Chronicle Spring 2003

SPRING 2003 THE CHEWONKI FOUNDATION HRONICLE

AMYTHICAL PLACE CHEWONKI LANDS A PIECE OF MAINE’S HISTORY

Chewonki President Don Hudson remembers the day he learned Big Eddy might be up for sale. Barely able to contain his enthusiasm, he walked the Farm House hallway to Wilderness Programs Director Greg Shute’s office and, with his best attempt at understatement, casually mentioned the news. “Greg’s jaw nearly hit the floor when I asked him if buying Big Eddy would be a good idea,” recalls Don. Indeed, it was a very good idea, and Don and others worked hard to make it happen. In August 2002, Chewonki purchased Big Eddy Campground, situated on a famous salmon pool on the West Branch of the Penobscot River. The deal protected one of the most valuable recreation properties in the Northeast and was made possible by the generosity of one anonymous donor. With its purchase, Chewonki has taken title of more than just a campground. It is now the custodian of a piece of Maine history. Continued on page 16

INSIDE 2 PRESIDENT’S NOTES 4 COMING BACK TO CAMP 8 TAKING THE MCS SCIENCE EXAM 13 A TWO-MILLION-YEAR JOURNEY 21 PEOPLE INSERT: ANNUAL REPORT PRESIDENT’S NOTES

On August 25, 1930, in his annual Parents’ Bulletin, Camp Chewonki founder THE CHEWONKI Clarence Allen wrote “I want all of you to know that throughout every day there FOUNDATION 485 Chewonki Neck Road has been constant striving here to create an atmosphere of sincerity, of joy in Wiscasset, Maine 04578-4822 (207) 882-7323 doing for others, and of joy in the doing of hard work.” Fax: (207) 882-4074 email: [email protected] www.chewonki.org The essence of a Chewonki experience is captured community with others by providing educational CHEWONKI FOUNDATION STAFF Don Hudson, President in those words, offered by the Boss almost 75 years experiences that foster an understanding and appre- Scott Andrews, Maine Coast Semester, Director Dot Lamson, Environmental Education, Director ago. Our mission statement—written in 1962 when ciation of the natural world and that emphasize the Greg Shute, Wilderness Programs, Director the year-round Chewonki Foundation was created— power of focused, collective effort.” Dick Thomas, Camp Chewonki, Director was drawn from these sentiments, which have I like Clarence Allen’s treatment of the mission! William Abbott, Farm Intern echoed through the ages. We say that Chewonki “is Over the years we have applied this vision to one Ingrid Albee, Health Care Coordinator Mark Albee, Farm and Woodlot Manager dedicated to helping people grow individually and in wonderful program after another. Where campers Peter Arnold, Renewable Energy Pathways Project Coordinator Paul Arthur, Maine Coast Semester, English, E.I., and Admissions Madeline Bachner, Outreach Intern Amy Barker, Accounting Assistant Hauns Bassett, Big Eddy Campground, Manager; Outreach Cathy Callam, Maine Coast Semester, Math Emily Clark, Cook Chris Coleman, Outreach, Assistant Program Director Jenn Cross, Environmental Education Erin Cummings, Development Assistant Robin Dabney, Maine Coast Semester, Alumni Relations and Admissions Matthew Douglas, Environmental Education/Boat Builder Lynne Flaccus, Head Naturalist Pam Foxley, Outreach Ginny Freeman, Camp Registrar Bob Gilmore, Buildings and Grounds Bill Hinkley, Maine Coast Semester, Math Lucy Hull, Development Director Anna Hunt, Outreach, Director Lee Huston, Boat Builder and Waterfront Manager Pieter Ingram, Outreach Bob Jackson, Facilities Manager Donna Jackson, Receptionist/Secretary Carol James, Facilities Brad Johnson, Assistant Farm Manager Loryn Kipp, Kitchen Manager Don Lamson, Carpenter Ginny Libby, Receptionist/Secretary Ryan Linehan, Wilderness Programs, Assistant Director Meadow Linn, Maine Coast Semester, French Annie Merrill, Chief of Staff Linda Moore, Cook Michelle Morgenstern, Environmental Education, Program Director Kimberly Pelletier, Big Eddy Campground, Manager Logan Perkins, Environmental Education Chris Riley, Outdoor Equipment and Logistics Manager Amy Rogers, Maine Coast Semester, English Melina Shannon-DiPietro, Maine Coast Semester, History and Environmental Issues Sara Stewart, Maine Coast Semester, Spanish Betta Stothart, Director of Community Relations Ed Thompson, Librarian Kathy Thompson, Business Manager Kate Tremblay, Environmental Education, Assistant Program Director Jessica Wasilewski, Maine Coast Semester, Math and Work Program Coordinator Sue West, Maine Coast Semester, Art Ken Wise, Carpenter Bill Zuehlke, Maine Coast Semester, Science Elizabeth Zuehlke, Development Associate

CHRONICLE STAFF Elizabeth Pierson, Editor Annie Merrill, Assistant Editor Betta Stothart, Assistant Editor Fall Design,2 Design and counselors sailed in sloops in the 1930s, we When the opportunity came to purchase the Big now paddle kayaks built in our shop. Maine Coast Eddy Campground, we reflected for a moment and Semester students struggle to understand the intri- said, “We can do this!” The months have flown as cacies of fisheries management in the Gulf of the work and future plans have unfolded. The sum- Maine. Thirty years ago, Maine Reach students mer experiences envisioned for the Big Eddy are explored forest management issues and a proposal built on the solid foundation of 88 years of summer to build an oil refinery near Eastport—with the camp experience. Young people who learn to paddle same dedication and passion as their modern-day a kayak and hike the slopes of Katahdin, or paddle a counterparts. Students in our residential environ- canoe to a quiet corner of Third Debsconeag Lake, mental education programs have had the most con- will be sharing a Chewonki experience with thou- stant experience, I believe. We remain the only sands of others who came before them. environmental and conservation education center If we continue to create an atmosphere of sincer- in the country—the world—where small groups of ity, of joy in doing for others, and of joy in the students camp with their teachers and Chewonki doing of hard work, we shall succeed at the Big staff while learning about life in coastal ecosystems Eddy and at all of our endeavors at Chewonki. ■ and learning to work together. W. DONALD HUDSON, JR.

OM TH FR E N CHEWONKI PURCHASES AN ISLAND DOWNEAST S E Chewonki is the proud new owner of what Don Hudson calls “one of the prettiest campsites on Maine’s DownEast coast.” W C

E K It’s 7-acre Bowline Head, situated in Pleasant Bay east of Schoodic Peninsula. The island was owned for more than 75 years by the N

Chewonki Neck Ewing family, which has a long connection to Chewonki. Don’s wife, Josephine Ewing, proposed the sale to Chewonki over a year ago, and it was finalized last December. A conservation easement was placed on the island at the time of the sale and was trans- ferred to the Great Auk Land Trust. “This was a bargain for Chewonki,” says Don. “The island was appraised at $110,000 and sold for $30,000. The difference is the value of the conservation easement, for which the Ewings can realize a tax deduction. This is an excellent, and often used, mechanism for protecting land.” The conservation easement allows for a campsite and the right to build a lean-to and tent platforms, thus ensuring a safe harbor for Chewonki trippers DownEast. Work will begin in the summer of 2004—carefully timed so it doesn’t interfere with the nesting cycle of the two Bald Eagles that took up residence on the island last spring. “An added bonus!” notes Don.

CHEWONKI MAKES “GREEN” CONNECTIONS Chewonki is one of five charter members of the newly formed Maine Green Power Connection, an innovative program bringing “green” power to customers across Maine. Chewonki President Don Hudson and Renewable Energy Pathways Coordinator Peter Arnold took part in the program’s public announcement on January 23. Since then, nearly 350 customers have signed up for the program, despite a slightly higher charge—1.5 cents per kilowatt hour—on their electric bill. The program offers residential customers and small business owners two ways to purchase electricity generated from clean, 100% renewable domestic sources (e.g., wind, solar, biomass, and low-impact hydro- electric facilities). Customers who purchase “Green Tags” don’t switch their electricity supplier but make a tax-deductible donation to put more green electricity onto the power grid in the U.S. Also, a portion of the revenue from Green Tag sales will be invested in new renewable energy facilities here in Maine. Customers who purchase “Green Supply” do switch their supplier and buy electricity generated from existing renewable energy facilities in Maine. (They do not, however, switch their provider, e.g., CMP or Bangor HydroElectric.) Supporters of the project believe many Maine citizens will opt for a slightly higher electric bill in exchange for the benefits of supporting “green” power, thus helping preserve our environment, health, and energy independence. Chewonki is among the program’s first customers, having purchased Green Tags for the Center for Environmental Education and Green Supply for the Farm House. Residents interested in signing up for the program (which takes only a few minutes and does not change how a customer is billed) can call 207-729-9665 or visit www.meipl.org (the website of Maine Interfaith Power and Light, another charter member of Maine Green Power Connection).

3 COMING BACK TO CAMP Where “now” looks Camp Director Dick Thomas hears it time and time again. “Returning campers, remarkably like “then” whether they’ve been away for 10 years or 50 years, tell me they get chills driving down the road to camp,” he says. It may be paved now, but the familiar approach is still long and straight, still lined only with trees, and it immediately evokes a flood of memories.

Of boats, swinging on their moorings at the water- front. Of Tent Days and Cabin Trips. Of Saturday night campfires and hiking in the Camden Hills. Of racing for the dining hall and scrambling to make a line when the big bell rings. “A few folks are ini- tially disconcerted to see some new buildings,” Dick says. “But the moment they see the lower field, with the baseball diamond sitting amid that cluster of simple red screened cabins, the years slip away and they feel like they never left.” Not everything is as unchanged as the road and the lower field, of course, but it’s remarkable how similar the place does remain. “A lot of people comment that the trees look taller than they remember—which they are—and that the campus and buildings look smaller—which they aren’t,” Dick says. “But overall people are usually amazed at how much they recognize, whenever they were here.” It’s no wonder, really. Most of the cabins built in the ’30s and ’40s, for example, are still home to campers each summer: Jungle, Long Hall, Crow’s Nest, Fenway, Stockade, Quarter Deck, Fo’c’s’le, New Hall, and Outhaul among them. And campers still brush their teeth and wash their faces at the Plaza and the Palace. Anyone looking for the Nature Museum, which Roger Tory Peterson creat- ed out of an old chicken coop, probably in the sum- mer of 1929, can find it on its original site behind the Farm House—and may well recognize some of the items in it. There’s still a lean-to at The Point,

4 ABOVE: TIM ELLIS

LEADING SUNDAY

SERVICE AT CAMPFIRE

CIRCLE, CIRCA 1975;

AND THE WATERFRONT,

PROBABLY 1935.

LEFT: CAMPERS FROM

STOCKADE GETTING

READY FOR A TRIP, 1996.

which remains a place of great beauty and signifi- to old age and had to be taken down a few years ago, cance for campers, and there’s still a well-trodden but its large stump, topped with a beautifully path to the Pumphouse, that beautiful gully deep in inscribed brass plaque, remains an important gather- the woods. And even with its enlarged grandstand, ing spot. Campers still sing and tell stories and and the addition of kayaks since the mid-1970s, the have Saturday night campfire here, and ‘Neath the waterfront looks much as it did more than half a Pine Tree is still a much-loved camp song, even if century ago. the tree itself is gone. And although less formal Interestingly, what many former campers note as than it used to be, Sunday morning’s worship serv- the single most significant change, says Dick, is the ice continues to be held here, too. absence of one tree—the magnificent old pine that It’s probably not surprising that in a place where used to tower over Campfire Circle. It succumbed a vanished tree can still cast a spell, traditions also

5 CAMP CHEER Still heard countless times a summer! Kennebec-bec-coek, coek, Sagadahoc-ahoc-amock, Wiscasset chow, Nequasset chaw, Chew ‘em up quick, Chewonki, Chewonki, Chewonki!

endure—and endure in abundance. “We tend to hear from a fair number of former campers,” says Dick, “and it’s always striking how many of their most vivid memories are of things we still do at camp today.” Sunday afternoon Scouting Games between the Sags and Hocs. Sag-Hoc sailing regat- tas. Cabin Trips. Hikes up Katahdin, Saddleback, and Mt. Washington. Tent Day and Tent Day lunches (and how amazing that those terms are still used, given that almost no campers have lived in tents since the early ’30s!). Nature study and wood- craft. Baseball. Ice cream on Sundays. Tennis games beneath the pines. The summer Chronicle, though it’s now an “irregular” rather than a weekly. The list goes on and on. And of course there’s still time for quieter pursuits, such as reading and chess, picking wild raspberries, visiting the barn, or walk- ing up Blueberry Hill to lie on a sun-warmed rock and simply daydream. Even the daily schedule— grams, among them a fledgling girls’ camp in north- with the bell ringing for activity periods, appetizers, western Maine, co-ed wilderness expeditions, salt rest hour, and lights out—remains largely marsh farm experiences, and two one-week environ- unchanged. mental education camps. Relative newcomers they None of this is meant to imply, of course, that may be, but all of these programs are thoroughly there have not also been substantial changes at infused with the Chewonki spirit and beautifully camp. There have been. Most notably, Camp complement the traditional boys’ camp that preced- Chewonki now includes several additional pro- ed them. “What we’re able to do now,” says Dick,

6 Old Traditions Gone for Good …And New Traditions Here to Stay (We Think!)… (We Think!) Fourth of July Horribles Parade Sea kayaking and whitewater kayaking Haircuts Cabin read-alouds at bedtime The traveling library that drove into camp once a week Annual Camper-Counselor Tennis Tournament (far more books are now available in the permanent Making solar-operated battery rechargers Roger Tory Peterson Library) Capture the Rocks (a giant Capture the Flag, played on Outhouses Sunday evenings) Gray flannels and “Kay” clothes Mastering the ropes course in the barn Gilbert and Sullivan productions (learning all those parts Resupply for longer wilderness trips was too much pressure) Gorp and Bricks (trail food) Mail call (too demoralizing for kids who never got any) Kingdoms (a game with three teams—each divided into Horseback riding Kings, Knights, and Bishops—played on the lower field) Riflery

“is provide the Chewonki experience to a much wider spectrum of young people. It’s a thrill to have sisters, nieces, and granddaughters participating in our programs now.” On August 25, 1930, in his annual Parents’ Bulletin, Clarence Allen wrote “I want all of you to know that throughout every day there has been con- stant striving here to create an atmosphere of sin- cerity, of joy in doing for others, and of joy in the doing of hard work.” In a world of rapid and enor- mous change, and sometimes anxious uncertainty, the Boss’s words are still apt. And a Chewonki summer is still full of excitement, enrichment, and in the words of one longtime camper, “adventure without parallel.” ■

7 TAKING THE MCS SCIENCE EXAM

8 Students encounter a significant new learning experience, even on the last day of class

simple declarative sentence at the Bill’s course is officially known as The Natural top of page 2 in the Maine Coast History of the Maine Coast, and it is one of two Semester brochure sums up the aca- required core courses at MCS. (The other is the demic program this way: “Although English course, Literature and the Land.) Assisted much of [it] is similar to what stu- by Head Naturalist Lynne Flaccus and President Adents would expect to find in their sending schools, Don Hudson (who started the course 15 years ago there are also many differences.” A perfect case in and now teaches the ornithology supplement), Bill point is the final exam given by science teacher Bill introduces every MCS student to the organisms and Zuehlke. Like many finals, it seeks to synthesize a ecological processes of the Maine coast. Although semester of learning, to illuminate for students how he readily acknowledges that lectures, textbooks, much they’ve learned, and indirectly to foster a and labs all have their value in a natural science sense of accomplishment and pride. But the dress classroom, he relies on a more exciting method to code? “Well, that’s a little different,” Bill admits. bring his subject to life. “We open the door and go A little? Even at MCS there’s no other final that exploring,” he explains quite simply. Once a week requires students to show up (whether in May or the students complement their four hours in the December) with plenty of warm clothing, hat and classroom with an afternoon field trip led by Bill, mittens, boots, sunscreen, water bottle, clipboard, Lynne, and sometimes Don, visiting nine different and backpack. It’s all essential, however, because habitats over the course of the semester. Whether there’s also no other final that’s six hours long and they set up and survey a forest plot, census a bog, or takes place entirely outdoors. kick-net insects in a river, they take copious notes To fully appreciate this unconventional exam is on each habitat, key out the flora and fauna, make to know something first about what it examines. sketches, and later write up detailed field reports.

9 “When students have been such active learners in a class, I think their final exam should reflect and capitalize on that.” – BILL ZUEHLKE

10 By the end of the semester each student has also If it sounds like a long and demanding day, it is. produced his or her own “Field Guide to the Maine It is also a somewhat frantic day, punctuated at each Coast,” based entirely on personal observations and station by countless calls of “Amy!” (or “Paul!” , typically replete with 200-plus organisms. “When “Scott!”, “Meadow!”) “How many minutes left?” students have been such active learners in a class,” By all accounts, though, especially from the stu- says Bill, “I think their final exam should reflect dents, the day is also “exciting” and, yes, even and capitalize on that.” “fun.” The fact that the exam is essentially a com- Whether it happens in December or May, on a munity event is especially appreciated. Also, like so day of snow or of luminous sun, the scenario is many other things MCS students encounter, an all- remarkably consistent. At 8:00 A.M. the students day outdoor exam is a first, and they take pride in assemble at the vans and leave Chewonki for the stretching themselves to meet that challenge. They 30-minute ride to Reid State Park in Georgetown. know beforehand that anything covered in class or Reid lies on the open ocean due south of Chewonki on field trips, including their weekly bird class with Neck and is the quintessence of coastal Maine: 800 Don, will be fair game, and they study hard to pre- acres of coniferous and deciduous woods, salt marsh pare themselves. “It’s an exam of biblical propor- and lagoons, rocky headlands, tide pools, and more tions,” said one wag who took it last May. “You than a mile and a half of sandy beach. In short, it’s better study for it.” Her cabin-mate assessed it a bit a perfect place for an exam on the natural history of the Maine coast. It’s also a place the students delib- erately are not brought before the exam, thus requir- ing them to apply their knowledge and skills in a new setting. As the students tumble out of the vans and get Wisconsin native Bill Zuehlke says the organized, it’s obvious they are indeed prepared for anything a day of Maine weather can throw at them. word “dare” is too strong a word for There are backpacks, outerwear, boots, and water why he became a high-school science bottles in just about every color. There are also teacher, but it’s not entirely off-base. binoculars, water analysis kits, tape measures, As a biology/environmental science/ meter sticks, compasses, magnifying glasses, dip geology major at Colby College in nets, and carefully tucked into backpacks and pock- Waterville, Maine, he always assumed ets, the students’ own beautiful field guides (which may be used on only certain sections of the exam). he’d pursue a research career, as his Courtesy of the kitchen, there are even bags of gorp, oceanographer father had. Then came to tide anyone over should their energy start to flag. a curve ball. In his senior year, a family friend and private-school headmaster Several faculty members are on hand to help, Lynne asked Bill if he’d ever considered teaching. “When I told him no,” recalls Bill, and Don among them, and spirits are high. When “he all but dared me to give it a try, telling me I could always move on to everyone is ready, Bill explains how the day will work. It is no mean feat to orchestrate this exam research if I didn’t like it.” (or later, to grade it), and he must be sure all parties Today, armed with a master’s degree from Wesleyan University, where he know what to do. concentrated in field studies, Bill is in his 17th year of teaching high-school The gist of it is this. Beginning about 9:00 A.M., science. After three years at Kents Hill School in Maine and ten years at The the students answer questions and complete a series Taft School in Connecticut, he came to MCS four years ago, drawn specifically of tasks at nine different stations, all of which are by the opportunity to teach field-based science. “There aren’t many high allotted a set time (in most cases 20 minutes). At four of the stations they take individual written schools where you can do that,” he says. “Taft is a sending school for MCS, tests, but at the five habitat stations they work so I knew all about the program. And when a letter came across my desk together in small groups. The groups comprise the from Scott [Andrews] saying there was an opening for a science teacher, I same students all day, and a faculty observer accom- couldn’t resist applying.” panies each one. Their role is not only to lend a Bill lives on the Chewonki campus with his wife, Elizabeth, and their two hand logistically but also to note how individual students contribute to their group, which Bill takes young children. “I love what I’m doing,” he says. “I spent a lot of time at sea into account when he grades the exam. There’s a when I was a kid, and a lot of time fooling around in tide pools, so I know 50-minute break at noon for a cookout—and the firsthand how exciting it is to learn outdoors, poking around and investigating requisite game of Frisbee, of course (this is the and asking the questions that naturally follow. Unfortunately I also have some beach, after all!)—but otherwise there isn’t a spare firsthand experience with how boring traditional high-school science classes minute until mid-afternoon when the exam is fin- can be. To be able to teach a course like The Natural History of the Maine ished. Before the students divide into their groups and head for their first station, Bill always has one Coast, and to help open my students’ eyes to the physical world around final reminder: “I wish you all the best of luck,” he them, is a great privilege and a great joy.” says. “And remember to have FUN!”

11 “A FINAL EXAM CAN BE A more circumspectly: “Bill’s final is hard,” she said, is often done by someone wearing mittens or gloves “but it isn’t unfair. I liked it because it really does is what can really stump me.” The individual por- POWERFUL EXPERIENCE FOR draw on everything you learn during the semester.” tions of the exam are at least in a uniform hand- STUDENTS. IT’S EXCITING “Everything you learn” turns out to be remark- writing, but they are no less challenging for the stu- FOR THEM TO DISCOVER ably impressive. Consider, for example, what the dents: a multiple-choice and short-answer test taken students must accomplish in 45 minutes at the at the picnic tables in the park shelter, two stations FIRSTHAND THE DEPTH OF rocky intertidal station. This is the longest section on field identification of plants and animals, and a KNOWLEDGE AND TALENT on the exam and, because it must be timed for low birdwatching quiz with Don. THEY’VE ACQUIRED OVER tide, the only one every group does together. This When the exam is finally finished, about 3:00 past December, each group was given a four-page P.M., it’s no wonder students and their teachers THE SEMESTER.” handout on which they had to (1) briefly describe alike are exhausted. But they are usually enthusias- how the rocks they were standing on came to be tic as well. “Most students view a final exam as a formed and positioned; (2) establish a transect line stressful way for a teacher to evaluate their from the water level to the supralittoral zone and progress,” says Bill. “But a final exam can also be a describe what intertidal zones were present in it; (3) powerful experience for students. It’s so exciting for measure pH, dissolved oxygen, salinity, carbon diox- them to discover firsthand the depth of knowledge ide, temperature, and hardness in a tide pool and and talent they’ve acquired over the semester.” define and describe their importance in an ecosys- Students and other MCS faculty echo that senti- tem; and (4) draw a scaled sketch of the tide pool ment. As a Maine student who took the exam last and list all the organisms in it, including either December said, “Doing all those things in one place, their abundance or approximate cover. For extra on one day really does make you realize how much credit they could explain why fog melts more of a you’ve learned.” Longtime English teacher Amy snow pack than a rainstorm does. “Do ONLY if you Rogers concurs. “I usually see a growing sense of have time!” said the top of that page. Amazingly, satisfaction as the day progresses,” she says. “I most groups did. think the exam really is a revelation for the kids.” There are similar challenges at the salt marsh, She also notes how wonderful it is to watch them stream velocity, forest survey, and beach stations. pool ideas and work so well together and “how Please set up a 15- by 15-meter forest plot and carry adept they are at knitting together abstract concepts out a tree census on it. Describe the stages of suc- with practical skills.” cession a freshwater lake would undergo to reach It’s usually about 4:00 P.M. when the vans pull the forest climax community of this region. Design into Chewonki. For everyone involved, it’s been a an experiment to show that the flowering of good day. It’s also been a very long day. Did I forget American Beach Grass is a result of the rhizomes to mention that this exam actually started before being exposed to light, and make sure your methods breakfast, when the students were excused from are able to discount all other possibilities except morning chores so Don could test them on their sunlight. And so on. Groups quickly realize that bird calls? For Bill, it’s time to start thinking about their only hope for answering so many questions in grading this whopper of an exam. For his students, such a short time is to divvy up the tasks, so the it’s time to start celebrating it. Cartwheels across first order of business is usually deciding who will the quad, anyone? “It’s certainly been known to tackle what. Consequently, it’s not unusual for Bill happen,” says Bill. He shakes his head and smiles. to see three or four people’s handwriting on one sec- “Last May they didn’t even wait to get home. MCS tion of the exam. “Hey, sometimes I see that in a 28 turned cartwheels right down the beach.” ■ single question,” he says. “The fact that the writing ELIZABETH PIERSON

OM TH MAINE COAST SEMESTER CELEBRATES 15 YEARS! FR E N S If you’re an MCS alum, we hope you’ll save the date of Saturday, June 7, and join us for a celebration on Chewonki Neck. E

W C You’ll have a full day to catch up with old friends, meet and mingle with students from other semesters, and visit with

E K past and present faculty. In true MCS spirit, you’ll also be able to help out on the farm, practice your spinning and N weaving, canoe the salt marsh, hike up Blueberry Hill or out to The Point, visit your solo site, or go on a bird walk! Lunch and dinner will be provided, and in the evening we’ll kick up our heels with a contradance. Those who wish to spend the night may stay in single-sex cabins or pitch a tent in the lower field. The cost is $25 per person, to cover expenses. Since anything beyond that will be donated to the MCS Scholarship Fund, however, we suggest payment of $50. For more information or to register, contact Robin Dabney, Director of MCS Alumni Relations, at [email protected] or (207) 882-7323 ext. 27; or download a registration form, available on our new! Alumni Page at www.chewonki.org.

12 THE CHEWONKI FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2001-2002 his has been an important winter for taking stock. New England farmers routinely check in early February to see if they have half their hay remain- ing in the barn and half their firewood remaining in the woodpile. Generations of New Englanders used one almanac or another to gauge their needs Tin the months leading up to winter. We would have learned last July that the winter ahead would be hard and long had we remem- bered to check the almanac! When we took stock in early February, we knew we had enough wood to heat the Wallace Center, the Gatehouse, and the Maine Coast Semester cabins. The wood was not where it needed to be in all cases, but with a little work we could ensure that dry, seasoned hardwood was available for everyone’s needs—and just outside the door. The hay is another matter! If the greening of Hoyt’s pasture is delayed this spring, we may need to supplement our supply from a neighbor’s. Planning for the future is fairly routine work around Chewonki Neck. If we did not think ahead, we would not be able to respond to the needs of the moment. Cabin counselors, Maine Coast Semester faculty, Environmental Education instructors, the Farm Manager, and everyone else at Chewonki make plans every day. They gather their tools and their charges together and create the myriad experiences that make this place hum. The manner in which people experience Chewonki varies. A day program here, an hour-long traveling natural history program there. We paddle kayaks along the coast of Maine and the coast of Australia. We hike the Barren Chairback Range near Gulf Hagas and walk the shores of Baffin Island. Campers lend a hand by scrubbing the showers on the field, just as MCS students wash dishes and attend to farm chores. We have made headlines (and received awards) with our renewable energy project, and we are transforming a wonderful campground on the shores of Maine’s pre- eminent whitewater river. As we take stock, I am touched by the large number of people who remember their time here or who appreciate the experience their children and grandchildren had at Chewonki. You can’t imag- ine how much support we feel by your letters, calls, questions, vis- its, and gifts. When the nights are long and the days short, when a group is struggling to build bonds of friendship and cooperation, you provide the strength and wisdom that come from past experi- ence. When the world and its future seem uncertain, you help us see bright visions of the future—and remind us that what Chewonki has to offer remains even more important and more rele- vant than ever. Chewonki is the sum of all our energies and efforts. I hope you enjoy reading this catalogue of activities, and I hope you see your- self reflected in some part of it. Many thanks for your continued interest and support.

W. Donald Hudson, Jr. President DONORS TO THE 2001-2002 ANNUAL APPEAL

DONORS TO THE Mr. and Mrs. David I. Barton Mr. Jonathan Breen Mr. Michael G. Ciborski 2001-2002 Ms. Jennifer Barton Mr. Peter G. Briggs Mr. Michael R. Ciborski ANNUAL APPEAL Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan H. Bates H. Day and Catherine V. Brigham Mr. and Mrs. F. Eugene Clark Gifts received between September 1, Mrs. Robert C. Bates The Brody Brothers’ Foundation Ms. Mary L. Cleverdon 2001 and August 31, 2002 Dale and Judy Bauer David and Laura Brody Ms. Courtney Clinkscales Ellen Baum and Jeff Fischer Michael Brody and Laura Mentch The Grady Clinkscales Family UNRESTRICTED GIFTS Mickey and Marty Baumrind Toby and Martha Brooks Gerald and Barbara Clow (Gifts to the Endowment appear at Ms. Maureen S. Bayer Joshua Brown and Zoe Richards Ms. Margaret Coakley the end of this report) Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Beal, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Don E. Coates 12 Anonymous Mr. Stephen C. Bechtel Mr. Thomas G. Brown Ms. Jan Coates Ms. June Abbott Judy and David Beebe Jennifer Browne and Family Tomlin P. Coggeshall and Ms. Claudia Abbott-Barish Scott and Laura Beebe Mr. Sam Bryant Christopher I. Rice Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert D. Abele Ms. Palmer Beerbohm Mrs. Vera Buchanan Rick and Jan Cohen Phil and Tucker Adams Frank and Joan Behrendt The Honorable Thomas D. Bull Mrs. Constance Cohn Tony Aeck and Frank Hull Ms. Joanne Belk Mr. George H. Bunnell Ray and Janice Colbert Mark and Ingrid Albee Mr. Samuel E. Belk III Mr. John H. Burbank, Jr. The Coleman Foundation Read and Jo Anne Albright Mr. Donald Bell Ms. Michelle G. Burbank Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Coleman Jackie and Julius Alexander Ms. Frances. B. Bell Mrs. Polly B. Burke Charles Collins and Anne Childs John and Karen Alexander Ms. Betsy Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Burnett Mr. Peter L. Collins Libby and Robert Alexander Ms. Macky Bennett Harold and Susan Burnett Mr. and Mrs. Douglass M. Bill and Joan Alfond Nancy and Arnold Bennett Ms. Liz Burroughs Compton, Jr. Ms. Kenden Alfond Ms. Joy Benson Susan and Franklin Burroughs Ms. Katharine Conover The William L. Alfond Foundation Ms. Stephanie Berghuis Jeff and Allee Burt Mr. Jock Conyngham Mr. E. Davies Allan Mrs. Helene Berinsky Ms. Helen Burton Mr. and Mrs. John N. Mr. John L. Allen Tom and Cindy Bertocci Jonathan and Deborah Butler Conyngham III Andrew and Michelle Aloe Ms. Amy C. Berube Susie and Sted Buttrick Mr. Daniel J. Coon Gaylene and Leonard Altman Dr. Marianne Berwick Elizabeth I. Byrne, Ed.D. Mr. and Mrs. Seth Coon Mr. Douglas Ambach Peter and Cynthia Biber Ralph and Kail Cadman Vance and Jan Cope-Kasten Ben and Shannon Ames Mr. Alfred B. Bigelow Mr. and Mrs. E. John Calihan Mr. Winsor R. Copeland Ms. Karrie Amsler Mr. and Mrs. Chester Billings, Jr. Ms. Grace Calihan Mrs. Isabelle Cornelus Mr. T. R. Amsler Ms. Sheryl A. Blair Ms. Cathy Callam Mr. Bruce Cornuelle Ms. Virginia L. Amsler Mr. Robert Blake Mr. Charles A. Calligan Lee and Anne Cotton Helfried and Kendra Anderl Mr. Richard F. Bland Mr. and Mrs. David H. Campbell Ms. Rachel Cotton Ms. Claire Anderson Daniel Blitzer and Joyce Frater Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Campbell, Jr. Rick Cotton and Jamie Fellner Richard and Patricia Anderson Ms. Jane S. Block Nancy and Lanny Carroll Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Coviello Ed and Nancy Andrews Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Block Mr. Beau Carter Ms. Sheila Coy Ms. Aimee B. Angel Clinton Blood and Joy Bishop Blood Mrs. Margaret Scott Carter Mr. and Mrs. John Todd Crocker Nick and Sarah Armentrout Harrison and Patricia Bloom Ted and Liz Carter Fred and Elizabeth Cross Mr. and Mrs. Henry Arthur Blue Mountain Foundation Albert, Stephanie, and Gregg Jock Crothers and Lisa Heyward Mr. Paul H. Arthur Alan and Terry Blumenfeld Carville Helen and David Crowell John Atchley and Linda Sloane Mr. Spencer Boice Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Casper Jim and Debby Crowell Elisha Atkins, M.D. Bill and Ashley Bollwerk Ms. Nicole Casper Mr. Paul Crowell Mr. and Mrs. J. Keith Ausbrook Mr. and Mrs. Whitford S. Bond Ms. Cynthia S. Castleman Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Crowley Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bail Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Booth Mr. Harry W. Castleman, Jr. Mr. Richard Crowley Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Baker III Mrs. Edith S. Borden Mr. Adan Celis Blair and Martha Curtis Edward Baker and Anna Ms. Laura Borden Katherine and Edward Cerullo Melvin S. Cutler Charitable Van Heeckeren Neal and Winnie Borden Jim and Tara Chace Foundation Lauri and Vivek Bandhu The Boston Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Chadwick Andy and Mary Cutler Andrew Barker and Ana Ruesink Mr. Rufus Cole Botzow Mr. Bruce A. Chalmers Ms. Martha B. D’Agata Ed and Sally Barker Mr. and Mrs. William K. Bovey Stephen Chang and Susan Opotow Mr. Robert L. Dale Christopher and Molly Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Bowditch Bart Chapin III and Lucy W. Hull Mr. Tony Dall Howard and Janet Barnet Mr. William P. Bowditch Mr. and Mrs. Melville Chapin William J. Dana and Emily L. Mr. Robert Barnet Nona and Doug Boyink Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Chappell Boochever Ms. Christina Barrett John Bracker and Rachel Dr. and Mrs. John T. Chard Gray Davidson and Deb Kmon Mr. Jonathan Barrett Countryman Mr. Charles W. Chatfield Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Davidson Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T. Barrow Tom and Sandra Braden Alan Chebuske and Melissa Hewey Mr. Leverett B. Davis Donna L. Sorkin and Gregory M. Betsy Bradford and Family Mr. and Mrs. Kok Poi Ching Ms. Lulu Davis Barry Susan and Alan Bradstreet Ron and Kristine Christensen Mr. Paul L. M. Davis Richard and Mary E. Barth Chuck and Diane Brakeley Peter and Kris Christine Mrs. Virginia D. Day

T HE C HEWONKI F OUNDATION A NNUAL R EPORT Mr. Jose M. de Areilza Ellanor and Matthew Fink Mr. and Mrs. Joep de Koning Jody and Alan Fitts Mrs. Charles W. Decoff Mr. Jerome H. Fletcher Ms. Lile H. Deinard Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Floe Ted and Jen Deinard Burch and Brian Ford Joan and George Denny Dr. and Mrs. Northrup Fowler III John and Patsy Dent Mrs. Anne S. Frantz Mrs. Hilda M. Dienes Mr. Richard C. Frantz Ms. Angela DiGioia Polly and Fred Fawley Dr. and Mrs. Anthony M. DiGioia Mr. and Mrs. David Frothingham Mrs. Linda P. Dodd Ms. Brenda Frye Mr. Charles W. H. Dodge John and Carol Gadsby Mr. Laurence P. Dodge Mr. Edwin F. Gamble Ms. Diane Dodson Hal Gann and Susan Matchett Charlie and Ellen Donaldson Mandy and Terry Garmey John and Joal Donovan Mr. Stanley Gascoigne Ms. Katie Doughty Mr. and Mrs. William G. Gatchell Mr. and Mrs. John A. Downer Peter, Debbie, Sam, and Callie Gates Bob and Nancy Downey Mrs. Cornelia R. Gentry Tom, Chris, Lauren, and Teddy Helen and Larry George Downey Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Gerrity II Tom and Margaret Downing Mrs. Deborah S. Gibbons Mr. Albion C. Drinkwater Mr. Chandler Gifford, Jr. Mrs. James C. Dudley Susan and John Gillespie Christopher and Holly Hock Mrs. Mary Rust Gillies Dumaine Ms. Phyllis Gillis Paul and Joanna Dumdey The Harry L. Gladding Foundation Ms. Martha E. Dumont George and Elizabeth Glover Charles C. Duncan, MD, and Mr. Russel H. Goddard Laura R. Ment, MD Mr. Wendell H. Goddard Mr. Patrick Duncan Richard Goldman and Linda Mr. Jeremy C. Dunton Hermans Mr. Peter Eastman Mr. Andrew Goodband Jeffrey and Marguerite Eberle John and Corey Goodrich Jon Edwards and Nancy Fox Mrs. Susan Goodrich Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Ehrmann Clark and Gail Goodwin The Eisenstat Family Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey N. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. L. Lincoln Eldredge III Mr. Jonathan Gottscho Tim and Margaret Ellis Joanne and Thomas Gouge Bee and Bob Elmore Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Grant Ms. Shelley Emmer Mr. Doug Gray Ms. Lara Ettenson Harold and Donna Gray Rev. and Mrs. John D. Eusden Samuel and Margaret Gray Jeff Evans and Courtney Jones Mr. Stuart H. Green Mark Evans and Barbara S. Mensch Mr. Theodore Greene Richard and Kay R. H. Evans Ms. Suzan Hurd Greenup Ms. Louise Ewing Gordon and Anne Grimes Robert and Suzanne Ewing Joan and David Grubin John and Susan Faigle Ms. Lizzy Grubin Mr. John Faigle Ms. Elizabeth Guffey David and Judith Falk The Gummer Family Nancy and Shelley Farber Elaine and Paul Gustafson Roy and Joanne Farmer Ms. Brooke Peelle Guthrie Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. Farnum Mr. Joshua Haddock Francis Farnum III and Janet Tunis Mr. James Hadley Robert and Nancy Farnum Susan and William Hagel Dale and Sharlene Feltis Cyrus and Patricia Hagge Ms. Carole Fenley Bill and Sally Haggett Mr. and Mrs. Tylor Field II Mr. Eric Hakanson DONORS TO THE 2001-2002 ANNUAL APPEAL

Eric and Sandi Hakanson Sally and Peter Hovey Karen A. and Kevin W. Kennedy Phil and Sally Lochner Ms. Susan Halio Robert and Marilyn Hoyt Foundation Lee and Peter Lockwood Mr. Gordon Hall III Dan Hudnut and Lynn Sheldon Atwater Kent Foundation Mark and Lisa Logsdon Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Hallett Don Hudson and Phine Ewing Mr. Peter A. Kent Ms. Phoebe S. Loris Bill and Jo Hamilton Mrs. Marguerite M. Hudson Mrs. Edith M. Kerrigan Alex Loud and Sarah Jensen Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Hamm Charles and Louise Huntington Mr. and Mrs. George Kimball Mr. and Mrs. George M. Lovejoy, Jr. Mrs. Mary T. Hammond Ms. Annie Huppert Erik and Anne Kindblom Ms. Christy Lowe Ms. Julie Nelson Hampden Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Huppert Mr. Daniel S. King Mr. Luke S. MacFadyen Mr. Scott M. Hand Mr. Lee Huston Rufus King III and Barbara R. Rich and Neeta Maiers Margaret Handmaker and Don Vish Mr. J. Britton Hutchins Stevens MaineShare Mrs. Geraldine B. Hanlon Steve and Caroline Hyde Ms. Loryn Kipp David Major and Patricia Hart Mr. Tucker L. Hansen Mr. Timothy A. Ingraham Mrs. Janice C. Kirby Tim and Elaine Maldonado Linda and Bill Hanson Mark Isaacson and Karen Herold Ms. Sara S. Kirby Ms. Elizabeth Malone Sam and Betsey Harding Drs. Paula Algranati and Barry Ellen and Dick Klain Claire D. and John R. Mannheim Mr. Douglas Hardy Izenstein Chris and Sue Klem Amy and Walter Manny Mrs. Elizabeth Harmon Ms. Emily Izenstein Dr. and Mrs. Claudius R. Klimt Donald Margulies and Lynn Street Adelaide and Bill Harris Bob and Donna Jackson Ms. Kirsten Klimt Dr. Peter A. Mark Lisa and Ross Harris Mr. Richard M. Jackson Mrs. Lewis A. Koenigsberg Mr. Erik Martin Jeff and Debbie Harrison Mr. R. M. Jackson, Jr. Ms. Jill Komura Rebecca Marvil and Brian Smyth Rev. Sinclair D. Hart Mr. Sam Jackson Mr. William C. Kontes Ms. Margaret Mathis Ms. Kara Hartigan Ms. Leila Jahncke Vahe and Christine Kouyoumdjian Craig Matthews and Ruth Uhlmann Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth V. Harvey Mrs. Louise Parker James Ms. Teal Krech Kathe and Jim Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Mr. Stephen Jay Ms. Inger Kristiansen McAlaine Foundation Harwood, Jr. Michael and Rosemary Jeans John Kurtz and Ellen Manobla Ms. Katie McAlaine Mrs. Susan H. Haskell Steve and Debby Jencks Vic and Carol Kyryliuk Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. McAlaine The Edward W. Hazen Foundation Mr. Otis M. Jernigan, Jr. Dan and Esu Lackey Jon and Mimi McBride Mrs. Judith E. Hazen Mr. and Mrs. A. Robert Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Edward Landrigan Robert and Mimi McCallum Ms. Brannon Heath Brad Johnson and Emily Levan The LaRosa Family Dr. Kathleen McCarroll Mr. Ted R. Heavenrich Rick and Louise Johnson Mr. Mark Lasky Mrs. Adeline L. McClish Mr. Matthew Hedstrom Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Rufino Lauria Mr. and Mrs. Bernard McElhone Curt and Janet Helm Ms. Rachel Jolly Gerald Leader and Lucille Aptekar Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. McGavin Caleb and Rebecca Hemphill Dr. David Jones and Dr. Kathleen Ms. Brooke Lehman John and Mary Jane McGlennon Michael Herz and Kate Josephs Pfaffinger Mrs. Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman Angus and Barbara McIntyre Bill Hetzel and Jennifer Niese Jo Ann and Kevin Jones Carl and Sandra Lehner Jim and Jane McIntyre George and Marilyn R. Hetzel Trent and Francesca Jones Marsha Lenz and Peter Jones Jon and Sherrie McKenna Mr. and Mrs. William B. Hetzel, Jr. Wilson and Sally Jones Ms. Sylvia Lenz Mr. Thomas McKeon The John W. & Clara C. Higgins Ms. Carrie Judd Ms. Marion Leonard Patsy and Don McKinney Foundation Mr. Peter B. Jurgeleit Emily Kellert Lerner and Arthur Ms. Katharine McMenamin Suzanne and Charles Higgins Mr. Jose Kabana Lerner Dr. and Mrs. John McWhorter Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Hildreth Wilfred and Charleen Kanagy Peter and Kathleen Leslie Col. and Mrs. G. S. Meader, Jr. Richard and Chris Hilton Mr. Jeffrey Kapell Mr. and Mrs. Richard Levengood John and Karen Medford Leonard Hindell and Ruth Dr. and Mrs. Donald M. Kaplan Peter and Anna Levin David and Jennifer Mehr Cohen, M.D. David Kapp and Cecily Kahn Sara and Shai Levite Steven and Antonia Melamed Mr. James G. Hinkle Mr. David Karrick Cathy and Byron Levy Ms. Debra Burns Melican Ms. Monica Hirsch Chris and Lee Kauders Ms. Sally M. Lewis Ponch Membreno and Jessica Mr. Peter C. Hobart Mr. Frederick Kauders Thomas Lewis and Ailene Robinson Burton Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop D. Steve and Marie Keane Mr. Tyler Lewis Ms. Amy Mendel Hodges, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Kearney Edward and Alexandra Leydon Annie Merrill and Howard Dave and Carolyn Hoeschele Eugene Keilin and Joanne Witty Col. and Mrs. S. W. Liebmann Whitcomb Myron and Lynne Hofer David Keith and Stephen Simpson (Ret.) Scott and Sharon Merrill Mr. and Mrs. Ronald P. Hogan Ken and Martha Keller Marty Liebowitz and Mary Lassen Mr. and Mrs. Richardson T. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Hoguet III Scott Keller and Laurie Johnson Ms. Anne Lightbody Merriman Harry and Ginny Hopcroft Dr. Stephen R. Kellert Joel Lipsitch and Abbie Melnick James A. and Lucia M. Michielli Ms. Alix W. Hopkins Dr. and Mrs. Gary Kendrick Susan and Ian Lipsitch Mr. Allen L. Miller Mr. Gregory Horner Kenduskeag Foundation Mr. John Little Carol and Jeff Miller Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Hornor Dr. Brian Kennedy Mr. Timothy F. Little Mr. Joel Miller Mr. and Mrs. Gurdon W. Hornor Henry R. and B.J. Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Warren M. Little Mr. Robert I. Miller Leah and Bill Horton Kevin and Karen Kennedy Mrs. Cynthia Lloyd Mrs. Stanley R. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Houston Ms. Emily D. Lloyd The Stanley R. Miller Foundation

T HE C HEWONKI F OUNDATION A NNUAL R EPORT Joel and Kate Millonzi Mr. Robert L. Oster Mrs. Elizabeth Minard Howard and Kris Owens Ms. Julia Minard Jerome Page and Katherine Frank Ms. Sara Minard Tom and Lynn Paine Ms. Helen Keays Minsky Mr. Edward L. Pais Robert Minsky and Tracey Keays Mrs. Holly Panich Mr. Jock Montgomery Ms. Francesca Parker Mr. Richard G. Moon Mrs. Judith S. Parker Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Moore Mr. Charles L. Parkhill, Jr. George and Marguerite Moran Deb Parrella and Everett Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Morby Mrs. Lea R. Parson Daniel and Polly Morgenstern Mr. Rusty Partridge Beth and Steve Morris Ted and Martha Pasternack Mr. James S. Morris Mr. Robert W. Patterson, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Morris Mr. Jim Paugh David Morrison and Mary Fleming Ms. Keisha Payson Andrew and Brenda Morse Dr. and Mrs. David Pearsall Mr. and Mrs. Duryea Morton Ken, Rosemarie, Brooke, and Lydia Warren Motley and Cynthia Peelle Saltzman Alyssa Pei and Neal Sondheimer Dr. and Mrs. George Moutoussis The Pelgrift Family Ms. Maryangela Moutoussis The Pepper Family Mr. Louis K. Mowbray Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph A. Peterson Ms. Judith J. Mozen Pheasant Hill Foundation Mr. George J. Mullen, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kent C. Phelan Mr. Martin J. Mullin, Jr. Alexander and Helen Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Myer Mr. James F. Picton Susan and Sam Mygatt Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Pidot David Nachman and Amy Schulman Mr. and Mrs. George B. Pierce Frank and Liz Naughton Elizabeth and Jan Pierson Chris and Ruth Neagle Christopher and Dorothy Pitt Lynn and Trudy Nelson Jane and Nathan Podkaminer Norman and Sara Nelson Dwight and Chris Porter Chris and Nancy Nesbitt Mr. and Mrs. J. Brian Potts Nelia, John, Alex, and William David and Lise Pratt Newell Mrs. Frances G. Pratt Bronda and Al Niese Mr. Harold I. Pratt Barry and Ellen Nigrosh Alex and Anneliese Pugh Mr. William U. Niss Mr. Bill Pugh Mr. P. Andrews Nixon Jim and Faye Pugh Peter and Kristin Nordblom Mr. Richard S. Pulsifer Ms. Caroline Norden Mr. Jeffrey L. Purvin Mrs. Elisabeth H. Null John C. Qua and Suzanne P. Clare and Geoffrey Nunes Schutte Mr. and Mrs. Jake Nunes Mr. Cyrus P. Quadland John and Karen O’Brien Dr. Stephen Quarcoo and Kevin R. O’Neill and Terri L. Dr. Reneida Reyes McBride Ms. Erin B. Quinn Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. O’Neill Kieran and Donna Quinn Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. O’Sullivan Mr. Joseph Quinton Mr. Patrick Oakes Mrs. Mary L. Quinton Mr. J. Christopher Oates Beth and Fred Quivey Mr. Philip Obbard Mrs. Marguerite Rafter Mrs. Kathryn A. Oberly Clyde Randall and Leslie Perry Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Opatrny Tom and Katrina Randall The Opatrny Family Foundation Ms. Rebecca H. Ratner Dick and Judy Opsahl Gene and Nancy Raymond Miguel A. Ortiz and Rose K. Ortiz Charles and Kip Rebick Mr. James Osborne Gerardo Redondo and Paz Barroso DONORS TO THE 2001-2002 ANNUAL APPEAL

Jay and Amy Regan Rupert W. Scofield and Lorraine M. Mr. and Mrs. William R. Stark Marjorie and Charles Van Dercook Mr. Blair Justin F. Reich O’Hara Starrett Foundation Mr. Chris Van Dyke Dr. Steven D. Reich Ms. Caitlin Scott Ms. Amanda Stason Mr. Robert Van Vranken Mr. and Mrs. David L. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Scott Bill and Sue Stason Mark Vandersall and Laura Gordon and Betty Reynolds Mr. Mark F. Scott Mr. and Mrs. John B. Stebbins Mendelson Mrs. Sarah B. Rheault Mr. Peter Scott Mr. and Mrs. David F. Stein Dr. and Mrs. Thornton Vandersall Mr. and Mrs. David H. Rhinelander Mr. Whitney L. Scott Mr. and Mrs. John A. Sterling Dr. and Mrs. Eduardo D. Vazquez Bill and Debbie Riley Ms. Casey Secor Robert Sternbach and Margaret Ms. Veronica Vazquez Mr. Kenneth W. Riley, Jr. Ms. Sarah Secor Hoffman Mr. Nicholas P. Veeder, Jr. Ms. Sarah Riley Mr. and Mrs. Scott W. Seelbach Mrs. Ruth Stevens Dr. Richard R. Veit Mrs. Andrew E. Ritchie Ms. Helen Selle Mr. and Mrs. James Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Joachim Von Klitzing The Ritzenberg Family Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Selle Ms. Dorie Stolley Mr. and Mrs. Cai Von Rumohr Mr. Gerin F. River Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Selle Margaret L. Buchanan and Adele and George Wailand Ms. Gerri River George and Susan Sergeant Andrew C. Stowe Helen and Mo Waite Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Robbins Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Sermier Gene Strassburger and Phyllis Anton and Shari Walden Mr. and Mrs. C. Emerson Roberts, Jr. Mr. Andrew C. Sewall Kaitzerow Chan and Arly Waldron Mrs. David G. Roberts Mr. Edward Sewall Randall and Francesca Stratton Mr. Philip Wales William H. and Deborah L. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sewall, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mayo S. Stuntz, Jr. Laurence and Mary Jane Wallace Betsy and Lee Robinson Irvin and Karen Shapell Ms. Caren Sturges Reina and Will Warren John M. and Connie Robinson Dr. Joanne M. Sharpe Mr. and Mrs. Albert D. Sturtevant Mr. Steve Watson Dr. Leonard Rodberg and Mrs. Amos B. Sharretts Mr. Stephen Sunenblick Tommy, Anne, Hart, and Keats Dr. Joanne Lukomnik Barbara and Peter Shaw Ms. Karin Swanson Webb Mr. and Mrs. John C. Rogers Mr. Patrick Shaw Steve and Teri Swanson Jay, Sam, and Max Wechsler Anne and John Rollins Mrs. Nancy Sage Shea TAC Foundation Julia and Sinclair Weeks Ms. Alice Root Mr. and Mrs. David Sherman Mr. Peter Tashjian Mr. Stephen M. Weld Ed and Sandra Ross Dr. and Mrs. Dennis L. Shubert Mr. and Mrs. C. Powers Taylor Robert L. and Anne W. Wells Mrs. James Ross Greg Shute and Lynne Flaccus Mr. Jeremy S. Taylor Bob and Elvira Wheeler Mr. Hunter Rowley Fay and Bill Shutzer John and Christine Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Wheeler Mark and Anne Rowley Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Siegel Ms. Patricia Simonds Taylor Alexander and Amy White Ms. Leslie Rowson Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Siegel Mr. Spencer S. Taylor Ben and Ramona White Leo Roy and Perry Russell David Sigelman and Pat David and Jane Teaze Ms. Elsie White Ms. Paige Ruane McDonagh Wiebke and Steven Theodore Mrs. Barbara Whiteside Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Russell Mr. Michael V. Silberman Dick Thomas and Karen Dilley Mr. George F. Whiting, Jr. John and Peggy Rust Silver Mountain Foundation Ms. Jane V. Thomas Jay and Chris Whitman The Rust Foundation for the Arts Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Thomas Robert and Marina Whitman Ms. Beth Ruzansky Dr. Bradford Simmons Kathy and Ed Thompson Mrs. Clotilde V. Whitney Mr. and Mrs. James Saalfield Ms. Emily Modin Simons Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Thompson Mr. Frank C. Whittelsey III John and Shawna Saaty Ms. Mary M. Sloan Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Thompson Mrs. E. W. Wiggins Dr. and Mrs. Louis E. Sage Bob and Lori Smith Ms. Irma L. Tibbetts Dr. L. Douglas Wilkerson Hal and Katharine Sakenfeld Ms. Diane Smith Dr. Robert Tittmann O.A. and M.P. Wilkerson Cotty and Susan Saltonstall Carolyn Haddock and Douglas Mrs. Alice S. Titus Ms. Jean T. Wilkinson Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Sanders Smith Jim and Francie Tolan Kate Wilkinson and Peter Stoops The San Francisco Foundation Mr. John E. Smith II Dr. and Mrs. John Tooker Ms. Maureen Wilkinson Ms. Amy Sanger Ken and Jan Smith Henry and Helen Topper Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Williams Dr. Elizabeth G. Sargent Ms. Linley J. Smith Jamie and Laura Trowbridge Sarah Fiske Williams and Jack Mr. Jonathan F. Schachter Ms. Mary Minor C. Smith Ms. Lorna S. Trowbridge Williams Mr. Andrew Schapiro Nancy Egan and Otey Smith Ms. Debora W. Tuck Mr. John C. Willis, Jr. Elliot and Barbara Schildkrout Thomas Smith and Ellen Ms. Edith Tucker William and Betsy Willis Ms. Stephanie Titus Schley Doble-Smith Ms. Liz Tunick Mrs. Anne Cowie Wilson Ms. Sarah Schmidt Mary Cook Spencer and Scott Robert and Lorraine Turner Bob and Anne Wright Wilson Tim and Joyce Schmitt Spencer Mr. Roger Tyler Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Wilson Ms. Ava Albert Schnidman Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Spiess Mr. and Mrs. William B. Tyler Mr. and Mrs. Clement S. Wilson Mr. Evan Albert Schnidman Mr. David Spivack Barbara Tyroler and David Cooper Mrs. Jean W. Wilson Ms. Bettina Schuler Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Stafford III Ms. Samm Tyroler-Cooper Mr. John P. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schuler Ms. Emily Stamell June and David Vail Mrs. Marcia E. Wilson Lester Schwalb and Peggy Samuels Jared and Susan Stamell Mr. and Mrs. William K. Valentine Mark and Pamela Wilson Mr. Jeff Schwartz Mrs. Judith M. Stames-Hamilton Mr. Joseph Van Buskirk Linda Tatelbaum and Kal Winer Ms. Priscilla J. Schwartz Jay and Lisa Stanbury Mr. Josh Van Buskirk Lewis and Harriet Winter Ms. Susan E. Stanger Ms. Mary C. Van Buskirk Beck Taylor and Ted Winterer

T HE C HEWONKI F OUNDATION A NNUAL R EPORT Mrs. Carol A. Wishcamper Corporations and Businesses Abe and Margie Wong Anonymous Ms. Elizabeth S. Woodward Bell of Maine Bess and Kennard Woodworth The Buffalo News Stu and Rachelle Work Chapin Design Isaiah Wyner and Susan Kish Colby and Gale, Inc. Emily G. and Frank S. Yazwinski III Edgecomb Potters and Hand in Mimi, Nils, and Clayton Young Hand Craft Galleries John and Regina Youngman EEO Services, Stephen C. Swanson Mr. Robert P. Youngman Associates, Inc. Frank Zamacona and Bridget Grandy Oats Granola Bichsel Marriner Lumber Company Bill and Elizabeth Zuehlke J.S. McCarthy Company, Inc. Merivale International, LTD. In Memory of Donald C. Poole Brothers Alexander Richard S. Pulsifer Co. Donald G. and Barbara Alexander M. W. Sewall & Company Sugarbush Products, Inc. In Memory of Clarence E. Allen Stephen P. Sunenblick Law Office Mr. and Mrs. Nelson I. Crowther, Jr. Tom’s of Maine United Way of Southeastern New On Behalf of John L. Allen England New Haven-Hartford Research United Way of Tri-State Center Wild River Adventures Wiscasset Ford, Inc. In Honor of William Bates and Wiscasset Travel Scott Neagle Working Assets Mr. and Mrs. Bob Saling Matching Gifts In Honor of Sheryl Blair and her The Biber Partnership AIA sons Jesse and Justin Reich Coca-Cola Company Glenn, Pam, Laura, and Eric Compaq Gustavson The Dorsey and Whitney Foundation FleetBoston Financial Foundation In Honor of Mr. and Mrs. Wells B. John Hancock Financial Services Dow and Family Lane Construction Corporation Frank C. Bridges and Hilary B. Merck Company Harwood Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation Ms. Anne E. Harwood J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation Mr. William Harwood National Grid USA Service Mr. and Mrs. A. Dix Leeson, Jr. Company, Inc. PQ Corporation In Honor of Andrea LaRosa The Times Mirror Foundation Mr. Dan Sprenkel UBS Matching Gift Program Yancey Bros. Co. In Honor of Philip B. Obbard Mr. Ted Obbard Gifts of Goods and Services Mr. John L. Allen In Honor of Jesse Reich and S. Scott Andrews and Andrew Urquhart M. Susan West Ms. Suzan Hurd Greenup Mrs. Margaret P. Arthur Mr. Peter Asselyn In Honor of Sara Stone Mr. and Mrs. David Bean Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Stone, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Butman Mr. Dennis Carignan In Honor of Kate Ziminsky Mr. Jaime Escudero Dana and Ruth Bamford Mr. and Mrs. Clay Good Mr. Sean A. Gray DONORS TO THE 2001-2002 ANNUAL APPEAL

Mr. John L. Hadden IN SUPPORT OF CAMP Joshua D. and Rebecca E. Marvil GIFTS RESTRICTED TO Suzanne and Charles Higgins Mr. E. Davies Allan Ms. Kate Ziminsky ENDOWMENT Ms. Jill Komura Garth and Heather Altenburg Marriner Lumber Q Belk and Sherry Thornburg IN SUPPORT OF FAMILY TRIPS CLARENCE E. AND KATHERINE B. Mr. and Mrs. John Metcalf Brian Cushing and Mary Stinchfield Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Thompson ALLEN CAMP SCHOLARSHIP Mobile Glass Service Inc. Mr. Samuel G. Huber FUND Mr. Michael G. Parent Fahrus and Samer Khanachet FOR LANDSCAPING AROUND Anonymous Ms. Megan Brown Payson The Christopher Maroney Family THE CENTER FOR Ms. Elizabeth Lindsay Allen Ms. Susan Pellicani Mr. and Mrs. James Richardson ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Michael Brody and Laura Mentch Gene and Nancy Raymond Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Y. Trumper Mr. John L. Allen Phil and Betty Cobb Mr. Martin W. Sandler Bart Chapin III and Lucy W. Hull Mr. and Mrs. George L. Hunt, Jr. Mr. Ken Swasey In Memory of Ray Carter Mr. Gordon Hall III Mr. Robert Lyman Theodore + Theodore Architects Mrs. A. Dix Leeson Leah and Bill Horton Mrs. Carol A. Main Mr. David Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Spiess Gene and Nancy Raymond Ms. Ana Julia Thomson FOR CAMP SCHOLARSHIP FOR Elinor and Dan Redmond GIRLS In Memory of Carolyn Gebbia The Redmond Family Foundation The Tenny Donnelly Fund for Youth Sheila Sullivan and Cory Snow George Santoni and Mary Beth TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED Enrichment of the Maine Winn FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES Community Foundation IN SUPPORT OF THE MAINE Mr. Rutledge Simmons COAST SEMESTER Bailey Whiteman and Douglas FOR THE ARCHIVES FOR THE CANOE EXPEDITION 2 Anonymous Belling In Memory of Joe and FOR MAINE GIRLS AKC Fund, Inc. Ms. Eliza Whiteman Carolyn Scott Aroostook Board of Micmacs Ms. Marley A. Aloe Michael and Margery Whiteman Ms. Amy Finley Scott The Debley Foundation Mrs. Margaret S. Andrews Mr. Stephen Whiteman Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Scott Ms. Marilyn George William and Diane Asher Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Scott, Jr. Ms. Jenn Gudebski Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T. Barrow In Memory of Katherine B. Allen D. E. Landry Berkshire Taconic Community Mrs. John S. Coey, 2nd FOR THE AVIARY Mrs. Cordelia Paula Lane Foundation, Ted Fund Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gerrity, Jr. In Memory of William Shippen The Marshall Dodge Memorial Starling Childs and Betsy Gill Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Glashow Bright Fund of the Maine Community Leonard Hindell and Ruth Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin E. Mann Mr. and Mrs. William Stiles Foundation Cohen, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. George B. Pierce Maine Community Foundation, A Stephen and Barbara Delinsky FOR THE BIG EDDY Donor Advised Fund The Gummer Family In Memory of Ruth Freeman CAMPGROUND Lynn L. Harrison Fund of the Maine Malo and John Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Berry Anonymous Community Foundation Ms. Kathryn V. Hodges Mr. D. Bruce McNamee Maine Humanities Council Mr. William V. Hodges III Mr. and Mrs. David McNamee FOR BIODIESEL FUEL RESEARCH Frank Martin Sons, Inc. Mr. William V. Hodges IV Annie Merrill and Howard AND DEVELOPMENT MBNA Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Mendel Whitcomb Maine Technology Institute Mike and Sons Silver Mountain Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Oliver Ms. Katharine Millonzi Caroline and Wayne Morong for the Arts Mr. Thatcher B. Pinkham, Jr. Mr. Alfred L. Padula New Century Community Program Mrs. Martha Stearns Sabino Improvement The John W. and Marguerite C. Mr. Barclay Palmer and Dr. Julia Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Webb III Association, Inc. Stanback Donor Advised Fund of Kahrl Dr. and Mrs. Donald Woods Mr. John Tarbox the Salisbury Community Fund Pelletier Florist Janice and John Walters River Rock Foundation In Honor of Genevieve Parfet and FOR THE PURCHASE OF BOATING Roy Auto Parts, Inc. Jay Gudebski’s Wedding In Memory of Michael Panich EQUIPMENT Unity Foundation Ms. Jennifer Dowell Mr. Lee Panich Mr. Gordon Hall III Voisine’s Exxon Ms. Stephanie Wagner FOR NORTH PASTURE CABIN In Honor of Alene Wilmoth and FOR THE PURCHASE OF Ms. Lucinda Ziesing Mr. and Mrs. James F. Wellington Jesse Reich’s Wedding BOWLINE HEAD Ms. Sheryl A. Blair Mr. Rob Cabot IN SUPPORT OF THE CENTER FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY The Virginia Wellington Cabot FOR ENVIRONMENTAL Kirk M. Niese and In Honor of Jesse Reich’s Birthday Foundation EDUCATION Michaela Goldfine Ms. Sheryl A. Blair Mr. Frederick Kauders 3 Anonymous Mr. J. A. Chewning FOR THE SALTMARSH FARM In Honor of Justin Reich’s Dan and Esu Lackey Kirk M. Niese and Birthday Dot and Don Lamson Michaela Goldfine Ms. Sheryl A. Blair

T HE C HEWONKI F OUNDATION A NNUAL R EPORT In Memory of Matt Rodman Ms. Pamela J. Stone Mr. Paul H. Arthur Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Stone Ms. Eva L. Belanger Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Stone Mr. Neil C. Bloch Ms. Bridget P. Carr In Honor of Alene Wilmoth’s Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Carr Graduation from College Clear Channel Communications Ms. Sheryl A. Blair Mr. Paul Crowell Tim and Margaret Ellis ELLIS FUND FOR STAFF Environmental Management ENRICHMENT Professionals, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Warren M. Little Ms. Virginia B. Gray David and Lise Pratt Mr. Timothy B. Harrigan Margaret L. Buchanan and Michael and Valerie Heath Andrew C. Stowe Mr. Maurice Hebert George and Chandler Woodland Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hurter Mr. and Mrs. William C. Hurter GENERAL ENDOWMENT Ms. Christine Korab Michael and Sissy Leonard Mr. and Mrs. Paul LeBlanc Ms. Blair McConnel Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lynch, Jr. Mr. David Panich Ms. Joan Mansfield Mr. Remy Mansfield FUND FOR TEACHING AND THE Susan L. Mansfield and ENVIRONMENT Cantwell Clark V Ms. Megan Gadsby Mr. Lawrence A. Martin Dan and Esu Lackey Mr. and Mrs. Ted Patch Prof. and Mrs. Joseph W. Shaw Mr. Franklin H. Rodman Lydia Rodman and Listo Fisher In Memory of Carolyn Gebbia Dr. Mariellen Rodman Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Oliver and Cynthia Rodman Berardi, Jr. and Family Mr. Stephen B. Rodman Ms. Gayle A. Moroney Craig Smith and Claire Dahill Mr. and Mrs. Ray D. Taylor In Memory of Justin Peter Roy Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Thomas Ms. Deborah Albert Ms. Joanne Van Voorhis Ann M. Breton and Bruce Breton Kate Wilkinson and Peter Stoops Ms. Patricia M. Carey Ms. Yvette Chalifoux In Memory of David K. Smith- Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Chase Petersen Ms. Janice J. D’Alonzo Ms. Sheryl A. Blair and Jesse and Mr. and Mrs. James Gagne Justin Reich Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Gilman Mr. and Mrs. John Buzzard Mr. and Mrs. Leander A. Guite, Jr. Mr. Rodney W. Byam Ms. Diane Haggard Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow Crocker Ms. Lilly G. Kehoe Mr. and Mrs. David R. Eiler Ms. Kris L. Lindholm Ms. Ellen M. Fobert Ms. Debora McLaggan Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M. Freeman Ms. Charlene Peters Mr. Thomas Motley, Jr. Charlene Pierce and Kevin Pierce Mr. and Mrs. Dale T. Prescott In Memory of Rob Stone Mrs. Juanita E. P. Roy Julius and Emi Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Ruksznis Ms. Maria J. Castellano-Usery Ms. Helen R. Tibbetts Joanna Fernald and Austin and Roberta Weymouth and Ella Mae Walker Carl Weymouth Ryan Linehan and Stacy Kirschner Ms. Ruby C. Wilson Craig Matthews and Ruth Uhlmann Many Friends at Togus V.A. Alyssa Pei and Neal Sondheimer Hospital Ms. Kate Renner DONORS TO THE 2001-2002 ANNUAL APPEAL

MAINE COAST SEMESTER Ms. Kristin Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Gordy II Mr. and Mrs. David W. Sculley SCHOLARSHIP FUND Karen Abele Schev and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Grant Mr. and Mrs. Scott W. Seelbach Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert D. Abele Robert Schev Jenn and Jay Gudebski Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Selle Andrew and Michelle Aloe Ms. Emily Modin Simons Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Hagan George and Susan Sergeant Mark and Carol Aloe Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sirois Mr. Gordon Hall III Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Smith S. Scott Andrews and M. Susan Ms. Sara Stone Mr. and Mrs. William B. Hetzel, Jr. Mrs. Martha Stearns West Edie Aloe Traina and Mark Traina Ken and Hilary Holm Dick Thomas and Karen Dilley Mr. Adam W. Borden Dr. and Mrs. Henk van der Werff Don Hudson and Phine Ewing Mr. and Mrs. James S. Thornton Ms. Hilary Branch Ms. Tessa van der Werff Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. William N. Thurman Twig and Barbara Branch George and Sue Van Hook Chris and Lee Kauders Mr. C. Robertson Trowbridge Mrs. Mary Hollis Clark Ms. Lucy Van Hook Mr. Frederick Kauders Mr. and Mrs. William B. Tyler Mr. and Mrs. Denis J. Corish Mrs. Melissa B. Wechsler Dan and Esu Lackey Chan and Arly Waldron Ms. Lulu Davis Janet and Paul Weston Mr. and Mrs. David R. Lamb Mr. George R. Wallace, 3rd Ms. Liska de Koning Ronald G. Wetteroth and Mr. and Mrs. Warren M. Little Ed and Claire Weiser Ms. Lara Ettenson Alexandra F. Bell Ms. Rebecca Marvil Ms. Amy Young Ms. Heidi Fessenden Ms. Eliza Whiteman Ms. Margaret Mathis John and Jane Katz Field Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wilbur John and Mary Jane McGlennon If you have given a gift of securities Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Ford III Wilbur’s of Maine Angus and Barbara McIntyre but do not see your name listed in Dennis and Susan Friedman Ms. Tressa Williams Mr. William U. Niss this report, please contact the Mr. and Mrs. Edward Goldberg Ms. Rachel C. Wilson Ted and Martha Pasternack Development Office. These gifts are K. C. Golden and Kristi Skanderup Ms. Damaris Wollenburg Mr. John I. Quimby often untraceable. We would love to Ms. Jenn Gudebski Charles and Joanne Young Gene and Nancy Raymond be able to thank you for your Ms. Hollis O. Haywood Mr. David Schurman contribution! The Hollis Foundation In Honor of Andrea LaRosa Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Scott Ms. Stephanie T. Horowitz Mr. and Mrs. Jack Caufield Leah and Bill Horton Drs. Paula Algranati and Barry In Honor of Sara Stone THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT Izenstein Dr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Wood Ms. Emily Izenstein Steve and Debby Jencks THE OSPREY SOCIETY Chewonki is proud to be a member Ms. Starrla Johnson The Osprey Society is composed of of MaineShare, working with 35 Mr. Coleman W. Kennedy people who have notified other non-profit organizations Ms. Sara S. Kirby Chewonki that they have included to build a bright future for Mr. James Labbe the Foundation in their estate Mr. David W. Liebmann planning. Please let us know if the people of Maine and our Ms. Ariane Lotti your name should be on the natural environment. Donors Marcello Lotti Foundation following list. across Maine have raised Joni and Bill MacDonald almost $1.1 million since 1989 Mr. Craig Maldonado Osprey Society Members Tim and Elaine Maldonado Anonymous to address root causes of The Page & Otto Marx, Jr. Mr. John L. Allen problems, to find permanent Foundation Mrs. John L. Allen solutions, and to advocate positive change. Through Chi and Ferrell McClean Dr. David S. Barrington and payroll deduction contributions and direct gifts, Ms. Katherine McClelland Dr. Cathy Paris MaineShare donors help to achieve good health, safe Ms. Torrey McMillan Mr. David K. Bell Ms. Julie Nisbet Ms. Sheryl A. Blair communities, economic opportunity, human rights, and a Mr. Edward L. Pais Elizabeth I. Byrne, Ed.D. healthy environment. We are very grateful to each of the Mr. Jim Paugh Mrs. E. Barton Chapin, Jr. many donors who have supported Chewonki through Lydia Peelle and Jay Secor Mr. and Mrs. Melville Chapin MaineShare. Mr. Stewart Peery Mr. Chester W. Cooke Alyssa Pei and Neal Sondheimer Dr. Peter Blaze Corcoran If you are interested in joining the over 60,000 The Perkins Improvements Fund - Mr. and Mrs. Norman C. Cross, Jr. Mainers who already participate in a MaineShare William at the Boston Foundation Dr. Raymond Culver workplace giving program or if you would like to learn Molly Coffin Peryer and Lawrence Ms. Suzanne R. Culver more about MaineShare, please check their website at Peryer Mr. Paul L. M. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Peterson Tim and Margaret Ellis www.maineshare.org or contact Chewonki’s Development Ms. Emily H. Pighetti Bee and Bob Elmore Office. Ms. Louisa Pitt Rev. and Mrs. John D. Eusden Dr. and Mrs. Frank Purdie Susan and John Gillespie

IS YOUR NAME MISSING? Gifts listed in this report were received between T HE C HEWONKI F OUNDATION A NNUAL R EPORT September 1, 2001 and August 31, 2002. If we have made a mistake, please let us know. Gifts to the Annual Appeal received after August 31, 2002 will be listed in our next Annual Report. BALANCE SHEET STATEMENT OF REVENUE AND EXPENSES Temporarily Permanently Total Unrestricted Restricted Restricted FY 2002 Tuition 3,024,184.00 Less Scholarship (316,831.00) ASSETS Net Tuition 2,707,353.00 Current Assets 660,032 266,578 821,138 1,747,748 Investment Income 62,611.00 Property and Equipment 6,578,170 71,910 6,650,080 Unrestricted Contributions 644,031.00 Temporarily Restricted C contributions 29,022.00 Other Assets 375,000 236,288 611,288 Restricted Contributions 59,710.00 Program Restricted Contributions 65,353.00 Total Assets 7,613,202 266,578 1,129,336 9,009,116 In-Kind Contributions 12,031.00 Grant Income 4,000.00 Unrealized Gain (loss) on Investments (136,541.00) LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCE Store Income 7,509.00 Other Income 58,759.00 Current Liabilities 805,592 (95,031) 710,561 Total 3,513,838.00 Long-term Debt 282,324 282,324 EXPENSES Fund Balance 6,525,286 266,578 1224,367 8,016,231 Program: Camp 1,269,013.00 Total Liabilities 7,613,202 266,578 1,129,336 9,009,116 Center For Environmental Education 600,395.00 Maine Coast Semester 893,975.00 Foundation 347,358.00 Leadership capital campaign 2,900.00 Total 3,113,641.00

THE CHEWONKI FOUNDATION Increase in Net Assets 400,197.00 485 Chewonki Neck Road, Wiscasset, Maine 04578-4822 (207) 882-7323 Fax: (207) 882-4074 e-mail: [email protected] www.chewonki.org ATwo-million-year Journey THIRD AND FOURTH GRADERS PREPARED FOR THE TRIP, AND SO DID THEIR TEACHERS

Environmental educator Ben Urquhart is standing in the Chewonki woods, surrounded by a group of third and fourth graders. He bids them to close their eyes and imagine this property 100 years ago. “It’s 1902, and there are no trees here. This is a farm.” The children—all students at the Plummer- Motz School in Falmouth, Maine—happily comply, then bubble over, open their eyes, and start asking questions. “How’s that possible?” “Where did the seeds come from?” “What species are these trees?” Ben breaks into his “Well I’m about to tell you” smile, and the journey back in time begins.

13 The children are on a day-long visit to Chewonki, and by the time they leave they have traveled back more than two million years, to a time when mile-thick glaciers covered the Gulf of ON A DAY-LONG VISIT TO Maine and the land was 400 feet underwater. They have imagined humans first encountering Chewonki CHEWONKI, 150 CHILDREN Neck, an estimated 10,000 years ago, and have pic- LEARNED ABOUT MARSHES, tured what their landscape, newly relieved of gla- FORESTS, HUMAN HISTORY, cier, must have looked like—a tundralike expanse covered with a patchy mix of birch and pine. They AND GEOLOGY—AND TEST- have walked through Chewonki’s Pine Apple Forest, DROVE AN INNOVATIVE named for the apple trees that grew there many PROGRAM DESIGNED TO years ago and for the pines that succeeded them and are now the dominant species. And they have lis- MODEL HOW SCHOOLS IN tened, amazed, as Ben has told them how former MAINE CAN INTRODUCE sheep pastures and agricultural fields have meta- morphosed into tall woods. The children have also STUDENTS TO MEANINGFUL created an enormous time line illustrating their ENVIRONMENTAL journey. Myriad pictures and notations document EDUCATION. and visually represent all the students have learned about the ecological and cultural history of Chewonki Neck. The 150 students—divided into two groups of 75 each day—spent weeks preparing for their visit. By the time they arrived in Wiscasset, for example, they already knew the definition of detritus, under- stood turbidity, and could name the four zones of Assistant Program Director of Environmental marsh life. The seven teachers who accompanied Education at Chewonki, “because the students them had also prepared. Working from a prelimi- arrived here ready to build on what they already nary list of objectives prepared months earlier, they knew.” had created and taught lessons that skillfully inte- That was all part of the plan, of course—a plan grated their science and social studies cur- that took shape in 1998 in the mind of Margaret ricula, producing a model program Merrill, a third-and-fourth-grade teacher at that culminated with a visit to Plummer-Motz School. Merrill knew Chewonki Chewonki. “It was well because her son Loren had attended the Maine one of the most Coast Semester (Chewonki’s program for high rewarding pro- school juniors) in 1995, and she was determined to grams I’ve ever introduce her third and fourth graders, and her fel- worked on,” says low teachers, to the experience. “I really wanted Katie Tremblay, teachers to have an opportunity to experience Chewonki and the Center for Environmental Education,” she said recently. “Plus, getting kids out there with their hands in the dirt and the mud— there’s nothing more meaningful.” The beauty of the program was that by combining salt marsh, for- est, human history, and geology study, Merrill, her colleagues, and Chewonki staff artfully designed a program that covered the Falmouth school’s Maine History and Natural Science curriculum. A lot of preliminary work went into the visit, but Merrill believes it paid off handsomely—for teachers as well as students—and recommends the experience “wholeheartedly” to other schools. “It was a really beneficial and enriching experience,” she reports. “There’s nothing like being on site to experience each habitat and its various compo- nents.” Merrill stresses that in order to make such a visit meaningful, however, students need to integrate it with lessons beforehand and afterward. By meeting with Environmental Education Program Director Michelle Morgenstern and touring the Chewonki campus Last October was the test run for the program, while still in the planning stages of the project, the when the Plummer-Motz students and teachers and Plummer-Motz teachers achieved that integration seven CEE faculty spent two days traveling together very effectively. through history and over the Chewonki campus. Merrill and her colleagues also needed to plan Don believes the program not only worked but that how to pay for their visit. Merrill began by it flourished. “We had an incredibly creative teacher approaching Chewonki President Don Hudson in Margaret Merrill—a recipient for a 2002 (“Because he knows how to raise money,” she says Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics forthrightly), and he was quickly taken by her pro- and Science Teaching and runner up for Maine posed project. If the Plummer-Motz School could Teacher of the Year 2002,” says Don. “She sought us raise money for this innovative project, Don said, out and showed us a creative way to use our skills Chewonki would work to do the same, primarily and experience.” Don hopes other schools will fol- through donations to its Fund for Teaching and the low that lead and that the Plummer-Motz visit was Environment, an endowed fund that supports all of only the first of its kind. He also hopes the Fund for the CEE’s programs. Together the two hoped to cre- Teaching and the Environment will continue to ate a model for how public and private schools grow, strengthening Chewonki’s ability to support across Maine can introduce students to meaningful and encourage innovative schools and teachers. ■ environmental education. BETTA STOTHART

OM TH NORTH PASTURE COTTAGE FR E N S There’s a lovely new home on the Chewonki campus, and its first occupants—Assistant E

W C Farm Manager Brad Johnson and his wife, Emily LeVan—have pronounced it “wonderful.”

E K Construction on North Pasture Cottage began last spring, and the interior was completed N Chewonki Neck in late October. Brad and Emily moved in on Halloween Night—“just in time to welcome the Maine Coast Semester students who came trick-or-treating,” they reported. The last of the exterior work will be completed this summer. The two-and-a-half story, 24- x 24-foot home was designed by Wiscasset architect Wiebke Theodore, who with her husband, Steven Theodore, also designed Chewonki’s Center for Environmental Education. Chewonki carpenters Ken Wise and Don Lamson built it with help from MCS faculty and students, Doug Lakin (former Camp and EE Staffs), and local carpenter Lou Delano, who built the kitchen and did much of the finish work. Renewable Energy Pathways Coordinator Peter Arnold oversaw the installation of the photovoltaic system. The cottage is beautifully sited on a gentle slope above the Gatehouse, overlooking woods, fields, and pastures. It was built almost entirely with Maine lumber and includes several energy-efficiency and “green” features, among them renewable cork flooring, solar hot water, and a composting toilet.

15 AMYTHICAL PLACE CHEWONKI LANDS A PIECE OF MAINE’S HISTORY Continued from page 1

THE WILDEST COUNTRY The area north of Millinocket is a vast sweep of forest, dotted with lakes and ledge and cut by one of the most fabled rivers in Maine, the West Branch of the Penobscot. This is Thoreau country— the setting for the two journeys described in The Maine Woods and the wildest coun- try the Concord pencil-maker would see in his lifetime. It is also the setting for The Penobscot Man, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm’s 1904 homage to the log drivers. This is a land rich in human and natu- ral history, and nowhere more so than at Big Eddy, where the Penobscot finally slows after a 5-mile tumble through the rapids of Ripogenus Gorge. The area around Big Eddy remains a place modern civi- lization has not quite reached. When Peter and Bunny Pray established a com- mercial campground here in 1967, on land leased from Great Northern Paper, logs in the West Branch region were driven each year by river, not by truck. The Golden Road, a major logging artery, did not yet exist, and it was possible to watch an angler pull a 13-pound salmon from the pool at Big Eddy. Their campground was small, isolated, and “not too many people” came to camp, they remember. In the late 1960s, Great Northern began con- structing the Golden Road to haul logs to the mills in Millinocket and East Millinocket. The road ran right past Big Eddy, and after it was completed,

16 Baxter State Park Moosehead Lake Big Eddy •MILLINOCKET •GREENVILLE

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camping picked up. The Prays’ best customers were lifestyle than a business to the owners. Sales are “THE OPPORTUNITY TO truck drivers, who would arrive each summer for very infrequent and are a very serious matter.” ACQUIRE [A PLACE LIKE] work and leave their families to camp at the Eddy. For Chewonki, the opportunity to buy the camp- Soon after, in 1974, the first whitewater rafting com- ground came with an almost magical offer: an BIG EDDY PROBABLY pany starting running the West Branch, and Peter anonymous donor volunteered to foot the entire bill. EMERGES ONLY ONCE IN A and Bunny watched the region transform from a The donor’s identity is known only to a handful of LIFETIME, ” SAYS MAINE’S sleepy backwater to a major recreational draw. people, but Karin Tilberg attests to the person’s deep conservation ethic and interest in natural resource DEPUTY COMMISSIONER A WORLD AWAY protection. Whoever it is, it is one of many individ- OF CONSERVATION, KARIN A 4-hour drive from Wiscasset, Big Eddy uals “working hard to retain the naturalness and Campground is a world away from Chewonki’s main wildness of this place,” she says. From Don TILBERG. “SALES ARE VERY campus. But in a state like Maine, news that it Hudson’s point of view, the choice was clear. INFREQUENT AND ARE A might be up for sale traveled fast. Don Hudson “Because there was an angel out there who was VERY SERIOUS MATTER.” learned of the opportunity early last year from Karin eager to see Big Eddy preserved and improved, and Tilberg, now Deputy Commissioner of Conservation who was willing to provide the funding, it made the in the new administration of Governor John purchase easy for me and for Chewonki’s board to Baldacci. At the time, she was the interim support. This was one of those wonderful opportu- Executive Director for the Northern Forest Alliance nities, one of those synergies, where everything and was working on a project to protect 200,000 came about at the right moment.” acres of forestland in northern Maine, including the In May 2002, Chewonki purchased the 63-site land around Big Eddy. When the campground oppor- campground. But the story does not end there. A tunity arose, Tilberg thought of Chewonki—“in part few months later, as Chewonki was finalizing the because of the organization’s interest in river campground purchase, Don learned that a cash- instruction, in part because of its conservation ethic, strapped Great Northern Paper was willing to nego- and also because of the appreciation for cultural and tiate a sale of the land the campground leases. community values that I knew were shared by board Armed with this news, Chewonki worked quickly, and staff,” she says. “I could visualize Chewonki and by September 2002 negotiations for the land maintaining sporting camp traditions and building purchase were complete. Chewonki now owns 75 on those with state-of-the art recreation.” acres of the North Woods, in a parcel straddling Like others, Tilberg is not demure about putting both the north and south sides of the West Branch. the offer into context. “The opportunity to acquire The significance of the purchase goes well [a place like] Big Eddy probably emerges only once in beyond the logic of numbers and appraisals and can a lifetime,” she says. “Sporting camps such as these be quickly felt by standing on the banks at Big Eddy. usually are owned for many years and are more of a “Big Eddy is a place of mythical qualities,” says

17 ALTHOUGH WELL KNOWN FOR ITS WHITE WATER, THE AREA AROUND BIG EDDY ALSO OFFERS PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR FLATWATER PADDLING. IT’S AN IDEAL SPOT FOR FAMILY-ORIENTED CAMPING AS WELL AS FOR CHEWONKI TRIPPERS.

Karin Tilberg. “It’s an amazing combination of a At the same time, the recreational draw has powerful river, striking geologic features, vigorous steadily increased. The number of people visiting fish populations, and wild forestlands surrounding nearby Baxter State Park has increased to the point it.” that Park Director Buzz Caverly has considered clos- The drive to Big Eddy is equally stirring. Just ing some roads and campgrounds to preserve the beyond Millinocket, the grand Katahdin Range park’s wild feel. On summer Saturdays alone, 560 looms on the horizon, the summits of Doubletop, rafters pay to float the West Branch from Ripogenus The Owl, the Brothers, and Mt. O-J-I all visible on a Gorge down. The tally for the season: 18,000 clear day. “This is an area all mossy and moosy,” rafters, not to mention the thousands of private Thoreau wrote, and it is still possible to see more canoeists, kayakers, and fishermen who are also on moose than cars on an early morning drive on the the river. Golden Road. Then there’s the river itself, a dark Matt Polstein, a member of the Millinocket constant cutting through the region’s geology and Town Council and owner of the New England culture. Big Eddy remains one of those rare places Outdoor Center, the largest rafting company in the that seems unchanged each time you return. area, says that while rafters and hikers were once seen as interlopers, more people now view recre- TRANSFORMATION OVER TIME ation as a new pillar of the local economy. Yet, inevitably and incrementally, change has come. “Recreation is important and growing daily,” he Although timber is still the engine that drives the says. “It will be a cornerstone of the local economy. area’s economy, the industry has faltered. The mills It must be a cornerstone.” in Millinocket and East Millinocket, once the The twin draw for most visitors remains world’s largest, have been sold four times in little Katahdin and the West Branch. One of the most more than a decade. In January 2003, the most challenging rivers in the East for boaters, the West recent owners stunned the area by filing for bank- Branch drops 120 feet per mile and is rated Class 4 ruptcy, raising the specter that the mills to 5. (The more commonly run Kennebec Gorge is may close for good. rated Class 3 to 4 and drops only 30 feet per mile.)

18 Although a few other rivers boast a similar gradient, second week after ice out at Chesuncook Lake and Polstein says what makes the Penobscot unusual is around the third week in June, “after we get the cad- an extensive series of dams built by Great Northern, dis and stone fly hatches.” On summer weekends, it which provide a steady water flow year-round, is not uncommon to see 20 canoes floating in the meaning the river sees peak flows in the warm Eddy. water of summer. The most challenging rapids on the river—the THE CONSERVATION CONTEXT section through Ripogenus Gorge and the The region north of Millinocket has tremendous eco- Cribworks—vexed boatmen and log drivers long logical, botanical, and geological significance. Home before the recent wave of rafters. Ripogenus Gorge to Maine’s highest mountain (Katahdin) and largest was the site of some of the worst log jams in Maine lake (Moosehead), home to 204,733-acre Baxter State history, and lumbermen built an impressive series Park, the land is rich in history and wildlife and of locks and wilderness railroads to divert logs away boundless in stunning beauty. Several conservation from the West Branch to the more navigable East groups have joined in the West Branch project, spear- Branch. In the early 1900s, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm headed by the Forest Society of Maine. The project referred to Ripogenus as “five miles of pure foaming will eventually protect more than 650,000 acres in hell.” the region, an area three times the size of Baxter Watching boats run the Cribworks, just a few State Park. This protection includes conservation minutes walk from Big Eddy, has more recently easements on private lands and outright purchases become a kind of wilderness spectator sport. On by The Nature Conservancy, Maine Department of many days, onlookers from the campground applaud Conservation, and Chewonki. each successful run. Until recently, a rock called With the land and business deals behind it, Guardian jutted above the rapid’s final chute, and Chewonki is only beginning to realize the possibili- boaters had to execute a difficult maneuver to avoid ties Big Eddy represents. An immediate priority is to pinning on the rocks. Guardian was recently dis- bring the campground into compliance with stan- lodged by a spring flood, but Polstein says the dards set by the Land Use Regulation Commission Cribworks remains the most technically difficult (LURC), which serves as a zoning and planning board rapid on the river and can be “especially intimidat- for Maine’s unorganized territories. This will ing to new guides.” involve moving campsites farther away from the For fishermen, the river’s allure is just as dramat- river, removing hundreds of pounds of gravel from ic. Big Eddy has been something of a mecca for fish- the river’s edge, improving the boat launch so the ermen for at least 100 years and is widely consid- river is not affected by the putting in and taking out ered a world-class site for landlocked salmon. Peter of boats, and asking some resident campers to reduce Pray reports that 2- to 3-pound salmon are regularly their impact or even move off site. For example, landed there. “About 4 or 5 years ago we saw a 9- three rafting companies that were doing business out pounder,” he says. The best times to fish are the of the campground have been asked to leave.

19 CAMPING AT BIG EDDY without foundation, as word arrived in January that Big Eddy Campground is another donor with close ties to Chewonki has open from May 1 to October offered to make a generous gift toward building a small lodge. 15. Our 63 campsites, many In the meantime, work is already proceeding at of which are located on the Big Eddy. Last summer, Hauns Basset (Camp and river’s edge, accommodate EE Staffs ’00–’01) and Kimberly Pelletier co-man- tents, pop-ups, and RVs. aged the campground and began the process of trans- Although most sites have formation. With one year under their belts, they are already well into several on-the-ground improve- only a simple firepit and ments. A new website, brochure, and on-line regis- picnic table, some have tration system are in place, as well as a Junior electrical hook-ups and tent Ranger program for youngsters who are camping at platforms. The sites vary in the Big Eddy with their families. size to accommodate Hauns and Kimberly, both from Maine and now between 1 and 6 people, Perhaps most critical, says Don Hudson, is com- engaged to be married, are ready for the challenges ing up with plans to manage human waste and ahead. They stress the importance of building ties and group sites accommo- potable water. “We’re looking into a new system with the local community and with fishermen who date up to 12. The main for drinking water, solar-powered hot water for bath- use the river. “We spend hours listening to people’s area offers flush toilets, hot rooms, composting toilets, and a solar graywater questions and concerns about upcoming changes,” showers, a boat launch, septic system,” he says. Don and Greg Shute are says Hauns. “Folks seem genuinely pleased with common area for day use, also in an ongoing review process with LURC which Chewonki’s vision of the campground. Even those will continue well through and perhaps beyond who were asked to move their campers back off the trash disposal and dumping 2004. river have come to see the benefit this kind of station, coffee shop, and Although Chewonki will still operate Big Eddy as change affords the people and the place.” potable water. a family campground and continue to serve the hun- Indeed, Chewonki will continue to provide shore dreds of fishermen, boaters, and recreationalists who access to fishermen, a step Matt Polstein also agrees To register for a campsite, have enjoyed it for so many years, the campground is critical. “Big Eddy is such as incredible resource visit www.bigeddy.org. will also be available for Chewonki’s own programs. for drift boaters and people like myself who love to With an ever-growing demand for whitewater fly fish. Fishing is also an important part of the Or contact Big Eddy kayaking programs, for example, Greg Shute and his local economy.” Campground at P.O. Box assistant, Ryan Linehan, will be able to better Karen Tilberg is confident that the transition in 238, Millinocket, ME 04462, accommodate all age groups now—especially 13- ownership will go smoothly. “Chewonki has a tel. 207-350-1599 year-old boys, who are often wait-listed for camp. superlative reputation for outdoor recreation, for a Maine Coast Semester students will be welcome to visionary approach that integrates the enjoyment of explore the area, and Environmental Education fac- the natural environment with learning,” she says. ulty may lead trips designed to increase awareness Former owner Peter Pray is also optimistic. “Back about wildlife habitats, botany, geology, global in 2002, I had never heard of Chewonki. Since that warming, or renewable energy. Big Eddy could also time I’ve done a lot of listening about them and I’ve provide a powerful backdrop for arts programs, such met a lot of people. I’m very impressed. Gordon as music or painting. [Hall, Board President] and Don are very down to Other long-term possibilities include a small earth people.” family lodge that could provide day capacity for 40 At Chewonki, the enthusiasm for Big Eddy is to 50 people and perhaps overnight capacity for 10 boundless. “The project has been a tremendous suc- to 12. In fact, Don has already envisioned a process: cess,” says Don Hudson. “We worked under an “We could use local lumber to build the facility. incredibly tight schedule. We bought the business And use staff, alums, campers, and MCS students to and the land. And now we have to raise the final 10 help build it—in the good old Chewonki tradition!” percent.” ■ he notes enthusiastically. That enthusiasm is not BETTA STOTHART

OM TH NEW SUMMER PROGRAM: PENOBSCOT WHITEWATER KAYAKING FR E N S A 3-week whitewater paddling program is being established at Chewonki’s newly acquired Big Eddy Campground on the West Branch E

W C of the Penobscot River. The program is designed for beginner paddlers, with a slow-paced progression of instruction that will enable

E K them to challenge themselves while learning safe paddling techniques. Participants will paddle several sections of the West Branch and N Chewonki Neck will learn about the human and natural history of the region en route. A day hike up Katahdin and service projects along the river will round out the experience. Two sessions will be offered: June 24 to July 16 for boys and girls ages 14 to 17; and July 20 to August 11 for 13-year-old boys. For more information, contact Camp Director Dick Thomas or Wilderness Programs Director Greg Shute (tel. 207-882-7323; [email protected]; [email protected]).

20 PEOPLE Ed Andrews (Foundation Member), who has had a long career in camp leadership both in Maine and at the national level, recently announced his retirement from consulting for the Maine Youth Camping Association. He continues to be active with the American Camping Association, to serve as a trip leader for a girls’ camp, and to work on the trail crew that maintains the last 5 miles of the Appalachian Trail to the top of Katahdin. In his “free time,” Ed skis, snowshoes, swims, and kayaks.

Jonathan and Ruth Appleyard (Camp Staff ’69–’70) have recently moved back to Maine after several years in New York State and at UVM in May and is “waiting for certainly pays better than growing After several years in the Navy, Dan Massachusetts. Jonathan is the new another naturalist position to open coffee does these days.” Deutermann (Camp ’84, ’87–’88) rector at St. Saviour’s Episcopal up at Chewonki!” She sends her now flies Search and Rescue heli- Church in Bar Harbor. Ruth has love to all on the Neck. Husband and wife Twain Braden and copters for the Coast Guard in begun Hospice training and is Leah Day (Camp & EE Staffs Savannah, GA, where he lives with studying for the National Licensure Maureen Bayer (Camp Staff ’97–’98) ’92–’94) live on Peaks Island, ME. his musician wife, Trisha. “Let Exam in Muscular Therapy. They moved in February to Sydney, Twain is captain and co-owner of your Florida and Georgia trip lead- are the parents of Gus Poole (Camp Australia, for 4 months. She was Bagheera, a 72-foot Alden schooner ers know there is a fellow ’89) and Elizabeth Appleyard looking forward to “a nice break built in East Boothbay in 1924. Chewonki type watching over them (Mistassini ’00). from the corporate world” and will Bagheera will operate day sails out from the air and to look me up if be back in San Francisco in June. of Portland beginning in late May. they need anything,” he says. Dan José M. de Areilza (Camp ’79–’80; Brother Colin Bayer (Camp ’93, recently finished building an 18-foot Camp Staff ’83, ’85) married Maria ’95–’96) is moving back to Boston An ocean away in Cardiff, Wales, wooden sea kayak, evoking “big- Salgado last August. He teaches from NYC and is enrolling at the Simon Bradshaw (Camp ’92; Camp time Chewonki flashbacks.” European Union law in Madrid and New England Art Institute. Staff ’99–’00) thinks often of “still misses Chewonki days.” Chewonki. “As I write I can imag- January brought a newsy e–mail Angus Beal (Camp Staff ’98) is a ine looking out from the waterfront from Will Downing (Camp ’94–’99, Nate Arnold (Camp ’83–’87; Camp senior at Williams College. He on a perfectly still morning, breath- ’01), who had been abroad for the Staff ’93; Camp & Year-round Staffs hopes his post-graduation plans will ing the salty air and listening to the past 4 months. “The first three ’97–present) is a 1st Lieutenant with include leading wilderness trips. birds as though I were there yester- were spent in South America with a the Army National Guard 112 MED day.” Having graduated from college semester program targeted at kids Company which is based in Bangor, Betsy Bennett (EE & Camp Staffs last summer, Simon set about “piec- taking a year off between high ME, and does medical evacuations. ’96–’99) enjoys working in Vermont, ing together a plan for the coming school and college. There were 18 After spending 15 months in at The Nature Museum at Grafton. years.” Possibilities include return- of us, and we traveled in Ecuador, Alabama learning how to fly heli- She lives across the Connecticut ing to Crete to continue work on a Bolivia, and Peru. It was a wonder- copters, with a specialization in River in Walpole, NH, and sees a lot sea turtle conservation project, mov- ful trip, filed with language study, Black Hawks, he is currently at Fort of Hanah LaBarre (EE & Camp ing to Australia for a year, and cultural immersion, and volunteer Drum, NY, “waiting to move for- Staffs ’96–’98, ’00–’02), who is maybe a visit to Chewonki. work. Since December I have been ward”—possibly to Iraq. Nate and teaching 8th grade science. in Costa Rica whitewater kayaking his wife Dawn have a 1 1/2-year old Jonathan Breen (EE & Camp staffs and working on my Spanish. For daughter, Kiara, and expect their From their new home in Panama, ’97) is Assistant Director of Student the next 5 months I will be here second child in May. Chewonki Merrill (Staff ’01–’02) and Jen (MCS Services at Colorado Outward Bound traveling on my own and doing friends from far and near send best faculty ’97–’01) Bennett report they in Golden. On a vacation to the more language study and volunteer- wishes to Nate for a safe journey. have survived two earthquakes (one Northeast last fall, he spent a few ing.” Will thanks Dick Thomas and of them a 6.0) and some torrential days volunteering at Chewonki, Chewonki for “helping me become From Andy (Camp ’82–’84; Camp downpours. “We still have oodles where his skills in Excel were espe- the kind of person who would Staff ’93, ’96; MCS faculty ’96; Farm of work to do until the inside of the cially appreciated. embark on this type of adventure.” ’93–’95) and Ana Barker comes the house is finished (we are making joyful news of “another budding Sox our own wood flooring, for Tomas Bril (Camp ’98–’99), who still Retired pathologist Robert Ehrmann fan”: Emma Ruesink Barker, born instance), but we’re ready to tackle holds the claim of being Chewonki’s (Camp ’30) lives with his wife, on April 16, 2002. “I’ve got a good it after a nice vacation in Oregon. only Argentine alum, says he is Janice, in Waban, MA. They have feeling she’s the answer to the We are now getting approached by well, “despite Argentina’s collapse.” two daughters, Lisa, a lawyer, and Bambino’s Curse,” writes Andy. other people who are just moving to He is studying political science in Martha, an obstetrician. the area and would like to build Buenos Aires and working with Jenn Barton (EE Staff ’98–’01) will houses similar to ours. Maybe we’ll Canadian journalists on a documen- finish the Field Naturalist Program start a construction company—it tary project about his country.

21 Jeff Evans (Camp ’90–’91, ’94; Camp Lehman Brothers. Jamie and his & EE Staffs ’96–’97, ’99–’00) is wife, Carol, have two children, about to take the GREs in biology Jeremy and Sydney. and will be applying to graduate schools for a Ph.D. in plant ecology. John Little (Camp ’70–’72, ’76; He’s also building a sailing dory in Camp Staff ’77–’81) isn’t letting any his basement. grass grow under his feet. He’s a high-school science teacher at From Freeport, ME, Mr. and Mrs. Richford Jr./Sr. High in Richford, Francis Farnum, parents of Bob VT; is in his 9th year of teaching a Farnum (Camp ’59) and Peter class on building wood strip canoes; Farnum (Camp ’69–’70; Camp Staff is a ski instructor at Jay Peak on ’73–’74, ’93–’95) write: “We are weekends; and is chairman of the thrilled that our granddaughter, Sara Missisquoi River Basin Association, T. Farnum, will be attending the an all-volunteer citizens’ group second half of her junior year at working to improve watershed Chewonki.” quality.

Courtland Fowler (Camp ’96–’99) is Jackie MacNeish (Camp ’91; Camp a freshman at Colby College and Staff ’92) is in her second year of a loves it. His parents report he may Masters in Environmental well be a biology major and “credit Leadership program. “I am enjoying this to his years at Chewonki.” Boulder, CO, living near the foothills of the Rockies, and plan- “Hanging in there at 88, with happy ning my thesis project—perhaps memories of Chewonki in the early developing an outdoor school.” ’50s” writes Stanley Gascoigne (Camp ’49–’53). He lives in Paget, Claire and John Mannheim (Camp Bermuda. ’52–’53) winter in Concord, MA, and summer in Southport, ME. Charles Hamm (Camp ’50) writes tional presentations on domestic established in a real-estate career in They send best wishes to all at from his home in Mystic, CT: violence in Cumberland and his native Czech Republic. Chewonki for a wonderful summer. “Retired from active management Sagadahoc Counties and in his off Reminiscing about his summer at (still Chairman) of Independence time continues to ski and rock and Chewonki, where he arrived speak- Anne Pearson sends word of her Community Bank. Plan to ‘give up’ ice climb. ing “almost no English,” he says daughter, Rebecca May (Maine sailing—having a lobster boat built. “you cannot imagine how this trip Reach ’78–’79; EE Staff ’86–’89, Just elected to Mystic Seaport After working on oil tankers and changed my life. Chewonki is with ’99–’00), who was instrumental in Museum Board.” missing home too much, Porter me forever. I would like to come establishing Chewonki’s Outreach Holmes (Camp ’88–’89, ’93; Camp back, probably for some wilderness programs: “Good reports from Ryan Harrington (Camp ’92; Staff ’94–’95) has come ashore and is trips.” Vaclav hopes one of his chil- Rebecca, who is still in India/Nepal, Umbagog ’97) is a senior at Keene now working for Florida Power and dren—a 15-year-old daughter and where I visited her in spring.” State College in New Hampshire. Light on Long Island, at a small gas 12- and 9-year-old sons—will come He is majoring in chemistry and turbine peaking facility. “We are a to Chewonki. Living in St. Paul, MN, Kate Dolan plans to pursue a Ph.D. very environmentally friendly plant, McGowan (Camp Staff ’83–’84) and I assure you,” he says. “Living Brothers Jon (Camp ’96; Camp Staff husband Jordan have an 18-month- Sinclair Hart (Camp ’34–’35) turned down here sure does make me ’98–’99) and Kai (Camp ’98–’00) old son, Booth. Their second child 80 in October and is a retired appreciate Maine even more.” Kruger of Cambridge, MA, are both is due in May. Episcopal priest living in on the move these days. Their par- Williamstown, MA. He has crystal Dan Hudnut (Camp ’79; Family St. ents write that Jon is spending the David Mehr (Camp ’78–’81; Camp clear memories of Camp Chewonki Croix trip ’81) lives in Bradford, VT, spring semester in the Netherlands Staff ’84–’85) and his wife, Jennifer, and says his two summers there and works for Wagner Forest and that Kai plans to be in Mexico have had a big year in Cranford, NJ. “remain well wrapped in my heart.” Management. “I have enjoyed my this summer, with the They purchased their first home in He lived in Jungle with Nicky involvement in conservation deals,” Chewonki/Alford Lake Camp June, David started a job as Director Davis, Alan Hawkridge, and he writes, “including the West exchange trip. of Development at Seton Hall Marsena Parker Butts, and Franny Branch Project, with Liz Burroughs Preparatory School in August, and Sayre was their counselor. “I have (MCS ’89) at the Forest Society of Daria and David Lamb (Camp baby #1 was due in February. great memories of campfires under Maine, and the St. Croix/Spednic ’65–’66, ’68; Camp Staff ’69–’70) “We’re already talking about the Pine Tree, Tent Day, and the corridor sale, both of which harken have two children, Lucy and Wilbur, Chewonki summers for the wee Sunday afternoon game called back to Chewonki days.” who are 3 and 7. They look forward ones,” they say. Scouting,” he writes. He also has to reuniting with the Chewonki fond memories of Sunday dessert, Sam Jackson (Camp ’75–’79) is an community when they bring Wilbur From Los Angeles, Christian “which was always banana splits Emergency Room physician in to camp for his first summer. Melbostad (Camp ’91–’92; Camp with chocolate sauce!” California. Staff ’96–’99, ’01) writes that he is While in NYC for camp promotion working for Raytheon, “on optics Peter Herrick (Camp ’82–’84; Camp After working for 3 years for the trips recently, Dick Thomas enjoyed and electronics in space and air- Staff ’90) and his wife, Sharon, live U.S. Embassy in Prague, Vaclav visiting Jamie Lister (Camp ’77–’79), borne systems.” in Portland, ME. Peter does educa- Kolar (Camp Staff ’90) is now well who is a Managing Director at

22 Rich Mumby (Camp ’93–’95) has From Zoe Richards (MCS faculty man.” They honeymooned in Fiji, serve as a volunteer and consult- gone the corporate route and is ’91–’96) and Josh Brown (MCS fac- diving and snorkeling. ant.” He continues his work on working for American Express in ulty ’92–’96) comes the lovely conservation projects under his suc- NYC. “I really enjoy my job and announcement that “on the first Sheila Sullivan (Camp & EE Staffs cessor and leads weekly ecotours of living in the city but often find day of spring, March 20, 2002, Silas ’93–’95, ’97–’98) married Cory Snow the island and many other field myself missing the outdoors. I will Armstrong Brown was born to the in Bridgton, ME, in September 2001. trips. have to come up with a solution to world and to his delighted parents.” “We’ve bought a house in that. I am running the NY Portland,” writes Sheila, “and have For MCS news, see Coastlines. Marathon this November, which is Shawna and John Saaty (Camp been working on our flower and exciting—one of those things to ’80–’81) live in McLean, VA, and vegetable gardens. I continue to check off life’s ‘to do’ list.” have two daughters, Emma (2 1/2) work with Tim Ellis on our and Nina (5 months). Last year GlobalQuest/Thailand project, IN MEMORIAM Jake Nunes (Camp ’75–’76; Camp John took 9 months off work and joined recently by Chewonki alums We were saddened to learn of the Staff ’81, ’88–’89) teaches math at applied his Chewonki skills. He Melissa Quinby [Camp & EE Staffs death on December 5, 2002, of the Shady Hill School in spent 8 days hiking the Appalachian ’92–’01] and David Terry [Camp & Phil Schepps (Camp ’92–’96; Cambridge, MA. Trail through the White Mountains EE Staffs ’01–’02].” of New Hampshire (Moosilauke to Family trip ’97), of Dallas, TX. As Philip Obbard (Camp ’74–’76; Camp Mt. Washington) and a week hiking Kaz Thea (FOLS ’85; Camp & EE a relatively recent camper, Phil is Staff ’78–’80, ’82) sends two news and sea-kayaking in Alaska. Staffs ’85–’87) and Kurt Nelson joy- vividly remembered by many at items from his home in Albany, fully announce the birth of Kaiden Chewonki. “In particular,” says CA: (1) David Buckle Obbard, Sarah Schmidt (Staff ’89–’90) has Thea Nelson on September 6, 2002. Dick Thomas, “I remember his “potential camper in about 2012,” been busy in the years since she left was born on 9/27/02; and (2) he’s Chewonki. She earned an M.S. in Seth Turner (Camp Staff ’98–’99) ‘nonchalant enthusiasm’ for all glad to hear about the Canoe Wildlife Ecology from the spent November kayaking in Chewonki had to offer. He was Expedition for Maine Girls, as University of Arizona; relocated to Ecuador and the winter in Big Sky, always a full participant in every “daughter Kyle, 13, may go in years Whidbey Island, WA, with partner MT, working as the assistant man- activity and especially enjoyed the to come.” and high-school science teacher Bill ager of a ski shop. freedom Chewonki gave him to Rick; and now coordinates the WSU Chris Pye (Camp ’81–’82) lives in Beach Watchers, an environmental Richard Veit (Camp ’68–’71) is a pursue fun activities during his Brisbane, Australia, and runs a education, outreach, and research professor of biology at City free time.” Dick’s assistant, Justin small business designing and facili- cooperative extension program in University of New York and studies Reich, has many happy memories tating drama-based programs for Island County. “Best wishes to my the ecology of birds in the Antarctic of Phil. “I’ll never forget the day marginalized young people. “Very old friends at Chewonki,” she and on Nantucket Island, MA. His Phil cut the sleeve off his shirt, rewarding work,” he writes. writes. two sons, Darren (12) and Brian (10), live in Seattle. poked eyeholes in it, wore it as a Nancy (Year-round Staff ’84–’00) Michael Silberman (Camp Staff ’99) mask, and declared himself Don and Gene Raymond (Camp Driver) graduated from Middlebury this Matthew Weeks (Camp ’98–’02) Juan,” recalls Justin. “It was price- haven’t slowed down one iota since winter—on skis!—with a joint looks forward to being a Chewonki less.” We extend our sympathy to retirement. They are volunteering major in political science and envi- Guide this summer. In the mean- Phil’s family, which includes his in their new community of ronmental studies. Although “sad time, he’s working hard at Belmont Englewood, FL, and keeping the to leave Middlebury,” he said it’s Hill School outside Boston and twin brother, Ben, and stepbroth- fairways busy from there to Maine. good to know that “many enjoying sports, especially er, Jake Schepps, also former They managed to include Chewonki staffers and alums wrestling. Chewonki campers. Chewonki in their 2002 summer remain on campus.” plans, volunteering several hours in Having completed an MA in East Our sympathy also goes to Mrs. the Development Office and driving From Peter Slovenski (Camp Asian Studies last year at Stanford, wilderness trip participants to and ’64–’68), men’s and women’s cross- Stephen Whiteman (Camp ’85–’86, Ruth Stevens of Cape Coral, FL, from their destinations. country and track coach at Bowdoin ’90; Camp Staff ’97–’98) is now whose husband, Dr. Dave College, and Cotty Saltonstall working on his Ph.D. in Art History Stevens (Camp Staff ’53), died on Beth Reichheld (EE Staff ’91–’92; (Camp ’52; Camp Staff ’57–’60, there. “It certainly is not the East, May 7, 2002. Dave was a well- Boat Builder ’99) writes from Lake ’62–’66, ’71) in Florida comes word let alone the Maine Coast,” he says, known name in high-school sail- Hill, NY: “Recently saw Jen Sage of Peter’s former Chewonki coun- “but these days being a graduate Smith [EE Staff ’89–’91]. Traveled selor, Earle “Pete” Cooper (Camp student feels like pretty stable ing circles, having been one of the Rupert River this summer with Staff ’63, ’65). Pete was for many employment.” He hopes to lead a the founding coaches of the New Wendy Welshans [EE Staff ’85–’90] years the football coach at Lawrence group of young people to China this England School Sailing Association and other friends. I miss Maine!” High School in Lawrence, ME, and summer, combining outdoor, cultur- and the sailing coach at Williston in May ’01 he received the al, and historical education. Academy in Massachusetts. “He David Reynolds (Camp ’70–’72; Contribution to Amateur Football Camp Staff ’75–’77, ’79, ’81) lives in Award from the Maine Chapter of From Hamilton Parish, Bermuda, loved Chewonki,” Ruth wrote, Arlington, VA, and works in D.C. the National Football Foundation David Wingate (Camp Staff ’66–’67) and always remained interested in on California water issues, particu- and College Hall of Fame. writes that he “faced compulsory what was happening on the Neck. larly the San Francisco Bay (age 65) retirement from Dave was the father of Daniel Delta/Ecosystem and Water Supply Susan Stanger (Camp Staff volunteer Government service in October Stevens and David Stevens, Jr., Program (CALFEA). “Challenging ’85) is living and working as a 2000 but managed to negotiate an work,” he writes, “trying to bring graphic designer in San Francisco arrangement whereby I retain a cot- and the stepfather of Tom Cross. agricultural-urban-environmental and was married in October to tage residence on Nonsuch Island interests together.” Mitchell Nemeth, “a wonderful Living Museum Nature Reserve and

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