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NEWS
The American Scientific Affiliation
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 1 February 1971

BOARDMAN NEW ASA PRESIDENT Don Boardman, professor of geology at Wheaton College, has been elected President of the Executive Council of the American Scientific Affiliation for 1971. Jack McIntyre, professor of physics at Texas A&M University, is Vice-President; and Marlin Kreider,Assoc. Prof. Biology, Worcester State College, is Secretary-Treasurer Also on the Council are Gary Collins, psychologist, and David Willis, biologist and science educator. Our duly elected representatives now cover the sciences from physics to psychology, and the country from Massachusetts to Oregon. Here are their mailing addresses, for your "advice and consensus": Dr. Donald C. Boardman - President Dr. Gary R. Collins 311 East Franklin Street 524 South Prairie Avenue Wheaton, Illinois 60187 Mundelein, Illinois 60060 Dr. John A. McIntyre - Vice President Dr. David L. Willis Dept. of Physics 3135 McKinley Street Texas A&M University Corvallis, Oregon 97330 College Station, Texas 77840 Dr. Marlin Kreider - Secretary-Treasurer 374 Central Street Auburndale, Massachusetts 02166 KNIGHTON TO ADDRESS FEDERATION CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Kurt Weiss of the University of Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City, informs ust that the next annual Federation Christian Fellowship evening coffee will be held on Thursday, April 15, 1971, in connection with the Chicago meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. The meeting will begin at 8 P. M. in the Embassy Room of the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel in Chicago. Speaker will be J. Raymond Knighton, president of the Medical Assistance Programs, Inc., P. 0. Box 50, Wheaton, Illinois 60187. Medical Assistance Programs (MAP) supplies tons of surplus drugs, mostly donated by pharmaceutical companies, to over 1,000 medical missionaries in 81 countries around the world. Supported entirely by donations from private individuals and charitable groups, MAP now operates out of a 43,000-square-foot warehouse holding not only $15-20 million worth of medicines but also equipment to manufacture some of them. Some drugs useful against TB, malaria, and various intestinal diseases (no longer produced in great quantities in the U. S. because of improved health standards) are produced in the MAP warehouse. MAP also operates a Short Term Missionary program to supply medical, paramedical, and hospital administrative personnel on one- to sixmonth assignments at strategic points overseas. Every $10 gift to MAP (tax deductible) helps to send approximately $1,000 worth of medical supplies to a mission hospital or clinic. A $50 gift offsets most handling costs for a ton of medicines. The MAP story will be told in more detail in "Doctors Who Take Vacations for Humanity" by Clarence W. Hall, appearing soon in the March 1971 issue of Reader's Digest. THE CASE OF THE MISSING ARCHIVES The Executive Council has instructed the "A National Office to maintain three bound copies of all issues of the Journal and of ASA News. Mankato has discovered it will have to duplicate some early back issues to have enough to bind--but for several issues of ASA News there isn't even a copy left in the office to duplicate! The following issues of ASA News are missing:

Volume 1, No. 3. Volume 2, Nos. 1 and 5.Volume 3, Nos. 4 and 5.

If you would be willing to let the National Office borrow your copy of these issues to duplicate for the ASA archives, please drop Harold Hartzler or Hazel Fetherhuff a note at 324k South Second St., Mankato, Minnesota 56001. ASA AND AAAS For some reason only eleven people showed up at the ASA Breakfast during the AAAS meeting in Chicago, but those who did heard Ray Brand, Wheaton College biologist, give a good review and discussion of Francis Schaeffer's new book, Pollution and the Death of Man: A Christian View of Environment. Having proposed an evening coffee house program for the next ASA Annual Convention, we felt pleased with ourselves when we saw the December 18 issue of Science: The Youth Council of the AAAS had also planned a coffee house for Sunday evening during the Chicago meeting. Then we started hearing about disruptions at some of the sessions by young people and wondered if there was any connection. Evidently not, according to Philip Abelson's editorial in the January 22 issue of Science. The disruptions had been planned long in advance by about 50 "outside agitators", and failed to gain support even of large numbers of students in attendance. In spite of the heavy publicity about militant activities, more than 95% of the individual sessions were conducted without incident. Meanwhile, we had asked Jim Kennedy, biologist at North Park College, Chicago, what he thought of the AAAS meetings and of our idea of a coffee house at the next ASA Convention. This is what he said: "The reactions of those young people at some of the AAAS sessions were predictable. I am coming to the conclusion that to some of them this is a continuing way of life as a substitute for good hard constructive work. I was amazed at the lack of courtesy, especially when ample opportunity would have been given for their discussions. My feeling is that most of them already had the answers to questions that were not even properly proposed. As you can see, I am becoming somewhat disenchanted with the all-powerful wisdom that some youth claim. I think I share this feeling with others who have been working in these areas for the last twenty years. I anticipate that the total student interest will soon run its course in the area of environmental concerns and soon other ideas will grasp their attention. I think this might be a successful topic for another 'coffee house chat."' Jim says he plans to attend the Spokane ASA Convention in August. He thinks we should also devote some of our coffee house conversation to what seems to him a lack of definitive goals for the ASA. In particular, he thinks the Commissions have not been functioning as usefully as they should be, including the one of which he's a member. Sounds like ASA needs forgiveness both for our omissions and our Commissions.

REFORMATION TOUR TO BE REPEATED We wondered last issue if any ASA'ers were going on John Montgomery's "Birthplaces of the Reformation" tour of Europe this winter. Yes, says John S. Setchell, Jr., physicist from Rochester, New York. He and his wife Cynthia enjoyed the trip very much, "even Dr. Montgomery's after-dinner lectures that sometimes started at 10 p.m." In a whirlwind five-day tour they visited Wittenberg, Ehrfurt, Eisenach, Leipzig, Weimar, and Berlin, seeing the historic places that figured in the lives of Luther and other reformers. Personal contact with believers in several cities gave them a first-hand appreciation of what it means to be a Christian in a communist country. The tour group, originally limited to forty, actually numbered ninety-two. Because of this strong response, and because many who would otherwise have gone were attending the IVCF Urbana missionary convention, a repeat performance is being planned for next year. Those interested should write soon to Dr. John Montgomery, Dept. of Church History, Trinity Seminary, Deerfield, Illinois 60015, while there is still room for next December. HOW TO START SOMETHING NO. 4. JACK & MADELEINE McINTYRE Jack McIntyre is a physicist in charge of the university cyclotron at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, adjacent to the small town of Bryan and about 90 miles from Houston. Some things that might be easy to do in California or Connecticut (Jack had formerly been at Stanford and then at Yale) aren't necessarily easy to do in Texas. And some things might be easier in Houston, Texas, than in Bryan, Texas. But Jack and his wife, Madeleine, have done something worth while in Bryan that we asked them to share with ASA News readers. Madeleine sent us a copy of Tempo for November 22, 1970, containing the story She wrote on their "Experiment in Black and White." ' Tempo ' is the regular Sunday magazine section of the Houston Post, Galveston Daily News, Texas City Daily Su , and Baytown Lun, so lots of Texans have heard of the McIntyres attempt to build a bridge of Christian friendship across interracial lines. We've had to leave out all the interesting anecdotes Madeleine told so well in her published version, but here is a sketch of what the McIntyre's did and how they went about it: About three years ago Jack went through the line in the Student Union cafeteria on the Texas A&M. campus and spotted a Negro woman eating by herself at a nearby table. Always on the lookout for interesting people to talk to, he asked if he could join her. She turned out to be Mrs. John Lane, a physics teacher in a local predominately black high school, so they had a lot in common to talk about. Her husband was principal of a Houston high school and they were both active members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Bryan. This contact led to an evening at the McIntyre home with several white friends of Jack and Madeleine, the Lanes, some of the other black teachers in Bryan, and the minister of the A. M. E. church. In frank but still somewhat guarded conversation that night the comment was made that "the most segregated hour in the week is at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning." The McIntyres decided to visit the A. M. E. church, also known as Allen Chapel in memory of Richard Allen, the slave who bought his freedom for $2,000 in Philadelphia and founded the new denomination when he was expelled from the Methodist Church. That's one of the things the McIntyres later learned from their new friends. Their first Sunday morning visit to Allen Chapel was something of a strain. They thought it might be easier if another white couple accompanied them the first time, but such is the racial climate of Bryan that hardly any of their own church friends would go with them. All kinds of questions were raised, from the possibility of retaliation on the job to that old standby, "But what if your teenage son wanted to marry...?" Finally they found a couple who had previously had black friends in a small town church in Illinois, and the two couples went together. There was a little 11culture shock" from the emotional warmth of the worship service and other differences in customs, but this quickly passed. The minister tried to make the obvious guests in the congregation welcome, and invited them to "have a word" when they were introduced at the end of the service. Jack explained simply, "We are Christians who have come in Christ's name to worship with the Christians at Allen Chapel." That seemed to break the ice, and the McIntyres' sincerity hasn't been questioned since. They have returned often to the Chapel for worship services, for Sunday school and special programs at Christmas and Easter, and even for a formal tea given in their honor. Both the young people and the women's society of the McIntyres, First Presbyterian Church have since exchanged programs with Allen Chapel. That may not sound like a big accomplishment, but "even a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Jack says he has learned a lot of things from his friends at Allen Chapel, ranging from their love of formality and propriety (which somehow seemed unexpected because of the informality of their style of worship), to their courage and integrity in support of him when he did encounter retaliation at his job for some moderate civil rights activity. We doubt that any kind of experimentation is more badly needed now in the U. S. than the establishment of solid friendships across barriers that divide people. And it may be as difficult in Connecticut as it is in Texas. ASA News would like to hear of your experiments in human relationships to encourage and inform others. We'll rcward you with a dozen "Scientist's Psalm" greeting cards if we can use your 11progress report." We're sending (Madeleine's!) greeting cards to Dr. and Mrs. John A. McIntyre, 2316 Bristol Street, Bryan, Texas 77801. Their experiment has "paid off" in many ways already--and may even have launched Madeleine on a successful writing career. For the next issue we hope to have a story on "free university" or special honors courses taught from a Christian perspective. We know of several ASA members who have originated and taught such courses at various universities. We'd like to hear about your experience, too--especially if you can pinpoint reasons for your success (or failure) in this ever-shifting arena of the "counter-curriculum." Tell us HOW TO START SOMETHING and make it work. Tell it now! A P. S. on T. S. ELIOT John T. Chappell, president of Sheng-Te Christian College, Taipei, Taiwan, is writing a chemistry text with a strong dose of history and a flavor of spiritual insights. He was impressed by the lines of T. S. Eliot about "the wisdom we have lost in knowledge", quoted in the October 1970 issue of ASA News. John wondered if he could include them in his book. We lifted them from the introductory page of Darrell Clardy's thesis (Iowa State University Library, Ames), but here is an original source in case others are interested in tracking them down or using them as a quotation: They are part I of a long poem, "Choruses from 'The Rock."' They appear on p. 179 of T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-1935, published by Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc., New York. Copyrights listed in the book are dated 1930 (T. S. Eliot) and 1934 and 1936 (Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc.). GROSE KEEPS ON THE GO For the first ASA News of the New Year we can usually scrounge up a few items by scanning family Christmas letters received from ASA'ers. We confess that it often exhausts us just to read about how much some people accomplish. Take Vernon Grose of Canoga Park, California, for example. Besides presiding with his wife Phyllis over a family of six children, he teaches systems engineering here and there, consults all over the place for people like the Bureau of Aviation Safety or executives of IBM's General Systems Division, holds offices in professional societies, and serves on the Whitworth College Alumni Board of Directors. Sound like a full-time job? But that's not all: "The incorporation of The Alpha Foundation to research and publish scientific materials concerning creation has taken much of my time. This foundation resulted from my work with the California State Board of Education last year. Nevada has now asked me to include the same approach in their textbooks. To open up the classroom to other theories for origins besides evolution, I have addressed college classes, teachers' conferences, school boards, and churches. Response is most favorable." The story of Vernon's encounter with the California State Board of Education over guidelines for science teaching was told in the December 1969 ASA News. A more recent and more detailed account appeared in an article entitled "Anatomy of a Confrontation" by Harold Bredesen in Christian Life magazine. PEOPLE LOOKIVG FOR POSITIONS Gene G. DeMaster is seeking a research position for September 1971. Gene is married, no children, has a B. A. in Biology from Dordt College (1965) and will be receiving his Ph.D. in biochemistry with organic chemistry minor from Wayne State University (June 1971). He would consider a post-doctoral position, basic research at an institute, or an academic position with research opportunities. His doctoral thesis concerns bioenergetics, in particular phosphate, arsenate, and vanadate as substrates or inhibitors of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. He has some research ideas in mind but would be willing to work in other areas. Contact Gene at the Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, 550 E. Canfield, Detroit, Michigan 48202.. Dean Hartman is looking for a college position teaching undergraduate science methods courses and possibly introductory physical science courses. He has a B. A. from Goshen College (1955) and an M. S. from Purdue (1964), both in physics. He expects to receive his doctorate in science education at the University of Wisconsin in August 1971. Dean has had nine years' experience teaching high school physics, chemistry, and math, and has supervised public school elementary and secondary scietice teaching, as well as student teachers for one semester. Write to Dean at 918 East Eagle Heights, Madison, Wisconsin 53705. Robert D. Lerch will be receiving hid Ed.D. degree from New Mexico State University in the spring of 1971 and is looking for a position in science education. His major is in curriculum with a minor in physics. For his dissertation he has been evaluating teaching in the undergraduate physics labs at N. M. S. U. Contact Bob at Box 3032 U. P., Las Cruces, New Mexico 88001. Frank Roberts, with fifteen years of teaching experience at a Christian secondary school, is considering a change perhaps to the college level. He has a B. S. in physics, Th.M. in theology, Ed.M. in education, and the M. A. and Ph.D. in geology. His specialty is igneous and metamorphic petrology, with research experience in ultramafic rocks. His teaching experience includes astronomy, introductory geology, optical mineralogy, paleontology, and geophysics. Write to Frank at 285 Overbrook Drive, Newtown Square, Pa. 19073. POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE Sterling Colege, Sterling, Kansas, has a number of openings for scientists with an evangelical persuasion. Openings exist in sociology, psychology, political science, and physics, with preference to Ph.Ds. The physicist should have a specialization in nuclear applications, since the college anticipates some direct relations with the Atomic Energy Commission because of a major project to be located in the vicinity Physics is a one-man department at present, but they hope to expand soon, building on the talents and training of a nuclear physicist. To apply for any of these positions, or to suggest someone suited for one of them, write to Dr. Joel Strandberg, Academic Dean, Sterling College, Sterling, Kansas 67579. WHY NOT REVERSE THE "BRAIN DRAIN?" Last issue we quoted Charles Troutman of the Latin America Mission in Costa Rica on opportunities opening up for Christian witness in the universities and schools of Latin America. We suggested that with the scientific job market so tight in the U. S., this might be a good time to consider a teaching job south of the border. Seconding our promotion is Wayne Bragg. The Braggs are currently back in the U. S. from Brasil. Wayne is working on another M. A., this time in guidance and counseling at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina--"the ski center of the South." He hopes to go on for a Ph.D. somewhere before returning to Brasil. Wayne says, "With the oversaturation of the market by Ph.D.s here, perhaps the Macedonian call from overseas will be heard. If fellow ASA members are interested, we can give them some contacts. Science professors, in both pure and applied sciences, are preferred, but others may also be needed in particular places (e.g., teachers of English)." Now you have two ASA contacts to help you find a position in Latin America: Charlie Troutman (address in ASA News, December 1970), and Wayne G. Bragg, P. 0. Box 70, Deep Gap, North Carolina-28618.

LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES

WESTERN NEW YORK ASA News thanks Don Munro, biologist at Houghton College and president of the Westeri, New York Section, for some details on that bodacious two-day meeting held October 30-31 at Houghton: 'The meeting started off with a bang when George Schweitzer, chemist and philosopher from the University of Tennessee, gave his provocative talk entitled 'The Cosmic Drama' to an audience of over 400 students, faculty, and ASA'ers. A lively interchange between theologians, scientists, students, and George followed the talk as the audience attempted to pick his brain for details of his 'theology for the 20th century.' The students indicated that they were stimulated by his challenge to their ideals, according to results of a follow-up poll conducted by the student newspaper." Next morning, after devotions and a report on the ASA Annual Convention from Phil E_~.rden, biologist at Roberts Wesleyan College, the panel we named last issue got down to business on Christian concerns in the ecological crisis: Dave Barnes, Roberts biologist, outlined the population; Een Dayton, industrial ysicist with Bendix Corporation, discussed environmental law and industry; Hugt Paine, Houghton physicist, presented a Biblical basis for conservation; Anne Whiting, Houghton biologist, concentrated on steps individual Christians can take to help alleviate the ecological crisis. "Spirited audience participation followed the panel discussion." (The spirit must have been genuine, since it was "but the third hour of the day."--Ed.) Over forty people were still on hand for Saturday lunch to hear Harold Hartzler tell of his dreams for the future of ASA. The Section welcomed a number of members from Western Pennsylvania who participate with them whenever possible. "We suggest that other local sections might try overnight conferences as we think ours worked out well this year." NEW YORK METROPOLITAN Our Big City section keeps coming up with smooth ideas, which may be why New Yorkers are known to us Country boys as city-slickers. For instance, consider the announcements they sent out for their regular spring and fall meetings: the outside is a two-color print job resplendent with art work; inside are program, registration form, and map, mimeographed as required for each particular meeting. From a background of scientific symbols, the words SCIENCE AND FAITH jump out at you on the front cover. The back cover carries a statement of the nature and purpose of the ,ASA. The announcement for the meeting held Saturday, November 14, at Long Hill Chapel in Chatham, New Jersey, reveals that the meeting was co-sponsored by the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Northern New Jersey. other local sections have also used this technique to inform students about ASA. The New York section set registration at $3 but charged no registration fee for students. Student attendance was further subsidized by charging students (who had advance registration) $2 for the dinner .... meal instead of the regular $4. Registration, coffee, and a short business meeting filled the hour between 3 and 4 P. M. The program consisted of one lecture and discussion period before dinner and another after, both on "The Environment." Dr. V. Eugene Vivian, director of conservation and the Environmental Science Center of Southern New Jersey, spoke on "Practical and Essential Proposals for the Restoration of our Environment." Allan L. Bleecker, assistant professor of biology, The King's College, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., spoke on "The Part Christians are Morally Obligated to Play in an Effort to Restore our Environment." The meeting adjourned at 9 P. M. From the minutes of the business meeting held that day we learned of another idea that may help spread the work on ASA. The New York Metropolitan Section is conside r4 rg participation in next October's Annual Convention of the Northern New Jersey Stuxlay School Association. The one-day convention consists of exhibits, workshops, and a keynote speaker. Jim Neidhardt and Al Collins have volunteered to man a booth if the details can be worked out. Have any other sections tried anything like this? (Our thanks to Don Carr, secretary of the section, for this info.--Ed.) CKTCAGO Ar_FA The art work was also attractive on the offset program-announcement folder the Chicago Section sent out for its December 11 meeting at Trinity College ("north") in Deerfield, Illinois. This was a Friday evening meeting devoted to "Christianity and the History of Science." About 30 people attended. Gary Collins, professor of psychology at Trinity Divinity School, made the local arrangements. Dr. Richard Aulie of the Department of Biology of Chicago State College maintained in his paper on "John Ray and the Problem of Man's Attitude Toward Nature" that animals exist to glorify God in their own right as well as to serve man. He objected to Lynn White's blaming the pollution of the environment on the supposed Judeo-Christian belief that man has a right to exploit his world. Slides of engravings on anatomy were used to illustrate historic attitudes. Joseph Spradley, Wheaton College physicist, supported his theory that the Christian belief in t e orderliness of nature strongly influenced the rise of modern science. Joe is in Africa, however, so Jim Kraakevik read Joe's paper, "The Christian Roots of the Scientific Revolution." Somebody raised the question, "Then why didn't science begin right away when Christianity began?" Perhaps it also took a later interest in nature as something not sinful, was suggested--but maybe we'll have to wait until Joe gets back for a better answer. Keith Yandell of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Wisconsin discussed "Conceptual Schemes and a Reasonable Faith." He favors natural theology as a means of confirming faith and says scholars have given up too soon in trying to get a knowledge of God from nature. (ASA News thanks Russ Mixter, secretarytreasurer of the section, for information on this meeting.--Ed.) SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA On November 21 the San Francisco Bay Section met in the San Jose home of Harold F. Winters, chairman of the section and a physicist at the IBM Laboratories in San Jose. Harold presented a discussion of "Genesis and Science--Some Conservative Viewpoints." About 40 attended, and according to secretary Robert Anderson, lithe d4scussion following was so varied as to defy categorization." At any rate, various literal interpretations of the Genesis creation narrative were presented and criticized, with no one asserting that any system of harmonization with science was proven beyond doubt or essential to salvation. Some interpretations considered were the literal (seven-day) view, creation with an appearance of great age, the gap theory popularized in the Scofield Reference Bible, and the age-day theory in which each day of Genesis Chapter One represents a geological age of indefinite duration. On January 8 the section met at the Peninsula Covenant Church in Redwood City to hear Dick Bube, professor of materials science and electrical engineering at Stanford University, speak on "Science, Technology, and Human Values." We haven't heard a report from the January meeting yet, but Dick said his talk would be based in part on his banquet address at the ASA Annual Convention in St. Paul in August. Here are some thoughts from that address: "A consideration of science and human values must transcend the field of science alone and take into account also the fundamental spiritual and religious aspects that plumb the depths of ultimate significance in human life." "The most pernicious falsehood ever to be universally accepted by an entire culture is that which propounds that the scientific method is the only reliable way to truth." "We need to explore one of the great realities of our day--the loss of scientific prestige that we see all around us. We need also to consider what it is that science can do, and to reawaken an awareness of a career in science as an opportunity for Christian service." SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA An attempt to develop a more intimate relationship between the scientific community and the career M4ssionary was made by the Southern California Section at its December 5 meeting at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. "Missiology and the Mission of the Church" was the theme of the afternoon meeting. On the program were Dr. Donald McGavran, dean of the School of World Mission at Fuller; Alan R. Tippett, social anthropologist; Charles H. Kraft, cultural anthropologist; Ralph Winter, historian and statistical analyst; Roy Shearer, psychology-oriented anthropologist; and Arthur Glasser, Biblical theologian. Willard Harley, psychologist and program chairman for the section, served as moderator. Members of the School of World Mission were invited to attend the meeting in order to discover these aspects of missionary research: 1) The need for sophisticated scientific research; 2) What scientists can do and are doing about it; 3) The size of the problem and complexity of the field. Announcements of the meeting, by the way, were attractively printed with large type on one side of 9 x 12 heavy stock, suitable for posting on bulletin boards but still fitting into an envelope when folded in thirds. NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE Gleanings from the minutes of the December 18 Executive Council meeting; 1. Robert G. Groner, Corvallis, Oregon, will be Program Chairman for the 1971 Annual Convention at Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington, August 17-20. (At the present stage of deliberations, it sounds like a call will soon go out for contributed papers, but there may also be an ecological theme to part of the meeting.--Ed.) Ed Olson, Whitworth College geochemist, will be chairman of the Local Arrangements for the convention. 2. The book, Our Society in Turmoil, edited by Gary Collins from the 1969,ASA Convention papers, is expected to be in bookstores by February 1, 1971. 3. The invitation of Bethany Nazarene College, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to host the 1974 Annual Convention, was accepted. (Jack McIntyre won a round! Oklahoma City is definitely south of the arctic circle.--Ed.) Other invitations were received from Abilene Christian College, Abilene, Texas; Evangel College, Springfield, Missouri; and Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin. 4. Financial arrangements for the Bedford Center writing project were agreed upon, with the understanding that ASA will recover its $300 "seed" money before the editor-in-chief or authors receive any royalties. Editor-in-chief is Dave Lobers; principal authors named so far are Charles Hatfield, Wait Hearn, Roger Shuy, and Kurt Weiss. 5. Elected as Emeritus Members, subject to their acceptance, were William Baxter, Wilfred Belleau, Oscar Brauer, J. Oliver Buswell, Jr., John C. Cothran, Cora Reno, W1111am Schn2rp, and Alf Swenson. 6. Subscriptions to the Journal of ASA will be given to 100 colleges that have not received the Journal before, for one year only. 7. Next Council meeting is scheduled for April 16 and 17, at the Tartan Tray Cafeteria in O'Hare Airport at Chicago. Major items carried over on the agenda include review of the 1970 financial statement, plans to increase ASA membership and financial support, proposals to remunerate editors of the Journal and ASA News, and an effort to secure a full-time paid Executive Secretary. (Addresses of Council members are on p. 1 of this issue, so you can comment on these items, or suggest new ones, before April 16.--Ed.) PERSONALS Phil Bays says we promoted him too fast in the last issue: he's just a new faculty member, not the chairman of the Chemistry Department at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. Further, he says the financial pinch at the college will make it necessary for him to take a premature sabbatical next year. He expects to be at Argonne National Lab in Illinois and would appreciate making ASA contacts there. Stan Block is on leave from Illinois Institute of Technology and has moved to Vancouver, B. C., for an indefinite period. He has accepted a position as Vice-Principal of Regent College, a young institution dedicated to academic excellence in an evangelical Christian context. Bob Bohon is manager of Special Research Services in the Central Research Labs at 3M Company in Minneapolis. At the ASA Annual Convention Bob told us about directing a youth musical, "Tell It Like It Is", with an ecumenical cast of young people from various Twin Cities churches. While he searches for another musical to do it again, we wish Bob would tell his experience like it was for HOW TO START SOMETHING in ASA News. Dick Bube is the kind of guy who can write not just one but two books during a sabbatical leave. Before he went back to full-time duty at Stanford University in September, Dick sent off manuscripts on Electronic Properties of Custalline Solids to McGraw-Hill and on Research and Revelation to Word Books. Not only that, the Bubes get their family Christmas letter mailed in time for Christmas! Steve Cassells of Tucson, Arizona, recently completed a study of artificial cranial deformation in a prehistoric pueblo, as related (negatively) to status. He will present results at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archeology, May 6-8, in Norman, Oklahoma. Steve is also trying to organize some local involvement in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, especially in Tucson high schools. Don DeGreaf is on leave from the University of Michigan at Flint until the end of June 1971, investigating new methods of teaching college physics at the MIT Education Research Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Herman J. Eckelmann is pastor of The Faith Bible Church of Ithaca, New York. He is also an electrical engineer employed as a research associate in Cornell University's Center for Radiophysics and Space Research. That's a great combination, since his church ministers primarily to Cornell students and staff. Robert C. Lehman is currently on sabbatical leave from Eastern Mennonite College, serving as research associate in the Department of Biometry at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Until his return to EMC next June, Bob will be working with Dr. Charles Stevens exploring the use of Hexamine as a possible treatment for cancer. Dennis PeEry is now a research associate at Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, Long Island, New York, working at the alternating gradient synchrotron. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle a year ago, with a thesis on "First Chance Fission of Actinium 228 Noclei and the Two-Mode Hypothesis." After that, he and wife Linda took a fantastic six-month round-the-world trip, including a month of study at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland with Dr. Francis Schaeffer. L. Evans Roth is chairman of the Biology Division at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Evans writes that their new building is big, bright, and bulging with biologists, fourteen new faculty having been added in the past few months. Their ecology group has located 3600 acres of tall-grass prairie suitable for a research natural area, and lacks only the $500,000 necessary to acquire it! D. Robert Short is executive director of the Alcohol Narcotics Education Association of South Dakota, in addition to serving as pastor of two churches near his home in Wessington Springs, South Dakota. He has given nearly 200 lectures on behalf of A. N. E. A. (besides two sermons a Sunday) and traveled about 4,000 miles a month. For over two years he has also been presiding over the orderly dissolution of Wessington Springs Academy, of which he was principal, in a merger with Central College at McPherson, Kansas. T. Norton Sterrett is now in Philadelphia, Pa., on furlough from student work in India with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students and the affiliated Union of Evangelical Students of India. He is spending his time working on a book of Bible interpretation for laymen. Aldert van der Ziel's new book on Noise: Sources, Characterization, Measurement came out this fall, published by Prentice Hall, Inc. Alder t is professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Henry Weaver, Jr., is back at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, acting as dean while the real dean acts as president until the new president (J. Lawrence Burkholder from Farvard Divinity School) arrives next July. Hank has great tales to tell of his Fulbright year at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal--from hunting tigers and rhinos on elephant to trekking into the hinterlands with wife Mary for eight days, walking with people who had never seen a wheel, let alone an automobile. Paul Wright, now teaching chemistry at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California, after retiring from Wheaton College, has more side lines than a circus has side shows. After Thanksgiving he flew to Glen Rose to meet with "Films for Christ" for a study of dinosaur tracks, where he also saw geologist Doug Block. Paul says the Evangel missionary airplane, to which he has contributed much design work, was certified by the FAA last July and is now being manufactured in a factory at Orange City, Iowa. NEW MEMBERS Alabama James Russell Lindsey 3644 Oakdale Road, Birmingham, Ala. 35223. Prof. & Chairman of Comparative Medicine; Assoc. Prof. of Pathology - Univ. Ala. Medical Center. DVM in Vet. Med; MS in Parasitology Path. Rank: Member California Terry W. Chin, 613 Deutsch Hall, 2650 Durant Ave., Berkeley, Calif. 94720. Student. Rank: Associate John Stephen Mustol, 5221 55th St., San Diego, Calif. 92115. Student at San Diego State College. Rank: Associate Robert Jefferson Bartholomew, 5306 Norwich, Van Nuys, Calif. 91401. Senior Engineering Specialist - Aerojet General Corp., Surface Effects Ships Division, Dept. 665. BS, MS in Engr., Math. Rank: Member Donald Leroy Grigsby, 437 West Queen St., #4, Inglewood, Calif. 90301. Member of Teclinical Staff-Physicist - Hugh Aircraft Co., BS in Physics, Math.; MA in Education. Ph.D expected in 1971 - also in Education. Rank: Member Charles D. Willis, 2490 W. Fir, Fresno, Calif. 93705. Self-employed Neuropsychiatrist. BA in Religion, Pre-Med.; MD in Medicine. Rank: Member Donald 3834 E. Pontiac Way, Fresno, Calif. 93726. Truck driver for United Distributors - a temporary job before taking further graduate studies. BA in Bible, History; BA in Geography; MA in Soc. Sci., Geography. Rank: Member Florida John W. Burgeson, 1143 S. W. 14 St., Boca Raton, Florida 33432. He works for IBM Corp., General Systems Division. BS, MA in Physics, Math. Rank: Member Illinois Al Boerema, 9600 S. Parkside, Oak Lawn, Ill. 60453. Student at Trinity Christian College. Rank: Associate Kansas Albert I. Martin, 10006 Linden, Overland Park, Kansas,66207. Sales Engineer for General Electric. BS in E. E. Rank: Member Maryland Ray D. Walton, Jr., Rt. 2, Box I A, Germantown, Maryland 20767. Chemical Engineer for U. S. Atomic Energy Con-imission, Division of Waste and Scrap Management. BS, MS in Chem. Engr. Rank: Member Massachusetts Thomas C. Dent, 30 Massachusetts Ave., Danvers, Mass. 01923. Assoc. Prof. in Biology at Gordon College. BAEd in Biology, Math., Phys. Sci.; MNS in Botany and Zoology; Ph.D in Botany. Rank: Member Michigan Gaylord 0. Ellis, 61 Bellarmiue Drive, Rochester, Mich. 48063. Mgr.-Hydrodynamic Units, Vickers, Division of Sperry Rand. Rank: Member Minnesota Arnrld Wayne_Sodergren, 1466 W. Larpenteur, St. Paul, Minn. 55113. Grad. student. DIU Irainee. BA in Zoology; MS in Biology, Microbiology. Rank: Member Thomas L. Goff, 1601 English, Apt. 302, St. Paul, Minn. 55106. Instructor at Bethel College and Seminary. BS in Biology, Geology; MS in Zoology, Botany, Paleontology. R ank: Member New Jersey Carol Lynn Bibighaus, 313 4th Avenue, Haddon Heights, New Jersey 08035. Student BS in Biology. Rank: Member New York Sister Loretta Koechel, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre, New York 11570. Asst. Professor - Chemistry at Molloy College. BA in Chemistry, Ed.; MS in Chemistry, Modern Physics. Rank: Member Donald Raymond Abb Lookout St., Lake Mohegan, New York 10547. Asst. Prof. of Biology at The King's College. BS in Biology, Chemistry; MS in Zoology, Botany. Rank: Member Robert A. Carr, P. 0. Box 67, Fillmore, New York 14735. Instructor in Math. at Houghton College. BA in Math, Sec. Ed., French; MSc.Ed. in Math., Sec. Ed. Rank: Member Pennsylvania Kermit John Riedy. 206 Ross Road, King of Prussia, Pa. 19406. Works for NahneY Bishop Inc., ka_lvern, Pa. BS in Chemistry. Rank: Member Susan Swieringa 2465 Wynneffeld Dr., Havertown, Pa. 19083. Grad. Assistant at Miami Univ., Oxford, Ohio. BS in Biology, Education. Rank: Member Kenneth E. Hartman, 3026 6th Ave., Beaver Falls, Pa. 15010. Asst. Prof. of Chemistry at Geneva College. BS, PhD in Chemistry. Rank: Member Rodney D. Ice, 2004 Bridle Lane, Oreland, Pa. 19075. Assoc. Prof. of Radiopharmacy at Temple University. BS in Pharmacy; NS in Bionucleonics, Anal. Chem.; PhD in Bionucleonics and Rad. Health. Rank: Member Texas Dr. Jack Cox, P. 0. Box 249, Borger, Texas 79007. Minister - University Heights Christian Church. BA in Religion; MA in Psychology; D. D. Rank: Member Ronald_Lynn Spross, 303 University Drive., College Station, Texas 77840. Grad. 3esearch Asst. at Cyclotron Institute, A&M University. BS in Physics, Math Rank: Member James H. Wright, 10602 Chevy Chase, Houston, Texas 77042. Professor of Law, Univ. of Houston, College of Law. BS in Physics, Math.; J. D., LL.M. in Law. Rank: Member Virginia Thomas John Elliott, Jr., 7804 Ariel Way, McLean, Va. 22101. Ensign U. S. Navy. BS in Physics, Math. Rank: Member Canada David Frederick Donevan, 276 Riverview Blvd., St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. M. D. Rank: Member SPECIAL NOTES 1. We urge that all members send their ideas to Dr. Groner for the National meeting to be held in Spokane, Washington August 17-20, 1971. 2. Again we urge members of the Affiliation to obtain a new member in 1971. Send your nominees to the National Office. 3. Do we need a new Commission structure? If so what should it be? Please contact the Executive Council. 4. There is a need for a full-time Executive Secretary for the ASA. This is under consideration by the Executive Council. Please send your ideas to the National Office.