NEWS

The American Scientific Affiliation

VOLUME 8 NUMBER 3        16 July 1966


FISCHER NEW ASA PRESIDENT

The Executive Council of the ASA selects its own officers from Council members elected by the membership. As the five-year term of Dr. V. Elving Anderson has expired, he steps down from the presidency as he leaves the Council. Dr. Robert Fischer has been elected by the Council to serve as President for the year 1966. In a resolution the Council expressed its appreciation to Dr. Anderson "for his outstanding service and stimulating leadership on the Executive Council for the last five years, during three of which he held the office of President."

The personnel of the Executive Council is:







CONVENTION TIME IS HERE

Although it may seem to some that we have been going around in circles, at least in regard to location, the ASA convention has actually been moving in an inexorable oscillation from coast to coast. The location of the 1966 national convention passes through the x-axis again as we meet at North Park College in Chicago.

The 25th Anniversary of the ASA will be celebrated at this 21st annual convention (it was impractical to hold conventions during the years of World War II). If you don't like gray hair, the creaking of joints, or the glare from shiny pates, don't come because the ASA Fossil Club is bound to be much in evidence.

"Science and the Future of Man" is the general theme, although evolution, sociology and psychology are prominent on the program. The policy of the Council is to keep each convention broad with "something for everyone" (perhaps there are political implications here!). Such names as ANDERSON, CASSEL, HORNER, BARKMAN, PATTISON, TRAVIS, WEAVER, WOLF grace the program and guarantee a profitable time with lively discussion.

As the man said, "There is no use talking about your children; other people either have children, or they don't." So it is with attendance at the annual conventions; either you have attended or you haven't. Those that have are overwhelmingly enthusiastic, those that haven't are hard to convince. Break the vicious cycle and try one, THIS ONE. It is purposely placed in Chicago, the center of gravity of the country, to make it convenient for you to be there. Bring the wife, the kids, or Aunt Minnie and Uncle Hoogo!

 ISOTOPES INK. GRABS PARKS

Isotopes, Inc. of Westwood, New Jersey, has demonstrated their collective good judgment again, this time in inducing Dr. Thomas D. Parks to join their staff as Vice-President, Technical Operations. ASA almost has control of Isotopes Ink. Dr. Donald R. Carr is Senior VP and Dr. Wayne U. Ault is a Senior Scientist. Other ASA members include Dr. George Bate, Charles Tuce and George Lindberg and there are good prospects lurking behind every counter and mass spectrometer.

Guiding light in the founding and present administration of the firm is Dr. J. Laurence Kulp, former prominent member of the ASA. A full-page advertisement in Science (18 Feb. 66) brings the glad tidings that for about $150 you can have an ancient bone dated directly (not by associated charcoal or other organic remains) by-the collagen method which is free from the problems of false ages due to fractionation or other natural mechanisms. Samples as old as 9,000 years have been dated by this method. Send all your radiocarbon business to Isotopes Ink! We think ASA is close to full control and you know how much ASA needs money.

ODD AND WONDERFUL DEPARTMENT

Glenn Kirkland, Group Superintendent of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory,
has discovered that the cover of the March, 1966, issue of the ASA JOURNAL glows
brilliantly under ultra-violet light. Realizing the erudite nature o - f this journal,
one is not too much surprised at such a visible manifestation of intangible strength
within. But wait! Glenn found that some pages of ASA NEWS also fluoresce! This calls for a new theory.

FEDERATION CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

The Federation Christian Fellowship met on Tuesday, 11 April 1966, at the Jefferson Hotel in Atlantic City. Some 40 persons were in attendance, including some 15 international scientists from 10 different countries. Dr. A. Kurt Weiss of the University of Oklahoma presided. Dr. James H. Shaw, Professor of Nutrition at Harvard University School of Dental Medicine spoke on "The Spiritual Dilemma in These Immoral Times."

At the business meeting it was decided to appoint an executive committee annually with the specific task of planning for and arranging the next yearly meeting. The committee charged with this task for the 1967 meeting which will be held April 16-21, in Chicago, consists of:

Dr. A. A. Smucker

North Central

Dr. Gordon Mills, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch,
Galveston (Chairman)
Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
(Vice-Chairman)
Dr. A. Kurt Weiss, University of Oklahoma Medical
Center, Oklahoma City (Treasurer)

LOCAL SECTION NEWS

You can just bet that the newspapers would pick up Elving Anderson's comments on artificial insemination at the 16 April 1966 meeting of the North Central Section of the ASA! The Minneapolis Star quotes Dr. Anderson as saying that he does not consider the question of adultery in artificial insemination a very serious one. "It would require a particular definition of adultery to believe this", he said.

"Donor insemination is a medical process which has none of the social and psychological problems usually associated with adultery." Dr. Anderson also stated that two extreme viewpoints must be avoided in genetics, "If something might be misused, it must be wrong; if something is technically possible, it must be right."

About 50 persons attended this meeting which was held at the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota. Beside Dr. Anderson's presentation, "Moral Problems in Genetic Advance", Dr. H. Harold Hartzler, Executive Secretary of the ASA and Professor of Mathematics at Mankato State College, Mankato, Minnesota, spoke on, "Astronomy and the Bible."

The dinner, to which wives and friends were invited, was a successful idea. Following dinner, the film "Search for Truth" was shown and discussed. Discussion centered primarily around appraisal of the film and assessment of how it might be used.

Chicago

"So sorry to hear about the death of your God", said the sign of the automobile. The Spring meeting of the Chicago Section of the ASA dealt with the "Death of God" controversy. Held at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School on Saturday, 14 April 1966, the meeting was opened by invocation and welcome by Dr. Wallace A. Erickson. President of the Section. A formal paper, "A Critique of the "Death of God" Theology" was presented by Dr. John Warwick Montgomery, of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. After discussion and a refreshment break, a business meeting was held during which plans for the coming ASA convention at North Park College were discussed.

Central Pennsylvania

A meeting of the Central Pennsylvania Section of the ASA was held 7 May 1966 at the Calvary Baptist Church, State College, Pennsylvania. There were 15 present and the enthusiasm was high. The constitution was approved UNANIMOUSLY (are you sure this was an ASA meeting?). The business meeting was followed by a lively discussion on, "The Scientist and his Faith", an article in the December, 1965, ASA JOURNAL by John A. McIntyre.

The new officers of this section are:




San Francisco Bay

On Friday evening, 13 May 1966, the San Francisco Bay Section of the ASA held a get-acquainted dinner meeting at Rick's Swiss Chalet, Palo Alto. With friends and wives (not necessarily a contradistinction) in attendance, Professor Richard Bube of Stanford University spoke on, "ASA Objectives and Highlights from the ASA Convention." (The wheels grind slowly: Dick was talking about LAST YEAR'S convention.)

Metropolitan New York

The annual spring meeting of the Metro NY section of the ASA was held on 14 May 1966 at Eastern Christian High School, Paterson, New Jersey. Students were exempted from the $2 registration fee (good idea). Dr. Wayne U. Ault conducted a field trip to Paterson Falls, a formation of considerable geological and historical interest. Midafternoon Dr. Donald R. Carr, Vice President of Isotopes, Inc., spoke on "Miracles." Other than knowing that Don would be in favor of them, no further information is available.

After the discussion on miracles, there was a showing of the Moody Science film, "Guide-Posts in the Sky." Here again, no detailed information is available. (Ed., MIS has never heard of this one!).

At the evening session, Dr. Peter Berkhouer, a former teacher of biology and a physician of long standing in Paterson, spoke on "The Bible of Nature." Another interesting feature of this meeting was having a tape recorder available as well as tapes of Dr. Donald Baker's "Contemporary Implications of a Theistic Faith", Dr. W. Thorson's "Truth and Human Freedom: Suggestions for a Consistent Christian Epistemology", and Dr. Lee Harvill's and Dr. Kenneth Allen's "Implications of Evolution", and others. (Incidentally, fellows, remember that ASA runs a tape library along with books. See Russ Mixter, Wheaton).

Washington D. C.

The Washington D. C. section of the ASA met Friday evening, 24 June 1966, at Wallace Memorial United Presbyterian Church in Hyattsville, Maryland, to hear Dr. Russell L. Mixter, Professor of Biology, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, speak on, "Crucial Issues Between Science and Christianity Today." Everyone will be relieved to know that Glenn Kirkland gave the assurance that, "I don't think Mixter will attack the magazine."

ORR BEHIND CURTAIN

Dr. J. Edwin Orr, active in ICL affairs, and Fellow of the ASA, writes as follows:

"It was my privilege to lecture this year in Serampore University and 20 Indian colleges. I was robbed in Kathmandu in Nepal, and I spoke three times in Kabul, in Afghanistan.

"I flew by Soviet plane over the Hindu Kush and Pamir ranges into the Central Asian Republics (Tajikistan, Kirghizia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan & Turkmenia). I stayed in Tashkent, a city of a million, before flying on west to the Caucasian Republics (Azerbaijan, Georgia & Armenia), finding Armenia's capital Erevan near Mount Ararat most interesting.

"I found little Baptist congregations in Kiev also, the rebuilt capital of the Ukraine. I sat on the platform of one church, seated for 300 but with 500 present, including young people. The messages were given with real fervor, and the congregation prayed quietly while an intercessor led in a public prayer: the singing was inspiring. I visited Kishinev, capital of Moldavia, and Minsk, capital of Belorussia where there are churches. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia already visited, I returned to Moscow.

"The Soviet capital compared favorably with the one I knew 30 years ago. Huge apartment blocks had sprung up along the main boulevards. I found my way alone to the First Baptist Church of Moscow for one of its three midweek services, and found 1500 present of whom 300 stood. The first message was on Psalm 139, 23-24, the second on repentance. There were tears as the people prayed. The service lasted two hours, with four spoken and six choir messages. On Sunday morning, 1800 attended, with 34 baptisms that night. Baptists, Evangelicals, Mennonites and Pentecostals are united in this church -- 5000 members, despite limits on evangelism.

"My journeys took me east through Siberia, seven hours change of time, and I contacted Baptists in Irkutsk --- near Lake Baikal, deepest lake in the world. It was 250 below zero at the spring equinox. When I left Nakhodka by Soviet ship, I had traversed 10,000 miles in all in the Soviet Union."


Whitworth College

Dr. Edwin A. Olson, Chairman, Science Division, Whitworth College has expressed his case in a compelling way:

"Our ' science division at Whitworth College in Spokane has just received a Research Corporation grant in excess of $100,000 which will be used to increase our science faculty. Additions to be made as soon as p9ssible, but no later than the fall of 1967, include one Ph.D. holder in Biology, Chemistry (inorganic preferably), Mathematics and Physics. With these additions, our staff will then stand at four in Biology and Chemistry, three in Math and Physics, and myself in Geology. An opening might also develop for an invertebrate paleontologist strong in field geology.

"The science program at Whitworth is definitely on the upswing. Next fall we are moving into a million-dollar science facility with some 35,000 square feet of area. A new science lecture series, begun this past academic year, has brought some outstanding men on campus and you can be sure we have feasted on their talents. Lately the intellectual ferment among our science students has been of the sort that augurs well for a bright future.

"I want to emphasize that the four new men we are seeking must be totally committed to Jesus Christ. The president of Whitworth (a college affiliated with the United Presbyterian Church, U. S. A.), and we of the science faculty have no intention of compromising our standards in this area simply because finding men with both academic and spiritual strength is a difficult task. We are looking for competent scientists who want to pitch in with us to work out a program where the witness of Christ can be integrated with a quality science education. Since Whitworth requires no pledges for student entrance (nor for faculty hiring), many students are apathetic, unsympathetic, or even hostile toward Christ. What a challenge we face! 'Stagnation and sheltered environment are the farthest from us. Hence, we ask your help in publicizing, in whatever way you can, our needs for additional faculty members. Interested persons should write me at Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington 99218."

Nyack Missionary.College

Nyack Missionary College is interested in receiving information on available teaching personnel seeking placement in any science area, minimum requirement, Master's Degree. Please contact Thomas P. Bailey, Dean of the College, Nyack, New York.

GIACUMAKIS APPOINTED DANFORTH ASSOCIATE

A recent announcement by the Danforth Foundation revealed that Dr. and Mrs. George Giacumakis, Jr., of the Dept. of History, California State College at Fulle have been appointed as Danforth Associates for the campus during the years 1966-68.

Through the Associate Program, the Danforth Foundation seeks to recognize and encourage good teaching and to assist in personalizing the educational process. The program places an emphasis on the role of the teacher-scholar who has a strong concern for students as persons, who has competence in his discipline, who is a man of faith and who has an awareness of the relevance of that faith to the problems of our age. Presently 1500 faculty couples at over 650 colleges and universities in the United States are related to the program. The appointment also provides funds,in carrying out the aims of the program, funds for the teacher-scholar's library and funds to attend learned society meetings.

Dr. Giacumakis has just finished his forthcoming book, The Akkadian of Alalah to be published by the Mouton Co., The Hague, The Netherlands. It is a study of group of ancient tablets in cuneiform found at the site of the ancient city of Alalah in North Syria.

ASA MEMBERSHIP STATUS

Harold Hartzler, Executive Secretary of the ASA recently reported to the Executive Council that the membership stood thusly:





In addition, there are 414 subscribers of the Journal as of 19 March 1966.

PUBLIC RELATIONS

The Executive Council is very much aware of its responsibility to establish extensive and favorable contact with the public and also the individual members feel their inadequacy in this specialized field. Perhaps somewhere throughout the membership of the ASA there are persons knowledgeable in this field or who have contact with those who are and who might be willing to assist in shaping a policy and in doing something proper and effective in this area. Contact President Bob Fischer or Executive Secretary Harold Hartzler.

SERMONS FROM SCIENCE

Following the tradition started at the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939-40 when Dr. Irwin A. Moon first presented Sermons From Science under world's fair conditions, and followed by Dr. George E. Speake's presentation at the Seattle World's Fair in 1962 and the New York Fair in 1964 and 1965 (with James I. Moon and George E. Speake, Jr.), EXPO '67 in Montreal is also planning to have Sermons From Science. A group of leading Canadian Christians, most of them laymen, have organized to make this a possibility. They are setting something of a record in having their pavilion well along the way to completion a year before opening day! Dr. Brian P. Sutherland ' is on the committee and has signed a letter that has gone to all ASA members seeking their support of this important witness at EXPO '67. The address: Sermons From Science "67", Inc., P. 0. Box 3, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

OXFORD FALLOUT

Stating that heretofore he had written to Whittier only for Hamilton microsyringes, Dr. David A. Booth points out that he met his first real, live ASA members at the Oxford International Conference last summer. That was his first impact. The second was at the annual convention at King's College, Briarcliff Manor, last summer. The combination was irresistible, he joined.

Now that he is one of us, he will return to England as a foreign missionary (or rather as a British national returning to work among his own needy people) where he
will root for ASA in the erudite circles of the Research Scientists Christian Fellowship. These people are very self-sufficient and Dr. Booth wants the good wishes of every ASAer as he goes as a "tentmaker missionary" among these people.

Dr. Booth moves from Yale to Rockefeller University for the suamer and thence to Sussex University Laboratory of Experimental Psychology in early fall. At Yale he recently talked to a Yale Christian graduates' group on "Body-Mind" Problems." He is currently working on a combination bibliography and discussion group question list on science and religion under RSCF auspices and is soliciting contributions to be edited for incorporation into this. Any reading lists, brief literature surveys, seminar quizzes and the like which might be known to ASA members or composed by them would be most welcome. He would be glad to send any inquirer an outline of the current conception of the problem.

MOBERG AND GERIATRICS

David 0. Moberg, Chairman of the Dept. of Social Sciences, Bethel College, St. Paul, declared that "both disengagement and re-engagement with religion are typical in old age" (Quoted from the Gerontologist by Geriatric Focus, Vol. 4, No. 16). There are so many concepts of religiosity that it is difficult to form a satisfactory basis for scientific assessment of the situation, says Dr. Moberg.

The bulk of evidence indicates religious feelings increase for more people than for whom they decrease, although we must be wary of too hasty conclusions. The aged seem more certain of life after death, more certain there is a God, more inclined to adhere to traditional forms of their faith, but whether these are the result of aging or merely incidental to changing social mores is not known. Dr. Moberg has not been able to locate any data as to whether personal knowledge of the basic tenets and sacred writings of one's faith increase or decrease with age. "Religious commitment is a complex phenomena with many ramifications" and a study of the role of religion among the elderly has important implications for geriatric practice, and for "more realistic and wholesome relationships between clergymen and psychologists, social workers and medical personnel."

Dave, would it help if the ASA Fossil Club offered themselves as subjects?

WESTMONT MOVES AHEAD IN PSYCHOLOGY

Dr. C. Eugene Walker has been made Chairman of the Division of Education and Psychology at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California. Among the several forward steps taken to upgrade the work in psychology are the following:

The Psychology department of Westmont College has received a grant of $2,000 in matching funds from the National Science Foundation to be used in purchasing equipment for the College's experimental psychology laboratory. Dr. Michael Mecherikoff is director of the project.

In a recent curriculum revision, Westmont College has developed an intensive one year psychology program (taken in the junior year) which is geared to preparing students for graduate school. A number of new ideas and educational innovations are included in the program. A more general and less technical program will be reco ended for students not planning on graduate school. The latter, which will be an interdepartmental program, will be termed a major in "Human Relations."

Westmont College is interested in building up its library holdings in technical books and journals, especially in the field of psychology. The college will reimburse donors for postage. Those interested may write to Dr. Vernon Ritter, Librarian, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California for mailing instructions. Please send an itemized list or general description of the books and journals involved before shipping.

ACCELERATION WITHIN THE ASA

When it comes to nuclear physics and particle accelerators, the ASA has good representation from coast to coast.

Richard A. Carhart associates with such exotic instruments as the Alternate Gradient Synchrotron, cosmotron) cyclotron and hydrogen bubble chambers as a regular part of his life at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. The March 13th issue of POWER (Scripture Press) has an article on Dick and describes how he took a physics aptitude test a year early and did what some educators said was impossible; he gave the correct answer on all the questions. National Merit Scholarship and National Science Foundation grants saw him through undergraduate work at Northwestern University and doctoral work at University of Wisconsin. He was brought to the Lord through Young Life activities. "I believe that God's creation can be studied objectively", Carhart says, "and science is constantly discovering truths of His creation that no Christian will want to reject."

John A. McIntyre, a stalwart ASA member and member of the Physical Science Commission is another who has cast his lot with particle accelerators. After graduating from the University of Washington, Jack went on for his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton. After some years as Associate Professor of Physics at the Sloane Laboratories at Yale, he was made Distinguished Professor of Physics at Texas A&M where he is now director of the Cyclotron Institute. Jack is in on the ground floor of what promises to be one of the truly great centers of nuclear research in the world and, at the moment, is constructing a modern 88" cyclotron.

Lawrence H. Johnston has been in the nuclear game longer than both Carbart and McIntyre put together, starting in the early days before the 187-inch cyclotron at University of California in association with Lawrence and Alvarez. After a hiatus as Professor of Physics at the University of Minnesota where he built a nice big linear accelerator, Larry finally arranged to get back to California. Flaunting all the cross-Bay rivalries he joined in the construction of the Stanford Linear Accelerator, heading up the vital electronics for the monster. Length: 10,000 feet. Electrons will be accelerated to 20 Gev (109 electron volts) or to 99.99999999% of the speed of light under which conditions their mass is considerable, to say the least. The hope is that the monster will be functioning this fall.

CAPS NEWS

We try to keep informed on happenings within our brother organization, Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) as many ASA members are also members of CAPS. They had a successful convention in April at Calvin College: 128 members and guests attended and heard the topic "Christian Perspectives on Hostility" discussed.

The membership of CAPS is now 221, including the 35 new members recently inducted. They announce their 1967 convention for April 12 and 13 at Stouffer's Oak Brook Inn in Oak Brook, Illinois with the topic "Personality Disorders."

MEMBERSHIP SURVEY RESULTS

In 1965 a survey questionnaire was sent to all ASA members. Skimming off the
11creamil reveals that:
The five most common present specialities are:
Chemistry 233 members
Physics 155
Mathematics 117
Biology 109
Electrical Engineering 74
Collpges Attended for first degree:
Wheaton College 151
Goshen College 65
Calvin College 42
Univ. of California 38
Houghton College 32
College attended for second degree:
Univ. of Illinois 55
Univ. of Michigan 41
Michigan State Univ. 39
Univ. of California 38
Univ. of Minnesota 32
Major, first degree:
Chemistry 383
Mathematics 284
Physics 209
Biology 159
Electrical Engineering 80
Which ASA Commission is of greatest interest to you?
Psychology 72
Physical Science 201
Biological Science 190
Social Science 42
History & Philosophy of Sci. 93
How many ASA Sectional meetings have you attended?
None 58%
1 or 2 19%
3 or more 23%
How many National meetings have you attended?
None 64%
1 or 2 25%
3 or more 11%

What topics would you like to have discussed in future meetings and Journal articles?












To implementing the stated purposes of the ASA where should the emphasis be placed?







a) Attempt to derive relations or moral conclusions from science are misguided,
whether in an effort to support or to oppose Christian faith. Do you agree?
Yes 174 members
No 125
Qualified Answer 137

b) The Bible is written in pre-scientific language. Do you agree?
Yes 294
No 63
Qualified Answer 108

c) Some questions in scientific research are inappropriate for a Christian to study
since they are already settled in the Bible. Do you agree?
Yes 32
No 370
Qualified Answer 63

d) Over the course of time plants or animals have undergone changes leading to the
formation of new species. Do you agree?
Yes 224
No 88
Qualified Answer 125

e) All the living forms in the world have been derived from a single form of life.
Do you agree?
Yes 20
No 295
Qualified Answer 137

f) The first man lived more than 50,000 years ago. Do you agree?
Yes 170
No 64
Qualified Answer 170

g) Efforts should be made to prevent the use in high schools of textbooks teaching
evolution. Do you agree?
Yes 54
No 217
Qualified Answer 202


Here is a profile of opinion within the ASA; what does it mean to you?
Yes
No
Qualified Answer

PERSONALS

Betsy Ancker-Johnson is not a member of the ASA at the present time, but she should be for her qualifications are very high. Her work in physics made the cover of Physics Today, October 1965 issue. Her work in solid state thermonuclear fusion at Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories has been attracting much well-deserved attention as they build solid state analogues of several different types of plasmaconfinement devices.

Marie H. Berg, Chairman of the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Northwestern College, drove to the West coast in her little Volkswagen to attend meetings at Oregon State University and visited Moody Institute of Science's new laboratory on the way. Dr. Berg is President of the North Central Section of the ASA.

Donald C. Boardman ' was part of the Wheaton group who presented a fiber glass copy of a mastodon femur to Judge and Mrs. Joseph Sam Parry of Glen Ellyn on whose property a complete skeleton of a mastodon was discovered and presented to Wheaton College.

John T. Chappell, President of Sheng-Te Christian College, Taiwan, will be in the U. S. this summer.

Neal 0. Brace has been appointed as Associate Professor of Chemistry at Wheaton College. He has held the same position at North Park College.

David Brandt has been an instructor in physics at Wheaton College. He is leaving for graduate study at the University of Oklahoma.

Howard H. Claassen, physics, Wheaton College, was one of the 321 national recipients of the 1966 Guggenheim awards totaling $2,277,000. He will be doing full time research at Argonne National Laboratory this fall. Dr. Claassen's book, "The Noble Gases", a part of D. C. Heath's Topics in Modern Chemistry series, will be off the press soon.

Donald C. Cronemeyer leaves Bendix Research for a position at Wheaton College as Associate Professor of physics.

Lambert T. Dolphin is Assistant Manager of the Radio Physics Laboratory of Stanford Research Institute. His work has been with auroral and meteor clutter radar and radio investigations of atmospheric and ionospheric effects on nuclear explosions and the development of advanced high-powered radars for research applications.

Stewart E. Ensign will become Associate Professor of Biology at Westmont College in the fall. His work has been in molecular biology.

F. Alton Everest and wife have returned from an eleven-week trip visiting 22 cities in 14 countries of Latin America. He reports great interest in the new Portuguese and Spanish versions of the revised Moody science films.

Gerald E. Fisher with his wife and two children will be returning to the Central African Republic in July for their fourth term of medical-missionary work in that land. Their address will be Ippy, B. P. 13, Central African Republic.

Dean H. Garrison is studying this summer at Texas A&M University under the National Science Foundation College Teacher program. He is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Wheaton College and is acting chairman of the department for the year 1966-67.

William K. Ghrist freely admits that he has spent 34 years trying to evade the step of giving up an established practice in ophthalmology, a teaching position at the university, home and friends to become a medical missionary in Africa. But now he is going to Kenya under Biblical Missions.

Lars I. Granberg, Professor of Psychology, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, has been appointed by the Board of CAPS to serve as editor of a book on "Guilt and Forgiveness. 11

 Stuart Harverson, Medical missionary in South Viet-Nam, has been battling an epidemic of plague and cholera. While 21 Hrey died of plague and 6 of cholera because they did not ask for treatment because of their demon-worship, his evangelists saved the lives of 70 cholera and 30 plague cases while in another village two more evangelists saved the lives of 40 more cholera patients. There is a great turning to God, reports Harverson. "Ha Thanh village is now mostly Christian with 340 believers....Vi Rabua is all Christian except for two families. Vi Jo has 30 Christian families..." His co-worker, John Haywood, was killed in a VC ambush and recently 27 boys of his village were killed in one skirmish with the VC.

George F. Howe, Professor of Biology, Westmont College, is co-author with Dr. S. Maxwell Coder of Moody Bible Institute of "Truth Triumph", a correspondence course put out by Moody.

Cornelius Jaarsma, while not a member of the ASA, has contributed significantly to its program, not the least of which was Monograph one "Christian Theism and the Empirical Sciences." Dr. Jaarsma died on 15 May 1966. He had only recently retired from his position as Professor of Education at Calvin College.

0. Carroll Karkalits, former Manager of Research for Petro-Tex Chemical Corporation, has transferred into the Department of Technology as of February 1. He is now responsible for setting up a new "Development Engineering Group." The new job title is, "Assistant Director of Technology." The main assignments for the new group involve optimizing operations for the petro-chemical plant, economic feasibility studies, and review of pilot plant data just prior to commercial design.

Willis M. Kaufman has moved from East Nigeria to Houghton College where he will be in the Department of Chemistry.

Michael Mecherikoff has completed his work for a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota and has been named Associate Professor of Psychology at Westmont College.

Russell L. Mixter, Chairman of the Department of Zoology, Wheaton College, spoke to a group of Wheaton alumni in Providence, Rhode Island, on the subject, "Issues Between Science and Scripture", followed by an open discussion. -

E. Mansell Pattison, Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine, authored an article, "Closed Mind Syndrome: An Analysis of Data" in the Christian Medical Society Journal, Spring 1966.

William W. Paul of the Department of Philosophy, Central College, Pella, Iowa, left June 9 on a trip around the world with stops in Paris, Rome, Bankok, Manila, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Hawaii. He recently received a Fulbright Fellowship primarily to spend the summer in India visiting some eight different university centers talking to students of science and humanities seeking a deeper understanding of Indian philosophies on the nature of man.

Peter A. Pav has been appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida Presbyterian College, St. Petersburg, for this coming fall.

L. Evans Roth, Professor of Cell Biology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Iowa State University, Ames, has recently been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ultrastructure Research.

John C. Sinclair received his Ph.D. degree in the field of Veterinary Physiology at Iowa State University on 28 May 1966. The title of his dissertation is "The Chronic Implantation of a Thermistor For The Measurement of Coronary Blood Flow Transients in the Pig Induced by Epinephrine, Norepinephrine and Acetylcholine."





Elbert T. Williams, 901 Grace St., Birmingham, Alabama 35209. Director of Baptist Student Work for Univ. of Ala. Medical Center. Rank: Associate

Dennis Dale Ashlock, 1905 California, Bakersfield, Calif. Teaches Biological Science at South High School, Kern County Union High School District. Biology & Econ. Rank: Member

Bruce Richard Cairns, 409 James Road, Palo Alto, Calif. 94306. Research Chemist with Fairchild Semiconductor, Research and Development Lab. Chemistry. Rank: Member

Vernon P. Magnuson, 2139 Rocking Horse Rd., San Pedro, Calif. 90732. Staff Engr. for Scantlin Electronics Inc., Los Angeles. Chemistry & Math. Rank: Member

Ronald F. Mathis, 2025-C E. Wilshire Ave., Fullerton, Calif. 92631. Student at Calif. State College. AA & BA in Physics and Math. Rank: Member

Stanley Ralph Obitts, 5208 Keo Dr., Santa Barbara, Calif. 93105. Asst. Prof. of Philosophy at Westmont College. BA & BD at Wheaton, PhD Univ. of Edinburgh, all in Philosophy. Rank: Member
                          Florida


Neil L. Frank, 90 West Lake Drive, Hallandale, Florida. Meteorologist for U. S. Weather Bureau, Miami. BA & MS in Meteorology. Rank: Member
                          Illinois


David Brandt, 421 Emerald, Wheaton, Ill. 60187. Instructor in Physics at Wheaton. BS & MS. Rank: Member

John D. Gill, Jr., Wheaton Academy, Wheaton, 111. Head of Science Dept. at Wheaton Academy. BS & MS in Biology & Physics & Gen. Science. Rank: Member

John Adrian Taylor, 1128 Maple, Evanston, Ill. 60202. Student at Bethel College. Liberal Arts. Rank: Associate
                          Indiana


Ray W. Fuller, 2436 Cardinal Drive, Indianapolis, Ind. 46227. Senior Pharmacologist for The Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Co. BA, MA & PhD in Chemistry, Microbiology & Bacteriology. Rank: Member
                          Massachusetts


Dr. Epiphanes K. Balian, 381 Arlington St., Watertown, Mass. 02172. Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. M. D. Rank: Member

George D. Swanlund, 60 Pontiac Rd., Waban, Mass. 02168. Principal Staff Engineer for Honeywell. BEE in EE and Math. Rank: Member
                          Michigan


David G. Carlson, 1510 Palmer Blvd., Muskegon, Mich. 49441. Student at Bethel College. Rank: Associate

Miss Ruiess Yvonne Van Fossen, 5524 Cass, Detroit, Mich. 48202. Teaching-Research Fellow at Wayne State Univ., Dept. of Chemistry. BS & MS in Chem. Rank: Member
                          Minnesota


Richard Eugene Carlson, U. S. Public Health Service Hospital, 15th Ave. & Lake St., San Francisco, Calif. 94118. MD Intern coming in. At the time of application he was in Minnesota. DVM & MD Univ. of Minn. Rank: Member

Dale Herman, 5 East Broadway, Plainview, Minn. 55964. Student at Gordon College in Pre-Med. Rank: Associate

Del Ray H. Peterson, 1398 Midway Parkway, St. Paul, Minn. 55108. Teacher of science at John Glenn Jr. High School in N. St. Paul - Maplewood Schools. AA, BS & MEd in Health & Phys. Edu. and Natural Science. Rank: Member

James Benjamin Starr, 1499 Hythe St., St. Paul, Minn. 55108. Principal Research Scientist for Honeywell. BS, MS, PhD in ME and Math. Rank: Member

John Wayne Van der Beek, Rt. 2, Brooten, Minn. Grad. Asst. at Oregon State System of Higher Education. AB in Math. & German. Rank: Member

Gordon Keller, 1022 6th St. S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. 55414. Asst. Prof. at Univ. of Minnesota. BA, MA, PHD. in Math, General. Rank: Member

Robert Holyer, Bethel College, P. 0. 715, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Student. Rank: Associate.

Theodore Paul Wicklund, 1458 Skiles Lane, St. Paul, Minn. BA in Chem. & Biology. Rank: Member
                        New Jersey


David E. Reid, 1015 Oak Lane, Plainfield, N. J. 07060. Grad. Student & Research Asst. at Rutgers Univ. BS in Ceramic Engr. Rank: Member

Chester Minarcik, Jr., 14 Baldwin Ave., So. Bound Brook, N. J. 08880. Student at Rutgers. Rank: Associate
                          New York


Paul M. Crawn, Jr., Biology Instructor at King's College, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. 10510. BS, MS in Biology. Rank: Member

Craig William Ellison, Box 4, Castle Creek, N. Y. 13744. Grad Asst. at Wayne State Univ. BA in Psych. & Econ. Rank: Member

Robert Chapman Newman, 912 Dryden Rd., Ithaca, N. Y. 14850. Grad Fellow at Cornell Univ. BC in Physics. PhD expected in 1967. Rank: Member
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Ohio

Larry Klingler, 719 Ohio St., Ashland, Ohio 44805. BS in Chem. & Zoology. Rank:
Member

Samuel David Shearer, Jr., 896 Rosetree Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio 45230. Senior
Sanitary Engineer for U. S. Public Health Service. BCE in CE MSSE in San Engr-,
PhD in CE and Phy. Chem. Rank: Member

Tomuo Hoshiko, 3578 Riedham Rd., Shaker Heights, Ohio 44120. Asst. Prof. of
Physiology at Western Reserve Univ. School of Medicine. BS & PhD. in Physiol.
Physiol. Chem. Rank: Member

Oregon

John A. Klebe, 3290 Harris St., Eugene, Oregon 97405. Grad. Teach. Asst. at Univ. of Oregon. BA in Psych. & Bible. ThM in Theol. & Bible. Rank: Member

Pennsylvania

Timothy Ronald Kirkland, Rear 401 Felty St., Uniontown, Pa. 15401. Student at
Roberts Wesleyan College in Biology-Chemistry. Rank: Associate

Wisconsin

Gene G. DeMaster, Rt. 1, Oostburg, Wisconsin 53070. Grad. student at Wayne State University. AB in Biology & Chemistry. Rank: Member

South India

T. Norton Sterrett, "Highfield", Kotagiri, Nilgiris District, S. India. Staff
Member of International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. BA, AB, ThD, ThM in
N. T. Greek. Rank: Associate

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