NEWS
The American Scientific Affiliation
VOLUME 8 Number 2 15 April 1966
JERVIS IN JAPAN
Prof. R. E. Jervis, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry,
University of Toronto, recently wrote from the University of Tokyo as follows:
"I am currently spending my year of sabbatical leave as Visiting Professor in the
Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Tokyo where I am studying current Japanese work
in nuclear and radiochemistry. During my stay here to date I have visited several
of the major nuclear science centres in Japan: the Japan Atomic Energy Research
Inst., Tokai-mura, Kyoto University Reactor Inst., St. Paul's University Reactor
Inst. (which has a reactor donated to them by the Episcopalian Church of U. S. A.
on the recommendation of Dr. Wm. Pollard) and the Inst. for Nuclear Studies, Univ.
of Tokyo. I have presented invited lectures at these centres, mainly on my recent
research in Radiochemistry and radioactivation analysis, particularly as applied to
scientific crime detection, a field which I have pioneered in Canada during the
past ten years. I am also an associate staff worker with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students attached to the Japanese student movement: Kirsutosha
Gakusei Kai during my year here. I have been meeting with KGK groups in various
Japanese universities and assisting in evangelistic efforts within the limitations
of my poor knowledge of the language. I have also met with professors, some of
whom are keen professing Christians.11
MOBERG GETS AROUND
David 0. Moberg is chairman of a planning committee for a joint regional meeting
sponsored by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious
Research Association to be held in Minneapolis on March 24, 1966. The program will
include numerous but brief reports on religious education research, empirical
studies on values, ethics, and society, and resources for religious research in
the Upper Midwest region,
Dr. Moberg was one of the speakers at a special conference on "Religion and Aging"
at the Rossmoor-Cortese Institute on Gerontology of the University of Southern
California in November (and rushed around so much that he didn't even get time to
telephone the editor!) He will be the keynote speaker at a similar conference of
ministers and laymen in the Christian Reformed Church in Evergreen Park, Illinois
on March 30, 1966.
Dave will also be a member of the social science panels to evaluate applications
under the Instructional Scientific Equipment Program of the National Science Foundation in Chicago on February 10-11 and the leader of one of the elective sessions of
the Founders Week program of Bethel College and Seminary, February 21-25. His
seminar will deal with "A Sociological View of the Church's Mission."
YAMAUCHI GETS AROUND EVEN MORE
The Rutgers Research Council has granted Dr. Edwin Yamauchi a second summer fellowship.
Greece and Babylon, his work summarizing the evidence for early Greek contacts with the Near East, will be published this spring by Baker Book House. The
paper he read at the A. S. A. convention last fall, Composition and Corroboration
in Biblical and Classical Studies, will appear in the Biblical and Theological
Series published by the Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co. (Hey, Russ, are they
scooping the Journal?)
Two articles on biblical archaeology were published by The Way, the Asian journal
for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. Other articles will
appear in the Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society, J. ofthe Westminster
Theological Seminary, J. of Near Eastern Studies, J. of Semitic Studies, and J. of
the American Oriental Society. Dr. Yamauchi has been invited to publish the text
of a Mandaic magic bowl in the Babylonian Collection at Yale University.
The Inter-Varsity, for which he is advisor, sponsored a weekend conference at
Hudson House in Nyack, N. Y. They had some 70 conferees, mostly from Rutgers and
Douglass. These included some from Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist persuasions.
The Graduate Christian Fellowship, begun last year, continues to attract 20-25 for
its monthly meetings. They have used a number of A. S. A. members: in November, Dr. Wayne
Frair on "Alternative Views of Evolution"; in January, Dr. Donald Morton
(non-member at present) on "The God of the Universe"; in February, Harry Lubansky
on "Birth Control"; and in April, Dr. Wayne Ault on "Volcanoes and Tidal
Waves."
The Faculty Fellowship, which also began meeting last year, draws an average of six
men. Ten attended a session in February in which the assistant dean of the engineering school shared his testimony.
Dr. Yamauchi has been teaching an adult class in biblical archaeology at the First
Baptist Church in Highland Park. This was featured in the local newspaper, and
has attracted some of the college students.
He has been given numerous opportunities to speak both to Jewish and Christian
groups, especially on "The Dead Sea Scrolls." In November he spoke at the Graduate
(I. V.) Forum at Yale University on "Biblical and Classical Literary Criticism."
In March he was invited to give the John W. Ritter Lectureship on "The Common Background of Israel and Greece", at The Evangelical Congregational School of Theology
in Myerstown, Pennsylvania. In April he will be reading a paper on "The Scythians
and the Bible", at the Eastern Section of the Evangelical Theological Society in
Philadelphia.
AND, BOY-, LOOK AT SCRWZITZZR'S SCHEDULE!
Dr. George K. Schweitzer, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee,
has had a year crammed with worthwhile activity. Last fall his book entitled THE
DOCTORATE was published by Thomas of Springfield, Illinois. This is a little
tispare-time" volume dealing with the history, types, present status, etiquette,
and regalia of the various doctoral degrees.
After returning from the Oxford conference last summer, Dr. Schweitzer lectured to
the Indiana State Teachers Association in Indianapolis on August 10, held a
religious life week in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Sept. 5-10, addressed the Conference of
Physicians in Schools in Chicago, Sept. 24, spoke at the National Recreation Association Convention in Lansing, Michigan, Oct. 1, gave the Religious Convocation
Lectures at Florida State University, Oct. 17-22, gave several science-religion
addresses at Oklahoma Baptist University, Dec. 8-10.
During Jan. 10-13, he delivered a series of lectures on Modern Theological Trends
at Kentucky Southern College in Louisville, Feb. 14-17 appeared at Florence
State College in Alabama as their Religious Emphasis Week speaker. On March 7-11
he gave the Spring Lectures at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas
City, and on Mar. 14-16 four talks at the University of Mississippi on the philosophy
of science. The World Relations Conference of the UN heard his lecture on March
28 and Georgia Tech. his views on science, philosophy, and religion during their
Spiritual Life Week, April 10-14. Sul Ross State College will be the place of
three lectures on the sociology of science April 20-22. On May 18, he will deliver
the keynote address at the National Congress of Parents and Teachers which is meeting in Baltimore.
This summer, George will be giving a paper at the International Conference on Solvent Extraction Chemistry in G~;teborg, Sweden, after which he and wife, Verna, will
tour Italy. In addition, he will be visiting lecturer in philosophy of religion
for some special summer school sessions at Stetson University in Florida and will
lead a conference on The Theological Implications of Science at The Southern
Baptist College Student Retreat at Ridgecrest, North Carolina. This year has been
a very fruitful one for his research; four papers have been published in Analytical
Chimica Acta and two in The Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry plus a long
review article on the Theory of Chelate Solvent Extraction which will come out soon
in Recent Advances in Analytical Chemistry. At present, Dr. Schweitzer has nine
graduate students and two post-doctoral fellows working with him.
GORHAM PROMOTED
Dr. John Richard Gorham, Ashland, Ohio, has joined the staff of the U. S. Public
Health Service's Communicable Disease Center. Dr. Gorham will work in the Vector
Borne Disease Section of the Training Branch, at the Center's headquarters in
Atlanta, Georgia. He is an officer in the commissioned corps of the Public Health
Service, with the equivalent rank of Navy commander.
Dr. Gorham received the A.B. (1953) and M.S. (1956) degrees from Miami University
(of Ohio) and the Ph.D. (1960) degree in entomology from Ohio State University. He
also studied at the University of New Mexico and the Army Medical Field Service
School in San Antonio, Texas. He was assigned to Walter Reed Army Medical Center
during 1954-55.
After graduating from Ohio State, Dr. Gorham spent a year as Postdoctoral Trainee
in Medical Entomology at the School of Tropical Medicine in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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His next assignment was in Paraguay where he served two years
malaria eradication for the Pan American Sanitary Bureau. Dr
returned from Pakistan where he was Research Associate at the
Maryland's Pakistan Medical Research Center in Lahore.
LOCAL SECTION NEWS
Metropolitan New York
At their Council meeting of 6 December 1965 the Metropolitan New York Section
elected the following new officers:
President - John Haynes
Vice-President - Howard Mattson
Secretary - Ralph Ellenberger
Treasurer - Wells Spencer
Their next meeting is scheduled for either 7th or 14th of May, probably at Drew
University.
North Central
The St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota is the location of the 16 April
meeting of the North Central Section of the ASA. Dr. V. Elving Anderson, of the
Dight Institute of Genetics, Univ. of Minnesota, speaks on "Moral Problems in
Genetic Advance", followed by Dr. H. Harold Hartzler, Mankato State College, on
"Astronomy and the Bible." After a business session, dinner is slated in the staff
dining room of the St. Paul Dining Center Building, followed by a discussion
"Search For Truth", lead by Dr. Marie Berg, Chairman, Division of Natural Science
and Mathematics, Northwestern College, Minneapolis.
The new officers of the North Central Section are:
President - Marie H. Berg
Vice President - Eugene R. Chenette
Secretary Karel Van Vliet
Treasurer Paul Christian
Southern California
Instead of hotter meetings, the trend is toward cryogenic temperatures around Los
Angeles as John E. Fredrickson, Professor of Physics, California State College,
Long Beach, speaks on "Helium at Low Temperatures" at the next meeting 30 April.
The meeting will be held in room 124, Music Building, on the California State
College
Campus, Los Angeles, at I P. M. Lawrence H. Starkey's work on the Centaur Moon
Rocket Program at General Dynamics Convair is to be extended somewhat as he presents
a paper, "Necessity and Purposiveness in the Cosmic Setting and History of Life."
(All right, read it again, then!) At the 4 P. M. session ' John Vosbigian, Department
of Chemistry, Los Angeles Harbor College speaks on "Christian Relevance on the College Scene." Strong undercurrents set up by the local nominating committee under
Paul Ribbe are very much in evidence, but the world must tremble and wait a bit
longer for the announcement.
HELP WANTED
Bethel College
The departure of Dr. Ivan Fahs to Harvard University on a joint teaching-reaearch-learning appointment this fall in addition to the need for expansion makes it necessary for Bethel College to add two more
socioj2ZIsts to the staff this fall.
While a Ph.D. degree is desirable, a doctoral candidate or someone with a master's
degree who meets the qualifications of teaching ability plus Christian commitment
could also be acceptable. Bethel is conveniently located for those who wish to do
graduate work at the University of Minnesota while teaching part-time, so that
also is a possibility. ASA members and friends who know of possible candidates are
invited to write to Dr. David 0. Moberg, Chairman, Department of Social Sciences,
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101. The school also has an opening for a political scientist.
Studies are now underway at Bethel to determine whether it is feasible to establish
a research center which would make it possible for faculty members to engage in research on a part-time basis. The school also is involved in campus planning for
the big move to a new site in the fall of 1970. The present campus is far too
small for present and future needs.
College of William and Mary
There is an unusual opening in the Biology Department at the College of William
and Mary. This opening is in the Laboratory of Population Ecology of the Biology
Department. The teaching specialties desired are in the general area of Vertebrate Physiology, with specific course emphasis determined through consultation.
Extensive reaearch facilities are available at the Laboratory of Population Ecology
and applicants interested in some aspects of population physiology, (Endocrinology,
Reproduction Physiology, Sensory Physiology) will be given preferential consideration.
The rank and salary for the position are open dependent upon the experience and
past performance of the applicant.
Dr. C. Richard Terman, Associate Professor of Biology, is interested in contacting
Evangelical Christians with respect to this opening because of the opportunities
and challenges at this institution and more broadly the necessity for involvement
of Christians in the population problem. Inquiries concerning this position should
be made to Dr. Mitchell A. Byrd, Chairman, Biology Department, College of William
and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Dr. Terman would also be glad to correspond with any interested person.
Wheaton College
Position available beginning 1966-67 (or 1967-68) as Instructor in Biology. M. S.
degree in biology or botany required. Appointment for one year but may be extended.
Graduate study possibilities at nearby universities. Write to Dr. R. L. Mixter, Chairman, Department of Biology, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.
HOW LONDON DOES IT
It is instructive to see how meetings comparable to those of the ASA are conducted
elsewhere. The London Christian Graduates' Society. Three meetings scheduled
through February and March at King's College, London, had the following topics of
discussion:
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