Description: A photograph of three people standing in front of the door to the Davis Carriage House before it was bought by COA and turned into student housing.
Description: Acadia National Park headquarters building being driven on the Park Loop Road to the campus where it would be renovated and renamed the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History.
Description: Acadia National Park headquarters building being moved into place on campus where it would be renovated and renamed the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History.
Description: Acadia National Park headquarters building being moved into place on campus where it would be renovated and renamed the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History.
Description: These are materials from the nineteenth commencement ceremony at the College of the Atlantic, held on June 8th, 1991. The first image is from the commencement invitation. It features a grayscale photograph of a collection of rocks, taken by Noreen E. Hogan. The second image is from the commencement program. It is also in grayscale, and depicts waves in water. The art is credited to Ned Ormsby, and was printed on recycled paper. It also features a quote attributed toAmerican Transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. The quote by Emerson reads: "What is Success? To laugh often and love much, to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a lot better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived -- this is to have succeeded." [show more]
Description: This is the front cover of the program for the eighteenth commencement ceremony of the College of the Atlantic, held on June 2, 1990. It has a black and white print depicting a group of human figures climbing a set of stairs to look out at a view of water and evergreen trees. Some of the figures are helping other figures up, and one is raising their arms in wonder or celebration. The text reads: "Here comes the turn of the tide." Emily Bracale, '90 created the cover illustration, and it was printed on recycled paper. [show more]
Description: These are materials from the seventeenth commencement celebration at the College of the Atlantic, held on June 3, 1989. The first image is from the commencement invitation card. It has a detailed black and white line illustration by Katrina Hodgins. The second image is from the commencement program. It has a black and white photograph of a group of five young children, printed on a gray background. The photograph was taken by Jared Crawford. [show more]
Description: These are materials from the College of the Atlantic's sixteenth commencement ceremony, held on May 28, 1988, in Bar Harbor. The first image is from the commencement invitation. It has a blue and white illustration depicting abstract human figures in a circle, locking arms. The second image is from the commencement program brochure. It has a stylized black and white illustration depicting a crane in mid-flight. According to a May 20, 1988 COA News release, the 1988 commencement ceremony included a large mobile constructed of one thousand origami cranes, made by members of the graduating class and community. The cranes symbolized world peace and were inspired by the memory of Sadako Sasaki, a survivor of the Hiroshima bomb whose project to make one thousand paper cranes became an international symbol of a wish for peace. [show more]