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Successes do occur, says Middlebury's Dalton. "There are miracle workers out there doing incredible things." Freed of paperwork and unrelated duties, and with the backing of their principals, these counselors are able to focus students' attention early. Katahdin High School is in the depressed rural town of Sherman Station in northeastern Maine. The one counselor for the school's 250 students, Wayne Miller, is a key member of the faculty. He starts seeing freshmen "right off the bat" to get them thinking about careers, then eventually about how college might expand their opportunities. "Our kids are extraordinarily modest," says...
...ocean up past Damariscotta and Pemaquid. It could run through potato country in Arostook. It could be bordered by blueberry stands, like the roads near Bar Harbor. Pretend there are some mountains, and it could be near Rangeley and the lakes area, or even in the shadow of mighty Katahdin...
...question in my mind is whether Gus Yates's death on Mt. Katahdin--had it taken place--would have affected only him. Presumably he, like most of us, has a circle of family and friends whose lives would be severely disrupted by his loss. Indeed, I would guess that the law which he broke was passed at the urging of survivors of solitary climbers less lucky than...
...this case Mr. Yates was not in any way destroying the environment on Mt. Katahdin. The multitudinous inexperienced summer visitors do far more damage. The restrictions were supposedly designed to protect his safety. What risks he can or should take is a matter which Mr. Yates, not the park, should decide...
...Simons states that Mr. Yates could have climbed unimpeded "in any one of countless mountain ranges." The fact is that the most spectacular ranges in our New England area--the White Mountains, the Green Mountains, Mt. Katahdin, and the Adirondacks--are all regulated. To have climbed a mountain which was not regulated and was also difficult enough to provide him with a challenge, Mr. Yates would have had to travel to the Rocky Mountains...