NEWSLETTER
of the
AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION
VOLUME 20, NUMBER
1
FEBRUARY/MARCH 1978
HERRMANN TO COUNCIL; BUSWELL PRESIDENT
Robert L.
Herrmann, chairman of the Biochemistry Department of the School of Medicine
at Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been elected by the membership of
the American Scientific Affiliation to its five-member Executive Council. Bob replaces
-Jack W. Haas, Jr., of Gordon College, a chemist and the outgoing ASA president.
The council elects its own officers, who become the executive officers of the Affiliation. New president is James
0. Buswell III, Wheaton College professor of anthropology.
Vice-president is Dewey K. Ca enter, professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Secretary-treasurer is A.
Kurt Weiss, physiology professor at
the U. of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Okl homa City. Also on the council is
Howard H. Claassen, professor of physics at Wheaton College. Council members are
elected for five-year terms from among the Fellows of the Affiliation.
THINK HOPE ...
HOPE COLLEGE, that is, in HOLLAND, MICHIGAN. And think AUGUST 11-14, dates of the
1978 ASA ANNUAL MEETING. Think of the theme, "Christian Stewardship of Natural
Resources," and its significance in your life and the life of the world. Come find out
what others are doing out of Christian conviction to develop alternative energy sources,
recycle wastes, restore the environment, live sensibly, and help the less fortunate as
the world faces inevitable scarcities of energy and materials. Come share what you're
doing, or thinking of doing, or just thinking. Come with the family for a vacation
that could change the way your family lives!
Please respond early to the call for papers so the program committee can organize
appropriate sessions. In his keynote addresses, well-known evangelical theologian
Clark Pinnock will present a biblical foundation not only for the meeting but also for
the work our Affiliations must continue to do along these lines in the future. We
have both the spiritual "calling" and the technological "vocation"; we are the "longrunners" who must shoulder our stewardship responsibility long after "Earth-day" faddism fades away. If we do it together and do it faithfully, there is HOPE.
HOW TO RECYCLE SOMETHING No. 18
Howard Claassen has a serious proposal for the 1978 ASA ANNUAL MEETING to be held at
HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN, AUGUST 11-14. Howard wants to arrange a discussion
group on the topic of planning a community of homes that would conserve energy, use
renewable energy sources as much as feasible, and allow a maximum degree of recycling
of resources. Anyone interested in participating in such a discussion (whether already
a "doer" or still a "dreamer"), should write Dr. Howard Claassen, Dept. of Physics
&
Astronomy, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187.
An exciting feature of Howard's proposal is that as he looks forward to retirement
from teaching at Wheaton, he wants to turn the dream into reality. Therefore he hopes
that the initial, informal discussion at the 1978 Annual Meeting will lead to more
formal discussions later on, and that a group of people in ASA/CSCA will actually come
together to build such a community. Located near some appropriate university, it
might get contracts as a demonstration community; it might develop some kind of
specialized ministry or simply devote itself to stewardship of natural resources.
TURNING THE SUN'S ENERGY INTO MORE ELECTRICITY
Richard H. Bube, editor of the Journal of ASA, is trying to develop better solar
devices. He and a colleague, A. Stevenson, both of the Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University, are investigating the use of thin film
photovoltaic devices. Such devices are somewhat less efficient than single crystal
devices at converting sunlight into electricity but are potentially a lot cheaper to
produce.
Specifically, Dick is studying the electrical properties of the hetero-junction
formed when a film one or two microns thick is applied to a crystal substrate or to
another film. He and his students have produced a cell of 8% photovoltaic efficiency with a cadmium sulfide (CdS) film on a cadmium telluride (CdTe) crystal. The
CdS was covered with indium-tin oxide (ITO), a conductor, and an anti-reflection
coating. Experiments aimed at increasing the open circuit voltage could raise the
efficiency up to 17%.
Dick hopes that eventually both active compounds can be used in film form. Such a
system might sandwich CdS, CdTe, and ITO films between inexpensive glass or metal
Substrates. In some parts of the world where electrical power rates are much more
expensive than in the U.S., photovoltaic power is already competitive. A French
concern thinks it can supply irrigation power systems for isolated Nigerian farm
communities for $10 to $15 per watt, for example. The solar energy research at
Stanford has been supported by NSF-RANN, ERDA, and Stanford's Institute for Energy
Studies (IES). Our information is from The Stanford Energy Report of July 1977
(published by IES, Building 500, Room 500A, Stanford, CA 94305.)
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES EXPANDING
Charles B. Beal is a surgeon (M.D., Harvard, 1946) who thinks of himself primarily
as an inventor in the medical field. Once a medical missionary, Charles has since
been a technical advisor to the Peace Corps and a consultant to U.S. Aid to International Development programs in Africa. To put all his interests together, in 1970
Charles founded a nonprofit corporation in Palo Alto, California, called International
Health Services (IHS). Through IHS, Charles has worked with Ministries of Health in
several African countries toward developing maternal and child health programs.
Locally, IHS has also begun developing a health center for Spanish-speaking people.
In 1977 the organization began to expand, particularly in the areas of research,
education, and training. One series of projects would lighten doctors' loads (and
lower patient costs) by developing simple procedures for people to do at home, such
as taking throat cultures to determine the presence or absence of strepococci. IHS
is testing "appropriate technology" for health care in Third World Countries, from
safer alternatives than the common baby bottle for mothers who cannot breast feed to
simple but effective methods of mosquito control. On the educational side, IHS is
producing films, designing simple electronic devices for determining cardiac irregularities, developing disease recognition cards to teach symptoms of common diseases
in Third World countries, and inventing health games for children.
A lot more could be done if more funds were available. Some of IHS's newer efforts
have been made possible by CETA funds to employ and train new workers, administered
by the municipality of Redwood City, California. Charles says several grant proposals are "in the works." For more information, or to make an income-tax-deductible
contribution, write to Charles B. Beal, M.D., President, International Health Services,
2419 Pulgas Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94303
.HOW TO SERVE GOD OVERSEAS No. 5
(Continued from No. 4, here's the conclusion of the letter from Stanley E. Anderson
reflecting on his four years of teaching chemistry at Pahlavi University in Shiraz,
Iran. Stan's first two questions had to do with (1) sending the Newsletter overseas
via airmail rather than surface mail, and (2) helping technical people overseas prepare for "re-entry" by informing them of job openings here at home. Note that Stan
uses "nonprofessional missionary" to mean someone in a technical capacity not serving
under a mission board.
"(3) Are there better ways to go abroad than independently? Were we to go to Iran
again, we would try to be affiliated with a U.S.-based organization, be it a college,
university, industry, or government agency. We would also affiliate with a regular
mission board in the country as a field partner. Since we identified with the church
in Shiraz and their missionary efforts, that kind of affiliation was not important
for us; however, depending on the situation, such affilation could provide one with
the fellowship of experienced missionaries already in the country, as well as the
machinery and benefits of a regular mission board. There is something to be said
for the added motivation of accountability to some group for one's actions as a
nonprofessional missionary, in spite of the fact that one is earning one's own
support. The apostle Paul provides a good model for us.
"(4) How can nonprofessional missionaries be mobilized by the church for longterm
assignments more effectively? Language learning takes time and commitment, and someone on a one year sabbatical abroad cannot be expected to do much along those lines.
Yet cults like the Mormons see their opportunity quite clearly to send people out
for several years at minimal cost to the church.
"One idea several of us discussed at Urbana '76 was the exciting possibility of
Christian organizations like colleges or professional organizations (CMS, ASA?) or
businesses run by Christians hiring 11 extra people per department and continuously
rotating n people in and out of overseas positions. Since such people would be
hired by an overseas organization (e.g., a university), the project could be carried
out at little or no extra cost to the sending institution. Administrative costs
could be kept minimal by 'skimming' a percentage of the higher overseas salary
earned by such individuals abroad, or by going to the organization members or alumni
who might be very enthusiastic about that kind of project.
"Some obvious advantages of this approach would be that people on rotation could go
for short-term or long-term; they would have a job to return to when they came
back home; and as 'visiting professors,' scientists, etc., they would have the
prestige of their institution behind them. Most important they would have the
prayer and encouragement of a support group back home, which we believe is the key
to any successful ministry. The sending institution could absorb the extra people
over a number of years through natural attrition and retirements.
"There would also be benefits to the sending institution. For example, a Christian
college could directly or indirectly involve everyone on campus in supporting their
own members who were serving as missionaries at any given time. Alumni might respond
by increased giving; students would have 'models' of both Christian scholarship and
service; faculty could be stimulated both professionally and spiritually; college
administrators might be able to instill new purpose into what may otherwise be seen
by the Christian public as 'ivory-tower' education with little relationship to the
task of the church in reaching the world with the gospel. It boggles the mind.
11(5) How can traditional mission boards communicate more effectively with organizations like the ASA about opportunities abroad, allow people like me to relate
their experiences, and point out the pros and cons of this type of missionary work?
People act and are led by God on the basis of information.
"Perhaps these questions and observations from my own experience and that of others
will stimulate some creative thinking and service by our Affiliation members."
Wow, Stan has given us plenty to think about, all right. We'll be glad to keep this
discussion going in HOW TO SERVE GOD OVERSEAS. Any comments? Or if you'd rather
discuss these ideas directly with Stan, his address is Dr. Stanley E. Anderson,
Dept. of Chemistry, U. of California, Riverside, CA 92502.
JIM ASWIN'S STORY NOW IN PRINT
Many Newsletter readers know James G. Ashwin and bits of his story: how Jim left
Canada with his'PhD in physio-1-0gy years ago to teach at Ludhiana Christian Medical
College in India--and how in two short years his hopes and dreams of serving as a
medical missionary were devastated by a crippling attack of poliomyelitis. Now the
full story is being published in God's Mountain by James G. Ashwin.
The 124-page book describes the battle to save Jim's life at Ludhiana; the hasty
improvisation to repair the iron lung on which his life depended, with automobile
innertubes and a coupling from a railroad car; the miracle of the right people
being on the spot at the right time; the long haul against great odds and Jim's
reorientation to life in a wheelchair; the preservation of the vital core of faith
in Christ that accompanied Jim down from Himalayan heights into the valley of the
shadow. Now Jim stands on "God's Mountain," having experienced the trauma of disability and debilitating disease but also the spiritual power that overcomes
tragedy. An inspiration to other Affiliation members, Jim and his wife Myrtle have attended
several Annual Meetings.
God's Mountain, said by a reviewer to be both a realistic look at what missionary
service may cost and an encouraging testimony of faith, will be available from
Ludhiana offices: % Mr. H. C. Smith, Canadian Council of Churches, 40 St. Clair
Ave. E., Toronto 7, Ontario; or % Rev. Charles Reynolds, Room 250, 475 Riverside
Dr., New York, N.Y. 10027. The bookstore price is $2.95 but Jim says he'll have
copies to sell at a whopping discount to CSCA/ASA members, probably at something
like $2.25 a copy. Order from Dr. James G. Ashwin, 1450 Lexington St., Ottawa,
-Ontario K2C lR9, Canada.
HOW TO BE YOUR OWN COUNSELOR
A series of eight cassette lectures on that subject has been prepared by Mark Cosgrove
(PhD, psychology) "for the average Christian who seeks deeper insights into his or her own emotional and spiritual makeup." Specific topics
are (1) The Basis of Emotional Problems; (2) Solving Emotional Problems in Depth; (3) Building
an Adequate Self Image; (4) Dealing with Guilt; (5) Dealing with Depression; (6) Dealing with Suffering; (7) Changing Habits; (8) Loneliness and Monotony.
These cassettes are offered through Probe Ministries at $3.00 each or.$14.95 for
the whole set. Add 50q, for postage (and 5% sales tax if a Texas resident). Probe
is not equipped to invoice unpaid orders, so send check or money order to Probe
Ministries International, 12011 Coit Road, Suite 107, Dallas, TX 75251.
CHRISTIA14 PSYCHOLOGISTS GETTING IT TOGETHER
Craig W. Ellison, professor of psychology at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California, has been appointed general editor of a new series of scholarly works
on "Christian Perspectives on Counseling and the Behavioral Sciences." Harper & Row
has signed an agreement with the Christian Association for Psychological Studies
(CAPS) to publish approximately one book a year for the next several years. This
series is different from a series of supplemental, self-instructional courses
called "New Concepts in the Behavioral Sciences) published by Christian Academic
Publications, Inc. (3041 N. 70th St., Scottsdale, AZ 85251), although Craig Ellison
is also general editor of that series.
Meanwhile, CAPS and the Western Association of Christians for Psychological Studies
(WACPS) are considering the possibility of merging into one truly national association of Christian psychologists. WACPS has grown rapidly to a membership of over
400, mostly in the states west of the Rockies, in its four years of existence.
Some members think that differences in the theological statements of the two organization are significant. All members seem to agree that greater interaction of
CAPS and WACPS should take place whether or not full integration can be achieved.
A "SCHOLAR OF THE MONTH" CLUB, AND OTHER IDEAS
The scholars at Toronto's Institute for Christian Studies do their best to keep the
Reformation going. Ever innovative, they've now begun a subscription series that
distributes monthly academic papers the same way a mail-order book club distributes
more popular works. For a fee of $15, subscribers can order ten papers over as long
or short a period as they wish. The papers all try to exhibit a distinctive Christian perspective on the academic subjects with which they deal. Most of them will
arise out of the research and teaching of ICS staff, among whom are CSCA members
Hendrik Hart, Calvin Seerveld, and Bernard Zylstra.
For example, the first paper is by Hendrik Hart, on "The Impasse of Rationality Today:
A Precis." It treats the problem of logic and knowledge in current western thought,
suggesting a way out of the impasse using insights of Dooyeweerd, Dewey, and
Polanyi. As in most book clubs, though, you get a choice; the alternative this time is
"Christian Commitment and Scientific Theories" by W. Brouwer of the U. of Alberta.
Other papers will appear at regular intervals.
The Institute has sometimes been criticized, even in Reformed circles, for working
in too rarified an academic atmosphere. (one thing we admire about ICS is the
11up
front" way they acknowledge and respond to criticism.) One practical response
has been introduction of a new one-year curriculum leading to a Certificate in
Christian Studies. The program is at the graduate level, but a cut below the intensive M.S.- and PhD-equivalent programs already established at the Institute. The
one-year program is divided into three parts, featuring biblical, philosophical,
and cultural aspects of "A Christian Worldview."
A third indication of the Institute's attempt to make its resources available to a
broader constituency is a little pamphlet aimed at students, describing the ICS
"Campus Outreach Service." The pamphlet offers practical help for students at
secular campuses through books, papers, cassette tapes, bibliographies, provision
of speakers, organization of conferences, or help with curriculum materials for
"Christian Perspectives" courses.
For more information on any of these programs, or to subscribe to the series of
Christian academic papers, write to Dr. Robert E. VanderVennen, A.A.C.S., 229 College
Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1RC_(The~-Association for the Advancement of
Christian Scholarship is the parent organization that runs the Institute for Christian
Studies. The two have the same address.)
PHILOSOPHY AND ENGINEERING ETHICS
The National Endowment for the Humanities is funding a three-year project that will
pair 15 to 18 engineers with an equal number of philosophers to explore ethical
issues in engineering. The program begins this summer with special sessions at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, two weeks of ethics for the engineers and two weeks
of engineering problems for the philosophers, followed by a workshop week during which
each engineer-philosopher pair will develop a joint research project. A stipend of
$1700 per participant and project funds of up to $4000 per project will be provided.
For further information, write to Dr. Robert J. Baum, Director, Center for the Study
of the Human Dimensions of Science & Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, N. Y. 12181. Baum, a professor of philosophy at Rensselaer, is director of
the National Project on Philosophy and Engineering Ethics. (Thanks to Jack Haas of
Gordon College for spotting this item in C&EN.)
GEOGRAPHERS EXPLORE THE BIBLE
Gordon R. Lewthwaite, professor of geography at California State University, Northridge, reports that a special session "Geography and the Bible" will be held at the
74th annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New Orleans,
April 9-12. The session, scheduled for 8:10 a.m. Monday, April 9. at the Hyatt
Hotel, will begin with four presentations on "The Geography of the Bible" and conclude
with four on "Geopolitics and Military Strategy."
The session has been organized by Jonathan L. Lu of the U. of Northern Iowa and Ronald R. Boyce of Seattle Pacific University. One well-known participant will be
Denis Bayly of Kenyon College, author of The Geography of the Bible and co-author
of Atlas of the Biblical World, who will uss "The Historical Roles of the Great
Rift Valley." In the second half of the session, a paper by Ervin Y. Kedar of William
Paterson College will discuss "Battles on Biblical Lands in Geographical and Historical
Perspective."
ASA members in the New Orleans area may want to drop in on that session even if they
aren't geographers. For AAG general program information contact Dr. Robert West,
Dept. of Geography & Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.
CARBON-14 DATING BREAKTHROUGH?
Some months ago John S. Setchell, Jr., of Rochester, New York, sent us a newspaper
clipping about new developments in C-14 dating being explored at the U. of Rochester's
Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory in collaboration with groups from the U. of
Toronto and the General Ionex Corporation of Boston. The news story didn't give
many details but the general idea is an increase in sensitivity that would both
extend the useful range up beyond 50,000 years to maybe 200,000 years and permit
use of smaller amounts of sample, so that such artifacts as skull fragments could
be dated. (Maybe they're switching to mass spectrometry, since Dr. Harry Gove,
director of the Rochester lab, is quoted as saying that his new method detects all
the C-14 and not just the small amount "that happens to decay while you're looking
at it.")
According to Dr. Meyer Rubin, head of the U.S.G.S. radiocarbon lab in Washington,
if the method works on actual artifacts dated by other means, it "will be revolutionary." The method would enable scientists to test up to 20 times the number of
samples that can be tested with present techniques.
TWO NEW JOURNALS OF INTEREST
Two relatively new publications are trying to expand their readership by offering
discounts to new subscribers. One deals with archaeology, the other with missions.
The Biblical Archaeology Review, now in its fourth year, is intended to be an authoritative but popularly written account of new and old archaeological discoveries in
Bible lands. The blurb promises not only controversial articles by experts but even
color photographs. Regular subscription price for the quarterly is $14 but the offer
for new subscribers is a year for $9.75 (plus an extra issue if you send a check
with your order). Address: Subscription Dept., 3111 Rittenhouse St. N.W., Washington, D. C. 20015.
Even newer is Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research, beginning its second volume.
The spirit of the bulletin is both evangelical and ecumenical, with particular emphasis on what Christians in the Third World have to say about missions. The January
1978 issue features C. Peter Wagner on "How Ethical is the Homogeneous Unit Principle?"
and Uruguayan-born Mortimer Arias on "Contextual Evangelization in Latin America."
Regular subscription price for the quarterly is $6 but the offer for new subscribers
is a year for $3. Address: ' Occasional Bulletin, Overseas Ministries Study Center,
P.O. Box 2057, Ventnor, N.J. 08406.
OBITUARY NOTICE
We have been informed of the death of Oscar Leo Brauer of San Jose, California,
although we have no details. Oscar must have been 94 when he died, because back in
1958 when his career was described in JASA he was 74, and had already been retired
for three years as professor of chemistry and physics emeritus at San Jose State.
At that time his teaching career had spanned 40 years, including 28 at San Jose State.
He received his PhD at U.C. Berkeley in organic chemistry but had taught just about
everything, from engineering physics to freshman English. He was the author of a
high school chemistry text and was author or co-author of many other texts and
teaching aids. In his day there was little research emphasis at San Jose State, but
Oscar managed to "bootleg" some in. He was a member of ASA from its very earliest
days and an active member of a Seventh Day Adventist church. We're sorry to learn
of Oscar Brauer's death. (Richard H. Bube of Stanford passed the news along to us.)
LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES
1. Books. Claassen is to write brief note for the Newsletter on Newman & Eckelmann's
Genesis One. Sisterson announced members' price for Modifying Man, edited by Ellison
(papers from the 1975 conference on human engineering at Wheaton): $9.00.Price for
Wonderly's God's Time-Records in Ancient Sediments: $5.00.
2. Retirement Funds. (See Item 7 in minutes of 15 Aug. 1977.) On Sisterson's
suggestion, the following resolution was passed:
The Council shall, at its spring meeting each year, receive a report from each
employee that gives the percentage of the salary of that employee that has been
placed into an IRA account.
3. Relationship with CSCA. Sisterson reported his discussions with CSCA officials
at the CSCA Annual Meeting in Toronto. Relationships between ASA and CSCA are satisfactory. Douglas Morrison is taking on the CSCA administrative leadership. The CSCA
Council feels that liaison provided by Sisterson's attendance at their meetings is
adequate.
4. 1978 Annual Meeting (Hope College). Sisterson and Claassen reported on their
meeting with J. Sheaffer, J. Martin, and R. Brand of Sheaffer & Rollin, a Chicago
firm that designs energy-efficient and resource-recycling systems. Sheaffer suggested several demonstration sites that would offer excellent field trip possibilities. Sheaffer and Martin may both present papers at the meeting.
Program chair Griffioen will work with faculty members at Hope and nearby Calvin
College in planning the program. There is enthusiasm for scheduling ASA speakers at
local churches. Problems of the 1977 meeting were discussed, with the suggestion
that the program chair and session chairs make an effort to maintain high standards
in the papers accepted and insist on keeping rigidly to the time schedule for simultaneous sessions. Time is to be scheduled for special interest sessions.
5. 1979 Annual Meeting (Stanford U.). Possible themes and speakers were discussed.
Sisterson has received a suggestion that the theme be related to psychology, but he
requests further suggestions from the Council and from others.
6. 1980 Meeting (Midwest Year). Sisterson is to discuss with Robert Herrmann the
possibility of meeting at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
7. Life Membership and Capital Funds. Sisterson is to write a small number of
Members and Fellows to remind them of the Life Membership option. He may suggest
time payments over one year's time.
8. Appeal for Contributions. Haas and Sisterson are to write a letter to the membership appealing for funds around Dec. 1. About $6,500 in gifts is needed to
balance the operating budget.
9. Long-Range Planning for ASA. Sisterson's Appendix I presented two alternatives,
either to pull back and consolidate with our present membership and budget or employ
a new half-time person to help with the load of a membership growing at about 7% per
year. Council discussed the alternatives and reached a concensus that continued
growth is necessary to fulfill ASA's mission.
10. Travel Plan for Executive Secretary. Sisterson's Appendix II 'analyzed his
experience so far in visiting local sections, individual members, and prospective
members; and proposed a travel plan fitting in with projected 1978 goals for ASA.
Goals include visits to 40 groups of various sizes; net gain of 200 members (addition of 650 new members minus drops); 250 new JASA subscribers; 1,100 letters to
individuals; 300 in attendance at the Annual Meeting; 10 new Life Memberships;
$2,500 worth of back issues of JASA sold. Council passed the following resolution:
We consider the performance goals for Sisterson listed on p. 3 of Appendix II to
be excellent, and we believe that meeting all these goals in 1978
would constitute superlative performance by our executive secretary.
Weiss suggested more recruitment on secular campuses, having encountered many students propagandized by ideas of flood geology who might appreciate ASA publications
and other contacts.
11. Salaries. After discussion in Sisterson's absence, the following increases
were adopted for 1978: Sisterson's annual salary to increase by $750; Parker's by
$400.
12. Slide-Tape Presentations. Council watched the slide-tape presentation on
"Astronomy and the Creator" prepared by P. Arveson, commented on it favorably and
suggested it could be used under ASA auspices. The slide-tape show being prepared
by the Chicago section is to be presented before several local church groups to get
their reaction before it is shown to the Council in March.
13. Budget. Sisterson's Appendix III, proposed budget for 1978, was discussed and
approved with two changes (adding $500 for travel to Item 8 and the salary increases
to Item 1.) Amended total is roughly $71,200. In reply to question about Lakeland
Press costs for printing JASA, Sisterson replied that they are less expensive than
other printers contacted and do a good job. Council members suggested that a small
ad in Christianity Today be run from time to time, that colleges be urged to encourage senior science majors to join ASA, and that the suggestion be made from time to
time that members move toward committing 1% of their income to ASA needs.
14. Vacation time. Council-voted to increase vacation time for Parker from 2 to 3
weeks when she has completed 5 years of service.
15. Foreign ASA-related Groups. A group in New Zealand has inquired about a special
membership category for them at a discount rate. Council was delighted to learn of
their interest, and although agreed that ASA is not yet in a position to give them
the kind of financial help requested, we can make JASA available to them at a group
rate that would cover our printing costs, roughly $5 per subscription. Council
instructed Sisterson to encourage the New Zealand group to form its own organization
and to offer similar Journal rates to groups in other countries.
16. JASA Reprint Collections. After report from Haas on his replies from 5 colleges,
Council concluded that a market exists and agreed to proceed with one or more collections. Topics recommended are (1) origins; (2) sociology; (3) general overview
of science/faith questions. Council decided to produce a set on origins, about 80
pages long, to be edited by David Willis, who agreed to do so in a phone call. Haas
is to write to Willis with more details, the first volume to be ready by May 1 so
that teachers may order for fall. Cost of printing to come from the reserve fundi
with the expectation that sales will recover the costs. Further financial details
deferred to March Council meeting.
17. S Set for March 3 & 4, beginning Friday noon.
18. Council Officers. Appreciation was expressed to Haas for his 5 years of service and one year as president. Carpenter retires at end of 1978 but was not willing to be elected president. Officers elected were: president, Buswell; vice-president, Carpenter; sec-treasurer, Weiss.
19. Prospective New Fellows. Sisterson is to write to a few nominated last year who did not respond to request for information. Additional nominations by the Council for Fellow status are: Gareth Jones, Kenneth Lindley, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Dan Wonderly, and Davis Young. Further names to be proposed in March.Howard H. Claassen, Secretary
PERSONALS
(Late news flash: about 18 months late, in fact! A folder of items for the Newsletter has mysteriously turned up, full of mail dated July 1976. The "news" is dead
by now but we wouldn't want to hurt anybody's feelings who went to the trouble to
return one of our pink PERSONALS postcards. So here's what was happening back in
1976: William Cole of Wabash, Indiana, had published an article in a journal of the
Brethren Church on "how we know God is speaking to us." Barbara Fictenburg of Detroit
`Michigan, had taken
Dick Bube's course at Regent College. Donald Piel of Penns Grove,
N.J., had just begun working at a B.F. Goodrich PVC plant. Clinton Tatsch of University Park, Pennsylvania, was getting ready to
move back to the Triangle area of North Carolina. Judi Zink of Arlington Heights, Illinois, had graduated from Bowling Green
State U. with honors in psych and sociology and had joined the staff of Seekers, a
Christian group of college-age people in N.W. suburban Chicago. Timothy Johnson was in Luling, Texas, but didn't have any news. I wonder where they are now. (And
I wonder who that new associate pastor of the lst Church of God in Washougal, Washington, was who didn't sign his name.--Ed.)
V. Elving Anderson, professor of human genetics at the Dight Institute of the U. of
Minnesota and former ASA president, is chairman of the Science and Society Committee
of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society of North America. At Sigma Xi's 1977
annual meeting, the committee was made one of the organization's standing committees
in recognition of its important role.
Frank W. Barbehenn is a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary (MAR degree) now
working toward a Doctor of Arts degree in psychology at Lehigh University in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania. Frank is deeply interested in theoretical implication of a biblical
world-and life-view for the issues of psychology, hoping eventually to teach.
Gordon R. Bear of La Canada, California, is the new executive director of the Salvation Army's Family Service Dept. and Manhattan Project in the Los Angeles area. He
is also a curriculum consultant in the Dept. of Sociology & Social Work at Azusa
College and a board member of the National Association of Christians in Social Work.
In fact he is presiding chair for the 1978 NACSW convention to be held in Phoenix,
Arizona, Mar. 30 to April 2. Gordon, a native of Illinois, has a bachelor's degree
from Bethel College and an MSW from the U. of Illinois. He has directed several
children's homes in the past. The "Manhattan Project" consists of three residential
facilities for teenagers with emotional and behavioral problems.
Ormond M. Brewster is back in Guelph,-Ontario, after working as a locum surgeon (locum
tenens, L, "holding the plac6," i.e., temporary) in the Duncan Hospital,
Raxaul, Bihar, India. In addition to surgery, 0. M. taught doctors and nurses and
participated in the spiritual work of the hospital, "a most rewarding professional
and Christian experience." On the way home he spent a week touring Mepal and
visiting missionary friends.
Wilbur L. Bullock is back in the Dept. of Zoology at the U. of New Hampshire after
a sabbatical spent in Costa Rica. He spent most of his time working with fish parasites at the Universidad de Costa Rica but also spent two weeks at a rural dispensary in Rio Naranjo run by Latin America Mission. The dispensary, staffed by two
nurses, provides the only medical care for a huge area. Wilbur made a survey of the
intestinal parasites of over 400 children in surrounding towns, a "fantastic opportunity" to do some practical parasitology to aid in more effective treatment--and
to enrich Wilbur's teaching later on. "It was a challenge to do microscopy without
electricity except for penlight batteries or a car battery, and to stain slides by
candlelight!" Wife Ceil and daughter Judy also had adventures, Judy not only mastering Spanish but teaching English in the Colegio Monterrey. qn their 12-day trip
home the Bullocks visited Mayan ruins and then stopped off to see anon. (from
their home church), who teaches anthropology at the Summer Institute of Linguistics
jungle camp in Chiapas, Mexico.
Ann Church of Southfield, Michigan, is also about to see anon.. Ann, who
received her B.A. in anthropology at Wheaton College in May 1977 and has studied at
the Summer Institute of Linguistics at the U. of North Dakota and at SIL's Linguistics
Center in Dallas, is headed for the 3-month training program at the Chiapas (Mexico)
Jungle Camp. After learning to survive in the jungle, Ann will work as a translator
somewhere in the world, first reducing an aboriginal language to written form and
then translating Scripture into that language.
Molleurus Couperus, M.D.., has moved to Pacific Union College in Angwin, California,
where his new home in the forest was to be completed in January. Molleurus resigned
his post as chairman of the Dermatology Dept. at Loma Linda University Medical School
in order to have more time for writing. Molleurus is editor of Spectrum, scholarly
periodical published by the Seventh Day Adventists.
J. Lynn Currie left his position as research analyst with the Illinois Dept. of Public
Aid after receiving an M.A. in psychology from Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois. Lynn is still in Springfield, now employed by CETA (Comprehensive
Employment and Training Agency) as an intake interviewer.
Paul M. Doriani of Erie, Pennsylvania, is now an organizing pastor for the Presbyterian Church in America.
Sam Elder is professor of physics at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Following a 100-year-old tradition begun by Michael Faraday, the Academy sponsors an
annual Christmas lecture open to the public. The 1977 lecture was given by Sam,
assisted by his wife Sylvia and four musically talented daughters, age 12 to 19, on
the topic "Music, Physics, and Just Plain Fun." Sam's professional specialty is
acoustics, which accounts for the piano, several ranks of organ pipes, and a
music generating computer in his lab. Sam was a prime mover in establishing the Evangelical
Presbyterian Church of Annapolis some years ago, and now is equally active in planting
an EPC mission church in Severana Park, about 12 miles north of Annapolis. (Thanks
to Glenn Kirkland of the Washington-Baltimore section, for the scoop on Sam.)
Alan C. Elliott is a graduate student in the Dept. of Statistics & Biometry at Emory
University in Decatur, Georgia. Alan strongly recommends that ASA/CSCA members
develop friendships with each other through correspondence. A year ago, noticing
the list of foreign members, on an impulse he wrote to Andy McMullon in England,
discovered that Andy was also a student and that the two couples were about the same
age and had many interests in common. Now they're good friends and feel they have
learned a lot from each other. Alan also recommends Francis Schaeffer's book How
Shall We Then Live, as well as the film series with the same title.
John B. Enns is now a graduate student in chemical engineering at Princeton, after
spending two years as a research assistant at Midland Macromolecular Institute.
John is interested in the physical properties of polymers, especially transition
phenomena, with five papers published in that field in the last two years. He'll
present another paper at the regional ACS meeting at Seton Hall in March. John and
wife Mary Lou enjoy both the academic and the spiritual fellowship at Princeton.
Ronald M. Enroth, professor of sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, was author of an article entitled "Cult/Countercult" in the Nov. 1977 '
Eternity. Ron says his book, Youth, Brainwashing, and the Extremist Cults (Zondervan, 1977) is
in its third printing since May. He has found his research and writing surprisingly
well received in the Jewish community, as many young people from Jewish backgrounds
have become involved in cults like the Unification Church. Ron's ministry has thus
expanded in an unexpected direction.
George Fielding of Alexandria, Virginia, is a chemist at the U.S. Naval Research Lab
in Washington, D.C. George and wife Grace are the "golden oldies" of McLean Presbyterian Chruch, now becoming active in jail ministries. This past year the Fieldings
visited their son Ed and his wife Margy in Toronto, co-directors of the Patmos Gallery,
an art gallery established by Christians to encourage Christian artists. (Thanks
again to Glenn Kirkland, our "agent" in the Washington-Baltimore local section.)
Lanny H. Fisk is currently on a postdoctoral leave of absence from the Dept. of Biological Sciences at Walla Walla College (Washington), doing further work with Dr. Auriel
T. Cross at the Dept. of Geology at Michigan State in the field of paleobotany. Lanny
completed his doctoral dissertation in June 1976 on fossil pollen and spores from the
"fossil forests" of Yellowstone National Park. He has presented his results at several
meetings, including the 25th International Geological Congress in Sydney, Australia,
and the 4th Intl. Palynological Congress in Lucknow, India.
Robert N. Goethe
of
Prince George, British Columbia, is on the staff of Inter-Varsity
Christian Fello ship of Canada. He graduated from the North American Baptist Seminary
in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
W. Mack Goldsmith, professor of psychology at Stanislaus State in Turlock, California,
thought he might be the only Christian participant in a symposium on "Teaching the
Psychology of Values and Religion" to be held at the American Psychologieal Association meetings in Toronto in August 1978. Then he saw a copy of the program and
recognized two of the six participants as ASA members H. Newton Malony of Fuller Seminary and
Gary R. Collins of Trinity Divinity School.
Hendrik Hart, first senior member of the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto,
participated in ICS's 10th anniversary celebration on Oct. 29, 1977, with a speech
entitled "After Ten Years: Reflections on Spiritual Unity." Hendrik also spoke in
Vancouver recently at a study conference on the practical applications of philosophy.
He gave talks at Regent and Trinity Western Colleges and also in other cities of B.C.
Peter Hyde teaches computer science at Odessa College in Odessa, Texas, as the only
full-time faculty member in a growing department. In his spare time he plays cello
in the Midland-Odessa Symphony Orchestra. Last summer Pete took some graduate courses
at Texas Tech in Lubbock, and may decide to work toward a doctorate there if a fellowship can be arranged. Pete has spent some time with Wycliffe Bible Translators in
Mexico, helping these linguists learn to speak "computer" to handle some of their problems. Pete, originally from Norwich, Connecticut, has learned to enjoy the west Texas
plains.
William R. Klinger was chosen by the Marion College student body as Professor of the
Year for 1977-78. Bill is associate professor of mathematics and coordinator of the
Dept. of Mathematics at Marion College in Indiana.
David Lang is a graduate student and research assistant at the U. of Maine in Orono.
David is working on the role of cytokinin in tuber initiation.
James A. Manganello is helping to establish an outpatient health center to be sponsored by Grace Chapel in Lexington, Massachusetts. The center is committed to providing health care that integrates theological, psychological, and medical aspects.
Jim has one colleague in the venture, Dr. James Dill, an internist with a special
interest in psychosomatic medicine. Anyone interested in providing input or inquiring further about the new center should contact: Dr. James A. Manganello, Grace
Chapel Health Center, Worthen Road, Lexington, MA 02173.
Jerry W. Park is now a first-year student at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic
Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. Jerry joined ASA as an undergraduate at WarnerPacific College.
Robert L. Plapp has just completed a two-year residency in oral pathology at Emory
University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Joni B. Resnick is a graduate student in the Dept. of Biological Sciences at Drexel
University in Philadelphia. Joni says she was intrigued by Ed Karlow's math problems
in HOW TO START SCHETHING (Oct/Nov 1977 issue) but says he got one equation wrong: he
shouldn't have equated Sunday with the Sabbathl
David S..Shaw, *ith wife Sherrill, is at the New Tribes Institute in Fredonia, Wisconsin. They're taking the "boot camp" training program, emphasizing Bible study,
spiritual growth, and physical work, to be followed by two or three more semesters
of foreign language, linguistics, and general studies at the New Tribes Mission
language school. The Shaws' goal is to minister the gospel of reconciliation to one
of the 300 unreached tribes along the Sepik River of northern Papua New Guinea, and
they ask our prayers in support of that goal.
Kerry Sieh, who received his PhD in geology at Stanford in August 1977, is now an
assistant professor of geology at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Kerry is studying the geological evidence of large earthquakes along the San Atideass
fault in an attempt to determine how frequently great earthquakes occur--and how
regularly. (Since the Newsletter editor lives right an top of the Hayward fault,
we hope Kerry's efforts to assess seismic hazards are successful and helpful in
11saving life and limb," as he put it.--Ed.)
John H. Stoll has moved from teaching Bible and theology at Grace College in Indiana
to become a psychotherapist at the Center for Christian Psychological Services in
Roseville, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. In addition to private counseling, John
holds counseling seminars in churches to help Christians do a better Job, holds Bible
conferences, and does preaching, speaking, and some part-time teaching. John's
pamphlet, "Is the Church's Formula Upside Down?" encourages lay ministry in evangelism
supported by more advance Bible teaching by pastors.
Leland H. Williams has returned from the Edinburgh Regional Computing Center in
Scotland to his position as president and director of the Triangle Universities
Computing Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Irvin A. Wills is back in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, after teaching high school biology
and general science in the Iona Schools, Tower Isle, J - ica. Irvin says this is his
second retirement, the first one being from John Brown University in Siloam Springs.
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