Description: COA officially opened in the fall of 1972. This is the first class photograph consisting of students, faculty, and staff. Front Row: Laura Perry, Leanne McIntyre, Eric Henry, Jill Tabbutt, Sidney Rathbun Muska, Edwin Geissler, Francis Pollitt with dog, Susan (Cook) Grossjean, Craig Kesselheim. 2nd Row: Joanne Carpenter, Katherine Hazard, Pat King, Jon Allen, Cathy Johnson, John March, Rick Waters, Annie Goodwin, Bill Ginn, Scott Kraus, Susan Hatch, Gail Davidson. 3rd Row: Bill Carpenter, Linda Swartz, Anne Peach, Millard Dority, unknown librarian?, Dodie Jordan, Steve Katona, Moira McTighe, Henry Elliott, Lynn McDermott, June Tucson, Josie Todrank, Jackson Gillman, Robin Willison, Mel Cote. Back Row: Jim Perkins, Gillian Brown, Philip Kunhardt, Will Russell, Harry Stark, Dan Kane, Sam Eliot, Ed Kaelber, Elmer Beal, Andy Jennison, Steve Savage, Al Stork, Randy Horsey. [show more]
Description: Faculty members Eliot and Carpenter with student Tabbutt during the summer of 1971 an experimental pilot program brought 13 students and 3 faculty members to the college to test and evaluate certain aspects of the proposed curriculum. Participants in the summer program worked together in a multidisciplinary workshop, and joined the staff and trustees in raising and answering questions about the future direction of the college.
Description: A photo of the original Acadia national park headquarters in downtown Bar Harbor, before it was moved to the COA campus to serve as the Dorr Museum.
Description: Photographic print of Roc Caivano and students building a solar-heated student shop. This building was designed and constructed by staff and students on the Environmental Design Curriculum. It is now called the B&G Shop.
Description: This is the invitation for the College of the Atlantic's fifth commencement celebration in 1977. It is illustrated with a green line drawing of a flowering sprig.
Description: This is the invitation for the tenth commencement celebration of the College of the Atlantic, 1982. It has an illustration of two human figures in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript, with lettering by Esther Ruth Kerkmann, '82.
Description: This is the invitation for the College of the Atlantic's eighth commencement celebration, May 31, 1980. It has a botanical illustration of a flower and the inside of a fruit.
Description: This is the invitation for the College of the Atlantic's fifth commencement celebration, June 4, 1977. It has a print in red ink depicting budding twigs.
Description: This is the invitation for the College of the Atlantic's sixth commencement celebration, held at St. Saviour's Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor in 1978. It has an illustration in blue depicting a perching bird.
Description: This is the invitation for the College of the Atlantic's seventh commencement celebration, June 2, 1979. It has an abstract green design and hand lettering.
Description: This is the front of the College of the Atlantic's 1981 commencement invitation. It is illustrated with a print depicting a fruit tree in front of an island.
Description: This is the front of the program pamphlet for the College of the Atlantic's twelfth commencement celebration, June 2, 1984. It is illustrated with a black line drawing depicting natural forms.
Description: The first image is from the invitation the College of the Atlantic's thirteenth commencement celebration, June 1, 1985. It has an illustration depicting Aguilegia canadensis, or wild columbine. The second image is from the program leaflet for the commencement. It has an abstract illustration in black and white.
Description: These are materials for the fourteenth commencement ceremony at the College of the Atlantic, May 31, 1986. The first image is from the commencement program. It has a black and white illustration depicting birds, by Trisha Braden. The second image is from the invitation to the commencement. It has a black and white image depicting the patterns left from waves in the sand.
Description: These are materials from the fifteenth commencement ceremony at the College of the Atlantic, held on May 30, 1987. The first image is from the commencement program and has a black and white stylized illustration depicting plants. The second image is from the commencement invitation, and has a teal and white abstract design. The third image is a graduation pledge of environmental and social responsibility, originally from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. The text of the pledge reads: "I, [name], pledge to thoroughly investigate and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job opportunity I consider." The accompanying text describing the pledge says: "This Pledge is one of a burgeoning number of similar oaths and pledges being created by scientists, mathematicians, physicians, and others to foster greater awareness of the impact of work and study choices on global problems. Such public declarations of personal intent can reach far beyond the individual in their impact. Said one HSU Pledge signer, "When I get my first teaching job ... I'll have it on the wall of my classroom." The Graduation Pledge Alliance is promoting the Pledge to other universities." [show more]
Description: These are materials from the College of the Atlantic's sixteenth commencement ceremony, held on May 28, 1988, in Bar Harbor. The first image is from the commencement invitation. It has a blue and white illustration depicting abstract human figures in a circle, locking arms. The second image is from the commencement program brochure. It has a stylized black and white illustration depicting a crane in mid-flight. According to a May 20, 1988 COA News release, the 1988 commencement ceremony included a large mobile constructed of one thousand origami cranes, made by members of the graduating class and community. The cranes symbolized world peace and were inspired by the memory of Sadako Sasaki, a survivor of the Hiroshima bomb whose project to make one thousand paper cranes became an international symbol of a wish for peace. [show more]
Description: These are materials from the seventeenth commencement celebration at the College of the Atlantic, held on June 3, 1989. The first image is from the commencement invitation card. It has a detailed black and white line illustration by Katrina Hodgins. The second image is from the commencement program. It has a black and white photograph of a group of five young children, printed on a gray background. The photograph was taken by Jared Crawford. [show more]