NEWSLETTER
of
THE AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION
VOLUME 16, NUMBER 6 DECEMBER 1974
ATTENTION. AAAS ATTENDANTS:
Come to the
get-together hosted by the New York Metropolitan section during the AAAS
meeting in NYC. Local section members will be there to greet ASA visitors from
around the country, enjoy contact with each other, and hear Paul Szto discuss "Christ
and the Quality of Life." Paul came to the USA from China 20 years ago and now pastors a Christian Reformed Church on Long Island. He has a B.D. from Westminster
Theological Seminary and Master's degrees from both Westminster and Union. He has
been active in the ASA local section and is interested in the philosophy of science.
The AAASASA get-together will be held on Tuesday evening, January 28, at the 125-yearold home of Hoffmann-La Roche biochemist
Ken Olson: 55 Crane Street, Caldwell, N. J. 07006. Ken's word on how to get there:
"AAAS visitors coming from NYC should forget about dining out that evening. Grab a
'hot pretzel or hot dog and plan to board a De Camp bus #33 at the Port Authority
Building (8th Ave. between 40th and 41st Streets), any time between 6 and 7 p.m.
The fare is $1.25 and buses leave about every 20 minutes., The bus is a NY-to-Caldwell express, taking about 45 minutes to Caldwell, the end of the line. Let the
driver know you're a visitor and ask to be let off at Arlington Ave. in Caldwell.
Then walk one block N (up the hill to Crane St.) and turn left. One block more to
55 Crane. My home phone is (201) 226-8094. We will try to drive visitors back to
your hotels at the end of the evening."
ADVANCE NOTICE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN ENGINEERING & FUTURE OF MAN
Many of you will be interested in this significant conference to be held July 21-24,
1975 on the campus of Wheaton College. It is being sponsored by nine different
evangelical professional organizations including the ASA. ASA members have been
prominent in the planning of the meeting including Craig Ellison (director of the
conference), Elving Anderson, and Bill Sisterson. Several prominent speakers have
already been lined up, including Senator Mark Hatfield, Dr. Daniel Callihan of the
Institute of Life, Society and Ethics, and Dr. Vernon Grounds of the Conservative
Baptist Theological Seminary. The purpose of the three day conference will be to
hammer our specific suggestions from a Christian perspective on ethical and value
judgments in human engineering directed to the government, the church, and the
scientific community. We will be sending more complete information to every ASA
member within the next two months but you can set the time aside on your calendar.
If You want more in formation in a hurry, write directly to: Dr. Craig Ellison,
ICHEFM, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.
1975 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASA
Plans are well underway for the 1975 Annual Meeting which promises to be one of the
most interesting in our history. It is in an ideal vacation spot, San Diego, so it
is a good time to bring the family. There is a large core of ASA members in the area
led by Jerry Albert working hard to make your visit a pleasant and memorable one.
The time of the meeting has been changed to fit over a weekend (August 15-18) so you
can come without missing much work if you dontt have the time off.
The program is totally reorganized in response to various suggestions. There will be
three basic segments to the program. There will be an invited program dealing with
the topic "What is Man?" with key speakers especially invited to deal with the basic
issues in the topic with lots of time for discussion and interaction. A second part
of the program will be an open time for any ASA member to give a paper on any topic
of special interest to him and the membership. In the past often times valuable
papers had to be rejected because we were limited to a single theme. We want to open
this up, so several sessions will be blocked out for this. A final segment of the
program will be to deal with practical ways to carry out the purpose of the ASA. We
will present various projects for action as well as give you exposure to resources
(like Moody Science Films) that help to communicate the relationship of science to
Christianity.
The meeting will be held on the campus of the University of California, San Diego
which is actually in La Jolla within a short walk of the ocean beach. We plan to
have at least one meal catered on the beach to take advantage of the location and
there will be several side trips to local attractions (and there are many) for
spouses and children who aren't especially interested in the program. Mark down the
dates now. lie will send more information soon.
SHOULD WE BE FASTING OR FEASTING?
Thanksgiving 1974-time for our (fifth) annual Editorial Greeting to readers,
friends
and contributors to ASA News (though it may reach you after New Year's because of
holiday vacations or delays in the mails).
Christmas joy is not a feeling turned on by jingle bells. Our joy is a conviction
that God cares about us. We rejoice that he sent his Son to keep us from being
frustrated by death. But having read the Gospel accounts to the end, Christians
know the cost as well as the accomplishment. And as we look around at the situation
in the world, we begin to see what it may cost us to follow Christ.
.Rejoice while some starve and others wallow in conspicuous consumption? Look at it
this way: These are the very circumstances in which God wants us to be creative and
redemptive agents. If we forget what he has given us, where will we find resources
to face these staggering problems? We in the American Scientific Affiliation know
the ambiguities of science and technology. Knowledge that should make us huinble
and generous sometimes makes us proud and greedy. Technical skills that could relieve often oppress as well. To rejoice is to be reminded that God forgives us,
gives us life and Life eternal--and cares what we do with his gifts.
So, some of us may fast these holidays: to pray and remember, trim down our bodies
and minds for tasks ahead, save a bit of food for sharing with others. And some may
feast in thanksgiving and remembrance: opening our families to others as God has
opened his to us, building up healthy bodies and refreshed souls for tasks ahead,
celebrating the Bread of Life that is the ultimate hope of the world.
Whether you feast or fast this Christmas, we greet you in the name of the Lord
Jesus.
"LORD, WHEN DID WE SEE YOU HUNGRY AND FEED YOU?"
Christian and secular agencies working in the sub-Saharan or "Sahel" regions of
Africa continue to report massive starvation there in spite of aid that has poured
in during the worst drought in recorded African history. Many evangelical agencies
are trying to help, Among them, the following can channel your contributions designated for famine relief to where the need is greatest:
Christian & Missionary Alliance Medical Assistance Programs World Vision
International,
260 West 44th Street - P.
0. BOX 50
919 Huntington Drive, New York,
NY, 10036 Wheaton, Illinois 60187 Monrovia, CA 91016
Is this famine a disaster that wisely applied technology could have prevented? See
"Sahelian Drought: No Victory for Western Aid," Science 185 No. 4147, pp. 234-7
(19 July 1974) for a pessimistic assessment: "It would be absurd to blame the collapse of this intricate social and ecological system
soly on Western interference,
and yet rather few Western interventions in the Sahelq when considered over the long
term, have worked in the inhabitants' favor."
GIVING MORE BUT BUYING LESS
Did you see the Alternate Christmas Catalog for 1974? It was a second try by
Alternatives (1500 Farragut St. No W., Washington, Do C. 20011) to divert funds from
commercialized Christmas madness into human welfare. The 1973 edition had one section of ideas for celebrating Christmas more creatively and less expensively, a
second section describing groups working for social justice, the environment, international development, and human welfare. The Alternatives people thought it was
worth trying again: If 500,000 families redirected $200 from Christmas buying into
meeting human needs, the total would be $100 million.
We wish that evangelical Christians had thought of this first, but the idea is still
good even if somebody else thought of it. (After all, retail sales in
November-December 1973 were a record $9.3 billion, up $700 million from 1972)0 Income from
sales of the Alternate Christmas Catalog (128 pp., $2.50) goes to the life-supporting
groups "advertising" in the catalog, and to help finance a movement toward simplified
living. "Unbridled consumerism retards human relationships, promotes pollutican,
threatens the Earth's limited natural resources, and exploits the economic development of the world's poor."
HOW TO RECYCLE SOMETHING No. 10
Most of our ingenious recyclers are amateurs, but James P. Bosscher is in at least
the semi-pro league. Jim is a professor of engineering at Calvin College, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, and one of the founders of "Recycle Unlimited," a non-profit
corporation in Grand Rapids. We find everything about Recycle Unlimited appealing,
even the typographic "ru" logo on their letterhead: the letter r is shaped like a
spigot pouring into a container made of the letter u.
Recycle Unlimited was set up to show municipalities and businesses how to recover
reusable materials, to provide employment and on-the-job training for inner-city
youth of the Neighborhood Youth Corps, and to challenge engineering, business, and
pre-law students at Calvin College. It began after Jim's students designed and
built a low-cost, high-capacity bottle masher during the 1971-72 school year. That
.machine was used in a glass drive in Grand Rapids in which 30 tons of cullet (bits
of glass) were collected and sold to raise $600 for an inner-city youth campo In
the 1972-73 year, Calvin students constructed another low-cost device to densify cans
and render them ready for recycling.
The Kent County Board of Public Works provided a site for operations near the landfill and the City of Grand Rapids provided a 10' x 20' building and a $2500 start-up
grant. Private foundations provided another $7000. Recycle Unlimited bought two
used trucks, a set of self-dumping trailers, and a conveyor for lifting bottles to
the masher; hired a graduate engineer as manager and additional college students
as supervisors; and employed 20 Neighborhood Youth Corps kids in the summer and
about 6 after school and on Saturdays when school was in session. Experience through
the winter of 1973-74 showed that income from processed materials would provide wages
but didn't quite cover insurance, gas and oil, or other services. Wages account for
about two-thirds of operating expense, with much of the remaining one-third going to
workman's compensation costs (they have to pay the highest rate because of inexperience with their type of activities). The City and County have now agreed to pay
rebates on material retrieved from the waste stream for a trial period of a year,
since it would cost them $14 a ton to handle these solid wastes otherwise.
"Current operation with bottles and cans involves the pickup (utilizing two converted
beverage trucks) from major users (hospitals, restaurants, etc.) and through public
collection points at retail markets and shopping centers and transportation to our
landfill site. Pickup stations total about 55 with about 30 of these set up for
public input. Plans are to shortly expand to at least 75 stations as time and material permit. After transport to our landfill operation, the bottles are smashed directly into hydraulically operated dump trailers, the cans processed directly into
bins provided by area metal recycling firms. The dump trailers are regularly taken
to Charlotte (Mich.) where the cullet is processed on-site into new bottles. The
processed cans go to Holland (steel) and Grand Rapids (aluminum) upon bin pick-up."
A lot of human interaction takes place in this program. Recycle Unlimited was set
up so that disadvantaged high-school youth could work closely with Calvin College
student Supervisors and gain something from the contact besides wages and work experience. Also, area business people have rallied to the aid of the project in practical
ways. The trucking industry has been especially helpful. Other industries gave over
400 55-gallon drums and the paint to coat them. Local news media have helped with
publicity, city and county governments have cooperated fully, and a local service
club has adopted Recycle Unlimited as its pet project for support. And of course
it's the citizens as a whole who provide the bottles, cans, plastic, and cardboard
wastes being recycled.
Why shouldn't this story be repeated over and over again in communities across
North America?
Glass bottles. The Recycle Unlimited bottle masher can be built for under $25 from
an old 55-gallon drum, a 1/3 H.P. motor from a washing machine, and other cheap or
discarded materials. Whirling chains smash the bottles into cullet. This masher can handle five tons an hour or more. About 200 copies of plans for the "Calvin
masher" have been distributed throughout North America. For a free copy of the
plans plus a letter of additional suggestions, safety precautions, etc. (addressed
to "Dear Bottle-Smashing Friends", write to Dr. James P. Bosscher, Engineering
Department, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49507,
SECOND-ORDER EFFECTS OF TELEVIOLENCE?
Jim Kennedy would like to know of any data relevant to this question: Do TV programs,
movies, or reading material emphasizing crime, violence, or sex have any tendency to
encourage the type of behavior depicted? Might studies on techniques for effective
advertising, police anecdotes about literature absorbed by sex criminals, psychological studies on behavior modification through imitation, etc., be relevant?
"The purpose of this is to see whether or not an argument can be made against the
depiction of abnormal sexual behavior or violence in the 'opinion-molding industryt
on the grounds that such depiction results in severe harm to some persons who may
never have been exposed to the depiction itself but only to persons (stable or
unstable) who have been so influenced. If it is true that innocent persons can be
harmed, then it becomes possible to oppose pornography on the grounds that it results
in danger to the general population rather than only to those who indulge in it."
Anyone with information or interest in this question should contact Dr. James C.
Kennedy, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Queen's University, Kingston,
Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6. (I once saw a huge volume of studies on first-order effects
of watching TV violence, but I can't remember the reference--or the
conclusions.)
RECENT DEATHS
George D. Maniaci of Gladstone, Michigan, was killed in a motorcycle accident on
Practice. He was active in mental retardation work and served on the research committee of the National Association for Retarded Citizens. George had been introduced to ASA at Goshen College, where he took courses under
H. Harold Hartzler, or "Cubey" (for HHH or H-cubed), as he was affectionately called by his students. Mrs.
Maniaci wrote to ASA News that she has kept up with the ASA because George brought
the Journal home from his office, knowing of her interest in archaeology and related
articles.
James W. Reid of Norristown, Pennsylvania, died on September 18, 1974. Jim directed
Associates for Biblical Research and had written God. the Atom. and the Universe
(Zondervan 1968). He had recently sent ASA News the story behind his newspaper
column, "Today's Science and the Bible," which we will publish in our HOW TO START
SOMETHING series.
HERE'S AN INDUSTRIAL (AND INDUSTRIOUS) ASA'ER
ASA Members in industrial science and technology sometimes feel that all the rest of
us have academic positions. Not so. For example, there's Wesley
A.
Kuhrt, of
Simsbury, Connecticut. Wes may not be your typical engineer out in the plant, but
he's been there. Right now he's completing his first year as vice president for
technology of United Aircraft Corporation, East Hartford, Connecticut. Before that
he had been president of UAC's Sikorsky Aircraft division, since October 1968.
Wes received his B.S. and M.S. in Aero, E. from MIT. Then he began 30 years or so of
research and testing of radial air-cooled aircraft engines, jet engines,, rocket propulsion systems, nuclear propulsion systems, and what-have you (lasers, plasma physics, propellant chemistry). Besides that he was
chiefly responsible for setting up
one of the largest computer facilities operated by private industry. He's a member
of the American Helicopter Society and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has been granted a number of patents on his inventions.
Wes has found many outlets for Christian witness. He has spoken at the prayer breakfasts of Governor Meskill of Connecticut and is a dedicated member of the Gideons'
Association. Through the year he leads a college-and-career group discussion in his
church. Every Tuesday evening during the summer he hosts at his home a group of 30
to 40 college students with whom he builds a Christian life perspective.
SHE CRIED "UNCLE" AT TOM'S CABIN
Chemistry professor Tom Cummings is busy showing slides of his far out trip and picking up where he left off at Bradley University before his sabbatical. So, three
cheers, a dozen "Scientist's Psalm!' greeting cards, and a rollicking sea chantey for
Mary Cummings of Peoria, Illinois, for the following saga:
"As travel prices go these days it was a bargain: an Atlantic crossing for about
$100 per person (not counting the enormous investment in the boat itself). It was
also good ecology since they used less than 15 gallons of fuel. Further, it was
healthful, educational, peaceful, and fun. But I was able to resist the pressure,
especially when I thought of trying to keep house in that 731-foot square cabin, to
say nothing of the severely rationed water. I wouldn't make a good crew member.
And besides, I was chicken.
"So I didn't go along when Tom and our 16-year-old son Harris left Poole Harbor on
May 31 on the first leg of their voyage to the States. We had spent quite a bit of
our first five months in England looking for a boat that was both seaworthy and
priced right. Discouraged, we almost abandoned the search before we finally found
this 4-year-old, twin-keel, 26-foot fiberglass sloop with 10-H.P. diesel engine.
ies
a Westerly "Centaur," well known in England, with two cabins that can sleep four comfortably, six not so.
"Tom had taken an evening navigation course which he felt prepared him for the theoretical challenges ahead, but except for eight or nine weekends in the channel, only
one of them overnight, they had no ocean experience at all. They got that experience
on the 18-day journey to Safi, Morocco.
"With the wind from the SW, the direction they were heading, they had to tack S first
for 50 nautical miles (15 percent longer than statute miles) and then straight W for
36 miles. These first long tacks were fortunate because the tiller could be lashed
down and left untended while they recovered from their seasickness, lasted about 48 hours. They made good time those two days and glimpsed the
Scilly Isles, their last sight of England before turning SE into the bay of
Biscay. Instead of its notorious swells and gales, the bay offered sunshine and
incredibly
blue, calm seas. They could often see as far as 30-40 feet down and watch
various species
of fish playing tag below them. After some slow going they made it past Cape Finisterre, the NW tip of Spain, and then moved W 50 miles to avoid shipping lanes before
heading S.
"The wind switched around, coming from the N and growing steadily stronger as a cloud-.
front came over. The gale blew for two days, although the sun shone a lot, and the
waves built up to as high as 30 feet. They reduced sail, first reef~ng the ma4.n and
replacing the Genoa with the working jib, using the jib alone, and finally rZn-lacing
it with the storm jib. They were glad to be going with the wind. The boat handled
well, riding the waves like a cork, first sinking into a ~rough and a few seconds
later riding the crest again. Only a couple of waves broke over the stern, flooding
the cockpit.
"They made 100 miles that day using only 45 square feet of storm jib with a 50-mile/
hour wind behind them. Neither felt anxious, but they were glad to have the wind
die after 48 hours so they could get some sleep. At the height of the storm a
freighter stopped near them to see if they needed help. They also saw a lone sailboat beating its way up wind, one of two
sailboats they saw in open sea during the
whole voyage. The cabin took very little water, but everything was knocked over
and some of it was damp. They learned something about packing from that experience.
"On the 17th day after leaving England they sighted land and were satisfied that
their sextant readings had brought them almost on target, They had headed for the
small port of Safi because they wanted to visit missionary friends, Bill and Holly
Campbell, who had been doing medical work with North Africa Mission for the past 20
years. To Tom's surprise he found the Campbells under arrest and awaiting trial for
proselytizing They were at home with their three children but very uncertain about
their future. Tom and Harris had a good week's visit with our old friends and met
some of the handful of young Christians there.
"Two more of our kids joined the crew in Safi, Jim, 24, just finished work on his
M.A. at the U. of Chicago in time to fly over. Becky, 19, finished her exams at the
U. of Vienna where she and her sister Kathy had both been studying, and found her way
by train and plane from Austria to Morocco. The four of them started out for the
Canary Islands on June 24, using the diesel for the first six hours to avoid the
fleet of fishing boats leaving the harbor at the same time.
"After six days, even with a light wind, they realized they had missed the islands
because Tom had forgotten to take one noon sextant reading. For that mistake they
lost a day backtracking to the Island of Tenerife. The Canaries are volcanic islands
rising steeply from the ocean to as high as 1300 feet, very barren and often veiled
in banks of mist. As they came into Santa Cruz harbor they caught sight of a 100
foot, twin-masted brig flying an American flag. They were given permission to tie
up alongside in spite of inhospitable reactions from the harbor master and Yacht Club.
The brig's doctor treated Jim's strep-infected ankle with penicillin, which made the
loss of that day seem providential.
"On the 4th of July they left in another gale, giving Becky and Jim their own taste
of storm at sea. Again the wind was from behind so they didn't have to battle waves.
Harris had been doing the cooking all along, and now Becky took over the navigation
once she had learned how. They all took turns at the tiller in 4-hour shifts around
the clock. They tried man-overboard drills but were unsuccessful in recovering a
towel and some dishes that went over the side. It's hard to stop a boat going down
wind, wing-on-wing, and get back to the lost object (or person) before it goes down
or drifts out of sight. Finally they did manage to retrieve an item or two, but
fortunately never had to retrieve one of the crew. Everybody on deck in heavy weathel
or after dark always wore safety harnesses.
"The water warmed steadily as they sailed west and the more frequent rains were alwayE
welcome for bathing and shampoos. They collected rain water off the mainsail. They
caught some fish and enjoyed watching many more swim alongside, particularly schools
of-porpoise. They first sighted land, San Salvador, on August 4. having covered
3200 miles in 31 days. At their first stop at Andros Island they phoned me in
Pennsylvania. I had flown from England on July 19 and that August 6 phone call was
most welcome.
"From the Bahamas they passed through the Florida Keys, where the hazards of being
run down by ships increased sharply, especially at night. They had a 19-inch radar
reflector slung between their twin backstays to warn ships of their location, but not
all crews are courteous or alert. They were glad to get into the Intracoastal Waterway and on into the Gulf, but then the wind died down and they gave up trying to
reach New Orleans, their original destination. Having to motor into Pensacola harbor
was a bit of a letdown, but time was running out. They lifted the boat onto a flatbed truck where it rested easily on its twin keels, then drove in the truck up to
Peoria. The boat is now in the Illinois River and the wonder of all the boaters
around.
"Looking back, it seems easy, and I wonder what all the fuss was about. Before they
left, I was among the many friends and relatives trying to dissuade them from the
trip.
Now, as you can see, I'm bragging. Seriously, we are most grateful for God's guidance and protection. and for the many prayers on their behalf from both sides of the
Atlantic.
"Another time I might even go along."
EMIL GAVERLUCK VERSUS ERIC VON DANIKEN
Emil Gaverluck lectures in schools and churches on "Science and the Bible." He sent
us a copy of his new bookq Did Genesis Man Conquer §22ce? (Thomas Nelson Inc.,
Nashville, 1974; paper, 192 pp., $2.95). He considers it an "antidote" to Chariots
of the Gods. We haven't drunk deeply of Von Daniken's weird interpretations, but we
can testify that Gaverluck's antidote is pretty startling stuff. Biblical literalists sometimes argue that if Adam was created a perfect man, he must have known
more than today's fallen scientists. Emil's facile imagination takes off from this
hypothesis and soon leaves Von D's chariots behind in a cloud of intragalactic dust.
Religious cartoonist Jack Hamm's illustrations visualize many of Emil's ideas.
The author believes that Genesis Man "had learned to harness gravitation waves, electromagnetic energy, nuclear fusion, matter-antimatter collisions," etc. Were the
Urim and Thummim (Exodus 28:30) really atomic energy sources? "Associated with the
twelve great jewels of the high priest's breastplate, could they produce laser beams
flashing off the ephod?" (p. 64) Did Space Beings once mingle with earth's population? Was the Great Pyramid an interstellar communications device?
Well, as Berkeley's sp,~ped inhabitants often say, "Far out!" (Some of Emil's eschatological proposals reminded us of the chronosynclastic infundibulum of Kurt Vonnegut's Sirens
of Titan.) Did Genesis Man Conguer Space? can be ordered from Emil
Gaverluck, Mint Hill Box 23112, Charlotte, North Carolina 28212.
ED DAYTON VERSUS WASTED TIME
Next year, you gotta get organized? Maybe it would help to read Ed Dayton's most
recent book, Tools for Time Management (Zondervan, Grand Rapids,
0
20b pp.,
$4.95). Subtit1ed Christian Perspectives on Managing Priorities," the book incorporates
many ideas Ed has used in the Christian Leadership Letter circulated by World Vision International. We haven't seen the book yet but we hear it is organized
alphabetically (unlike the latest ASA Directory--which Just shows that there's more
than one way to organize things): "Accountability, Alertness, Alternate Plans, Analyzing Your Time, Ask, Assumptions, Becoming, Bosses, Busywork," etc.
Nils Friberg has just passed his qualifying exams for a PhD in religion at the U. of
Iowa in Iowa City, and will do a thesis on crisis counseling of parents of critically
ill children in conjunction with the pediatrics ward of the University Hospital. Nils
has been a missionary under the Baptist General Conference in Brazil since 1963. The
Fribergs hope to return in two years to teach at the Baptist Theological Seminary in
Sao Paulo.
Lenore Harmon, professor of educational psychology at the U. of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, recently addressed
UM initiates into Sigma Epsilon Sigma, national honor society for women. Her talk, "Bright and Female: Boon or Bust?" was based on her years
of counseling intelligent women students, on the growing literature of female achievement and potential, and on her personal experience. (Lenore's photo and a write-up
of her speech appeared in the Milwaukee Journal, sent to us by Claude Stipe of
Marquette.)
H. Harold Hartzler, professor of physics at Mankato State College (Minnesota), has
1~ee~n -off ng a five-week mini-course on "Science and Christianity" for credit at
Mankato State. Harold recently added up his extra-curricular activities and found
the total number of organizations and projects came to 34. He claims to have been
surprised at this large number--but we weren't, and we bet his wife Dorothy wasn't,
either.
David R. Heffner became the pastor of Trinity Evangelical Church in Lititz, Pennsylvania, In June. He formerly served the Faith Evangelical Church in Lancaster (PA.).
Robert L. Herrmann, associate professor of biochemistry at Boston University School
of Medicine, participated in a week-long series of lectures at Gordon College (Mass.)
on "Christian Faith and the Scientific Mind." Bob says "Bernard Ramm started things
off and the very impressive Donald MacKay of Keel finished them, with myself as the
bologna (?) in the sandwich."
Charles E. Hummel became full-time faculty specialist for IVCF on November 1. Charlik
spent many years with Inter-Varsity, first as field staff, then as field director,
finally as interim general director, before resigning to become president of Barrington College in Rhode Island. He will be developing a faculty newsletter, revising
IV's faculty directory and Faculty Handbook, organizing regional and national conferences, and visiting campuses to help faculty in their Christian witness.
William J. Kinnaman lives in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and is another modest
fellow who says he's not doing anything out of the ordinary (for an ASA member). But
it's good to know he's still there in R.I., with Charlie Hummel.
John W. Klotz is serving as dean of academic affairs at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,
the Missouri-Synod Lutheran school so much in the news recently. John says he's been
working toward reconciliation with the former faculty but with little success so far.
The Synod's Board of Directors has had over 40 meetings over the issue.
Lane P. Lester, research associate in bioscience at the Institute for Creation
Research in San Diego, California, is the author of "Mimicry," latest paper in ICR's
Impact Series.
Paulette LeVantine is investigating graduate schools, having received her bachelor's
degree in marine biology from U.C. San Diego. She's taken a year off to travel in
the meantime, visiting some communes in the northwest and exploring alternative
Christian lifestyles. Passing through Berkeley recently, Paulette said ASA News
hasn't been catching up with her.
Bruce W. McClelland has had several papers published this year on X-ray crystallographic work he did in 1971-73 as a post-doc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in
Tennessee. In 1973-74 he taught chemistry part-time at Mt, Hood Community College In
Gresham, Oregon. Now he has a full-time permanent position as instructor in chemistry
at Central Oregon Community College in Bend. Bruce hopes one of his colleagues at
COCC who is a Christian will soon join ASA.
Robert McCov is on IVCF staff in Maine, headquartered in Orono but visiting seven
schools. In October he spoke at fall conferences for two IVCF chapters: on John
13-17 (The Upper Room Discourse of Jesus) for Colby College, and on "Worship" for
Bates College. Bob spent the simmer at Bear Trap Ranch in Colorado Springs.
James G. Miller has accepted a position as research associate and associate instructor in physics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
John Warwick Montgomery became professor of law and theology at the International
School of Law in Washington, D. C., on September 1. This new Christian law school,
in its third year and with over 400 students, was established to reintroduce biblical
revelation as the foundation of positive law. John says his reader on Jurisprudence,
just published for use in his courses, is available from Lerner Law boo-ks, lst and E
Streets, Washington, D. C. 20036, for $12.50.
J. Terence Morrison of Lititz, Pennsylvania, has become area director in the middle
Xtiantic states for IVCF, after eleven years as a chemistry professor, seven of them
at Butler University (Pa.). Terry says that having a staff of 15, a budget, incessant traveling, and responsibility for planning strategy is a big switch, but he and
his wife are sure it's the Lord% switch for them. Terry is an enthusiast who spreads
the word about ASA among students and faculty as he travels to various campuses. He
says, "I hope this is a symbiotic relationship: IVCF-Me-ASA."
Roy W. Olson ' is currently a full-time night technician at Swedish Covenant Hospital
in Chicago. Roy is a registered Medical Technologist (American Society of Clinical
Pathologists) who has been the sole technician at Manorom Christian Hospital Thailand for the past eight years. He's doing some furlough deputation for Overseas
Missionary Fellowship but mostly he's getting updated in the lab. On his first night
alone on duty he ran into a case of malaria in the emergency room.
John J. Rasmussen has become assistant to the director of the Management Center at
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. This summer he did a study on
"Presidents of Religious Related Institutions of Higher Education in California,"
and in January at the AAAS meeting in New York a paper he co-authored, "On the Design
of Alternative Anesthesia Manpower Teams," will be presented.
W. Stanford Reid of the University of Western Ontario, Guelph, has written Trumpeter
of God: A Biography of John Knox (Scribners, New York, 1974. 353 pp., $12.50).
Stanford was described by Christianity Today as "a leading evangelical professor of
history."
E. H. Schludermann teaches child & adolescent development and the psychology of aging
';t Ae University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. His current research is on assessment
instruments of paternal and maternal attitudes, and on adolescents' perceptions of
their parents' behavior. He and his wife have been doing cross-cultural studies of
adolescent development; on their 1972-73 sabbatical they studied youth in New Delhi,
India. In November they participated in an inter-disciplinary symposium on socialization in communal societies at the American Anthropological Association meeting,
describing some of their work on parent-adolescent relationships in the communal
society of the Hutterites.
Wesley C. Starbuck of the Department of Pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine
in Houston, Texas, continues to work on a radio program for a Christian radio station.
He spoke recently before the Medical Center community as "An Evangelical in Science."
Dawn Strout is now teaching biology at Athol High School in Athol, Massachusetts.
Ray Tibe of San Bernardino, California, is a researcher in the National Training
Office of Campus Crusade for Christ. He is developing a tape correspondence course
in apologetics (with notes, text, and tests) to become a standard part of CCC's
Institute of Biblical Studies, and is also recruiting faculty for the IBC program
for next summer. Ray did most of the monthly Bible study on Mark in World Wide
Impact magazine and is currently writing the study on "Life of David" appearing in
the magazine.
BarrX Timmons of the West Indies Mission has a Coral Gablest Florida, mailing address.
He arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on August 21 to begin working as a radio engineer
for Radio Lumire. Barry says this is a nationwide network designed to spread the
gospel over Haiti.
Carel Van Vliet is spending Sept. 15 to Dec. 31 at the University of Florida in
Gainesville to (a) do some research and graduate teaching in electrical engineering,
(b) rediscover the sun (which is also on leave from Montreal, it seems), (c) reabsorb the American atmosphere (we could probably get you conditional amnesty, Carelf),
and (d) do some Sunday school teaching at the First Baptist Church of Gainesville.
Sandra Wahl will be married on Dec. 14 to Greg Della Croce, who will be finishing
his B.S. in M.E. at California Polytech in San Luis Obispo and preparing to go to
seminary. Sandy's future father-in-law has been teaching her to do bookkeeping this
fall, since she found few employers interested in her B.A. in psychology. We saw
Sandy and Greg in Berkeley recently, attending some fine lectures by Os Guinness
(1he Dust of Death .
Orville S. Walters of Peoria, Illinois, was elected president of the Institute for
Advanced Christian Studies on Oct. 12, succeeding Carl F. H. Henry, whose term on
the IFACS board expires this year. V. Elving Anderson of the University of Minnesota
was elected treasurer, Since its establishment eight years ago, IFACS has funded
support for sixteen Christian scholars doing advanced work.
Glen Zumwalt of the Aeronautical Engineering Department of Wichita State University,
Kansas, says that Christian faculty there are using the "free university" to present
the Christian viewpoint. Seven faculty have been involved in presenting "Christianity and/or Science," "The Christian View of Man and Those of
Psychology," and "The
Christian View of Roles of Men and Women." The courses meet once a week for six or
eight weeks, and have averaged about 20 per course.
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NEW BOOK - FOR SALE
Book Review of MacKay's "Clockwork Image" by Dewey E. Carpenter
"The Clockwork Image," by Donald M. MacKay, Inter-Varsity Press, 1974, 112 pp.,
$2.25. This one is a must. It is clear, concise, and up-to-date. It is an ideal
book to give to anyone who fears that scientific discoveries and scientific descriptions make it difficult to retain a Biblical view of man and nature. It should be
required reading for anyone who things that Christian faith and a quest for truth
do not mix well.
Donald MacKay, at Keele University in England, is a Professor of Communications who
specializes in brain physiology. His approach to science-faith relationships stresses the full integrity of both the mechanistic views of science (with special emphasis on man as a responsible and free being, created for fellowship with a personal
God). MacKay emphasizes the need to see scientific descriptions as applicable in
principle to all areas of human experience, but he admirably debunks the common misconception that if a phenomenon is satisfactorily described in the terms of physics,
that it is therefore nothing but a physical phenomenon. The views of science and
Scripture are complementary and both are required to do full justice to life.
The book stresses "the essential, non-accidental harmony between the Christian doctrine of the natural world on the one hand and the spirit and practice of natural
science on the other. This is illustrated first by a study of the scientific
approach in general; then in terms of specific topics such as creation, scientific
law and miracle, and the nature of man; and finally by showing how the Christian
gospel itself invites the test of daily experience in essentially the same spirit of
openness to evidence that animates the enquiring scientist".
The main strength of the book is the perspective it adopts rather than in its treatment of specific traditional problem areas, In this respect it is more like C. S.
Lewis's Miracles than like Ramm's "Christian View of Science and the Scriptures".
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