 Elena Tuhy-Walters ’90 & Carl Walters II Sue Turner & Karl Karnaky Caitlin Unites ’03 Julia & Hans Utsch Bonnie & Jim Van Alen II Wendy Van Dyke (’80) Richard Van Kampen (’13) Linda & Richard Van Kampen Donna & Craig VanMetre Shamsher Virk ’07 Ali Wagner Karen Waldron & Richard Hilliard James W. Walker Geoffrey Walsh Ben Walters ’81 Peter Wayne ’83 Nancy Weaver Owen Wells Karen Wennlund ’85 Marcia & Tom Wessels Debby & Alexander Wheeler Amos Tappan Wilder David Williamson Sarah Wilson

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Eben Albert ’03 Robin Glaser & Howard Altmann Heather & Richard Ames Elizabeth Anne ’11 Nancy & Edgar Aronson Ryan Arsenault ’00 Lucy Atkins ’12 Rosemarie Avenia ’86 Cynthia Baker & Jonathan Zeitler Natalie Barnett ’11 Mia & Timothy Bass c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Emily Beck & Geof Young Jeannie & Henry Becton, Jr. Alyson Bell ’10 Sara Bender & Evan Bender ’04 Ann & Fred Benson Jaime (Duval) Beranek ’00 Heather ’08 & Sean ’08 Berg Geena Berry ’10 Deodonne ’06 & Ranjan ’04 Bhattarai Lisa Bjerke ’13, MPhil ’16

Janey Winchell ’82 & Timothy Mangini David Winship ’77 Betsy Wisch ’83 Loretta & Tom Witt Sue Woehrlin ’80 Cathleen Wyman Josh Yarbrough Edie Yentis Atsuhiko & Yukie Yoshida Annie Guppy & David Zachow Judy & Lou Zawislak Libby & Aaron Zweig Amanda Zych ’06

UP TO $100 Anonymous (43) Murray Abramsky Barbara Dole Acosta (’77) Virginia P. Agar Irene S. Alie Samuel Allen ’16 Robin Glaser & Howard Altmann Genevieve Soloway Angle ’00 Elizabeth Anne ’11 Susan George Lyons Applegate ’76 Valerie Armstrong Ryan Arsenault ’00 Jessica Arseneau ’18 & Roman Bina ’16 Yoi Ashida ’20 Lucy Atkins ’12 D. Gay Atkinson II Rosemarie Avenia ’86 Lelania Prior Avila ’92 & Family Ursa Beckford ’17 Katherine Beitko Alyson Bell ’10 Jane Benson Michael Benz MPHIL ’22 Jaime (Duval) Beranek ’00 Heather ’08 & Sean ’08 Berg

YEAR AFTER YEAR

Linda Mejia Black ’09 Jacqueline Bort, MPhil ’11 Justin Bowers ’02 Lauren Breault Sinclair ’01 Antoinette & Benjamin Brewster Jill K. Briggs Brenda Brodie Lydia ’05 & Foy Brown Jean & Ordway Burden William Luther ’06 & Seth Carbonneau ’05

JoAnne Carpenter & Jan Hofstra Lucy Hull & E. Barton Chapin III Mary Ann & Harry Charlston Diana Choksey ’05 & Jordan Mandel-Iaia Andrew Coate-Rosehill ’10 Laura Cohn ’88 Sarah Colletti ’10 & Kyle McMillan Tracy & Gifford Combs/ Combs Family Fund

Elizabeth Hodder Corbus & Clay Corbus Jill ’83 & Ben ’84 Cowie-Haskell Tom Crikelair Gideon Bezalel Culman ’02 Kate Darling ’76 Adam Dau ’01 Jessie Davis ’00 & Dan Bookham Davis Family Foundation Davis Projects for Peace

Geena Berry ’10 Annick Bickson (’12) Linda Mejia Black ’09 Jarly Bobadilla Jacqueline Bort MPhil ’11 Unn & Thomas Boucher Justin Bowers ’02 Lauren Breault Sinclair ’01 Milja & Tony Brecher-DeMuro Roxie & Earl Brechlin Kerry & Joseph Bresee Mary Broad & Rob Yeo Teisha A.W. Broetzman ’88 Deborah Brown Deborah Bruns-Thomas Norvie Bullock Cherie & Jason Burke Gabriella Bzezinski ’23 Jocelyn & John Capen Barbara Carter Taylor Cathcart ’23 Jordan Chalfant ’12 Chloe Chen-Kraus ’14 Taj Chibnik ’95 Cynthia Chisholm ’86 Katherine Clark ’91 Katie Clark ’19 Lisa Clarke Joan Claybrook Dianne Clendaniel & Steve Redgate Andrew Coate-Rosehill ’10 Timothy Cole ’88 Kourtney Collum & Patrick Lyons Sean Conlon Meg Cooksey & Darren Eicken Sarah Corson & Dick Atlee Matthew Corum ’03 J. Gray Cox (’71) Lynn & James Crawford Gideon Bezalel Culman ’02 Samantha Haskell ’10 & Rob Cushman

Keaton Daniel ’18 Kate Darling ’76 Jessie Davis ’00 & Dan Bookham DJ & George Deans Carol & Gary DeBarba Misti DeGroot & Todd DeGroot ’97 Anne Dickinson Sbonga Dlamini ’17 Karen Donnelly Mariah Dutton Diane Dworkin ’89 Samuel Edmonds ’05 Hailey Edwards Christoph Eigenmann Nathan Emley Katherine Emmons Ivy Enoch ’18 Julie Erb ’83 Guy Felixbrodt Michelle Ferris Helen Ferrulli Cynthia Jordan Fisher ’80 Marie & John Fitzgerald Richard Galena ’98 Carla Ganiel Isabella Gardiner Randi Gardner Marina Garland ’12 Matt Giesting Jackson Gillman ’78 Connie Gillum Matthew Glazer Eleanor Gnam ’23 Megan Godfrey ’77 Paula Goldberg Gerda Paumgarten & Lawrence Goldfarb Marie Malin ’01 & Wing Goodale MPhil ’01 Abigail Goodyear ’81 & John Allgood Diane Gordon Tree Goulet ’78

Laura & David Grabow Mary Jo & Darrel Grabow Carrie Graham Terri & George Graham Andrew Greene Nelle Gretzinger Molly Guilfoyle Bridget Hall Carla Seddio & Michael Hamilton Rebecca Hamilton ’13 Matt Hare ’84 Anne Harris ’05 Nicholas Harris ’12 Helene Harton Loie Hayes ’79 Atsuko Watabe ’93 & Bruce Hazam ’92 Rayanna Higley Ivar Hill Russ Holway Charles J. Houston III Laura Howes Noonan ’09 Emily Peterson Huggins ’15 & Connor Huggins ’16 Jen Hughes & Ken Cline Kathryn Hunninen ’03 & Jose Luis Sagastegui Sarah Huntington (’86) Ryuta Ishimura Mary Jo Jakab Jane & David James Missy & Bill Janes (’71) Cheryl A. Johnson (’80) Ronan Johnston-McWilliams ’22 Bruce Jones ’81 Patricia D’Angelo Juachon ’92 Cynthia Kaiser Sarah Morgan Kearsley, MPhil ’16 Patricia & James Keeley Shir Kehila ’18 Ashlesha Khadse ’08 Steve King ’80 Bori Kiss ’02

Lilian Alvarado & Zack Klyver ’17 Joan & Ted Koffman Jonathan Kohrman ’84 Daniel Kojo Schrade Paul Kozak ’86 Robin Kuehn ’10 Carolyn Kurek Carrol Lange ’99 Marjorie Lau ’81 Melissa LeDonne Caroline Leonard ’01 Lizzie Leone ’93 Randy Lessard ’92 & Melissa Lessard-York ’90 Donald Levesque Daniel Levy Sophia Levy ’23 Kristi Lewark Lonna Lewis Julianna Lichatz ’90 Daniel Lindner, Jr. ’11 Maryalice & Brian Little Neith Little ’09 Maria Vanegas Long ’84 Danielle & Gordon Longsworth Laura Casey ’01 & Benjamin Lord ’99 Heather & Aaron Loudon Claudia Lowd Hélène Lowe Dupas Haley Harwood Lowell ’11 Andrea Lynn ’90 Blaise Maccarrone ’01 Betsy MacDermid David Mahoney ’86 Jane Mandelbaum Bianca Massacci ’20 Maria Asoni & Guido Massacci Michael Mattison Thomas Maxin Sarah McDaniel ’93 Lily McGrath

YEAR AFTER YEAR • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Davis United World College Scholars Program Megan Smith ’90 & Daniel DenDanto ’91 Beth Rendeiro & Steven DePaul Peggy Dulany E.L. Shea, Inc. Peter W. Emmet ’92 Casey Jones & Bill Faller Sugar & Nat Fenton Elsie Flemings ’06 & Richard Cleary

Mindi Friedwald ’99 Joanne & Richard Fuerst Linda Fuller & Jeffrey Seeley Marina Garland ’12 Helen Geils Annika Maia Ginsberg ’99 Erin ’92 & Graham ’91 Goff Gerda Paumgarten & Lawrence Goldfarb Jaki Erdoes ’80 & Terry Good ’80 Marie Malin ’01 & Wing Goodale, MPhil ’01

Carrie Graham Heather Hallett-Thurston & Mark Hallett Mary Harney ’96 Nicholas Harris ’12 Anne Harris ’05 Louise Hartwell Patricia & John* Hatton Jocelyn Hayes Ed Haynsworth III ’98 Juliet Hodge ’95 Noah Hodgetts ’10 Eduarta ’05 & Matt Holl

Russ Holway Lynn & Jeff Horowitz Laura Howes Noonan ’09 Emily Peterson Huggins ’15 & Connor Huggins ’16 Kathryn Hunninen ’03 & Jose Luis Sagastegui Jane & David James Nishad Jayasundara ’05 Patricia A. Jennings (‘71) Cheryl A. Johnson (’80) Bruce Jones ’81 Jennifer Judd-McGee (’92)

Ali & Steve Kassels Bori Kiss ’02 Joan & Allan Kleinman Greg Koehlert ’96 Jonathan Kohrman ’84 Paul Kozak ’86 Natasha Krell ’16 Susan & Keith Kroeger Robin Kuehn ’10 Philip Bradish Kunhardt IV ’11 & Maria Laura Torre Gomez Carrol Lange ’99

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Amy McIntire Nancy McKenzie & Ned Landis Owen Mendelaar ’23 Tree & Scott Mercer Caitlin Meredith Sandra & Hubert Merrick Nils Midtun ’24 Audrey Miglino Lizabeth Mitchell Kevin Monahan Alejandra Morales Torres ’23 Elaine Mostoller Brenda Mulrooney Bethany Murray ’03 Olin Eugene Myers Jr. (’80) Angela Nelson Quint Nigro ’23 Hope Olmstead Uri Orozco Brenes ’26 Shirley Oskamp & Gary Lindorff Susanna O’Sullivan Giorgia Paliaga Mills ’23 Taylor Palmer ’23 Haleigh J. Paquette ’17 Susanne & Bear Paul Sharyn Peterson Mycena Phillips ’23 Elena Piekut ’09 Beth & Benet Pols Isabella Pols ’23 Shanley & Marc Poole Jane & Keith ’80 Prairie Mauro Ramirez Azofeifa ’23 Steven Rapacki Bridget Rathsack Lori & John Ricci Gerald Robinson ’89 Hilda K. Roderick Mary Ropp ’09 Karen Rose Alice Bissell & Stephen Rosen

••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Virginie Lavallee-Picard ’07 & Alexander Fletcher ’07 Caroline Leonard ’01 Lizzie Leone ’93 Otti & Jeffrey Levine Linda & Jonathan Lewis Julianna Lichatz ’90 Daniel Lindner, Jr. ’11 Neith Little ’09 Laura Casey ’01 & Benjamin Lord ’99 Haley Harwood Lowell ’11 Andrea Lynn ’90 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Blaise Maccarrone ’01 Kate & Ben Macko ’01 Maine Beer Co LLC Carol & Rick Malone Chloe Marr-Fuller ’00 Lily McGrath Linda Parker & Jamie McKown Megan McOsker ’90 Rebecca Melius ’01 Tree & Scott Mercer Deb & Bob Milotte, Jr. Heather & George Mitchell

Chandreyee Mitra ’01 & Eric Shuman Amanda & Alan Mogridge Kevin Monahan Karen & John Moniz Bethany Murray ’03 Sarah Neilson ’09 Thupten Norbu ’06 Lauren Nutter ’10 Melissa ’91 & Peter Ossanna Pam Parvin ’93 Susie & Bob Peck Laura & Vassar Pierce, Jr.

Barbara & Charles Pierce, Jr. Lisa & Jay Pierrepont Drake ’03 & Finn ’02 Pillsbury Jane & Keith ’80 Prairie Kenneth Punnett ’84 Emily & Mitch Rales Robin & David Ray (’81) Lori & John Ricci Andrea Roberto ’92 Jared I. Roberts Amy Falls & Hartley Rogers Mary Ropp ’09

Alice Bissell & Stephen Rosen Lisa Kay Rosenthal ’09 Eliza Ruel ’13 & Ian Yaffe Martie & Ed Samek Jodi Sargent, MPhil ’06 & Family Rolanda Sarkis ’00 Taj Schottland ’10 Eloise Schultz ’16 Kirsten Schwarz ’00 Lyta & Robert Seddig

Diane Rosenberg Lisa Kay Rosenthal ’09 Karla Rusch Anne Ryan Addams Samuel ’11 Kerri Sands ’02 & Edward Muennich ’01 Claire & Mike Sasner Barbara Sassaman ’78 Eloise Schultz ’16 Amy & Ryder Scott ’97 Rosemary Seton Donna Seymour Sarah Sharpe Sonnie Shepherd Helena Shilomboleni ’09 Erickson Smith ’15 Molly Lanzarotta & Tim Smith Shoshona Smith ’08 Zachary ’05 & Paige ’06 Steele Jenifer Stevens Maddy Stevens ’23 Marie Stivers Cathy Straka ’82 Silvija Strikis Anchun Jean Su Timothea Sutton-Antonucci ’94 & Neal Antonucci ’95 Anne Swann ’86 Scott Swann ’86, MPhil ’93 Courtney Swazey V. Yvonne Tabb Jasmine Tanguay ’98 Aimee & Jeff Terosky Ann Walker & Richard Thomas Julia Walker Thomas ’08 Riley Thompson ’13 Krista Thorsell ’10 Deborah Tiner Maria Tohn ’17 Magdalena Toran Carrie Tropasso

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Rachael (’05) & Sanjeev ’05 Shah and Family Allison & Kyle Scot Shank ’14 Helena Shilomboleni ’09 Katy Homans & Patterson Sims Molly Lanzarotta & Tim Smith Erickson Smith ’15 Jamie S. Somes Henry Steinberg ’06 Sidney Stern Memorial Trust

Allison & Steve Sullens Nonie & John Sullivan, Jr. Timothea Sutton-Antonucci ’94 & Neal Antonucci ’95 Anne Swann ’86 Douglas Sward ’96 Jasmine Tanguay ’98 Julianne Taylor ’06 Ander Thebaud Nina Therkildsen ’05 Julia Walker Thomas ’08 Krista Thorsell ’10

YEAR AFTER YEAR

Laura Stanton & Kim Tomlinson Meg Trau-Serrano ’12 Kristen Tubman ’03 Mary Kay Long & Dennis Unites Caitlin Unites ’03 Kate Unkel ’14 Julia & Hans Utsch Kathy Vignos Jennifer Vinck ’93 Shamsher Virk ’07

Luciana Pandolfi ’98 & Luke Wagner ’99 Gail Wartell HannahMathilde Waschezyn ’13 Carol Weg Rosalie J. Coe Weir Foundation Anna Wlodarczyk ’04 Cathleen Wyman Trudi Zundel ’13 Erin ’04 & Mike ’01 Zwirko c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Kristen Tubman ’03 Diane & Charles Tucker John Twiss Frank Twohill ’79 Kate Unkel ’14 Alison J. Valley ’81 John Viele (’81) Jennifer Vinck ’93 Shreya Vinodh ’23 Gail Wartell HannahMathilde Waschezyn ’13 Wendy Weinrich Jacob Weisberg ’10 Paul Weisser Pamela Wellner ’84 & Eugene Dickey (’86) Jeffrey Wells ’92 Isabel Whiston Mikayla White Whit Whitman ’87 Cory Whitney ’03 Joshua Williams Peter Williams ’93 Nellie Wilson ’04 Joplin Wistar ’84 Laura Fitch & William Witten Anna Wlodarczyk ’04 Trudi Zundel ’13

GIFTS IN KIND Anonymous (2) Bars by the Bay Elizabeth Chen Frost Farms LLC John Grace National Geographic Society Ian Nisbet

ORGANIZATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS Anonymous (4) Acadia Goldendoodles

Artemis Gallery Bains Family Foundation Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Barnsley Foundation Inc. The Timothy R. Bass Family Foundation Paul Bechtner Foundation Becton Family Foundation Bell & Anderson, LLC Bessemer Trust Blue Hill Co-op BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund Boston Family Office Builders Initiative Foundation The Florence V. Burden Foundation at the recommendation of Foundation Directors Ordway & Jean Burden The Casco Foundation at Spinnaker Trust Michele and Agnese Cestone Foundation Colby College Community Foundation of Jackson Hole Community Foundation of New Jersey Community Foundation of South GA., Inc. Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc. Dabones Studios Limited Dandy Solar Electric James Deering Danielson Foundation Davis Family Foundation Davis Projects for Peace Davis United World College Scholars Program E.L. Shea, Inc. The Eacho Family Foundation Empower Retirement LLC The Chandler B. and Oliver A. Evans Foundation

Exelon Foundation First National Bank The FJC Fdn of Philanthropic Funds Fore River Foundation The Fourth Corner Foundation Friends of Acadia Galyn’s Galley Garden Club of Mount Desert Good Hope Family Foundation Google LLC Harris Family Fund of Princeton Area Community Foundation John W. and Clara C. Higgins Foundation Institute of Museum and Library Services J.P. Morgan Charitable Giving Fund Raymond James Charitable The Howard Johnson Foundation The Janet Stone Jones Foundation Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation Machias Savings Bank Maine Beer Co LLC Maine Coast Sea Vegetables Maine Community Foundation The Nelson Mead Fund MELMAC Education Foundation William A. Meyer Jewish Community Foundation The Gerrish H. Milliken Foundation The Susan and Robert Nathane, Jr. Charitable Fund at East Bay Community Foundation National Geographic Society National Philanthropic Trust (NPT-UK) Nautilus Foundation Incorporated Newman’s Own Foundation Newtmont Foundation Northern Trust Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Incorporated

Elwood R. Quesada Educational Foundation Renaissance Charitable Foundation, Inc. Rockefeller Family Fund Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation The Sims/Maes Foundation, Inc Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Marion Boulton “Kippy”/ Stroud Foundation The Swan Agency - Sotheby’s International Realty Charles B. Sweatt Foundation The Synergy Foundation Lisa Stewart Target Foundation The Elm Grove Foundation Tonamora Foundation Truist (SunTrust) Turnbull Family Foundation Inc. Uplands Family Foundation Valley Charitable Trust Versant Power WaterStone Rosalie J. Coe Weir Foundation The WELWE Foundation Whales and Nails Yaverland Foundation

Total number of donors = 1,197

GIFTS OF TIME AND TALENT

While many current students, staff, faculty, and trustees go above and beyond, contributing their time and talent in many ways, those individuals are not included in this list. Abdullahi Ahmed Naomi Albert Becky Anderson Edwin Barkdoll Abby Barrows MPhil ’18 Jeff Beedy Christy and Rob Benson Deborah E. Bicknell John Brammer Kelli Clark Eric Columber Brian Cote Meggie Curtis ’19

Jane Disney Heather Dority ’96 Brianne Dunn Amanda Dyer Rebecca Edmondson Joanna Fogg ’07 Dave Folger ’81 Rhonda Fortin Caroline Fournier Jacquelyn Gill ’05 Elizabeth Giman Jessie Greenbaum ’89 & Phil Lichtenstein ’92

Julie Hagle Nicholas Harris ’12 Alisa Hearn Kim Heist Carla Hunt Jim Kadin Susan Kales & Scott Lawliss Edith Schriever & Ron Korstanje Gayle Kraus Dayana Krawchuk Katrina Linscott Yesenia Lipski

Enrique Valencia Lopez ’11 Zeya Lorio ’22 Hannah Lust Laura Lyell Carol Shutt & Rocky Mann Bryan Maurais Kreg McCune Chris McGuire Tara & Mike McKernan Danielle Meier ’08 Julie Meltzer & Jonathan Bender

Michelle Merica Carissa Bielamowicz Miller Jon Moore Jordan Motzkin ’11 Laura Muller Kate Petrie Abby Plummer MPhil ’16 Cicy Po Suzen Polk-Hoffses Destiny Powell ’20 Tonya Prentice Chandra Raymond

Lewis Redding Allison Reid Megan Rilkoff Dani Robbins Carol Rosinski Snow Ross Siobhan Ran Jodi Sargent MPhil ’06 & Family Kate Schlepr ’13 Kim Schroeder Eloise Schultz ’16 Rachel Singh & Michael Prisco

Brittany Slabach ’09 Jasmine Smith ’09 Jesse Snider ’21 Autumn Soares ’01 Ashley Stanley Steve Thomas Thérèse Toohey Matt Umphrey Todd West ’00 Bik Wheeler ’09 Rebecca Woods Ron Wrobel

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.

Anonymous (4)

Wendy & Bill Foulke, Jr.

Rick Moss ’79

Elizabeth Rousek Ayers ’95

Barbara McLeod & David Hales

Susan Tieger & Ralph Nurnberger

Sandi Read & Ron Beard

Diana & George Hambleton

Emily Beck & Geof Young Ann & Fred Benson John Biderman ’77 Lynn Boulger & Tim Garrity

Sam Hamill, Jr. Jan & George E. Hartman Tomoko & Masanobu Ikemiya Sue Inches ’79

Linda & Eliot Paine Debra & John Piot Roxana & Tony Robinson, Jr. Karen Rose Steve Ross

Norah Davis Betsy & John Kelly Fran Day

Cynthia E. Livingston & Hank L.P. Schmelzer

Mary K. Eliot

Margaret & Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77

Ellen Seh (’75)

Donna & Gordon Erikson, Jr.

Sarah McDaniel ’93

Stu Summer ’82

Judith & David Hackett Fischer

Meredith & Phil Moriarty

Ingrid Sunzenauer

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.

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OUR 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. The human ecological perspective guides all aspects of education, research, activism, and interactions among the college’s students, faculty, staff, and trustees. The College of the Atlantic community encourages, prepares, and expects students to gain expertise, breadth, values, and practical experience necessary to achieve individual fulfillment and to help solve problems that challenge communities everywhere.

OUR VISION The faculty, students, trustees, staff, and alumnx 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.

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ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEE

INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

Cynthia Baker, chair Michael Boland ’94 Beth Gardiner Amy Geier George Hambleton Lissa Hodder Cookie Horner Casey Mallinckrodt Tony Mazlish Jay McNally ’84 Martie Samek Laura Stone Shawn Keeley ’00, dean of institutional advancement (staff)

Steve Sullens, chair Clay Corbus Roland Reynolds Hank Schmelzer Gifford Combs (advisory member) Brooke Parish (advisory member) Bear Paul, administrative dean and CFO (staff) Missy Cook, controller (staff)

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