Departure note
By Linda Fuller
Linda Fuller serves as the Co-Director of Educational Studies at COA, working closely with certification candidates through advising, teaching, and supervising student interns. Linda has been with COA for 15 years and the college will miss her deeply.
Growth by Myles Kimball
After 15 thought-provoking, energizing, hopeful, and sometimes magical years at COA, I am turning my focus after June to some of these adventures:
Participating in 90% of Rotary International’s community support projects (instead of 5%)
Going to weekday matinees!
Sorting, donating, shifting uses, and minimizing stuff
Exploring Maine in the style of Craig Kesselheim ’76 and his New to ME project
Bringing back the drop-by visit with renewed enthusiasm (you’ve been warned)
Spending a couple of months during the next few winters in areas enabling collaboration with international Rotary clubs
Watching Star Trek movies and shows, in order (and spending a fair bunch of time determining what might be an optimal order for viewing)
Skiing (at least briefly) each mountain in Maine in the 2027 season
Getting Christmas cards out the day after Thanksgiving
Organizing each and every recipe in my possession
Continuing to strengthen bonds with family and friends whose political views diverge widely from my own
Unearthing an exceptionally rewarding use of social media
Baking more often for people who don’t expect it
Seeking opportunities to communicate with elected officials through phone calls, emails, demonstrations, and creative activist endeavors
Increasing both deliberate and random acts of kindness
Increasing our family’s involvement with COA’s Community Connections program to help ensure that international students have local support and the opportunity to become familiar with interior Hancock County
Determining how to get my hands on Growth by Myles Kimball
Thank you COA community! You are amazing, unceasingly surprising, and always in my heart.
