Description: During the fall of 1982, the COA Oral History Workshop collected and prepared oral history interviews documenting COA's founding and early years. For her senior project, Bethany Arownow '83 edited these interviews into a booklet entitled "Such a Frail Bark". The book is fascinating and contains photographs of Kaelber Hall and people instrumental in COA's birth and life.
File Attachment: Aronow, Bethany Such a Frail Bark, 1983.pdf …Faculty [1972-PRESENT] John Biderman Student [1973-1977] Les Brewer Trustee [1969-PRESENT] RocCaivano Faculty [1973-1981] Bill Carpenter Faculty …DAN: "My first class, I was scared out of my mind ROCCAIVANO: because I had never taught before in my life. …ROC: . 49 "We vould have a lot of meetings on 'what is human ecology.' …COA Oral History Narrators Workshop Elmer Seal Jr John Biderman Leslie Brewer RocCaivano Joanne Carpenter William Carpenter Norah Davis Millard Dority
Description: Interviewed by Laura Starr on November 4, 1982 in Bar Harbor, Maine.
File Attachment: 1982-11-04_Roc-Caivano-transcript.pdf …first imPression w2s OK and I said, like eversone who comes to Bar Harber w~'ll need a a Place to live f~r a short while and ] said, "I'm Roe Caivano
Description: Interviewed by Donna Gold in 2011, in Waterville, Maine
File Attachment: 2011_Steve-Thomas-oral-history-transcript.pdf …I think RocCaivano did the design for it, and it went up and it really changed everything, I think, in terms of now we were sort of a destination college
Description: Interviewed by Donna Gold in July 28, 2011, in Hulls Cove, Maine
File Attachment: 2011-07-28_Mel-Cote-oral-history-transcript.pdf ….: My parents kept in close contact with Steve Katona and Suzy Lerner, and Roc and Helen Caivano, often staying with the latter.