Philanthropy Report • Fiscal Year 2024 by College of the Atlantic

COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC Philanthropy Report Fiscal Year 2024

CONTENTS Letter

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1

TRUSTEE OFFICERS

TRUSTEES EMERITI David Hackett Fischer, Wayland, MA William G. Foulke, Jr., Bedford, NY Amy Yeager Geier, Santa Fe, NM 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

Financials

Davis UWC Scholars

Year in review

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

Inspired giving

TRUSTEE MEMBERS

Celebrating Darron Collins ’92

Human ecology in Japan

Endowed chairs

Endowed scholarships

Endowed funds

FY24 supporters

The Champlain Society

Black Fly Society

Alumni Leadership Circle

Northern Lights Society

Year after year

Cynthia Baker, Washington, DC Timothy Bass, Washington, DC Michael Boland ’94, Bar Harbor, ME Joyce Cacho, Washington, DC Alyne Cistone, Mount Desert, ME Heather Richards Evans, Vero Beach, FL Allison Fundis ’03, New Haven, VT 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

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

EX OFFICIO Sylvia Torti, president, Bar Harbor, ME

Stay connected @collegeoftheatlantic @collegeatlantic /school/college-of-the-atlantic This report is published annually by the advancement team at College of the Atlantic to inform our donors and celebrate their generosity and impact.

EDITOR: Kelly Dickson MPhil ’97 DESIGN: Corey Blake, Z Studio Design

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Cover: Ilham Santoso ’24 and Lydia Burnet ’25, COA students who participated in a “monster course” in Japan last fall, enjoy an outing with fisherman Nakamura Moriyuki, (aka Mori-san). Lydia went on to do a micro-internship with Mori-san; read more on page 10. Photo by Yoichiro Ashida ’20

and grants that fund programs and initiatives to illustrate the importance of support for special projects beyond the endowed funds, which have been the focus of previous philanthropy reports.

Dear friends, The past academic and fiscal year will be remembered as a year of transition for COA. We celebrated the extraordinary presidency of our first alum president, Dr. Darron Collins ’92, and completed a successful search for our eighth president, Dr. Sylvia Torti. As we enter this next chapter under Sylvia’s leadership, COA is poised to deepen its commitment to our unique human ecological approach to education as we create an even greater impact locally and globally through our community of students, alumni, faculty, and staff. And like our first 52 academic years, this next chapter will require the generosity of you and other friends whose support has made this educational model possible. This year we have made some significant changes to the report: To reduce paper, printing, and mailing costs, we have trimmed the length of the printed version by moving the endowed chair, scholarship, and fund reports to the full-length online version. I hope you will take the time to read these reports online, which are written by faculty who hold academic chairs and staff who manage our endowed scholarships and funds. We have added a section highlighting restricted gifts

On page 10, you’ll find a feature on a monster course held in Japan—no, students didn’t study Godzilla; they had an immersive, interdisciplinary 10-week experience that embodies what COA is all about. These changes to our report will help paint a more complete picture of philanthropy at COA and are intended to give you a better understanding of how donors are driving our success. The report still includes our donor lists and the Davis United World College Scholars report on page 3, which should not be missed, as it continues to be the college’s largest philanthropic investment. Through this transformational partnership, which is nearing its 25th anniversary, Shelby and Gale Davis have contributed over $37.3 million in scholarships to 365 students from across the globe. Whether you contribute to COA’s Annual Fund, one of our special programs or initiatives, or an endowed fund, thank you for being among those who make this remarkable college on the coast of Maine possible. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this report so please reach out with any feedback, questions, or suggestions.

GIVING AT A GLANCE

$14.9M OVERALL GIVING AND PLEDGES

2,733 GIFTS

1,334 DONORS

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With gratitude,

Shawn Keeley ’00 Dean of Institutional Advancement

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FINANCIALS OUR SUPPORTERS (Total = 1,334)

FRIENDS 452

ALUMS 478

PARENTS 163

ANNUAL FUND AND OTHER GIFTS This fiscal year, COA donors contributed over $1.6 million for the college’s Annual Fund, reaching a new high point. The number of donors also increased from 1,197 in fiscal year 2023 to 1,334 in fiscal year 2024 (7/1/23-6/30/24), thanks in large part to excellent participation in the 24-Hour Challenge on February 6 when 597 donors contributed $304,858. Throughout the year, Broad Reach Capital Campaign pledge payments, new gifts and pledges to endowment funds, and contributions to new and ongoing projects added another $13.2 million for a total of $14.9 million raised. This success is thanks to each and every one of our donors. Thank annual you all! fund ANNUAL FUND

TRUSTEES 46 STAFF, FACULTY, STUDENTS 71 BUSINESSES, ORGANIZATIONS, FOUNDATIONS 124

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ENDOWMENT ACADEMIC PROGRAMS 47%

ADMIN 15% BENEFITS 13%

BOND INTEREST 4% BUILDINGS & GROUNDS 16% FUNDRAISING/ COMMUNICATIONS 5%

Global financial markets continue to show positive growth with a return of +11% over the course of fiscal year 2024. This performance, along with additional Broad Reach Capital Campaign receipts, moved the COA endowment from the $78.8 million mark on June 30, 2023 to $85.3 million on June 30, 2024. The three- and five-year annualized returns of the endowment stood at 2.1% and 6.8% respectively at the end of June 2024. Our annual endowment draw represents a vital source of funding for program operations, equating to roughly $10,400 in annual revenue per student for the 2023-2024 academic year. ENDOWMENT $100M $80M $60M $40M $20M $0 FY00

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Davis United World College Scholars Enriching COA, Enriching MDI

“As a new president, I can attest to the intellectual engagement and sense of responsibility demonstrated by Davis United World College Scholars,” says Sylvia Torti, PhD.

“During my on-campus interview, some of the most thoughtful and challenging questions came from Davis Scholars. In a glorious diversity of voices, they expressed their hopes and expectations for COA. I’m proud to be at an institution that has benefitted from this program since its inception.” The Davis United World College (UWC) Scholars program, cofounded by Shelby Davis and Phil Geier in 2000, has always been focused on internationalizing both the colleges it supports and the communities around them. With 21% of COA’s student body composed of Davis United UWC Scholars, representing 41 countries, every aspect of campus life is infused with

$37.3M

total scholarship funding for Davis UWC Scholars since program began in 2000

Davis UWC Scholars currently enrolled

countries currently represented

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international perspectives. And this infusion does not stop at the edge of our campus—it extends to organizations in the Mount Desert Island (MDI) region and beyond, where Davis UWC Scholars are actively involved and contributing to local initiatives. Here are some examples from the past fiscal year: At The Jackson Laboratory, a biomedical research institution located in Bar Harbor, Raheem Khadour ’25, Mustafa Khorzom ’25, and Alsu Shagieva ’24 were selected as 2024 Academic Year Fellows. Khadour and Adel Misherghi ’24 were also contributing authors on scientific papers published in The Journal of Immunology, detailing the creation of genetically engineered mouse models crucial for studying type 1 diabetes. At Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Sofia Dragoti ’25 participated in a genetics workshop funded by the National Institutes of Health. She also secured a fellowship at The Jackson Laboratory, gaining

world-class biomedical research experience. The Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Manomet Conservation Sciences, and COA were all hosts to intern Laila Hammoudeh ’26, who worked to support river herring restoration, research, and management in the Gulf of Maine. In the Cranberry Isles, COA launched an energy outreach program last summer, with Uriel Orozco Brenes ’26 and Rudy Lukasevics ’25 conducting free energy audits and helping island residents make their homes more energy efficient. COA is proud to be one of the first five colleges to host Davis UWC Scholars, beginning in 2000. Today, 100 US colleges and universities host 4,209 scholars from around the world. To learn more about the Davis UWC Scholars Program, visit davisuwcscholars.org.

21%

of COA students are Davis UWC Scholars

293

COA graduates are Davis UWC Scholars

years that Davis UWC Scholars have attended COA

Davis UWC Scholars co-founder Phil Geier welcomes new scholars at the annual celebratory Globe Ceremony held each fall at COA.

YEAR IN REVIEW

These examples of faculty, student, and institutional excellence at College of the Atlantic occurred over our past fiscal year (July 1, 2023–June 30, 2024). All of this is made possible by the generous support of our donors.

JULY: Professor Gray Cox published Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth, a book suggesting that AI systems should be redesigned to be wiser, not just more efficient and “smarter.” It offers paths to collaborative wisdom and partnerships with researchers and activists creating solutions to existential threats from ecological collapse, climate change, wars of mutually assured destruction, and out-of-control technology.

SEPTEMBER: Artist Andy Goldsworthy spent much of the summer and fall at COA, creating his first permanent installation in Maine. Road Line, a sinuous granite formation, runs 1,500 feet from the Route 3 entrance through campus and down to the ocean.

AUGUST: COA and National Geographic combined forces to put on another successful Summer Institute. This year’s theme, Reimagining Exploration, featured speakers including “Her Deepness,” oceanographer Sylvia Earle, and Dr. Nirav Shah, who led the State of Maine's public health response to COVID-19.

NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER

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JUNE: Professor John Anderson was awarded the John A. Goldwater Scholars Faculty Mentor award. Anderson has worked with many undergraduate field ecology researchers, including 16 Goldwater Scholars. He was praised for being “a committed mentor who inspires excellence, diligence, and confidence.”

MAY: Chunky Monkey, an abandoned male seal pup, was rescued by Allied Whale’s stranding team. He was emaciated, dehydrated, and infected, but after rehabilitation, he made a full recovery and was released. COA is authorized by NOAA to respond to marine mammal distress calls from Rockland, Maine to the Canadian border. As the only college in the northeast with a stranding response team, COA provides valuable learning experiences for students and community volunteers.

APRIL: COA announced the selection of its eighth president: author, ecologist, and academic leader Sylvia Torti, PhD, who comes to us from the University of Utah, where she served as dean of the Honors College from 2012–2023. Torti has lived and worked globally, and is a collaborative leader with a passion for experiential, interdisciplinary learning. c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

OCTOBER: College of the Atlantic

NOVEMBER: Beech Hill Farm

was ranked #1 on the Princeton Review’s “Top 50 Green Colleges” list for the eighth year in a row. The list features schools with “superb sustainability practices, a strong foundation in sustainability education, and a healthy quality of life for students on campus” — that’s COA alright!

remained open later than previous years, thanks to a large new farmstand that was funded by a generous donor. In addition to providing certified organic vegetables for COA and the wider community, Beech Hill Farm and the Peggy Rockefeller Farm (also owned by the college) serve as living laboratories where students and faculty explore sustainable agricultural practices and gain a deeper connection to the land.

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DECEMBER: COA sent a delegation of faculty and students to the 28th Conference of the Parties in Dubai. Students pressed national leaders to stop “greenwashing” ideas like selling carbon credits, and instead address global inequity and the real drivers of climate change.

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2024 MARCH: Raheem Khadour ’25 was listed as an author of a paper published in The Journal of Immunology, an uncommon feat for an undergraduate student. The paper discusses the development of mouse models for the study of heart disease, providing researchers with more efficient methods for diagnosis and treatment. Khadour’s research was conducted through an academic fellowship in biomedical research at The Jackson Laboratory. c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

FEBRUARY: COA celebrated a sustainability milestone when it bought into a new 25-acre community solar farm in Hampden, Maine. The solar array will meet nearly all of COA's electricity needs, saving the college more than $25,000 per year. This achievement was driven by a student-led push for Maine-made clean energy, and is a key step in the college’s commitment to eliminate fossil fuel use by 2030.

JANUARY: As part of “Leaning into Winter,” a student wellness initiative launched through COA’s Outdoor Program, students traveled to the White Mountains in New Hampshire, learning snowshoeing and other outdoor skills.

INSPIRED GIVING On these pages, we highlight a few of the special gifts and grants made to College of the Atlantic over the past fiscal year that illustrate the transformative power of thoughtful and strategic philanthropy. These contributions—driven by the generosity and vision of our donors—are shaping educational experiences, advancing academic programs, and providing life-changing opportunities.

Enhancing Student Life and Wellbeing

Gillis Blue Humanities Scholars Program

Supported by The Endeavor Foundation ($110,000) and Anonymous ($100,000)

Supported by Christina M. Gillis ($44,000 over three years)

These contributions have transformed COA’s student life program by funding the creation of a full-time Director of Residence Life, expanding mental health services, and enriching student wellness programs. With additional support for outdoor leadership, peer mentorship, and resilience-building, COA is fostering a healthier, more connected campus community.

Thorndike Library Accessibility Project Supported by Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation ($40,000)

This gift brings humanities scholars to COA with a focus on marine environments and the human connection to the sea. The program honors historian John Gillis and deepens students’ understanding of human interactions with the oceans.

Mapping Ocean Stories and Frenchman Bay Oral History Project Supported by Anonymous ($196,900 over two years) and Wendy Gamble ($22,000 over two years)

This grant funded key accessibility upgrades at COA’s Thorndike Library, including automatic doors and specialized resources for patrons with disabilities, making the library a more inclusive and accessible space for students and the local community.

This multi-faceted project engages COA students in transcribing and analyzing oral histories of environmental changes and fisheries in coastal Maine. Students are creating interactive exhibits to share this knowledge with local communities and policymakers, bridging the gap between community insights and climate adaptation decisions, while preserving an important history for future generations.

Wabanaki Scholarship

Community-Engaged Data Science

Supported by Rosalie J. Coe Weir Foundation ($25,000)

Supported by Henry David Thoreau Foundation ($39,873)

This grant helps cover tuition and other costs for a Wabanaki student, strengthening COA’s commitment to diversity and Indigenous representation.

This grant established a Community-Engaged Data Science program at COA, pairing students with local environmental organizations to tackle critical issues like water quality and biodiversity. Data science was used to inform community-driven solutions.

Geothermal Assessment Supported by The Blossom Fund ($127,500) This gift funded a feasibility study and test well to explore the potential of using geothermal energy for heating and cooling key campus buildings. The study revealed a strong flow rate that could generate electricity. Building a geothermal system will move COA closer to its goal of being fossil fuel-free by 2030.

North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog Supported by Scott MacKenzie ($100,356) For nearly a decade, Scott MacKenzie has supported the expansion of COA’s North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog, a vital resource for advancing research and conservation efforts to protect humpback whale populations. Student researchers benefit from this support and contribute to scientific knowledge as they monitor and study whales in their natural habitat. c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

DAVID EVANS SHAW

Shaw Fellowships

A fund for environmental internships Internships are a cornerstone of the College of the Atlantic experience, providing students with invaluable hands-on learning in real-world settings. Each year, about 60 COA students complete internships in Maine, the US, and abroad. However, many internships, especially those with nonprofit organizations, are unpaid, creating a financial barrier for some students. Thanks to a generous gift of $25,000 from David Evans Shaw, three COA students received Shaw Fellowships this past summer to work in Acadia National Park. Under the mentorship of new faculty member Brittany Slabach ’09, the Kim M. Wentworth Chair in Environmental Studies at COA, Nathan Morgan ’26, Sierra Abrams ’26, and Jackie Brooks ’26 contributed to important research on small mammal ecology. The students learned compass navigation, vegetation sampling, and camera monitoring before they began their research on the home ranges of deer mice and c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

meadow voles and the impact of revegetation. Morgan focused on field methods and data management, Abrams led outreach and conservation analysis, and Brooks concentrated on educational outreach. The students will continue their data analysis and present their findings at a regional scientific conference in the spring. David Shaw’s support made these fellowships possible, allowing the students to gain critical experience in conservation research, and advancing COA’s mission to inspire and equip the next generation of change-makers.

Top: Davis Evans Shaw and Brittany Slabach; left: David Evans Shaw with Shaw Fellows and friends on site in Acadia; above: meadow vole.

Chemistry faculty and students at COA (left to right): faculty Sarah Kheireddine, PhD, Ruvan de Graaf ’22, faculty Reuben Hudson, PhD, Ludwin Moran Sosa ’24, Mustafa Khorzom ’25, Raheem Khadour ’25, Red Delelegne ’25, post-doc research faculty Thiago Altair Felleira

Displaced chemists

Recruiting faculty from war-torn regions In 2022, as the war in Ukraine impacted millions, College of the Atlantic saw an opportunity to provide a safe haven for scientists from war-torn regions while simultaneously addressing the growing demand for chemistry courses. With only one faculty member, COA struggled to meet the rising student interest in chemistry. Reuben Hudson, the Lalage and Steven Rales Chair in Chemistry, proposed an innovative solution: recruiting displaced chemists to strengthen the program. Securing grant funding typically takes months, but thanks to a generous anonymous gift of $347,000,

COA was able to act quickly. This funding allowed the college to offer a full-time position to Sarah Kheireddine, PhD, a talented chemist from Lebanon, in early 2023. Since joining COA, Sarah has taught organic chemistry and catalysis, mentored students, and helped expand the chemistry program. The donation also created life-changing opportunities for international students. Syrian students Raheem Khadour ’25 and Mustafa Khorzom ’25 gained critical research experience in 2022, leading to fellowships at The Jackson Laboratory and the MDI Biological Laboratory.

Ongoing support from the donor also facilitated the relocation of two Ukrainian scientists, Vitalii Polubinskyii and Anastasiia Pustovoit, whose expertise has enriched COA’s academic community. This transformative gift has strengthened COA’s chemistry program and provided crucial opportunities for displaced scientists and international students. By fostering a more diverse and dynamic learning environment, it embodies COA’s commitment to academic excellence and global responsibility. c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Celebrating the presidency of Darron Collins ’92 A legacy of leadership and dedication

After 13 remarkable years that advanced the college in every way possible, COA’s first alum president, Darron Collins ’92, decided to make the 2024-2025 academic year his last as president. To celebrate Darron’s extraordinary presidency, the community came together in a number of ways. Donors contributed more than $1.6 million to establish the Darron Asher Collins Chair in Music and Sound Studies, an endowed position held by Jonathan Henderson, an ethnomusicologist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer. On June 10, the new 46-bed student residence, made possible by the generosity of the c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund and Andrew and Kate Davis, was dedicated in honor of Darron and his family. Faculty, staff, trustees, alumni, and friends gathered to celebrate these milestones and Darron’s leadership with a joyful gathering on the North Lawn, where stories were shared, and new memories made. Everyone danced, ate, and sent Darron and his family off in style. Thankfully, he will remain in Bar Harbor—Darron is now executive director of the Cromwell Harbor Foundation. We are confident the Collins family will continue to be wonderful friends and advocates for COA.

We extend our deepest thanks to Darron and his family for their enduring commitment to COA, and to our donors for their transformative support.

Human ecology in Japan

A monster course in microplastics and micro-internships There is perhaps nothing that embodies the uniqueness of a COA education better than the “monster” course—a term long, three-credit class that allows students to engage in a place-based, experiential, interdisciplinary study of the culture, ecology, and history of an area with local residents, entrepreneurs, and experts.

in this far-off locale. The 10-week course was led by Jay Friedlander, the Sharpe-McNally Chair of Green and Socially Responsible Business, and marine scientist Abby Barrows MPhil ’18, who owns an oyster farm in Maine. Based out of COA’s affiliate school, Setouchi Global Academy (SGA), the students became part of the community by doing short homestays and studying Japanese culture and language with SGA founding director Nagao Sensei. With a rich maritime heritage, local farms, traditional culture, and tightknit community, this Japanese island has many parallels with Mount Desert Island. In addition to studying the language and culture of Japan, students explored the Seto Inland Sea, engaged in terrestrial and aquatic microplastics research (led by Barrows), and did some kayaking, hiking, and

traveling in the area. Each student also participated in a week-long micro-internship covering a range of activities, including working with local farmers and fishermen, studying Zen Buddhism with a temple priest, working in a local high school, and studying with the last maker of traditional tatami mats on the island. “Students in this course experienced traditional Japanese life on this remote rural island,” said Friedlander. “They made strong ties and the community embraced them with open arms. Approaching this in a human ecological way meant students could interact with and see the richness of Japan and Ōsakikamijima from multiple perspectives.”

This past fall, 10 students journeyed to Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, for the Human Ecology Lab in Ōsakikamijima course, affectionately known as the Japanese monster course. Their focus wasn’t on Godzilla (Japan’s beloved contribution to world cinema), but on exploring the relationship of people and place

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Lydia Burnet ’25, one of the students who took the course, was particularly excited to study the impact of microplastics on the environment with Barrows. The two-week module included classroom study and field work such as towing a fine-mesh net from behind a boat to collect samples, and combing beach plots. The students also did a “brand audit”—a citizen science initiative that involves counting and documenting the brands found on plastic waste to help identify the companies responsible for plastic pollution. From the samples they collected

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and processed, it became clear that microplastic pollution was abundant throughout all water sources in the area, regardless of their proximity to urban areas. “After we finished Abby’s unit, I interned with a local fisherman, Mori-san. We discussed this issue, and he expressed how it was an emerging worry in his career. A few students and I participated in a cleanup of islands around Ōsakikamijima with the local fishermen’s association. Working hands-on in the field and discussing these issues with local stakeholders

like Mori-san provided valuable insights,” said Burnet. Burnet is now researching microplastic ingestion in herring gulls for her senior project at the COA Alice Eno Field Research Station on Great Duck Island. “My experiences in Japan remain a catalyst for my studies in plastic pollution,” she continued. “By understanding the local impacts and seeking multi-level solutions, I hope to contribute to the growing movement towards a more sustainable and resilient future, where turning off the tap of plastic production is prioritized.”

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

Richard J. Borden Chair in Humanities

Rachel Carson Chair in Ecology

T.A. Cox Chair in Studio Arts

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

Charles Eliot Chair in Ecological Planning, Policy, and Design

Andrew S. Griffiths Chair for the Dean of Administration

Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Studies

McNally Family Chair in Philosophy and Human Ecology

Elizabeth Battles Newlin Chair in Botany

Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems

Emily and Mitchell Rales Chair in Ecology

Lalage and Steven Rales Chair in Chemistry

David Rockefeller Family Chair in Ecosystem Management and Protection

Sharpe-McNally Chair in Green and Socially Responsible Business

Lisa Stewart Chair in Literature and Women’s Studies

Allan Stone Chair in the Visual Arts

Cody Van Heerden Chair in Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences

Kim M. Wentworth Chair in Environmental Studies

James Russell Wiggins Chair in Government and Polity

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman Chair in the Performing Arts

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Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Chair in Earth Systems and Geoscience Chairholder: Sarah R. Hall, PhD I am currently on leave as a Science & Technology Policy Fellow, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I’m stationed at the US Geological Survey in the Washington, DC area and am working on the Natural Hazards Mission team, focused on landslides and other geohazards.

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

Many of my students have benefitted from the Bass Chair, which funds a wide range of field and lab-based opportunities. One of those students is Alba Rodriguez Padilla ’18. Alba tells me that her favorite classes at COA were Geology of MDI and South American Earth Systems, both of which I taught. She is now completing a postdoc in geology at California State University. She and I co-wrote a chapter in the newly released book titled Geoenvironmental changes in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru. I’m pleased that many of my former students are in STEM or human-ecologically focused careers. Above: Alba Rodriguez Padilla ’18; right: Sarah Hall.

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

$2,479,501 261,517 (117,000) $2,624,018

Richard J. Borden Chair in Humanities Chairholder: Bonnie Tai, EdD My teaching and advising over academic year 2023–24 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—which includes five Maine Department of Education-approved educator preparation programs for students interested in teaching elementary and secondary students in the areas of English language arts, life sciences, social studies, or K-12 visual arts, and a new educational studies endorsement. In the fall, I taught Culturally Sustaining and Revitalizing Education, which is a new course updating an earlier version called Intercultural Education and designed to better prepare PK–12 teachers to teach Wabanaki studies, required under Maine law, and prepare future educators for engaging transnational students ethically and effectively. I also taught Understanding and Managing Group Dynamics, offered to a broad cross section of students interested in learning how to best harness the power of groups as a group member, facilitator, and/or leader; Curriculum Design and Assessment, a required course for prospective secondary educators and for advanced and graduate students writing curriculum for their senior projects and theses; and an advanced tutorial in Qualitative Program Evaluation Methods, for graduate students preparing their thesis proposals. I directed two undergraduate independent studies, “Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages” and “Changing Schools, Changing Society,” for a student seeking an educational studies endorsement. I directed one graduate Established in 2011 independent study, a by COA trustees and literature review analyzing alumni to honor longand synthesizing studies on time COA professor the development of aversive and academic dean, racism among young Richard J. Borden. children and pedagogical interventions.

I continue to work on a book project with participants in the COA College Opportunity and Access Program, reflecting on their experiences as low-income, racially minoritized, and/or first-generation college students. Funds from the Borden Chair supported student writing for the book project, a guest for Culturally Sustaining and Revitalizing Education, faculty development with Liz Neptune during Indigenous People’s Week, and several professional development activities, including completing the year-long Inward Bound Mindfulness Education teacher training program and presenting a session at the New England Equal Opportunity Association Annual Conference on “Integrating Mindfulness Education for Self-Knowledge, Compassion, and Executive Function.” Some recent accomplishments of former students include: Rianna Brooks ’18, who is enrolled in the Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Enrique Eduardo Valencia Lopez ’11, who recently completed his PhD in policy, politics, and leadership at UC Berkeley’s School of Education and has started a postdoc with Richard Arum’s lab at U.C. Irvine; and Maria Lis Baiocchi ’07, PhD, who is doing a postdoc with Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and recently published “Una revisión sistemática de antecedentes sobre la migración venezolana actual en Sudamérica” in International Migration and Immigration Policy. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,775,235 187,049 (86,000) $1,876,285 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Rachel Carson Chair in Ecology Chairholder: Suzanne Morse, PhD Over the 2023–24 academic year, I taught 84 students and mentored 14 advisees. I also directed two independent studies (“Learning Conversational Norwegian” with Bella Salman ’26 and “Bread” with Skylar Bodeo-Lomicky ’26), a residency on homesteading in Greenwood, Maine (Simone Le Page ’24) and a summer research project focused on the identification of pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables (Louis Ricou ’25). During the first half of my fall sabbatical, I taught several modules in the agroecology program at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and ended my stay with a visioning session for the research group. In addition to teaching, I gave a presentation on the praxis of sustainability in a college/university setting and spent a week at the University of Bergen. Upon my return to the US, I attended the Society of Human Ecology conference in Tucson, Arizona, and moderated one of the education sessions. For the last month of my sabbatical, I met with and interviewed seed savers across the UK.

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

Advancement Office to use for summer events, and a collaborative gardening project with a local Girl Scouts group. Over the summer, Colleen Nelsen ’27 and Lilia Machado ’25 worked extensively in the garden, watering, weeding, and harvesting seeds.

I continue to serve on the Landscape Subcommittee, Academic Affairs, and the Food Systems Working Group, and manage the community garden. Outside of COA, I serve on the board for Native Gardens of Blue Hill, volunteer for the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, advise masters students at the NMBU, and share stories about Rachel Carson. As always, I am deeply thankful for the institutional support of my work through the Rachel Carson Chair in Human Ecology.

In the winter, I taught The Art and Science of Fermented Foods, which culminated with a sumptuous and well-attended fair where the students shared their exquisite wares. I also team-taught a new course with ecology and natural history professor John Anderson called The Earth’s Moon: Science, Literature, and Mythology. In this course, John and I, together with teaching assistant Wriley Hodge’24 and 17 students, explored the ways life on land and in the sea are entangled with the changing forces and light of the moon’s monthly orbit. Daily observations on cold, crisp nights as well as throughout the day were combined with films, readings, and research, leading to insights and many more questions. In the spring term, I co-taught the foundational course Biology: Form and Function with marine science professor Sean Todd. The term concluded with student-designed, mini research projects ranging from foraging behavior studies (from gulls to earthworms!) to responses of organisms to low- and high-wave energy in the intertidal, to tree responses along an altitudinal gradient. In my Theory and Practice of Organic Gardening course, students tasted soil, planted seeds, and finished with designing and establishing three gardens— one for my fall seeds course, a cut flower garden for the c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,403,800 147,843 (68,000) $1,483,643

T.A. Cox Chair in Studio Arts Chairholder: Nancy Andrews, MFA The 2023–24 academic year was marked by a combination of teaching, creative endeavors, public exhibitions, and community engagement. In the classroom, I taught a diverse range of courses that spanned various aspects of studio arts. The Soundscape course (co-taught with marine science professor Sean Todd), focused on the auditory dimensions of art and science, and how sound influences our environment, ecology, and art. The Four-Dimensional Studio course explored the integration of time in art, encouraging students to create dynamic, time-based works. In the winter term, I co-taught Film and Sound with music professor Jonathan Henderson, examining the relationship between sound and visuals in filmmaking. My Animation course introduced fundamental animation techniques, while the advanced Animation II course delved deeper into complex techniques and project development. Lastly, the Creating Motion Pictures as an Art Form course emphasized filmmaking as a practice of creative expression and innovation.

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

I used funds from the Cox Chair to purchase new camera equipment, significantly enhancing the resources available for animation and other studio projects. I am proud to report that students from my animation courses were accepted into regional animation festivals.

My artistic work was a significant focus this year. I participated in the group show The House Supports Itself from January 11 to February 14 in Brunswick, Maine. Additionally, my digital video On a Phantom Limb (2009) was collected by Duke University Library. I also performed music in Scotland with Linda Smith from our album A Passing Cloud, with gigs in December at Futtle, Bowhouse, St. Monans, Scotland, Glad Café, in Glasgow, and at Cafe OTO, London. This year, I also contributed to academic discourse with my essay “On the Unknown,” published in the spring 2024 issue of MAJ Magazine,

where I explored themes of uncertainty and discovery in my art practice. I invited guest animator Maya Erdelyi for a presentation and Q&A session, providing valuable insights into the art of animation. Additionally, I presented the Ann Arbor Film Festival Touring Program, featuring award-winning films from the latest festival, which exposed the community to diverse and innovative cinematic works.

As the T.A. Cox Chair, I have strived to create a dynamic and supportive environment for students and the broader COA community. I aim to advance the field of studio arts and inspire the next generation of artists. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the generous funders of the T.A. Cox Chair, which has been instrumental in enabling these achievements. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,458,825 154,079 (67,000) $1,545,904 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

William H. Drury, Jr. Chair in Evolution, Natural History, and Ecology Chairholder: John G.T. Anderson, PhD During the 2023–24 academic year, I taught six courses: Working the Sea and Ecology in the fall, Human Anatomy and Physiology and The Earth’s Moon (team taught with botany and agroecology professor Suzanne Morse) in the winter, and Mammalogy and Animal Behavior in the spring. Of these, The Earth’s Moon was the most challenging as a new and highly interdisciplinary course that pushed Suzanne and I out of our comfort zones as teachers and learners. I also served on the search committee for new biology faculty during the winter term. In the spring, I worked closely with National Park Service (NPS) personnel in developing protocols for evaluating the impact of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) on gulls and other seabirds in the Acadia region. We were successful at obtaining funding from Friends of Acadia (FOA) and the NPS that allowed us to obtain samples from a number of gulls on multiple park islands, as well as from COA’s own Great Duck and Mount Desert Rock field stations. In the fall, I took six students to the 47th Annual Meeting of the Waterbirds Society, which was held in Florida this year. I presented a paper on our research here in Maine, and all six students presented their work on our islands. Once again, COA had one of the largest student delegations to the conference, and many colleagues expressed how

impressed they were with the team. I also gave local talks to FOA and the NPS resource management staff, focusing on our work on HPAI and gull habitat selection—the latter building on outstanding work by Wriley Hodge ‘24, whose senior project epitomized the importance of a humanecological approach to issues of conservation.

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

In terms of senior projects, I also had the delightful experience of working with Georgia Lattig ‘24 in her exploration of faith, science, and her educational journey. Her illustrations of the seven days of creation brought me (and others) to tears and, as with Wriley’s work, epitomized the power of a degree in human ecology. I co-authored (with former student Kate Shlepr ‘13, Hodge, and colleague Liam Taylor) a paper in the journal Conservation Biology that reassesses much of what has been assumed about gulls in the northeastern United States.

Lastly, I was honored to be the recipient of the 2024 Goldwater Faculty Mentor Award for my work with students over the years. I would like to emphasize, however, that at COA many faculty are instrumental in the development of our remarkable students, and I feel that the award, in reality, belongs to the faculty as a whole. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

$1,661,489 175,049 (80,000) $1,756,538

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

Charles Eliot Chair in Ecological Planning, Policy, and Design Chairholder: Brook Muller, MArch In academic year 2023–24, my first year at College of the Atlantic, I developed and taught five new courses related to ecological design and in the process gave shape to the ecological design curriculum moving forward. These classes included three seminars (Ecologies of Cities in the fall, Sustainable Architecture in the winter, and Water, Design, and Environmental Futures in the spring), as well as two studios (Design Research Studio: Water Reuse as Community Development in the winter and Design Research Studio: Campus Paths in the spring). In this initial year, I have been building a proper studio environment which includes the kind of equipment necessary to ensure students are able to hone their design and graphic communication skills. I have also been able to bring some remarkable scholars and leading-edge practitioners to campus to work with students; these include: Timothy Beatley, Teresa Heinz, Professor of Sustainable Communities in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia and lead author in the area of green and biophilic cities; Danny Pearl, architect and founder of Montreal-based L’OEUF architects; and May al-Ibrashy, Cairo-based urbanist and conservationist and recipient of a Prince Claus International Global Impact Award. I have been moving back and forth in my classes from the study of cities in the global south (and the potential to incorporate ecological design principles in environmentally degraded and economically marginalized contexts) and places and opportunities closer to home, including the COA campus. My teaching is inspired by and greatly informs my ongoing research and practice centered on creating urban

green spaces in Cairo, primarily for the benefit of women and children. During the 2023–24 academic year, I made two trips there, and my hope is to take a group of students to the city in the next academic year. Thanks to what I have been able to accomplish through the fund, I have secured a Fulbright Specialist Award for the next three years. With this award, I will develop a plan for the ongoing activation and management of groundwater resources in the alKhalifa neighborhood of medieval Islamic Cairo, part of the “Historic Cairo” UNESCO World Heritage Site. I appreciate returning to the role of a scholar after having stepped down from an administrative appointment to come to COA. During this first year, I have developed an initial draft manuscript for a sequel to my 2022 book, Blue Architecture: Water, Design, and Environmental Futures (working title: Regrowth Architecture: Animating Urban Buildings and Landscapes). I have received the go-ahead from my editor at the University of Texas Press and will complete the formal book proposal this fall. Above center: Cairo. Above right: student work focused on redesigning portions of the CoA campus path system, making these paths – and bridges – more accessible, attractive, and reflective of campus community goals and values.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$2,073,819 218,460 (100,000) $2,192,279 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Andrew S. Griffiths Chair for the Dean of Administration Chairholder: Bear Paul, Administrative Dean and CFO Established in 2018 during the Broad Reach Capital Campaign by COA trustees to honor Andrew “Andy” S. Griffiths, the college’s well-respected administrative dean who served for more than 15 years.

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

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Some of the more exciting developments over the course of the 2023–24 academic year included:

I continue to chair the Personnel Committee, serve on the Campus Planning and Building Committee, and lead the budget-setting process. The Andrew S. Griffiths Chair’s primary focus remains that of supporting the college’s ongoing financial and operational health.

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Close out of the use of funds available from the 2021 MHHEFA bond issuance

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Development of the financial analysis that led to the purchase of the Bar Harbor Bike Shop real estate and accompanying five units of housing associated with the location

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Collaboration with a team to help complete construction of the Collins House residence hall

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Collaboration with a team to plan for and initiate the renovation of the kitchen space in the Seafox residence hall

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Collaboration with a team to contract for and to begin the process of installing three sets of solar arrays on COA-owned buildings

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Initiation of a survey of the campus information technology (IT) system and help beginning the process of refreshing the college’s IT network

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$655,130 72,319 (24,000) $703,448

Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Studies Chairholder: Sean Todd, PhD During the 2023–24 academic year, I taught a total of 101 students in six classes, four senior projects, and four independent studies. Classes taught included Marine Mammal Biology: Field Studies (on Mount Desert Rock), Human Ecology Core Course, Biology Form and Function (team-taught with Suzanne Morse), Soundscape (teamtaught with Nancy Andrews), Introduction to Statistics and Research Design, and Marvelous Terrible Place (co-led with Natalie Springuel ‘91 and Ken Cline). I had an advisee roster of 20 students, including one graduate student, reviewed five human ecology essays, and supervised three internships. I assisted with the management of the COA Edward McC. Blair Marine Research Station on Mount Desert Rock in the 2023 field season. Fifteen students worked on projects at the field station that incorporated marine mammalogy, biological oceanography, intertidal science, underwater passive acoustic monitoring, photography, and marine bird ecology. Four students Established in 2007 by helped run the field station, COA trustees, alumni, and friends of the and two others served as college to honor COA’s apprentices in anticipation fourth president and of the 2024 field season. The founding faculty island hosted an overnight member. visit from the Islands Through Time summer course for high school students, as well as a three-week visit from my Marine Mammal Biology: Field Studies class. This year marked the beginning of the second iteration of the Gulf of Maine Stable Isotope Project—GOMSIP II—a project undertaken by Allied Whale to examine climateinduced changes in whale feeding behavior. We achieved a good sampling rate for animals local to the Gulf. We also wrote up previous findings and we are proud to announce that our foundational work for this project will soon be published in the peer-reviewed journal Aquatic Mammals. Our work continues to be funded in part by Katona Chair discretionary funds.

During the 2023–24 academic year I continued to serve on the Faculty Development Group and served as co-chair on a search committee for two new biology faculty. In addition to directing Allied Whale and overseeing operations at Mount Desert Rock, I also worked on the Graduate Committee and assisted with various admissions functions. During school breaks I traveled aboard the expedition vessels Seabourn Venture and Seabourn Sojourn to collect data for humpback whale photo-identification catalogs for Antarctica and Alaska, respectively. I continue to serve on the Maine Coalition for the North Atlantic Right Whale and on the scientific board of advisors for the Shaw Institute. Funds from the Katona Chair were used to help purchase research equipment for Allied Whale, as well as for operational costs at Mount Desert Rock. Funds also supported virtual attendance for 10 students to join me at the Right Whale Consortium, teaching assistants, equipment purchases, travel costs associated with the Marvelous Terrible Place course, and my own professional development. Over the course of the year, we successfully raised more than $125,000 for Allied Whale research and our Marine Mammal Stranding Response Program, with thanks to funders like the Davis Conservation Foundation, the Elmina Sewall Foundation and the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program. Above: Three feeding humpbacks whale seen off a beach in Newfoundland visited by the Marvelous Terrible Place class.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$2,243,304 236,324 (108,000) $2,371,628 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

McNally Family Chair in Philosophy and Human Ecology Chairholder: Heather Lakey ’00, MPhil ’05, PhD The 2023–24 academic year was an engaging and memorable one. I renewed and revised five courses: Nature, Humans, and Philosophy, Philosophies of Good and Evil, Animals and Ethics, Buddhist Philosophies, and the Human Ecology Core Course. Overall, I taught a total of 64 students, read 12 human ecology essays, directed two independent studies and two senior projects, and mentored 17 advisees. To support COA’s commitment to engaged and interdisciplinary learning, my courses frequently include guest speakers and field trips. I invited three of my colleagues—Dorr Museum director Carrie Graham, ecology and natural history professor John Anderson, and marine sciences professor Sean Todd—to Animals and Ethics to share their first-person perspectives working with animals. Their insights and experiences greatly enriched our philosophical discussions. In the spring term, I took students in Buddhist Philosophies to the Morgan Bay Zendo in Surry, Maine for a two-hour workshop on Zen meditation. In addition, faculty member Bonnie Tai and Laura Bonyon Neal, an ordained priest in the Korean tradition of Zen Buddhism, visited class to introduce students to different meditation and mindfulness practices. Finally, it was a special treat to have faculty emeritus John Visvader return to campus to give an excellent lecture exploring intersections between Buddhist thinking and other religious traditions. In addition to teaching, I assumed a number of administrative service roles. After spending several years on the Steering Committee, I moved over to the Academic Affairs Committee and the Academic Priorities Working Group. It was energizing to work with a dynamic group of students, staff, and faculty on issues central to COA’s academic curriculum. I also served on the Ethical Research and Review Board. In this role, I helped to approve 12 projects involving research with human subjects and I provided feedback on numerous consent forms.

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Another notable administrative experience was serving as a member of the Continuing Review Committee for botany and agroecology professor Suzanne Morse. In the spring term, I co-directed the senior Established in 2019 project presentations with by Jay McNally ‘84 biology professor Helen as part of the Broad Hess. It was a privilege to Reach Capital Campaign. help 10 talented seniors present their work to the COA community and the Board of Trustees. Finally, I helped to design a session on COA governance for incoming students during fall orientation and copresented a proposal regarding the Human Ecology Essay during a spring faculty meeting on educational skills and graduation requirements. In May, I joined the Thorndike Library talk series to present my scholarly work on reproductive politics and philosophical ethics. I read a version of my paper, “Rethinking Regret: Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethics of Abortion,” and I received valuable feedback from students, faculty, and staff. I want to express my deep gratitude to the McNally family for endowing this chair and supporting philosophical studies at COA.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,209,949 129,473 (42,000) $1,297,422

Elizabeth Battles Newlin Chair in Botany Chairholder: Susan Letcher, PhD The 2023–24 academic year brought a welcome opportunity to focus on botany in the field and the classroom. In the fall of 2023, I debuted a new advanced course called Plant Systematics. In winter of 2024, I taught Restoration Ecology and team-taught Cellular and Molecular Processes of Life with biology professor Helen Hess. In the spring, I offered Plants and People: Economic Botany and the multidisciplinary course Sheep to Shawl. I also advised four senior projects and two independent studies, serving just over 100 students during the year. I helped a number of undergraduate and graduate students with experimental design and statistical analysis for projects. I worked with my 16 advisees to help them discover and clarify their paths through human ecology. Students Conrad Kortemeier ’26 and Lucian Vazquez ’25 traveled to Costa Rica with me in November–December 2023 for an intensive field research project studying forest regeneration. We spent three weeks collecting data on tree growth, survival, and mortality in an experimental reforestation project that my collaborator Alex Gilman (EARTH University, Guácimo, Costa Rica) planted in 2009. Conrad and Lucian had both just completed Plant Systematics, and they honed Established in 1996 their plant identification skills by Elizabeth Battles in the tropics with a greatly Newlin’s children, Lucy Bell Sellers expanded set of families and her husband compared to what we’d seen Peter, and Bill Newlin in Maine. and his wife Louisa Back on campus for the (née Foulke) as part winter, I co-chaired a search of the college’s Silver Anniversary committee with marine Campaign science professor Sean Todd to bring in two exciting new faculty members in biology, Kara Gadeken and Brittany Slabach ’09. I had the opportunity to bring another dimension of my work to campus in March, playing the piano to accompany several student groups in a chamber music concert organized by visiting music professor Christina Spurling. Throughout the

year I also volunteered for the Bias Response Team and the Review and Appeals Committee. As part of the broader scientific community, I published three papers with an international group of collaborators. Masha van der Sande (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) led a paper on different ways to measure the recovery of biodiversity in regenerating forests; Miguel Ortega (Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Spain) led a paper on the impacts of climate change on forests in Central America; and Alain S. Ngute (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) led a paper on the ways that disturbance and climate change affect the competitive balance between trees and woody vines. I continue to serve as a grant reviewer through the European Science Foundation’s College of Expert Reviewers, where I evaluated 11 proposals in 2023–24. It’s been another full and exciting year here in Bar Harbor. I am grateful to the Newlin family for their generous support of botany at COA.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,245,084 131,156 (60,000) $1,316,240 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 Associate Dean of Faculty In the 2023–24 academic year I stepped into the role of associate dean of faculty and reduced my teaching to three courses annually. It was challenging to reduce my teaching—a practice that brings me so much joy—so I focused my attention on courses that are central to COA’s food and sustainable agriculture systems area of study. In the fall, I taught Transforming Food Systems to 22 students eager to envision and enact socially just, ecologically sustainable food systems. Students in the course developed theories of change to address pressing problems, from the need to protect the free saving and exchange of seeds in Kenya, to the need to secure food access for vulnerable youth in Portland, Maine. In winter, I worked with 22 students in US Farm and Food Policy, where we examined central policies that shape the US food system, from the omnibus Farm Bill to the US Dietary Guidelines for Americans. You’ve never seen a group of people have more fun debating subsidies and tariffs.

After two terms of guiding students through dense and challenging material, I taught Bees & Society in the spring, in which students learned about the factors driving the decline of wild and managed bees around the world. Though another heavy topic, we found hope in the collaborative work led by folks around the world to protect our vital pollinators, and we found joy as we tasted dozens of unique honey varietals, made c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

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

wax candles, visited an urban beekeeper, and learned to keep honeybees on our own Beech Hill and Peggy Rockefeller farms. It was a beautiful end to a beautiful year. In addition to my courses, I advised 22 students and directed six independent studies and four senior projects. In the fall, the Food Systems Working Group hosted the 17th annual COA Farm Day, and nearly 200 students danced the night away after touring Peggy Rockefeller Farm and eating a delicious meal featuring COA-grown meat and produce. Later in the year, I presented two papers at academic conferences, one on teaching food systems at the Society for Human Ecology conference in Tucson, Arizona, and one on the perils and possibilities for collaborative knowledge-with-action research at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting. The thing that brought me the most joy this year was engaging students in community work. Students joined me in collaborations to strengthen the COA Community Fridge, the Bar Harbor Food Pantry, Healthy Acadia, the Hancock County Food Security Network, and the Downeast Restorative Harvest Project. Two students—Leo Van Ummersen ’26 and Sarah Whitcomb w’24—built on that work this summer through internships with the food-in-prison project led by the organization Impact Justice. The generosity of the Partridge Chair fund made this work possible by funding conference travel, internships, guest speakers, course materials, and more. I am profoundly grateful. Left: Louis Ricou 25’ leads a workshop on native bee conservation at a local elementary school. Students in Bees & Society led these experiential workshops at the schools in Hancock County.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$4,309,839 453,974 (208,000) $4,555,813

Established in 2020 by Emily and Mitch Rales as part of the Broad Reach Capital Campaign.

Emily and Mitchell Rales Chair in Ecology Chairholder: Kara Gadeken, PhD FORMER CHAIRHOLDER, CHRIS PETERSEN: This was my last active year as a faculty member at the college, and for this report I want to emphasize some transitional work that is happening. First, I was lucky to be on the Presidential Search Committee that led to the hiring of COA’s new president, Sylvia Torti, who I believe will do a great job. Helen Hess and I were also happy to welcome our new marine biology professor, Kara Gadeken, who came to the island for several days in May and stayed at our place during her visit. We visited a range of field sites and introduced Kara to some of our partners in ecological and policy work. I’m also working to finish writing up multiple projects with student co-authors for publication during this transitional year. Although I’ve finished teaching, I plan to be involved in many of the local community marine ecological and policy groups, including the Bar Harbor Marine Resources Committee, the Downeast Fisheries Partnership, the Downeast Conservation Network, and the River Herring Network, and am working on ways to continue COA’s strong engagement and support of these groups.

NEW CHAIRHOLDER, KARA GADEKEN: I received my BS in biology and marine science from the College of William and Mary, and my PhD in marine sciences from the University of South Alabama. After teaching intensive field courses at Shoals Marine Lab and in the interdisciplinary marine studies program at Williams-Mystic, I was hired as faculty of marine biology at COA earlier this year. I was drawn to COA by its clear mission to do higher education differently, with a focus on developing student’s ability to think broadly and across disciplines, while also engaging with an uplifting community. My hope is that the education and mentoring I offer students at COA will contribute to this mission, beginning with the Intertidal Ecology course I am teaching in the fall of 2024.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,032,442 312,386 (18,000) $1,326,827

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Lalage and Steven Rales Chair in Chemistry Chairholder: Reuben Hudson, PhD Chemistry at COA has been a growing discipline for several years as we continue to bring in grant-funded equipment and personnel to enable student-centered research and teaching. I procured a $50,000 grant from the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Infrastructure Development (EPSCoR RID) grant from the Maine Space Grant Consortium. We also had support from the American Chemical Society ($70,000), and the IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program ($110,000). Students in chemistry classes used a state-ofthe-art gas chromatography mass spectrometer (GC-MS) to identify and quantify trace chemicals in plant, tissue, and sediment core samples. We quantified biochemical markers indicative of humans in carbon-14-dated lake sediment cores going back thousands of years. Students who received hands-on training on the GC-MS went directly from their degree into industry jobs as GC-MS technicians. Our small research group is starting to gain more of an international profile. Brazilian postdoc Thiago Altair is starting his third year at COA. Sarah Kheireddine from Lebanon spent her second year at COA as a postdoc after finishing her PhD in France. After a long ordeal trying

to extract postdoc Vitalii Polubinskyi and lab manager Anastasiia Pustovoit from Ukraine, they finally landed at COA in February 2024. Each of these chemists, along with students I’m co-supervising in their areas of expertise, enable our single-faculty discipline to offer a wider Established in 2020 range of projects for COA by Lalage and Steven Rales as part of the students. We also welcomed Broad Reach Capital visiting PhD students Selene Campaign. Cannelli for two months from Shawn McGlynn’s lab in Japan and Mauricio Berazaluce for a month from Eloi Camprubi Casa’s lab at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). They both worked on origin-oflife studies. The EPSCoR RID award funded visits for COA students to other collaborating labs: Ruvan de Graaf, MPhil ’22 joined Eloi’s lab at UTRGV and Kamilah Bundang ’25 continued with Laurie Barge at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab—a collaborative research project that she started with Hudson and Kheireddine at COA. Red Delelegne ’25 and Nahid Ahmed ’26 conducted summer internships with me at COA, funded by INBRE and the EPSCoR RID grant. Ludwin Moran Sosa ’24 started his senior project (to be completed in fall term) quantifying contaminants in whale baleen samples. Ruvan defended his thesis after also completing his undergraduate degree here. During his time at COA, he co-authored papers in three peer-reviewed journals, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Chemical Education, and Chemistry: a European Journal. His research also contributed to several additional papers that are in preparation, and should be submitted in the coming year or two. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

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$746,108 306,426 (17,000) $1,035,534

David Rockefeller Family Chair in Ecosystem Management and Protection Chairholder: Kenneth S. Cline, JD My classes this year had a strong emphasis on public lands and national parks. In the fall, I taught Acadia: The National Park Idea. This course introduces first- and second-year students to the history, policy context, and wonders of Acadia National Park. With weekly field trips into the park and guest speakers, this is an immersion learning experience. I followed this Established in 2010 by David Rockefeller, Sr. up in the winter term with Our Public Lands, an upperlevel course that focuses on the history and management challenges presented by the vast array of public lands. In the fall, I also taught my most difficult course, Advanced International Environmental Law Seminar, to a group of upper-level students who have participated in international negotiations or have done other sophisticated legal work. My final course, Introduction to the Legal Process, focused on domestic legal issues and current social justice debates. We looked at institutional racism within the criminal justice system and ways that law can be used as a tool to reduce those inequities. I directed six senior projects and an independent study related to the Rockefeller Chair. These projects focused on Maine environmental legislation, marine law, New England wilderness, international water policy, and wilderness canoe travel.

I continue to strengthen the Acadia National Park–COA partnership by introducing students and new faculty to opportunities to collaborate with the National Park Service. For the first time, Acadia National Park was able to fund the Acadia Scholars Program, and we placed two COA Acadia Scholar interns with Acadia’s Wildlife Division for the summer. I continue to do advocacy work and submit legal comments on proposed actions in Acadia that will affect park resources. Several students in classes this year also did projects or research in Acadia. Through my position on the board of directors for Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park, I am involved in supporting and designing early-career science opportunities in Acadia. As part of my co-management research and advocacy work, I continue to lead the national Sierra Club’s efforts to improve their working relationships with Indigenous groups in the US. I have participated in a national task force to write and implement a co-management policy for the Sierra Club. Related to this work, I presented some of my research on tribal-federal co-management of public lands this fall at the International Society for Human Ecology Conference in Tucson, Arizona with Sophie Chivers ’24, my research assistant. I continue to be deeply engaged with national, local, and international conservation organizations. I have worked extensively with the Sierra Club on how it can effectively pursue its conservation mission in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples in the US. I also am part of national Sierra Club efforts to protect legally designated wilderness and support the Club’s 30x30 campaign. To this end, I helped organize a virtual conference for the national Sierra Club on wilderness in the 21st Century. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,546,903 162,906 (75,000) $1,634,809 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 In the fall I co-led the inaugural, term-long Human Ecology Lab on the remote island of Ōsakikamijima (HELIO) Japan with COA’s partner, Setouchi Global Academy. In this 10-week program, students became part of the community and studied Japanese culture and language, as well as microplastics with Abby Barrows MPhil ’18. They also did short-term internships covering a range of activities, including working with local farmers and fishermen, studying Zen Buddhism with a temple priest, working in a local high school, and studying with the last maker of traditional tatami mats on the island. In the winter term, I co-taught Personal Finance and Impact Investing with Andy Griffiths, COA’s former CFO and interim president. During the course students explored their values and habits of spending as well as fundamentals of investments, savings and options for impact investing. Guest speakers included impact investors who work in venture capital, mutual fund management, family wealth management, angel investing, and other sectors. Sustainable Strategies also took place during the winter. In this course, students consulted with enterprises, performing a strategic analysis of competitive strengths and weaknesses, and offered recommendations to build environmental, social, and financial abundance. Students worked with for-profit and nonprofit enterprises based in Maine, California, and India. During this time, I also facilitated the introduction of Steve Thomas, former PBS host of This Old House, to COA. Steve co-taught Wood, Stone, and Steel with COA Provost Ken Hill during the spring. This spring, students in the Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery developed and refined enterprises in financial software, upcycled fashion, food service, outdoor recreation, party games, and rural tourism. Students presented overviews of their work at a Hatchery Expo at Havana restaurant in Bar Harbor at the end of term. In the broader community, I participated in groups c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

fostering entrepreneurship and the local economy in Maine and beyond. I gave presentations to startups building their business acumen. Partners included Mount Desert 365, Maine Center for Entrepreneurs, Maine Sea Grant, Maine Technical Henry and Peggy Institute, UpStart Maine, Sharpe initiated the and others. I also presented funding of this chair, at the XXV International and Jay McNally Conference of the Society ’84 completed its endowment in 2004 for Human Ecology at the University of Arizona. Kerri Sands ’02, the Sustainable Business Program manager, once again represented COA as a preliminary judge in a capstone competition for Manomet’s 2024 class of U360 Business Sustainability interns. Kerri and I were also participants in the Downeast Innovation Network and Maine Accelerates Growth, groups that aim to improve Maine’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. As the COA liaisons for Projects for Peace, Kerri and I supported two projects in the summer of 2023: Taibatou Adamou ’22 empowered women entrepreneurs in Niger, and Alejandra Morales Torres ’23 provided emotional resilience education to children at the international border in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Alejandra was then selected by UNESCO and Nestlé from over 900 applicants to continue her work as part of the Because Youth Matter—Impulso Joven initiative. COA’s 2024 Projects for Peace awardee, Valentina Dereani ’27, carried out her project to develop seed banks and resilient food systems in Kenya during the summer. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$2,446,569 257,717 (118,000) $2,586,285

Lisa Stewart Chair in Literature and Women’s Studies Chairholder: Karen E. Waldron, PhD The 2023–24 academic year was engaging and highly productive. The Literature and Writing Group welcomed our new director of the Writing Program, Su Yin Khor, and met regularly as a team to plan literature and writing offerings, update policies as needed, and deal more effectively with our many translingual students. In addition to Su Yin and myself, the group Established in 2012 by William P. Stewart includes Blake Cass (director in memory of his of the Writing Center) daughter, Lisa Stewart and literature and writing Target. Lisa was a professor Palak Taneja, personable, intelligent, who teaches Anglophone and accomplished World Literature. As we plan woman who started out literature and writing Bowen Asia, a offerings, we consider successful investment firm in Hong Kong, student needs, the diversity specializing in the of courses, and our range Asian economy. She of course levels. I have spoke five languages offered leadership since and lived all over the retirement of Anne the world. Her three Kozak and am pleased children attended with our effective curricular COA’s Summer Field coordination. Studies program. For my part, I taught two classes in both the fall and winter terms, followed by a spring sabbatical. During my sabbatical, I was still meeting with and supporting my colleagues in literature and writing. The two fall classes consisted of a new course, The Measure of Our Lives—a seminar on Toni Morrison—and City/Country: US Literary Landscapes 1860-1920. The Toni Morrison course had a diverse range of students who embraced the challenge of reading every one of Morrison’s novels. Discussions were lively and illuminating, with a focus on the doubly minoritized position of Morrison’s female characters. City/ Country started with Rebecca Harding Davis’ book Life in the

Iron Mills, and included a number of women writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett and Willa Cather. The period we studied is marked, among other elements, by the fact “The Woman Question” was prominent in US culture. My winter term classes included one of my favorite sets of authors: Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. The second course was Nineteenth Century American Women, an area of my primary research. The combination of the two classes allowed for a continuously intriguing transatlantic awareness that I hope enriched the student experience. During my spring sabbatical, I read several skilled feminist authors’ retellings of Indian (Hindu) and Greek epics in preparation for team-teaching with Palak Taneja in winter 2025. We are reading these faithful, beautifully written renditions of myths that somehow give their female figures voice. Our primary aim is to explore a recent literary phenomenon in a comparative cultural context to ask deep questions about the effect of myths on ideas of womanhood. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,616,580 170,281 (78,000) $1,708,862 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Allan Stone Chair in the Visual Arts Chairholder: Catherine Clinger, PhD Teaching printmaking and drawing at College of the Atlantic involves two entirely different tones of pedagogic approach. Respectively, the first method is communicating how to craft wood, linoleum, and copper surfaces so that ink and paper—the presence and absence of marks—become images through inscription and voids using tools and novel skills. The second subject, drawing nature, teaches how to describe communion between a human and the woody and mineral matter in a forest without overthinking or imposing an authority over nature. These studio courses ask students to de-center themselves, thus centering their work in craft and the surrender to the ineffable Muse. My Art Since 1900 course in the fall of 2023 evolved into an inescapable response to the contemporaneous tumult of human conflict. Rather than an absolute fixity, we adapted to a deeper enquiry into sound and visual cultures. We sought to both acknowledge and counter the consequences of the infliction of harm, while simultaneously finding evidence of earlier cycles of the same in the historical record of human art production and archives of struggle. A significant expansion of the COA/Marion Boulton Stroud Foundation Kippy Stroud Residency Program was initiated this year. In the winter, Posey Moulton visited the college as the first Maine Emerging Artist of the program. The arts faculty incorporated this two-week visit through the design and/ or adaptation of a COA arts course within the context of COA’s core human-ecological field of study. In the spring, Ugandan writer and curator Serubiri Moses delivered the inaugural Kippy Stroud Memorial Lecture. Moses is the author of more than 30 book chapters. His debut poetry book, THE MOON IS READING US A BOOK (Pāntano Books) was published in 2023. His public lecture queried the tensions of art cultures and gender identities in the manifold praxis of art production with an African perspective. I supervised the four incredible senior projects of Wriley Hodge ’24, Micah Lindberg ’24, Cordelia Perry ’24, and Emiliana Reinoso ’24. Two members of this quartet received Thomas J. Watson Fellowships and are continuing their work as researchers and visual artists—as are their two colleagues through other artful enterprises. c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

My administrative service at the college this year involved membership in the Faculty Development Group and the Contours Committee tasked with authoring two new, full-time arts faculty position descriptions. In the Maine arts community, I served as a reviewer for foundation funding. In the greater academic community, I edited and reviewed manuscripts for two professional journals in earth science and art history. I gave a lecture on the picturing of “The Moon” and contributed to a fundraiser for queer youth. I continue my work as a studio artist and scholar through the production of visual and written works, including an intaglio print cycle: The Four Disgracers (after Goltzius). Next page, clockwise from top left: linocut by Emiliana Reinoso ’24; etching by Wriley Hodge Reinoso ’24; mixed media composition by Cordelia Perry Reinoso ’24; Catherine Clinger with a student.

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

$2,173,971 229,641 (104,000) $2,299,612

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Cody Van Heerden Chair in Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences Chairholder: Duc Hien Nguyen, PhD I began my tenure as the Cody Van Heerden Chair in Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences in September 2024. I am a feminist political economist with special interest in feminist economics, LGBT economics, social inequality, and the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality. I received my PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2024, and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Toronto in 2016. My dissertation research explored how normative sex/gender institutions generate economic disparity for gender and sexual minorities, and how they reproduce other structural forces of races, class, and citizenship. My publications include works investigating the relationship between sexuality, consumption, and capitalism, as well as works looking at the health and economic consequences of policies that prevent access to gender-affirming care for the transgender population. I am excited to be teaching at COA. Through my research and teaching, I want to understand and engage with the forces that shape social and economic conditions of our present moment—a deeply unequal present where ordinary people find it nearly impossible to thrive and to transform their lives for the better, let alone sexual and gender c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

minorities whose lives are often drowned in cycles of precarity and crisis. How do we, as citizens, as collectives, and as communities turn this around to forge a kinder, more sustainable, more inclusive, and better future for all?

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

In the 2024–25 academic year, I am offering a mix of introductory and advanced courses, including Introduction to Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Political Economy, and seminars on social reproduction, care labor, and LGBTQ+ economics. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,010,937 133,291 (39,000) $1,105,228

Kim M. Wentworth Chair in Environmental Studies Chairholder: Brittany Slabach ’09, PhD

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

I’m excited to be joining the faculty and serving as the Kim M. Wentworth Chair in Environmental Studies beginning in the fall of 2024! I am a broadly trained vertebrate ecologist, and a College of the Atlantic alum. My COA education provided the framework and skills to investigate the complex biological and humanecological problems that motivate my research today. My goal as a teacher, and researcher, is to provide the same pivotal experiences to students that I was so lucky to receive.

As a 2023 Second Century Stewardship Fellow, I have worked closely with biologists and partners at Acadia National Park and Schoodic Institute investigating questions related to the behavioral and ecological effects of human and natural disturbance across biological levels

of organization. Over 22 students—including those from COA—have participated in this work, including eight who have led independent projects. One of these was Maggie Denison ‘24’s senior project investigating the effect of historical landscape use on small-mammal community biodiversity. I’m excited to continue these partnerships and create new ones, providing more opportunities for student involvement. Over the next year, I will be offering courses in vertebrate zoology, wildlife ecology, and museum studies. I am also part of the teaching team for ecology and natural history. My fall courses will see students participating in research in Acadia National Park and setting up several long-term ecological studies at various COA properties through courses such as Ecology: Natural History and Vertebrate Zoology. It’s been wonderful being back on campus. The college is in a period of transition, and I am so excited to be a part of it and serve the community in this new way!

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$1,337,442 143,052 (47,000) $1,433,494 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

James Russell Wiggins Chair in Government and Polity Chairholder: James McKown, PhD, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs This past year marked a moment of both continuity and change for our offerings in government and politics here at COA. I was especially excited to have the opportunity to start off the school year by once again teaching the fall Human Ecology Core Course for incoming first-year students. One of the more distinctive features of COA’s core course is its rotating module structure, by which all incoming students rotate through the seven different faculty members who are teaching the course. In my case, this allowed me to work with the incoming students to explore a topic I have been thinking about for some time: the role of expertise in higher education and its connection to the historical evolution of disciplines and majors. In the winter term, I was able to offer my seminar on the early history of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States, a class that has in recent years become a regular staple of my class rotations. I followed that up in the spring with one of my favorite classes to teach, the first of a two-part Cold War history series. Unfortunately, the disruptions of COVID-19 followed by the additional demands of my administrative post have made it challenging in recent years to offer these two courses on a reliable and predictable schedule. With the second part of the sequence scheduled for this coming spring, I am hopeful that we will return to some degree of regularity in our ability to teach these important classes. This past academic year also marked my final one in the role of associate dean for academic affairs. After four years in this post, I am stepping down at the start of the fall 2024 term, and not a moment too soon. There is little doubt that the 2024 presidential election will occupy a great amount of attention and energy, both inside and outside of the classroom. After four years of a reduced teaching load, I am eager to get back to a fuller schedule of class offerings and have more time to work with students on various independent 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.

research projects. The time I spent as associate dean, and as chair of the Academic Affairs Committee, has definitely transformed my thinking about what role my course offerings can play here at the college. This is especially true as the nature of our curriculum shifts with a wave of retirements and new hires. My hope is that once we are past the election, I will have the chance to spend the remaining amount of this academic year doing a “reset” and planning more deliberately for my postdeanship teaching rotation. As the saying goes, “Watch this space!”

JAMES RUSSELL WIGGINS CHAIR IN GOVERNMENT AND POLITY Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,687,126 177,643 (82,000) $1,782,769

PHILIP GEYELIN FUND FOR GOVERNMENT AND POLITY Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$215,912 22,796 (10,000) $228,707

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman Chair in the Performing Arts Chairholder: Jodi Baker, MFA In the winter of 2024, I collaborated with the great Dru Colbert (faculty emeriti, arts and design) on an experimental production course. Working together, a group of 16 students developed and built a large-scale performance installation based on a work that Dru had created and produced years before on the ice at Somes Pond called Graupel. This time out, we opted to produce the piece on Little Long Pond. We worked closely with Maine based artist Posey Moulton, Kyle Breen (a performing arts professional based in New York), and a long list of local collaborators and consultants. The season was a rough one. Massive storms and wildly fluctuating temperatures wreaked havoc on the shore, the road, and the performance site, and as we approached opening week, the pond surface thawed making a public performance there impossible. We quickly pivoted, moved the show to COA campus, and performed two wonderful nights for maximum-capacity audiences. Navigating this process was a challenge, but it was an invaluable experience for which I am incredibly grateful. Established in 2019 by several anonymous In the spring, I traveled donors as part of the with students to New York, Broad Reach Capital NY where we saw Itamar Campaign, in honor of Moses’ play The Ally, Suzan the renowned actors Lori-Parks’ play Sally and Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, Tom, and Taylor Mac’s whose daughter, Nell reinvention of Sarah Ruhl’s Newman, graduated play Orlando. Throughout from COA in 1987. the year, I directed several independent studies, supervised student projects in the local community, and served as a professional and academic advisor to 15–20 students across a wide array of interests. I also served on the Presidential Search Committee.

The Student Activities Committee helped make possible Donna Oblongata’s return to COA this year. Donna performed her solo-work The Van Gogh Shogh, and also offered a clown skills workshop. COA graduate student Jonny Rogers visited my fall courses to share in our collaborative training and to offer a workshop in hand balance and core strength. In the fall I also taught movement training courses for COA students as part of a new alliance with ArtWaves. It’s important to note that students focusing on performance and performance studies at COA continue to access extraordinary opportunities after graduation. Currently there are COA alumni working with internationally renowned artists and companies, as well as building transdisciplinary projects and research at some of the most exciting contemporary graduate training programs in the world. Most recently, Hana Keegan ’17 served as associate director on Secret Garden at Regents Park in London and Camden Hunt ’22 was accepted to the American Studies Graduate Program at Boston University, where he’ll continue the work he began at COA intersecting queer theory, futurity, and gender studies. My work at COA is made possible by the Woodward and Newman Chair and other generous endowments that fuel art and performance study at COA. I remain incredibly grateful for the exceptional teaching and learning opportunities these funds provide. Facing page, clockwise from top left: Students skating in the Rose Garden; Skating rehearsal on Little Long Pond; Ice surface testing.

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$1,013,208 538,173 (45,000) $1,506,381

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ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS Nancy Aronson Scholarship

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

Brooke and Vincent Astor Scholarship

Christina and William Baker Scholarship

Larry Lutchmansingh Scholarship

Judith Blank and Steve Alsup Scholarship

Lynn Boulger Young Writers Scholarship

MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION HELD SCHOLARSHIPS

Bright Horizons Scholarship

Roc and Helen McGregor Caivano Scholarship

Helen Caldicott Scholarship

Alida Camp Scholarship

Rachel Carson Scholarship

Betterment Scholarship

Christensen Scholarship

H. King & Jean Cummings Scholarship

Rebecca Clark Memorial Scholarship in Marine Sciences

Kenduskeag Scholarship

Richard Slaton Davis and Norah Deakin Davis Scholarship

DREIER SCHOLARSHIPS

Edward G. Kaelber Scholarship for Maine Students of Outstanding Promise

Alice Blum Yoakum Scholarship

MAINE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND

John McKee Scholarship

Phoebe and Gerrish Milliken Scholarship

Pamelia Markwood Neff Scholarship

John C. Dreier Scholarship

Barbara Piel Scholarship

Louisa R. Dreier Scholarship

Eleanor T. and Samuel J. Rosenfeld Scholarship

Samuel and Mary Kathryn Eliot Scholarship

Maurine P and Robert Rothschild Graduate Scholarship

Yaverland Scholarship

Michael and Rose Russo Scholarship

Anne Franchetti Scholarship

Charles and Katherine Savage Scholarship

General Scholarship

Craig Greene Memorial Scholarship

Ralph and Marion Stanley Scholarship

Sam Hamill Scholarship in Community Planning and Ecological Policy

Donald Straus Scholarship

Joan and Dixon Stroud Scholarship

Hartzog-Kauffmann Scholarship

ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS (not endowed)

August Heckscher Scholarship

Alumni Climate Action Scholarship

Justine Hooper Scholarship

Water is Life Scholarship

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Nancy Aronson Scholarship

Judith Blank and Steve Alsup Scholarship

Bright Horizons Scholarship

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

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.

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 Counties.

RECIPIENT: Adi Gamache ’27 (Pawtucket, RI) BEGINNING BALANCE: $123,008 ENDING BALANCE: $132,199

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: Isabella Pols ’24, Gemma Bradney ’27, and Jennifer McNamara ’24 BEGINNING BALANCE: $986,336 ENDING BALANCE: $1,042,553

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: $113,716 ENDING BALANCE: $129,861

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RECIPIENT: Maria Graziano ’24 (South Berwick, ME) BEGINNING BALANCE: $113,810 ENDING BALANCE: $120,857

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: Dominick Tricoche ’25 (Warminster, PA) BEGINNING BALANCE: $128,205 ENDING BALANCE: $139,109

RECIPIENT: Hope Rankin ’25 (Bucksport, ME) BEGINNING BALANCE: $243,210 ENDING BALANCE: $294,399

Roc and Helen McGregor Caivano Scholarship Created to honor heartfelt and wonderful people, full of kindness and knowledge. From the beauty of a flower to the architecture of shelters, buildings and cities. Student selection criteria: architecture, landscape design. RECIPIENT: Anna Heiting ’25 (Emmerich am Rhein, Germany) BEGINNING BALANCE: $140,869 ENDING BALANCE: $149,812

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: Ellie Jackson ’25 (Twin Falls, ID) BEGINNING BALANCE: $113,810 ENDING BALANCE: $120,857

Alida Camp Scholarship

Christensen 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.

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: Kristin Zunino ’24 (West Grove, PA) BEGINNING BALANCE: $117,799 ENDING BALANCE: $124,165

Rachel Carson Scholarship This scholarship was created in 2018 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student working in fields of related interest to the individual honored by the scholarship. Characteristics and interests that speak to the honoree include: investigation, deep diving, dot connecting, exposing of toxins in environment, and revealing the destruction of nature and natural habitats. RECIPIENT: Elizabeth Morrison ’24 (Doyle, TN) BEGINNING BALANCE: $117,799 ENDING BALANCE: $124,165

RECIPIENT: Lenka Slamova ’24 (Ricany, Czechia) BEGINNING BALANCE: $351,430 ENDING BALANCE: $371,443

Rebecca Clark Memorial Scholarship in Marine Sciences The scholarship was established in 2004 in memory of Rebecca Clark, a COA graduate who lost her life in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Thailand. The fund was started with a lead gift from trustee Edward McC. Blair and support from many friends and family of Rebecca. The scholarship is awarded to a rising junior or senior, exemplary in dedication, enthusiasm, passion and scholarship, in the field of marine science and/or marine conservation. RECIPIENT: Rosie Chater ’25 (Pony, MT) BEGINNING BALANCE: $511,705 ENDING BALANCE: $557,083

Richard Slaton Davis and Norah Deakin Davis Scholarship This scholarship was created in 2004 by Norah Deakin Davis, the widow of Richard S. Davis (Dick), a founding faculty member who passed away at the age of 41 in 1982. Mrs. Davis’s pledge spurred additional gifts from friends and former students of Dick. Recipients are outstanding students in the contemplative, aesthetic, and philosophical aspects of human ecology that Dick loved. RECIPIENT: Alder Ame ’27 (Corvallis, OR) BEGINNING BALANCE: $147,600 ENDING BALANCE: $156,163

DREIER SCHOLARSHIPS BEGINNING BALANCE: $41,472 ENDING BALANCE: $44,394

John C. Dreier Scholarship The scholarship was created in 2006 by the children and friends of John and Louisa Dreier. It is given to a junior who has shown leadership in building community spirit both on campus and in the college’s surrounding communities. RECIPIENT: Juliana Trujillo Mesa ’24 (Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador )

Louisa R. Dreier Scholarship The scholarship was created in 2006 by the children and friends of John and Louisa Dreier. The scholarship is given to a junior who embodies the spirit of joy in the arts. RECIPIENT: Anna Celia Morton ’25 (Stockholm, Sweden)

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Samuel and Mary Kathryn Eliot Scholarship The scholarship was established by COA’s trustees to honor Sam Eliot as he retired from COA after 11 years as vice president. Mary Kathryn served as fundraising assistant to COA’s first president and designed the college’s iconic logo. It is awarded to Maine students with financial need. RECIPIENT: Rachel WheelerKarakose ’25 (Mount Desert, ME) BEGINNING BALANCE: $175,462 ENDING BALANCE: $186,005

Yaverland Scholarship This scholarship was established by trustee Heather Evans and her family during the Broad Reach Capital Campaign to benefit students with financial need. RECIPIENT: David Wasinger ’25 (Durango, CO) BEGINNING BALANCE: $294,422 ENDING BALANCE: $398,009

Anne Franchetti Scholarship This scholarship was created in 2018 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student 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: Sofia Dragoti ’25 (Athens, Greece) BEGINNING BALANCE: $117,799 ENDING BALANCE: $124,165 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

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: RECIPIENTS: Abigail Thornton ’26, Leander Laga-Abram ’26, Issa Pizzimenti ’26, and Nicholas Lapic ’26 BEGINNING BALANCE: $1,184,983 ENDING BALANCE: $1,205,839

Craig Greene Memorial Scholarship This scholarship was created to honor the late Craig William Greene, former Elizabeth Battles Newlin Professor in Botany. It is awarded to two rising juniors or seniors who have excelled in botany and general biology classes, and who share Craig’s passion for the world of flora. RECIPIENT: Finley O’Connor ’24 (Harwinton, CT) BEGINNING BALANCE: $101,652 ENDING BALANCE: $107,346

Sam Hamill Scholarship in Community Planning and Ecology Policy Judy Perkins led the initiative to create this scholarship in 2023 to honor Life Trustee Sam Hamill and his professional contributions to the fields of regional and environmental planning and his legacy of service to COA. Sam served as chairman of the board of trustees from 2004-2010. This scholarship supports students interested in community planning and ecological policy. The first recipients of this award will be named in FY25. BEGINNING BALANCE: $151,855 ENDING BALANCE: $531,943

Hartzog-Kauffman Scholarship This award honors both George B. Hartzog and John M. Kauffmann. Kauffmann, who passed away in 2014, was a former COA trustee, and retired to MDI after a long career at the National Park Service, most notably in Alaska where he helped define the boundaries of the Gates of the Arctic National Park. George Hartzog, head of the National Park Service from 1964–1972, was a hero of John’s and revered by many for the way he managed the agency and defended the NPS during his tenure. It is awarded to students who have an interest in the management and protection of ecosystems—especially wilderness and rivers. RECIPIENT: Autumn Pauly ’26 (Saint Peter, MN) BEGINNING BALANCE: $438,515 ENDING BALANCE: $462,734

August Heckscher Scholarship The scholarship was created in 1997 through gifts from friends and family of August Heckscher, an artist, author and public servant whose life and work encompassed many of the values and principles underlying the study of human ecology. It is awarded to two students, preferably juniors, with preference for those whose work focuses on public lands, government, or the arts. RECIPIENT: Skylar Bodeo-Lomicky ’26 (Concord, VT) BEGINNING BALANCE: $181,953 ENDING BALANCE: $192,093

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. RECIPIENT: Autumn Pauly ’26 (Saint Peter, MN) BEGINNING BALANCE: $117,799 ENDING BALANCE: $124,165

Louise H and David S Ingalls Scholarship for International Students 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. RECIPIENT: Malek Hinnawi ’25 (Damascus, Syria) BEGINNING BALANCE: $95,077 ENDING BALANCE: $101,173

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: Sarah Ottinger ’24 (Colfax, WI) BEGINNING BALANCE: $113,810 ENDING BALANCE: $120,857

MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION HELD SCHOLARSHIPS Edward G. Kaelber Scholarship for Maine Students of Outstanding Promise 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: Conrad Kortemeier ’26 (Bristol, ME)

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: Hannah Gower-Fox ’24 (Brecon, United Kingdom)

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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: $826,947 ENDING BALANCE: $872,919

Betterment Scholarship

John McKee 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.

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: Benjamin Troutman ’24 (Montville, ME) BEGINNING BALANCE: $113,810 ENDING BALANCE: $120,857

RECIPIENT: Catherine Tibbets ’27 (Raymond, ME)

Phoebe and Gerrish Milliken Scholarship

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) c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

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: $144,098 ENDING BALANCE: $159,226

Barbara Piel Scholarship 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: Layne Kirk ’26 (Phillipsburg, NJ) BEGINNING BALANCE: $544,598 ENDING BALANCE: $576,001

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: $14,361 ENDING BALANCE: $14,839

Maurine P and Robert Rothschild Graduate Scholarship This scholarship was created in 1997 with a gift to the Silver Anniversary Endowment Campaign by trustee Maurine P. Rothschild and her husband Robert Rothschild. The scholarship is awarded to qualified graduate students with preference given to those pursuing work in the education field. RECIPIENT: Ruvan de Graaf ’22, MPhil ’24 (Eveni, Swaziland) BEGINNING BALANCE: $301,958 ENDING BALANCE: $318,710

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: Morgan Daley ’27 (Bar Harbor, ME) BEGINNING BALANCE: $720,453 ENDING BALANCE: $760,197

Charles and Katherine Savage Scholarship This scholarship was created in 2018 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student 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: Hayden Platteter ’24 (Phippsburg, ME) BEGINNING BALANCE: $117,799 ENDING BALANCE: $124,165

Ralph and Marion Stanley Scholarship This scholarship was created in 2018 by David Milliken as part of an effort to honor family, friends, and public figures and the characteristics David admires in them. This scholarship supports a student working in fields of related interest to the individual honored by the scholarship. Characteristics and interests that speak to the honoree include: boat building, woodworking, working waterfront.

Donald Straus Scholarship This scholarship was created in 2008 with a gift from Donald and Beth Straus. It is awarded to a rising junior or senior who shows promise in working for cultural change, collaboration, in the field of human relations and/or leadership. RECIPIENT: Alexandra Löfgren ’25 (Dvärsätt, Sweden) BEGINNING BALANCE: $248,424 ENDING BALANCE: $262,598

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 water and riparian habitats as an essential support of life. Student selection criteria: water quality, wildlife habitat, community service. RECIPIENT: Hannah Gaudet ’25 (Dixon, NM) BEGINNING BALANCE: $117,799 ENDING BALANCE: $124,165

RECIPIENT: Nils Midtun ’24 (Sandnes, Norway) BEGINNING BALANCE: $129,557 ENDING BALANCE: $137,231

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ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS (not endowed) Alumni Climate Action Scholarship The scholarship was created in 2021 by David Bonner Winship ‘77, Rich Van Kampen (‘13), Kyle Shank ‘14, and Taj Schottland ‘10. This annual scholarship is awarded to students with financial need who are engaged in environmental and climate activism and action. RECIPIENT: Linnea Goh ‘25 (Vancouver, BC Canada)

Water is Life Scholarship The scholarship was created in 2021 by Ellen Seh (‘75). The threeyear scholarship is awarded to students with financial need, with a preference for women who have an interest in freshwater resources— especially efforts focused on the protection of water quality and quantity for drinking water and ecological integrity. The scholarship will be initially awarded to a secondyear student and be renewed for a total of three years, so long as they remain enrolled at the College. RECIPIENT: Sam Nguyen-Jones ‘26 (Brooklyn, NY)

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

T.A. Cox Fund and Cox Protectorate Fund

W.H. Drury Research Fund

Kathryn Davis Fund for Global and Civic Engagement

Fund for Maine Islands

David Hales Sustainability Fund for the Director of Energy

Thomas and Mary Hall Library Fund

Robert P. and Arlene Kogod Visiting Artist Fund

McCormick Fund for the Library Director

Peggy Rockefeller Farm Endowment

Physical Plant Funds

Ethel H. Blum Gallery

Brewer-Gower-Sawyer-Garber Fund

Kathryn W. Davis Center Buildings and Grounds Fund

Deering Center

Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center

Thorndike Library/Kaelber Hall

The Turrets

Doug Rose GIS Enhancement Fund

Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery Fund

Elizabeth Thorndike Library Materials and Senior Class Book Fund

R. Amory Thorndike Memorial Fund

Waterfront Director Fund

Writing for the Future Fund

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Barbarina M. and Aaron J. Heyerdahl Beech Hill Farm Endowment Fund Staff Supervisors: Anna Davis and David Levinson, Farm Co-Managers Beech Hill Farm had another productive and successful year. Throughout the season, we grew over 120,000 pounds of MOFGA-certified organic vegetables, which were sold through our farm stand, wholesale accounts, and our summer and fall community supported agriculture program. This was our first full season selling in our newly constructed farmstand. We were able to open three weeks earlier than anticipated and will stay open through November. This expanded sale season helps us better serve our year-round customers, as well as increasing overall farm revenue. We continued to expand our food access outreach through working with our community partners. We supplied nearly 5,000 pounds of produce to Hancock County community members through Healthy Acadia’s Gleaning Initiative. We also provided 2,000 pounds of food to the Bar Harbor Food Pantry through the Good Shepherd Food Bank’s Mainers Feeding Mainers program. We continue to supervise and work closely with student coordinators of COA’s student-run, food access project, Share the Harvest. Through Share the Harvest programs 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 fundraising concert featuring Maine band The Soul Benders, a spring plant sale, and a Food Justice c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Dinner organized by Molly Hetzel ’24 as the culmination of her senior project.

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

We worked closely with the Farm Advisory Working Group to develop a five-year Farm and Garden Strategic Plan. This plan will help us meet our longstanding goals of expanding educational opportunities on the farm and increasing access to farm food on campus.

We continue to work toward building soil health and fertility through improved management practices, such as increased cover cropping, mulching, beneficial insect plantings, and reduced tillage practices. We employed 20 work-study students in the spring and the fall, sponsored three summer internships, and hired 18 seasonal staff. We hosted numerous class visits from The Community School, MDI High School, and COA. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$99,301 10,432 (5,000) $104,732

T.A. Cox Fund and Cox Protectorate Fund Faculty Supervisor: Kenneth S. Cline, JD My professional work related to the T.A. Cox Fund in Ecosystem Management and Protection was focused on four projects in 2023–24. NATIVE AMERICAN CO-MANAGEMENT Established by RESEARCH AND former trustee Tom ADVOCACY Cox to support the I researched the legal work of the David feasibility of federal land Rockefeller Family management agencies (e.g. Chair in Ecosystem the National Park Service) Management and co-managing federal public Protection. lands with Native American Tribes. There has been a virtual explosion of such arrangements over the past two years, but limited legal assessment of their validity and effectiveness. As coordinator of the Native American Land Rights Team for the Sierra Club, I have worked on developing a co-management policy for the national Sierra Club. In November 2024, my research assistant and I presented a talk titled, “Sharing is Hard: Co-management of Public Lands with Tribes in the United States” at the XXV International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology. LEGAL PROTECTION OF SACRED SITES Through prior sabbaticals, I have studied the ways that sacredness can be used as a basis for protecting specific landscapes. In everyday conversation, the concept of the sacred as grounds for legal restraint seems obvious, but there are few examples of our legal system actually recognizing the sacred. Fights over this issue have gone before the US Supreme Court, but there is no coherent body of law in this country that honors the concept. This is less true in places where law and religion are not as distinct or where the concept of “the sacred” has legal significance. Sacred springs are still recognized in many areas, and I traveled to Bath and Glastonbury, England to understand extant models of sacred springs that have nonsecular, formal protection. Adapting these models to fit within the US constitutional framework of the separation of church and state is a complex and fascinating project that could have broad ramifications for landscape protection and collaboration with Native American Tribes.

RESEARCH ON NEWFOUNDLAND AND CANADIAN LEGAL AND POLITICAL STRUCTURES To support colleagues teaching a class on Newfoundland, I attended their class sessions and prepared lectures on the history and political structure of the province. I read several books about Canadian history and politics and numerous law review articles that addressed comparative environmental law and policy. I will be able to incorporate this comparative knowledge into my other classes. COX PROTECTORATE FUND Finally, this fall I recruited Lucian Vazquez ’25 to serve as the first steward for the Cox Protectorate, a 101-acre tract of undeveloped land near the center of Mount Desert Island donated to COA by former trustee Tom Cox in 2010. Lucian did extensive mapping of the property, cleared existing trails, developed a new trail, conducted botanical surveys, and encouraged students to use the property responsibly. He is developing his senior project to expand upon this work. Next year a second steward will join Lucian. Several classes used the protectorate in the last fiscal year, including Mammalogy, Animal Behavior, and Ecology. We conducted small mammal assessments, and students evaluated the effect of predator calls on resident deer populations.

T.A. COX FUND Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$349,451 37,163 (14,000) $372,614

COX PROTECTORATE FUND Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$127,558 13,462 (6,000) $135,020 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

W.H. Drury Research Fund Faculty Supervisor: John G.T. Anderson, PhD As in past years, the primary focus of the Drury Fund was in supporting student work on COA’s islands and in sending students to meetings to present the result of their labors. Fund monies supported six students to attend (and present at) the international waterbirds conference with me in Florida. Additional funds were used to help seven students attend and present at the Northeast Natural History conference in Albany, New York. This year’s island field season featured extremely active collaboration between Great Duck and Mount Desert Rock in tagging and banding gulls and (on Great Duck) petrels. I cannot say enough about how truly remarkable the members of this year’s bird team were, both in terms of their research abilities and in their care, patience, and sheer joy in working with wild things in wild places. Overall, a record number of birds were banded and, thanks to additional support from the Maine Space Grant Consortium, we were able to put GPS tags on birds on both islands. These will allow us to track the birds’ movements during both the breeding and non-breeding seasons. Students also collected blood and oral and cloacal swabs for DNA analysis and assessment of contact with Highly c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), a hugely worrisome issue in both birds and mammals. Students will be conducting lab-based assessment of their data this fall, and will present their work at an international conference next year.

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

I am extremely grateful to all the donors to the Drury Fund. Your generosity over the years is literally creating a new generation of remarkable scientists of whom Bill would have been incredibly proud.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$351,206 36,988 (17,000) $371,194

Kathryn Davis Fund for Global and Civic Engagement ALASKA, USA

attending residency in sailboat restoration

CANADA

participating in COA study abroad program

OREGON, USA

studying urban design

VIRGINIA, USA

CALIFORNIA,

studying horse-powered farming

USA

studying the indigenous food sovereignty movement

NEW MEXICO, USA

studying seed saving practices on farms

HAWAII, USA

FLORIDA, USA

presenting research on sea birds

COSTA RICA MEXICO

recording an album

participating in COA study abroad program

interning with Hawaii Wildlife Fund

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$2,639,868 277,620 (131,000) $2,786,487

BRAZIL

studying capoeira

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This program was initially endowed by Kathryn W. Davis. Now generally referred to as “the Expeditionary Fund,” it allows COA students the opportunity to learn while travelling as part of their college experience. Each student may apply for up to $1,800 for credit-bearing activities such as travel expenses, residencies, independent studies, internships, senior projects, and attendance at off-campus conferences or meetings. In 2024, students used their grants to pursue projects around the USA and in countries across the world, including Brazil, Norway, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, France, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates.

NORWAY

studying agroecology

AUSTRIA

transcribing interviews about grief and loss

KYRGYZSTAN

attending residency in Russian Studies

FRANCE

TAJIKISTAN

participating in COA study abroad program

investigating the links between environmental and political issues in Central Asia

JAPAN

participating in COA monster course

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

attending COP28 climate conference

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Fund for Maine Islands Faculty Coordinator: Todd Little-Siebold, PhD In academic year 2023–24, the Fund for Maine Islands partnership with the Island Institute and projects associated with it have built new momentum. A new immersive, projectbased “monster course” called Navigating Change teamtaught by a geographer (Hillary Smith), a data scientist (Laurie Baker), an audio producer (Galen Koch), and a historian (myself) examined how year-round islands and coastal communities are experiencing and thinking about things like climate change, conflict over fisheries policies, demographic shifts, and more. Students launched projects in Corea, Swan’s Island, and Great Cranberry Island to engage with the communities Established in 2014, this partnership and present research between The Island back to them. Interns Institute and COA and recent graduates seeks solutions to continue the heavy lifting of sustain island and interviewing, transcription, coastal ecosystems. coding, mapping, and Funded by a challenge developing exhibits for the grant from the communities. Their work was Partridge Foundation and the support of amazing, and they embodied many other donors, the interdisciplinary and the fund addresses place-based strengths of four areas of critical COA’s curriculum. concern for Gulf of Many interviews are now Maine residents: agriculture and food, available to the public on our energy, education, web platform, Maine Sound and adaptation to and Story. We have launched climate change. exhibits from Lubec to Deer Isle, and the soundwalks developed by Galen and her student team have engaged those communities with the histories of place and the stories of people. This spring, Galen and COA graduate Camden Hunt ‘22 premiered the Bar Harbor Exhibit and Soundwalk, which will be available free to the public at the Bar Harbor Historical Society in the 2024 and 2025 seasons. We continued a donor-funded initiative called the Frenchman Bay Oral History Project this year, led by

Camden and other students. To date, the project has documented what species fishermen have targeted within the bay as well as changes they have observed. Our data science and mapping team, led by Laurie, has leveraged the years of interviews to document the spatial relationship people have to the coast and used data visualization and mapping to identify patterns and generate questions for research. Laurie and the Mapping Ocean Stories team received a major research grant from a local foundation to fund elements that moved beyond the baseline work we had already done. The podcast funded by the partnership, “From the Sea Up,” produced by Galen, is in its third season and has focused on working waterfronts and innovation in the marine economy. This work involved students and alumni in audio production, radio projects, and senior project work. The Fund for Maine Islands has also supported students in assisting with project sessions presented at the Maine Fishermen’s Forum, presenting posters at the Maine Sea Grant research symposium, and hosting and producing radio shows on WERU Community Radio called “Coastal Conversations.” This has been an amazing year and a testament to the strength of teams and the power of showing up. Our ongoing relationships with coastal communities and the deep bench of expertise among faculty and students has shown the power of strategic funding to support education and a broader impact in the community. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$2,166,097 229,193 (105,000) $2,290,290 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Left: Becca and Uriel insulating Davis Garage; right: Jinen, Tyler, Zoe,and Carolina working in Turrets Attic.

David Hales Sustainability Fund for the Director of Energy Staff Supervisor: David Gibson, CEM LEED AP BD+C COA continued to make progress toward our goal of eliminating fossil fuel use campus-wide by 2030 during the 2023–24 academic year. During the summer, I had three interns who worked diligently to install vapor barriers in Seafox, Peach House, and the hard-to-access crawl spaces under the Kathryn Davis International Center. A contractor spray-foamed the walls in all three basements. This insulation work saved 800 gallons of heating oil (about $2,400) last winter, and we are on track for a six-year payback. In August, we were awarded a Campus Climate Action Corps grant, which included a full-time AmeriCorps member. Rebecca Tarczy served from October 2023 through July 2024, and helped with numerous projects throughout her tenure. In October, we received a $200,000 Buildings Upgrade Prize from the US Department of Energy to expand our clean energy work into the broader community. Combined with a commitment from the Yaverland Foundation, this provided enough funding that we were able to advertise for a new energy project manager on a three-year basis. c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

In April, we hired Nicole Grohoski, who is also our state senator and has served on the Energy, Utilities, and Technology Committee for several years.

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

Our primary work-study project this year was insulating the walls and ceiling of the Davis Garage and adding two heat pumps. We now have 3,000 square feet of year-round usable space for the Outing Program upstairs and marine programs downstairs. In December, ReVision Energy turned on a new solar farm that we participated in. Built in an old gravel pit in Hampden, this solar project will provide nearly all the electricity for the commercial electric accounts on campus. This project will also save COA 15% on our electric costs for the next 20 years. During the winter term I taught Practicum in Sustainable Energy, which focused on re-insulating The Turrets attic. First we had to remove 50 years of accumulation from the attic. With incredible support from COA Archivist Elliot

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Santavicca ‘20, we identified everything that needed to be saved, which we relocated to the basement, and hauled everything else out. Progress was slow, but we completed about 10% of the insulation, and the work is ongoing. We also received a generous donation from the Blossom Fund that fully funded a study to assess the viability of using geothermal energy to heat and cool the five largest older buildings on campus. A 575-foot test well proved that thermal conductivity is better than anticipated. We are excited to take the next steps. I presented at the PassivHaus Maine Forum in February. I was joined by AmeriCorps member Becca Tarczy and COA senior Nils Midtun ‘24 at the conference. I also oversaw Nils’ senior project, which culminated with a GIS story map that provides an overview of the energy transition projects we’ve completed across the COA campus. In the spring I taught Building Science and Energy Auditing. Students were given the option of taking the Building Performance Institute field test to gain certification as building analysts. This was paid for by the DOE Buildings Upgrade Prize. Nicole, Becca, and six students completed the test and received professional certification. c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

The Buildings Upgrade Prize also funded our Maine Energy Upgrade Program (MaineUP.org) over the summer, which included conducting free home energy audits. Becca, Nicole, and three student interns worked on Great Cranberry Island, and two interns worked with the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Sipayik. Last but not least, solar arrays were installed on the roof of Studios 5 & 6, the new Collins House residence hall, and the DeLaittre Barn at Peggy Rockefeller Farm. These arrays, combined with existing arrays, bring COA’s total solar generation up to about 20% of campus usage. Facing page: Nicole, Adler, Becca, and Uri using combustion analyzer. Above, clockwise from top left: GCI team Nicole, Zoe, Rudy, Becca, Uri, Adler, and David; room being dense packed; Nicole, Becca, Uri, and Adler assessing air leaks.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$787,884 83,004 (38,000) $832,888

Thomas and Mary Hall Library Fund Established in 1986 to help Thorndike Library build a collection of science and history of science books and library materials. The fund grew further when, upon Thomas Hall’s death in 1990, the family requested that donations be directed to this fund. Each year, selections are made based on requests, class needs, and academic as well as general interest. Here is a sampling of this year’s selections.

A Natural History of Shells by Geerat Vermeij (2021) Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, & Science of Underground Nests by Walter Tschinkel (2021)

MCAT Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2024-2025 by Kaplan Test Prep (2023)

The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time by Hugh Raffles (2022)

Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation Along the Former Iron Curtain by Sonja Pieck (2023)

The Lives of Octopuses and Their Relatives: A Natural History of Cephalopods by Danna Staaf (2023)

Musings of an Energy Nerd: Toward an Energy-Efficient Home by Martin Holladay (2017)

The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Rossi (2019)

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock (2019)

The Sentient Cell: The Cellular Foundations of Consciousness by Arthur Reber (2023)

On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory by Thomas Hertog (2023)

The Seven Measures of the World by Piero Martin (2023)

Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Differences by Richard Prum (2023) Phenomena: Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas by Giles Sparrow (2022)

Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science by Phillip Ball (2023)

Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People of Place by Tomi Hazel Vaarde (2023)

Birds and Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship by Jeff Ollerton (2024)

Spatial Points Patterns: Methodology and Applications with R by Adrian Baddeley (2016)

Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity by Laurent Testot (2020)

The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes by Paul Halpern (2024)

Histology: A Text and Atlas: With Correlated Cell and Molecular Biology by Wojciech Pawlina (2024)

Trigonometric Delights by Eli Maor (1998) Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland by Jennifer McElwain (2021) Viruses: A Natural History by Marilyn Roossinck (2023) Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound by David Rothenberg (2023) White Holes by Carlo Rovelli (2023)

How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Phillip Ball (2023) How to be Animal: A New History of What it Means to be Human by Melanie Challenger (2021) Introduction to Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology by Victoria Aspinall and Melanie Cappello (2015)

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$621,564 65,468 (30,000) $657,032 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Robert P. and Arlene Kogod Visiting Artist Fund Staff Supervisor: Ken Hill, PhD, Provost The following courses offered by visiting instructors in the 2023–24 academic year were made possible through income from this fund. Jazz Ensemble Ryan Blotnick

World Percussion Michael Bennett The Stitched Mark: Contemporary Embroidery Heather Lyon

Introduction to Ceramics: Hand-Built Pots Saffronia Downing

Graphic Design Studio I: Visual Communication Ross Pike

Making Art: Effort, Resilience, Persistence Saffronia Downing

Dance Improvisation Ensemble Dani Robbins

Introduction to Photography June Kim

Advanced Documentary Studio Matthew Shaw

Beginning Contemporary Dance Technique Dani Robbins Documentary Video Studio Matthew Shaw Introduction to Three-Dimensional Art and Design Kristy Summers

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

TEACHING ASSISTANTS FOR: 4-D Studio Advanced Printmaking Studio Printmaking (3) Shape & Color Animation I

Introduction to Songwriting Caroline Cotter

Samba Percussion Ensemble

The History of Making Prints Annika Earley

Animation II

Ceramics I

Chamber Music Richard Hsu and Christina Spurling

Design Research: Campus Paths

Ceramics I Kreg McCune

Contemporary Landscape in Photography (2)

Intermediate Drawing

FIELD TRIPS, EQUIPMENT, REPAIRS, AND CLASS SUPPORT: • Graupel—performance installation monster course •

Piano tuning

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Cello restoration

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African drums—reskinned

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Studio 5/6 light-blocking curtains

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Gates projection and sound system upgrades

Sourcing the Body: Disability as Human Ecology Dani Robbins Contemplative Media Practice Matthew Shaw Dramatic Writing for Stage and Screen Andrea Lepcio c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,613,146 169,899 (78,000) $1,705,046

McCormick Fund for the Library Director Staff Supervisors: Trisha Cantwell, MLS, and Catherine Preston-Schreck, MA, MSc Academic year 2023–24 brought many changes to the Thorndike Library. In Established in 1998 June 2023, after 20 years of by Nancy Hoskinson McCormick, a service, library director Jane widow of Charles Hultberg retired. July began Deering McCormick, with Trisha Cantwell and through the Catherine Preston-Schreck Chauncey & Marion moving into the role of coDeering McCormick directors, Hannah Stevens Foundation. ’09 stepping out of her archivist role and becoming Thorndike’s new technical services librarian, and Elliot Santavicca ’20 joining us as COA’s archivist/librarian. Additionally, Zach Soares ’00, director of audio visual services, began reporting to provost Ken Hill. This past year we hosted 36 library work-study students and expanded library resource instruction, reaching over 300

students, including all of the incoming class. The library launched a term-long book checkout collection, expanding student access to required course texts. We hosted karaoke events, a faculty and staff lecture series, and organized a trip to the Book Arts Bazaar in Portland. Thorndike partnered with Jesup Memorial Library in the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grant, distributing dozens of copies of Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson and hosting a book club and community discussion. Library work-study students represented Thorndike at the Jesup Memorial groundbreaking, co-hosted a COA-themed history happy hour trivia night, volunteered at ConnersEmerson school, and collaborated with Healthy Acadia to set up a NARCAN and fentanyl test strip distribution site in our library. Two staff members presented a co-taught, cross-disciplinary course called The Acts and Arts of Collecting: Undergraduates Making Connections Across Collections at the New England Museum Association conference with Carrie Graham, c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

director of the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History and Dru Colbert, professor of arts and design. A staff member coordinated the offering of a new course, Queer Archives, taught by an archivist and academic librarian from University of Southern Maine. Our archivist supported 148 research requests, provided inclass instruction, and continued the groundwork laid by his predecessor to draft a college-wide records management program. Elliot plays a key role in The History Trust, a consortium of local libraries and historical societies, currently transitioning to a new collections management platform, which will be used to manage COA’s archives. We had several generous donations and grants this year. The Higgins Foundation supported the library’s juvenile and education collections with a $2,500 contribution. Thanks to a $40,000 grant from the Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation, the library has made accessibility improvements by purchasing new doors and automatic openers for the entrance into Kaelber Hall, automatic door openers to the c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

reading room and stacks, and accessibility materials which were added to the collection and are available for checkout including to other libraries via interlibrary loan. Additionally, an anonymous donation of $4,000 was gifted to support library staff professional development, which has been of tremendous benefit. Lastly, as academic year 2023–24 came to a close, we had the good fortune of being gifted a selection of books from Ashley Bryan’s personal library. We look forward to honoring his wonderful spirit and special connection to COA by sharing his curated collection with our community and beyond.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$648,738 68,248 (32,000) $684,986

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Peggy Rockefeller Farm Endowment Staff Supervisor: April Nugent, Farm Manager During the 2023–24 season, the Peggy Rockefeller Farm continued to manage its various livestock enterprises and host educational and community events. Highlights from the season included the introduction of a full-time, yearround assistant manager role (filled by Catherine Sullivan), the expansion of the Katahdin sheep flock with some new parasite-resistant ewes, and increased distribution of farm food to local avenues like the COA Community Fridge and the Southwest Harbor Soup Kitchen. In total, the farm produced over 1,400 pounds of chicken, 1,200 pounds of lamb, 2,369 pounds of pork, and 800 pounds of beef, as well as many organic eggs. The farm continued to employ approximately 20 workstudy students throughout the school year and we hosted several COA courses on the farm. Susan Letcher’s Sheep to Shawl course routinely utilized the farm for hands-on instruction throughout the spring term, and students utilized farm fiber in their final projects. Students from other courses such as Ornithology, Organic Poultry Practicum, Field Sketching, and the Human Ecology Core Course also visited c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

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

the farm as part of their curriculum. Two students conducted independent field studies this past summer on invertebrates and pollinators on the farm in an effort to census the species here compared to other MDI locations.

The farm continued its partnership with Maine Natural Resources Conservation Service Ag Allies program, which provides technical assistance, education, and financial support to landowners and land trusts to improve grassland bird habitat. At least 12 juvenile bobolinks and numerous Savannah sparrows and tree swallows fledged on Peggy Rockefeller Farm over this past year.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,382,324 145,564 (67,000) $1,460,888

Physical Plant Funds ETHEL H. BLUM GALLERY The Ethel H. Blum Gallery was dedicated in 1993 to Ethel H. Blum (1900-1991), an accomplished watercolorist who studied at the Art Students League and the Brooklyn Museum Art School, and exhibited widely in her lifetime. A long-time summer resident of MDI, she took special pleasure in painting Maine coast views. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$301,597 31,735 (15,000) $318,332

BREWER-GOWER-SAWYER-GARBER FUND Established by founding trustees Les Brewer and Father James Gower, and local businessmen Charles Sawyer and Michael J. Garber, to support campus grounds improvements. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$570,896 60,084 (28,000) $602,980

KATHRYN W. DAVIS CENTER BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS FUND This fund was created with 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 and Regional Studies is currently used for faculty and staff offices, classes, and serves as a meeting place for COA’s international population. The Davis Carriage House and the Kathryn W. Davis Residence Village are valuable additions to the student housing accommodation complex on campus. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

DEERING CENTER Originally a summer cottage built in 1886 named “Sea Urchins,” this building was fully renovated in 2008. It features a student lounge, a meditation center, a cafe, a meeting room, and offices for the college nurse, mental health counselors, and student life staff. This fund, created to support maintenance of the facility, was established by Barbara Deering Danielson. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$334,208 35,463 (14,000) $355,671

$2,615,934 275,577 (126,000) $2,765,511 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER The Gates Center is used for lectures, theatrical productions, music and dance performances, and large meetings or workshops. The hall has a stage with optional podium, seating on the main floor and in a balcony, a lighting and sound booth, and a digital projector with screen. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$74,765 7,831 (4,000) $78,596

THE TURRETS The Turrets was designed in 1893 for John J. Emery of New York by Bruce Price, designer of Québec’s famous Château Frontenac. In 1975, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is still one of the most important examples of cottage-era architecture in Maine. The Turrets currently houses classrooms and administrative and faculty offices. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$339,971 35,738 (17,000) $358,709

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 & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

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$621,564 65,469 (30,000) $657,033

Doug Rose GIS Enhancement Fund Staff Supervisor: Gordon Longsworth ’90, Director of the Geographic Information Systems Lab The Doug Rose Memorial Fund has continued to play a crucial role in advancing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at COA in new and important ways. The following are some highlights of the fund’s contributions. GIS plotter: Hewlett-Packard DesignJet T650: Today, most GIS work is showcased through online web maps and digital presentations. However, the ability to print GIS maps is still important and necessary. The new GIS plotter has been used to print maps for conferences, class presentations, and to showcase student work around Established in 1994 campus, and has been used by by family and friends the Landscape Subcommittee of Doug Rose, a COA for campus planning. GIS student and avid rock maps of the Maine coast climber who died while showing sea level rise are the climbing Great Head in focal point of discussion in Acadia National Park. This fund supports the a Maine SeaGrant project purchase of software about storm response and and equipment, as well preparedness for rising sea as student attendance levels. Public meetings up at conferences and down the coast are related to Geographic using these maps as a focal Information Systems. point of discussion about the most susceptible areas and will assist in long-term planning and preparedness. The maps help answer questions such as, What assets are at risk? Will this impact the working waterfront? What about new growth and development? Can we identify risks and plan in order to mitigate their impacts? Pix4D.com subscription: Pix4D continues to be instrumental in processing and storing drone imagery that is imported into GIS and put online in the form of web maps for display and analysis. Its use is continually increasing. Student Nils Midtun ’24, an Federal Aviation Administration-certified drone pilot, flew the COA campus this spring, collecting 500 overlapping images that were processed in Pix4D into a single image and 3D model. This image is now the official basemap of the main campus and shows recent work, such as the new student

housing, and other changes in the campus landscape. The 3D model allows viewers to take virtual tours of the campus. IDrive.com subscription: IDrive.com is a cloud service for backing up and sharing critical data. This has ensured the security and accessibility of the 35-year history of the lab’s work. This year all of the projects done on the GIS Lab’s 12 workstations over the last three years were backed up to IDrive. The systems were completely full, wiped clean, and had Windows reinstalled with no data loss. Any of the projects can be restored to those systems from IDrive and will continue to reside there for the foreseeable future. Enhancing collaboration: The GIS Lab is a space for independent work, community work, collaboration, and group projects. The fund helped pay for improvements to the comfort of the lab, such as having the floor painted and adding faux hanging plants and other aesthetics to make the space more pleasant and inviting. The Doug Rose Memorial Fund continues to play a vital role in advancing the use of GIS technology and its applications in education, research, and community-based work at COA. Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$50,062 5,327 (2,000) $53,389 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery Fund Faculty Supervisor: Jay Friedlander While most collegiate venture incubators and accelerators are co-curricular, forcing students to choose between their interests and education, the COA Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery removes these barriers, aligning education and individual passion by providing students with a full term of academic credit. Sustainable Business Program Manager Kerri Sands ‘02 and I manage the program and have built a bespoke curriculum so that any student at COA can develop their ideas and be fully immersed in the entrepreneurial experience. Students selected for the DDS Hatchery perform a series of increasingly high-fidelity prototypes over a ten-week term. They learn essential business skills necessary for success in any enterprise; they receive guidance from mentors and professionals in prototyping, branding, social media, legal and accounting; and they have access to office space and up to $5,000 in seed funding.

strategies, and ultimately came to see themselves as professionals offering products and services of value. At the end of the 10-week term, students presented overviews of their work to family and friends.

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

Past hatchery students were recognized for their enterprises. AJ Jaydeokar ‘23 was accepted into the highly competitive Buildspace accelerator and selected for a live demo event in San Francisco to further develop his sustainability app. Ellie White ‘22 received the Jorum Craft Award in Scotland for her pottery.

During the 2023–24 academic year, we had nine students in the Hatchery pursuing eight ventures •

Flummery—a conversation based bluffing party game

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EarthTenders—an outdoor experience company centered around queer youth

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Suki Boba and Tea House—using fresh ingredients to give people joy in a cup

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Little Earth Adventures—inspiring wonder and belonging through outdoor adventure

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Sisters and the Stars—a film analysis podcast offering new insight into movies

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Grapes Money—an app helping people invest in themselves instead of shopping

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Kasa—a Japanese rural tourism company connecting visitors with cultural experiences

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Go Mental Collective—a custom upcycled streetwear fashion brand

Hatchery students learned sustainable enterprise fundamentals, developed prototypes, experimented with new products and sales channels, solicited meaningful feedback from customers, outlined operations plans, developed growth c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

The hatchery’s educational model, merging academic credit and student interest, continues to be of interest to organizations both inside and outside academia. Several statewide accelerators featured hatchery programming for their cohorts, the hatchery model was highlighted in a presentation at University of Arizona and finally, a partnership with Swarthmore College brought elements of the hatchery to their campus.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$2,012,455 212,000 (97,000) $2,127,456

Elizabeth Thorndike Library Materials and Senior Class Book Fund Established In 2001 by Thorndike family members in honor of Elizabeth Thorndike, for whom Thorndike Library is partially 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. Here are some of this year’s selection of books by the seniors.

The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder by William P. Brown Brown illuminates connections and conflicts between the ancient creation traditions and the natural sciences, arguing for a new way of reading the Bible in light of current scientific knowledge and with consideration of the needs of the environment. Brown argues that both scientific inquiry and theological reflection are driven by a sense of wonder, which “unites the scientist and the psalmist.” (Amazon) Art, Artefact, Artifice by James Prosek Prosek places man- and naturemade objects on equal footing aesthetically, suggesting that the distinction between them is not as vast as we may believe. Objects such as a bird’s nest, dinosaur head, and cuneiform tablet are juxtaposed with Asian handscrolls, an African

headdress, modern masterpieces, and more. Artists featured include Albrecht Dürer, Helen Frankenthaler, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollack. (Amazon) Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way: Cooking with Tall Woman by Charlotte Frisbie Around the world, Indigenous Peoples are returning to traditional foods produced by traditional methods of subsistence. This book documents the time-honored foods and recipes of a Navajo woman over almost a century, from the days when Navajos gathered or hunted almost everything they ate to a time when their diet was dominated by highly processed foods. (Amazon) The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours. (Amazon) The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai Maathai analyzes the major impediments to development at three key levels—international,

national, and individual. By stressing personal responsibility, Maathai focuses on what Africans can do for themselves to empower individual change at the community level. (Amazon) Dawn by Octavia Butler When Lilith Iyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali—a seemingly benevolent alien race that intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of years ago, saving everyone who survived a nuclear war from a dying, ruined Earth and then putting them into a deep sleep. The Oankali healed the planet, cured cancer, and increased human strength. Now they want Lilith to lead her people back to Earth—but salvation comes at a price. (Amazon) Yellowface by R.F. Kuang With its totally immersive firstperson voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. Kuang’s novel is timely, razorsharp, and eminently enjoyable. (Amazon)

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$49,504 127,407 (4,000) $172,911 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

R. Amory Thorndike Memorial Fund A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing From Soil to Stars edited by Erin Sharkey (2023)

Roma Artist Ceija Stojka: What Should I be Afraid of? by Stephanie Buhmann, Lorely French, et al. (2024)

A Field Guide to the Moon: Awe and Exploration Across Human History edited by Taylor Bruce (2019)

Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature by Emmanuel Kreike (2021)

Common Bonds: A Speculative Aromantic Anthology by Claudine Arseneault (2021) Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools and Beyond by Glenn E. Singleton (2021) Creating Consent Culture: A Handbook for Educators by Marcia Baczynski (2022) Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging by Jessica Lee (2024) Fire Exit by Morgan Talty (2024) Firelei Báez edited by Eva Respini and Firelei Báez (2024) Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor (2023) Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Theodore Van Alst (2023) No Deal! Indigenous Arts & the Politics of Possession by Tressa Berman (2012)

Songs of Ships & Sailors by Julia Lane (2021) Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (2016) The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access by David Gissen (2022) The Encyclopedia of Rootical Folklore: Plant Tales from Africa and the Diaspora by Natty Mark Samuels (2024) The Heart-Centered Teacher: Restoring Hope, Joy, and Possibility in Uncertain Times by Regie Routman (2024) The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved by Steven J. Mithen (2024)

This fund was established in 1979 in memory of longtime supporter and friend, R. Amory Thorndike. The College of the Atlantic 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 the titles on this page.

The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman (2017) The Sound Studies Reader edited by Jonathan Sterne (2012) Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices by Kevin Manders and Elizabeth Marston (2019) Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding: A Visual History by Nathan Lipfert (2021) Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism by Gregory Claeys (2022) What the Ocean Remembers by Sonja Boon (2019)

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality by Angela Saini (2023)

Prisoners’ Inventions by Angelo and Temporary Services (2020) Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art by Allison Moore, Daniela Baumann, et al. (2017)

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Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$74,145 7,753 (4,000) $77,898

Waterfront Director Fund Staff Supervisor: Toby Stephenson ’98 The COA waterfront continues to be a vibrant and productive environment for our community, with several updates and announcements worth mentioning.

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

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

The season started off with an expensive repair to Osprey due to residual failures from her grounding two seasons prior. Fortunately, this expense will be covered by insurance, as it relates to small amounts of water that infiltrated the engine and transmission during her 2021 grounding event. The net result was a new transmission and engine cylinder liners, both of which give her a new start to life. Boating continues to elicit its usual fervor and excitement, with many students learning to handle both large and small craft, power and sail. With 20 work-study students filling crew positions, we have a lot of learning happening. Our two Rhodes 19 boats and the Halman 20 (donated by John

Gower) are used regularly when the wind is up and classes are out. Rebecca also continues as a training platform for students learning how a larger sailboat handles. In July, she hosted three sailors from Holland for a week-long private charter, and in September she conducted her second OOPs sailing program with five incoming students. Both events were extremely successful. Our learning continues into the crafts as we assemble a large post and beam canoe and kayak shed for the outdoor club. This was the result of Regan Greer ’22’s senior project. She designed and provided the material to build a 20’x40’ structure next to the Davis Shop to help extend the life of our canoe and kayak fleet. We will also be overseeing a boat-building senior project for a student starting during the winter term in the Davis Shop. We look forward to creating additional opportunities for our students to explore connecting hands to minds. STATS Osprey: 50+ trips, 630 passengers, six COA research days, six Summer Field Studies trips Rebecca: 20 trips, 50 passengers, one weeklong private charter, one weeklong COA program .

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$1,421,409 788,088 (68,000) $2,141,497 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Writing for the Future Fund Faculty Supervisor: Su Yin Khor, PhD I joined COA as the new director of the Writing Program and professor of writing and rhetoric in the 2023–24 academic year. Blake Cass was named director of the Writing Center. Blake now manages day-to-day operations of the Writing Center, such as training and mentoring tutors, assessing students’ literacy development, and coordinating notetakers. This allows me to focus on pedagogical and curricular developments to build a sustainable program that will support COA students’ writing and literacy development long-term. Under my directorship, the Writing Program’s pedagogical approach has been developed to support students’ academic and professional literacies to better prepare them for writing across different contexts. Specifically, the Writing Program’s course offerings were expanded to align with the transdisciplinary nature of COA’s curriculum and the students’ diverse interests. For instance, literature and writing professor Palak Taneja developed a new college seminar, Murder, Mystery, Mayhem: Women in Crime, and creative writing lecturer Martha Andrews Donovan created Writing as Art, Craft, and Social Action. Additionally, collaborations and development of new writing courses with other faculty and staff are underway to leverage the collective understanding of writing at COA. Moreover, our note-taking services have grown significantly, resulting with the hiring of two additional students to help coordinate these efforts. Collaborations across units have also increased. In partnership with Thorndike Library, a new library guide about research and writing was developed to include current information about citation practices and research project ideas. With help from Hannah Stevens ‘09 (technical services librarian and member of the COA Web Team), the Writing Program has its own space on the website to provide helpful information about the writing requirement, the Writing Center, and other resources for students, all instructors, staff, and advisors. Additions to the website include options for instructors to request workshops and information sessions from the Writing Center, as well as the option for requesting Writing c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Center liaisons to support instructors with students’ writing.

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

To increase the visibility and presence of the Writing Center to further support students, as well as all instructors and staff, several events and outreach programs were planned throughout the year. During the winter term, the students in my course, Food and Identity in Writing: Multimodality in Composition, hosted a community potluck in the Writing Center. Students, faculty, and staff joined for a celebration of COA students’ culinary histories and practices. In the following term, students in Research for Change: Writing, Language, Social (In)justice displayed their projects in the Thorndike Library. Their work examined discourses around, for instance, animal conservation efforts, AI in education, the representation of asylum seekers in European newspapers, and secularism in Indian journalism. To wrap up the academic year, the Writing Center hosted two senior project writing panels to showcase the diverse ways that we read and write across contexts. We look forward to another academic year full of growth and creativity.

Beginning Fund Balance Net Return & Contributions Less Allocations/Withdrawals Ending Fund Balance

$903,159 152,884 (38,000) $1,018,043

FY24 SUPPORTERS 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.

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE $25,000+

FOUNDER $10,000–24,999

Anonymous (6) Nancy* & Edgar Aronson Anne T. & Robert M. Bass Kate Baxter Estate of Edward M. Blair Kate & Andrew Davis Gale & Shelby Davis Estate of Robert Engel Heather Richards Evans Wendy & Bill Foulke, Jr. Rena Zurn & Spencer Fulweiler, Jr. Beth & Will Gardiner Amy & Phil Geier Leita & Bill Hamill Sam Hamill, Jr. Arlene & Bob Kogod Scott MacKenzie & Jerry Cruz Jacomien Mars Jay McNally ’84 David G. Milliken Rebecca & Steve Milliken Abby Moffat Louisa & Bill Newlin Toby Ritterhoff & David Oldach Daniel Pierce, Jr. Family Lalage & Steve Rales Emily & Mitch Rales Diana & Roland Reynolds Lucy Bell Sellers Peggy Sharpe* David Evans Shaw Diana Davis Spencer Maureen & Bill Stewart Estate of John Lowell Thorndike Genie & Will Thorndike, Jr. Laura Stanton & Kim Tomlinson Claudia & Carey Turnbull Estate of Ann Waldron

Anonymous Charlotte Bordeaux Elisabeth & John Cochran Sarah Currie-Halpern & Jon Halpern Peggy Dulany Mary K. Eliot Wendy C. Gamble Christina M. Gillis Anne & Jim Green Charlotte Hanson Steffi & Bob Harris Sonja Johanson ’95 & Richard Gordet Gardiner & Nicholas Lapham Anna Maynard Linda Faville & Brook Muller Nell Newman ’87 Bill O’Donnell Cathy Orme Linda & Eliot Paine Susan & Bob Peck Bambi Putnam Kathy & George Putnam III Martie & Ed Samek Jamie S. Somes Allison & Steve Sullens Nonie & John Sullivan, Jr. Anne & Charles Target Christopher Toomey Lisa & Paul Welch

PATHFINDER $5,000–9,999 Anonymous Mary Dohna Bacon ’80 & Wells Bacon ’80 Cynthia Baker & Jonathan Zeitler Sandi Read & Ron Beard Joanie & Jamie Blaine

Elizabeth Hodder Corbus & Clay Corbus Sydney Davis Micaela De Lignerolles Stacey Eder Smith ’01 Laura Ellis & Paul Gilbert Chandler & Oliver Evans Neva Goodwin Carolyn & Chris Groobey Eileen & Paul Growald Lissa & Mel* Hodder Cookie & Bill Horner Leslie Jones ’91 & Max Williamson Arthur Keller & Mark Gauthier Sydie Lansing Karen & Howard Lapsley Casey Mallinckrodt Pamy Manice Liz & Arthur Martinez Anne Conlee Mazlish & Tony Mazlish Linda & Clem McGillicuddy Nancy Milliken Linzee Weld & Peter Milliken (’76) Craig Neff Carol ’93 & Jacob ’93 Null Chaz O’Brien ’93 & Harrison Bains Bruce Phillips ’78 & Susan Erickson Catherine Baker-Pitts & Will Pitts III Frances Pollitt ’77 & Frank E. Briber III Anne & Bruce Pomeroy Roxana & Tony Robinson, Jr. Susan & David Rockefeller, Jr. Amy Falls & Hartley Rogers Ellen Seh (’75) Jeri Presser & Charlie Seitz III Margie & John Grace Shethar Joss Tennille JoAnn & Jay Townsend Christiaan van Heerden ’09 & Family Suzanne & David Wakefield

*Deceased

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John Wilmerding* Alice Blum Yoakum

DISCOVERER $2,500–4,999 Anonymous (2) Julie Banzhaf-Stone & Steve Stone Barbara Tennent & Steven Barkan Margaret Vettese & Edward Benz, Jr. Sofia Blanchard Julia Bogardus / Point Harbor Fund of the Maine Community Foundation Miranda Borden / Point Harbor Fund of the Maine Community Foundation Amanda (Walker) Bunker ’98 Judith Burger Gossart Linda K. Carman Ruth M. Colket Susan Ferrante-Collier & John Collier Karen & Darron Collins ’92 Sally Crock Verena & Rod* Cushman Adam Dau ’01 Hornor Davis & William Hague Kay & David Dawson Ellen & Bill Dohmen Sunny Dupree Donna & Bill Eacho III Deb Evans ’82 & Ron Schaaf Susan Getze John Goodman Gerd Morris Grace Susan Dowling & Andrew Griffiths Carol & Dick Habermann Louise Hartwell Peter Hunt & Family Martha & O.P. Jackson Brianne ’02 & Brian Jordan Susan Lerner & Steven Katona Margaret & Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77 Philip Bradish Kunhardt IV ’11 & Maria Laura Torre Gomez Serena & Paul Kusserow Nancy Erikson Ladd & Sam Ladd III Betsy & Nelson Mead, Jr. Charles H. Merriman III Mary Miller Meta & Benjie Neilson Alice Shin & Mark Norris Leslie Palumbo / Point Harbor Fund of the Maine Community Foundation Julia & Brooke Parish Judith S. Perkins Leslie & David Perlsweig

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John Pollock Tina Rathborne Linn Sage Deborah & John Schafer Cynthia E. Livingston & Hank L.P. Schmelzer Allison Fundis ’03 & Stein Servick ’05 Carol Dean Silverman & Family Laura McGiffert Slover & Bill Slover Julie Spahr Sandy Stone Caren Sturges Virginia Sweatt Courtney & Benjamin Thompson Joanie Thorndike Sylvia Torti & Scott Woolsey Mary Kay Long & Dennis Unites Kathy Vignos Katherine Weinstock ’81 Erin ’04 & Mike ’01 Zwirko

EXPLORER $1,500–2,499 Anonymous (3) Sally & Bill Arata Emily Beck & Geof Young Ann* & Fred Benson Victoria Bergman John Biderman ’77 Deirdre Swords & Michael Boland ’94 Lynn Boulger & Tim Garrity Allison & Avery Bourke III Brenda Brodie Jean & Ordway Burden Jane & Charles Burger Thomas D. Cahill III Helen Caivano ’80 Susan & Eric Carlson Mary Ann & Harry Charlston Gail & Ham Clark III Joan Claybrook Pancho Cole ’81 Tracy & Gifford Combs / Combs Family Fund Beth Rendeiro & Steven DePaul Karin Tilberg & Ben Emory Peg Emple Florence & Spencer Ervin Mary Ervin Miriam Ervin David & Jean Evans Michael Gillott Nancy & Bill Grove

Caitlyn Harvey ’02 Betsey Holtzmann & Abe Noyes Lynn & Jeff Horowitz Mimi & Neil Houghton Sue Inches ’79 Yardly & Scott Jenkins The Howard Johnson Foundation Lynn Johnston Ali & Steve Kassels Maggie & Jack Kelley III Betsy & John Kelly Susan & John Klein Burks B. Lapham Francesca Preston & Doug Lerch ’03 Linda & Jonathan Lewis Babette & Peter Loring Carol & Rick* Malone Judy McGeorge Jane & Bob Meade Deb & Bob Milotte Meredith & Phil Moriarty Rob Whitman & Jeff Munger Kathryn & Tom Nelson Whitney Oppersdorff Barbara & Charles Pierce, Jr. Laura & Vassar Pierce, Jr. Lisa & Jay Pierrepont Marguerite Pitts Sheila Sonne Pulling Celian Putnam Charles Richards Eliza Riley Jared I. Roberts Melinda & Tripp Royce ’79/ Harrison Royce Architecture Corp Sandy Wilcox & Jack Russell Frances Stead Seller & Tim Sellers Katie Adams Schaeffer & Anthony Schaeffer Jane & Dennis Shubert Charles Stanhope Ingrid Sunzenauer Daphne & Andrew Trotter Bonnie & Jim Van Alen II Luciana Pandolfi ’98 & Luke Wagner ’99 Helen & Paul Weaver J. Michael Williamson Sydney & Jonathan Winthrop Margaret Woolley & Gerard Vasisko

Note: $1,500 was the entry into TCS in FY24. For FY25, that amount is $2,500.

FY24 SUPPORTERS, continued

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 (3) Eben Albert ’03 Heather Albert-Knopp ’99 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 Melinda ’00 & Ellen Casey-Magleby Cynthia Chisholm ’86 Jen Hughes & Ken Cline Pancho Cole ’81 Sarah Colletti ’10 & Kyle McMillan Heidi Conner Matthew Corum ’03 Jill ’83 & Ben ’84 Cowie-Haskell Lynn & James Crawford Marily Crews Kara ’96 & Matt ’98 Daul, and Family Cerissa Desrosiers ’00 & Jessica Hannon Holly Devaul ’84 Samuel Edmonds ’05 Robert Finn ’92 Helen Geils June LaCombe (’75) & Bill Ginn ’74 Annika Maia Ginsberg ’99 Nina ’78 & Jonathan ’78 Gormley Tree Goulet ’78 Rebecca Hamilton ’13 Carla Seddio & Michael Hamilton Kelly Harris ’12

Juliet Hodge ’95 Noah Hodgetts ’10 Margaret Hoffman ’97 Russ Holway Kathryn Hunninen ’03 & Jose Luis Sagastegui Anna Hurwitz ’84 Jane & David James Amanda Spector ’08 & Peter Jenkins ’09 Brianne ’02 & Brian Jordan 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 Blaise Maccarrone ’01 Kate & Ben Macko ’01 Chloe Marr-Fuller ’00 Angela Hondros-McCarthy & Dennis McCarthy Lauren McKean ’83 Bridget Mullen ’91 & Chris Kenoyer Sarah Neilson ’09 Jackie Nielson Shirley Oskamp & Gary Lindorff Melissa ’91 & Peter Ossanna Rain Perez ’12 Drake ’03 & Finn ’02 Pillsbury Shiva Polefka ’01 Michele Riccio ’88 Jason Rich ’96

Andrea Roberto ’92 Gerald Robinson ’89 Patricia & Ronnie Rogers Mary Ropp ’09 Derren Rosbach ’95 Eliza Ruel ’13 & Ian Yaffe CedarBough T. Saeji ’93 Jodi Sargent MPhil ’06 & Family 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 Julianne Taylor ’06 Mari Huang Li Thiersch ’17 Ellen Thurman Sylvia Torti & Scott Woolsey Meg Trau-Serrano ’12 J. Louise Tremblay ’91 Elena Tuhy-Walters ’90 & Carl Walters II John Twiss Caitlin Unites ’03 Karen Waldron & Richard Hilliard Ben Walters ’81 HannahMathilde Waschezyn ’13 Sally Weiss Peter Williams ’93 David Winship ’77 Cathleen Wyman Christine & Norb Young, Jr. Amanda Zych ’06

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ALUMNI LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Alumni gifts are critical to College of the Atlantic. The Alumni Leadership Circle honors the generosity and philanthropic leadership of alumni who give $500 or more to COA. Anonymous (5) Heather Albert-Knopp ’99 Mary Dohna ’80 & Wells ’80 Bacon Sara Bender & Evan Bender ’04 John Biderman ’77 Deirdre Swords & Michael Boland ’94 Paul Boothby ’88 Amanda (Walker) Bunker ’98 Shan Burson ’83 Lisa Burton ’83 & Christopher Vincenty (’83) Helen Caivano ’80 Diana Cohn ’85 & Craig Merrilees Pancho Cole ’81 Karen & Darron Collins ’92 Mairi Connelly ’14 & Spenser Simis Adam Dau ’01 Kara ’96 & Matt ’98 Daul, and Family Megan Smith ’90 & Daniel DenDanto ’91 George & Kelly Dickson MPhil ’97 Jennifer Dussault ’02 Stacey Eder Smith ’01 David Emerson ’81 Deb Evans ’82 & Ron Schaaf

$100–1,499 Anonymous (41) Sarah Ackerman Eben Albert ’03 Sharon Knopp & Enoch Albert Heather Albert-Knopp ’99 Jane Alexander Judy Allen Diane & Alan Amendt Heather & Richard Ames Peter Anderson ’81 Elly & Sandy Andrews III Emily Argo ’10 Heidi Armster Shlomit Auciello ’17 Elizabeth Rousek Ayers ’95 Cheryl Bartholomew ’80 Ted Bartles ’94 Terrie Cunliffe Beamer & Wesley Beamer c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Joanne Rodgers Foster ’85 Glenon ’86 & Gary Friedmann Allison Fundis ’03 & Stein Servick ’05 June LaCombe (’75) & Bill Ginn ’74 Caitlyn Harvey ’02 Katherine Hazard ’76 Lisa ’80 & Bob ’79 Holley Sue Inches ’79 Sonja Johanson ’95 & Richard Gordet Leslie Jones ’91 & Max Williamson Brianne ’02 & Brian Jordan Jennifer Judd-McGee (’92) Sarah ’05 & Shawn ’00 Keeley Rosalind Rolland & Scott Kraus ’77 Margaret & Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77 Philip Bradish Kunhardt IV ’11 & Maria Laura Torre Gomez Francesca Preston & Doug Lerch ’03 William Luther ’06 & Seth Carbonneau ’05 Suzanne Durrell & Scott McIsaac (’78) Jay McNally ’84 Clifton McPherson III ’84 Linzee Weld & Peter Milliken (’76) Sarah ’02 & Chase ’00 Morrill

Alyson Bell ’10 Felicia Bellows Robin ’80 & Paul ’79 Beltramini Sara Bender & Evan Bender ’04 Bruce Bender ’76 Glen Berkowitz ’82 Marie & Gerald Berlin Johannah Bernstein ’83 Stefanie & Alan Berry Geena Berry ’10 Sara Faull ’98 & Eugenio Bertin ’97 Deodonne ’06 & Ranjan ’04 Bhattarai Anne Oldach & William Bickley Janet Biondi ’81 Arthur Kettle ’84 & Margaret Blanding ’83 Ryan Boduch ’98

Paul Boothby ’88 Patricia Honea-Fleming & Richard Borden Kristin & Bryan Bradley Ellen Brandt Brenda & Thomas Breen Kerry & Joseph Bresee Bing & Nat Brown Cherie & Jason Burke Shan Burson ’83 Lisa Burton ’83 & Christopher Vincenty (’83) Barbara B. & Charles P. Burton II Gary Cabit William Luther ’06 & Seth Carbonneau ’05 Donna Gold & Bill Carpenter JoAnne Carpenter & Jan Hofstra

Nell Newman ’87 Carol ’93 & Jacob ’93 Null Chaz O’Brien ’93 & Harrison Bains Valerie Lambert Peacock (’98) & Tobin Peacock ’95 Bruce Phillips ’78 & Susan Erickson Shiva Polefka ’01 Frances Pollitt ’77 & Frank E. Briber III Andrea Roberto ’92 Ryan Robison ’18 Melinda & Tripp Royce ’79/ Harrison Royce Architecture Corp Mitsuko & Steven Savage ’77 Ellen Seh (’75) Pamela Stone ’87 Cecily Swinburne ’09 Elena Tuhy-Walters ’90 & Carl Walters II Christiaan van Heerden ’09 & Family Christopher Vincenty (’83) & Lisa Burton ’83 Luciana Pandolfi ’98 & Luke Wagner ’99 Katherine Weinstock ’81 David Winship ’77 Erin ’04 & Mike ’01 Zwirko

Melissa ’00 & Matthew ’99 Carroll Melinda ’00 & Ellen Casey-Magleby Frances & Andre Chabot Erin Chalmers ’00 Lucy Hull & E. Barton Chapin III Grace Cherubino ’11 David Chesney Gabriela MaldonadoCodina & James Chivers Diana Choksey ’05 & Jordan Mandel-Iaia Katherine Kaufel Christoffel* Marge Connelly & Julie Christopher Alyne & Joseph Cistone Sheila W. Clark Susanna Porter & Jamie Clark, Jr.

Ryan Claunch Jen Hughes & Ken Cline Lillian & Arthur Clinger, Jr. Catherine Clinger Janis Coates Pamela Cobb Heuberger ’83 Millard Coffin Diana Cohn ’85 & Craig Merrilees Jacquie Colburn Timothy Cole ’88 Sarah Colletti ’10 & Kyle McMillan Leza & Jim Colquhoun Mairi Connelly ’14 & Spenser Simis Heidi Conner Karen Conners Thomas Mayer & Jean Corwin Wilson

Growing up my father told me to always carry a Swiss Army knife so I would be prepared. During my time at COA, I came to think about human ecology as a metaphorical Swiss Army knife. Human ecology places value not in the perfection of any one skill, but the combination of many. See, the issue with having only a chef’s knife is that whatever problem you encounter, all you can do is chop. And if all you have is a can opener, everything looks like a can. As human ecologists, we can approach a problem on its own terms and identify what tool we need, and we can choose more than just one. We know the complex problems of our time require multiple tools. Every day we spent at COA, each of us crafted our own Swiss Army knife. By choosing courses, internships, and senior projects, we added new tools—every person’s knife represents the unique combination of knowledge and skills we built here. Make sure you don’t get stuck using just one of the tools on your knife…keep putting yourself in situations that require your whole skill set, add new tools, and keep the old ones sharp. You might lose the toothpick on the way, but that’s okay! LISA-MARIE KOTTHOFF ’23 (excerpted from Lisa-Marie’s student perspective during the 2023 commencement)

Jill ’83 & Ben ’84 Cowie-Haskell Lynn & James Crawford Marily Crews Tom Crikelair Caroline Curtis Lisa Damtoft ’79 John Dandy (’84) Kara ’96 & Matt ’98 Daul, and Family Lindsay Davies Caleb Fuller Davis ’02

Norah Davis Nicole d’Avis ’02 & Mark Anderson John & Nisha 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 George & Kelly Dickson MPhil ’97 Judith Dickson Pat & Bill Dommermuth Millard Dority Cameron Hale Douglass ’02 Peggy & Steve Downing Sarah Drerup ’09 Priscilla du Pont Carol Durell

Jennifer Dussault ’02 Marcia L. Dworak Kimberly Eason Nubel ’95 Martha & Ned Edmonds Marilyn Edmunds Catherine Elk ’82 Helen Elkins David Emerson ’81 Peter W. Emmet ’92 Nickilynn Estologa ’07 Sarah & Preston Everdell Mary Fairfield

Casey Jones & Bill Faller Susan & David Feltus Adrian Fernandez ’15 Robert Finn ’92 Helen Dickey Fitz & David G. Fitz / Helen Dickey and David G. Fitz Charitable Fund Joanna Fogg ’07 Judi & Howard Fogt Joanne Rodgers Foster ’85 Barbara & Dick Fox c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Susan Freed ’80 Jim Frick ’78 Glenon ’86 & Gary Friedmann Joanne & Richard Fuerst Richard Galena ’98 Charles Gemme ’79 Katie & Steve George Nadine Gerdts (’76) & Steve Lacker June LaCombe (’75) & Bill Ginn ’74 Annika Maia Ginsberg ’99 Erin ’92 & Graham ’91 Goff Nina Goldman & Douglas Legg Jaki Erdoes ’80 & Terry Good ’80 Jeanne Goodman Paul Goodof Nina ’78 & Jonathan ’78 Gormley Tree Goulet ’78 Marie Gower Sandra Graham Jane Gray Bo Greene Gina Greer Linda Gregory ’89 Mary (Nelson) Griffin ’97 Richard Griffin ’80 Jane & Jeffrey Griffith Marie Griffith & Leigh Schmidt Millie Coleman Groobey Karen Guida Peggy & Mike Gumpert Merna & Joe Guttentag

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Georgia Hadler David Hahn (’83) Heather Hallett-Thurston Irene Haisma & Jaap Ham Kate Webb & Oliver Hamill Carla Seddio & Michael Hamilton Heather Harrell Kelly Harris ’12 Tracy Haskell ’86 Patricia & John* Hatton Jocelyn Hayes Ed Haynsworth III ’98 Katherine Hazard ’76 Matthew Hecht & Mary Olson Mary J. Heffernon Peter Heller ’85 Jim Henderson & Jan Tedder Gail Henderson-King ’82 Jennifer Niese & William Hetzel Betsy & John Hewlett Barbara Hilli Wayne Hobson Juliet Hodge ’95 Deborah & Roger Hodge Anne Wright Hodge & Byron Hodge Noah Hodgetts ’10 Margaret Hoffman ’97 Kass Hogan ’81 Lisa ’80 & Bob ’79 Holley Charles J. Houston III Jane Hultberg Sarah Huntington (’86) Lyn Hurwich ’80

James Hyland Ruth & Keisuke Iida Corrie Ingall ’16 Jamien Jacobs ’86 Shelley Latham & Kenton Jakub Nishad Jayasundara ’05 Peter ’84 & Margaret Jeffery Anna Jenei Patricia A. Jennings (’71) & James Hatch Cathy Johnson ’74 Nicholas Johnson Louise Johnston Jody Johnstone Ann & Lee Judd Jennifer Judd-McGee (’92) Laura & Michael Kaiser ’85 Sarah ’05 & Shawn ’00 Keeley Michael Keller ’09 Ivy ’05 & Nathaniel ’04 Keller Nan & Stephen Kennedy Peter Adriel Kennell ’17 Craig Kesselheim ’76 Barbara & Steven Kiel Jill ’99 & Joseph ’01 Kiernan Joan & Allan Kleinman Greg Koehlert ’96 Joan & Ted Koffman S. Lee Kohrman Anne Kozak Rosalind Rolland & Scott Kraus ’77 Natasha Krell ’16 Sandy & Mark Kryder Jude Lamb ’00 Rebecca & Michael Lambert Laura Crawford & Mathew Langenberg Virginie Lavallee-Picard ’07 & Alexander Fletcher ’07 Megan LeBoutillier David Lebwohl Jacquelyn & Dawn Lemoine Susan Letcher Otti & Jeffrey Levine Monty Lewis Lois & Larry Libby Jessie Greenbaum ’89 & Phil Lichtenstein ’92 Cynthia & Dan Lief Bobbi & Werner Liepolt William Lind Abigail Littlefield ’83 Margaret Longley ’10 Roberta & Ralph Longsworth Nancy Sullivan-Lord & Dan Lord Haley Harwood Lowell ’11 Sarah Lynch

Kate & Ben Macko ’01 Isabel Mancinelli & Sam Coplon Donielle Manning Chloe Marr-Fuller ’00 Kathleen Massimini ’82 & Steven Callahan Sarah May & Doug Johnston John C. McCann Whitney & Jeffrey McCarthy Angela Hondros-McCarthy & Dennis McCarthy Leslie McConnell ’81 Sarah McDaniel ’93 Bill McDowell ’80 Donna McFarland & Alan Richins Nina & Archie McIntyre Suzanne Durrell & Scott McIsaac (’78) Lauren McKean ’83 Linda Parker & Jamie McKown Bill McLellan ’88 Donald K. McNeil Megan McOsker ’90 Clifton McPherson III ’84 Rebecca Melius ’01 James Merrill Mary Lynn & David Meyer Sheri Millbury Christine & Kevin Miller Jeffrey Miller ’92 Andrea & Nick Miller Kathy & Jerry Miller Eileen & Ethan Miller Winnie & Nate Miller Gail & Gerrish Milliken Margot & Roger Milliken, Jr. Irene Driscoll & Lincoln Millstein Victoria & Joe Minutolo Kevin Monahan Diver Ed Karen & John Moniz Karla Tegzes & Peter Moon ’90 Stephen Wagner ’11 & Cayla Moore ’13 Phyllis Anina Moriarty Amy Morley Sarah ’02 & Chase ’00 Morrill Rick Moss ’79 Gene Myers (’80) Amy Naimi Susan & Bob Nathane, Jr. Sarah Neilson ’09 Steve Neuhauser Leanne Nickon & John Clark Jackie Nielson Frank Niepold III ’94 Thupten Norbu ’06

Lauren Nutter ’10 Jacqueline & David Orsmond Lynn & William Osborn Melissa ’91 & Peter Ossanna Jennifer Waldron & Benoni Outerbridge ’84 Suzanne & Jim Owen Andrea & Jon Pactor Eleanor & Michael Pancoe Susan B. Parker Laurie & David Pauker Holly & Ken Paul Daniel Peach Cynthia Peach & James Chaput Valerie Lambert Peacock (’98) & Tobin Peacock ’95 Susan & Robert Pennington Rain Perez ’12 Shoshana Perry ’83 & Hale Powell Elizabeth & Carl Peverall Susan Peverley Mary Pickett & Marc Pifko Sara W. Pierce Susan Pierce ’77 Drake ’03 & Finn ’02 Pillsbury Ned Platner Carole Plenty Shiva Polefka ’01 Karl Porter ’82 Esther & Christopher Pullman / The Pullman Charitable Fund Kenneth Punnett ’84 Nishi Rajakaruna ’94 Cathy L. Ramsdell ’78 Carolyn Reeb-Whitaker ’92 Sam & Frank Reece Lisa & Keith Reed Elisabeth Reynolds & Max Senter Michele Riccio ’88 Jason Rich ’96 Louise Riemer & William Locke Andrea Roberto ’92 Lisa & Stan Robinson Gerald Robinson ’89 Ryan Robison ’18 Wendy & Laurance Rockefeller, Jr. Susie Rodriguez & Charles Lowrey Patricia & Ronnie Rogers Patricia & James Rogers Derren Rosbach ’95 Jess & Rich Ross Beverly & Max Rothal Gordon Rowe Eliza Ruel ’13 & Ian Yaffe

Anonymous (3) Nancy* & Edgar Aronson Elizabeth Rousek Ayers ’95 Sandi Read & Ron Beard Emily Beck & Geof Young Ann* & Fred Benson John Biderman ’77 Lynn Boulger & Tim Garrity Norah Davis Fran Day George & Kelly Dickson MPhil ’97 Mary K. Eliot Donna & Gordon Erikson, Jr. David Hackett Fischer Wendy & Bill Foulke, Jr.

Mary & Phil Galperin Barbara McLeod & David Hales Diana & George* Hambleton Sam Hamill, Jr. Jan & George E. Hartman Tomoko & Masanobu Ikemiya Sue Inches ’79 Carol & Pat Jackson Betsy & John Kelly Margaret & Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77 Kathleen Massimini ’82 & Steven Callahan Sarah McDaniel ’93 Meredith & Phil Moriarty Rick Moss ’79

Susan Tieger & Ralph Nurnberger Linda & Eliot Paine Debra & John Piot Roxana & Tony Robinson, Jr. Karen Rose Steve Ross Cynthia E. Livingston & Hank L.P. Schmelzer Ellen Seh (’75) Stu Summer ’82 Ingrid Sunzenauer

The Northern Lights Society is an association for individuals who have made planned gifts to benefit COA. These gifts include bequests, charitable gift annuities, and gifts of life insurance, to name a few. If you have already included COA in your estate plans but do not see your name listed, please contact the Advancement Office to inform us of your gift intentions.

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I chose COA because I craved a community with a strong sense of reciprocity. We are a magnet for wholesome, smart, brave, and creative minds, with the potential to significantly improve our inner and outer worlds. We know each other’s names and celebrate our kaleidoscope of interests, keep each other accountable, and come together in support in times of need. I am forever grateful to belong to the COA community, which has helped me raise myself. JULIANA TRUJILLO MESA ’24

Dana & Andrew Ruel Patty Ryan CedarBough T. Saeji ’93 Jessica Glynn ’06 & Santiago Salinas ’05 WendiLou & Tristan Salman Maria Salvaggio Pat & Roger Samuel Jodi Sargent MPhil ’06 & Family Philip Sasse Mitsuko & Steven Savage ’77 Charles Savage Sunne Savage Noah Sawyer ’14 Anais Tomezsko ’04 & Noah Scher ’04 Taj Schottland ’10 Janet Schuman Kirsten Schwarz ’00 Karen Scott Dorothy & Roland Seymour Sam Shaw Kate Sheely ’07 Mimi Sheller J.W. Sims Karl Sims Katy Homans & Patterson Sims c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Heather Sisk ’93 & Craig Gordon Roberta Smith Iona Smith ’92 Jennifer Starr ’78 Laura Starr ’84 Henry Steinberg ’06 Katherine Moloney & David Steinberg Andrea Perry ’95 & Toby Stephenson ’98 Dorie Stolley ’88 Pamela Stone ’87 Ann* & Dick Sullivan Betts Swanton ’88 Douglas Sward ’96 Cecily Swinburne ’09 Julianne Taylor ’06 Tracey Teuber ’98 Ander Thebaud Mari Huang Li Thiersch ’17 Stanley Thomas Julia Walker Thomas ’08 Lois & Ken Thomsen Ellen Thurman Anne Tilney Anne Marie Toccket 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* John Twiss Hana Uman Doug Unger Caitlin Unites ’03 Matthe van Dam Wendy Van Dyke (’80) Linda & Richard Van Kampen Shamsher Virk ’07 Ali Wagner Karen Waldron & Richard Hilliard James W. Walker Timmon Wallis ’78 Ben Walters ’81 HannahMathilde Waschezyn ’13 Peter Wayne ’83 Karen Wennlund ’85 Catherine West Debby & Alexander Wheeler Rebecca Hubert Williams & Rhys Williams Raymond Williams

Susie Wilson David Winship ’77 Loretta & Tom Witt Sue Woehrlin ’80 Anna & Charles Woodward Carol Woolman Janice & Rick Woychik Bryan Wyatt ’80 Cathleen Wyman Atsuhiko & Yukie Yoshida Michael Youdelman ’95 Christine & Norb Young, Jr. Judy & Lou Zawislak Libby & Aaron Zweig Amanda Zych ’06

$1–99 Anonymous (61) Rebecca Abuza ’11 Ashley Adler ’09 & Justin Paice Virginia P. Agar Kathryn Alayan ’06 Irene S. Alie Lily Allgood ‘11 Robin Glaser & Howard Altmann Janet & Craig Altobello Debbie Ambro Martha Andrews Donovan

Genevieve Soloway Angle ’00 Elizabeth Anne ’11 Susan George Lyons Applegate ’76 Stephanie Arevalo ’22 Valerie Armstrong Ryan Arsenault ’00 Jessica Arseneau ’18 & Roman Bina ’16 Yoi Ashida ’20 Meeghan Athearn Lucy Atkins ’12 D. Gay Atkinson II Marissa Altmann Balfour ’13 Natalie Barnett ’11 Ursa Beckford ’17 Bruce Becque ’81 Evacilie Belliere ’27 Holly Benedict Michael Benz MPhil ’22 Jaime (Duval) Beranek ’00 Nathaniel Berger Charles Bishop ’07 Vitoria Bitencourt Motta ’19 Linda Mejia Black ’09 Debi & Art Blank Kellie & Clint Bledsoe Edith Blomberg Joanna Bombadil

Kathleen Bower Paris Boyd Jessica Bradshaw ’03 Alyce & John Brady Milja & Tony Brecher-DeMuro Amy Breen ’94 & Cody Johnson Jenn & Daniel Bridgers William Britz Mary Broad & Rob Yeo Heather Brown ’17 Lydia ’05 & Foy Brown Deborah Bruns-Thomas Cara & Dennis Burns Sundance Campbell Dave Carey Betty & George Carr Barbara Carter Jordan Chalfant ’12 Melisa Chan ’18 Tucker Charles Chloe Chen-Kraus ’14 Taj Chibnik ’95 Beth Chiles Cynthia Chisholm ’86 Alyne & Joseph Cistone Tracy Clark Dianne Clendaniel & Steve Redgate W. Richard Clendaniel Thomas Cochrane Annie Cohen ’13 Laura Cohn ’88 Maggie Collins Alexandra Conover Bennett ’77

AnnMarie Conticchio-Bizub Missy & Fred Cook Sarah Corson & Dick Atlee Matthew Corum ’03 J. Gray Cox (’71) Nadia Kasparek ’15 & James Crawford ’15 Antoine Croquelois ’24 Keaton Daniel ’18 Karen Danlovich Erin & Jonathan Darby Kate Darling ’76 Lucinda & Fred (’75) Davis Zachary Davis ’06 DJ & George Deans Carol & Gary DeBarba Julia DeBari ’98 Misti DeGroot & Todd DeGroot ’97 Adrianne Deupree ’02 & Michael Netzer ’01 Michael Diaz-Griffith ’09 & Alonso Diaz Rickards ’12 Sbonga Dlamini ’17 Molly Donlan ’20 Rebecca & Steve Donoso ‘80 Heather Dority ’96 Sarah Drummond ’05 Jeanee Dudley ’10 Caitlyn Duncan-Mooney Kathryn Dunn Anna Durand ’86 Molly & Justin Earle Robert Eberhart Samuel Edmonds ’05 Lisa Ireland & Joshua Ehrlich Nathan Emley

Rebecca English Julie Erb ’83 Stefanie Fairchild Molly Finch ’19 Christina Finneran Cynthia Jordan Fisher ’80 David Fisher Elsie Flemings ’06 & Richard Cleary Mizuki Fujiwara ’26 Robert Kumpa (’95) & Bianka Fuksman ’95 Ellie Gabrielson ’25 Carla Ganiel Marina Garland ’12 Sandra Garson Helen Geils Matt Gerald ’83 Jackson Gillman ’78 Lyman Goff Ben Goldberg ’90 Gerda Paumgarten & Lawrence Goldfarb Marie Malin ’01 & Wing Goodale MPhil ’01 Abigail Goodyear ’81 & John Allgood Anne Price-Gordon & Jared Gordon Diane Gordon Jeff Grabow Laura & David Grabow Mary Jo & Darrel Grabow Carrie Graham Terri & George Graham Jennifer Greene Regan Greer ’22 Edward Grey Emma Rearick ’08 & Jay Guarneri ’06 Jane Halbeisen Woodmansee ’86 Rebecca Hamilton ’13 Denise Harrington Jennifer ’94 & Christopher Harris Nicholas Harris ’12 Deborah Hart Helene Harton Shelagh Harvard ’96 Loie Hayes ’79 Susan & Thomas Hayward Atsuko Watabe ’93 & Bruce Hazam ’92 Mike & Kandi Hebert Tyler Hebert ’27 Hillary Smith & Jonathan Henderson Susan Highley ’86 Rayanna Higley Scott Hines ’14 Sue & Bob Hipkens

Katie Hodgkins ’16 & Corey Hodgkins Juan Hoffmaister ’07 Sara Hoffman Amanda Hollander ’03 Russ Holway Lothar Holzke ’16 Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley Laura Howes Noonan ’09 Amelia Huckel-Bauer Emily Peterson Huggins ’15 & Connor Huggins ’16 Jen Hughes & Ken Cline Kathryn Hunninen ’03 & Jose Luis Sagastegui Anna Hurwitz ’84 Ryuta Ishimura Madison Itterly Isaac Jacobs ’99 Mary Jo Jakab Abigail Jakub ’21 Jane & David James Missy & Bill Janes (’71) Jasmine Smith ’09 & Nick Jenei ’09 Amanda Spector ’08 & Peter Jenkins ’09 Jacquelyn Jenson ’15 Cheryl A. Johnson (’80) Sebastian Johnson Susan Whitby & Eric Johnson Eliana Johnston ’06 Lindsey Jones MPhil ’18 Bruce Jones ’81 Patricia D’Angelo Juachon ’92 Nancy & Bucky Kales Surya Karki ’16 Gail Amalia Katz & Lee Katz Nan & Peter Katzenbach Sarah Morgan Kearsley, MPhil ’16 Dawn & David Kersula Raheem Khadour ’25 Ashlesha Khadse ’08 Aneesa Khan ’17 Steve King ’80 Bori Kiss ’02 Roberta & Melvyn Klein Judy Klitzberg Lilian Alvarado & Zack Klyver ’17 Aleda Koehn Daniel Kojo Schrade Paul Kozak ’86 Carolyn Kurek Izzy Labbe Heather Lakey ’00, MPhil ’05 David Lamon ’91 Sophie Landrum Carrol Lange ’99 Jennifer Lasher

Jolie Lau ’19 Clark Lawrence ’92 Melissa LeDonne Lizzie Leone ’93 Randy Lessard ’92 & Melissa Lessard-York ’90 Elizabeth Letsch Ben Leung ’14 Charles-Olivier Lévesque ’23 Donna Hanke & Rob Levin Sara Levine ’05 Davina Leyder Julianna Lichatz ’90 Daniel Lindner, Jr. ’11 Maryalice & Brian Little Neith Little ’09 Peggy Beaulac & Carl Little Christa & Todd Little-Siebold Michael Lium-Hall ’91 Tim Lock Brittany Parker & Peter Logue Maria Vanegas Long ’84 Danielle & Gordon Longsworth ’90 Barri Looke Annette Lopez Zeya Lorio ’22 Angela Luning Adrian Lyne ’23 Blaise Maccarrone ’01 Christian ’00 & Emily ’01 MacDonald Christina Maguire David Mahoney ’86 Julia ’12 & Matthew ’10 Maiorana Leeds Mallinckrodt-Reese Porcia Manandhar ’17 Susan Flynn Maristany ’82 Valeska & Erik Martin ’98 Michael Mattison Melissa McCabe ’12 Jemae McCanna ’01 Caroline McConomy-Rand ’25 Martha McTavish James ’07 & Lara ’04 Meloan Tree & Scott Mercer Caitlin Meredith Krystal Meservey Roger Metz Chloe Meyers Ellie Miller Josselyn Miller ’19 Kendra ’01 & Jake Miller Todd Miner Amanda & Alan Mogridge Leland Moore ’10 Claire Mootz Suzanne Morse & Noreen Hogan ’91 c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Elaine Mostoller Pat Mowery Bridget Mullen ’91 & Chris Kenoyer Brenda Mulrooney Sean Murphy ’14 Bethany Murray ’03 Angela Nelson Lily Nelson ’27 Ninoska Ngomana ’23 Sigrid Coffin & Wesley Norton Connor O’Brien ’17 Elizabeth O’Leary ’03 Hope Olmstead Sarah Gribbin ’12 & Phinn Onens ’13 Ned Ormsby ’91 Michael Osborne Shirley Oskamp & Gary Lindorff Laurie Pansa ’92 Thomas Parrott Anne Patterson ’80 Susanne & Bear Paul Melita Peharda Uljevic ’97 Christine Pelletreau Lauren Pepperman ’16 Helen Hess & Chris Petersen Meghan Piercy ’91 Beth & Benet Pols Jane & Keith ’80 Prairie Heidi Pratt Catherine Preston-Schreck Terri & Peter Ralston Mauro Ramirez Azofeifa ’23 Sharon Ramsaier Katherine Rasmussen Kathy Raynes Newhouse Helene Reeves Lori & John Ricci Renee & Pierre Ricou Marlene Ring Judith & Pete Robbins Olivia Rodriguez Bobadilla ‘09 Mary Ropp ’09 Karen Rose Alice Bissell & Stephen Rosen Diane Rosenberg Eileen & Richard Rosenthal Janine Rubitski Karla Rusch Martine Perret Diaz & Cedric Russo Alicia Sams Addams Samuel ’11 Brenda & John Santoro Barbara Sassaman ’78 Mary & Dave Savidge Andrea Schober Candace Schuller c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

Eloise Schultz ’16 Amy & Ryder Scott ’97 Elizabeth & Tarek Selim Rosemary Seton Nicholas Shadowen Helena Shilomboleni ’09 Justin Shoemaker Faith Sikorski Scott Sloan Erickson Smith ’15 Jasper Smith Maureen Smith Molly Lanzarotta & Tim Smith Robin Snyder-Drummond Robert Speer Natalie Springuel ’91 & Richard MacDonald (’06) Amy & David Spurr Ute Stecker Zachary ’05 & Paige ’06 Steele John Steele Edward W. P. Stern ’03 Cathy Straka ’82 Silvija Strikis Timothea Sutton-Antonucci ’94 & Neal Antonucci ’95 Anne Swann ’86 Scott Swann ’86, MPhil ’93 Courtney Swazey Sandra & William Swinburne Jasmine Tanguay ’98 Alisa Nye ’15 & Davis Taylor Mary Alice & Don Taylor Eliah Thanhauser ’09 Nina Therkildsen ’05 Ann Walker & Richard Thomas Jasmin Thompson Mark Thompson Krista Thorsell ’10 Maria Hagen Tohn ’17 Kevin Tompkins Erik Torbeck ’94 Linda Beattie & Paul Tremblay Diane & Charles Tucker Frank Twohill ’79 Kate Unkel ’14 Marlene & Andrew Van Dyke Colleen van Pelt Netta Van Vliet Sara Velander Mindy Viechnicki & Tom Fernald, Jr. ’91 Jennifer Vinck ’93 Catherine Thibedeau & Patrick Watson ’93 Sally Weiss Jeffrey Wells ’92 Heather Welsh

Laurel Wert Marcia & Tom Wessels Todd West ’00 Isabel Whiston Whit Whitman ’87 Cory Whitney ’03 Ted Widmer Ramah P. Wilder ’02 Peter Williams ’93 Nellie Wilson ’04 Elisabeth Winkelmann Joplin Wistar ’84 Shaun Witten Scott Woolweaver Marjorie Worden Dana Worland Mitchell Zaninelli Anne Zara Trudi Zundel ’13

Elevance Health The Elm Grove Foundation Empower Retirement LLC The Endeavor Foundation ERQ Educational Foundation at Spinnaker Trust The Chandler B. and Oliver A. Evans Foundation Exelon Foundation First National Bank Florence V. Burden Foundation

Maine Community Foundation Maine Shellfish Company Maine Space Grant Consortium MDI Biological Laboratory MELMAC Education Foundation William A. Meyer Jewish Community Foundation The Gerrish H. Milliken Foundation The Minneapolis Foundation Nate Holyoke Builders

Fore River Foundation Garden Club of Mount Desert Good Hope Family Foundation Growald Climate Fund The Leita and William Hamill Family Foundation, Inc. Harris Family Fund of Princeton Area Community Foundation The Hecht/Olson Trust Hemenway & Barnes LLP John W. and Clara C. Higgins Foundation The Island Institute Raymond James Charitable The Howard Johnson Foundation Machias Savings Bank Maine Beer Co LLC Maine Coast Sea Vegetables

The Susan and Roberth Nathane, Jr Charitable Fund at East Bay Community Foundation National Philanthropic Trust (NPT-UK) Nautilus Foundation Incorporated New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Newman’s Own Foundation Newtmont Foundation Northern Trust Park Loop Charitable Foundation Photo Researchers, Inc. Renaissance Charitable Foundation, Inc. Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation Rockefeller Family Fund Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Rupununi Inc DBA Havana

GIFTS IN KIND Lynn Boulger & Tim Garrity Judith Burger-Gossart Christina & Chad Godfrey Ruth Grierson Heritage Natural Finishes Ian Nisbet Rockport Steel

ORGANIZATIONS & FOUNDATIONS Anonymous (3) Acadia Goldendoodles Artemis Gallery Asti-Kim Corporation Bains Family Foundation The Baldwin Foundation Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Barnsley Foundation Inc. Bessemer Trust Blossom Fund Boston Family Office Builders Initiative Foundation The Casco Foundation at Spinnaker Trust Center for Wildlife Studies Community Foundation of Jackson Hole Community Foundation of South GA., Inc. Cromwell Harbor Supporting Foundation, Inc. James Deering Danielson Foundation Davis Conservation Foundation Davis Projects for Peace Davis United World College Scholars Program The Dayton Foundation Dowbuilt The Eacho Family Foundation The Eder Family Foundation

S&G Foundation Second Nature Elmina B. Sewall Foundation The Sims/Maes Foundation, Inc State Street Bank and Trust Sterling College Lisa Stewart Target Foundation Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Foundation The Swan Agency Real Estate The Synergy Foundation Takeda Pharmaceuticals Henry David Thoreau Foundation Tonamora Foundation Truist Uplands Family Foundation UPS Foundation Valley Charitable Trust WaterStone Rosalie J. Coe Weir Foundation The WELWE Foundation Whales and Nails Yaverland Foundation

GIFTS OF TIME AND TALENT In addition to the donors listed below, COA students, staff, faculty, and trustees contribute their time and talent in a multitude of ways every day. We are grateful for their steadfast support. Anonymous May al-Ibrashy

Edwin Barkdoll Tatia Bauer Lynn Bean-Ingram Tim Beatley Christiana Becker Rachel Beckwith Carissa Bielamowicz Miller Frank Blair Margaret Blom Rachel Briggs ’13 Rianna Brooks ’18 Mark Buckley Judith Burger Gossart Mark Carignan Annie Carlson Tish Carr Matt Carroll ’99 Caitlin Carroll Erin Carter Brett Ciccotelli ’09 Donna Coffin Jessica Conley Jared Coplin Brian Cote Courtney Crosson Meggie Curtis ’19 Geoff Davis Bella DeHart ’23 Janet Delaney Elana Diaz Jane Disney Heather Dority ’96 Frank Drummond Renee Duncan Amanda Dyer Erin Evans Lyndsay Eysnogle

Tess Farmer Alan Fernald ’11 Caroline Fournier Michael Fournier Adam Gibson Honnie Goode ’06 Anne Collins Goodyear Frank Goodyear Andy Griffiths Michelle Gurtler Lynn Hanna Alisa Hearn Beverly Homich Maria Ikwugwalu Jason Ingle Keefer Irwin Pam Katsiaficas Megan Kaye-Schiess Nanne Kennedy David Kerns Todd Kitchens Bronwyn Kortge Anne Kozak Gayle Kraus Dayana Krawchuk Lori Krupke Jacob LaMontagne Liz Levy Carl Little Jennifer Lund Hannah Lust Laura Lyell Chris Mahler Matthew Mayo Anne McGhie Duncan McIntyre Michelle Merica

Emily Michaud ’18 Mary Miller Michelle Miller Hannah Mondrach Jon Moore Sarah Morgan Kearsley, MPhil ’16 Jordan Motzkin ’11 Debbie Mountford Miles Mowry Tracie Murchison Laura Muller Drew Myers Michael Newman Amber Newman Aoife O’Brien ’05 Ocean Properties Ltd Leah Olson Daniel Pearl Abby Plummer MPhil ’16 Ruth Poland Emily Postman ’11 Destiny Powell ’20 Alex Prud’homme Betsy Randolph Brittany Ray Chandra Raymond Dani Robbins Kim Stanley Robinson Jenny Rock ’93 Carol Rosinski Jaylene Roths Maggie Ruff Siobhan Ryan Maria Salvaggio Kelly Sanborn Doris Santoro

Kevin Schneider Robin Hadlock Seeley Nirav Shah Silas Sifton ’23 Walter Smalling Jasmine Smith ’09 Tim Smith Jesse Snider ’21 Will Snyder Autumn Soares ’01 Ashley Stanley Sandra Stone Leeann Sullivan Meryl Sweeney Cecily Swinburne ’09 Rhonda Tate Will Tickle Cody Tompkins Joe Tracy Elena Tuhy-Walters ’90 Sandra Urie Jenn Vafiades Wallace Events Grace Warder Todd West ’00 Chris Wharff Bik Wheeler ’09 Ted Widmer Stacey Wilson Alex Woodruff Rebecca Woods Ania Wright ’20 Ron Wrobel Ariel Ybanez Mike Zboray ’95 *Deceased c o a .e d u /s u p p o r t

YEAR AFTER YEAR The following donors have been supporting College of the Atlantic consistently for ten years or longer. 40+ YEARS Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Barbara B. & Charles P. Burton II Linda & Eliot Paine Cathy L. Ramsdell ’78 Lucy Bell Sellers

35–39 YEARS John Biderman ’77 Helen Caivano ’80 Sarah Corson & Dick Atlee Norah Davis First National Bank Cynthia Jordan Fisher ’80 Nina ’78 & Jonathan ’78 Gormley Katherine Hazard ‘’6 Lissa & Mel* Hodder Kass Hogan ’81 Betsey Holtzmann & Abe Noyes Cathy Johnson ’74 Laura & Michael Kaiser ’85 Betsy & John Kelly Arlene & Bob Kogod S. Lee Kohrman Anne Kozak Margaret & Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77 Phyllis Anina Moriarty Meta & Benjie Neilson Louisa & Bill Newlin Bruce Phillips ’78 & Susan Erickson Ellen Seh (’75) Dorie Stolley ’88 Ben Walters ’81 Katherine Weinstock ’81 Sue Woehrlin ’80

30–34 YEARS Anonymous (2) Sofia Blanchard Donna Gold & Bill Carpenter Sally Crock Verena & Rod* Cushman Lisa Damtoft ’79 Wendy & Bill Foulke, Jr. Barbara & Dick Fox Susan Freed ’80 Jackson Gillman ’78 Neva Goodwin

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Sam Hamill, Jr. Sue Inches ’79 Susan Lerner & Steven Katona Roberta & Ralph Longsworth Kathleen Massimini ’82 & Steven Callahan Bill McDowell ’80 Jay McNally ’84 Karla Tegzes & Peter Moon ’90 Susan & Robert Pennington Susan & David Rockefeller, Jr. Patricia & Ronnie Rogers Beverly & Max Rothal Barbara Sassaman ’78 Peggy Sharpe* Elena Tuhy-Walters ’90 & Carl Walters II John Wilmerding* Alice Blum Yoakum

25–29 YEARS Anonymous (5) Irene S. Alie Judy Allen Mary Dohna Bacon ’80 & Wells Bacon ’80 Barbara Tennent & Steven Barkan Bruce Becque ’81 Bruce Bender ’76 Edith Blomberg Ruth M. Colket John Dandy (’84) Gale & Shelby Davis Marcia L. Dworak David Emerson ’81 Julie Erb ’83 Garden Club of Mount Desert Katie & Steve George June LaCombe (’75) & Bill Ginn ’74 Abigail Goodyear ’81 & John Allgood Bo Greene Linda Gregory ’89 Eileen & Paul Growald Peggy & Mike Gumpert Loie Hayes ’79 Mary J. Heffernon Barbara Hilli Lisa ’80 & Bob ’79 Holley

Cookie & Bill Horner Lyn Hurwich ’80 Anna Hurwitz ’84 Missy & Bill Janes (’71) Leslie Jones ’91 Craig Kesselheim ’76 Steve King ’80 Aleda Koehn Joan & Ted Koffman Rosalind Rolland & Scott Kraus ’77 Abigail Littlefield ’83 Maine Coast Sea Vegetables 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) Rick Moss ’79 Hope Olmstead Jennifer Waldron & Benoni Outerbridge ’84 Judith S. Perkins Daniel Pierce, Jr. Family Frances Pollitt ’77 & Frank E. Briber III Dorothy & Roland Seymour Jane & Dennis Shubert Jennifer Starr ’78 Alisa Nye ’15 & Davis Taylor Joanie Thorndike Jo Todrank ’76 & Giora Heth Frank Twohill ’79 Karen Waldron & Richard Hilliard Joplin Wistar ’84 Loretta & Tom Witt

20–24 YEARS Anonymous (3) Heather Albert-Knopp ’99 Elizabeth Rousek Ayers ’95 Sandi Read & Ron Beard Glen Berkowitz ’82 Deirdre Swords & Michael Boland ’94 Paul Boothby ’88 Patricia Honea-Fleming & Richard Borden Shan Burson ’83

Barbara Carter Melinda ’00 & Ellen Casey-Magleby Cynthia Chisholm ’86 Dianne Clendaniel & Steve Redgate Jen Hughes & Ken Cline Janis Coates Pamela Cobb Heuberger ’83 Pancho Cole ’81 Karen & Darron Collins ’92 Lucinda & Fred (’75) Davis Rose (’88) & Steve ’80 Demers Robert DeSimone Holly Devaul ’84 George & Kelly Dickson MPhil ’97 Millard Dority Donna & Bill Eacho III Mary K. Eliot Karin Tilberg & Ben Emory Jim Frick ’78 Glenon ’86 & Gary Friedmann Beth & Will Gardiner Matt Gerald ’83 Marie Gower Mary (Nelson) Griffin ’97 Susan Dowling & Andrew Griffiths Atsuko Watabe ’93 & Bruce Hazam ’92 Peter Heller ’85 Margaret Hoffman ’97 Jane Hultberg Peter Hunt & Family Peter ’84 & Margaret Jeffery Barbara & Steven Kiel Burks B. Lapham Jessie Greenbaum ’89 & Phil Lichtenstein ’92 Peggy Beaulac & Carl Little Maria Vanegas Long ’84 Danielle & Gordon Longsworth ’90 Machias Savings Bank Pamy Manice Donald K. McNeil Kendra ’01 & Jake Miller Rebecca & Steve Milliken Meredith & Phil Moriarty Sean Murphy ’14 Gene Myers (’80) Lynn & William Osborn Suzanne & Jim Owen Holly & Ken Paul Shoshana Perry ’83 & Hale Powell Helen Hess & Chris Petersen

Susan Pierce ’77 Carole Plenty Shiva Polefka ’01 Nishi Rajakaruna ’94 Tina Rathborne Roxana & Tony Robinson, Jr. CedarBough T. Saeji ’93 Mitsuko & Steven Savage ’77 Cynthia E. Livingston & Hank L.P. Schmelzer Sam Shaw Roberta Smith Laura Starr ’84 Maureen & Bill Stewart Ann* & Dick Sullivan Ellen Thurman J. Louise Tremblay ’91 Wendy Van Dyke (’80) Christiaan van Heerden ’09 & Family Peter Wayne ’83 David Winship ’77

15–19 YEARS Anonymous (5) Peter Anderson ’81 Elly & Sandy Andrews III Genevieve Soloway Angle ’00 Susan George Lyons Applegate ’76 D. Gay Atkinson II Terrie Cunliffe Beamer & Wesley Beamer Robin ’80 & Paul ’79 Beltramini Janet Biondi ’81 Charlotte Bordeaux Lynn Boulger & Tim Garrity Lydia ’05 & Foy Brown Amanda (Walker) Bunker ’98 Judith Burger-Gossart Lisa Burton ’83 & Christopher Vincenty (’83) Erin Chalmers ’00 Taj Chibnik ’95 Diana Cohn ’85 & Craig Merrilees Laura Cohn ’88 J. Gray Cox (’71) Nicole d’Avis ’02 & Mark Anderson Megan Smith ’90 & Daniel DenDanto ’91 Cerissa Desrosiers ’00 & Jessica Hannon Catherine Devlin ’93 Ellen & Bill Dohmen Cameron Hale Douglass ’02

Samuel Edmonds ’05 Catherine Elk ’82 Peter W. Emmet ’92 Deb Evans ’82 & Ron Schaaf Joanne Rodgers Foster ’85 Carla Ganiel Amy & Phil Geier Nadine Gerdts (’76) & Steve Lacker Susan Getze Lyman Goff Nina Goldman & Douglas Legg Jaki Erdoes ’80 & Terry Good ’80 Diane Gordon Tree Goulet ’78 Emma Rearick ’08 & Jay Guarneri ’06 Carol & Dick Habermann Jennifer ’94 & Christopher Harris Ed Haynsworth III ’98 Gail Henderson-King ’82 Susan Highley ’86 Noah Hodgetts ’10 Kathryn Hunninen ‘03 & Jose Luis Sagastegui Martha & O.P. Jackson Jamien Jacobs ’86 Sonja Johanson ’95 & Richard Gordet Brianne ’02 & Brian Jordan Ann & Lee Judd Nancy & Bucky Kales Ali & Steve Kassels Sarah ’05 & Shawn ’00 Keeley Arthur Keller & Mark Gauthier Lilian Alvarado & Zack Klyver ’17 Heather Lakey ’00, MPhil ’05 Jude Lamb ’00 David Lebwohl Randy Lessard ’92 & Melissa Lessard-York ’90 Lois & Larry Libby Neith Little ’09 Babette & Peter Loring Blaise Maccarrone ’01 David Mahoney ’86 Isabel Mancinelli & Sam Coplon Susan Flynn Maristany ’82 Valeska & Erik Martin ’98 Leslie McConnell ’81 Lauren McKean ’83 Megan McOsker ’90 Tree & Scott Mercer David G. Milliken Suzanne Morse & Noreen Hogan ’91

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Susan & Bob Nathane, Jr. Sarah Neilson ’09 Carol ’93 & Jacob ’93 Null Melissa ’91 & Peter Ossanna Andrea & Jon Pactor Valerie Lambert Peacock (’98) & Tobin Peacock ’95 Sheila Sonne Pulling Jason Rich ’96 Melinda & Tripp Royce ’79/ Harrison Royce Architecture Corp Jessica Glynn ’06 & Santiago Salinas ’05 Mary & Dave Savidge Amy & Ryder Scott ’97 Kate Sheely ’07 Margie & John Grace Shethar Carol Dean Silverman & Family J.W. Sims Natalie Springuel ’91 & Richard MacDonald (’06) John Steele Andrea Perry ’95 & Toby Stephenson ’98 Cathy Straka ’82 Caren Sturges Anne Swann ’86 Douglas Sward ’96 Tracey Teuber ’98 Genie & Will Thorndike, Jr. Diane & Charles Tucker Shamsher Virk ’07 Catherine Thibedeau & Patrick Watson ’93 Karen Wennlund ’85 Peter Williams ’93 Raymond Williams Nellie Wilson ’04 Bryan Wyatt ’80 Judy & Lou Zawislak

10–14 YEARS Anonymous (17) Ashley Adler ’09 & Justin Paice Eben Albert ’03 Sharon Knopp & Enoch Albert Jane Alexander Robin Glaser & Howard Altmann Janet & Craig Altobello Heather & Richard Ames Elizabeth Anne ’11 Emily Argo ’10 Edgar & Nancy* Aronson

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Ryan Arsenault ’00 Jessica Arseneau ’18 & Roman Bina ’16 Lucy Atkins ’12 Cynthia Baker & Jonathan Zeitler Natalie Barnett ’11 Ted Bartles ’94 Park Loop Charitable Foundation Kate Baxter Emily Beck & Geof Young Alyson Bell ’10 Sara Bender & Evan Bender ’04 Ann* & Fred Benson Jaime (Duval) Beranek ’00 Geena Berry ’10 Sara Faull ’98 & Eugenio Bertin ’97 Deodonne ’06 & Ranjan ’04 Bhattarai Linda Mejia Black ’09 Debi & Art Blank Ryan Boduch ’98 Julia Bogardus / Point Harbor Fund of the Maine Community Foundation Miranda Borden / Point Harbor Fund of the Maine Community Foundation Jessica Bradshaw ’03 Amy Breen ’94 & Cody Johnson Brenda Brodie Jean & Ordway Burden Thomas D. Cahill III William Luther ’06 & Seth Carbonneau ’05 Linda K. Carman JoAnne Carpenter & Jan Hofstra Lucy Hull & E. Barton Chapin III Mary Ann & Harry Charlston Diana Choksey ’05 & Jordan Mandel-Iaia Alyne & Joseph Cistone Catherine Clinger Sarah Colletti ’10 & Kyle McMillan Tracy & Gifford Combs / Combs Family Fund Alexandra Conover Bennett ’77 Missy & Fred Cook Elizabeth Hodder Corbus & Clay Corbus Jill ’83 & Ben ’84 Cowie-Haskell Kate Darling ’76 Adam Dau ’01 Kara ’96 & Matt ’98 Daul, and Family John & Nisha Dawson Bob DeForrest ’94

Beth Rendeiro & Steven DePaul Jeanee Dudley ’10 Peggy Dulany Sunny Dupree Casey Jones & Bill Faller Elsie Flemings ’06 & Richard Cleary Joanne & Richard Fuerst Marina Garland ’12 Helen Geils Annika Maia Ginsberg ’99 Erin ’92 & Graham ’91 Goff Ben Goldberg ’90 Gerda Paumgarten & Lawrence Goldfarb Marie Malin ’01 & Wing Goodale MPhil ’01 Carrie Graham Merna & Joe Guttentag Jane Halbeisen Woodmansee ’86 Heather Hallett-Thurston Nicholas Harris ’12 Louise Hartwell Patricia & John* Hatton Jocelyn Hayes Juliet Hodge ’95 Juan Hoffmaister ’07 Russ Holway Lynn & Jeff Horowitz Laura Howes Noonan ’09 Emily Peterson Huggins ’15 & Connor Huggins ’16 Isaac Jacobs ’99 Jane & David James Nishad Jayasundara ’05 Amanda Spector ’08 & Peter Jenkins ’09 Patricia A. Jennings (’71) & James Hatch Cheryl A. Johnson (’80) Eliana Johnston ’06 Bruce Jones ’81 Jennifer Judd-McGee (’92) Ivy ’05 & Nathaniel ’04 Keller Michael Keller ’09 Nan & Stephen Kennedy Bori Kiss ’02 Joan & Allan Kleinman Greg Koehlert ’96 Paul Kozak ’86 Natasha Krell ’16 Philip Bradish Kunhardt IV ’11 & Maria Laura Torre Gomez Carrol Lange ’99

Virginie Lavallee-Picard ’07 & Alexander Fletcher ’07 Lizzie Leone ’93 Otti & Jeffrey Levine Linda & Jonathan Lewis Julianna Lichatz ’90 Daniel Lindner, Jr. ’11 Haley Harwood Lowell ’11 Scott MacKenzie & Jerry Cruz Kate & Ben Macko ’01 Maine Beer Co LLC Carol & Rick* Malone Chloe Marr-Fuller ’00 Jacomien Mars Anne Conlee Mazlish & Tony Mazlish Linda Parker & Jamie McKown Bill McLellan ’88 Rebecca Melius ’01 James Merrill Winnie & Nate Miller Gail & Gerrish Milliken Nancy Milliken Deb & Bob Milotte Amanda & Alan Mogridge Kevin Monahan Diver Ed Karen & John Moniz Sarah ’02 & Chase ’00 Morrill Bridget Mullen ’91 & Chris Kenoyer Bethany Murray ’03 Thupten Norbu ’06 Lauren Nutter ’10 Elizabeth O’Leary ’03 Whitney Oppersdorff

Ned Ormsby ’91 Leslie Palumbo / Point Harbor Fund of the Maine Community Foundation Susan B. Parker Anne Patterson ’80 Susan & Bob Peck Rain Perez ’12 Barbara & Charles Pierce, Jr. Laura & Vassar Pierce, Jr. Lisa & Jay Pierrepont Drake ’03 & Finn ’02 Pillsbury Jane & Keith ’80 Prairie Kenneth Punnett ’84 Emily & Mitch Rales Lori & John Ricci Michele Riccio ’88 Andrea Roberto ’92 Jared I. Roberts Amy Falls & Hartley Rogers Mary Ropp ’09 Alice Bissell & Stephen Rosen Eliza Ruel ’13 & Ian Yaffe Sandy Wilcox & Jack Russell Martie & Ed Samek Addams Samuel ‘11 Pat & Roger Samuel Jodi Sargent MPhil ’06 & Family Noah Sawyer ’14 Taj Schottland ’10 Eloise Schultz ’16 Kirsten Schwarz ’00 Rosemary Seton Helena Shilomboleni ’09

Katy Homans & Patterson Sims Erickson Smith ’15 Molly Lanzarotta & Tim Smith Jamie S. Somes Henry Steinberg ’06 Allison & Steve Sullens Nonie & John Sullivan, Jr. Timothea Sutton-Antonucci ’94 & Neal Antonucci ’95 Betts Swanton ’88 Cecily Swinburne ’09 Sandra & William Swinburne Jasmine Tanguay ’98 Julianne Taylor ’06 Ander Thebaud Nina Therkildsen ’05 Julia Walker Thomas ’08 Krista Thorsell ’10 Maria Hagen Tohn ’17 Laura Stanton & Kim Tomlinson Meg Trau-Serrano ’12 Caitlin Unites ’03 Mary Kay Long & Dennis Unites Kate Unkel ’14 Kathy Vignos Jennifer Vinck ’93 Luciana Pandolfi ’98 & Luke Wagner ’99 James W. Walker HannahMathilde Waschezyn ’13 Carol Woolman Cathleen Wyman Trudi Zundel ’13 Erin ’04 & Mike ’01 Zwirko

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OUR MISSION

If this report has inspired you to support our mission, please contact Dean of Institutional Advancement Shawn Keeley at skeeley@coa.edu or call 207.801.5620. You can also learn more about College of the Atlantic’s endowment needs or make a gift online at coa.edu/giving.

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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.

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

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