News
of
The American Scientific Affiliation
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 6 December 1972
THANK YOU, GOD; THANK YOU, FRIENDS
Thanksgiving means it's time to produce the December issue of
ASA News, to take stock, and to give thanks. Along with the rest of you, we're
thankful for the American Scientific Affiliation itself: for enduring fellowship among the keen-minded
and warm-hearted; for growing insight into how to use technical skills for God's
purposes; for effective witness to colleagues and students.- This year we have ASA's "great leap forward" to be
thankful for, with the national office safely moved from Mankato, and on the job full-time in Elgin,
Illinois.
ASA News made its own move this year. Here in Berkeley we're thankful for
that and
for many other things as well: for your kind words, good suggestions, and the continuing flow of news items that
makes ASA
life possible. So, again, we thank each
of you, adding our greetings and best
wishes. May you SHOUT
JOY this Christmas over
the birth of Jesus Christ--and may you live peace in His name every day in 1973,
--Walt and Ginny Hearn
...And Thank You, Harold Hartzler
For all who misted the wast dramatic ament at the 1973 Anot al Meeting, here is the
text of the
bronze plaque presented by president Don Boardman,
to:
A. Harold Hartzlor,
"Man of vision end perseverance, Christian conviction,
humility, and love, whose faithful service as Executive
Secretary strengthened the American Scientific Affiliation,
increasing its effectiveness as a witness to God the Creator
and to Jesus Christ the Savior. August 23, 1972."
"H-cubed" has invested so such of himself in ASA over the past 21 years that it's
hard to believe we're beginning a year when he won't be "running
the
store." But,
if you know Harold, you know he's still in there. He has proposed to new Executive
Secretary Bill Sisterson a recruiting plan to give ASA at least one member in each
of the 3,000 colleges
in the U.S. He has initiated an ASA One Hundred Club, composed of 100 members or friends of ASA who will pledge an annual sum of at least
$100 for as long a period as the need exists. It's typical
of Harold that
he has
made the first $100 pledge.
It's also typical of him to hang that plaque prominently in his office in the Math.
Department of Mankato State College, "where I hope it may be a witness for the
Lord."
AAAS/ASA BRLWAST MEETING: DECENWR 28
If you live in the greater D. C. area or plan to attend the AAAS meeting over the
Christmas holidays, don't forget the annual ASA Fellowship Breakfast. This year
it's at the Windsor Park Hotel, 2300 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C., on Thursday, December 28, 7:30-9 a.m. Cost, $3, including tip. Reservations may be made
by writing or calling:
Dr. Roger Voskuyl
Council for Advancement of Small Colleges
1 Dupont Circle
Washington, D. C. 20036 Telephone: (202) 659-3795
PSYCHOLOGY/RELIGION SYMPOSIUM: JANUARY 2-5
ASA members are invited to attend the 1973 John G. Finch Symposium in Psychology and
Religion at the Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena,
CA. Rich6rd'L. Gorsuch, Ph.D., Kennedy associate professor of psychology at George
Peabody College for Teachers, will deliver the lectures entititled: "The Nature of
Man: A Social Psychological Perspective." The symposium begins with an evening
lecture on Tuesday night, January 2, and continues through Thursday, January 5.
There is'ho' charge.
Further information may be obtained from the symposium chairman:
Dr. H. Newton Malony
Associate Professor of Psychology
177 North Madison p
Pasadena, CA 91101
FEDERATION CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: APRIL 19
If you live in the greater Atlantic City, N. J., area, or expect to attend the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in April, include the annual
Federation Christian Fellowship in your plans. A.
Kurt Weiss,
professor of physiology at the U. of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City 73190, is making
arrangements for the FCF get-together: '8 p.m. on Thursday, April 19. If we don't
have word on the meeting place by the April issue of ASA News, check the official
FASEB program or write to Kurt. Lewis P.. Bird, Eastern regional director of the
Christian Medical Society, will speak at the FCF get-together. Coffee will be
served. No reservations or tickets are necessary.
(In this
concluding installment., anthropologist George Jennings sums up the theme of
the 1972 ASA meeting in Toronto:
PRESUPPOSITIONS
OF SCIENCE.)
"Magic is essentially a means of controlling the powers of the natural universe for
human purposes. The magic of science has put into men's hands power that staggers
the sensitive imagination. Although science purified magic of superstition and delusion, it remained magic; hence science cannot settle the struggle between magic
and the Christian faith.
"During the Middle Ages, people in Christendom generally believed that the natural
powers were subject to the will of God, who ruled them in accordance with His divine
providence. Although magic was studied and practiced throghout the medieval period,
its power was overshadowed and largely neutralized by the greater power of Christian
faith. The Middle Ages ended when an emerging self-confidence displaced men's faith
in God's omnipotence. During the Renaissance, faith in God was supplanted by confidence in man, especially in the power of human reason to solve all the fundamental
problems of existence. The Middle Ages had been a period of deep spiritual security
under the reign of divine grace; the Renaissance proved to be a period of terrifying
insecurity under the reign of nature. It was in this cultural milieu that science
emerged to lay claim to being the real savior of Western civilization.
"Natural magic--that is, employing the occult means that are latent in various natural things such as minerals, herbs, and even stars--replaced the demoniacal magic
of the Middle Ages. In natural magic, men discerned an order and reliability in
nature upon which they can depend with confidence. Natural magic offered to its day
a measure of ordered control of the natural powers, and thus paved the way for the
victory of scientific thought over the witchcraft and superstition of the sixteenth
century.
"Accompanying the rise of natural magic, the emerging mathematical perspective led
men to regard nature as a realm of natural and impersonal forces whose mutual relations could be described by immutable mathematical formulas. Causality, dependability, predictability, and necessity were the new categories of the scientific
understanding. Nature become the great "it" of manes experience, the impersonal
realm of natural phenomena in which he was henceforth to live and move and have his
being. Indeed, the world was now viewed as a great machine, whose fundamental law
Sir Isaac Newton had had the genius to formulate. With Newton, magic had entered
a new stage of development: natural magic had become natural science, or as we might
more accurately describe it, rational magic.
"All magic is open to failure. Fact may upset theory. Empiricism, with its deep
conviction that the powers of nature cannot be completely comprehended or controlled,
constituted a desirable check upon the extravagant hopes of the mathematically
minded. Empiricism without the idea of necessary connection (causality), which it
derived from mathematics, would have remained on the level of natural magic. Mathematical reasoning without the constant appeal to evidence, which experimentation entails, would have foundered on fact. Demoniacal magic, natural magic, rational
magic--this is the steady intellectual development that was to culminate in the
miracles of technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A new savior had
appeared. As the savior of the West, science challenged the Christian faith and defined the struggle between them. It is the conflict of faith and magic. The objective facts of science are no stumbling block to Christian faith, but the implicit
claim that our salvation lies with science reflects in ideological position--a fundamental presupposition--that evangelical Christianity must meet and overcome.
"Dick Bube has suggested a helpful opinion to refute the scientific presupposition
that science is the savior of mankind. In his words:
'Science is the investigation and communication of natural revelation. God's revelation extends throughout all the characteristics
of the created universe. In each particular field of investigation,
the Christian scientist seeks daily to come to understand what this
revelation is.
'Not everything can be understood by the scientific method. Man
cannot approach God ultimately through the application of scientific
methodology. Nor can man derive God by reference to the facts of experience. Science is not an independent method of knowing God, or
of becoming like God by understanding all things. Rather, it is a
valid instrument in interpreting revelation. The techniques of
science are those that are suitable for interpreting the natural
revelation of God.'
(The Encounter Between Christianity and Science, p. 69)
IFACS CONFEREES DEBATE ETHICS IN SCIENCE
An Invitational Scholars' Conference, sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 20-21, featured a
number of ASA members on the program and attracted other members and friends of ASA
as audience participants. That's not surprising, with a topic like "The Scientist
and Ethical Decision," and with ASA members Charles Hatfield, Elving Anderson, and
Orville Walters on the IFACS board of directors.
Chuck Hatfield, vice-president of IFACS., organized the conference and chaired the
sessions. Philosophers held sway at first, with a lead-off paper by Henry Stob,
professor of Christian ethics at Calvin Theological Seminary, on "Christian Ethics
and Scientific Control." After invited response by several other philosophers, the
scientist participants began presenting ethical questions from their own fields.
Jack McIntyre of Texas A. and M. University aired the current debate over changing
the constitution of the American Physical Society, arguing for a definition of a
scientist's professional responsibility analogous to that of the legal profession.
Kenneth Whitby, professor and chief, Environmental Division, Mechanical Engineering,
U. of Minnesota, gave some guidelines for "Navigation by Christians in the professional jungle" while describing "Ethical Problems in the Environmental Crisis."
Walt Hearn, currently visiting associate professor of biochemistry at U. C. Berkeley,
described problems. that bother him in the justification, publication, and mechanization of biochemical research.
Elving Anderson, professor of genetics and assistant director of Dight Institute for
Human Genetics, U. of Minnesota, gave a strong paper on "Genetic Control and Human
Values," to which an invited response was given by Frank Cassel, professor of zoology
at North Dakota State University. The last session featured The work of B. F.
Skinner, particularly his recent Beyond Fre2dom and Dignity, with David Busby, practicing psychiatrist from Niles, Illinois, giving one of the invited responses to the
major paper. Carl F. H. Henry, theologian and journalist, closed the conference
with a paper on "The New Image of Man."
We didn't see the list of people in attendance but we chatted with a number of ASA
members: Anne Deckard, Vern Ehlers, and Sid Jansma of Grand Rapids, and Jim Sire
of Downers Grove, 111. There must have been others. There were certainly people
there who ought to be ASA members, including Frank Rhodes, dean of the College of
Literature, Science, and the Arts at the U. of Michigan and a keen Christian paleontologist, who welcomed conferees to the campus. We hope Chuck Hatfield's list of
registrants gets put to good use!
MISSIONARIES AMONG THE LOST?
We wonder if ASA is losing track of some missionary members. While on active service they are exempted from paying ASA dues. But missionaries move around a lot,
and if ASA mail isn't forwarded from a former address, they may think we've dropped
them from the list. Jack Sparks of the Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley
thought that had happened to him. Years after he had left Campus Crusade for Christ,
we discovered that his ASA News and Journal were still going to CCC's Arrowhead
Springs headquarters., where we hope they did somebody some good. Anyway, they
weren'it forwarded, so Jack thought he was no longer an ASA member.
Now we've just heard from Wayne M. Meyers, director of the Kivuvu Leprosarium of the
Institut M6dical Evang4lique, Kimpese via Kinshasa, R4publique du Zaire (formerly
Congo). Wayne recently received ASA News for October 1971, forwarded from an address he last had in 1963! It occurred to him that he might be "getting a little
out of touch." Wayne has been at his present station since 1965, working primarily
with leprosy patients. With his Ph.D. in microbiology as well as an M.S., he keeps
a number of research projects going: on leprosy, Nycobacterium ulcerans infections,
African trypanosomiasis, filariasis (onchocercissis and streptocerciasis),
strongylaidiasis, and recently, sickly cell anemia.
Wayne writes: "'Although many aspects of 'mission' work in this geographic area are
changing rapidly, and much rethinking is necessary, the opportunities for witness
for the Gospel of Christ are not diminished--nor do any basic concepts need to be
compromised."
Hey, you all "out there": we sure don't want to lose you. Maybe the national
Office should send something via first class to the last address we have for you, so
You can report whether your ASA periodicals are still reaching you. (How about that,
Elgin?)
COVERING
THE
CALIFORNIA CONFRONTATION
"Biology and Evolution" was the theme set by the National Association of Biology
Teachers for their annual convention in San Francisco, October 26-28. Hearing they
had schedules a mini-symposium on "A Creationist Look at Evolution," ASA News equipped itself with a legitimate PRESS card to check it out. If "man bites dog"
is news, how about Christians being thrown to the lions? Even if we're not so
strong on their recent-creationism, we hated to think.of Duane Gish of the Institute
for Creation Research, San Diego, and John N. Moore of Michigan State University
being sacrificed in the arena before a hostile audience. So we thought we'd be on
hand to support a couple of Christian brothers by rendering first aid, even if we
didn't share their negative reaction to biological evolution.
Soon after arriving at the Colosseum--oops, the Hilton Hotel--we saw that the
recent creationists were perhaps better prepared for confrontation than the evolutionist
lions. Moore and Gish gave forceful and well-documented papers. They conducted
themselves well in discussion and without bitterness toward the chairman, even
though he used up half the time allotted for questions with a rebuttal of his own.
Many supporters from the Creation Research Society were in evidence, including former
ASA members Walter Lammerts and George Howe. We were glad to get to know John Moore
better, since he has never been a member of ASA. John was being interviewed also by
Nicholas Wade, whose excellent story of the whole California creationist/evolutionist
confrontation appears in the November 17 issue of Science (p. 724). We had a chance
to supply some background information for that story, and to describe ASA's position.
At the NABT convention, ASA News learned of the November 9 science textbook hearings
before the California state board of education in Sacramento. This time the press
card rated us a copy of all the presentations and a seat at the press table--next to
Associated Press. (only drawback of being right in the action was getting sunburned
retinas from bright lights of the TV news cameras.)
Two members of the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission,
Junji Kumamoto and Vernon L. Grose, were allowed to make lengthy statements at the
outset. Kumamoto had obtained statements from the boards of directors of leading
scientific bodies, including the AAAS, National Academy of Sciences, and American
Chemical Society, all to the effect that "special creation, or creation by design,
performed by an ultimate or supreme intelligence belongs in the realm of theology or
general philosophy or both, and these are in curriculum areas that are not appropriate for elementary science." Grose, whose two paragraphs offered as a compromise
had been unanimously adopted by the state board into the Science Framework for
California Public Schools in 1969 (see Journal ASA 23 (4), 146-149, Dec. 1971), and
who was subsequently appointed to the Curriculum Commission, gave the other
introductory statement. His paper was outstanding in content and spirit. Grose admitted
that his attempt to de-fuse the issue in 1969 by substituting the words "chance" and
"design" for "evolution" and "creation" had been an error. He said that the issue
causing people concern, the existence or non-existence of a Creator or Designer, is
not a scientific issue and should be kept out of the science classroom. He argued,
however, that most science teaching has not been theologically neutral. In working
with science textbook publishers to help them make changes to fit the Science Framework, Grose had settled for two objectives:
"I. The Science curriculum must remain scrupulously neutral on the
subject of ultimate cause; i.e., the various philosophical or
religious beliefs concerning origins.
"2. By means of this strict neutralityj science students should not
therefore be influenced either in favor of a Designer or against
the existence of a Designer by any material that discusses
origins. This neutrality very simply carries out the principle
that science should not influence, in any direction, the belief
systems of students on a subject which lies outside the domain
of science."
Then came 39 presentations, limited to 5 minutes each, more or less evenly divided
between those who strongly supported and those who strongly opposed introduction of
recent-creationism into science classrooms. There were a few suggestions that the
wrong issues were being debated, a few sermons by scientific hyper-credentialists on
one side and fundamentalist preachers on the other side, and a few hints or threats
of possible legal action--by both sides.
Besides Duane Gish, ASA members making presentations were: Robert B. Fischer, dean
of the School of Natural Sciences, California State College, Dominguez Hills;
Kenneth V. Olson, professor of science education, U. of Northern Colorado, Greeley;
Mark C. Biedebach, associate professor of biology, California State University, Long
Beach; and Ronald S. Remmel, physicist research associate in the Department of Physiology, U. of
California, Berkeley. Richard L. Ferm, senior research associate at
Chevron Research Co., Lafayette, was scheduled but did not appear.
Such hearings smack of politics more than of science, whatever the subject. Some
presentations on both sides seemed to miss the point completely. But Vernon Grose
and a few others had made superb statements by the end of the long day. Now it's up
to the California state board of education, which will act on the textbook recommendations, and perhaps reconsider the wording of the Science Framework, at its December
meetings.
SCIENCE BOOKS AND JOURNALS WANTED
Donald L. Riggin, professor of science at Minnesota Bible College, responds favorably to our suggestion
ASA News, Oct. 1972, p. 8) of recycling our science books
and journals. He writes: "Our
holdings
in the area of the sciences are so minimal
that I would place no restrictions on
donations at present, except that we offer only
introductory courses and have no science majors in our curriculum. Thus we need
primarily those books and publications that
would
benefit students at the freshman
and sophomore level."
Any books or journals ASA members would like to contribute should be sent to: Minnesota Bible College Library, 920
Mayowood Road, S. W., Rochester, Minnesota 55901.
HOW TO RECYCLE SOMETHING. No. 2
Wow. Response to our new series proves once again that ASA members have creative
imaginations. We'll keep this series going as long as you keep us supplied with
workable suggestions for re-using materials often wasted in our affluent society.
We'll publish one or two at a time. Your contribution to HOW TO RECYCLE SOMETHING
can be short and need not be original, as long as you've found it practical.
Several people expanded on the themes from our first round:
Envelopes. Herb Meyer of Seward, Nebraska, recycles used envelopes to send intercampus memos. He also recycles large 9 x 12 envelopes, using them to carry home
tests., papers, etc., especially when he rides his bicycle; says he can't get used to
carrying an attachA case. We've used the same dodge, Herb. Also, those big envelopes, slit on one side and one end, make good temporary desk-organizers or file
folders.
Lynn Stewart of Nashville, Tennessee, has a more elegant way of recycling envelopes.
He opens them up completely, turns them inside out, and reglues them. This leaves a
perfectly good addressing surface on the outside, so you don't have to use gummed
roll tape as we suggested last time. The sample Lynn sent us had 6 cents of its
postage cut from a spoiled postcard and glued to the envelope, by the way. Glue is
cheaper than postage, says Lynn. Cheaper than a lot of things, in fact.
Paper. Herb Meyer also had some ideas about using paper: his letter came on the
back of an old reject from his dissertation. Besides using such paper as scratch
paper and for his children to color and cut up, Herb recycles much of it right in
the chemistry lab. His assistants cut it into fourths and place it in stacks around
the labs, especially near the balances, where students can use it for weighing out
chemicals (instead of the more expensive filter paper or weighing papers). Very
good, Herb.
Lynn Stewart's letter was written on the back of a long piece of adding machine tape.
That reminds us of a use we've found for the larger, heavier kind of rolled instrument paper. The backs of old mass spectra, chromatograph recording paper, etc., can
be used to paint signs for exhibits, garage sales, etc., or for banner-type party
decorations. For outdoor use, we've painted huge block letter on them with a 1" or
2" paintbrush and regular enamel--and seen such signs survive all but the hardest
rains.
SEEDS FROM THE GRASS ROOTS
"Exhort-iculture" is what we have in mind, even if our headline metaphor makes no
botanical sense. We want to scatter some ideas tried out on us recently, hoping
that a few will find fertile soil:
1. Book tables. Jim Neidhardt of the Metropolitan New York section reminds
local sections that the national office has stocks of books authored by ASA members.
These books can be obtained on consignment by the sections and displayed for sale at
local meetings, along with recent back issues of the Journal at a special sale price
of 50 cents. Jim feels that a book table does a lot to convince non-ASA people at
the meeting that we are trying to present a solid Christian witness to the scientific community of 1972 (not of 1900).
2. Christian schools. Another suggestion from Jim Neidhardt: Why not offer
all Christian elementary and secondary schools subscriptions to JASA at a reduced
rate, since their budgets are usually very tight? Jim thinks many students and
teachers would make use of Journal articles if they had access to them, and suggests
contacting the schools through their national associations.
3. outreach to others. Ronnie Hastings reports from his new position teaching
an extension course to secondary school teachers that they "seem pleasantly surprised that an organization such as ASA even exists. Some are very interested in
ASA activities. Does this suggest memberships and/or publications for them and
their students?" Harold Hartzler and Bill Sisterson both attended the Creationist
Convention in Milwaukee in October, even though ASA's request to set up a booth was
denied. Harold says ASA could learn a few things from the Bible-Science Association
about how to get our message across to the public. The Institute for Creation Research also seems to have an effective program, putting on both teacher institutes
at Christian colleges and weekend workshops at churches. Russell Heddendorf, program chairman for the 1972 national meeting, wonders if more could be done to bring
our national meetings down to the layman's level. One suggestion was to edit the
papers extensively for a lay audience, and have the local sections disseminate such
material to ministers, students, high school teachers, etc. Another idea was to have
two meetings going on simultaneously, one technical and the other covering the same
topic at a non-technical level.
4. Visiting speakers . Jim Neidhardt asks ASA News to plug once again the idea
that ASA members traveling across the U.S. should let local sections know in advance
that they will be in that area. Jim says his section has contacts with Christian
schools that would make a real effort to attend a meeting arranged around the schedule of a visiting ASA speaker.
PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS
Peter A Gerard has a B. S. in mechanical engineering from Missouri School of Mines
and a B.A. in physical education from Wheaton College. From 1959 to 1962 he was
employed as a laboratory test engineer in Ithaca, New York, and from 1962 to 1969 as
a civilian employee of the Department of the Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. He holds a Maryland license as a Professional Engineer (Mechanical). As a
teenager, Peter became a Christian through the influence of a high school Young Life
Club. In 1969, the Young Life organization asked him to be Property Manager of a
70-year-old lodge they had just purchased in New York State. He handled administration, finances, promotional efforts,
staffing, food service, building maintenance,
and everything else that came along. The property is now worth a million dollars
after many improvements made under Pete's supervision. He has essentially worked
himself out of a job, as Young Life tries to increase the maintenance budget by cutting back on administrative services. Peter is looking for an employment opportunity
where his varied skills and interests can be utilized, as he feels they have been
with Young Life for the past three years. Pete is 38, married, and has four boys
from 15 to 6. Write to Peter A. Gerard, #1 Johnson Rd., Saranac Lake, N. Y. 12983.
See also J. Wright Baylor and Jonathan E. Hartzler, under PERSONALS.
POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE
James Holliday, chairman of the Division of Natural Science, reports that "John Brown University,
a small private, Christian university, will have an opening in the
Biology Department beginning with the fall semester 1973. Qualifications include a
strong Christian testimony, a Ph.D. in zoology (or biology with a zoology emphasis),
and ability to teach a course in biological philosophy covering the theories of spontaneous generation of life, biogenesis, evolution, and other topics. Please send
resumes to Dr. Roger Cox, Academic Dean, John Brown University, Siloam Springs,
Arkansas 72761.
Lowell Noble, anthropologist in the Social Science Division, writes that "an evangelical is wanted to head up a sociology major program at
Spring Arbor College, Spring Arbor, Michigan 49283. Ph.D. preferred, but we would consider someone with
an M.A. working toward the Ph.D. To help integrate our faculty we would especially
encourage applications from black candidates. Applicants should write to Lowell
Noble."
Edwin A. Olson,-professor of earth science, reports that "For the fall of 1973,
there are two faculty openings in sociology at Whitworth College, an evangelical
Presbyterian College with 1300 students. One of the persons sought should have competence in methodology; at present Whitworth offers one course in social methods.
The other person must have some competence in anthropology, mainly cultural anthroPOlogy. In addition, those who apply should have their.doctorate in sociology, share
Whitworth's commitment to Jesus Christ, and be effective communicators in the field
Of sociology. Applicants should write to Frank Houser, Coordinator, Department of
Sociology, Wbitworth College, Spokane, Washington 99218."
SAN DIEGO
San Diego doesn't actually have a local section yet, but it might if Jerry Albert
keeps working at it. Jerry writes that Dick Bube will be in San Diego on December 1
to give the keynote address to the Western Area of the National Science Teachers
Association convention. Jerry hopes to get the 25 ASA members in San Diego County
together to meet Dick at
a
luncheon or-informal gathering at the convention center
in the afternoon. The California Science Teachers Association will
be
meeting at
the same time.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY
Too early for a report of the November 18 meeting co-sponsored with Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. Ted Haney, director of research for the Far East Broadcasting Company, was scheduled to speak on "Communication and Mission," and then to lead a tour
of Station KEGI of the Far East Broadcasting Co. in Redwood City.
On Friday, February 16, a meeting co-sponsored with "The Crucible--A Forum for
Radical Christian Studies" is planned for the Berkeley area, probably on the U. C.
campus. Dick Bube will speak on "Science and Reality."
Officers of the section are Don Stoner, president; Ken Lincoln, program chairman;
Roy Gritter, secretary-treasurer; Bill Nesbitt; Neil Elsheimer; and Harold Winters.
Nominated to replace Don Stoner and Ken Lincoln, retiring from the board in January.,
are Bob Anderson, physicist teaching at the College of San Mateo; and Bob Miller,
junior high science teacher in San Jose.
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
Please excuse the patchwork envelope this Newsletter came in. It is the National
Office contribution to Walt Hearn's campaign to use old envelopes.
Thanks to those who sent in names of potential members. We have received 500 so far
and are in the midst of writing to them. We already have several new members as a
result.
Membership is up to 1,873 as of the first of December and applications continue to
come in at a good rate. Our best source of new members is you. Keep up the good
work and continue to remember the ASA to your friends who qualify for membership but
haven't yet joined.
PERSONALS
Ralph G. Archibald lives in Flushing, New York~ His text, An Introduction to the
Theory of Numbers (Charles E. Merrill Publ. Co., Columbus, Ohio) appeared in late
1970. Since September 1971, Ralph has been retired from Queens College, CUNY, with
the title of professor emeritus of mathematics.
Elva D. Aukland of Arlington, Virginia, served this summer as director of the Insect
Zoo at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. Her "zco" was a display of
live insects (plus a few tarantulas for dramatic effect) at the Museum of Natural
History.
W. S. Bailey was formerly vice president for academic and administrative affairs of
Auburn University. He is now chief of the Parasitology and Medical Entomology
Branch of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases--Extramural Program, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, where he administres research and training grants.
J. Wright Baylor writes from Route 1, Priest River, Idaho, 83856, where he has retired after 10 years as a science/speech teacher and over 20 as a superintendent of
schools. He's as busy as ever with church, and with gardening at his lakeside home,
but he is planning to travel with his adventuresome wife (also a retired teacher).
They'll use their camper to "see God's handiwork in other parts of North America
first hand." He would like to arrange to do some winter teaching (free!) at some
Christian college in a warm climate, and spend his summers in Idaho. Any takers?
David D. Bell is a sanitarian employed by Westchester County Department of Health,
New York. Dave is in charge of the mosquito surveillance program and lead poisoning
program. He has two articles on mosquitoes being reviewed for publication.
Vernon J. Ehlers has returned to the Department of Physics at Calvin College, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, after a year at the U. of Colorado on an NSF fellowship. Vern says
he made many new friends, wrote two papers--but didn't learn to ski.
Roger D. Griffoen is also in the Department of Physics at Calvin College. Roger
spent two years at Florida State University in Tallahassee in the Tandem Van de
Graff research program, first as an NSF Science Faculty Fellow and then as a senior
research associate.
He
did nuclear spectroscopy, making use of the Super FN Tandem
(?) and the magnetic spectograph.
Patrick E. Guire has moved from an assistant professorship at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater to Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. He is a
senior enzymologist at M.R.I., working under an NSF-RANN Enzyme Technology Program
grant to develop practical ways of utilizing enzymes in industrial processes.
Jonathan E. Hartzler accepted a temporary position in the Zoology Department at North
Dakota State University in Fargo, 58102. An assistant professor, Jonathan teaches
wildlife ecology, human anatomy and physiology, and ethology. He's looking for a
more permanent position for fall 1973. Any offers?
Ronnie J. Hastings is now at the U. of Texas in Austin, employed as a regional
science advisor in a pilot program designed to bring the high school science class-
room in contact with the world of research. The NSF-funded program is co-sponsored
by U.T. and the Education Service Centers of Central Texas, and offers secondary
school science teachers a course in physics for graduate credit through the U. T.
Extension Division.
Dale R. Herman completed his M.S.P.H. degree in biostatistics at the U. of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, this summer. He has accepted a position with the N.N.C.
Occupational Health Study Group, studying the health of workers in the rubber industry.
Richard A. Lane is a United Presbyterian medical missionary home on furlough from
Cameroon, Africa. He is currently working for an M.P.H. degree at Johns Hopkins
School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.
Donald Lindskoog completed his Ph.D. in psychology at Baylor University in August.
Don is on the staff of Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa.
James G. Miller is an E. R. Hedrick assistant professor of mathematics at UCLA,
having received- his Ph.D. in applied math from Princeton in May 1972. His dissertation was on "Global Properties of the Petrov Type D Vacuum Metrics in General Relativity."
Dennis G. Perry completed his two-year post-doc at Brookhaven National Lab in New
York, packed up wife Linda and year-old daughter, and toured the U.S. from New
England to the Golden Gate on his way to Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico. At
Los Alamos, Dennis is a permanent staff scientist in the Nuclear Chemistry Department.
Glen W. Richardson has moved from Edmonton, Alberta, to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario,
where he is the first full-time pastor of Parkland Baptist Church, a fairly new congregation in a suburban area of the Sault.
Robert B. Schenck. M. D., recently completed five years of residence training and
fellowship in plastic and hand surgery in New York and moved to the Chicago area.
Now he is assistant professor of plastic surgery and orthopedic surgery and head of
hand surgery in each of these departments, at the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. Bob teaches medical students and residents at Rush, a well-known reactivated medical school. Wife Ruth and their six kiddies are settling in at their
home in LaGrange, Illinois.
Frank Tichy and wife Nancy have resigned as Scripture Union staff members in Sierra
Leone, Africa, where they had served since 1966. In April 1972, Frank accepted a
position as minister of youth and Christian education at Hemet United Methodist
Church, Hemet, California.
R. Ward Wilson has finished his course work for a Ph.D. in social psychology at the
U. of Florida in Gainesville, and is teaching in the Psychology Department at
Viterbo College, LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Ward will also be teaching a course in protestant theology in this Catholic college. His dissertation in process is on a pretest-pest-test study of Christian conversion. Wife Betty thinks it's about time Dad
graduates, since their eldest daughter started college this fall.
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