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The Magazine of Unity CollegeThe Magazine of Unity College

Inauguration of Dr. Mitchell Thomashow

Unity Signs Climate Commitment

Brand New Brookies!

A New Era BeginsA New Era Begins

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“There’s Something Happening Here…”

Last March, I did a significant amount of traveling. I spent more time thananyone would like in our nation’s airports. When I travel, I enjoy browsing theperiodicals at newsstands. This time, I noticed something remarkable. Several dozenmagazines had special issues on some theme related to sustainability and/or climatechange. Mainstream business magazines like The Economist, Business Week, andFortune had special sections on the business of sustainability. Even Sports Illustratedhad an essay on how climate change will impact the future of sports, with anaccompanying article on how sports stadiums of the future could be more sustainable!

Meanwhile the Bank of America Corporation announced “a $20 billion initiativeto support the growth of environmentally sustainable business activity to address global

climate change. Bank of America's ten-year initiative encourages development of environmentally sustainablebusiness practices through lending, investing, philanthropy and the creation of new products and services.”

Goldman Sachs launched a new environmental initiative “requiring its 24,000 employees to promote eco-friendlypractices and would encourage its own clients -- which include paper companies, refineries and auto manufacturers-- to use "appropriate safeguards" to protect the environment.”

Other multinational corporations announced programs as well, including United Technologies, which hasalready visited the Unity College campus.

I’ve been a student and a practitioner in the Environmental Studies field since 1969 when I first discovered theWhole Earth Catalog on the shelves of the 8th Street Bookstore in Greenwich Village. I’m old enough to rememberthe publication of Silent Spring (1962). I’ve studied conservation and environmental issues since I’ve been oldenough to read and write.

Guess what? In all those years (almost fifty now if you allow me to go back all the way to 1957) I’ve never seenanything quite like this. The public awareness of sustainability is at an all time high and it’s not just a grassrootsphenomenon. You’ve got businesses, insurance companies, state governments (like California and Maine), collegeand university leaders, and some very prominent politicians (both Democrat and Republican) who are starting tograsp an essential point. Climate change is real. It threatens the economic security of our children and grandchildren.There is great business opportunity in crafting solutions, mitigations, and remediations of this problem.

In June, I was in Washington at the first meeting of The President’s Climate Commitment Challenge. UnityCollege is a charter signatory of a document pledging campuses to carbon neutrality. Indeed, I am on the SteeringCommittee of this organization. I urge you to read our charter statement (page 22). Please do visit the website andcheck out all of the other colleges and universities that are behind this effort.

Unity College is a small environmental college in rural Maine. But we can have a big regional impact inpromoting “frugal sustainability,” in broadening the constituency for conservation, and in making our campus andcommunity a living laboratory for environmental learning. Our mission statement boldly claims that “UnityCollege graduates are prepared to be environmental stewards, effective leaders, and responsible citizens throughactive learning experiences within a supportive community.”

Perhaps I reveal too much of my sixties roots in referring to a Buffalo Springfield song. But there is somethinghappening here, and I’ll change the lyric and suggest “what it is” is exactly clear. The door is opening. It’s time foreveryone associated with Unity College and everyone who cares about the future of the planet to walk through it.

Mitchell Thomashow President, Unity College

Message from the President

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2 Faculty Commentary

Features

6 Medicine Man With a Mission

8 Colleges Set to go Green for Climate

14 Coming Soon to a Water Near You...

Brand New Brookies

In Our Element

12 Presidential Inaugural Address

16 Inaugural Keynote Address

22 Unity College Joins with Other Colleges and

Universities Across the United States in Signing

Climate Commitment

24 New & Noteworthy

31 2006-2007 Annual Report

Volume 21, No 2The Magazine of Unity College90 Quaker Hill RoadUnity, Maine 04988207-948-3131 (all departments)www.unity.edu

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PhotographyMark TardifJim Evans, Chief Photographer, Central Maine NewspapersJohn David Leaming ’78, Central Maine NewspapersPeter Finger PhotographyTravis Barrett

Board of TrusteesMr. Robert Pollis, ChairMr. William T. Glidden, Vice-ChairMr. Kenneth T. Winters, TreasurerMr. Peter F. Didisheim, SecretaryMrs. Joan Amory, Mrs. Sharon Bloome, Ms. Juliet Browne, Mr. Jaymie Durnan, Mr. Donald Foster, Mr. Donald Kleiner, Mr. Mark Miller, Ms. Arlene Schaefer, Ms. Gloria Sosa, Mr. John D. Tewhey, Mr. Robert M. Tonge, Dr. Paul Wade, Mr. William ZoellickMr. Neil Ward, Alumni RepresentativeDr. Michael Womersley, Faculty RepresentativeMr. William Hafford, Student Representative

President EmeritiDr. Allan Karstetter

Professors EmeritiDr. Edward Beals, Leonard R. Craig, Ann Dailey, Dr. C. Larry Farnsworth,Rev. George Fowler, Donald F. Mortland, Florence Noonan, David Purdy, Dorothy Quimby

Dean EmeritiDonald F. Mortland

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There is More to a CarbonFootprint than the Size ofthe Shoe

By Amy Knisley, Senior VicePresident for Academic Affairsand Associate ProfessorEmma Creaser

We enjoyed reading our colleagueAssociate Professor John Zavodny’scommentary entitled “The Good News andthe Bad News of Environmentalism” in theSpring issue of the magazine. Like all goodphilosophy professors, he raised provocativeand important questions, and this one inparticular caught our attention: Is there aplace for children in environmentalism?Zavodny explained why choosing not tohave children may be the rightenvironmental choice. As two professorsourselves—a biologist and a philosopher—who are both moms with environmentaloutlooks, we appreciate the chance toexplain why having kids is not only OKfrom an environmental point of view, itmight be one of the best environmentaldecisions a person can make.

Many Factors InvolvedZavodny pointed out, quite rightly, that

having a child increases one’s ecologicalfootprint by adding a tiny new pair of feetto the picture. But determination ofecological footprint is based on manyvariables, and choosing to have, or not have,a child is just one among many choicesaffecting the size of one’s footprint.Consider, for instance, choices oftransportation. Nearly all of us have to getfrom one place to another on a daily basis—do we walk, bike, ride the bus, drive a car,

take a plane? Based on one popularfootprint calculator, hosted bywww.footprintnetwork.org out ofCalifornia, we learned that a person in ahousehold of three and traveling by airplane10 hours per year, has a considerably smallerfootprint than a person in a household oftwo, traveling by plane 25 hours per year. Inother words, the footprint impact of thatadditional person is more than offset by theimpact of 15 hours per year of flying. Andtransportation is only one variable toconsider—housing, diet, and purchasinghabits are three other important aspects ofthe footprint over which many of us havesome degree of control. Based on a Britishgovernment footprint calculator the cost ofa child can be offset by recycling glassbottles or not going on holiday every year.All of this helps to explain why largefamilies living in most parts of the worldoutside the U.S. and Canada tend to havesmaller footprints than small families, oreven individuals, living inside those twocountries.

This leads to another point to consider.Choosing not to have children tends toincrease the number of individuals orcouples living by themselves, whichprobably is not the best way to minimizeour impact on the environment. The samenumber of people living together in largegroups, in one building or complex ofbuildings, will tend to result in a muchmore efficient use of resources. Thissuggests that a return to the social norm ofa few decades ago, of having extendedfamilies living together, would be a goodenvironmental move. In fact, it is still anormal social structure in many countries,countries whose per capita footprint tendsto be much smaller than ours in America.

Beyond “Footprints”Moving beyond the footprint question,

from a biological angle not reproducingdefeats the purpose of life. Natural selectiononly functions up and throughreproduction. We exist to pass on our genesto our offspring. This is why such genetic

dominant conditions such as Huntington’sdisease are not weeded out by naturalselection. That is to say that even thoughHuntington’s disease can destroy yournervous system, which is of course bad;symptoms typically appear in your 30’s and40’s. Given that until not too long ago theaverage life expectancy was 30 – 40 years ofage (and still is not much more than that insome countries), you might well havemarried, had children, fought and diedbefore any symptoms appeared. Of coursewe have much more to offer than this:wisdom, knowledge, care and affection toname but a few of our gifts. But, few studiesdocument cases of altruism among animalspecies. Altruism appears to be a mainlyhuman condition and even there we takeadvantage of each other’s wisdom far lessoften than we could and should.

In addition to the scientifically-grounded points concerning ecologicalfootprints and evolutionary theory, there areimportant qualitative (why and how ofdecision making) benefits of havingchildren. Human children are programmedto learn, and so constantly inquire andquestion. Emma’s 5-year-old daughter Alexdemands to know “why?” about everything.Amy’s not-quite one-year old Phoebe wantsto reach, touch, and so “understand” everynew object in her path. Their constantinquiry and discovery leads us to reexamineour understanding of things we’ve taken forgranted. Alex wants to know why she can’t“replant” a flower by sticking it back intothe ground after she’s picked it? Why hertomato plants haven’t made tomatoes yet?Does that chicken on her dinner plate reallycome from the “chicken bird”? And whenPhoebe reaches for the raspberry bush everytime we walk past, gibbering excitedly, it’s areminder about the precious value of good,local food, especially food a person cangather fresh for herself. Because we makethe major decisions for daughters—aboutwhat they eat and wear, where they go andhow they spend their time, we haveconstant opportunities to educate them and

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ourselves about environmentally friendlyoptions. Cloth, disposable, or no diapers atall? Walk, drive, or bicycle with the baby ina bike trailer?

Doing the Right ThingA natural outcome of this questioning

and learning is motivation to do the rightthing environmentally. It’s just more fun toride your bike or learn about local wildlifehabitat with a very excited youngcompanion. Motivation is also strengthenedby a renewed interest in the future, as aparent considers not only her own lifetime,but her child’s as well. The meaning of“future generations” is made direct andpalpable in a new way. When we werechildren, “global warming” wasn’t a generaltopic of conversation—the big worry for uswas “the bomb.” Every now and again apeace group would move the second handof the clock counting down to nuclearArmageddon a second closer to midnight.But now “global climate change,” “loss ofthe rainforests,” and “melting of the polaricecaps” are familiar phrases. While thethreat of nuclear war remains, great progresswas made during the latter part of the 20thcentury to come to terms with it, and tocontain it. Will our daughters be able tolook back on the first half of the 21stcentury as a time of coming to terms withenvironmental challenges, and take comfortin successful efforts to meet thosechallenges? We can all ask this question,whether or not we’re parents—and itcertainly packs a punch when you ask itwith your own young child squarely inmind.

When Zavodny asked his provocativequestion about the place of children inenvironmentalism, it was as an example of abroader question—is there a place for hope,for optimism, in environmentalism? He didnot claim to answer that question, just toraise it, and we’re glad that he did. Ouranswer is a definitive “Yes!” It’s a platitudethat “in children is hope for the future,” butlike many platitudes this one contains akernel of truth. That kernel is not the

anticipation that our children will solvetoday’s problems tomorrow. Rather, in ourchildren we find wellsprings of hope for ourown lives, our own dreams and doggedefforts to make those dreams come true.The “bad news” of environmentalism is tosay “no” to things we enjoy and areaccustomed to, from coffee in Styrofoamcups to children. This is a powerfulpessimism, based usually in worry and fear,and although hard it sometimes is true. Butthe “good news,” at least as true as the bad,is that we can—and perhaps should—say“yes” to those things in life that revive ourexcitement about life itself. In fact, there’smore than “room” for optimism and hope,there’s a need for it, and having children isone way to meet that need.Environmentalism has many faces, andcomes in many shapes and sizes, includingthe shape and size of tiny new footprints.

Exploring the "New Math"of Consumer Energy: An Open Mind andCommitment to ChangeHolds Promise for EasingOil Dependence

By Mick Womersley, Associate Professor andDirector of Sustainability

Now that the sustainability / climatechange movement has begun to capture theAmerican public's imagination and interest,how many people have really realized thatwhat it means is reducing climate emissions

by reducing fossil fuel usage, and howsimple and straightforward and on-the-shelfdoing that really is? There's no real need towait for Congress to pass a law or raise a gastax, or for someone to come up with a newtechnology. The time is right to take a biteout of the fuel economy.

Don't get me wrong. I like laws. Afterall, I teach environmental policy, and I havebeen waiting for this moment in time forsomething like twenty years. I liketechnology and believe it holds greatpromise for providing long-term energysolutions. The various and competing newlaws on carbon taxation and carbon tradingslowly working their way through Congresswill help. But they will do so indirectly, inthe same way that Sputnik helped put aman on the moon, or that automobilesenabled the American suburb.

Oil at the current (and steady) $70 abarrel is no bargain. It means high-pricedhome heating oil, upwards of $2.50 a gallonlikely this winter. Gas is already prettysteady at three bucks a pop in Maine. Itwon't take much to make it $3.50 this fall,most likely right around Thanksgivingwhen we are all rushing to go see Grandma.

At that price, you can't afford NOT toput in that new woodstove, or considerbuying that fuel-efficient car.

As I write this the State of MaineGovernor's office and the Town of Belfast,among other worthy organizations, arepromoting a new Maine business: adealership for electric cars. It's sad that folksare so math-phobic that this business needsto be promoted at public expense, buthopefully that penny is starting to drop.

Do the math.

It's Easier to Conserve than You Think

If you are paying, say, $3 a gallon to get15 miles per gallon highway mileage in yourgood old piece of Detroit iron, then howmany miles do you need to do before you'vemade the payment on that Prius (hybrid)?

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(very roughly) fifteen thousand miles a year,at 15 miles a gallon, that's 1,000 gallons ofgas, which costs $3,000 or $250 a month. Ifyou can double your gas mileage by addinga small car to your fleet and using itregularly, then you've saved $125-a- month.That's easily the payment on a small, fuel-efficient, secondhand car. You don't evenhave to get the oh-so-fashionable Prius,which is almost impossible to findsecondhand. You can buy a Hyundai, or aMini, or even buy, brand new, one of thesmart new electric cars, which will retail forbetween $8 and $10K. Keep Detroit forwhen you need it, taking those six dogs tothe vet, or running the soccer team around.You don't need it just to get yourself towork.

Or sell the piece of iron, and you canbuy the Prius.

A similar economy exists in homeheating. How many inflated home heatingbills does it take to pay for an insulationretrofit, or a new heating system, or both?

If you are sitting in a drafty old Mainehouse, with the typically poor doors,windows, and insulation that all drafty oldMaine houses have, your money is literallyleaking out into the cold winter night, ten-dollar bills at a time.

Do yourself a big favor and get acontractor to come look at it. Or go to a boxstore and buy a few big bags of insulationand have fun installing it yourself. Yourefforts will likely pay for themselves in threeyears or less. The return on this investmentin terms of heating bills defrayed will likelybe a good deal more than the interestpayments needed to finance it, if you don'thappen to have the loose change lyingaround and need to put it on your plastic. Ifyou do have the savings, it will work harderfor you as new insulation or windows in thehouse than it will in the savings bank at fivepercent interest. And right now there's ahefty federal tax credit for these kinds ofimprovements.

In combination, your overall lifestylemight be leaking money to the four winds,from the car AND the house. My partnerand I were able to pay for a good part of themortgage on our house with the combinedvehicle fuel and home heating economy weachieved when we bought the place (fifteenmiles closer to work) and renovated it.We're almost, but not quite, getting theplace for free, in the economic sense.

If you can't do the energy savings mathyourself, try to find someone who can, abuddy, or one of the emerging professionalsin this field.

New "Sustainability" GraduatesWill Help

Pretty soon, pending trustee and facultyapproval, Unity College will offer a degreeprogram designed to train generalsustainability professionals. Individuals whoearn this new Bachelor of Science degree inSustainability Design and Technology willhave the comprehensive skill set to addresscomplex (and easy) energy savingsproblems. These graduates will offer theirskills to benefit households, city and stategovernment, small business and probablyeven big business too.

Economists like to say that you don'tleave hundred dollar bills lying on theground because someone will always comeby and pick them up. You don't need to bea convinced green to begin to realize howeconomically silly it is to keep paying towaste energy, when you can pay less toconserve it.

By insulating and sealing, along withswitching to wood (the best biofuel) andMaine-made green power, my partner and Ireduced the climate emissions from ourfarmhouse to only 20% of what theprevious occupants produced. Our ownvehicle emissions dropped 50% since wemoved closer to work. Big results oftenresult from small, fairly easy steps.

Our journey to energy efficiencyimprovement was just that simple.

Continuing Down the Road toEnergy Efficiency

We still have plans to improve on ourenergy consumption. We could easilycommute to work in an electric car, if onewere available that was legal for regularMaine roads. That car will be available in2008, according to Governor JohnBaldacci's office.

There is also a new wind turbine availablethat will offset up to four hundred kilowatthours a month of electricity, if you have thewind. On our breezy farm in rural Maine,we may indeed have the wind. I plan to takemeasurements this coming year and find out.

So the penny must drop soon. It's easyand fun to get out your pencil andcalculator to start figuring out how you canfinally afford that green lifestyle you havealways (or recently) wanted. There is noneed to wait for Congress to pass a law.

But what will Al Gore do for a gig whenthe public finally realizes that much of whatwe need to do in terms of sustainability andclimate change mitigation can beimplemented by plumbers, electricians,building contractors and car salesmentoday? Everyone can take important steps toconserve energy by becoming educatedconsumers. As more people start educatingthemselves about ways to conserve energyall of a sudden sustainability becomes a bitmore workaday, a bit more prosaic, a littleless daunting.

Americans shouldn't be afraid of doing alittle math and embracing steps to conserveenergy.

Given that some may still be afraid ofthese simple changes, I think Al might stillhave a job to do for a while yet. Still, thefuture is now for those who want to stopscattering so much of our treasure to thewinds with each barrel of oil purchased ... ortank of gas filled.


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Toxic chemicals inside us are a nightmare wecan end. Hazardoussubstances found inMainers should arousegovernment to removethe health threats. (Portland Press Herald / MaineSunday Telegram, July 22, 2007)

Nancy Ross, Associate Professor ofEnvironmental Policy at Unity College

Toxic chemicals lurk within innocentpeople. This isn't the tagline of a horrormovie or summer science fiction.

It's "Body of Evidence," an analysis bythe Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maineof pollution in the bodies of 13 Mainerswho generously consented to publicize theresults.

The 71 chemicals the study measureddon't come from terrorist poisonings ortoxic spills. Much worse. They're ineveryday household products and in ourfood, air and water.

Phthalates in perfume and baby toys:Phthalates are used to soften plastics,including baby toys. They also permeatepersonal care products, labeled as"fragrance" in perfume, hair spray,deodorant, nail polish and soap. Minutelevels of phthalates have been statisticallylinked to sperm damage in men and genitalchanges in fetuses.

"Body of Evidence" found that frequentperfume users Vi Raymond of Winthrop,

Hannah Pingree of North Haven andPaulette Dingley of Auburn had twice thenational median level of phthalates.

Brominated flame retardants in dust:These retardants, called PBDEs, are addedto TV and other electronic casings and toupholstery, curtains and other fabrics. Fromthere they leach into air, food andhousehold dust -- and into people andwildlife. Studies in lab animals show harmto memory, learning and behavior from lowlevels of PBDEs.

Lauralee Raymond, Vi's daughter, alsofrom Winthrop, and Bette Kettell ofDurham had total PBDE levels above themedian found in 62 women from Californiaand Indiana.

Mercury in fish: Mercury comes inproducts like fluorescent bulbs andthermostats, but most mercury in Mainearrives airborne from coal-fired powerplants. It's washed into streams and lakesand builds in the food chain -- withexposures highest for people who eat lots offish such as tuna.

Mercury hurts brains, particularlydeveloping brains of fetuses and children.Even at low levels, exposure in the wombleads to deficits in memory, attention andmotor control.

Pingree, Lauralee Raymond and EliseRoux of Windham, all of childbearing ageand frequent eaters of fish high on the foodchain, had mercury levels twice the nationalmedian.

WHAT TO DO? In the environmental policy classes I

teach, the first question students ask whenwe look at toxics in everyday products is"How can I lower my risk?"

It's a teachable moment. Sure, you cansearch the Internet for deodorant withoutphthalates and stop eating big fish, but howdo you avoid household dust?

After reflection, students usually arguefor an approach known as the precautionaryprinciple: We don't know for sure theeffects of toxic chemicals in our bodies. Butwe do know that what we don't know can

hurt us. And we shouldn't have to live in aworld any more dangerous than it has to be.

Maine families have thousands ofchemicals to worry about aside from thosesampled in "Body of Evidence" -- chemicalswhose effects on human health are suspector unknown. The solution to toxicchemicals in our bodies and our children'sbodies isn't careful consumption. This is thetime and place for government action toprotect us.

FEDERAL FAILURE, STATE PROMISE

Unfortunately, the federal regulatorysystem treats chemicals as innocent untilproven guilty. In 30 years, only sixchemicals have been banned of the 80,000in use in homes and workplaces. Only 10percent have been tested for safety.

If the feds can't do it, you may ask, howcan the states?

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeissaid the states are laboratories of democracy.That was good advice 75 years ago and it'sgood policy today.

California requires labeling ofcarcinogens. Washington State has phase-out plans for chemicals with long lives inthe environment and humans.

Maine's record on toxic-chemicalreduction to date is good. We've bannedmany products containing mercury, leadand arsenic. A new law requires saferalternatives to PBDEs. A Governor's TaskForce on Safer Chemicals will makerecommendations this fall on acomprehensive chemical policy.

Your support of a solution can make ithappen. Call on your state legislators(federal, too): • To require safety of all chemicals; • To require full health and safety

information for all chemicals; • To support research and development

of safer alternatives. These policies will not only end our

toxic nightmare but provide incentives for a"green chemistry" marketplace to flourish.


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Unity - Leslie Wood's personal vision quest took her from Kentuckyto Pleasant Point to learn the traditional medicines of thePassamaquoddy Indians, but after receiving a sub-zero reception,Wood was ready to leave empty handed.

While standing in a museum, however, Wood felt the tap on hershoulder that would change her life. Within weeks she would beworking side by side with Passamaquoddy medicine man FreddaPaul and would soon be his wife.

Paul, a Passamaquoddy elder from the Pleasant Point reservation,and Wood, an artist and writer from Kentucky, have workedtogether since that meeting in 2002, preserving the tribe's vanishingknowledge of healing with native plants.

"My previous engagement to marry an oncologist was superseded byfinding a real medicine man," Wood told a gathering of students andfaculty at last week's seminar on Passamaquoddy medicine plants.

Wood, a former art teacher, discovered natural healing in the courseof a revolt against the side effects of Western medicine she took fora series of illnesses. Wood had already written a book on the naturalmedicines of Kentucky when she felt an unexplained compulsion torepeat the effort for Maine's Passamaquoddy.

"I had an epiphany to go and write down the Passamaquoddy(traditions)," Wood said. "I was possessed."

That possession found an outlet in Paul, whose drive to keep the

knowledge alive is fueled by the memory of his dead grandmother, whotaught Paul much of what he knows of the ancient medicine practices.

"It's my grandmother's request," he said. "I have to follow thatrequest. If I don't, I dishonor her. Before she died, she said, 'Well,grandson, it is up to you now to pass this on.'"

SHARING HIS CONVICTIONPaul has traveled all over the country telling others what he knows-- he has even spoken at Harvard Medical School -- but in Wood hefound a companion who not only shares his conviction, but whohas the talent to put the knowledge in writing.

"Fredda has some gifts that are amazing," Wood said.

Paul had expected Wood's arrival for years. A shaman spirit had toldhim of her long before she ever arrived at Pleasant Point, Paul said.He knew, as he walked into the museum that day, that he would askher to be his apprentice.

Wood was not so sure.

"I said no because I didn't want people to think I was stealing theancient ways," she said.

Paul's gift of healing, and the continued encouragement of otherelders in the tribe, soon changed Wood's mind.

Paul, now in his 60’s, said he was kidnapped as a toddler and spentmost of his first 13 years in Indian Residential School in Canada.

By Craig Crosby, Staff Writer, Central Maine NewspapersTuesday, April 17, 2007

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When he was found and returned home, he longed to learn thelanguage and traditions of the Passamaquoddy to define his place inthe world.

His grandmother, who had learned plant medicine during a timewhen native ways were despised or forbidden, was eager to be theteacher. She would sketch plants for Paul and send him into thewoods to find them.

But she did more than provide the knowledge, she passed along herspirit, Paul said. Ideas for medicines come to him in his dreams. Ina gathering, Paul said he often knows if someone is sick before hemeets them. He described a detailed vision of a man coming to himfor help with colon cancer. Years later, such a man appeared.

"It scares me sometimes when these things happen," Paul said.

PRESERVING THE HERITAGESome of the knowledge passed down to Paul dates back 12,000years, Wood said, but now the stories and traditions are beingpushed aside and the knowledge of native medicine is on the vergeof being lost forever. Natural medicines are being ignored in favorof Western science.

"That's the tragedy," Wood said. "They're losing this part of theirculture."

Unwilling to let them die quietly, Wood and Paul are on a missionto document and pass along the traditions and knowledge. They

have created a newsletter, Npisun Harvest News, which is dedicatedto preserving the heritage of traditional medicine through words,pictures, and interviews with other tribal members.

Paul and Wood speak at dozens of venues each year, often includinga nature walk, and first came to Unity College last year -- the collegewill award him an honorary doctorate in botany during this spring'sgraduation. While stressing that the plants they talk about shouldnever be used without qualified supervision, the couple sharesqualities of the plants and Paul shares memories of their use.

"They want to teach people in their own tribe and in other tribes,"said Julie Johnson, counselor at Unity College, who helped arrangelast week's session with college students and faculty.

"They want to keep it alive for young people, but they also thinkit's time to share it with other people as well because the knowledgedies with the elders," Johnson said.

Not everyone is so understanding, however. The cold reception thatalmost made Wood give up her quest to document Passamaquoddymedicine came from a few members who did not want Woodspreading tribal traditions.

"Any person that calls or knocks on my door, no matter what colorthey are, they are welcome in my house," Paul said. "I treat anybody."

Fredda Paul shares a remedywith a Unity College student.


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As Kermit the Frog famously observed, it's not easy being green.

But nearly 300 college and university presidents around the countryhave committed to becoming 100 percent environmentally green byeliminating their schools' contributions to global warming.

And Maine schools will play an integral role in the effort to enactthe sweeping reforms in how colleges and universities around thecountry operate in their quest to reverse climate change.

"I think signing the commitment is going to make us live up to thecommitment," said University of Maine at Farmington PresidentTheodora Kalikow, one of the leaders for The American College &University Presidents Climate Commitment. "We're going to haveto learn how to do it. Global warming is real and everyone has todo their part."

The American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment,which was officially unveiled Tuesday, is an attempt to get colleges anduniversities to eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions.

The commitment also requires each school to compile an inventoryof its carbon emissions and make the results publicly available.Schools have two years to create a plan and set a timeline forbecoming "carbon-neutral."

More than 284 colleges and institutes in 45 states have joined theinitiative since the fall. Before it was officially launched on Tuesdaythe signatories represented about 15 percent of higher educationinstitutions in the country, according to ecoAmerica's BobPerkowitz, one of the initiative's organizers. The list of participantsincludes the entire University of Maine system, except for theAugusta campus, as well as Unity, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges andCollege of the Atlantic.

"These presidents and chancellors are not waiting," Perkowitz said."They are not telling someone else to take action. They are, in thetrue spirit of American leadership, stepping forward and takingsteps themselves."

Unity College President Mitch Thomashow, one of 17 steeringcommittee members -- David Hales, president of College of theAtlantic, is the only other Maine representative on the steeringcommittee -- believes colleges and universities need to lead the waytoward sustainability because, he says, climate change is one of thebiggest problems today's youth will face.

"From a political point of view it's a no-brainer to (sign thecommitment)," Thomashow said. "It's the implementation that'sgoing to be a challenge."

Eliminating greenhouse gas emissions is just one of those challenges,Thomashow said. The commitment also forces institutions to giveevery student instruction in sustainability practices.

"That's going to be the most difficult thing to accomplish," he said."Moving the curriculum so that every engineering student, everymedical student, takes these types of classes -- that's a much biggerchallenge, but that ultimately will need to happen."

The commitment is the latest example of the quest to be green oncollege campuses. All the Maine schools that have signed thecommitment already have sustainability programs in place.

Colby College started a sustainability program about 10 years agowhen it began using waste steam from its heating system to turnelectricity-generating turbines, said Thomas Tietenberg, professorof economics. The school is committed to building super-efficientLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design buildings andtaking other steps to reduce cut carbon emissions, he said.

Colby has not signed the president's commitment because theschool favors programs that have hard targets, such as theGovernors Carbon Challenge, Tietenberg said.

"We have started with the ones that have firm targets and areorientated toward those," he said.

Becoming carbon neutral is not without some controversy, even forthose who work toward it. Regardless of how efficient buildings

Colleges set green By CRAIG CROSBY,

Staff Writer, Central Maine Newspapers

Wednesday, June 13, 2007


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become, or how much students and faculty use publictransportation, there is realistically is no way for schools to producezero emissions, Tietenberg said.

"My own view, when you're really thinking about carbon neutrality-- carbon offsets will play a role, but right now the market is shaky,"he said. "There are good solid credits out there and there are somethat are less solid."

Carbon credits, or offsets, are a means to countering emissions bypaying for such things as tree planting or renewable energyproducers like wind turbines. There are not currently any federalregulations to verify the legitimacy of the credits, however.

"We try to reduce as much as we can without purchasing credits,"Tietenberg said.

For most major colleges and universities, however, credits are amajor component in their environmental initiatives. And thosecredits can muddy the waters when it comes to determining justhow much colleges and universities are doing to promotesustainability, said Mick Womersley, professor at Unity College.

"If everyone in the world who wanted to reduce emissions boughtoffsets, there'd be no offsets to buy because no one would have anyemissions reductions to sell as offsets," Womersley said. "Offsets area zero-sum game in terms of emissions and they cost money whileactual emissions reductions are actual emissions reductions andmoney in the bank if you know how to calculate payback andinterest rates."

Instead of purchasing offsets, Unity spent its money on increasingbuilding efficiency, reducing electrical consumption and less

polluting heating, he said.

The University of Maine at Farmington has taken similar measuresand discovered the savings, Kalikow said.

"We'd be stupid not to," she said. "When we have the knowledgeand the technology and the material and the smart architects whocan do this, it's part of our job to demonstrate how to do this."

Some of the most prestigious universities, however, have failed intheir stated mission of improving sustainability. According to itsown report, Harvard University produced an average of 17.8 metrictons of emissions per student in 2006. Duke University averagedmore than 29 metric tons per student in 2003. Yale and theMassachusetts Institute of Technology both averaged more than 20metric tons of emissions per student in recent years.

Unity College, however, averaged just over 2 metric tons perstudent in 2006 and did so without the benefit of offsets.

While Womersley believes heating research facilities contribute tobloated figures at places like Harvard and Yale, it cannot all beexplained away so easily.

According to Harvard's Green Campus Initiative, the university'semissions increased 100,000 metric tons between 1992 and 2003.

"College campuses are competing for sustainability and thisrepresents a very embarrassing failure for Harvard as an institution,"Womersley said.

Ultimately, reducing emissions means saved energy and money,Womersley said. The common sense approach Unity College hastaken is one that can be applied everywhere as colleges commit tobecoming carbon neutral, he said.

"Instead of building a flagship green building on campus we've builtrelatively modest, but still relatively green, buildings, but alsoinsulated, and paid attention to efficiency in every other building,"Womersley said. "The technology is there. The understanding isthere. The payback is there. You don't need to be a crusader to wantto save a dollar."

to go for climate

"Instead of building a flagship green building oncampus we've built relatively modest, but still relativelygreen, buildings, but also insulated, and paid attentionto efficiency in every other building," Womersley said.


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Palermo – Most of the time, you won’t evensee them coming and going. What you’llhear is the scream of an all-terrain vehicleengine as its echo rattles through the trees,bounces off rock ledges and races acrossopen water. The only sign of life will be apickup truck parked along a nearby roadwith an empty cargo trailer in tow. Thattruck likely won’t even have a MaineDepartment of Inland Fisheries andWildlife logo on it anymore.

In fact, the only thing out of the ordinarywill be the tremendous luck you had fishingfor the state’s angling calling card – thebrook trout – on a picturesque pond thatleaves you wondering how on earth so manyquality little fish could end up in one hard-to-reach location.

That’s where Scott Davis ‘89 comes in. TheDIF&W fisheries biologist dons orange raingear, straps a couple of coolers loaded withfish to his state owned ATV and drives overobstacles and through foot-deep mud todeliver spring yearly brook trout to the water.

In central Maine, there are only a few watersstocked with the use of ATV’s. Savade Pondin Windsor, Peters Pond in Waldoboro andTyler Pond in Manchester are the onlythree, while the rest are stocked throughmore traditional means – by boat, by truckor by airplane.

ATVs come under heavy fire from landownerswhen used as recreational vehicles. For Davis,however, the ATV is a work tool that turnswhat was once a day-long project into lessthan an hour’s worth of work.

EASY AS 1-2-3“The ease of using the ATV is amazing,”Davis said after stocking Peters Pond inWaldoboro with 200 brookies onWednesday (May 2, 2007) afternoon. “Itused to be that we’d have to come here andcarry in bucket after bucket of fish to beable to stock them. Now, it’s one or twotrips, and it’s over just like that.”

Maine’s nine hatchery locations coordinatetheir spring schedules with the DIF& Wbiologists who oversee the fish stockingprogram. In this case, it was fish culturistJamie Bray ‘98 of the rearing station inPalermo who met Davis early in themorning to complete brook trout stockingat Savade Pond and Peter’s Pond.

Bray’s 1-ton truck carrying tanks equippedwith aerators in the back was loaded with

By Travis Barrett, Outdoors Writer, Central Maine Newspapers

Brand New Brookies

Coming soon to a water near you …

SPECKLED BEAUTY: Jamie Bray of thestate’s Palermo rearing station holds aspring yearling brook trout in his hands.


300 spring yearling brook trout – 200 forPeters and 100 for Savade. Bray and Davisdrove first to Savade, where Davis unloadedhis 4-wheel work vehicle off the trailer onhis truck and suited up in rain gear fromhead to toe.

Two coolers were strapped to the ATV –one in front and one in back – and Bray andDavis took little time to count out theneeded number of fish and move them withnets from Bray’s tanks to Davis’ coolers.

Davis fastened the covers of the coolers,hopped on and fired the engine.

“I’d offer you a ride down on the back ofthis,” Davis said, “but I don’t think you’dwant to without rain gear.”

It soon became obvious why.

What would barely pass for a dirt path inthe middle of an August drought lookedmore like a muddy river last week. Savadesits more than a quarter of a mile fromGreeley Road in Windsor, and no 4-wheeldrive pickup would succeed in making thetrip through valleys filled with mud,especially not when weighed down furtherby large tanks holding water and fish.

An ATV was the only choice, and it was thesame way at Peters Pond. A twisting loopthrough woods and over small hills formed avaguely defined path littered with fallen treesand deep mud. Even with the ATV, Davishad to pull up more than 15 yards from thepond’s edge and run netfuls of the squirming10-inch fish to the water by hand.

Still, it was better than having to have two-or three-man crews carry buckets insuccession nearly a half-mile to completethe task.

“Even (with the mud), there’s a lot less stresson the fish doing it this way,” Davis said.“They’re not bouncing around as much inthe buckets, and they’re not spending asmuch time in them. What are they in therefor, a couple of minutes now?”

That stands in stark contrast to what couldtake 30 minutes or more doing it in a moreconventional fashion.

“Ideally, you want to do it with a boat whenyou can spread out certain species a littlebetter,” Davis said. “But, obviously, that’snot always possible. When you can’t do itthat way, it’s nice just to get (the fish) outthere however you can.”

STOCKING UPThe rearing station in Palermo, which raisesboth brook trout and brown trout, isresponsible for meeting the stocking needsof more than 100 of Maine’s waters, some ofwhich are stocked more than once. TheMedomak River, for example, is stocked atsix different locations.

Jamie Bray, Palermo’s fish culturistsupervisor, coordinates with Scott Davis toput brook trout in Savade, Peters and Tylerponds – all of which require the use of anATV for their spring stocking because oftheir remote natures.

“It’s a lot more than just going to a boat

launch and uploading the fish,” Bray said.“All (the biologists) put together theirorders. They know how many fish theywant, and how many they want to put ineach of the waters.”

That means it’s up to the hatchery sites tokeep up the inventory, so to speak. ThePalermo station receives the fry when theyare approximately four months old – and allof 2 inches long. They’ll keep them on thesite for between 12 and 16 months. Theyear-old fish are the spring yearlings to bestocked annually during the months ofApril and May, while the older fish are themore mature fall yearlings which go outeach autumn.

Coordinating stocking schedules is one ofthe most time consuming aspects of the job,aside from the daily maintenance of feedingthe trout and keeping the more than 30tanks in working order.

“It’s always subject to change,” Bray said.“It’s all about biologist schedules,equipment availability and, of course,Mother Nature.”

Still, Bray said, half of the state’s entirespring stocking schedule was expected to becompleted by this weekend.

And some of those fish were lucky enoughto be stocked after an exhilarating ridethrough the woods on an ATV, one mostanglers never saw coming.

Countdown: Palermo hatchery fishculturist Jamie Bray ’98 (Wildlife major)of Palermo, Maine, counts out brook troutto be stocked in Savade Pond in Windsorthis week. The fish were transported tothe water via all-terrain vehicle.

DRIVE TIME: DIF&W fisheries biologist Scott Davis ’89 (Associate of Science) of Benton,Maine, maneuvers his ATV loaded with brook trout through mud and moss in Waldoboroon Wednesday. Davis is responsible for stocking the three ponds in central Maine thatrequire an ATV for access.



This is a great time to be alive. Unity,Maine is a great place to live. And I amhonored, delighted, and humbled to be thepresident of Unity College.

We live in a remarkably beautiful place.On any given day you might notice therolling hills, the patchy forest, the glisteninglight, the wind-swept prospects, the hiddenpaths and trails, or the reassuring presenceof the Gulf of Maine just over the easternhorizon. This is a diverse landscape ofshifting patterns.

How about the weather? On any givenday, depending on the season, you mightexperience howling winds and frigid Arcticblasts; humid, moist air from the Gulf ofMexico; moist, cool air that drifts downfrom the Maritimes. There are some dayswhen you experience so many weather changesthat you feel you have lived all four seasons intwenty-four hours. The daily changes in theweather remind us that the landscapes of ourlives are always changing too.

As good observers, as people who spendso much time outdoors, we’re exposed tothe fragility of life and landscape. In themidst of environmental change, we seekbalance, flexibility and resilience. Peoplewho earn a living by working on the land orsea know that they must pay attention to allthese subtle changes. Otherwise their verylivelihood is threatened.

What is true for this landscape that wehave grown to know and love is also true forthe entire planet. That is why we are gatheredtogether in this place and time. We are jointlyengaged in building, sustaining, and growing

and environmental college, a place of learningthat supports ecological appreciation andawareness. This is our common ground. Thisis why we are here today.

Anyone associated with Unity College,whether student, staff, faculty, trustee, orgood friend, in his or her own way is aneducator. As educators, we wish toperpetuate a deeper understanding of theecological circumstances of our lives. Why?Deep down inside you know that suchunderstanding breeds appreciation. Youhave faith that appreciation cultivatesgratitude. You sense that gratitude conveys aresponse. And you hope that responseprompts action.

In essence, that chain of thinking is thefundamental mission of an environmentalcollege. We strive to present learning

experiences that inspire appreciation. Wedevelop learning communities that changepeople’s lives by bringing them closer to life.We accomplish unity in this purpose byemphasizing awareness, inquiry, service, andcommitment. Such is the measure of a deep,authentic community.

Unity College has a crucial role to playin educating a new generation of ecologicalcitizens. Although we are deeply rooted inthe regional community of agricultural,mid-coast Maine, by proclaiming ourselvesAmerica’s environmental college we becomelinked to a global community ofenvironmental awareness. We are engagedin an educational process that is mission-driven, compelling, urgent, and vital.

Ask yourself why you are here. If you area student, what is the value above all others

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that inspires you to attend an environmentalcollege? If you are a faculty member, what isit that you most want your teaching toconvey? If you are a staff member, how areyou contributing to the vitality of thecollege’s environmental mission? If you arealumni, what connects your experience tothe legacy of Unity College? If you are atrustee, friend or supporter of the college,why are you attracted to being with us? Andif you are new to Unity College, what is itthat compels you to learn more about us?

These questions should prompt somemoments of self-reflection. But I intendthem to be a rhetorical device leading you to

a common place. I know why you are here.You understand the importance ofenvironmental learning. You know that acollege education is one of the best ways toachieve that. And I am here to remind you,both today and in the years to come, thatyou are on the right path.

The world desperately needs your wisdom,knowledge, leadership, and guidance. It needsyour resilience and flexibility. It needs yourgratitude and response.

I wish to say more about Unity Collegeand what it stands for. In so doing, I reiteratemy commitment as your president, I challengeyou to remember why you are here, and Iconvey our common dreams and aspirations.

Unity College may be Distinguished

by Virtue of Five Unique Qualities

Unity College Broadens the Constituencyfor Conservation

We attract students of diverse backgrounds,including hunters, farmers, foresters, gardeners,backpackers, rockclimbers, naturalists,educators, artists, writers, policymakers,back-to-the-landers, and people whocombine these interests in all kinds ofunpredictable ways. They come from a

variety of socio-economic backgrounds.Many of our students are the first membersof their family to attend college. Ourstudents come from all walks of life andhold many different points of view.

To serve these students, now and in thefuture, Unity College will promote multipleorbits of environmental learning. We willattract a national student constituency and aregional community of practitioners.Building on our inherent strengths andvalues, we will have ongoing learning,research, and consultation services in fieldssuch as conservation law and environmentalpolicy, conservation biology and ecology,

sustainability and climate change,environmental education and wildlife care,outdoor adventure and ecotourism,environmental science teaching, andenvironmental writing and the arts. Each ofthese “nodes in a network” will serve diverseconstituencies, developing uniquely interestingcurriculum, preparing students for fulfillingand important careers. These learningcenters will take many shapes and forms,reflecting our academic vision and ourexternal constituencies. They will becoherent enough to offer a core vision, butflexible enough to shift with the dynamicchanges in the environmental field.

Unity College Serves the UnderservedAmerican higher education is remarkable

in the diversity of its colleges anduniversities. Yet increasingly there are youngpeople who are left out of this picture. Insome cases they just can’t afford the cost ofan education. There are some students whohave a particular approach to learning thatis not well served by more traditionalinstitutions. Also, there are students whocan’t find the right combination ofacademic programs.

By suggesting that Unity College servesthe underserved, I reaffirm that our missionis to provide affordable, accessible educationfor students who thrive in the milieu ofexperiential learning. We will strive toprovide academic programs that launchstudents into fulfilling, service-orientedenvironmental careers.

We will also continue to developprograms that you may not find at otherinstitutions. Are there other non-traditionalstudents who would find a Unity Collegeeducation just right for their career goalsand learning styles? Are their interestingnew programs that can meet those needs—summer-based Masters programs insustainability education, for example?

Unity College Models Frugal SustainabilityThe future of environmental studies is

linked to sustainability, an emphasis onconserving energy, food, water, andmaterials. Unity College aspires to build atruly sustainable campus, serving as aregional leader in such efforts, demonstratinggreen building practices, an integratedlandscape, and hands-on, campus-basedsustainability initiatives.

Our new Master Planning Process, tobegin in September of 2007, will envision aUnity College legacy, with the commonthemes of endurance and resilience. Let’sbuild a college that will be here for hundredsof years to come. Let’s conceive of Unity asan intergenerational college and community.

I encourage all of us to think of the UnityCollege campus as a sustainability field ofdreams, an architect’s Exploratorium, a placewhere we can truly live our values.Sustainability is about more than academicprograms, energy infrastructure, and localfood. It must entail a way of life, includingparticipatory governance, fiscal responsibility,long-range planning, health and wellness,and wholesome community, a place whereyou forge respectful and long-lastingrelationships. How might we use sustainabilityas a means to broaden the constituency forconservation, to bring businesses, NGO’s,

I encourage all of us to think of the Unity College campus as a sustainabilityfield of dreams, an architect’s exploratorium, a place where we can trulylive our values.



and other academic institutions into ourcommunity orbits?

That’s why a sustainable campus is soimportant. There is no more practical,effective, tangible statement of convictionthan making the campus a livingeducational laboratory for our values. Suchconviction is what attracts investors, buildscoherence, promotes vision, and signifiesendurance. Is there a better way to assert anotion of legacy then actually living yourlife as if you believe in a long-term future?

Unity College Emphasizes the Outdoor,Hands-on, Ecological Learning Experience

We are experiential, developmental, andpractitioner oriented.By experiential weemphasize the importance of field-based,hands-on learning. Whether it’s a rigorous,empirical approach to natural history andecology, a wilderness expedition experience,or an experiment in sustainable living, it’sthe quality of the field experience thatmatters. What’s more exciting thanwatching a group of Unity students take offon a NOVA adventure?

By developmental, we emphasize ourunderstanding that learning is linked tocognitive awareness, perceptual readiness,lifecycle changes, and issues of personal

identity. We care about the whole learner.By practitioner oriented, we emphasize

the importance of real world, career-basedlearning. Whether it’s a search and rescuemissions, working in local schools, helpinglow income housing residents retrofit theirhomes, developing sustainability initiativesfor the state of Maine, you will always findUnity students right in the middle of themix, and often leading the way. This isenvironmental studies for the real world.

Above all, we promote the outdoorexperience. There is no greater learninglaboratory than the great outdoors. At Unity,we encourage adventure, exploration, and fullimmersion in outdoor learning and living.

Unity College Engages the RegionalCommunity in Intellectual, Artistic, and Recreational Opportunities

The college is intimately linked to itsecological and community setting. Whetherits contemporary issues in environmentalpolicy, promotion of the arts, or recreationalopportunities, the college provides regionalleadership as a gathering place forcommunity events and functions.

At the Unity Centre for the PerformingArts, we’ll offer a full palette of interestingmusical performances, gallery displays, and

riveting lectures and seminars. They willalways be open to the whole community,

At the Unity Field of Dreams, we’lldevelop recreational facilities from naturewalks to Frisbee Golf, a commons forstudents and community members alike. Itwill be a place for local families, or forpeople just passing through.

Our campus will be a place to visit foranyone who wants to learn about frugalsustainability. Campus tours will belearning experiences for their own sake.Myhope is that we build a student/communitycenter that is designed with the wholecommunity in mind.Finally our centers ofenvironmental learning will integrate well-connected regional learning networks,providing consulting services that reflect theexpertise of our students, staff andfaculty.Unity College will be known as ahome of community environmental learning.

Closing RemarksIt is my pleasure, honor, and challenge

to sustain, promote, and coordinate thisvision. Accomplishing these dreams is acollaborative work effort. We must galvanizeand inspire every member of the Unitycommunity. We must all be networkers andfundraisers. We must all be educators. We

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What was once the country's only self-proclaimed

"environmental college" now finds itself closer to the

mainstream as the ecological consciousness of everyone

else grows.

And this weekend, Unity College inaugurated a new

president, Mitchell S. Thomashow, who has the skills and

background to lead this young and edgy institution into the

next phase of its development.

"As educators," said Thomashow in his inaugural speech,

"we wish to perpetuate a deeper understanding of the

ecological circumstances of our lives. Why? Deep down

inside you know that such understanding breeds

appreciation. You have faith that appreciation cultivates

gratitude. You sense that gratitude conveys a response. And

you hope that response prompts action."

From learning through appreciation and gratitude to action -

- that just about sums up a good college education. For

what we learn should help us all make the world a better

place. Congratulations to Unity College, its new president, its

faculty and students as they embark, together, in pursuit of

this noble goal. We will all benefit from what they accomplish.

Welcome, Mitchell ThomashowKennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel Editorial, April 18, 2007 (The world is catching up with Unity College.)



call attention to our efforts not just for thesake of Unity College, as important as weperceive our mission to be. But we must doso for the sake of the planet, for ourchildren’s future, and to advance the vitalityand urgency of environmental learning.

When you awake in the morning, whatprompts you to gather the energy toparticipate in life? What inspires you?What motivates you to stretch beyond yourcapacity? If you are concerned about ourecological future, if you wish to devoteyour life to service, if you want to celebratelife, then you have arrived at Unity College.

Not every morning starts that way. Sooften we are overwhelmed with theprospects of the day. Our tasks are

daunting. Our energy is muffled by thesheer inertia of everyday trails andtribulations. We overcome this inertiathrough fortitude and perseverance. Wechoose to participate in life, to awaken tothe day, because we cherish the great gift ofhuman awareness.

As President of Unity College, perhapsmy most important challenge is to remindyou of what’s important, to remind youagain and again that you are on the rightpath and that you are in the right place, tosupport your efforts, and to help youunderstand that you are contributing tosomething that requires an entirecommunity of collaborators.

And if I can also remind you that the

task of the educator is a sacred one and thatit is filled with joy and celebration, and thatyour work is vitally important, then I willcontribute in my own way to the future ofUnity College.

Unity College is on the threshold offinding its path and insuring its legacy. Itwill do this by understanding its place inthe community and how it must contributeto planetary well-being. It will do this byproviding a challenging educationalexperience to all who deserve it. In thisway, Unity College will insure its legacy. Itwill sow the seeds of its own future, and itwill build a vital learning community forgenerations to come.

Thomashow accepts warm applause from the audience at the conclusion of his inaugural address



This is quite an honor and a pleasure tobe here. Some of you might not know, butMitch and I have been colleagues at Antiochfor almost 30 years, we’ve taught classestogether, and after our first books came out,we shared many speaking engagements. Iremember one of those engagements atBates College. Mitch and I were jokingabout the fact that we were pretty goodenvironmentalists. Based on the adage toreduce, reuse, and then recycle, we havereused our talks many times. That was myoriginal plan for today, to reuse a talk I hadgiven recently, but when it rains it pours. Ihave only participated in two inaugurations.The first one was just two days ago for ournew president at Antioch University NewEngland. I realized that day what animportant occasions this is, especially forsomeone like Mitch. This is his firstinauguration, and I am guessing it will alsobe his last. So in honor of the occasion Ihave developed a new address based on acomment I heard this past week about theword restore.

This is also a very important day for amutual friend of ours—another writer andenvironmentalist—Bill McKibben. If youhave been following the news, you haveprobably heard about Bill’s Step It Up ‘07campaign that came to fruition yesterday. Ifirst heard about Step It Up ’07 last Octoberwhile I was giving a talk at MiddleburyCollege. Bill and six Middlebury studentshad just formulated the idea to start awebsite to foster an array of rallies across thecountry on April 14, the start of Earth

Week. The rallies were to push congress tocreate meaningful legislation to stem greenhouse gas emission. After hearing his plan Iasked Bill with only six months what wouldbe a sign of success? He said, if we can get100 rallies across the country that would behuge. Well yesterday there were more than1400 rallies in all 50 states with 37 righthere in Maine! It occurs to me that Step ItUp ‘07 is probably the biggest environmentalaction since the inception of Earth Day 37years ago.

I clearly remember that first Earth day.Reflecting back on that era now makes merealize what a remarkable time it was in thiscountry. Back in 1962 the word environmentwasn’t even in the American lexicon, and Iam quite confident in his last year as vicepresident that Richard Millhouse Nixonnever used the word either. Then in 1962,Rachael Carson published her incredible

book Silent Spring. That book became acatalyst for a complete change inconsciousness—not only in this country butthroughout the world. Within eight yearsEarth Day was spawned and Richard Nixonbecame our most pro-environmentalpresident by signing the clean air act, theclean water act, and starting the EPA. Allthrough the 70’s a key criterion for gainingpolitical office was being pro-environment.I remember what a hopeful time it was inthe 70’s, but I have to admit that hope faded.

Although the movement raisedconsciousness in this country about theimportance of the environment, it didn’t gofar enough in systemic ways to significantlychange cultural values or the politicalprocess. So the factors that fosteredenvironmental degradation continued tofunction. Through the 80’s, the 90’s, andinto the new millennium, we witnessed everincreasing environmental degradation.During the past 25 years, the work ofenvironmentalists became akin to triage,battling to save this old growth forest hereor that wetland there. A different story alsostarted to emerge pitting jobs versus theenvironment, people versus nature. Theenvironmental movement started to loosetraction. That’s why what Bill and hisstudents have accomplished in just 6months gives great hope.

Today environmentalists continue tofight for protection, conservation, and torestore degraded ecosystems and brownfields.That word restore is an interesting one inthat it means to bring back.

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Inaugural Keynote AddressBy Dr. Tom Wessels (April 15, 2007)

Dr. Tom Wessels



In terms of the environmentalmovement today, we have got to go muchfurther than fights simply to conserve,protect, and restore. I believe what we needto do as an environmental community is tochange the story of our culture—we needto restory America.

Our current story is about the individual,individual wants, and consumption. This isthe story that hits us through all aspects ofour media and advertising. If we reflect onit, we see that this is not a good story forany culture. But we don’t have to find anew story; we need only to bring backcritical stories from our cultural past.

Our species, modern Homo-sapiens, hasbeen on this planet for about 100,000years. For at least 95%of that time, a storypeople told was that we are a part ofnature—that we share it with all the othercreatures. This is in fact completely correct.All of our sustenance comes from nature.With every breath we suckle a nature’sbreast. We even share a large portion of ourgenes with the maple trees standing outsideof this auditorium. They, like all otherorganisms, are a part of our family tree. Butsometime in the development of westernagriculture a few thousand years ago thestory changed. A new story, as expressed inGenesis, emerged that proclaimed that wewere apart from nature. We need to bringback the story that we are a part of nature.As long as we see ourselves as apart from it,we will never curtail environmentaldegradation on this planet.

The other story I think we need tobring back is the story told by the foundingfathers as stated right at the start of theDeclaration of the Independence—We thepeople, We the people. This is a verydifferent story from our current onefocused on the individual. When we hearabout freedom and liberty in the countrytoday it is often couched in terms of ruggedindividualism, but the founding fatherssaw freedom as an attribute of the people,not of individuals. The founders of

Vermont clearly emphasize this in thestate’s motto. I think you’ll like this.Vermont’s motto is, Freedom in Unity. Ihope Vermonters don’t take that literallybecause we don’t have a Unity, Vermont. Ifthey start thinking, gee there’s a lot offreedom in Unity then many Vermontersmight start settling here.

Freedom in Unity is about We thepeople. We have lost that story in ourculture. Look at the media, look atadvertising, you will rarely see anythingabout We. It is all about you and me.Verizon will give YOU the world. Have itYOUR way. It is even creeping intoAntioch—a very progressive university. We

are moving to online registration for ourcourses. For access the portal is labeled asMY Antioch. It’s my Antioch—all mine.That’s the message we keep getting in thisculture—it’s all about me, it’s all about myentitlements. Our political leaders havefollowed this trend by shifting the way theyaddress the public. We used to be addressedas the citizens. This legislation is good forthe citizens of this country: It’s very rare tohear that anymore. Today we are morelikely to hear, this legislation is good forTHE consumer. We have even been told byour president that it is patriotic to shop.Last weekend saw the high holy days of theChristian faith ushered in with GoodFriday. Now one could say we have highholy days of consumption, beginning withthe day right after Thanksgiving labeled asBlack Friday.

This story about the individual, aboutconsumption, has been a very powerfulone. An example of its power is that it hasoverwhelmed a traditional Americanvalue—frugality. I don’t know when thelast time I heard the word frugal was; itseems to have been dropped from ourlanguage. In less than a century a new story,

focused on the individual, took a populacethat believed in frugality and turned it intothe most consumptive people in the world.

Even worse, a large part of thatconsumption is frivolous, an example beingphantom electricity. Phantom electricity isthe power that all our electricalcontrivances use when we are not usingthem. Turn off your television set, butwhen you do that you are actually puttingit on stand by. Electricity runs through thattelevision set the whole time while it is inthe “off ” position. Any electricalequipment that has little lights on whennot in use is sucking up electricity—this isphantom electricity. Calculations for the

United States show that our use ofphantom electricity is equal to all ofArgentina’s electrical needs!

We need to go back to talking about Wethe people as a part of nature. That is thestory we have to bring back, not to simplyhelp the environment, but to help thefamily, to help the community, to createsocial justice, and even to help theindividual.

There are now numerous studies thatconfirm what religious and spiritualteachers have been telling us formillennia—guard against unwarrantedconsumption. Once a populace hasadequate food, clothing, and shelter,increasing affluence brings increasing ratesof anxiety and depression. Every year wesee increasing rates of these emotionalproblems in our country. At current rates ofincrease it is predicted by the year 2020that depression will be the second leadingcause for disability in this country. Aspeople become more focused on makingmoney, protecting wealth, buying andconsuming products, the result isincreasing isolation from community, fromfamily, even from oneself. I believe we are

I believe what we need to do as an environmental community is to changethe story of our culture—we need to restory America.



hard wired to need meaningful contact withcommunity, our place, and ourselvesthrough reflective practice. These are criticalconnections that people relied on forfulfillment through tens of thousands ofyears. It only makes sense that as peoplebecome more isolated from theseconnections they will experience declines intheir emotional health.

Restorying our culture will demand somesacrifice. The word sacrifice it is derived fromthe word sacred. As such sacrifice is a pathtoward the sacred. Whenever we sacrifice forfamily, community, or place, we will get back

more than we give up. By sacrificingunneeded consumption we will makestronger connections to community, to place,and to ourselves through greater time forreflective practice.

In closing I would like you tocontemplate two words, unity andindividuality. Interestingly they are bothwords about oneness. Individuality is aboutone, isolated and separated. Unity is onethat brings the collective together. Unity itis a very important part of the story we needto tell. You are perfectly positioned to dojust that. You have already been branded

with the name. You can’t deny it. Now withMitch coming on as your new President,someone who has reflected on these ideasfor decades, you are poised to do someamazing work. I know you will continue tograduate people who will do the real workof conservation, protection, and restoration.But I also hope you will embrace anexpansion of our environmental work torestory our culture. Until we do that, we willcontinue to fight the same battles, loosingground all along. Truly to save ourenvironment, we first need to save our cultureby bringing it back to its essential origins.

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President Mitchell Thomashow, Student Government President William Hafford ’08,and Cindy Thomashow, who was the Co-Chairof the Inaugural Planning Committee.

(Left to right) Unity College Trustee BillZoellick of Winter Harbor, Maine, chats withKaitlin Biggs and Mac McCabe both ofPortland, Maine.

Thomashow relaxed prior to donning his robe for the inauguration ceremony by playing thepiano at the Unity Centre for the Performing Arts.

Assistant Professor Amy Darcangelo Thomashow is joined prior to the inaugurationby (left to right facing) former Unity CollegeInterim President Mark Lapping, JoyceLapping, and Cindy Thomashow.



University of Maine Fort Kent PresidentRichard Cost and his wife Helen chat withThomashow.

Lapping chats with Chairman of the Board ofTrustees Robert Pollis and Alice Pollis ofBowdoinham, Maine.

Participants pause for a photo prior to lining up for the procession.

Former Trustee Madeline Stevenson of Unity,Maine, and Lapping

(facing left to right) David Hales, President of College of the Atlantic, Thomashow andUnity College Trustee Sharon Bloome ofSeattle, Washington

(left to right facing) Vice President for Finance and Administration Roger Jolin, AdministrativeAssistant to the Dorothy W. Quimby Library Lisa Nason, and Director of Residence Life /Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Stephen Nason

Ready for Inauguration.



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Strategic Projects Coordinator and StaffModerator Alisa Gray

A central theme throughout was Unity’s future.

Distinguished guests came from near and far.

Tess Woods ’95 (Environmental Education),Executive Director of the Unity Barn Raisers

Associate Professor Lois Ongley

Chairman of the Board of Trustees RobertPollis welcomes President of the StudentGovernment William Hafford ‘08 to the podium.

Student Government President WilliamHafford ’08



Dr. Tom Wessels

Thomashow and Zoellick during the reception.

Lapping and Thomashow share a hug. Associate Professor, Planning and InauguralCommittee Co-Chair, Kathryn Miles

Guests in colorful academic regalia mingleafter the inaugural ceremony.

Guests mingle after the ceremony.

Thomashow is congratulated by StudentAffairs Administrative Assistant / SecretaryHeidi Brugger.

Thomashow was interviewed after theinauguration for a WABI-TV Channel 5report on the inauguration.



We, the undersigned presidents and chancellors of colleges anduniversities, are deeply concerned about the unprecedented scaleand speed of global warming and its potential for large-scale,adverse health, social, economic and ecological effects. We recognizethe scientific consensus that global warming is real and is largelybeing caused by humans. We further recognize the need to reducethe global emissions of greenhouse gases by 80% by mid-century atthe latest, in order to avert the worst impacts of global warming andto reestablish the more stable climatic conditions that have madehuman progress over the last 10,000 years possible.

While we understand that there might be short-term challengesassociated with this effort, we believe that there will be great short-,medium-, and long-term economic, health, social andenvironmental benefits, including achieving energy independencefor the U.S. as quickly as possible.

We believe colleges and universities must exercise leadership intheir communities and throughout society by modeling ways tominimize global warming emissions, and by providing theknowledge and the educated graduates to achieve climate neutrality.Campuses that address the climate challenge by reducing globalwarming emissions and by integrating sustainability into theircurriculum will better serve their students and meet their socialmandate to help create a thriving, ethical and civil society. Thesecolleges and universities will be providing students with theknowledge and skills needed to address the critical, systemicchallenges faced by the world in this new century and enable themto benefit from the economic opportunities that will arise as a resultof solutions they develop.

We further believe that colleges and universities that exertleadership in addressing climate change will stabilize and reducetheir long-term energy costs, attract excellent students and faculty,attract new sources of funding, and increase the support of alumniand local communities. Accordingly, we commit our institutionsto taking the following steps in pursuit of climate neutrality:

1. Initiate the development of a comprehensive plan to achieveclimate neutrality as soon as possible.

a. Within two months of signing this document, createinstitutional structures to guide the development andimplementation of the plan.

b. Within one year of signing this document, complete acomprehensive inventory of all greenhouse gas emissions(including emissions from electricity, heating, commuting,and air travel) and update the inventory every other yearthereafter.

c. Within two years of signing this document, develop aninstitutional action plan for becoming climate neutral, whichwill include:

i. A target date for achieving climate neutrality as soon aspossible.

ii. Interim targets for goals and actions that will lead toclimate neutrality.

iii. Actions to make climate neutrality and sustainability apart of the curriculum and other educational experiencefor all students.

iv. Actions to expand research or other efforts necessary toachieve climate neutrality.

v. Mechanisms for tracking progress on goals and actions.

2. Initiate two or more of the following tangible actions to reducegreenhouse gases while the more comprehensive plan is beingdeveloped.

a. Establish a polity that all new campus construction will bebuilt to at least the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEEDSilver standard or equivalent.

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Unity College Joins with OtherColleges and UniversitiesAcross the United States in Signing Climate CommitmentAmerican College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, (July 13, 2007)



b. Adopt an energy-efficient appliance purchasing policyrequiring purchase of ENERGY STAR certified products inall areas for which such ratings exist.

c. Establish a policy of offsetting all greenhouse gas emissionsgenerated by air travel paid for by our institution.

d. Encourage use of and provide access to public transportationfor all faculty, staff, students and visitors at our institution.

e. Within one year of signing this document, begin purchasingor producing at least 15 % of our institution’s electricityconsumption from renewable sources.

f. Establish a policy or a committee that supports climate andsustainability shareholder proposals at companies where ourinstitution’s endowment is invested.

g. Participate in the Waste Minimization component of thenational RecycleMania competition, and adopt 3 or moreassociated measures to reduce waste.

3. Make the action plan, inventory, and periodic progress reportspublicly available by providing them to the Association for the

Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)for posting and dissemination.

In recognition of the need to build support for this effort amongcollege and university administrations across America, we willencourage other presidents to join this effort and becomesignatories to this commitment.

Signed,

The Signatories of the American College & University PresidentsClimate Commitment

How to Sign the Commitment

To sign the Commitment, please mail, fax, or email the signedCommitment document to: Mary Reilly, Second Nature

18 Tremont St., Ste. 1120Boston, MA 02108Fax: (320) 451-1612Tel: (617) [email protected]

Amanda Hardaswick ’07 tends to a sheep on the farm at UnityCollege. The farm and organic gardens at the College are partof its sustainability efforts. Meat from the farm and organicproduce grown in the gardens are served in the cafeteria,

while fertilizer from the farm is used in gardens. The idea is toclose the energy “loop” by using as much locally raised meat andproduce as possible, reducing reliance on fossil fuel consumingtransportation of food for consumption at the College.



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Unity College to Join with Acadia

Partners in Experiential Learning Activities

A recent $106,640 grant awarded toAcadia Partners for Science and Learningof Winter Harbor, Maine, to provideprofessional development for Maine mathand science teachers at its SchoodicPeninsula campus adjacent to AcadiaNational Park, will include partnershipactivities with Unity College, Nokomis andMount View High Schools, and the WaldoCounty and Tri-County technical centersand the University of Maine Center forEnvironmental and Watershed Research. In its successful grant proposal AcadiaPartners took full advantage of its locationadjacent to Acadia National Park byproposing experiential activities to deepenand enliven high school math and sciencecurriculum. “A key element of the successof the grant application was Unity’s newteacher certification program,” explainedProfessor Gerry Saunders. “Without that,the partnership would not be possible.”

Alisa Gray and John Zavodny Present

at 20th International Conference on

the First-Year Experience

Two years ago when the MELMACEducation Foundation in Maine invitedMaine-based colleges to participate in agrant process designed to improve studentretention, neither Strategic ProjectsCoordinator Alisa Gray nor AssociateProfessor / Chair of the Department ofInstruction and Advising Services JohnZavodny could have known that they were

about to embark on an odyssey ofprofessional discovery. Through theirinvolvement in the extensive grant processthat led to a six-year $224,589 grant fromthe MELMAC Foundation in 2006, alongwith their hands-on, ongoing efforts tocontinually improve retention at UnityCollege, Gray and Zavodny havedeveloped a wellspring of knowledge in thegrowing field of student retention. Theirreputations and retention success at UnityCollege led to an invitation extended toGray and Zavodny to be presenters at the20th International Conference on theFirst-Year Experience, sponsored by theNational Resource Center for the First-YearExperience and Students in Transition atthe University of South Carolina. Theconference was held from July 9-12 inHawaii. The joint presentation by Grayand Zavodny was entitled “Developing aService Based Leadership Institute for FirstYear Students: Strategies for Retaining theUnder Challenged Student.”

Alumni Gathering a Success

On Friday, July 20, alumni enjoyed the 4thAnnual Maine Alumni GatheringCookout. The threat of rain didn’t dampenthe fun atmosphere, with the event beingmoved from the Field of Dreams in Unityto the newly renovated cafeteria. (Left to right facing) Vice President for CollegeAdvancement Robert Constantine, FormerUnity College Librarian and namesake of itslibrary Dorothy Quimby, and AlumniAssociation President Neil Ward ’00.

Emma Creaser Appointed Chair of

National Scientific Research Society

Committee

Associate Professor Emma Creaser has beenappointed Chair of the Grants in Aid ofResearch Committee of Sigma Xi, theScientific Research Society for a three yearterm. Creaser has served on the Grants inAid of Research Committee for sevenyears. From its beginning in 1886, SigmaXi has sought to foster and encourageresearch among investigators from allscientific disciplines. The Grants-in-Aid ofResearch program has been a tangibleexpression of this purpose for severalgenerations of scientists and engineers.Since 1922, the program has invested inthe future of science by awarding grants tomore than 25,000 researchers, grants thatin many cases have helped to launch careers.

The Hand of Fate May Have Played a Role

in Fishing for Scholarships Tournament

The hand of fate may have played a role inone of the more unusual coincidences everto occur since the Unity College Fishingfor Scholarships Tournament began in2003. On Sunday, July 22, incoming first-year student Drew Houser of Northborough,Massachusetts, competed in his first fishingfor scholarships tournament. Thetournament brought back many memoriesfor Houser whose father, Gary, a 1978graduate of Unity College, died in 1992when his small plane crashed into UnityPond in Unity, Maine, site of the fishingfor scholarships tournament. Fishing with

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Houser on July 22 was Joe Bellerose ofTroy, Maine, a 1977 graduate of UnityCollege and best friend of Gary Houser.Best friends while at Unity College, Garyand Joe continued their friendship afterthey graduated. Often they vacationed

together with their families, flying tolocations like the Bahamas in Gary’s smallplane. So when Gary passed away tragicallyin 1992, Joe stepped in and became amentor to Gary’s young son Drew. WhenDrew applied to Unity College for entry asa first year student beginning in the Fallsemester of 2007, he wrote in hisapplication essay about how Joe hadopened his eyes to the wonders of nature.

It was only natural that Drew chose Joe ashis fishing partner during the tournamenton Sunday. Though neither Drew nor Joewere very lucky during the tournament,they had a great time. Drew’s mother,Andrea Houser of Northborough,Massachusetts, enjoyed the day as well,helping out as a tournament volunteer onthe boat devoted for use by members ofthe media covering the tournament.

As the horn signaling the end of thetournament blew at 2:30 p.m., tournamentorganizer Joe Saltalamachia, the AssociateDirector of Admissions at Unity College,

was excited because he knew that for thefirst time in the five year history of thetournament, one student would bereceiving a full year tuition waver valued in excess of $18,000.

The fish tagged with the one year tuitionwaiver was caught by tournamentvolunteer Nelson Beaudry of Windsor,Maine, as he was working on themotorized safety boat for the tournament.Beaudry is the father of James Beaudry,also of Windsor, Maine, a third-yearstudent who was competing in anotherboat. Because Nelson caught the fishtagged while working in the motorizedsafety boat, the tournament rulesprohibited him from giving the tuitionwaiver to his son James. Instead, the oneyear tuition waiver went into a drawingheld immediately after the tournament atthe outdoor amphitheater a few miles awayon the campus of Unity College. Everystudent participant in the tournament waseligible to win the drawing for the full yeartuition waiver. The one year tuition waiverwas won by Drew Houser, who was joined

on the amphitheater stage by Joe and hismother Andrea. Soon Drew made a pointto find James Beaudry, son of the man whocaught the tagged fish that led to his goodfortune, and thank him. Beaudry said hewas glad that Drew won the drawing forthe one year tuition waiver. “What a wayto begin your college career, winning awaiver for your first year,” Saltalamachiasaid. “I think people feel like maybe Drew’sfather Gary helped guide the hand in thatdrawing.” The drawing was picked by 2year old Ella Sawyer of Monroe, Maine,daughter of Assistant Director ofAdmissions Jonathan Sawyer andAdministrative Assistant to Facilities andPublic Safety Aimee Sawyer.

Over 400 students, invited guest participantsand volunteers took part in the tournament.There was $320,000 in scholarship moneyavailable in tagged fish. Over $25,000 inscholarships and prizes were won. Thecatch-and-release tournament is the largestone-day, non-mechanized fresh waterfishing derby in the United States. It is alsothe only collegiate fishing for scholarshipstournament held in the United States

Unity College Sportsmen Make a

Difference with Conference and Wild

Game Dinner

Hunting and fishing enthusiasts at UnityCollege helped to make a positivedifference for a variety of philanthropicand community organizations with theirfirst annual Sportsmen’s Conference andWild Game Dinner, held at the UnityCentre for the Performing Arts on April19. The event attracted a capacity crowdand raised over $3,000. Senior AssociateDirector of Admissions Joe Saltalamachia’95, (Wildlife major), who organized theevent, said that all of the money raised wasdistributed between Operation Game

Chris Eklund of Ellsworth, the fishingpartner of Unity College student BradEklund ’09, also of Ellsworth, proudlydisplays a large black crappie he justcaught during the Unity College Fishingfor Scholarships Tournament.

(Left to Right facing) Josh Whalen ’01, aWildlife Management major from Exeter,Maine, who caught a fish with a $2,500tag, Associate Director of Admissionsand tournament organizer JoeSaltalamachia ’95, and Drew Houser, whowon a one year tuition waiver valued inexcess of $18,000.



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New & NoteworthyThief, Catch-A-Dream, the Unity FoodPantry, and The Justin Chonko Foundationto benefit a Unity College student who iswaging a courageous battle with cancer. “Iam so proud of all the Unity students whovolunteered to help organize and hold thisevent,” Saltalamachia said. “Thecommunity of hunters at Unity is alwaysready and willing to work hard to helpothers. This segment of our College deservesto be praised for this event, which we hopewill be even more successful next year.”

Gary Zane Leads Family of Soccer Stars,

Attracts Attention to Unity College

In July, Dean for Student Affairs and Men’sSoccer Coach Gary Zane attended the USYouth Soccer Championships in southernMaine, held at both Bowdoin College andin Falmouth. Both of Zane’s sons, Cody, 17,and Matty, 16, play for the Coastal SoccerClub in Brunswick. The tournament brings16 state champions together. Over 15,000players and families attended, adding over$9 million to Maine’s economy. Over 240college coaches attended. Cody plays for the U17 team, which advanced to thechampionship game for his age bracket.Over 1,000 spectators watched thechampionship featuring Coastal v. DelCo,the Pennsylvania state champion. DelCowon the exciting match, 1-0. Zane’spresence and the star play of his sonsattracted attention to Unity College, knownamong New England small colleges as hometo perennially competitive soccer teams.Zane’s son Matty will be an entering Unity

College student beginning in the Fall 2007semester. Cody is being recruited byDivision I college soccer programs.

Unity College Attracts Interest from

Top United Technologies Executives

During the Spring semester executivesfrom United Technologies Corporationvisited Unity College. Left to right facingare Board of Trustee member BeauDoherty, President Mitch Thomashow, Janvan Dokkum, President of UnitedTechnologies Corporation (UTC), and JimVan Hoof, Vice President of Finance andChief Financial Officer of UTC. The UTCexecutives were interested to learn aboutUnity’s approach to sustainability. Theyalso met with students, faculty and staff.

Associate Professor Lois Ongley

Explores Mysteries of Pattee’s Pond,

Helps Chemists Without Borders

Associate Professor Lois Ongley spent thesummer examining water quality at Pattee’sPond in Winslow, Maine. Local residentand conservationist Maurice Plante servedas a volunteer. Students Erik Larson ’10and Raymond Stuart ’08 also helped onthe project.

In June, Ongley facilitated the donation ofchemistry lab equipment being replaced atUnity College to the University of Gambiain Africa. The donation was made throughthe philanthropic group Chemists WithoutBorders. Ongley is a member of that group.

Four new Trustees have been elected

to four year terms on the board.

“These accomplished individuals areuniquely qualified to help Unity Collegeface the particular challenges of this stagein its development,” said President MitchellThomashow. “I have great confidence thateach will contribute in a variety of ways tohelp the College chart its course anddevelop in service to its strongenvironmental mission.”

Sharon Bloome pursued a 20 year careerin the dental industry beginning in 1962 asa dental assistant and ending as VicePresident of American Dental PracticeSales, a division of the Penwalt Corporationwhich she created. In 1987 Bloomefounded Heart of America Northwest, a16,000 member non-profit quality of lifeorganization based in Washington. The organization is the leading citizens’watchdog group for the cleanup of the 540-square mile Hanford Nuclear Reservationlocated in eastern Washington along thebanks of the Columbia River.



Jaymie Durnan is the Managing Partnerof Woodbury Hill Partners, LLC. The firmis devoted to assisting management indeveloping and executing strategies forchange and growth. The firm also helpsclients to identify firms that can delivertransformation capabilities to the defenseand homeland security sectors. From 2001to 2004, Durnan served as The SpecialAssistant to Secretary of Defense DonaldH. Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary ofDefense Paul Wolfowitz. Among his duties,he provided management oversight andadvice on a myriad of issues includingenvironmental issues.

Arlene Schaefer has a strong history withUnity College and the Unity area. Herfamily owned the land that was donated in 1965 to use as the campus for newlyfounded Unity College, and her childhoodhome is now Constable Hall, anadministrative building on campus. In2005, Schaefer’s generosity helped to makethe complete interior and exterior renovationof Constable Hall possible. Schaefer was aneducator at schools in East Orange, NewJersey, Fairfax County, Virginia, Stuttgart,Germany, Colorado Springs, Colorado,and Unity, Maine.

William Zoellick is currently DevelopmentDirector and Program Director at AcadiaPartners for Science and Learning, a non-profit corporation that works closely withAcadia National Park to support scientificresearch and science education related toconservation and the National Park Service.He has previously served as Partner withFaswater LLP, which provided consultingassistance to firms entering new markets. He also served as Director for CAP Ventures(now InfoTrends), which provided marketinformation services to firms developing andbuying document management andelectronic publishing software.

Caruso and NOVA to be Profiled in

Republican Journal

During the late summer and Fall semester,the Republican Journal of Belfast, Maine,will be publishing a series of articlesspotlighting the outdoor adventures ofUnity College students as they participatein NOVA program trips. The trips wereorganized by Director of AdventureExperiences Nicole Caruso, who alsoassisted reporters and photographersworking on the project.

Unity College Shares Special

Relationship with Old Orchard Beach

Police Department

For a number of years Unity College hassuccessfully placed interns most often from its Conservation Law Enforcementprogram with the Old Orchard BeachPolice Department (OOBPD). In turn the department has hired Unity Collegegraduates at a high rate. During thesummer once again the OOBPD turnedout a large number of full-time andtraining officers. Conservation LawEnforcement major Andrew Durgin counts the experience he has received atthe department as formative, giving him a leg up on a career in law enforcement. “So many Unity students want to work atOOBPD because they know that they willgain a great deal of experience,” Durginsaid. “Students from all over New Englandwork at OOBPD as summer reserveofficers. Unity students work here becauseof the success that former students havehad there and continue to have in theircareers after graduation. (Photo ID facing: back row left to rightUnity College students and alumni) Chris St. Pierre ’05; Dave Williams ’06; Eric Fluette ’09; Andrew Durgin ’09; RyanDinsmore ’09; Jon Hewitt ’04 (Front row leftto right) Andrew Smart ’09; Evan Franklin’07; Casey Smith ’09; Matt Weller ’09 Not pictured Chris Hilton ’07; Kevin Blanchette ’07; Nate Webb ’05



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New & NoteworthyFour Familiar Figures Retire

Four well-known figures in the UnityCollege community announced theirretirement in the Spring Semester. Eachindividual made significant contributionsto the College and will be missed.

In 1999 Associate Professor Pat Stevensbegan teaching skills to Unity’s ConservationLaw Enforcement students that wouldserve them well in careers at both the stateand local level. He drew from a distinguishedcareer in law enforcement and in theUnited States military. Stevens quicklygained the loyalty of his students. Sinceretiring Stevens has kept in contact withhis former students, in several casesoffering advice and encouragement tothose currently involved in rigorous federaltraining programs.

During a May 3 reception at the StudentCenter to honor retiring faculty and staffmembers, President Mitchell Thomashowcredited Stevens with helping to establishthe Unity College Conservation LawEnforcement program as among the mostwell-respected in the United States.

From the moment she arrived on campus in 1993, Associate Professor Sari Houestablished high expectations for studentsand an absolute commitment to personalattention in equal measure. Her relationshipswith students were enduring, with manysaying they were delighted to develop asignificant range of computer skills thanks toher high standards and exceptional teaching.

Hou delighted in the successes of herstudents, and could be counted tozealously promote published papers andawards won by her students. One of Hou’sstudents, the late Angie (Stokes) Mahoney’05, won an award for her efforts on theGrowth Area Mapping Project whileworking as an intern with the Maine StateGovernor’s Internship Program in May of2004. The project used GeographicInformation Systems (GIS) technology toview and analyze data from a geographicperspective. Mahoney’s award was countedby Hou as among her best moments in astoried teaching career. In addition to herceaselessly optimistic personality, teachingskill and infectious enthusiasm, she willalso be remembered for her green thumb.Hou retires to indulge her passion forgrowing flowers and cultivating gardensthat are the envy of many.

During his 20-year-career at Unity College,Librarian Bob Doan helped guide theDorothy W. Quimby Library to its currentplace as among the finest small collegelibraries in the state of Maine. Doan alsoguided the library to serve several areatowns as their local public library. He didit all with an ease and grace that drewmany to the library simply to visit him toseek guidance on research or share afriendly conversation. The range of topicsthat Doan kept up with and personalinterests he pursued were enormous by anymeasure, validating the belief among somethat the best librarians are avid consumers

of their product. President Thomashowdescribed Doan one of the most relaxingindividuals he has ever met, a testament toDoan’s ability to multi-task so seamlessly

and keep all matters large and small on dryground. Challenges that might have madeother librarians wilt were met with Doan’scharacteristic “can-do” spirit. Doan chosemany of the library’s new books with skilledeye for keeping up with the especially fast-moving field of environmental studies.

During his 25-year-career as a custodianJimmy Hubbard established himself asone of the most beloved figures at UnityCollege. A man of simple tastes whostressed that people, not money, were whatis most important in life, Hubbard never

held a driver’s license. He preferred to walkthe 5 mile round trip to work at theCollege. During his years at Unity, hemarked the birthdays of faculty and staffmembers by leaving cakes, balloons and giftsfor individuals to find. In recent years hisremarkable story reached a national audiencein several high-profile newspaper articles.Only weeks before commencement Hubbardwas met outside his home by over a hundred

Pat Stevens at the retirement party

Sari Hou:A computer whizwith a green thumb

Bob Doan shares a smile at hisretirement gathering

Jimmy Hubbard:The Walking Man



faculty, staff and students who joined himfor his daily walk to work. The procession inhonor of Hubbard was covered by localmedia and carried on Good MorningAmerica. He was honored with a citation forhis service and spirit at commencement.

Stephen Nason is Promoted to

Director of Residence Life / Assistant

Dean for Student Affairs

Twelve year veteran Director of ResidenceLife Stephen Nason has been promoted toDirector of Residence Life / Assistant Deanfor Student Affairs. A native of Blue Hill,Maine, Nason is a 1989 graduate of ColbyCollege in Waterville, Maine. He is bestknown for Unity’s smooth running,student centered residence life programand campus judicial process. Residing withhis wife, Lisa, Administrative Assistant atthe Dorothy W. Quimby Library, in aUnity owned home on the edge of campus,Nason is known to be on call twenty-fourhours a day, seven days a week. In recentyears Nason indulged his competitive sideby serving as driver for Team GreenMonster, the faculty and staff four-personsled that competes at the U.S. NationalToboggan Championships at the CamdenSnow Bowl in Camden, Maine. InFebruary of 2007, Nason’s team sled to afourth place finish among over 140 four-person teams from across the United Statesthat were competing at the championships.

Unity College Wins Gold Award at

22nd Annual Advertising Awards

Competition

The 2006-2007 Unity College catalog wasnamed the Gold Award Winner at the22nd Annual Advertising AwardsCompetition sponsored by the AdmissionsMarketing Report. Associate Director ofPublications Susan Fedoush entered thecatalog into the category of colleges under2,000 students. “This was an especiallyrewarding recognition because the catalogunderwent a major redesign just prior to itbeing submitted. The redesign incorporatessome of the new graphic design elementslike the new logo, official college green,and typographic fonts.” Fedoush said thatthe most visual impact comes directly fromthe photos that clearly reflect Unity’smission as an environmental collegeoffering experiential learning opportunities.The majority of the photos were taken byUnity students, faculty, and staff, as well asby a few alumni. “The College has a highlevel of commitment towards brandmarketing efforts and through thedevelopment of an integrated marketingplan, this is one of the many print projectsthat will continue to enhance the public’sgeneral awareness of Unity’s distinctiveimage,” said Fedoush. The catalog wasprinted locally using recycled paper. (Susan Fedoush: Concept development / artdirection; Metaville Design, Waterville,Maine: Creative design / production;Lincoln County Publishing, Newcastle,Maine: Printer).

Unity College Clears Final Hurdle

from Maine Department of Education,

Receives Full Science Teacher Certification

July 13 was a lucky day for Unity College,but when an entire team of people hasworked so hard and long for the goodnews, it could hardly be called less than thefortunate result of outstanding preparation.That was the day when the Maine StateDepartment of Education issued its finalapproval for Unity College to train 7th to12th grade science teachers. For the firsttime in its history, Unity College is fullyaccredited to train and accredit scienceteachers. The accreditation is for secondarysciences, which includes chemistry, biologyand physics. Among the most deeplyinvolved in the years of work it took toreach this milestone for the College wereStrategic Projects Coordinator Alisa Gray,Professor Gerry Saunders, and AssociateProfessor / Chair of the Department ofInstruction and Advising Services.Saunders said that Unity students whoearn this certification will not just focus oncontent but make a positive impact onsociety. “Students participating in thisprogram will develop as well-roundedindividuals who make good decisions,” saidSaunders. “In an average class, 12 percentwill go into careers in science, but 100percent are going to be citizens. We wantteachers to be developing those citizens.”The five-year accreditation completes athree-year process that included review bythe Maine State Board of Education. “Ithink this certification will bring in morestudents who are committed to teachingand life service,” said Zavodny. “Wealready attract a lot of students who havethat mentality, so it was a natural fit.”



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As Unity College continues to pursue its strong

environmental mission and vision to become a model

sustainable community, President Mitchell Thomashow

recently announced the appointment of Robert Constantine

as Vice President for College Advancement. Constantine will

help the College achieve a national presence among small

environmental colleges, further

developing the support necessary to

achieve the comprehensive needs of

a growing campus with the concepts

of sustainability (utility and

efficiency) defining all initiatives.

Constantine comes to Unity College

from Kimball Union Academy in

Meriden, New Hampshire, were he

served as Associate Director of

Development and Director of Annual

Giving & Alumni Affairs. While at

Kimball Union Academy, an

independent boarding school with

325 students in grades 9-12,

Constantine doubled the total annual

operating support for the academy

and significantly improved the

unrestricted annual fund growth.

Among his many successful initiatives

at Kimball Union Academy was

increasing annual faculty giving

participation from 20% to 80%.

In 2005, Constantine was recognized by

the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education

with a District I “Rising Star” Award.

Prior to serving Kimball Union Academy, Constantine served

as the Director of Research and Prospect Management at

Colby-Sawyer College of New London, New Hampshire.

Among his accomplishments at Colby-Sawyer was

identifying and researching top prospects for a $40 million

capital campaign, working with the major gifts team in

developing individual prospect strategy, and overseeing

prospect management.

Other professional experiences gained by Constantine

include Research Assistant and Instructor at Emory

University in Atlanta, Georgia, and Assistant Center Director

with the Northern Rhode Island Private Industry Council of

Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

A strong believer in the importance

of participating in community service

activities, Constantine currently

serves as a founding member and

chapter leader of the White Mountain

Rams, the University of Rhode Island

New Hampshire chapter; is the

University of Rhode Island alumni in

admissions representative for New

Hampshire chapter; serves on the

Board of Trustees as the Campaign

Steering Committee Chair and

Treasurer of the Meriden

Congregational Church; and on the

National Development Committee of

the United Church of Christ.

Previously he has served on the

Annual Giving Committee for the

Upper Valley Support Group.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in

Applied Sociology and

Organizational Analysis from the

University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island, where

he was Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, and recipient of

the President’s Award for Student Excellence. He also holds

a Master of Arts in Sociology from Emory University in

Atlanta, Georgia.

He is married to Audra Bucklin, the Director of Summer

Programs at Kimball Union Academy. They have two

children, Tori and Sawyer.

Award Winning Fundraiser Robert Constantine Named Vice President for College Advancement at Unity College



North Woods Society(contributors who have given $1,000 or more to Unity College in the past year)

Daniel and Joan AmoryAnonymousDonald A. and Kathryn E. FosterKenneth M. and Doris M. HallJames and Lillian HaversatJon Hinck and Juliet BrowneHoward C. and Gail A. JohnsonEstate of Margaret MesserMark and Bonnie MillerEvelyn S. OffuttMichael J. Perry and Christine WolfeEdwin H. PertJane Pinnette-Jennie Libby Frost TrustRobert F. and Alice A. PollisMargaret B. PriorDavid M. PurdyDorothy W. QuimbyW. Tom and Bonnie Sawyer Jr.Charles A. and Arlene C. SchaeferJames and Marian SchmidtJohn and Gloria TewheyMitchell and Cynthia ThomashowRobert M. and Muriel TongeBarry and Theresa WoodsBangor Savings Bank FoundationBartlett Tree Foundation, Inc.Bellerose ConstructionBristol Myers SquibbMargaret E. Burnham Charitable TrustCharles River PublishingBert G. & Coral B. Clifford Charitable

Athletic FoundationDavis Family FoundationJebediah FoundationKey FoundationJ. Knipper & Company, Inc.MELMAC Education FoundationMerck Company Foundation Matching Gift ProgramNext Generation FoundationThe Bernard Osher FoundationThe Peavey Manufacturing Co.Penobscot County Conservation AssociationPepsi Bottling GroupQuimby Family FoundationRockefeller Family Fund, Inc.David & Eleanor Rukin Philanthropic FoundationSafari Club International Foundation Sables

The Santa Barbara Family FoundationTom’s of MaineWhitetails Unlimited, Inc.

Additional donors to UnityCollege this past yearAndrew Abello and Amanda RussellLouis E. AbramsonDavid J. AdelsonAmy ArnettPeter L. and Eloise R. AultTheodore S. BakerMarc D. BaneChristopher S. and Betty A. BeachEdward W. BealsThomas and Barbara BeloteRichard and Mary Ann BeneskiEarle and Suzanne Bessey Jr.Christopher Bitely and Heather L. FrancisJennifer M. BlackburnMary M. BlakeRuth H. BogiaBrett A. BowserMaria T. Broadbent and June EvansKenneth J. BroskoskieTodd L. BrownHeidi BruggerMartin B. and Ellen S. BurkeCathie M. BuscagliaPeter B. and Catherine M. ButrynJames H. and Kathy J. CannonJeffry A. and Carey ChaseGordon and Alice CheesemanAlisa ChristopherCurtis Clay Jr.Arlene A. CliffordRobert J. Constantine and Audra BucklinAlan H. and Janice S. CookJeffrey L. and Susan A. CoomerCharles B. Cooper and Sara E. ByssheColleen A. CoreyDavid L. CourtemanchWilliam M. and Diane CreminSteven and Joanna CurtisCarl R. DeMilia and Susan B. Cote-DeMiliaThomas Darling and Rebecca R. Rose-DarlingPaul J. and Louise V. DavenportBruce R. and Dorothy DesmondOwen M. Devereux and Laurie TrotterPete F. Didisheim and Leslie Hunt

Robert W. and Christina E. DineenCharles E. and Margaret D. DivineyRobert E. and Holly DohertyJoseph L. and Joanne W. DorseyRichard H. Dreves Jr. and Jennifer M. LaBrancheDavid M. and Deborah A. DurginJames A. and Jeannie Dux Jr.Deborah EldredgeJoseph and G. Arlene EliasRobert C. and Kathleen F. Engel Jr.Frank A. and Frances FarnsworthStephen Faye and Martha NordstromJoshua Z. FeldmanBen J. and Margaret FeldmanMyron and Nettie FeldmanKay FiedlerLaura FordPaul A. and Daria P. FormanJohn J. and Sue M. FosterRichard A. and Katherine G. FralickCheryl FredricksPeter M. GagliardiChristanne J. GallagherIan A. GeregDarryl Gesner and Shirley J. Mickens-GesnerDavid C. and Kathleen G. Glenn-LewinWilliam T. Glidden and Katharine H. LyonDavid and Kerri P. GodfreyRichard B. GrayAlisa M. GrayPaul A. and Donna M. GrazianoKate GrenierJohn J. and Janice A. GuarnieriPamela M. GuilesWilliam T. HaffordSteven and Kathleen HaleTodd G. HartfordJames P. and Corilla Hastings Jr.Walter and Carol HauserEdmund F. HoeyJames J. Horan and Beth A. WoodsonMichael and Sally HoweLee HumphreysTakeshi IzawaLawrence G. and Susan JohannesmanRoger R. and Roberta I. JolinLarry and Sharon JonesLeigh H. JuskeviceJanet KalksteinRandall H. and Diane Kane

James T. KeithStephanie KelleyBruce A. KirchnerSusan C. KochE. Donaldson KoonsWilfred B. and Karen E. Kushto Jr.Richard LambAnthony J. LambertMark B. and Joyce LappingMichel P. and Sarah J. LeBlancDaniel J. LeducTracy A. LeetRenee J. LetendreC. Frederick LowellJames S. and Joyce LucasHeidi A. LudewigAndrew J. MacduffRobert and Tammy MacGovernRobert J. Maietta and Kim LarrabeeVincent J. MarottaIrvine and Karen L. Marsters Jr.Robert G. and Dorothy MartinMichael H. MasleyLawrence D. and Nita MayeMary G. MayeRosemary MazaikaLynne W. McKeeSean A. and Laura J. McKennaKimberly K. McKenziePaula J. MeiersDan and Chris MelansonJohn A. and Carolyn Jo MeserveBarry J. MiddletonKathryn MilesIrwin S. and Judith MillerThomas MullinJames T. NelsonRand and Jolene NewellAmity L. OllisReeta OunJamie PachecoJames W. PilgrimJohn and Susan PiottiThomas M. PoirierDave PotterPhillip R. and Lia PouechGrant Provost and Meaghan A. HealeyNancy Gray PyneAlan L. RafloScott D. and Cheryl C. Ramsay

2006-2007 Annual Report



2006-2007 Annual ReportSharon A. RamseyCharles E. Reade and Patricia Nelson-ReadeSarah R. RedmondDavid J. RossJoseph J. and Karrie A. SaltalamachiaJan F. and Anne P. SassamanGerry W. and Christine S. SaundersJoseph A. and Eva A. SaundersCynthia F. SchaubFred W. and Patricia SchaumConstance E. SchulerCraig P. SegarCorree SewardJason M. SeyfriedEvan and Janet ShaadRobert P. and Roseanne ShawMark ShepardThomas Shimmel and Betty-Jeanne

Constable-ShimmelJody C. Simoes and Katie KahlDennis and Claire SmartDavid R. Smith and Deb DuttonCarey T. and Fanne K. SmithPeter D. Smith and Karen L. HeathGabriele M. SpazianiRobert C. SpeedRobin StarchakRichard D. and Susan StearnsRobert and Marianne SteinhackerMadeline D. StevensonScott A. and Sabrina StidsenTom Stout and Sandra Abbott-StoutRichard and Marie SullivanMark TardifJulie E. TherouxAmy C. TherrienBrodrick S. and Anne Marie ThompsonPeter D. TinkhamWilliam Todd-Brown and Lois K. OngleyAlexander P. C. TolesWilliam H. and Carolyn E. TozierRobert and Theo Van DeventerDouglas Van Horn and Leslie SteinCharles E. and Teresa VandemoerGeorge Viles and Nancy RossPaul WadeMatthew S. WagnerTravis P. and Amelia WagnerWilliam J. WaiteGlen F. and Toni G. Wall

Emily F. WalshNancy Wanderer and Susan SandersKevin J. Ward and Andrea EpsteinNeil A. and Ann WardAndrew E. WeaverJoseph R. and Elizabeth WeaverGwyneth G. WebbTom WeirDouglas C. and Nancy C. Wendell Jr.Gary A. White and Audrey LeskoWendy L. WickendenHenry G. and Lois K. WillardGeorge O. Williams and Gloria M. SosaRodney S. and Cheryl A. Wilson Jr.John B. and Cathleen J. WimsattKenneth T. Winters and Nancy HoganDonald and Birgit WiseRoger and Marcie J. WistarCatherine M. and David M. WolfeMichael W. Womersley and Aimee PhillippiGary and Nancy ZaneJ.Robert and Ellen ZaneJohn E. Zavodny and Anna McGalliard

BusinessesA. E. HodsdonBackcountry.ComBelfast BoatyardBelfast Co-OpBerg SportswearThe Black & Decker CorporationC.Caprara Food Service EquipmentCadillac Mountain SportsChase’s DailyChases Home FurnishingsCliff Bar Inc.Crosstrax Neighborhood DeliDown East Credit UnionEllsworth Builders Supply, Inc.Get-It-Done Property MaintenanceHoliday Inn, WatervilleThe Homestead II RestaurantInland HospitalKennebec Savings BankKleinschmidt AssociatesLeone, McDonnell & RobertsMac’s Hardware, Inc.Maine Antler DesignMaine AudubonMaine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife

Maine Kayak Inc.McCormick’s Sure-fineMoosehead Lake Fisheries CoalitionNorth Country PressNorth Country RiversNortheast Aquatic ResearchPack, Paddle, Ski Corp.Pinchbeck PhotographyPoland Spring Water CompanySam’s ClubShaw’sSTAMATSSteppingstoneSwish Maintenance LimitedTroy General StoreUnitel, IncUnity College Belly DancingUnity House of PizzaUnity Pond PotteryUnity Variety and VideoWal-Mart

These towns contributed tothe Dorothy W. QuimbyLibrary which serves theCollege and their communities Town of BurnhamTown of FreedomTown of ThorndikeTown of TroyTown of Unity

Gifts Made in Memory ofDavid A. RockDavid & Eleanor Rukin Philanthropic Foundation

Gifts Made in Memory ofGerald D. AngelRolling Thunder Press

Gifts Made in Memory ofGertrude MintonThomas MintonCharles A. and Arlene C. Schaefer


1,000 words

As the commencement procession concluded, retiring Associate Professor Pat Stevens shared a hug with graduate

Stephanie Aten of Ashland, Ohio. Aten received her Bachelor’s degree in Conservation Law Enforcement.


ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

Here’s A Warm Faculty and Staff Welcome to the 2007-2008 Academic Year

90 Quaker Hill RoadUnity, Maine 04988www.unity.edu


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