SPRING 2006
THE CHEWONKI FOUNDATION
HRONICLE
Equal P
ARTNERS
Is there a place for women leaders at a boys’ camp?
It's unusual, but at Chewonki the answer is a resounding yes.
W
hen Chewonki’s ninety-first camp season opens next month on June 27,
our year-round staff of seventy-plus will more than double, and about half
of those staff will be women. Several of them will work with the allgirls’ programs and the co-ed wilderness expeditions that range through-
out Maine and eastern Canada. Almost as many, however, will be based right here on
campus, working at our saltwater camp for boys ages eight to fifteen. With the exception
of serving as cabin counselors, these women will be fully integrated on the staff of
Chewonki’s traditional all-boys’ camp, filling positions as varied as those of their male
colleagues. None of this will be remarkable. As Camp Director Garth Altenburg enjoys
pointing out, “Women have been equal partners on our staff for several years now.”
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INSIDE
2 PRESIDENT’S NOTES • 3 NEWS FROM THE NECK • 5 THE FARM • 6 WINTER CAMPING
10 MATH AT MCS • 13 A-SAIL • 20 PEOPLE INSERT: ANNUAL REPORT
President’s Notes
W
e celebrate in this issue of
the Chronicle the many contributions that women are
making at Camp Chewonki
in particular, but also to
every aspect of this organization. It is important because of our origins as an allmale institution almost a century ago. Those of us
who attended camp while Clarence Allen was the director
remember that a small group of women were the glue that held
the operation together. Anyone who remembers Betty Decker
in her office at the west end of the Farm House will agree with
this observation! There was no other way for women to lead at
Chewonki in those early days.
There is a lot of “bubbling up” of ideas at places like
Chewonki, and I think it is the wonderful admixture of environment and purpose—mission—that keeps the creative pot
stirred. The fundamental purpose of Chewonki is to help
young people grow into their full potential, especially in terms
of their relationships with their fellow travelers on this planet—human and all other travelers. We teach young people
about responsibility by trusting them with responsibility. It
starts at a young age, and includes such things as keeping
themselves and their space clean. As they grow, we transfer
more and more responsibility. You can imagine, therefore, at a
place like Chewonki, that some of the ultimate demonstrations
of trust include leadership for the creation and conduct of new
programs. Sue West, now on the faculty of the Maine Coast
Semester, was the creative force behind the Environmental
Education Practicum in 1981. She created and led a program
that bridged our first school-year program, Maine Reach, with
MCS. If you follow this thread from Maine Reach to MCS, you
can understand why we are excited about celebrating 35 years
of exceptional and extraordinary academic programs at
Chewonki—not just the 20 years of MCS coming up in 2008.
We held on tightly to the idea of serving more and more
girls and young women in our summer programs. Women have
leadership roles at MCS and at the Center for Environmental
Education. The first step to increasing opportunities for girls
and young women in the summer has been to welcome more
and more women into the summer leadership community.
Now some of those women are taking specific leadership for the design and implementation of programs.
When an MCS alumna came to me with the original
concept of the Canoe Expedition for Maine Girls,
what was I to say? “No, that idea won’t fit here.”
Not likely! Kirstin George Edelglass was inspired in
part to turn her dreams and vision into real life experience because of the challenging and nurturing experience that she had at MCS. And she was well
enough informed of Chewonki’s dreams and vision to know that
her creative seed might find sufficient care and feeding here to
germinate.
When people ask, as they often do, about the wide variety of
programs and experience for young people at Chewonki, I reply
that it is a function of “walking the talk.” Everything that has
happened here—to the physical campus as well as with people—is
a function of trust and responsibility. If you ask young people to
be responsible for themselves, their friends and colleagues, and
the environment in which they live, don’t be surprised that they
are eager to engage the issues and work for improvement and
change. If we were not open to change in our lives and to new
ways of teaching and learning, we’d be a staid old museum to past
glories and not a vibrant and stimulating place to live and grow. ■
W. DONALD HUDSON, JR.
485 Chewonki Neck Road, Wiscasset, Maine 04578-4822
(207) 882-7323 • Fax: (207) 882-4074 • email: [email protected] • www.chewonki.org
CHEWONKI FOUNDATION STAFF
Don Hudson, President
Garth Altenburg, Camp Chewonki, Director
Dot Lamson, Environmental Education, Director
Willard Morgan, Maine Coast Semester, Director
Greg Shute, Wilderness Programs, Director
Mark Adams, Big Eddy Campground Staff
Susan Adams, Big Eddy Campground Manager
Scott Andrews, Maine Coast Semester, History
Lizzie Anson, Maine Coast Semester, Alumni Relations
Suzanne Armstrong, Maine Coast Semester, Math
Peter Arnold, Renewable Energy Pathways Coordinator
Paul Arthur, Maine Coast Semester, English, E.I.
Jason Avis, Environmental Education
Heidi Baker, Outreach/Environmental Education
Jenn Barton, Maine Coast Semester, English
Sarah Burgess, Kitchen and Dining Manager
Chris Cabot, Environmental Education
2 Yves Carrier, Environmental Education
Katie Cashwell, Environmental Education
Hadley Clark, Health Care Coordinator
Chris Coleman, Outreach, Assistant Program Director
Betta Stothart Connor, Director of Community
Relations
Josh Cridler, Environmental Education
Gareth Crosby, Environmental Education
Erin Cummings, Accounting Assistant
Jesse Dukes, Historian
Phine Ewing, Volunteer Gardener
Lynne Flaccus, Head Naturalist
Jaimie Frailey, Environmental Education
Ginny Freeman, Camp Registrar
Erika Gould, Development Associate
Rebecca Graham, Development Assistant
Emma Hallowell, Environmental Education
Alexandra Harris, Maine Coast Semester, French
Phoebe Hazard, Canoe Expedition for Maine Girls
Bill Hinkley, Maine Coast Semester, Math
Emily Horne, Environmental Education
Lucy Hull, Director of Development
Anna Hunt, Outreach Director
Lee Huston, Boat Builder and Waterfront Manager
Carol James, Housekeeping
Brad Johnson, Farm and Woodlot Manager
Brendan Kober, Pathways Assistant
Rebecca Kosakowski, Maine Coast Semester,
Admissions Director
Aaron LaFlamme, Environmental Education
Don Lamson, Facilities Manager
Lauralyn Lenzycki, Reception/Office Manager
Ryan Linehan, Wilderness Programs, Assistant Director
Katie Mast, Outreach
Betsy Mattox, Farm Intern
Marc McCabe, Environmental Education
Trish McLeod, Business Office
Daegan Miller, Maine Coast Semester, History, E.I.
Roxie Miller, Canoe Expedition for Maine Girls
Jock Montgomery, Photography
Amanda Morin, Environmental Education, Assistant
Program Director
Stephanie Peters, Maine Coast Semester, Spanish
Mary Rafter, Environmental Education
Ben Redman, Environmental Education
Chris Riley, Outdoor Equipment and Logistics Manager
Amy Rogers, Maine Coast Semester, English
Peter Schoene, Environmental Education
Jocelyn Smith, Outreach
Brandon Stafford, Technology
Dick Thomas, Director of Alumni Relations
Ed Thompson, Librarian
Kathy Thompson, Business Manager
Katie Tremblay, Environmental Education, Program
Director
Noah Tuthill, Captain, Grand Chat
Sue West, Maine Coast Semester, Art
Ken Wise, Carpenter
Margaret Youngs, Assistant Farm Manager
CHRONICLE STAFF
Elizabeth Pierson, Editor
Betta Stothart Connor, Assistant Editor
Fall Design, Design
Chewonki Neck
NECK
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TWO Canoe Expeditions for
Maine Girls
Chewonki’s fifth annual Canoe Expedition
for Maine Girls will depart for the Allagash
on June 23, and for the first time ever it will
be followed by a second expedition, leaving
on July 28. In 2004 and 2005 we received
applications from more than twice as many
girls as we could accommodate. We’re
delighted that the generous support of
several foundations and individuals enables
us to offer a second expedition this year.
We also welcome a new program coordinator this year. Phoebe Hazard passes her
title this month to Roxie Miller. Roxie grew
up in Thomaston, Maine, and graduated
from the University of Maine at Orono with
a B.S. in Biology. Her recent work with the
New England Forestry Foundation developing a program to engage Maine middleschoolers with their local forests reinvigorated her interest in using the natural world as
a classroom and empowering Maine’s next
generation. Roxie is committed to helping
young people become informed, passionate, and confident leaders and stewards.
Like program founder Kirstin George
Edelglass, Phoebe will remain involved in
the expedition as an active member of the
Advisory Board.
The Canoe Expedition for Maine Girls is
open to Maine girls ages 14 to 17 and is
unique among Chewonki wilderness trips
because of the pre- and post-trip experiences it offers, including the year-long pairing of each participant with a mentor. Visit
www.chewonki.org and click on “Camp
Chewonki, Girls Programs” to learn more.
We still need to raise nearly $5,000 to
meet a recent challenge grant from
Lynn Harrison for the long-term support
of this innovative program; if you’d like
to help, contact Lucy Hull, Director of
Development, at 207-882-7323, x 20; or
[email protected].
Greg Shute Helps
Launch Maine
Wilderness Guides
Organization
A new nonprofit announced its
formation in Maine last December,
and Chewonki is pleased to be a
member. It’s the Maine Wilderness Guides
Organization, or MWGO. Greg Shute,
Director of Wilderness Programs at
Chewonki, was one of the founding
members and is the co-president.
Wilderness guiding has long been an
important part of Maine’s heritage and
recreational economy, but wilderness areas
everywhere in the state are increasingly
threatened by development. In 2004, Greg
was part of a group of professional guides
and sporting camp owners who began
meeting to discuss ways to protect the
areas on which they depend. “Decisions
about the future of Maine’s North Woods
are being made every week by landowners,
state government, and the Legislature,”
says Greg. “We wanted to make sure that
the voices of those who rely on remote
forests, lakes, and rivers are considered in those decisions, so we
formed the MWGO.”
The group’s mission is to provide a unified voice for wilderness
guides while promoting the highest
ethical, educational, and environmental
standards. “Maine’s outdoor sporting tradition is gaining a strong new voice,” said
Ray “Bucky” Owen, former Commissioner
of the Department of Inland Fisheries and
Wildlife and a member of the new organization’s Advisory Board. “It is important to
have a voice representing the wilderness
guides’ perspective as decisions about the
future of Maine’s North Woods are being
made.”
Membership in the MWGO is open to
registered Maine guides and to anyone who
supports professional wilderness guiding
and the preservation of the areas upon
which guides depend. For more information, visit www.mainewildernessguides.org
or contact MWGO directly at P.O. Box 37,
Greenville, ME, 207-892-3121,
[email protected].
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Big Eddy Campground
No, they don’t—and don’t worry that they
ever will. What they do have, though, is a
wonderful new program on bears.
Bears of North America begins with a
beautiful slideshow designed to teach students of all ages about the three bear
species found in North America: Black,
Brown, and Polar Bears. Only one of those
species occurs in the East, of course, and
the main focus of the program is on
Maine’s own Black Bears. Did you know
there are about 23,000 of them? It’s the
largest population in any state east of the
Mississippi. Have you ever seen one?
Probably not. This elusive mammal is rarely
seen, despite its high numbers.
After the slideshow, students assemble a
real Black Bear skeleton. They handle the
bones, put them in order, and then place
them on a specially designed rack that portrays a three-dimensional interpretation of
the skeleton. Thanks to the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, they also get to handle
some amazing bear-related “props”—fur,
claws, teeth, and much more. “This is a fun
and absolutely fascinating program,” says
Assistant Program Director Chris Coleman.
“We’re so lucky to have these incredible
resources to teach children about the
animals found in their own state.”
Like Chewonki’s other Traveling Natural
History Lessons, Bears of North America is
available to schools, libraries, camps,
and community groups. To reserve a
program or to learn more, email
[email protected] or call Anna Hunt,
Program Director, at 207-882-7323 x 32.
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ANNIE MERRILL
Does Outreach
Really Have a Bear?!
on
the West Branch of the Penobscot
River serves as a base for several
Chewonki programs and from midMay until mid-October is also open
to the public. The opening date this
year is May 12. If you’ve never
camped here or explored the area,
we encourage you to visit—we think
you’ll like it! This spectacular spot
has been delighting fishermen,
canoeists, kayakers, rafters, and hikers
for years.
As Chewonki enters its fifth season
of owning and operating the campground, we’ll continue to make
improvements. Work this year will
include a new entrance, a new layout
of campsites at the campground’s
southeastern end, revegetation of
several areas, and major rewiring
with new electrical hookups. With
luck it will all be done in time for the first annual meeting of the trustees at the site
in August!
You can find more information and a beautiful selection of photos at
www.bigeddy.org. Reservations can be made at the website or by calling
207-350-1599 or 207-882-7323.
THINGS TO DO AND SEE AT OR NEAR BIG EDDY
• Salmon fishing
• Whitewater kayaking and rafting
• Canoeing on streams and lakes
• Hiking Katahdin (5,267 feet; Maine’s highest mountain), or one of the many other
summits nearby
• Baxter State Park—204,733 acres of wilderness
• Little Eddy—another great fishing spot
• Ripogenus Gorge and Dam
• Nesowadnehunk, Pockwockamus, and Big Ambejackmockamus Falls
• The Appalachian Trail
• The Town of Greenville and Moosehead Lake
• The Lumberman’s Museum in Patten (1.5-hour drive)
• Katahdin Iron Works and Gulf Hagas (1.5-hour drive)
• The Allagash Wilderness Waterway
• Debsconeag Lakes
• Fishing on hundreds of remote streams and ponds
• Wildlife observation. Look for moose, black bear, coyote, red fox, beaver, otter,
weasel, marten, mink, and much more!
Growing Our Own
The Value of Our Farm is Substantial!
January 1–December 31, 2005
S
alt Marsh Farm is a source of exquisite beauty and abundance for the
Chewonki community. Anyone who visits our extraordinary fields, barns,
and pastures can testify to the bounty and beauty. The farm serves as a
classroom to participants of all ages at Chewonki, and it also provides a
great abundance of produce, which is eagerly consumed by the Chewonki
community and many guests to our dining hall. It has been said more than
once that Chewonki serves up the best meals in Midcoast Maine, and much of that is
due to the superior quality of our farm fresh food!
The Farm Staff can be proud to celebrate the multiple rewards of our farm, including
its positive impact on Chewonki’s bottom line. The figures below, provided by Farm
& Woodlot Manager Brad Johnson, are based on products that were enjoyed by the
Chewonki community in 2005. This total does not include sales of any products that
are already recorded by the business office, such as sheep pelts, milk, and eggs. Prices are based on current average market price, or what Chewonki would pay if our kitchen were to order the same product.
According to Brad, many of the farm’s products meet organic standards but are not certified.
The single largest cost incurred on the farm is for labor, says Brad. However, two factors make it
virtually impossible to calculate that figure. “One is that we’re fortunate to have so much volunteer
labor, particularly from Maine Coast Semester students and campers. The other is that the farm crew is
paid to teach as well as to produce farm products.” Whatever the value, we know that the teaching,
the growing, the harvesting, and the tending provided by the farm staff are invaluable—as is the
abundance provided for our kitchen.
—BRAD JOHNSON, FARM & WOODLOT MANAGER
PRODUCT
Vegetables*
Eggs
Milk
Chicken (broilers only)
Beef
Turkey
Lamb
Pork
Cider
Firewood
Hay**
Compost**
TOTAL VALUE***
APPROX. AMOUNT
PRICE PER
TOTAL
6,000 pounds
1,200 dozen
1,275 gallons
650 pounds
900 pounds
112 pounds
684 pounds
1,260 pounds
63 gallons
15 chords
200 bales
15.5 yards
$2.00
$2.75
$4.00
$3.00
$5.00
$2.50
$3.50
$2.69
$5.00
$200
$2.25
$38.99
$12,000
$3,300
$5,100
$1,950
$4,500
$280
$2,394
$3,389.94
$315
$3,000
$450
$604.35
$37,283.29
*This line refers to the average price per pound, according to the Maine Organic Farmers &
Gardeners Association, for all the vegetables the farm grows that go to the kitchen. If this line
were itemized to represent individual vegetables, the total income equivalent would be higher.
**Hay and compost are included because they are products we would need to buy in if we did not
produce them ourselves.
***The value we place on eating delicious and healthy fresh food is of course incalculable, as is the
farm’s educational value.
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The Art and Beauty
Who says you have to
shiver? Chewonki’s
trip leaders are well
practiced at making
winter camping safe,
fun, and comfortable.
Back when spring was but a dream, Chewonki’s
trip leaders headed north for their annual winter
staff training trip. Its overall goal is to ensure that
all leaders have the skills for safe winter travel
with groups. The focus is therefore on health and
safety, Leave No Trace camping procedures, route
finding, group and risk management, emergency
procedures, and decision making with particular
attention to travel on frozen waterways. The trip
also provides an opportunity for staff to enrich their
knowledge of the human and natural history of the
areas in which they lead trips. This past winter
Chewonki staff led three tent-camping trips for
Maine Coast Semester students and three crosscountry ski trips for adults and families. —Editor
January 2006. Chewonki trip leaders at the north end of Chesuncook Lake, skiing south. Photo by Dot Lamson.
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of Winter Camping
I
t is late January, and coastal Maine has yet to
see a significant snowfall. In the big woods
north of Moosehead Lake, however, it is
winter. Ten Chewonki trip leaders have
traveled north for a four-day winter training
trip. Equipped with two canvas wall tents
and sheet-metal woodstoves, we will cross-country
ski from Umbazooksus Stream down the length of
Chesuncook Lake to Ripogenus Dam, a distance of
about 22 miles. Many Chewonki trippers have
experienced Chesuncook from a canoe, but it is a
very different place when covered by three feet of
snow. Few people venture here in winter.
We are here to teach the skills needed for safe
winter travel and camping. For some of us, this trip
covers familiar territory, literally and logistically; for
others, it is new terrain and an opportunity to hone
emerging skills. An added bonus for all of us will be
a rendezvous with friends and fellow wilderness
guides Garrett and Alexandra Conover of Willimantic,
Maine. We plan to meet them at the halfway point of
their trek from Allagash to Greenville, a celebration
of a trip they first completed twenty-five years ago.
We are bringing a resupply of food for the winter
walkers, and we hope to camp one night with them.
(A daily recording of their trip can be found at
www.winterwalk2006.org; see January 31 and
February 2 for mention of their meeting with us.)
We spend our first night at Chewonki’s Big Eddy
Campground. The West Branch of the Penobscot
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From left to right: Greg Shute
(center) review’s navigation;
Susan Adams, Big Eddy
Campground manager, cooks
dinner inside the tent on a
sheet-metal woodstove; and
MCS campers revel in the snow.
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remains open, the result of high water releases from
Rip Dam just upstream. The Eddy is alive with
Common Mergansers, and in the riverside pines
roost three Bald Eagles and a handful of Ravens.
Soon after we arrive a Coyote appears from the
snow-covered spruce, allowing us a fleeting glance
of one of the campground’s year-round residents.
That evening we prepare for the next day’s travel.
We drop off one van at our takeout point at
Chesuncook Point. We also decide we’d better drop
off some gear at our starting point, so we will all fit
in one van tomorrow. We load sleds, snowshoes,
and stoves into the truck. The snow is coming
down heavily as Ryan, Josh, and I drive north along
the deserted Telos Road and then turn west onto the
Cuxabexis Road. Fresh Snowshoe Hare and Coyote
tracks cross the road at almost regular intervals. An
hour after leaving Big Eddy we stash our gear in a
spruce grove just off the road. We then continue a
short distance north, hoping to find Garrett and
Alexandra’s snowshoe and toboggan tracks where
they should have crossed the road earlier that day
after traversing Mud Pond Carry. We find the tracks
and return to Big Eddy by way of Chamberlain
Bridge, confident we will meet the Conovers
tomorrow as planned.
In the morning Gene Thompson, owner of Frost
Pond Camps, arrives to drive us to our starting
point and shuttle our van to our takeout. An hour
later, we unload the van and soon wave good-bye as
Gene drives away through heavily falling snow. We
are alone in the quiet stillness. We hook up our
sleds and clip into skis. The first mile or so is filled
with stops and starts as we adjust our sleds and shed
layers of clothing to regulate our body temperature.
Each person is pulling a pulk, or sled, attached by
wooden poles and carabineers to a fanny pack. For
winter travel this is much more comfortable than
carrying backpacks, especially when your route
doesn’t involve any significant gain or loss in elevation. After a mile and a half we arrive at the stream
and soon meet Garrett and Alexandra, who have
arrived on snowshoes pulling their handmade birch
toboggans. We exchange greetings and hear stories
from the trail as we share lunch. It has been an
unusual winter so far, and even in the North Woods
there has been a record amount of rainfall. Ice conditions are treacherous in places. The view from
our lunch spot reinforces this as we look at open
water where Umbazooksus Stream enters
Chesuncook Lake. After lunch we hand over the
resupply bags for the last section of the Conovers’
trip and make plans to camp with them at the end
of the day.
We head south along the shore and stop in a protected cove for a mug up and then cross to the north
end of Gero Island. The ice is solid on the lake,
about eighteen inches in most places. About a mile
down the western shore of Gero, we pull into a
campsite tucked in behind a point and protected
from the wind. Tents go up quickly, and firewood is
gathered, sawed, split, and piled inside each one.
Within a few hours darkness has closed in and we
are all comfortable and warm, eating dinner by candlelight in our wood-heated canvas tents.
Empire Canvas in Wisconsin makes the tents and
stoves we use. Internal aluminum poles provide the
frame for the tents. A lightweight sheet-metal
woodstove provides the heat, and a telescopic
stovepipe exits the tent through a fiberglass cloth
thimble. A single candle illuminates the tent, giving off a soft glow as we lounge in comfort. We are
disappointed that the Conovers did not catch up
with us. Their heavy loads slow their pace, and we
find out after the trip that they stopped about a mile
short of us.
The next day dawns clear. It takes us about an
hour and a half to cook breakfast, pack up sleds, and
get underway. A frozen Chesuncook Lake stretches
as far as we can see to the southern horizon. A gentle wind is at our backs as we ski south down the
lake. We pass along the shore of Gero Island until
we are opposite Chesuncook Village, a mile distant
on the western shore, and then cross over. A
bustling community a hundred years ago, today
Chesuncook Village has a handful of year-round
residents, including a family that operates the
Upcoming Trips for
Adults & Families
Chesuncook Lake House where lodging and meals
can be arranged.
The village is a special place, part of the fabric of
North Wood’s lore. Three rivers converge at the
point here—the West Branch, Caucomgomoc, and
Umbazooksus Stream—and it has long been an
important stopping place for travelers in the region.
Spear points and arrowheads continue to be found in
the area. The tradition continues today as West
Branch paddlers stop for a snack of the homemade
root beer and fudge sold at the village store.
The sun breaks through around noon as we near
Togue Ledge and stop for lunch. The snow begins
to settle, making for more difficult skiing. During
the afternoon we have our first views of Katahdin.
The top is in the clouds, but we can see several of
the outlying mountains in Baxter State Park, including Mount Coe, O-J-I, and Doubletop.
Katahdin reddens in the lengthening afternoon
shadows. We cross the lake once more on a compass bearing from Sandy Point to Weymouth Point.
The wind dies completely, the temperature drops,
and the skiing becomes almost effortless; the repetitive motion of plant, pole, and glide happens without thought and I find myself daydreaming. Just
before Weymouth Point the lake narrows and we
notice about a three-foot pressure ridge that has
formed from shore to shore. We carefully skirt
some slushy areas and are soon in the clear.
The tracks and slides of otter along the shore
lead us to another inviting campsite in a small cove.
There is plenty of dry firewood and protection
should the wind arise in the evening. After dinner
the clouds clear, and the winter night sky is spectacular. Coyotes howl in the night, and in the morning
we ski off into a brisk south wind. Six miles and
three hours later we arrive at Chesuncook Point.
The trip ends too soon for most of us, but it has
provided an important staff training experience.
If you think of winter camping trips as survival
experiences that involve long bouts of shivering
until daybreak, only to shiver again while standing
around eating cold oatmeal, consider joining us next
year for a warm winter camping experience. ■
GREG SHUTE
In addition to the remaining 2006 trips below, we regularly plan and
lead custom trips for individuals and groups. For additional information on any of the trips listed here or on how to organize your own,
contact Greg Shute (207-882-7323 or [email protected]) or click
on “Wilderness Trips” at www.chewonki.org.
Next year’s winter trips for adults and families will
include tent camping at Little Holbrook Pond in the
Debsconeag Wilderness Area, several trips to our outpost
cabin in Attean Township, and a hut-to-hut cross-country
ski trip in Quebec’s Parc de la Gaspésie. A full schedule will
be available this summer.
JUNE
Big Wood Pond Canoe Trip*
Wilderness First Aid Course
June 1–4
June 10–11
JULY
George River Canoe Trip
Women's Whitewater Kayaking Course
Baffin Island Soper River Canoe Trip
July 11–28
July 13–17
July 25–Aug. 4
AUGUST
West Branch Penobscot Canoe Trip
Coastal Sea Kayaking
Intro to Canoe Camping for Families
St. Croix River Canoe Trip
Allagash Canoe Trip
Advanced Whitewater Kayaking
Harbor Island Coastal Kayaking*
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
20–25
20–24
20–23
20–25
20–27
19–26
24–27
SEPTEMBER
Elderhostel Allagash Canoe Trip**
Elderhostel Allagash Canoe Trip**
Wood Pond Canoe Trip*
Sep. 3–13
Sep. 10–20
Sep. 24–27
*Trips led by Two Roads Maine (207-865-4517,
[email protected], www.tworoadsmaine.org.) and
accompanied by Chewonki trip leaders.
**Trips organized by Elderhostel (1-877-426-8056,
www.elderhostel.org.) and led by Chewonki trip leaders.
Minimum age 55.
Greg Shute is Director of Wilderness Programs at
Chewonki and a long-time winter camper. He
instituted the winter staff training trip in 1991 and
has helped lead it almost every year since then.
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Teaching Math
Problem: You are a math teacher at a small school in coastal Maine.
You have twenty-seven students, who’ve come from twenty-two different
schools, to place in three Pre-Calculus classes. Each student needs to
complete anywhere from four to eight topics from a potential list of
twelve. No two students are alike in their needs. How many possible
combinations of classes are there?
T
his is the problem Suzanne
Armstrong and I, the Maine Coast
Semester math teachers, faced this
spring. MCS draws students from a
wide range of schools, and as most
of them are juniors, Pre-Calculus is
the most common subject we teach. Yet every highschool math teacher has a different set of topics for
a Pre-Calculus course. Our task is to be certain that
each of our students covers the requisite topics and
is well prepared to return to their sending school.
In fact, though, our charge is even greater. We
want math education at Chewonki to be unique: to
reflect the values and ideas described in the MCS
Mission Statement. Specifically, we approach mathematics with both rigor and a sense of joy, and as
teachers we hope our students leave “with a
strengthened ownership for their education.” Given
the state of math education in the United States,
with its lecture format and emphasis on standardized testing, many of our students come to us apathetic about math; some even fear and hate it. This
attitude shuts many future doors for these students.
Others have enjoyed math but have never been
completely challenged. With small classes and
intense adult-student relationships, we have a
singular opportunity to engage these students and
show them the value and beauty of mathematics.
We don’t expect to create hordes of future mathematicians; but we do strive to teach problem solving
and critical thinking, and to allow students the
tremendous excitement of unraveling a critical idea
or solving a difficult problem.
So, how do we balance these two goals: (1) to
cover the content students need to return to their
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sending school, and (2) inspire them to embrace
mathematical challenge? This spring we introduced
a Pre-Calculus Seminar, which we hope will
improve the MCS math experience. We divided the
semester into five two-week blocks and scheduled
students into one of four sections for each block.
For example, one student might take Trigonometry
with me for the first block and then take
Logarithms with Suzanne during the second block.
After some serious schedule manipulations, including the use of several spreadsheets, we arrived at a
plan that is working well. We are confident that
by the end of the semester all students will have
covered in depth each of the topics they will need
next fall in Calculus.
This new system has allowed us tremendous
flexibility in placing students. Early in the semester, for example, when we determined that the
information we had received from a sending school
was incomplete, we switched two students into a
class covering conic sections. Having each student
appropriately placed allows us to focus our energies
on challenging the students in a productive manner.
It also allows us to create time for some special
projects we have always wanted to do.
For the second block, I taught two students a
unit on math education. We read a range of perspectives regarding modern issues in math education,
and the students prepared and taught a sample
lecture. The section culminated with them teaching a one-hour unit to a local elementary-school
math class. During the third block, Suzanne, who
majored in math and studied biology at Williams
College, taught a unit on math applications to
science, which encouraged students to use the
at MCS
MAINE COAST SEMESTER MISSION
At Maine Coast Semester we choose to approach our rigorous academics, physical work,
and everyday living with responsibility and joy. Whether engaging in a spirited classroom discussion, harvesting tomatoes for our table, or planning Saturday night’s event,
we live each day deliberately with an eye toward connecting the individual to a larger
community. Students leave the Maine Coast Semester with a strengthened ownership
for their education, an awareness of their place in nature, and an understanding that
they can make a positive difference in their world.
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mathematical skills they are
studying in Pre-Calculus to
Two Sample Pre-Calculus Progressions in MCS 36
further develop their underStudent: Haley Harwood
standing of the natural world.
Block 1 Conic Sections with Suzanne
Topics included calculating
Block 2 Math Education with Bill
the relative solar intensity on
Block 3 Limits and Continuity with Bill
the earth’s surface, estimating
Block 4 Derivatives with Suzanne
the height of a tree, and
Block 5 Applications of Derivatives with Suzanne
studying the mathematical
foundations of celestial naviStudent: Cat McDonnel
gation.
Block 1 Trigonometric Functions with Bill
We are often asked if we
Block 2 Analytic Trigonometry with Suzanne
teach math at MCS using
Block 3 Applications of Trigonometry with Bill
“experiential learning.” If
Block 4 Sequences and Series with Bill
this means that we spend
Block 5 Limits with Suzanne
every class period doing
hands-on projects, then we
certainly don’t. However, we
encourage our students to experience math by
allowing them to discover results when reasonable
and to demand that they question principles to the
core. Too often, students are content to learn the
surface mechanics of a topic but are not willing to
probe and discover the deeper connections. This is
where one finds the true challenge and thrill of
mathematics. It is our experience that there is no
one pedagogical method to achieve these goals.
Instead, we use an imprecise balance of lecturing,
small group work, students working at the board,
and independent work outside class. Often the
most crucial educational tool is knowing when to
be quiet and let the student think.
Students come to MCS expecting new opportunities and challenges. By the simple choice to spend a
semester on Chewonki Neck, they have proven
themselves to be risk takers in the best possible
sense. We hope to harness some of that enthusiasm
and energy to make them into more thoughtful
mathematics students. ■
BILL HINKLEY
Bill Hinkley is in his fifth year teaching math at
MCS. He also teaches math at the Maine State
Prison once a week, and this summer he will travel
to Colorado to help grade the Advanced Placement
Calculus Exam. A native of Brunswick, Maine, Bill
studied math and philosophy at Cornell University
and holds a master’s degree in mathematics from
the University of Illinois. He and his wife, Amy,
live and work on their organic blueberry farm in
Waldoboro, along with their three young boys, Max,
Ezra, and Amos.
“I hated math. Then I went to MCS.”
With no back row to hide in, Nora Krulwich learned a “new
language”—and the satisfaction of feeling she could conquer anything.
S
ophomore year I was getting C's in
math. My teacher wanted me to drop
out of honors. I sat in the back righthand corner of my class in complete
confusion. I hated math. Then I went to
MCS. On the first day, I was alarmed to find
that there were only five kids in my class,
and no back row. That wasn't the only difference. We had philosophical debates over the
meaning of division: if I take an infinite
number of steps covering half the distance
from where I stand to the wall, I should never
reach the wall. But in real life, I do. For the first time, math
made me think. It was no longer just unrelated equations
but rather a new language. Bill worked endlessly explaining
any one subject in countless ways until everyone understood—and he could always tell when someone did not
understand. At my sending school, math class was the
monotony of going over the previous night's homework. But
at MCS, for the first time, I was excited every day to go to
class. I had no idea what to expect. We did problem sets in
groups with some of the hardest problems I’ve ever had,
using all the basic facts that we learned at the same time.
We had discussions. And my favorite part: we learned why
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things worked, not just that they did. And
when I went back to my sending school, a
school known for providing an excellent education, I noticed that I understood the material
we'd covered better than anyone in my class.
For my MCS final, I had what seemed to me
to be an impossible problem. My friend Lauren
and I worked for hours and hours covering the
white boards in the Ellis Room with equations
and explanations. I found myself obsessed with
the problem. During a break in French, I went
to stare at the white boards. We worked mainly alone, with occasional advice from both math teachers—and
the moment we figured it out may have been the most satisfying moment of my life. I felt I could conquer anything.
After I did well on a series and sequences test, Bill told
another class he taught that if they were having trouble, they
should come get help from me. I fell in love with teaching,
and Bill went out of his way to encourage the interest. When I
returned to New York after MCS, I started volunteering as a
math tutor at a middle school in the Bronx. Had it not been
for the math at MCS, I never would have had enough faith in
my abilities to even consider teaching math. ■
NORA KRULWICH, MCS 35 (FALL 2005)
T H E C H E W O N K I F O U N D AT I O N
ANNUAL REPORT 2004-2005
Dear Friends,
S
pring has arrived on Chewonki Neck, lending new
without your unrestricted gifts, which fill the gap between tuition
energy and creativity to our work. The students of
dollars and the actual cost of running our programs. We deeply
Maine Coast Semester 36 have been taking turns on
appreciate the many donations that we receive in memory of loved
“lamb watch” at the Farm. They have made great
ones and feel privileged to hold these special funds at Chewonki.
progress in learning “The Birds” and are deep into
We celebrate joyfully the donations in honor of weddings, birth-
their studies in history, language, math, and science.
days, graduations, and jobs well done. There are many lovely sto-
The Environmental Issues students are preparing a presentation on
the Plum Creek development near Moosehead Lake. Creativity
ries behind these headlines and the names you see listed here.
Our endowment grows steadily through annual gifts. All of the
pervades all this work! Semester after semester, a sense of place is
major programs are supported by a dedicated endowment fund: the
reflected in the students’ studies in all their classes. I hope you
Clarence E. and Katherine B. Allen Camp Scholarship Fund (which
have time to look closely at the artwork that accompanies this
now includes the Endowment for Girls Programs), the Fund for
report; that sense of place is so apparent here.
Teaching and the Environment (supporting programs of the Center
The Camp staff is full of anticipation as we move closer to
for Environmental Education), and the Maine Coast Semester
opening day. This will be Garth’s first year under the mantle of
Scholarship Fund. The General Endowment is designed to help
Camp Director, and he is brimming with enthusiasm. He has been
with maintenance costs for campus facilities and to provide a
meeting parents, hiring staff, and looking forward to the arrival of
cushion for lean economic times. The Ellis Fund provides the
campers. This is also the inaugural summer of two wonderful new
means for staff enrichment and development. The Scott Andrews
programs, the Maine Island Camp and the Wilderness Ospreys.
Fund honors Scott’s inspiring work in developing the Maine Coast
As of this writing, new faculty at the Center for Environmental
Education are busy absorbing the culture of this place: for instance,
Semester, and supports the MCS faculty and the art of teaching.
We are touched by how many of you remember your time here
learning how the Salt Marsh and Pond Study lessons are taught,
or appreciate the experience your children or grandchildren have
learning the games that are their stock in trade, hearing tips for
had here. Many thanks for the bountiful gifts that are reflected in
teaching students how to set up tents and cook meals at their
the lists you see in the following pages. We wouldn’t be half so
campsites and how to keep participants motivated on rainy days.
creative without your support!
Teaching takes energy and creativity in large quantities, especially
when the classroom is outdoors.
A glance at this Annual Report gives many clues to the generosity, creativity, and interests of our donors. We could not manage
Lucy Hull
Director of Development
We’re delighted to illustrate this Annual Report with the artwork of Maine Coast Semester students. In the
MCS elective “Art and the Natural World,” students focus on creating visual images based on their perception
of, and relationship with, nature. Our 400-acre peninsula, Salt Marsh Farm, greenhouses, and live animals
provide a wealth of subjects and settings year-round. Students work with a variety of two-dimensional media,
including drawing, painting, and printmaking. In field trips to art galleries and museums, visits with Maine
artists, and studying works of art through slides and books, they also examine how other artists respond to
the natural world in order to discover relevant connections to their own work. Artist Sue West has taught
the course since MCS 1. She welcomes all students, from beginner to advanced, and gives each one an
abundance of personal attention.
DONORS
Gifts received between
September 1, 2004 and
August 31, 2005
UNRESTRICTED GIFTS
(Gifts to the endowment appear in
the third section of this report.)
Anonymous (24)
Ms. June Abbott
Mr. William B. Abbott
Ms. Claudia Abbott-Barish
Mr. Wilbert D. Abele
Phillip and Tucker Adams
The Three Trees Fund of the
Akron Community Foundation
Mr. Hans O. Albee
Ingrid and Mark Albee
Jackie and Julius Alexander
John and Karen Alexander
Libby and Robert Alexander
Ms. Kenden Alfond
William and Joan Alfond
Foundation
Mr. E. Davies Allan
Charlie and Melynn Allen
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas F. Allen
Garth and Heather Altenburg
Mr. Matthew Altman
Jim and Kim Ambach
Mr. Benjamin B. Ames
Helfried and Kendra Anderl
Ms. Halle Anders-Panich
Ms. Claire M. Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Anderson
S. Scott Andrews and M. Sue West
Dr. Thomas E. Anglim
Sr. José M. de Areilza
Nick and Sarah Armentrout
Mr. Arnold L. Aronson
Mrs. Margaret P. Arthur
Elisha Atkins, M.D. *
Mr. Keith Ausbrook
Ayco Charitable Foundation
Don and Jo Bail
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Baker III
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Ann M. Van Heeckeren and
Edward B. Baker
Ellen and Jonathan Baldwin
Dana and Ruth Bamford
Laurie and Vivek Bandhu
Amy Barker and Misha Barker
Andy Barker and Ana Ruesink
Ed and Sally Barker
Christopher and Molly Barnes
Mr. Howard J. Barnet, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Barnett
Ms. Christina C. Barrett
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Barrett
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T. Barrow
Gregory Barry and Donna Sorkin
Richard and Mary E. Barth
Kerri and Richard Bartlett
Mrs. Marcia H. Bates
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Peter and Kristine Bates
Bath Sunrise Rotary Club
Mark Battista and Jennifer Andrews
Dale and Judy Bauer
Ellen Baum and Jeffrey Fischer
Mickey and Marty Baumrind
Ms. Maureen S. Bayer
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Judy and David Beebe
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Mr. Robert D. Blake
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Daniel Blitzer and Joyce Frater
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Blue Mountain Foundation
Dr. Elizabeth C. Bluhm
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Peter and Carol Blyberg
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Boreal Design
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John Bracker and Rachel
Countryman
Michael Bradford Family
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Mr. Jamie Braman
Ms. Lauren T. Brantley
Molly Wilson, MCS 26
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Brantley
The Bread Box Café
Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Breen, Jr.
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Mr. and Mrs. George L. Bridge III
Ted Bridge-Koenigsburg and
Leslie McConnell
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Brown Goldsmiths
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Burke
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Grant and Anne Bullard
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Mr. John H. Burbank, Jr.
Ms. Michelle G. Burbank
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Frank and Susan Burroughs
Jeff and Allee Burt
Deborah and Jonathan Butler
John and Nancy Buttman
Mr. Samuel C. Buttrick
Sted and Susie Buttrick
Elizabeth I. Byrne, Ed. D.
Rob and Emlen Cabot
Mr. Thomas D. Cabot, Jr.
Karen and David Cadbury
Ralph and Kail Cadman
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Mr. Fletcher R. Caldwell
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Campbell
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Campbell
Ms. Constance Carden
Ernest and Jane Carroll
Lanny and Nancy Carroll
Mr. Raymond H. Carter II
Ted and Liz Carter
Ms. Merrie Cartwright
Albert, Stephanie, and Gregg Carville
Mr. Adan Celis
Tom and Barbara Chadwick
Ms. Sadelle E. Chain
Chalmers Insurance Agency
Mr. Bruce A. Chalmers
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Chandler, Jr.
Mr. Nathan Chang
Stephen Chang and Susan Opotow
Chapin Design
Bart Chapin III and Lucy W. Hull
Mr. Dick Chase
Melissa Hewey and Alan Chebuske
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Cheng
Mr. and Mrs. Kok Poi Ching
Ms. Elisabeth Christensen
Ron and Kristine Christensen
Ms. Mary L. Cleverdon
Ms. Margaret Coakley
Tomlin P. Coggeshall and
Christopher I. Rice
Ms. Jill R. Cohen
Mrs. Constance Cohn
Colby and Gale, Inc.
Mr. Chris Coleman
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DONORS
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2004-2005 ANNUAL APPEAL
Katrina Shum, MCS 25
Mr. Peter L. Collins
Douglass and Kathy Compton
Michael Connolly and Jamie Stern
Mr. and Mrs. John N. Conyngham
Mr. Windsor R. Copeland
Dr. Peter Blaze Corcoran
Mr. and Mrs. Denis J. Corish
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Mrs. Jean F. Cornuelle
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Caroline and Todd Crocker
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Mr. and Mrs. John Cross
Mrs. Norman C. Cross
Helen and David Crowell
Jim and Debby Crowell
Mr. Paul A. Crowell
Mr. Jonathan G. Culver
Melvin S. Cutler Charitable
Foundation
Nick and Ginny Dabney
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Bob Dale and Jean Parker
Mr. Henry A. Dall
William J. Dana and Emily L.
Boochever
Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Davidson
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Charles and Ellen Donaldson
John and Joal Donovan
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Charles Duncan, and Laura R.
Ment, M.D.
Mr. Michael Dworkin
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Mrs. Mary Rust Gillies *
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Mr. Mike Goelzer
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Elizabeth Naylor-Gutierrez
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Anne Licciardello and Wayne
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Scott Keller and Laurie Johnson
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Kevin and Karen Kennedy
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Atwater Kent Foundation
Mr. Peter A. Kent
James and Emily Kerney
Mrs. Edith M. Kerrigan
George and Meg Kimball
Erik and Anne Kindblom
Brigitte and Hal Kingsbury
Christine and Winston Kipp
Ms. Loryn D. Kipp
Janice and John Kirby
Patrick and Jessica Kirk
Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Klein
Chris and Sue Klem
Ms. Jill M. Komura
Martha Calhoun and Richard
Kramer
Brandon and Jackie Kulik
Ellen Manobla and John Kurtz
Dan and Esu Lackey
Mr. John C. Lackey
Ms. Blair Lamb
Mr. and Mrs. David R. Lamb
Dot and Don Lamson
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Landrigan
Al Larkin and Wendy Fox
Ms. Rebecca Larkin
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Louis and Cricket Laun
Rufino and Ana Lauria
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Emily and Arthur Lerner
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Peter and Kathleen Leslie
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Sara and Shai Levite
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Lee and Peter Lockwood
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Katie Long and Family
Alex Loud and Sarah Jensen
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Fred and Louise Makrauer
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Mr. Grant McCargo II
Ms. Kate McClain
Mrs. Adeline L. McClish
Ms. Blair McConnel
Ms. Mimi McConnell
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard McElhone
Mr. John S. McFarlane
Tom and Sharon McGavin
Ms. Anne McGee
Cornelius and Suzanne McGinn
John and Mary Jane McGlennon
Mr. Robert A. McInnes
Angus and Barbara McIntyre
Mr. Thomas J. McKeon
Patsy and Don McKinney
Ms. Kristen McLean
Nancy and Ernest McLean
Judith K. and S. Sterling McMillan
Ms. Torrey McMillan
Dr. and Mrs. John McWhorter
Col. and Mrs. G. S. Meader, Jr.
John and Karen Medford
David and Jennifer Mehr
Rick and Bunny Melvoin
Katherine Bouton and Daniel
Menaker
Ms. Amy Mendel
Beth and Jeffrey Mendel
Annie Merrill and Howard R.
Whitcomb
Mr. Loren Merrill
Mid-Coast Energy Systems
Mr. Allen L. Miller
Mrs. Stanley R. Miller
Stanley R. Miller Foundation
Ms. Anne Milne
Mrs. Sara Kirby Mitchell
Mr. Tom Montgomery
Risa and Richard Moon
Mr. Justin Mooney
Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm A. S. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Morby
Daniel and Polly Morgenstern
Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Morosoff
David Morrison and Mary Fleming
Warren Motley and Cynthia
Saltzman
Sam and Sujata Mukhopadyay
Rachel and George Mullen, Jr.
Mr. Martin J. Mullin, Jr.
Ms. Nina Murray
Mr. Arthur Myer
Mr. John W. Myer
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Myer
Susan and Sam Mygatt
Frank and Liz Naughton
Chris and Ruth Neagle
Bronda and Al Niese
Kirk M. Niese and Michaela R.
Goldfine
Barry and Ellen Nigrosh
Bob * and Josh Niss
Mr. William U. Niss *
Peter and Kristin Nordblom
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
T H E C H E W O N K I F O U N D AT I O N A N N U A L R E P O R T
DONORS
TO THE
2004-2005 ANNUAL APPEAL
Laura Levin, MCS 15
Geoffrey and Clare Nunes
Geoffrey Nunes, Jr. and Barbara E.
Lemmen
Jake and Heather Nunes
Mr. J. Christopher Oates
Mr. Philip B. Obbard
Mrs. Kathryn A. Oberly
Patsy and Dave O’Brien
John and Karen O’Brien
Patrick and Edwina O’Keefe
Mr. Robert Olney
Kevin R. O’Neill and Terri L.
McBride
Richard and Judy Opsahl
Mr. Robert L. Oster
Mr. Eugene J. O’Sullivan
Howard and Kris Owens
Mr. Josh Parker
Mrs. Lea Parson
Ms. Monte Parson
Mr. Robert W. Patterson, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. David Pearsall
Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Peelle
Ms. Lydia Peelle
James and Sara Pelgrift
Penmor Lithographers
Cathy Corman and Mark Penzel
Kim and Keating Pepper
Mr. David L. Perdue
Perkins Family Trust
Alex and Helen Phillips
Mrs. George B. Pierce
Ms. Juni Pierce
Elizabeth and Jan Pierson
Christopher and Dorothy Pitt
Ms. Esmeralda Prat
Mr. and Mrs. Harold I. Pratt
Lise and David Pratt
Mr. Jeffrey L. Purvin
John Qua and Suzanne Schutte
Donna and Kieran Quinn
Ms. Erin B. Quinn
Ms. Kerry Quinn
Mr. Joseph P. Quinton
Mrs. Mary L. Quinton
Ms. Lily Rabe
Mrs. Marguerite G. Rafter *
Clyde Randall and Leslie Perry
Tom Randall and Katrina Armstrong
Ms. Pat Rathbone
Joan and Fitzhugh J. Read
Ms. Sarah Rebick
Gerardo Redondo and Paz Borroso
Jay and Amy Regan
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Reich
Jesse and Alene Reich
Nonie and Chris Reich
Dr. Steven D. Reich
Ms. Elizabeth Reichheld
William and Dalva Duarte Renner
Susan and Peter Restler
David and Krista Reynolds
Will Richard and Lindsay Dorney
Josh Brown and Zoe Richards
Mr. Kim Richman
Mr. William E. Riddle
Mr. Jonathan Riley
Mr. Kenneth W. Riley, Jr.
Ms. Sarah Riley
Mrs. Grace P. Ritchie
Mr. Aaron Ritzenberg
Ken and Susan Ritzenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Robbins
Mr. and Mrs. C. Emerson Roberts, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Roberts
John M. and Connie Robinson
Dr. Leonard S. Rodberg
Mr. Stephen Rodman
Carmen and Carlos Rodriguez
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Rogers
Ed and Sandra Ross
Mrs. James Ross
Marc M. Rossell and Florencia Masri
Mr. Hunter Rowley
Mark H. and Anne R. Rowley
Ms. Leslie Rowson
Ms. Paige Ruane
Mrs. Rebecca Rubin
Ms. Diana A. Rudolph
Ms. Bradley Russell
Jo Ann and Morgan Russell
The Rust Foundation
John and Peggy Rust
Ms. Beth Ruzansky
The Saalfield Family
Dr. Louis and Mrs. Honor Fox Sage
Cotty and Susan Saltonstall
Jim and Ann Sawyer
Mrs. Shirley W. Scaife
Mr. Jonathan F. Schachter
Mr. Andrew D. Schapiro
Marina Schauffler and Ed Geis
Ms. Stephanie Titus Schley
Tim and Joyce Schmitt
Ken and Becky Schopp
Eddie, Bessie, Jake, and Marty
Schwarz
and Sarah Jelin
Amy F. Scott and Sam Bryan
Ms. Caitlin Scott
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Scott
Mr. Joseph R. Scott, Jr.
Mr. Mark F. Scott
Mr. Peter R. Scott
Ms. Sarah Seaward
Ms. Helen K. Selle
Joseph and Caitlin Selle
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Selle
George and Sue Sergeant
Dr. Joanne M. Sharpe
Mrs. Amos B. Sharretts
Prof. and Mrs. Joseph W. Shaw
Chuck and Faye Shea
David and Susie Shelton
Andra Georges and Tim Shepard
Mr. J. Sherratt, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Dennis L. Shubert
Greg Shute and Lynne Flaccus
Fay and Bill Shutzer
Jeremy and Carolyn Siegel
Mr. and Mrs. John Siegenthaler
Mr. Benjamin Sigelman
Mr. Michael V. Silberman
Howard and Patricia Silverstein
Dr. Brad Simmons
Charlotte Agell and Peter Simmons
Ms. Christine Simons
Ms. Emily Simons
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sirois
Ms. Barbara Sloss
Mr. Alden H. Smith II
Brad and Christine Smith
Ms. Diane Smith
Carolyn Haddock and Douglas
Smith
Mr. John E. Smith II
Ken and Jan Smith
Ms. Mary Minor Smith
Nancy Egan and Otey Smith
Ronald and Sharon Snow
Damian Sokol and Janet Kehl
Mr. Alexander J. Sonneborn
Mary, Scott, and William Spencer
Betsy and Gary Spiess
Mr. Howard W. Spiess
Mr. and Mrs. Lionel B. Spiro
David and Janis Spivack
Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Stafford III
Mrs. Judith Stames-Hamilton
Susan Stanger and Mitchell
Nemeth
Ms. Tobie Stanger
Mr. Christopher J. Stark
Mrs. Ruth Stevens
“This was by far the best art class I’ve taken. I am inspired now to go home and visit museums
in the city and to keep drawing things in nature.”
Mr. James Stevenson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Stewart
Mr. and Mrs. William Stiles
The Stone Family
Valerie and David Stone
Ms. Betta Stothart
Ms. Roberta Bates Stothart
Ms. Katrina Morosoff Stout
Randall and Francesca Stratton
Mr. Frank S. Strout
Ms. Caren V. Sturges
Mr. Albert Sturtevant
Shelia Sullivan and Cory Snow
John and Ellie Svenson
Ms. Elizabeth Swanson
Ms. Karin Swanson
Morgan Sze and Bobbi Hernandez
Mrs. Charles W. Talcott
Mr. and Mrs. C. Powers Taylor
Leslie and Stephen Taylor
Ms. Patsy Taylor
David, Danny, and Jane Teaze
Wiebke and Steven Theodore
Ms. Katie Thompson *
Kathy and Ed Thompson
Ms. Claire Thorp
Ms. Irma Tibbetts
Ms. Leah Titcomb
Barclay and Lucy Tittman
Robert Tittmann, M.D.
Ernest Tollerson and Tink Leefmans
The Tooker Family
Rev. Craig Townsend and Ms.
Catherine Fuerst
Mrs. Elisabeth S. Treadwell
Ms. Debora W. Tuck
Ms. Jane S. Tucker
Tee Taggart and Jack Turner
Robert and Lorraine Turner
Mr. Nicholas Tyack
Peter and Paula Tyack
Mr. Roger B. Tyler II
Ms. Dixie Uffelman
Thomas Urquhart and Amy
MacDonald
Mr. and Mrs. William Valentine
Mr. Josh Van Buskirk
Ms. Mary Van Buskirk
Marjorie and Charles Van Dercook
Mark Vandersall and Laura
Mendelson
Mr. Christopher Van Dyke
Mr. Eduardo D. Vazquez
Ms. Lilliana Vitelli
Mr. Cai Von Rumohr
Mr. David Wade
Mr. William Wailand
Helen and Mo Waite
Mrs. Arleon S. Waldron
Mr. Philip Wales
Ms. Bibba Walke
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Walling
Reina T. and William W. Warren
Mr. Steve Watson
Ms. Hart Webb
Ms. Keats Webb
Tommy and Anne Webb
Jay, Sam, and Max Wechsler
Julia and Sinclair Weeks
Len Weiner and Kathy Kelly
Ms. Laura Welles
Ms. Barbara F. Wells
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wells
Gail and Jim Werrbach
Mary and Edwin West
Mr. Christopher L. Westcott
Ms. Helen Westcott
Mr. Bob Wheeler
Mr. Gerry Whitcomb
Margery and Michael Whiteman
Ms. Barbara Whiteside
Mr. and Mrs. Johnston Whitman
Robert and Marina Whitman
Ms. Kirsten H. Whitsett
Mr. Kristian Whitsett
Mr. Bert R. Whittemore
Mrs. Beth Wiggins
Wilderness Medical Associates
O. A. and M. P. Wilkerson
Ms. Jean T. Wilkinson
Leslie and Anthony Will
Peg and Tom Willauer-Tobey
The Willhoites
Andy and Deb Williams
Sarah and Jack Williams
Mr. John Willis, Jr.
Mrs. Jean W. Wilson
Mr. John P. Wilson
Mrs. Marcia E. Wilson
Ms. Zinny Wilson
Lewis and Harriet Winter
Wiscasset Ford
Mr. Ken Wise
Jeff and Robin Wolf
Ms. Jordana Wolf
Ms. Damaris Wollenberg
Abe and Margie Wong
George and Chandler Woodland
Ms. Elizabeth S. Woodward
Mr. and Mrs. Avery K. Woodworth
Stu and Rachelle Work
Frank and Emily Yazwinski
Ms. Liska Yealland
Ms. Amy Young
John and Gina Youngman
Robert P. and Barbara Youngman
Ms. Kate Ziminsky
In Memory of Donald C.
Alexander
Donald G. and Barbara R.
Alexander
In Memory of James R. Barnet
Thirwood Place Resident
Association
In Memory of Ray Carter
Mrs. A. Dix Lesson
Ami Mehta, MCS 18
In Memory of Shirley Rubin
Plavin
Mrs. Rebecca Rubin
In Honor of Jeffrey Boyink
Tom Higley and Nanette Beall
In Honor of Rabbi H. Bruce
Ehrmann for Hannukah
Mr. David Ehrmann
In Honor of Roy and Beth
Fenstermaker
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Zysk
In Honor of Steve Marcum
Ms. Lynn Thompson, Watershed
Center for the Ceramic Arts
In Honor of Fred Scott
Mr. Rick Frantz
In Celebration of Wells and
Leelie Dow and Family
Hilary Harwood and Frank Bridges
Mr. William Harwood
Gifts of Goods and Services
Mr. John L. Allen
S. Scott Andrews and M. Susan
West
The Barton Center
Ms. Nancy Bishop-Harvey
Mr. James L. Blake
Ms. Sarah Stiles Bright
Chapin Design
Bart Chapin III and Lucy W. Hull
Randy Ezratty and JoAnn Corkran
Mr. Gordon Hall III
Mr. Don Hudson and Phine Ewing
Mr. Lee Huston
Mr. Otis M. Jernigan
The Morris Farm Trust
Jonathan and Pam Lurie
Jock Montgomery and Annie
Miniscloux
Mr. Ken Swasey
Richard Thomas and Karen Dilley
Spencer, Kathy, and Ed Thompson
Tom’s of Maine
Mr. Jim Wade
Brian and Deborah Whalen
Dr. Prudence Wicks
Matching Gifts
American Express Foundation
The Coca-Cola Company
Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation
Google
Lane Industries
The McGraw-Hill Companies
Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation
The New York Times Company
Foundation
Nintendo
PQ Corporation
Sponsorship for The Hymnody
of Earth Concert
Carrabassett Coffee Company
Gardiner Savings
Hancock Lumber Company
NorthCenter
Now You’re Cooking
Mrs. Jane W. Parry
Shaw’s Supermarkets
WhatIf Networks
Wilson’s Drug Store
T H E C H E W O N K I F O U N D AT I O N A N N U A L R E P O R T
DONORS
TO THE
2004-2005 ANNUAL APPEAL
Raptor Friends
Ms. Catherine Dupuis-Tait’s Class,
Ms. Kathy Henrikson’s Class,
Mrs. Nancy Roger’s Class, and
Ms. Joanna Van Orden’s Class
of the John Huse Kindergarten
Center
FOR ISLAND ACQUISITION
Mr. Gordon Hall III
Dr. Don Hudson
Mr. Alan S. Pooley
FOR PATHWAYS TO A
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Tommy Otey, MCS 30
RESTRICTED GIFTS FOR
SPECIFIC PURPOSES
FOR THE BACK RIVER TRAIL
Davis Conservation Foundation
Maine Conservation Corps
Maine Department of
Conservation, Recreational Trails
Program
National Park Service
IN SUPPORT OF CAMP
Anonymous (1)
Ruth Cohen, M.D.
Jon Edwards and Nancy Fox
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Field
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Handel
Mr. Ben Hindell
Joshua D. and Rebecca E. Marvil
Rebecca Marvil and Brian Smyth
Mr. Cyrus P. Quadland
Ms. Elizabeth Rintoul
Mr. Jeff Smith
Mr. Jim Wade
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Wiggins
In Honor of Aaron Paul and
David Alonso, Puffin
Counselors 2005
Mrs. Bette Saltzman
IN SUPPORT OF THE CENTER
FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION
Anonymous (2)
Bath Savings Institution
Ms. Jennifer Cross
George P. Davenport Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Klein
Dot and Don Lamson
Cornelius and Suzanne McGinn
Mr. David Panich
Poland Spring Water Company
For the Chewonki Renewable
Hydrogen Project
Anonymous (3)
Avalence LLC
Margaret E. Burnham Charitable
Trust
Center for Environmental Enterprise
Mr. Phelps Clarke
Tomlin Coggeshall and Christopher
Rice
Mr. Paul Faulstich
Fire Risk Management
Fulcrum Digital Imaging
Mr. Joel Glatz
Mr. John Grill
Anne and Stephen Hammond
Heliotropic Enterprises
Mr. Gary Higginbottom
Hydogen Energy Center
Industrial Automation Supply
Mr. Robert H. Ingersoll
Ion Design Group
Mr. John James IV
KepWare
Mr. Steven Kercel
Mr. Tucker Kimball
Dr. John Logan, Water Energy
Distributors
Maine Energy Investment
Corporation
Maine Manufacturing Extension
Partnership
Maine Oxy
Maine Public Utilities Commission
Maine Technology Institute
Maine Yankee Atomic Power
Company
Mr. Chuck Mainville
Ms. Kay Mann
Mr. Blair May, Jr.
Ms. Anne McGee
Mr. Michael Metcalfe
Mid-Coast Energy Systems
Mr. and Mrs. L. John Meyers
Northwest Point
OEST Associates
Mr. Alfred Padula
PM&C Engineering
Praxair Foundation
Results Engineering
The Science Source
Mr. Richard W. Smith
Mr. Damian Sokol
SolarWinds, NorthernLights
Mr. and Mrs. Kurt F. Stork
Mr. Joshua Tosteson, HydroGen
LLC
U.S. Department of Energy
In Honor of Robert Ingersoll
Ms. Erica Arnold (2 gifts)
In Honor of Paul Faulstich
Kurt and Beth Stork
For The Sustainable Energy
Conference
Bob Dale and Jean Parker
IN SUPPORT OF THE MAINE
COAST SEMESTER
Wilbert and Joan Abele
Mrs. Margaret S. Andrews
Brown Goldsmiths
Stephen and Judith Brown
Mr. Ben Hindell
Ruth Cohen, M.D., and
Leonard Hindell
Ms. Kathryn V. Hodges
Mr. William V. Hodges III
Mr. William V. Hodges IV
Paula and Barry Izenstein
Mr. Coleman Kennedy
Nancy and Derek McDonald
Mrs. Sara Kirby Mitchell
Norman and Sara Nelson
Bill and Debbie Roberts
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Scott
In Honor of Hannah Kapell
Ms. Martha Stearns
In Honor of Christopher
Landis Family
Ms. Carol Sugg-Wilson
FOR TECHNOLOGICAL
UPGRADES
Mr. C. Robertson Trowbridge *,
bequest
IN SUPPORT OF CHEWONKI’S
NEW WEBSITE
Dan and Esu Lackey
FOR WILDERNESS TRIPS
For the Canoe Expedition
for Maine Girls
Mr. E. Davies Allan
L. L. Bean, Inc.
“I learned that you make great art by thinking about great art and seeing great art.”
“Sue West is the coolest.”
Karen and David Cadbury
Ms. Carol Carriuolo
The Debley Foundation
Ms. Anne Dellenbaugh
Virginia Eddy, M.D.
Richard Frantz and Jennifer Fox
Ms. Marilyn George
Jenn and Jay Gudebski
Ms. Lynn Harrison
Wendy and Bruce Hazard
Ms. Mary J. Herman
Mrs. Hilary H. Holm
Horizon Foundation
Ms. Corda L. Kinzie
Mrs. Janice Kirby
Ms. Cordelia P. Lane
The Anges M. Lindsay Trust
Ms. Kali Lightfoot
Ms. C. Susan Link
Ann Schroth Dietz Fund of the
Maine Community Foundation
at the recommendation of
Brian L. and Margaret F. Dietz
A component fund of the Maine
Community Foundation, at the
recommendation of
Lynn Harrison
The New Girls Network of the
Maine Women’s Fund
MBNA Foundation
Warren and Harriet Miskell
Mrs. Sara Kirby Mitchell
Mrs. Marian H. Morgan
Mrs. Caroline Morong
The Quimby Family Foundation
The River Rock Foundation
Ms. Elizabeth C. Saltonstall
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Sarkozy
Carol Sudduth and Steven Sudduth
Mike and Kristin Tardif
Nancy Wanderer and Susan
Sanders
The Elinor Daniels Washburn
Charitable Gift
Fund, at the recommendation of
Elisabeth S. Treadwell
Kate C. Wilkinson and Peter W.
Stoops
Ms. Faith Molly Willcox
Mrs. Carol Wishcamper
Mr. Ellis Wisner
Ms. Lucinda Ziesing
GIFTS RESTRICTED
ENDOWMENT
Scholarship for Wilderness
Trips for Girls
Tenny Donnelly Fund for Youth
Enrichment of the Maine
Community Foundation
In Honor of Mariellen Rodman
and Joe Alfonse’s Wedding
Mr. Neil C. Bloch
Ms. Lorraine M. Boudreau
Mr. Thomas J. Flaherty
Oliver and Cynthia Rodman
Craig Smith and Claire Dahill
Ms. Regina A. Taylor
TO
CLARENCE E. AND KATHERINE
B. ALLEN CAMP SCHOLARSHIP
FUND
Anonymous (10)
Mr. Edward R. DesMaisons
Mr. Jesse Dukes
Mr. Mike Eckel
Mr. Sam Elmore
Suzanne Fox and Moritz Hansen
Ms. Carol A. Main
Elinor and Dan Redmond
The Redmond Family Foundation
Ms. Barbara Leahey Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Tyler
In Memory of Matt Rodman
Anonymous
Mr. Paul H. Arthur
Harrison and Patricia Bloom
David and Erin I. Elliott
Tim and Margaret Ellis
Don Hudson and Phine Ewing
Ms. Christine Korab
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lynch, Jr.
Ms. Joan L. Mansfield
Mr. Remy Mansfield
Rebecca Marvil and Brian Smyth
Mr. Franklin H. Rodman
Lydia Rodman and Listo Fisher
Dr. Mariellen Rodman and Mr.
Joseph Alfonse
Oliver and Cynthia Rodman
Mr. Stephen Rodman
Mr. George Santoni
Mr. Rutledge A. Simmons
Craig Smith and Claire Dahill
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Thomas
Kate C. Wilkinson and Peter W.
Stoops
In Memory of Phil Schepps
Barbara Cottrell and Lee Schepps
In Memory of Rob Stone
Bob and Cindy Stone
In Honor of Chris Bagg’s
Graduation from NYU
Ms. Sheryl A. Blair
In Honor of Ben Urquhart’s
Graduation from Yale
Ms. Sheryl A. Blair
Dave Liebowitz, MCS 25
SCOTT ANDREWS FUND
Anonymous (6)
Mr. William Abbott
Mr. Matthew Altman
Ms. Halle Anders
Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Anderson
Ms. Kathleen Andre
Margaret Andrews and George
Swope
Ms. Aimee B. Angel
John A. Atchley and Linda S. Sloane
Mrs. Melissa Bangasser
Mr. and Mrs. David I. Barton
Ms. Lucy Baumrind
Mickey and Marty Baumrind
Ms. Carly Berger
Ms. Stephanie Berghuis
Mr. and Mrs. J. Bruce Boisture
Ms. Leigh Boisture
Katherine Bouton and Daniel
Menaker
Ms. Lauren T. Brantley
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mann
Brantley
Mr. John H. Burbank, Jr.
Ms. Liz Burroughs
Mr. Crawford Byers
Ms. Victoria K. Byers
Albert, Stephanie, and Gregg
Carville
Ms. Nicole Casper
Ms. Sadelle Chain
William and Joanna Chamberlin
Bart Chapin III and Lucy W. Hull
Cindy and Martin Chomiak
Mr. and Mrs. F. Eugene Clark
Panee and Jaed Muncharoen Coffin
Mr. Kevin Connors
Ms. Sheila M. Coy
Ms. Sierra Curtis-McLane
Mrs. Kathryn G. Daly
William J. Dana and Emily L.
Boochever
Mr. Edward R. DesMaisons
Elisa and Tom Dooley
Wells and Leelie Dow
Brooksie Koopman and Mark Eaton
of the
Maple Tree Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. Farnum
John and Jane Katz Field
Ms. Anne Figge
T H E C H E W O N K I F O U N D AT I O N A N N U A L R E P O R T
DONORS
TO THE
2004-2005 ANNUAL APPEAL
Chad Martin, MCS 18
Mr. Frederic J. Figge II
Ms. Kate Figge
Ms. Ellen Flenniken
Ms. Megan Flenniken
Mary Hennessy and Terry Flenniken
Ms. Burch Ford
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ford
Ms. Susan M. Gallo
Ms. Caroline Goodbody
Clark and Gail Goodwin
Ms. Ellen Gould-Silcott
Ms. Georgia Green
Jessica Montgomery Green
The Guerin Family
The Gummer Family
Paul and Elaine Gustafson
Mr. Jon P. Haddad
Ms. Susan Halio
Pat and Margaret Hare
Malo and John Harrison
Ms. Tina Hartell
Wayne and Peg Hartz
Ms. Holly Haywood
Casey Heard and Casey Leonard
Ben and Heather Heuston
Nicholas and Bibiana Heymann
Ms. Kathleen S. Hodges
Leah, Bill, Lindsey, Lauren,
and Brooks Horton
Ms. Meg Hoyt
Don Hudson and Phine Ewing
Ms. Kate Irvin
Michael and Rosemary Jeans
Ms. Sarah H. Jensen
Robert and Deborah Kanter
Cecily Kahn and David Kapp
Ms. Stephanie Kellam
Ms. Sarah Klain
Mike and Claudius Klimt
Ms. Jill Komura
Ms. Teal Krech
John Kurtz and Ellen Manobla
Mr. Jim Labbe
Ms. Blair E. Lamb
Al Larkin and Wendy Fox
Chula Sims, Dick Lavine,
Max and Abby Lavine
Dave Lemonick and Mary Tuttle
Marsha Lenz and Peter Jones
Michael and Sissy Leonard
Lewin-Krulwich Family
Mr. David W. Liebmann
Ms. Julie Longobardi
Ms. Phoebe S. Loris
Ms. Ariane E. Lotti
The Marcello Lotti Foundation
Ms. Julia Lustick
Michael Lustick and Barabara
Rickler
Erik and Valeska Martin
Jon and Mimi McBride
Kevin McElroy and Kate Butler
Ms. Colby McGavin
Mr. Liam McRell
Ms. Elizabeth Menaker
Howard R. Whitcomb and Annie
Merrill
Joel and Kate Millonzi
Robert Minsky and Tracey Keays
Mrs. Sara Kirby Mitchell
Mr. James Monaco
Pam and Mike Monaco
Laird and Reina Mooney
Judy Mozen and Randy Urquhart
Mr. J. Bowman Neely
Eric and Margaret Nestler
Ms. Chelsie Wheeler Olney
Mr. Robert Olney
Kevin R. O'Neill and Terri L.
McBride
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. O'Sullivan
Mr. Edward Pais
Mr. Lee Panich
Kathy and Steve Parker
Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Peelle
Lydia Peelle and Jay Secor
Mr. Elliott Peery
Alyssa Pei and Neal Sondheimer
The Perkins Improvements Fund William at the Boston Foundation
Mr. Cameron Picton
Ms. Carrie Pierson
Mr. Wigmore Pierson
Ms. Emily H. Pighetti
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan W. Pittman
Ms. Esmeralda Prat
Sudi and Fred Press
Ms. Kendall Pryles
Ms. Erin B. Quinn
Mr. Will Redfield
Jesse and Alene Reich
Dr. Steven D. Reich
Susan and Peter Restler
The Rexer Family
Mr. and Mrs. R. Lee Robinson
Ms. Margaret H. Rossano
Ms. Paige Ruane
Ms. Grace Rumford
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Rumford III
The Rust Foundation
Ms. Katie Sargent
Ms. Stephanie Titus Schley
Joseph and Caitlin Selle
Mr. Jamie Shea
Bill and Fay Shutzer
Silver Mountain Foundation for the
Arts
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sincerbeaux
Ms. Sarah Sincerbeaux
Ms. Courtney Smith
Ms. Hayden Smith
J. Otey Smith and Nancy Egan
Ms. Rebecca Stanley
Ms. Amanda Stason
Mr. Matthew Stewart
Ms. Taylor Swanson
Thomas and Frances D. Thacher II
Mrs. Jane V. Thomas
Mr. Ben Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Thompson
Stephen and Terri Titcomb
Mr. Benjamin Urquhart
June and David Vail
Ms. Tessa van der Werff
Adele and George Wailand
Washington Women’s Foundation
Jim and Julie Wellington
Janet and Paul Weston
Wilmot Wheeler Foundation
Mr. Kristian Whitsett
Mr. William Willis
Ms. Amy Young
In Honor of Amy Mendel
Blanche and Leonard Lewis
ENDOWMENT FUND FOR THE
CANOE EXPEDITION FOR MAINE
GIRLS
Paula Craighead and Michael
Saucier
Wendy and Bruce Hazard
Mrs. Hilary H. Holm
Warren and Harriet Miskell
Kate C. Wilkinson and Peter W.
Stoops
Mr. Ellis Wisner
Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Wisner
In Honor of Kirstin George and
William Edelglass’s Wedding
Kai and Mac George
Scott Miller and Katie Russell
ELLIS FUNDS FOR STAFF
ENRICHMENT
Mr. Edward R. DesMaisons
Tim and Margaret Ellis
Mr. and Mrs. Warren M. Little
Ms. Elizabeth Malone
Lise and David Pratt
FUND FOR TEACHING AND THE
ENVIRONMENT
Bart Chapin III and Lucy W. Hull
Ms. Joan F. Cook
Mr. Paul Crowell
Mr. Edward R. DesMaisons
Ms. Talia Epstein
Douglas and Linda Haley
Suzanne Fox and Moritz Hansen
Don Hudson and Phine Ewing
Lydall Industrial Thermal Solutions
Maine Yankee Atomic Power
Company
Ms. B. J. McElderry
In Memory of Judith Blake
Anonymous
Mr. and Ms. Akasha Ames
Ms. Gracia C. Barry
David and Louise Belknap
Ms. Rose Lee Bensen
Ms. Mary D. Betterley
Ms. Dolores A. Bilangi
Ms. Regina H. Black
Ralph and Kail Cadman
The Children's Center, including
the Board of Directors and the
Redroom Parents
Sarah and Charlie Compton
Ms. Drusilla N. D'Auteuil
Arthur and Joyce Dexter
Mr. and Mrs. Kinsley Van R. Dey
Ms. Sally Donelson
Mr. and Mrs. Irving P. Fox
Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Glueck
Kristin J. and L. Scott Gould
Rudolf and Dorothy Graf
Ms. Victoria M. Hasty
Is your name missing? Gifts listed in this report were made between September 1, 2004 and
August 31, 2005. If we have made a mistake, please let us know. Gifts to the Annual Appeal made
after August 31, 2005 will be listed in the next Annual Report.
Larry and Nancy Honeywell
Dr. and Mrs. J. Charles Jennette
Stephen and Sandra Johnson
Mrs. Anne Koch
Mr. and Mrs. O. Roy Langslet
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Libby
Mr. and Mrs. Larry R. Manaugh
Ms. Jill McGowan
Dr. and Mrs. Gustavo S. Montana
John Naylor and Molly Thompson
Frederick and Karen Perry
Frances and John Pershing
David and Susan Rosenberg
Fred and Barbara Salamy
Mr. and Mrs. George Stobie
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. Zarnt
In Memory of Chouteau Chapin
Rebecca Marvil and Brian Smyth
In Memory of Carolyn Gebbia
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Berardi,
Jr.
Ms. Mary Ann Berry
Charles and Kathleen Gebbia
Mr. Lee Huston
Henry and Eileen Kensing
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Kinch
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marchese
Michael and Gayle Moroney
Mr. Michael V. Pagnotta
GENERAL ENDOWMENT
Richard Frantz and Jennifer Fox
Rebecca Marvil and Brian Smyth
Robert and Mimi McCallum
William and Lindalee Oswald
Jesse and Alene Reich
The Chapin Fund, in Memory
of E. Barton Chapin, Jr., and
Melville Chapin
Tim and Margaret Ellis
MAINE COAST SEMESTER
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Anonymous (21)
Carol and Mark Aloe
Ms. Karrie Amsler
Mr. T. R. Amsler
John A. Atchley and Linda S. Sloane
Ms. Lauren Bangasser
Mickey and Marty Baumrind
Ms. Nellie Black
Ms. Nadja Blagojevic
Mr. Sean Bohac
Mr. Christopher Clark
Mr. Todd B. Clark
Ms. Dana Crane
Mr. Edward R. DesMaisons
Nancy and Bob Downey
Ms. Allison Eastland
Ms. Lara Ettenson
Ms. Heidi Fessenden
Mr. Simon Fischer-Baum
Mr. Forrest Fleischman
Ms. Emily Grant
Jessica and Greg Green
Jenn and Jay Gudebski
Ms. Susan Halio
Ben and Heather Heuston
Ben and Kristin (Roberts) Holcomb
Ms. Emily Izenstein
Steve and Debby Jencks
Ms. Julia Judson-Rea
Dr. Robert and Deborah Kanter
Ms. Ellen Klain
Marsha Lenz and Peter Jones
Ms. Lauralyn C. Lenzycki
Mr. David W. Liebmann
Ms. Phoebe S. Loris
Ms. Ariane Lotti
Ms. Julia Lustick
Dr. Michael Lustick and Dr. Barbara
Rickler
Ms. Margaret Mansfield
The Page & Otto Marx, Jr.
Foundation
Chi and Ferrell McClean
Mr. Daegan Miller
Mr. James Monaco
Pam and Mike Monaco
Beth and Steve Morris
Lynn and Trudy Nelson
Mr. Edward Pais
Ms. Michele Party
Mr. Stewart Peery
Janet Pence and Brian Kent
Ms. Kendall Pryles
Mr. William E. Pugh
Ms. Sarah Rheault
Ms. Grace Rumford
Leo Pierre Roy and Perry Russell
Karen Abele Scheu and Robert
Scheu
Shelter Institute
Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Stone, Jr.
Edie Aloe Traina and Mark Traina
Ms. Tessa van der Werff
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wilbur
Wilbur's of Maine
Charles and Joanne Young
In Honor of Sara Stone, MCS
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Dan and Linda Wood
Nicole Wiswell, MCS 18
THE OSPREY SOCIETY
The Osprey Society honors those
who have included Chewonki in
their estate planning. Please let us
know if your name should be on
the following list.
Anonymous
Mr. John L. Allen
Mrs. John L. Allen
Dr. David S. Barrington and Dr.
Cathy Paris
Mr. David K. Bell
Ms. Sheryl A. Blair
Elizabeth I. Byrne, Ed.D
Mrs. E. Barton Chapin, Jr.
Mrs. Melville Chapin
Mr. Chester W. Cooke
Dr. Peter Blaze Corcoran
Mr. and Mrs. Norman C. Cross, Jr.
Dr. Raymond Culver
Ms. Suzanne R. Culver
Mr. Paul Davis
Tim and Margaret Ellis
Bee and Bob Elmore
Rev. and Mrs. John D. Eusden
Susan and John Gillespie
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Gordy II
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Grant
Jenn and Jay Gudebski
Mrs. Alison A. Hagan
Mr. Gordon Hall III
Mr. William B. Hetzel, Jr.
Ken and Hilary Holm
Don Hudson and Phine Ewing
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Johnson
Christopher and Lee Kauders
Mr. Frederick Kauders
Dan and Esu Lackey
Mr. and Mrs. David R. Lamb
Mr. and Mrs. Warren M. Little
Ms. Rebecca Marvil
Ms. Margaret Mathis
John and Mary Jane McGlennon
Angus and Barbara McIntyre
Ted and Martha Pasternack
Mr. John I. Quimby
Ms. Nancy W. Rathbone
Gene and Nancy Raymond
Mr. Alan Y. Roberts
Mrs. James Ross
Mr. David Schurman
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Scott
Mr. and Mrs. David W. Sculley
Mr. and Mrs. Scott W. Seelbach
Joseph and Caitlin Selle
George and Sue Sergeant
Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Smith
Mrs. Martha Stearns
Dick Thomas and Karen Dilley
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Thornton
Mr. and Mrs. William N. Thurman
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Tyler
Mrs. Chauncey W. Waldron
Ed and Claire Weiser
Ms. Amy Young
BALANCE SHEET
STATEMENT OF REVENUE AND EXPENSES
Temporarily Permanently
Unrestricted
Restricted
Restricted
Total
FY 2004
ASSETS
Current Assets
711,985
354,418
Property and Equipment 6,981,730
Other Assets
375,000
Total Assets
8,066,715
1,039,079 2,105,482
71,910 7,053,640
243,810
354,418
618,810
1,354,799 9,777,932
LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCE
Current Liabilities
940,831
Long-term Debt
392,186
(54,966)
(276,112)
Tuition
Less Scholarship
Net Tuition
Investment Income
63,079.00
Unrestricted Contributions
228,883.00
Temporarily Restricted Contributions
8,129.00
Restricted Contributions
268,127.00
Program Restricted Contributions
344,094.00
In-Kind Contributions
20,234.00
Grant Income
0.00
Unrealized Gain (loss) on Investments 129,133.00
Store Income
13,977.00
Other Income
26,298.00
Total
4,083,677.00
609,753
359,186
Fund Balance
6,768,698
409,384
1,630,911 8,808,993
Total Liabilities
8,068,715
354,418
1,354,799 9,777,932
EXPENSES
Program:
Camp
Center for Environmental Education
Maine Coast Semester
Foundation
Total
Increase in Net Assets
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
Chewonki is proud to be a member of
MaineShare, working with 36 other
non-profit organizations to build a
bright future for the people of Maine
and our natural environment.
MaineShare has raised and distributed
1.85 million dollars for social change in
Maine since 1990. Through payroll
deduction contributions and direct gifts,
MaineShare donors help to achieve good
health, safe communities, economic opportunity,
human rights, and a healthy environment. We are very grateful to
each of the many donors who have supported Chewonki through
MaineShare. If you are interested in joining the more than 140
workplaces that already participate in a MaineShare workplace
giving program or if you would like to learn more about
MaineShare, please check their website at www.maineshare.org or
contact Chewonki's Development Office.
Is your name missing? Gifts listed in this report were made between
September 1, 2004 and August 31, 2005. If we have made a mistake, please let us know. Gifts to the Annual Appeal made after
August 31, 2005 will be listed in the next Annual Report.
* These individuals are deceased
3,325,853.00
(344,130.00)
2,981,723.00
1,443,121.00
601,390.00
986,198.00
396,904.00
3,427,613.00
656,064.00
A-Sail!
With the recent gift of a 46-foot catamaran,
a new program sets sail at Chewonki:
the Grand Chat Eco-Sailing Program
A new vessel sailed into the Chewonki fleet last
October, and it came with strings attached.
“Just the kind of strings we like!” proclaimed
Chewonki president Don Hudson. The 46by 24-foot Grand Chat, which has been
used as both a charter and a personal
boat since it was launched in 1991, was
a gift from two generous donors who
wish to see it used for educational
purposes. Their wish will become
reality this summer, when the
Grand Chat Eco-Sailing
Program makes its maiden
voyage with a group of Maine
Coast Semester alumni. It
will be the first of many
trips in a program
Chewonki staff are
developing with three
broad goals in mind:
to create
With the Grand Chat we have a wonderful opportunity to expand our trip offerings,
especially for adults and family groups.
exhilarating environmental education opportunities; to model
sustainable and environmentally responsible tourism; and to
develop educational materials that Pathways to a Sustainable
Future can share with other marine ecotourism ventures.
Greg Shute, Director of Wilderness Programs at Chewonki
and a member of the steering committee developing the new
program, is delighted with the possibilities the Grand Chat
offers. “This is a significant addition to our small sailing
fleet,” he said recently. “We plan to keep the boat in Maine in
the summer and, if we can generate enough interest, in the
Bahamas in the winter and to use it both for Chewonki programs and as a charter.” Planning for the Grand Chat EcoSailing Program is still in the formative stages he said, with
important developments yet to come. “We want to take
advantage of the current emphasis on nature-based tourism and
offer trips that are fun and informative as well as environmentally and socially responsible.”
Among the advantages of the Grand Chat are its size and
speed; in both of these aspects, it far surpasses any of
Chewonki’s other five sailboats, all of which are traditional
wooden monohulls. It also has both saltwater and freshwater
showers (the latter with hot water) and two flush toilets.
These are features previously unknown in the Chewonki fleet,
as any camper will undoubtedly be quick to note. “Our smaller boats are terrific for the camp and co-ed expeditions we offer
in the summer,” says Greg, “but they have their limitations.
With the Grand Chat we have a wonderful opportunity to
expand our trip offerings, especially for adults and family
groups.”
Remarkably, the Grand Chat arrived at Chewonki already outfitted to serve as a model for sustainable ecotourism. Its previous
owners put years of careful thought and consideration into making
the boat as efficient as possible. Hot water comes from an ondemand energy-efficient water heater, for example, and all electricity onboard (both DC and AC power) is provided by a state-ofthe-art photovoltaic array mounted on the stern.
Noah Tuthill, who will captain the boat, is confident that the
Grand Chat Eco-Sailing Program will be “exhilarating and fun.”
As part of the six-person crew that sailed the boat north from
Chesapeake Bay last fall, Noah already knows how magical a trip
it can offer. “This is a fast, fun, and serious boat that sailors of all
ages and abilities will enjoy,” he says. “Cats are traditionally
more user friendly, stable, comfortable, and spacious than monohulls. They’re also very safe. This boat was designed to be easily
sailed by one or two people, so it’s an excellent platform for beginners. At the same time, its performance characteristics will thrill
even the most experienced sailors.”
After spending the winter moored off the pier along Route 1 in
Wiscasset, the Grand Chat will soon move to the Chewonki
waterfront. It will be a momentous occasion when the MCS
alums sail out of Monstweag Bay on June 19 for their two-week
trip in the Gulf of Maine. “They’ll be the first group to carry the
Chewonki spirit of adventure to the blue water in our new program,” Don Hudson said recently. “I’m confident that a journey
on the Grand Chat will not be a typical charter, but an opportunity to have a hands-on learning experience that will open eyes,
hearts, and minds to a different way of looking at the world—and
each other.” ■
Summer Sail
The Maine Coast Semester is delighted to announce an exciting new opportunity for recent MCS alumni. Six students
from Semesters 33 through 36 (Fall 2004–Spring 2006) will be
the first Chewonki participants on our newly acquired 46-foot
catamaran, the Grand Chat. Exploring the Maine coast in an
ecologically sustainable manner, they’ll learn to sail, have fun,
and enrich their travels by spending time with MCS alumni as
they discuss and explore contemporary environmental issues
along the Maine coast and beyond. Each participant will
focus on a topic of interest while aboard the Grand Chat and
give a short presentation upon return to Chewonki.
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Noah Tuthill, Grand Chat captain
A Look at Grand Chat
The Grand Chat is a Florida-built, 1991 Offshore 40, converted to a 46- by 24-foot catamaran. It was designed to
be lightweight and fast, and it is! With a good breeze, it is
not uncommon to reach speeds greater than 15 knots. The
boat has sailed all over the mid-Atlantic coast of North
America, from the southern reaches of the Bahamas to the
Gulf of Maine.
As a catamaran, the boat has a wide and stable platform
and is comfortable even in heavy winds. Its hulls are constructed of epoxy, fiberglass, and foam core, making it safe
and seaworthy. Two berths in each hull can accommodate
six people comfortably, with space for two more in the full
cabin. The trampoline on the bow offers ideal sleeping
quarters for those interested in a stargazers’ paradise. There
is a full galley in the cabin with a three-burner propane
stove, oven, refrigerator, freezer, sink with running water,
dining table, and comfortable bench seats.
The cabin has ample headroom in the center and many
windows that provide great ventilation and natural lighting.
There are two heads on board, an outdoor saltwater shower, and an indoor freshwater shower—with hot water provided by an onboard instant energy-efficient hot water
heater. Two 30-plus-gallon tanks provide storage for drinking water. Additional fresh water can be harvested from a
unique water-collection system when it rains. All electricity onboard is provided by a large photovoltaic (PV) array mounted on the
stern; no noisy or smelly generators found here! The state-of-the-art PV array provides clean, renewable energy to accommodate
daily energy needs. It also serves as a delightfully cool, covered canopy at the stern of the boat.
Rigging and sails provide the primary mode of quiet, fast, and exhilarating propulsion. A 50-foot rotating mast, large main
sail, roller furling jib, and screacher—all controlled from the helm—make the Grand Chat safe, fun, and fast to sail. Two 9.9-HP
four-stroke engines on each hull provide auxiliary power and can also be used to help charge the ship’s battery bank.
Painstaking efforts have been made to maintain the ship’s light weight and nimble characteristics. It is a safe, healthy, and
enjoyable environment in which to live, learn, travel, and explore.
For information about summer sailing trips on the Grand Chat, visit www.chewonki.org and click on {Chewonki News & Events.”
for MCS Alumni
Activities and Goals
• Sail in the Gulf of Maine for two weeks.
• Learn navigation skills, sail handling, and other
important maritime skills.
• Study weather and basic marine science.
• Study renewable energy sources and systems,
including wind and solar.
• Explore both natural and human communities
along the Maine coast.
• Exercise responsible decision making and learn to
identify the choices we can make toward sustainable living.
• Continue to build on the Maine Coast Semester
experience.
• Have fun!
Grand Chat Captain: Noah Tuthill. Noah is a U.S. Coast Guard–licensed
captain and a 2003 graduate of Bates College. He has a BA in Environmental
Studies with a concentration in green design, sustainable architecture, and
renewable energy. In 2004 and 2005, Noah worked at Chewonki in the
Pathways to a Sustainable Future program. He has also led one Vajra sailing trip.
Program Details
Dates: June 18 through July 1, 2006 (start and end at Chewonki)
Tuition: $2,500 (financial aid available)
Group size: 6 students, 2 leaders
Accommodations: Berths aboard the Grand Chat and on-land camping
To register or for more information, contact Willard Morgan
([email protected]; 207-882-7323) or Greg Shute
([email protected]; 207-882-7323); or visit www.chewonki.org
and click on the link under “Chewonki News & Events.”
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THE FARM
Equal P
ARTNERS
Continued from page 1
“Gender is not an
issue at Chewonki.
The jobs people do,
whether at camp or
anywhere else on
campus, are based on
their abilities, not
their gender. Respect
for everyone on staff,
whether male or
female, is just a
given.”
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I
s it unusual for a boys’ camp to have
women on staff? (Or for a girls’ camp to
have men on staff?) “I don’t think most single-gender camps have as integrated a staff
as we do,” says Garth. His predecessor,
Dick Thomas, concurs. As camp director
from 1986 to 2005, Dick worked extensively with
the Maine Youth Camping Association and New
England Section of the American Camping
Association and had numerous opportunities to visit
other camps. “I do know other boys’ camps that
have women on staff,” he says. “But few have anywhere near as many as Chewonki does. And if they
do have women, the number in leadership roles is
very limited. Our staff is highly unusual.”
Although it’s often the youngest campers who
particularly gravitate toward the female staff, Garth
believes that campers of all ages find terrific role
models in these women. “I think we’re offering
boys the best of all worlds,” he says. “It’s possible
to be a boy among boys without co-ed peer pressures
but at the same time have women role models who
are just as skilled as the men. This is how we want
kids to see the world. It’s a very healthy lesson for
the boys to learn, rather then being limited to male
role models.” Parents, and their sons, seem to
agree. “Based on the feedback we get, having
women on our staff—and particularly so many
women in leadership roles—is viewed as very appropriate and a great thing to offer,” Garth says.
It hasn’t always been this way, of course. For the
better part of sixty years, women were an anomaly
at Camp Chewonki. From its beginnings in 1917,
when Clarence Allen moved his two-year-old boys’
camp from Lake Champlain to Wiscasset,
Chewonki was staffed almost exclusively by men.
Young men. Middle-aged men. Even old men;
Clarence was seventy-eight when he stepped down
as the director in 1965. A handful of women also
worked at camp, in the office, kitchen, dining hall,
and laundry. With the exception of an occasional
tutor, though, they had little if any interaction with
campers. These women may well have “run the
place,” as Chewonki president Don Hudson remembers, but they did so behind the scenes.
When Don arrived at Chewonki as a twelve-yearold camper in 1962, the only women on campus
were his mother (his father was the Assistant
Director), Mrs. Allen, a secretary, the nurse, two
cooks, and a few college-aged dishwashers. Kay
Allen, who came to camp in 1932, was a formidable
presence indeed—known for inspecting the boys’
uniforms when wilderness trips returned and for
overseeing details just about everywhere on campus—but Chewonki was still very much a “boy-centric” place. Dick Thomas, now Director of Alumni
Relations, encountered much the same when he
arrived as a camper in 1970: “women in the
kitchen, laundry, and infirmary only,” he remembers. Four years later, however, when he became a
counselor, there was a woman instructor, in tennis.
Change was astir. And slowly, but steadily, it
accelerated. Women such as Dorcas Miller, Beth
Dilley, Carol Gentry, Sue Sergeant, Rebecca Marvil,
Kate McClain, and Sue West (who now teaches art
at MCS) are still remembered as being among the
“pioneers” in the mid- to late 1970s. They came to
Chewonki to teach during the school year, either at
Maine Reach or on the EE staff, and they were terrific. What they really wanted, though, was yearround employment. Loath to lose such women, former Executive Director Tim Ellis began hiring them
to work at camp By 1988, when Garth Altenburg
was a first-year camper, women were well established on the staff. “There still weren’t a lot of
them,” he recalls, “but they soon had significant
roles in virtually all aspects of camp, from trip leaders to activity staff, program directors, and administrative assistants.”
Looking back, the EE and Maine Reach “pioneers” were part of two distinct events in
Chewonki’s history that precipitated advancements
M
for women. The first was in 1973 when The
Chewonki Foundation became a year-round institution and began to develop a broad array of new programs open to girls as well as boys. The second was
in 1988 when the Maine Coast Semester opened. At
each juncture, girls and women began to participate
in more and more Chewonki programs, both as staff
and participants. Increasingly, they also sought to
spend their summers on the Neck.
Dick Thomas, who joined the summer staff in
1974 and the year-round staff in 1980, was one of
the people around to witness all this. Like others
on campus—Tim Ellis, Don Hudson, and former
MCS Director Scott Andrews among them—he
quickly recognized that these women represented a
valuable resource pool for camp. As camp director
for twenty years, Dick also oversaw much of the
transition from an all-male to a co-ed summer staff.
Was that a challenge? “Not at all,” he says today.
“It happened gradually, but it seemed perfectly natural and was embraced by staff and campers alike.
Aside from asking the girls not to walk by the openair showers during the day and not to wear bathing
suits that were too revealing, there really wasn’t
much adjusting for anyone to make.” There was
also an unanticipated bonus, one that Dick believes
had a subtle but profound impact on the character of
Images OF SUCCESS
Chrissy Burnham started attending Chewonki wilderness trips in 1995 as an eighth grader. “For the first time, I saw women who weren't
stick thin, giggling, only smart or only athletic types,” she remembers. “They were big, beautiful, smart, fun, confident—and they changed
the image of success for me.” It was her connection with the women of Chewonki, she says, that brought her back to camp year after
year, first as a tripper and in 2000 as staff. In 2003 Chrissy graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a B.A. in Social Work.
Earlier this year she joined our year-round staff in Outreach.
Figuring that by now Chrissy knows as much as anyone does about being a woman on the staff of Camp Chewonki, we asked her to
share some thoughts with the Chronicle. —Editor
I
n June 2000 I had just finished my freshman year
of college, as well as a lifeguarding course. My
summer plans were to guard at the local lake, a
place where your feet come out sticky and most of
your job involves throwing out Dairy Queen containers.
I was not particularly excited. When Assistant Camp
Director Justin Reich rang my doorbell the first week in
June and offered me a job at Chewonki, my mind
flashed to my summers of the past. I had had incredible experiences with Chewonki during my teenage
years. I remembered summers spent canoeing the
Allagash, and my newfound love for noseplugs the
month I spent on the Rapid River. I remembered
white-water rescues and fire building and singing and
sunrises. I remembered Justin wearing a ridiculous one-piece longunderwear set, jumping around the quad with a whole lot of boys, all
of whom seemed to be having the time of their lives. I remembered
all of the men and women who worked there, and how they'd made
me, and all the other participants, smile.
A few weeks later, I was a leader on the first Wood Cove trip for
girls, and after that a lifeguard at the Chewonki waterfront.
Surrounded by girls and boys looking for fun, guidance, and challenge, I searched for my identity as a female staff. I found myself
doing nothing short of copying the women who had been my own
leaders years before. I remembered how Steph always thanked everyone, even for simple things. I remembered how Stacy could somehow convince us that she, too, was learning how to kayak. I remembered Shaye's patience and Hanah's laugh. I also remembered the
biceps, the quads, and the confidence of these Chewonki women. I
remembered how, during those tedious middle-school
years, when it sometimes seemed that boys did not
exist, and sometimes that they existed only to make
my life as awkward as possible, the women leaders
that I had at Chewonki altered my perception of
women—and men—and challenged the norms for me.
I was, and am, determined to pass on their challenge.
My several summers spent here at Chewonki have
seen a consistent increase in female staff. Women
serve so many purposes and needs here, and the delicate balance is something we continue to evaluate and
improve on all of the time. Some of our female staff
read stories to the cabins at night, or comfort homesick
campers when the cabin counselors are out of ideas.
Yet these same women also lead wilderness trips, teach navigation
and tracking, ropes courses and sailing. It is this natural balance
that inspires staff and campers alike. I'm sure that some of our
female staff have been the subject of innocent crushes, and I believe
that there is value in this as well. The development of admiration
and respect for strong, independent, healthy women helps fight a
battle that faces us all. It projects a dignity that is easily lost in
today's messages found in Super Bowl commercials and magazines.
So this summer, as in the past, I will quietly raise my Nalgene
water bottle. I will toast Camp Chewonki administrators and staff
for embracing change and diversity. I will admire the campers for
their unfailing ability to absorb positive messages and to accept
challenges. And I will whisper thanks to the women who showed
me another way of being successful, beautiful, happy.
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CHRISSY BURNHAM
“The longer I worked
at camp,” says
Alison Hopcroft
(pictured below),
“the more I realized
what an important
role we played as
strong women with a
lot of skills doing
important work, and
who were respected
by our male peers.”
camp: “Having women around toned things down,”
he says. “I mean that in the most positive way. It
put a healthy damper on the ‘boy shenanigans’ that
had a tendency to get out of hand sometimes.”
And what about the women who came to work
at camp? What have their experiences been like?
Alison Hopcroft, affectionately known as “Hoppy,”
answered that question recently with an emphatic
“Fantastic!” After attending MCS in the spring of
1995, Alison worked for six successive summers at
camp. Chrissy Burnham, another longtime summer
staffer who now works in Outreach, remembers
Alison as “one of first women on staff who didn’t
just lead trips. She was also very involved in day-today camp life.” Beginning as a cabin reader and
activity counselor at the farm, Alison went on to
assume greater responsibilities each year. In
1999 she made a bit of Chewonki history
when she served as group leader for the
Puffins (the youngest campers). For only
the second time in Chewonki’s long
history, one of the most senior positions in camp was not “Papa
Puffin” but “Mama Puffin.” (The
first was Kristen Oehler, in 1992.)
Alison is twenty-seven now,
about to finish a graduate program in international environmental policy, and hard
at work job hunting. “I
hope I can find something as satisfying as
Mama Puffin!” she
says.
All teasing aside,
Alison looks back on
her work at
Chewonki as
immensely rewarding and enriching.
Were there any special
challenges to being a
woman at a boy’s camp?
“If there were, I’ve forgotten them. Honestly, the
biggest challenge was just putting pressure on
myself to do the best job possible.” Did she feel
like an equal among her colleagues and within the
community? “Definitely. Occasionally it was hard
for a young male counselor to deal with a woman
who knew what she was doing. And on very rare
occasions, a camper said something inappropriate to
me. But those are learning experiences for kids;
they’re testing boundaries and learning about limits,
what’s right and what’s wrong. Overall I had great
relationships both with staff and campers.” The
fact that she didn’t live in a cabin never fazed her.
“Several staff, male as well as female, don’t live in
the cabins,” she notes. “It doesn’t mean you’re not
important. Dick Thomas didn’t live in a cabin
either, but I don’t think anyone would say he wasn’t
fully integrated in camp.”
Alison has long been aware of how much she
gained from her years working at Camp Chewonki.
Gradually, she has also come to realize how much
she and other women have added. “I definitely see
the value of single-sex education and experiences,”
she said recently. “But the longer I worked at camp,
the more I realized what an important role we
played as strong women with a lot of skills doing
important work, and who were respected by our
male peers.” She also spoke to the importance of
modeling healthy relationships between the sexes.
“I think my friendships with my male colleagues
were a good role model too. It was an opportunity
for younger boys to see solid, healthy relationships.
Adolescent boys sometimes see women as something to be afraid of. But that’s not the case at
Chewonki.”
hewonki
Former Chief of Staff Annie Merrill, who retired
in 2004 after fifteen years at Chewonki, knew
Alison—and many other young women on the camp
staff—well. “I was always so impressed with
them,” she said recently. “Chewonki has more
women in leadership roles than you’d expect at a
boys’ camp, and it’s wonderful. Women have been
Head of Waterfront, Head of Nature, and Head of
Sailing, for example. What I always appreciated
most, however, is that gender is not an issue at
Chewonki. The jobs people do, whether at camp or
anywhere else on campus, are based on their abilities, not their gender. Respect for everyone on staff,
whether male or female, is just a given.”
In the next few months, nearly three hundred
boys ages eight to fifteen will spend part or all of
their summer on Chewonki Neck. Helping them
make the most of that experience will be a talented,
dedicated, and caring staff of young adults—men
and, yes, women too. ■
ELIZABETH PIERSON
Co-Ed &
All-Girl
PROGRAMS
Camp 2006 Update: The Countdown Begins!
By the time you read this, the start of camp will be just a few
weeks away. As of this writing, we still have spaces in some of our
programs. It’s not too late to join us for what promises to be an
outstanding summer!
I’ve had a busy and exciting winter preparing for camp. I’ve
traveled to New York, New Jersey, Boston, Connecticut, and all
over Maine to meet with many of you and share our plans and
enthusiasm for this summer. We had our annual summer-staff
retreat in January, attended by Aaron Ritzenberg, Brandon
Stafford, Stewart Stout, Scott Neagle, Will Ginn, Jim Quivey, Bob
Smith-Peterson, Chrissy Burnham, and a cameo appearance from
Aaron Paul, who was taking his Wilderness First Responder course
at Chewonki. It was a productive day as we took time to reflect on
our goals for 2006.
We’ve made some exciting changes I want to tell you about. We
expanded last summer’s Ravens program into two 10-day sessions.
Junior Puffins is for boys ages 8 to 9, and Ravens is for boys ages
10 to 13. Session A runs from July 23 to August 1, Session B from
August 4 to August 14. This has proven to be a fantastic introduction to camp, as many of last year’s Ravens are now enrolled
for a three-week program. For those of you have been with us for
five or more summers, we’ve designed a special five-year T-shirt
that you’ll receive when you arrive at camp. We’re also planning
to post cabin photos on our website once campers arrive, to provide
a glimpse of life at camp to family and friends. Our new Maine
Island Camp program has proven to be very popular. It will be
the first Chewonki group to use Hungry Island, one of the four
islands Chewonki will take possession of on August 1.
There are many details to consider in the upcoming weeks,
including health forms, travels plans, and packing lists. Please be
in touch with any questions. As always, Ginny and I are available
to assist you with any questions. Greg Shute and Ryan Linehan
are also available for specific wilderness trip questions.
I look forward to seeing you this summer!
Best,
Garth
Camp Chewonki isn’t just for boys, or
course! Our traditional boys’ camp enters
its ninety-first season this summer, but
Camp Chewonki has for many years included several other programs too. In 1976 we introduced co-ed wilderness
expeditions for ages 13–18, and in 2000 we introduced our first all-girl
programs, for ages 12–17. We also offer an eight-week Guides Program
for counselors in training (boys only, ages 16–17), a one-week Renewable
Energy Sailing Adventure, and a one-week Outdoor Adventure Camp.
Contact us for further information on any of these programs, or visit
www.chewonki.org and click on “Camp Chewonki.”
Our camp season on Chewonki Neck this year runs from June 27 to
August 26. We invite you to stop by any time and see for yourself how
much is happening here!
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PEOPLE
William Abbott (MCS 11, Camp Staff ’98, EE
Staff ’01, Farm ’02–’03) is working on the school
partnership program at Wave Hill, a public garden
and cultural center in the Bronx, teaching basic
botany in grades K–12. A move to California may
be in the future.
Kofi Aidoo (Camp Staff ’05) of Saltpond, Ghana,
used his Christmas break to work for a youth NGO
he founded. “We did some mission work and with
the help of the Chewonki staff were able to give
clothes to a village of 360 people. Your generous
donations really helped. Thanks so much.”
Former staffers Mark and Ingrid Albee (’90–’05)
report that “life in the New Hampshire woods is
good.” Mark has finished farrier school and is
working with a local farmer.
Monica and Nick Allen (Camp ’84–’85, Camp
Staff ’96) have moved to Bend, OR, and love it.
Nick is getting involved with some local environmental groups.
Marley Aloe (MCS 20, Camp Staff ’00) is “across
the pond,” working at the Barnard Castle School in
England. She loves traveling and is looking for
more people to travel with or to visit. Let her know
if you’re up for it!
After a year in Williamsburg, VA, José de Areilza
(Camp ’79–’80, Camp Staff ’83, ’85) and wife Maria
Salgado are back in Madrid, Spain. “We wanted to
share with you the birth of our first child, Blanma.
She is now 7 months and we are already dreaming
of doing a family trip with her at Chewonki.”
Ana and Andy Barker (Camp ’82–’84, Camp
Staff ’93, ’96, MCS faculty ’96, Farm ’93–’95) are
happily settled in Burlington, VT, where Andy works
in the Social Responsibility Department at Ben &
Jerry's. They welcomed a second daughter, Tess,
on 8-15-05.
“Last summer I got married to an amazing woman
named Carissa,” writes Jonathan Barrett (Camp
’90, MCS 16). They live in Portland, OR, where
Jonathan is getting a Master's of Teaching at Lewis
and Clark College.
David Barron (MCS 1, Camp ’90) graduated from
law school last summer, competed in the Highland
Games National Championships, and got married.
Busy summer! He is still living in NYC, and his new
email is [email protected].
“One more year before I graduate from college!”
crows Elihu Bogan (Camp ’94–’99). “Hectic
summer work schedules make me nostalgic for
Chewonki.”
Seth Bohac (MCS 4, Camp Staff ’92) works for
San Diego Metro Wastewater Department, promoting the use of GIS technology. “I figure I should
share some of the money I’m making before I get
used to having it. I'm sending a check now
because Chewonki is the BEST investment in the
future I know of.”
Leigh Boisture (MCS 19, Camp ’97) is living and
working in Boston, “assisting a stock broker at Bank
of America.”
J. P. Bowditch (Camp ’00–’04) is a ninth grader at
Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ. He's learning to
row crew and is on the ski-racing team.
John Bracker (Camp ’74–’75) lives in Hartford, CT,
with his wife and two children. He is the head of
the Watkinson School.
“Life in Boston is good!” writes Jamie Braman
(Staff ’98–’99). “I’m working to finish a Masters in
Environmental Management and Sustainability at
Harvard.”
Two “extremely interesting volunteer jobs” are
keeping Vera Buchanan (advisor ’81–’00) busy in
Massachusetts: one at Essex County Greenbelt on
the Essex Marshes, the other teaching ESL at
Andover Public Library. “I count my time [at
Chewonki] as one of the best periods of my life,”
she adds.
Ann’s in Manhattan and edits the school newspaper. Jon (Camp ’96–’01) is a sophomore at Yale,
majoring in literature and art.
Lucky Jennifer Cross (Camp & EE Staffs ’02–’03,
’05). She now works and lives within the
Adirondack Park of New York and is a program
director at a camp/outdoor center. She misses
Chewonki, however.
Brian Cushing (Camp Staff ’80, ’84, ’97–’00)
sends regards from not-too-distant Bridgeton, ME.
He recently returned from Austria, where he took
19 high-school students, including daughter Emily,
on an exchange.
Gray and Deb Davidson (EE & Camp Staffs
’95–’97) continue to thrive in Bozeman. Deb works
for Montana Outdoor Science School and loves
being back in the education field. “Come visit
snowy Montana!” they say.
Life sounds exciting for Adam (Camp Staff ’96) and
Kate Goodrich Day (MCS 2, Camp Staff ’93, ’96,
advisor): “We’re doing great in Indonesia but can't
wait to come home (temporarily) to Maine next
summer to have our first baby!” Kate is working for
Mercy Corps in Jakarta. Adam works for The Asia
Foundation on Indonesian governance/economic
development issues.
Jesse Dukes (Camp Staff ’00–’05, Historian)
attended the SALT Institute for Documentary
Studies in Portland, ME, last spring. He loved it and
said it was right up there with the major things in
life, “like being born, or coming to Chewonki for
the first time.”
People
“I'm in my second year at Vermont Law School,
working toward a joint masters in environmental
law and juris doctor degree,” writes Maureen
Bayer (Camp Staff ’97–’98). Brother Colin Bayer
(Camp ’93, ’95–’96) is a web designer for a Boston
firm. He’s also freelancing under the name Colin
Bayer Designs.
Scott Beebe (Camp ’75–’77, Camp Staff ’80–’84,
advisor) stopped in at Chewonki last summer and
said “the place looked great and I was excited to
show it to my 5-year-old. Not too early to get
them initiated and excited about that experience!”
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Another wilderness trip romance success story!
Congratulations to Allie Burke (MCS 9, Camp &
EE Staffs ’93–’00) and Jeremy Nellis (EE Staff ’00)
who will tie the knot this summer.
David Chaplin (Camp ’40–’41, ’43) and his wife
love living near the water in Brunswick, ME. David
is working on a history of ferry river crossings,
including in Wiscasset/Westport.
Joshua Chou (Camp ’83–’87) lives in Cincinnati,
OH, and looks forward to sending his two sons—
one age 3 and one still in utero at the time of this
writing—to “the place I loved so well.”
Adam Berinsky (Camp ’82–’85) lives in
Cambridge, MA, and has a son, Benjamin, born 1111-04. “Hopefully he'll be spending the summer at
Chewonki in about 10 years.”
Elisabeth Christensen (MCS 22, Camp ’96–’97,
’99) is living on Cape Cod while applying to law
schools for Fall ’06.
Colin Berry (Camp ’96–’98) will graduate from
Dartmouth in June.
Brothers Alex and Jon Connolly are both hitting
the books. Alex (Camp ’99–’04) is a junior at Saint
George Eckel (Camp & EE Staffs ’94–’97) is still in
Moscow, traveling to edge-of-the-world places for
the Associated Press. “Makes me miss Maine.”
Kirstin George Edelglass (MCS 2, Camp Staff
’02–’05) is enjoying life in Waterville, ME, where
husband William teaches at Colby College. Kirstin
stays in frequent contact with girls who have done
Chewonki’s Canoe Expedition for Maine Girls, the
program she designed and used to lead.
Margaret and Tim Ellis continue to live across
Montsweag Brook and are making the most of
“retirement.” In the past year they enjoyed visits
with children and grandchildren and three months
in Arizona, where Margaret worked with the Navajo
Indian Health Service and Tim organized outdoor
explorations. In January they did medical work in
the Dominican Republic. Tim is now on the road in
their campervan on a new adventure to points
west.
News from the Big Apple: Doug Friedman (MCS
2, Camp ’89) is working as a travel and interiors
photographer.
We send our deepest sympathies to Danny GarciaMcGuire (Camp ’01–’04), whose father died of
cancer last summer. “Thank you all for giving
Danny such a powerful, positive experience in the
past few summers at camp,” wrote his mother.
Congratulations to Stanley Gascoigne (Camp
’49–’53) of Paget, Bermuda, who recently celebrated his 91st birthday!
Gino Giumarro (EE Staff ’95–’96) lives in Portland,
ME, and is a wildlife biologist for a consulting firm.
“I coordinate all of the ecological work we do.
Some pretty fun stuff working with everything from
renewable energy to threatened and endangered
species.”
Judd Grimes (Camp ’95–’01) sounds like he’s
doing it all at the University of Vermont: kayaking,
snowboarding, winter camping and hiking, campus
rep for the Long Trail, RA in the Outdoor Interest
Dorm, and oh yea, studying too: sustainable
horticulture.
December brought an email from Andrew
Gustafson (Camp ’95–’98, MCS 21) in Moscow.
“In the two years I've been in Russia, I've gotten to
do a fair share of camping, but that was mostly
when I was in Siberia in school. Now I'm stuck in
the big city. I hope all is well on the Neck. It
sounds like a lot of exciting changes are taking
place.”
More wedding news, this time from Phoebe
Hazard (Camp Staff ’04–’05), who married Dave
Backler on 10-8-05. They live in Milan, NH, and are
thrilled to be expecting their first child.
Chatfield (Camp ’44–’45), Bob Hartley (Camp
’43–’45), Ted Gleason (Camp ’43), and Bob
Leeson (Camp ’43)—celebrated their 50th Harvard
reunion together last June.
Lionel Hering (Camp ’80–’81, Camp Staff
’85–’88, ’95, ’97) lives in Kingfield, ME, and has a
new son, Lyle.
Teddy Loring (Camp ’97–’99) entered the
University of Vermont last fall.
Jeff Hershberger (Camp & EE Staffs ’93–’98) and
Lindsay MacMillan (Camp Staff ’00–’04) have
moved to Greenwood, ME. Jeff has started his own
timberframe business, and Lindsay is teaching.
Zoe Amanda Horner has joined our world! Born to
Caroline and Greg Horner (Camp & EE Staffs
’96–’99) on 3-5-06. All three are happy and
healthy in Ann Arbor, MI.
Life is “busy and good” for Anne Erler Howell
(MCS 10, Camp Staff ’91, ’94–’97, ’02) and husband Ezra of Union, ME. “I am working as an educational technician at a small middle school, but
this will not last much longer as we are expecting a
baby.”
In Seattle, Truxton Jayne (Camp ’76) is happy and
busy, raising Max (5) and Sam (2) and working at
Nintendo. “Drop a line anytime: [email protected].”
Rachel Jolly (Camp & EE Staffs ’97–’99, ’04–’05)
has left New England for a year of study in South
Africa. She hopes to be back next December with
an M.Ed. in Environmental Education from Rhodes
University.
Lydia Hagedorn (MCS 31, Camp Staff ’05) is
juggling her time between school in Atlanta and a
new home in Kansas.
The news from Scott Keller (Camp ’76–’77, Camp
Staff ’80–’81) in Still River, MA, is short but sweet:
“New barn and 6 adopted/rescued goats!”
“Career search underway.” That’s the news in a
nutshell from Eric Hakanson (Camp ’99, Camp
Staff ’02–’03), a senior at Dickinson College.
Manu Kingston (MCS 1, Camp ’85–’87, Camp
Staff ’89) is an international manager for the
Stephanie Odegard Collection, designer of furniture
and related items. Home is now Udaipur, India. “I
am attempting to learn Hindi; not the easiest language to pick up. I have a large house and lots of
extra room, so I invite anyone to visit. I just finished restoring an old Fiat and will take you sightseeing.”
Charlie Hale (Camp ’95–’99, MCS 26) is also a
senior, at Colby College. He spent half of last year
in Morocco and half in Washington, D.C. “I miss all
the Wonkers and hope you are safe and happy.
Drop me a line! [email protected].”
Our warmest wishes to Gordy Hall (Camp ’51–’53,
trustee) and new wife Taffy, who were married on
9-18-05.
Congratulations as well to Dr. Jen Raney and Ben
Harris (Camp ’88, Camp Staff ’94–’01), who welcomed Gabriel Raney Harris into the world on 12-405. “He is a big boy and healthy in every way. In
fact, his parents think he is completely perfect. We
send our love!”
It was nice to hear from Sinclair Hart (Camp
’34–’35) recently, who was inquiring about camp
for his grandson. “I have no problem boosting the
camp!” he says. “It was a great experience for me.
Sagadahoc!”
Great news from the Harvey household in Durango,
CO: Roan Grace Harvey was born on Labor Day ’05
to Kennan Harvey (Camp ’80, Maine Reach ’83)
and Cheryl Albrecht.
“It was sad to leave EE for a new job, but I’m happy
working at the Bowdoin College Outing Club,”
writes Megan Hayes (Camp & EE Staffs ’03–’04).
She looks forward to leading some Chewonki trips
this summer.
Sarah Klain (MCS 18, Camp Staff ’97–’99) is in
the South Pacific with the Peace Corps. “Chewonki
and my experiences there continue to shape my
decisions and values,” she says.
Hanah LaBarre (Camp & EE Staffs ’96–’02)
sounds as upbeat as ever: “Hello! I’m teaching
Earth Science in southern Vermont. Sending love to
the coast.”
From West Olive, MI, Ted Larned (Camp ’76–’77)
writes that he and Terry had their second child this
year. “We are enjoying our little family very much.
Have a great 2006!”
Patrick Leslie (Camp ’90–’91) has migrated from
his home state of Maine to the Bahamas. He coordinates renewable energy projects and leads kayaking trips at The Island School.
“All goes well here,” reports Jamie Lister (Camp
’77–’79, advisor) in the Big Apple. “We headed to
Tuscany last summer to celebrate my 40th.”
It must have been quite a party! Renny Little
(Camp ’42–’48, Camp Staff ’53–’55, ’60, advisor)
reports that he and several Chewonki friends—John
Ariane Lotti (MCS 21, Camp Staff ’01) is at Yale,
majoring in environmental studies with a focus on
sustainable agriculture. She spent last summer
doing independent agricultural research in Italy,
farming at Chewonki, and traveling in Mexico.
After traveling around the world, Jackie MacNeish
(Camp ’91, Camp Staff ’92) and husband Richard
are finally settling down, in Sullivan, NH. Jackie is
teaching experiential ed and Richard is getting his
M.A. in counseling. Sister Missy (Camp ’83, ’86) is
married, living in San Francisco, and expecting a
baby. Brother Terry (Camp ’86–’87, Camp Staff
’88) and his family also live in California.
“Maud and I are the proud parents of twin babies!”
announces a delighted Samuel Maier (MCS 8,
Camp Staff ’92) from Hafrsfjord, Norway. “We
named them Liv and Dag, the Norwegian names
meaning Life and Day.”
Life in the Big Apple continues to agree with
Sabrina Martin (MCS 1, Camp Staff ’89). After
six years at Court TV, she has moved to Rainbow
Media.
Rebecca Marvil (Maine Reach ’75, Camp Staff
’76–’78, trustee) of Houston, TX, is making quite a
name for herself as a runner. She recently took the
gold medal in her age group in the 800-meter USA
indoor track championships in Boise, ID.
Big changes for Bryan Mascioli (Camp Staff
’00–’01): a new address in Diablo, CA, a new wife,
and a lovely new 6-year-old stepdaughter.
The news from Katrin McElderry (MCS 1, Camp
’89) in Baltimore all sounds good: “I’m teaching
lower school science at The Odyssey School, a
school for bright kids with learning differences.
Have also started an anthropology club and love it!
Dave still does the IBA program for Audubon and
teaches part time at John’s Hopkins.”
Torrey McMillan (MCS 1, Camp Staff ’97–’98,
MCS Staff and faculty, ’97–’01, advisor) is full of
good news too: “In my third year of heading the
Sustainability Department at the White Mountain
School in New Hampshire. It’s a great job. I’ll be
coaching white-water paddling this spring. My dog
still entertains me daily and gets me out on the
trails. Last summer I built a cedar strip sea kayak in
a friend’s garage and grew lots of good veggies.”
All best wishes to our South Bristol neighbors Sara
Kirby Mitchell (MCS 2, Camp Staff ’89–’90,
trustee) and John Mitchell, who were married on
10-8-05.
Ted Nathan (Camp ’96–’00, Camp Staff ’04) is
working on an organic farm in Patagonia. “He really wanted a year off before college,” reports his
mom, “and we all thought it was a great idea—
even more so, since he was enrolled at Tulane, with
a start date of Sept. ’06.”
Scott Neagle (Camp ’94–’99, Camp Staff ’00–’04)
teaches math at Brownsville Academy, an alternative
high school in Brooklyn.
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We enjoyed a surprise visit last fall from Eric
Nelson (MCS 6, Camp Staff ’93–’98), who wanted
to show his old stamping grounds to wife Krista and
1-year-old son Tyler. A future camper?!
Malte Reiss (Camp Staff ’01–’04) is a lawyer in
Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We’re delighted that
he is actively recruiting Chewonki campers both
there and in his native Germany.
More news from across the pond: Josh Nunn
(Camp ’91–’97) is studying for a doctorate in quantum physics at Oxford University.
From Madrid, Spain, Javier Revuelta (Camp
’92–’96) writes that reading the Chronicle makes
him realize how much he misses “those fabulous
summers” at Chewonki. “I keep convincing myself
that my children will someday spend a few summers at the peninsula! That will happen by the year
2025 at the earliest, as I am still single.” Javier still
remembers his favorite sentence when he arrived at
camp, age 11 and barely able to speak English:
“Can you repeat slowly?” He is now an industrial
engineer, overseeing the high-voltage transmission
lines that crisscross Spain. He sends warmest wishes
and “un fuertísimo abrazo.”
Alyssa Pei (MCS 3, Camp Staff ’90–’92, trustee)
lives in Philadelphia and is the proud mother of
Alexander, born last summer.
We were delighted to hear from Adriano “Daddi”
Pescetto (Camp ’87–’89), who had lost touch with
Chewonki for several years until he discovered the
website and emailed us. He lives in Milan and
works at Sky TV in commercial advertising.
“Someday I’d love to show my wife Letizia one of
my best memories in life: my three summers at
Chewonki!” If your Italian is up to it, you can learn
more about Daddi and his “passioni” at
www.pescetto.com.
After doing an internship in Bermuda last summer,
Kate Petersen (MCS 21, Camp Staff ’99–’00)
returned to Duke, where she's “living large in her
own apartment.”
Cameron Picton (MCS 31, Camp ’03) is a guy on
the go. Last we heard he had acted in the play
Damn Yankees, traveled in California, fished on Cape
Cod, worked on construction for his dad, and made
plans to ski.
Melissa Quinby (Camp & EE Staffs ’92–’02) is living in Milford, MA, and looking for work in Boston
or Maine. “Eventually some college or educational
organization will want me,” she says. In the meantime, it’s substitute teaching and per-diem work for
School for Field Studies and a publishing company.
“Life is exciting!” says Allison Reddington (MCS
22, Camp Staff ’01), who’s doing a year of service
with Americorps Vista, working with a small nonprofit called the Rural Appalachian Improvement
League (RAIL) in Mullens, WV. “My work focuses
on cleaning up abandoned mines that are contributing metals pollution to ground and surface
water.” During a leave of absence, Allison spent
five weeks studying nutrient cycling in Antarctica as
part of a Dartmouth College Environmental Studies
research team. “I often think of Chewonki and how
thankful I am for all the ideas it exposed me to and
the doors that have opened as a result.”
Andy Richardson (Camp Staff ’00–’04) has been
directing an outdoor education school program in
Washington State. He traveled to China in March
and hopes to start grad school next year.
Staff ’94–’98) and Eric Loucks. Anne Erler
Howell, Heidi Fessenden, Alison Hopcroft
(MCS 14, Camp Staff ’95–’00), Justin Reich, and
Ben Urquhart were all on hand for the festivities.
Betsy and Eric expect to move from Massachusetts
to Montreal soon, back to Eric’s Canadian roots.
Paul Taylor (Camp Staff ’03–’05) is living in the
great city of Austin, TX, working hard at saving
money and working on his pale white tan. “Lots of
paddling and climbing out here.” He hopes to be
on the Neck this summer.
We enjoyed seeing David Thayer (Camp ’71) of
Jamaica Plain, MA, last fall when he visited
Chewonki with his family. He will be running a
marathon later this year, to support the American
Stroke Association.
Critter Thompson (MCS 2, Camp Staff ’93, advisor) is a grad student in environmental science at
Yale. He spent the summer working in Seattle,
where the highlight was getting engaged. “If anyone is passing through New Haven, we'd love visitors.”
Jeff Rosenblum (Camp Staff ’95–’98) is in
Cambridge, MA, and executive director of the new
nonprofit LivableStreets Alliance. LSA aims to make
Boston a “more connected, livable city” by challenging people to think differently about transportation and to fight for a system that balances transit,
walking, and biking with cars. Check it out:
www.livablestreets.info.
Ben Urquhart (Camp & EE Staffs ’97, ’99,
’01–’03) has graduated from Yale Forestry School
and is working as a forester in and around Boston.
He lives with longtime girlfriend Julie Shoemaker
(Outreach & Camp Staffs ’01–’02) and is producing
a movie about global climate change.
Congratulations to Ola (Camp Staff ’01, ’03) and
Janek Ruszkowski (Camp Staff ’97, ’98, ’03), who
welcomed baby Barbara on 11-14-05 in Warsaw,
Poland. “Length 54 cm, weight 2750 g, recalculate
it to your crazy American units.”
Tessa van der Werff (MCS 14, Camp & EE Staffs
’01) and fiancé Robert Abbott (twin brother of
William) are growing flowers and veggies for farmers’ markets in Santa Barbara, CA. They plan to
marry this summer.
From Tim Schmitt (Camp ’80, EE Staff ’88–’92):
“I've been at Accenture as a systems Analyst for several months now. We love our new home in
Sterling, MA. Our daughter Annika is now 3 1/2.”
Christopher Van Dyke (Camp Staff ’00–’01)
works in Washington, D.C., for a company building
hydrogen generators. “I miss Maine!” he says.
Caitlin Scott (Camp Staff ’01-’02) has been traveling through Central America and hopes to return to
the Neck this summer. Brother Peter (Camp
’87–’89) married Mary Scheps of New Orleans on
11-12-05.
Thibaut Vonthron (Camp ’93–’97, Camp Staff
’03) of Belgium is at Penn State University on an
exchange program from his business school in
Marseille, France. He has been traveling a lot and
hopes to do an internship in Washington, D.C.
Lee Silverman (MCS 2, Camp Staff ’89–’90) runs
JackRabbit Sports, catering to triathletes, in NYC.
He and wife Teri have two children, Joshua and
Rachel.
Kevin Walker (Camp ’73–’77, Camp Staff ’82)
works in Los Angeles for the television industry. He
doesn’t get into the woods much but says “I often
think fondly of the solace, peace, and friendships
that were ever present at Chewonki.”
Linley Smith (MCS 13, Camp Staff ’97) is living
the good life in Guam, where her boyfriend is working on a marine biology degree and she’s a plant
disease diagnostician at the university. She “commutes” to Gainesville, FL, to work on her PhD.
Brothers Max and Sam Wechsler are both enjoying college. Sam (Camp ’99–’00) is a sophomore
at Lehigh, majoring in electrical engineering. Max
(Camp ’95–’00) is a freshman at Cornell, majoring
in psychology and minoring in poker.
A warm welcome to Finn Sullivan Snow, born 8-1605 to Cory and Sheila Sullivan Snow (Camp & EE
Staffs ’93–’98). Daughter Molly is 2. “We looking
forward to getting them in a canoe this summer!”
Laura Welles (Camp & EE Staffs ’99–’02) is an
attorney at the Maine Department of Environmental
Protection. “A few weeks ago I was driving up to
the Houlton District Court when I saw a Chewonki
van loaded with canoes. It got me thinking about
my time at Chewonki and how much I value the
experience I had working, leading, learning, and living there. I definitely carry the experiences with me
wherever I go. I just wanted to thank Chewonki for
giving me the opportunity to work and grow
there.”
People
Alene (Camp Staff ’01) and Jesse Reich (MCS 17,
Camp ’88, ’90, ’93, Camp Staff ’97–’98, ’01) are
“doing well and having a blast” in Portersville, PA.
Jesse received his PhD in inorganic chemistry last fall
and has a full-time position at the chemical company BASF. In his “newly acquired spare time,” he has
taken up glass blowing. “A few pieces may start
cropping up at the Neck.” Alene has started her
own design and decorating business.
Justin Reich (MCS 11, Camp ’87–’91, Camp Staff
’94–’05) and Elsa Olivetti (Camp Staff ’01–’04)
spent a few weeks this winter in Biloxi, MS, working
with HandsOnUSA.org to help clean up that devastated town. “Some folks have taken to calling the
group Hurricane Camp because this is well, sort of
like camp, except the activities are things like mold
removal and house gutting.” Check out their journal at http://nobles.typepad.com/middleeast. Their
next adventure will be leading a group from Noble
and Greenough School up Kilimanjaro.
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Alex Sonneborn (Camp ’97-’98) has graduated
from UVA and is applying to grad schools in zoology and ecology. He hopes to end up out West.
We’re thrilled to have a new baby “on staff”!
Director of Community Relations Betta Stothart
and husband Eric Christopher Connor are the joyful
parents of Beatrix Cora Connor, born on 2-7-06.
Chewonki was well represented at the September
marriage of Betsy Stubblefield (MCS 10, Camp
Another new baby! Lily Isabella Autumn West was
born 9-25-05 to Katie Church West (Camp Staff
’97–’00, ’04–’05) and Erik Hermann West of Bath,
ME.
Eliza Whiteman (MCS 21, Camp Staff ’99) is
moving to Washington State to finish college.
Retirement doesn’t seem to be slowing down
David Wingate (Camp Staff ’51–’52), who is still
active on the councils of the Bermuda National
Trust and Bermuda Audubon Society. “I often think
of Chewonki and read your newsletters avidly. My
very best wishes for the New Year.”
“Still enjoy living in beautiful Switzerland,” writes
Isaiah Wyner (Camp ’71–’72, Camp Staff &
Maine Reach ’74). “Our kids are growing fast; must
be the Swiss yogurt. Anna is now 11 and the twins,
Dezso and Sarah, are 8.”
For news of MCS alumni and faculty, see Coastlines.
IN MEMORIAM
We were saddened to learn of the
deaths of several alumni and friends
in the past year.
Charles Atherton (Camp Staff ’53–’55) died
on December 3, 2005, after being struck by a
car in Washington, D.C. He was 73 years old
and a noted architect and urban designer. As
Secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
from 1965 to 2004, he oversaw the design of
several major monuments and federal buildings in Washington, among them the
Roosevelt, Vietnam Veterans, and National
World War II Memorials. Chewonki contemporaries remember Chuck as head of the
Nature Program, and several of them wrote to
us after his death to share their memories of
those days. He is survived by two sons and a
daughter. Nephew Rick Frantz (Camp
’55–’59, Camp Staff ’62, ’65–’66, trustee) has
had a long association with Chewonki and
says it all began with his uncle.
Elisha Atkins (Camp ’33–’34) died on April
22, 2005, in Cambridge, MA. He graduated
from Harvard University and the University of
Rochester School of Medicine and was for
many years Professor of Medicine at Yale
University. He was also a passionate birder
and formed a lifelong friendship at Chewonki
with his nature counselor, Roger Tory Peterson.
Elisha’s registration card is still in the camp
files. Under “Activities to be emphasized,” his
mother wrote “Tennis and not too much stress
on birds. At present, he is neglecting everything else for birds.” In retirement Elisha and
his wife formed a nature preserve on his family’s property in Belmont, MA, which they later
donated to the Massachusetts Audubon
Society.
James Barnet (Camp ’36), a U.S. Navy veteran and longtime resident of Cape Cod, died
on August 15, 2005. He was delighted to
have a granddaughter, Pippa White (MCS 29,
Camp Staff ’04–’05), involved with Chewonki,
as well as three nephews: Peter, David, and
Daniel Barnet (Camp ’72, ’96, and ’04 respectively). He is also survived by his brother
Howard (Camp ’30–’34) and was predeceased
by his brother Bob (Camp ’31–’34).
Renewable Energy Sailing Adventure Featured on Fox News
When Fox News set out last year to prepare a special program on global climate change, its reporters
traveled more than 23,000 miles, interviewing top scientists, business leaders, and energy gurus around
the world. One of the places they visited was Chewonki, where they interviewed Renewable Energy
Pathways Coordinator Peter Arnold and participants in our week-long Renewable Energy Sailing
Adventure. The Sailing Adventure takes place every summer on the Vajra, our 33-foot wooden sailboat.
“The Heat Is On: The Case of Global Warming” aired on November 13, surprising and delighting
Chewonki friends across the country. Kevin Walker of Los Angeles probably spoke for many when he
wrote to tell us, “At first I thought was hearing things, but then they started showing images of camp,
and I certainly couldn’t deny the infamous Osprey!” Peter Arnold spoke eloquently, as did the sailorcampers: Robb Kirchner, Christina Huston, Tim Ferguson, Taggart Wass, and Margaret West
(daughter of MCS faculty members Scott Andrews and Sue West).
A wonderful surprise even for those who knew of the program ahead of time was seeing another
familiar face in it: Whitney Rapp of MCS 9. Whitney is a forest ranger for the National Park Service in
Alaska and was featured in the segment on invasive plants in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.
(The big surprise for Whitney was seeing Margaret West all grown up. “I used to change her diapers!”
she exclaimed.)
Juliet Hetzel (Camp Staff ’57), wife of
William B. Hetzel, Jr. (Camp ’43–’48, Camp
Staff ’54–’57, trustee), died on August 27,
2005. Bill and Juliet honeymooned at
Chewonki in 1957, and their steadfast support
of all our activities has remained strong ever
since. Two of their children—Bill (Camp
’77–’80, Camp Staff ’82, trustee) and Anne
(Camp ’79)—are also affiliated with Chewonki,
as is nephew Ted Deinard (Camp ’83–’87,
Camp Staff ’88, ’91, ’93–’94). In 1996, after
35 years in Concord, MA, Bill and Juliet retired
to a home they built across from Chewonki on
Montsweag Bay. Juliet was a former educator
at St. Anne's School (now known as Germane
Lawrence School) and Concord Academy and
an avid horsewoman.
No words can convey the profound sadness
that swept through the Chewonki community
when we learned of the death on November
13, 2005, of Julia Minard (Camp ’00, MCS
28). Julia was twenty years old, a literature
and art major at Colorado College, and was
spending a semester studying Mayan culture
and Spanish in Guatemala when she was murdered on a backpacking trip to Belize. A service of celebration was held for Julia on the
Saturday after Thanksgiving at Grace Church
in Brooklyn Heights, NY, and many of her MCS
classmates were in attendance.
To look through the MCS 28 yearbook is to
be reminded again and again of what a joyful
presence Julia was at Chewonki. There she is,
smiling on Dish Crew 4, hamming it up in a
paper-bag skit on Saturday night, climbing
Saddleback, knitting with friends in the
Wallace, making mischief with her cabinmates
in Binnacle. She brought that same joy and
energy to the classroom and was a bright and
committed student.
Julia is survived by her mother, Elizabeth
Bailey, and her sister, Sara Minard (MCS 22).
Her father, Laury Minard, died in 2001. In
remembering how much Julia made of her
short life, her family hopes her memory can
nurture the same creative spirit in other young
people. Contributions in Julia’s name can be
made to the Julia Minard Scholarship Fund for
the Arts at Colorado College, 14 East Cache la
Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80903.
Robert Niss (Camp ’58–’63, Camp Staff ’65,
former advisor) died on August 4, 2005. Bob
started writing for the Chronicle in 1958 while
he was at camp and later turned that interest
into a lifetime avocation. He wrote the “Back
Forty” column in the Maine Sunday Telegram for
many years and also wrote several books.
Among them was Faces of Maine (1981), which
featured Chewonki founder Clarence Allen.
Bob was part of a three-generation legacy at
Chewonki, being the son of former trustee Bill
Niss (see below) and the father of Josh Niss, a
camper in 1992.
William Niss (former trustee) of Scarborough,
ME, died on March 30, 2006, at the age of
ninety. He graduated from Dartmouth College
and the Harvard School of Business
Administration and enjoyed a long and happy
career in this country and abroad until his
retirement in 1975. Bill was active in several
professional organizations and dozens of nonprofits, among them Chewonki. He was our
first Treasurer of the Board and remained a
strong supporter of the institution, continuing
to attend board meetings until just a few years
ago. Bill is survived by a daughter, a sister, and
several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
We are saddened to report the untimely death
of Ben Schepps (Camp ’92–’95) of Dallas, TX.
His twin brother, Phil (Camp ’92–’96), predeceased him in 2002. Ben is survived by his
parents and a stepbrother, Jake Schepps (Camp
’80–’81).
Christopher Wallace (Camp ’60–’63) died on
August 29, 2005. It is Chris’s father George
(Camp & Camp Staff ’27–’38, former trustee)
for whom the Wallace Center is named. Don
Hudson met with Chris the day after his father’s
death in January 2004, and they spent the day
reminiscing about their families’ involvement
with Chewonki. “Chris shared his father’s love
of Chewonki and looked forward to a time
when he might become more directly involved
as well. Sadly, his death robbed us both of the
opportunity to work together,” Don said
recently. Chris is survived by a sister, Pamela,
and a nephew and former camper, Curtis
Mueller (Camp ’81, ’84).
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New Office of
Alumni Relations
Wants to Hear from You!
Dick Thomas is Chewonki’s first Director of
Alumni Relations, and he wants to hear from you.
“The best part of Chewonki is the people you
associate with while you’re here,” says Dick.
“I hope to enable folks to reconnect with those
friends, and with the institution, in a variety of
ways.”
An upcoming capital campaign in the next few
years will provide several opportunities for both
informal and formal gatherings across the country.
In the meantime, we’re eager to know what kinds
of activities alumni would like Chewonki to offer.
Special trips to far-away places? Sailing trips on
the Maine coast? Dinners and/or natural history
excursions in areas near you? Or what about right
here on the Neck: would you like to participate in
events or volunteer at Chewonki? We’ll have a
new website soon, and we’d love to know what
you’d like to see in the alumni section. Please
send Dick your ideas.
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Dick is also putting out a call for Chewonki memorabilia. If you have some kicking around your attic,
perhaps you’d consider donating it to us. “We are
actively assembling archival materials,” says Dick,
“and hope to display more in
the coming years, especially as we approach our
centennial in 2015.”
Whether you’ve been
a camper, wilderness
tripper, MCS student, or EE
program participant, we
hope you’ll stay in touch.
Write to Dick at Chewonki,
or contact him at
[email protected]
or at 207-882-7323.
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