NEWSLETTER

of
THE AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION

VOLUME 17, NUMBER 3  JUNE 1975

ANNUAL MEETING SET FOR SAN DIEGO, AUGUST 15 - 18,1975

The 1975 Annual Meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation will be held at the University of California at San Diego. By now all members should have received registration information for the meeting. If you want another copy of the registration information, just drop a note to the Elgin office.

At this year's meeting we will have an official invited program dealing with the question: "What Is Man?" In addition we will have a number of papers given that are not related to the main theme. These papers will be given during two open afternoon sessions. There is a good variety of papers as I am sure you can tell from the program materials you received. Plan on joining us this year in San Diego.

DEADLINE EXTENDED ON ICHEFM CONFERENCE

There is still room available for the International Conference on Human Engineering and the Future of Man. As a results the deadline has been extended until all the space is utilized. This conference is scheduled for July 21 - 23 at Wheaton College. The main speakers include Donald MacKay (author of The Clockwork Image and Mark Hatfield, as well as several distinguished scientists. There will be a heavy emphasis on delegate participation so this conference represents an excellent opportunity to explore and understand this important theme.

There is still room for at least 50 registrants, so if you act soon you should still be able to come. In case you don't have the folder we sent you on this conference you can register by sending in your name and address with the registration fee of $60.00 to : Registrar, ICHEFM, 5 Douglas Ave., Suite 450, Elgin, IL 60120. Please indicate if you want housing at Wheaton College or not ($7. per night for single, or $4.50 per night for double).

HOW TO SOLVE OUR INSOLVENCY PROBLEM

All the worthy organizations we know of seem to be in financial difficulties. Several Christian groups have sent out hints that the 1974 federal income tax rebate would make a nice gift to the Lord's work. Somehow effortless giving like that conjures up a picture of the Israelites leaving a tip on a rock in the desert after
"feasting on the manna from a bountiful supply." Here are some serious solutions to our own problem in the ASA:

1. Executive council sent a letter to all members on April 14 describing ASA's needs and opportunities. The council points out that if each of us (2,400 members) would recruit one new member, our financial problems would be solved. Dues from a total membership of 3,500 will virtually cover all operating expenses on a sustaining basis. For the immediate crisis, an average contribution of $5 from each of us would take care of the coming year's anticipated deficit.

2. Bill Sisterson, ASA executive secretary, has made as many cuts in operational costs as he can in a time of inflation, but the fact is that ASA has always been budget-conscious. Bill is now doing more writing and speaking to increase the effective outreach of ASA, turning over any honoraria to the ASA treasury. (A very good piece on ASA in the current HIS magazine should attract more student members.) Bill and Pat have also responded to the Hearns' challenge this year (see #4).

3. Harold Hartzler, former executive secretary, originated the ASA "100 Club" of supporters who give $100 a year beyond their dues. Approximately 60 members have had a part in the "100 Club" for at least one of the past three years. Harold's original dream of 100 members of the Club on a regular basis would sustain us and open up new opportunities. Harold also remains one of our most effective recruiters of new members.

4. Walt Hearn,, impecunious editor of ASA News. has decided it's time for some of us to declare where our heart is and put our money there. With lots of Christians able to support more general Christian causes, the relatively few of us whose witness is in the field of science need to "get our act together" ourselves. Walt urges every ASA member to pray about giving half of his/her tithe to the ASA. If our Affiliation were on its feet and expanding its service to Fbe Christian community as it should be, that part of our tithe would be plowed back into the work of the churches just as surely as if given to a church or evangelistic organization in the first place. We surely have some members with salaries over $20,000 a year, but for a $10,000 salary, half a tithe would be $500 a year. Walt and Ginny's income is considerably less than $10,000, and unpredictable, but to get this started, they've pledged to give ASA $500 a year (beyond their "100 Club" contribution) as long as the ASA needs it and the Hearns have any income. (It's one way to stay in the zero income tax bracket. Who needs the B-1 bomber?)

5. 0. Carroll Karkalits issued a challenge to all ASA local sections on May 16 in the form of a le ter from "THE GULF-SOUT1WEST SECTION AND THE STATE OF TEXAS." With true Texas braggadocio plus some Louisiana lagniappe, the Gu ' if-Southwest Section has already started raising $1,000 to bail out the national office, suggesting that any section that can't do that well doesn't qualify for the Big Leagues. "Corky" Karkalits has asked Bill Sisterson to allocate all 1975 contributions (beyond the 100 Club) to a local section, allowing each section to include adjacent, unclaimed territory as part of their contributing area. Gulf-Southwest has already laid claim to all the 100 ASA members in Texas and sent out a letter to spur them on. And who ever heard of a poor Texan--unless he'd just drilled a dry hole? (You're on, Gulf-Southwesterners! But look out--for one thing, there are lots of ex-Texans spread around the country (cf. #2, #4, above). Us California prunepickers may just bulldog you flea-bitten longhorns!)

COME TO LEXINGTON, WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

Robert L. Herrmann calls our attention to a series of monthly Sunday evening lectures at Grace Chapel, Worthen Road, Lexington, Massachusetts, proceeding throughout 1975. Called Century Three: An Evangelical Design, the series will be published by Inter Varsity Press with distribution for the National Bicentennial year of 1976. The
Century Three Committee hopes that these twelve challenges to stand up and face important issues will bring to evangelical Christians a spirit of dedication and commitment akin to that which rose from the historic confrontation at the Lexington Battle Green on April 19, 1775.

Century Three speakers include Senator Mark Hatfield on "The Christian and Government," Walter Trobisch on "The Family," john R. w. Stott on "The Church," and Elisabeth Elliot Leitch on "The Christian and the Arts." Besides the lecture.series, interdenominational Grace Chapel is expanding its ministry at Lexington's "Old Belfry Club," a recreational center only a block from the Battle Green. Teams of lay people are being trained to provide hospitality, services, and spiritual help to all who stop by. During the tourist periods of the Bicentennial celebrations, an estimated 6,000 visitors a day will come to Lexington. A Christian presence will be there to greet them.

Bob Herrmann, a member of the Century Three Committee, invites all ASA members in the vicinity to come to the July 13 lecture on "The Christian and the Sciences" by Walter Thorson, former professor of chemistry at M.I.T. and now at the U. of Alberta. The lecture will present "an historical perspective of the way in which science has affected our faith and our culture--positively by changing the theological perception of the world from the medieval 'papier-machA' form to a real one, and negatively by allowing its own worship with the end result of man as a machine."

Bob is planning a whole weekend around Walt Thorson's visit, including a Monday breakfast or luncheon to explore the subject in a discussion format. He's arranging another meeting to consider the topic of epistemology with interested theologians and philosophers of science. Walt Thorson has studied this area broadly and deeply, putting some of his thoughts into an article in the IFES (London) theological journal Themelios, #5 (2), 27-39 (1968), entitled "The Concept of Truth in the Natural Sciences." An informal cookout is planned, followed by an evening lecture and discussion on the Saturday preceding the talk at the Chapel.

For more information, including a copy of Thorson's Themelios article to bone up on in advance, write to: Dr. Robert L. Herrmann, Dept. of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, 80 East Concord St., Boston, MA 02118.

BIBLICAL STUDIES AT A TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Sir Sandford Fleming College is one of 22 colleges of applied arts and technology throughout Ontario. At its Lindsay, Ontario, campus this summer an experimental Summer School of Biblical Studies will be offered. The coordinator of the program thinks the need has been demonstrated by the fact that some 250 people travel to Vancouver, B. C., annually to take graduate biblical studies at Regent College.

One of the four (undergraduate-level) subjects, "The Biblical View of the Environment," will be taught by Regent's principal, geographer James V. Houston. Two ' - courses (Old Testament and New Testament) may be taken for credit toward the General Arts and Science Diploma. Term runs from July 2 to July 18. Lindsay is in a recreational area in a lake district. For information, address: Summer School of Biblical Studies, Continuing Education Division, Sir Sandford Fleming College, P. 0. Box 8000, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada K9V 4S6.

HOW TO START SOMETHING NO. 23. LELAND H. WILLIAMS

Our thanks and a dozen "Scientist's Psalm" greeting cards go to Leland H. Williams, president and director, Triangle Universities Computation Center, P. 0. Box 12175, Research Triangle Park, N. C. 27709. Many ASA members have experimented with appropriate ways to witness straightforwardly as Christians when they have a professional speaking engagement. Leland sends this report of his own recent experience:

"I am a visiting lecturer for the Mathematical Association of America. This year I felt led to add an additional dimension to my lecturing engagements. In addition to one or two lectures on mathematics (or computing) and several conferences with students and faculty, I have attempted to schedule an evening seminar entitled 'A Christian Perspective on Scientific Reality.' This, in effect, is my testimony as a Christian and it is directly related to my experience and understanding as a scientist. It is also sprinkled with the testimonies of other scientists who are Christians. The text for the talk is I Corinthians 1:20-21.

"My experience with thisfea has been varied. On one college campus where arrangements were made by a very sympathetic mathematics professor and where I was unable to make any other useful contact in spite of writing to five or six ASA members in the area, the audience included only two students and a half-dozen faculty members and wives. On another campus where I was able to make contact with a Campus Crusade staff member who took over the organization and promotion, we had about 2a students and a very stimulating d1scussion.

"On yet another campus where I was necessaftly dependent upon a mathematics professor from India (Sikh religion), his attempt to schedule the lecture through the college chaplain failed because a student strike was diverting all of the chaplain's attention. However, my desire to give the talk led to serious questions from the Indian professor and from a Chinese professor of mathematics. This gave me an opportunity for personal witnessing I would not otherwise have had.

"I recommend this idea highly to other Christians who have similar opportunities. My suggestion is to seek &cheduling and promotional cooperation from your science department host, local ASA members (look in your directory), and a student evangelical group such as Campus Crusade-for Christ or Inter-Varisty Christian Fellowship."

TIVENTY-YEAR MEMBER DIES AFTER ILLNESS

From Mrs. Grace C. Baxter we have learned that her husband, William J. Baxtert died .on March 29, 1975, after a long illness. Their home, Selah (from the Hebrew word found in the Psalms,. perhaps a musical direction but traditionally interpreted as a blessing meaning "forever") is in South Harwich, Massachusetts. We extend our sympathy to Mrs. Baxter.

William Baxter received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and was employed for many years by General Electric in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, as a specialist in technical information. He was a member of A.I.E.E. He had been a member of the American Scientific Affiliation since 1956 and an emeritus member since 1971.

MERRIFIELD SHARES MEXICAN ANTHROPOLOGY AWARD.

William R. Merrifield and Phillip Baer, both members of Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), were honored in March with an awarl-. from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History. The annual Fray Bernardino de Sahagun Award and gold medal were presented to the two for the best anthropological investigation by foreigners resident in Mexico. Presentation was made at the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City by Dr. Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran, Subsecretary of Public Education.

Merrifield and Baer were honored for their 281-page monograph, j!io Studies on the Lacandones of Mexico, which recounts the past 100 years of Lacandone history and describes subsistence patterns of these descendants of the ancient Maya. SIL published the work in 1971. A Spanish version was published in 1972 by the Mexican government's National Indian Institute. Part of the study is being made into a film by the University of South Florida, Tampa. The research was supported in part by a grant from the Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society. Phillip
Baer has done work among the Lacandone people since 1944.

Bill Merrifield -collaborated with Baer through Bill's capacity as SIL coordinator of anthropological research. His own research in Mexico has been primarily on the Palantla Chinantec of Oaxaca, where he began work in 1956. Bill has a bachelor's degree from,wheaton College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in linguistics and anthroPology from Cornell University. His headquarters are now at SIL's International Linguistic Center in Dallas, Texas.

WAYNE MEYERS TO A.F. INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY

Wayne M. HeXers will be moving his family in June from Hawaii to Washington, Do Co, where i~e will be at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Wayne has been appointed chief of the Division of Microbiology & Immunology in the Department of Infectious & Parasitic Disease Pathology of AFIP. Wayne, both an M. Do and Ph.D., has done leprosy research for the past two years at the Kailua Leprosy Atelier of the American Leprosy Mission, Inc. (ALM). ASA News (Oct. 1974) reported on Wayne's work with the diagnostic agent, lepromin.

From 1961 to 1973,Wayne served with ALM in Africa, including eight years as director of the leprosy service of the Institut Medical Evangelique in Kimpese. That's in the Bas-Zaire province, the narrow neck of land connecting Zaire to the sea. During those years the Kivuvu leprosarium changed from an asylum-type institution to a treatment center-with most patients-being cared for as out-patients in their home villages, and as a training center in leprosy care and control for Zairian nurses. That work continues under capable nationals and expatriates, extending further and further,- and Wayne-has kept in close touch with it. His lepromin research took him back to KiVuvu for several weeks last fall.

Wayne's wife (and secretary), Esther, filled us in on details of the Meyers family% four children ranging from 11 to 19 who miss all the animal pets they had in Africa. The "ungodliness and violence in the schools and in society in-general" in the U.S. was a great shock to them on their return. They all like the tropics and found Hawaii's climate delightful, (Alternating hot and cold in D.C. may be another shock to all but Wayne, still the Pennsylvania farm boy at heart.)

Esther Says her supporting role has been a fulfilling and happy one, adding, "We're very conscious of the Lord's good hand in all this, certain of His guidance$ and every day we see those small evidences which speak to a Christian of his Father's loving care and providing."

SEVENTY-SIX TROMBONES! HALLELUJAH1

In response to Robert Newman's comments in the Feb. 1975 ASA News on the "long day hoax" Paul R. Leiffer of Delran, New Jersey, sent us a copy of Chapter 13 from Harold ul-lis book How To Live Like A King's Kid (Logos International, Plainfield* No J., 1974). The chapter, "How to Find a Missing Day," recounts how a story told repeatedly by HUI before school-audiences was printed by a newspaper columnist in Indiana, then reprinted all over the country. Hill got thousands. of letters and calls asking for documentation. After all, his story claimed that NASA scientists had verified certain passages in the Bible by accounting for 23 hours and 20 minutes from Joshua's day plus exactly 40 minutes from Hezekiah's day. Hill began sending in reply a form letter containing his Christian testimony, plus a review of Charles Totten's 1890 book and a tract entitled "Did the Sun Stand Still?" (Copies of the form letter and book review are appended to the above chapter in King-!s Kid.) Hill says that an employee of a pagan periodical hung up on him when he tried to witness to her, and that later her publication printed a story saying Hill had admitted the whole thing was a hoax. Soon many religious magazines began repeating the "retraction" and apologizing for their original participation in the rerun of the article.

Paul Leiffer says that "while Hill may be faulted for not being able to substantiate details of names, dates, and places when the (NASA) work occurred, the picture that emerges is not that of a modern updating of an earlier hoax, but rather a circulating story which should have been either verified or stopped back in the early 1960s."

Here are some quotations from Hill's chapter:

'For the record-the-*report is true, the retraction false.. Conversions that have resulted from the Holy Spirit working through the original article, the letter, and the tract,. have demonstrated the truth of the word of God-'By their fruits.ye shall know them.'. God doesn't save people-through false reports...

"And my-inability to furnish-documentation of the 'Missing Day' incident in no way detracts from its authenticity. 'God said it-I believe it-that settles it...

"SO mY entire reliance is on God as my witness that it is all true as reported. King's Kids are reporters, not explainers. Hallelujah!"

HOW TO RECYCLE SOMETHING No. 12

Kitty litter as compost. Authoritative feedback on No. 11 from C. Brucesenger, M.D., of New Haven, Connecticut: "Cats are carriers of Toxoplasma gondii, and shed the parasites in their feces. Not much is known about the mode-of transmission of the parasites (or at least not much was known when my books were published, in the early '60s), but apparently: I)cate-can be infected from killing infected wild rodents, 2)people can be infected from infected cat feces, and 3) herbivores, are known to be infected. This last suggests that the parasites:. remain viable for some time on the ground. Anyhow, if a pregnant woman is infected, the parasite car. do devastating damage to the fetus."

Isn't ASA great? For every question we can think of, someone out there knows the answer! Thanks, Bruce. We'll keep our cats indoors, their feces well composted, our garden produce carefully washed-and our wife unpregnant!

Fabric, leather, rubber items. Our tennis shoes seem to fall apart before they wear out. I've recently discovered Goodyear's "Pliobond" liquid adhesive to glue the fabric back to the rubber. A 59,-, tube from Sears should-repair a life-time supply of sneakers. I used a C-clamp and small blocks of wood to exert pressure overnight after letting the sun's warmth also help the adhesive "cure." Waxed paper between clamping block and fabric would have been a good idea since the glue penetrates the porous fabric, but I managed to work the block loose with a pocket-knife blade. A backpacking friend says Pliobond is great stuff for repairing and waterproofing the seams of nylon tents, jackets, stuff sacks, etc., just flowed on and worked in without pressure. I plan to use it to keep a pair of leather work gloves in service, gluing a small leather patch (from an old glove or shoe tongue) over any hole that wears in the working surface. A waxed-paper wrapped stick inside should permit good clampinj for finger patches. For rubber hot water bottles, by the way, I've had good luck patching leaky pinholes with ordinary "Monkey Grip" innertube patches, cut small.

PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS

Steven Krogh Derr (Western Theological Seminary, Hollard, MI 49423. Tel. 616-3921096) seeks a position at a liberal arts college, teaching and doing research primarily in the areas of environmental biology and toxicology. He has a B.S. in biology from Purdue (1969), an M.S. and Ph.D. in entomology from Michigan State (1971 '72). In addition to working on various environmental research projects as an NDEA graduate fellow, Steve picked up experience teaching plant taxonomy, entomology, and analytical techniques. In 1972-74 he was chief environmental toxicologist for Bionomics, Inc., Wareham, MA, with responsibility for all research on invertebrates, supervision and administration of government contracts, and consultation with industrial firms such as DuPont and Colgate-Palmolive on waste disposal problems and experimental compound evaluations. In 1974-75 Steve has been a part-time biology instructor at Grand Valley State College while studying at Western Seminary and doing some field research at Hope College. He feels that his insights into philosophical problems facing today's biologists should prove valuable in relating to...students at a liberal arts college. Steve is 29, married, and has one child.

William H. Doerfel (1423 Lindale,,.St., Norman, OK 73069) seeks a position teaching physics, math, and/or Bible at a private college. He has a B.A. in physics from Lafayette College and an M.Div. from Westminster Seminary. Bill has served the past five years with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship.

,Monty Kester (517 North Madison, Siloam Springs, AR 72761) seeks a position teaching mathematics in an evangelical Christian college. Monty didn't send us a curriculum vitae, but we know he holds a doctorate and has given some thought to the relationship of mathematics to the Bible. With enrollment decreasing at John Brown University for three years in a row, the last person hired in the math department has to go--and that's Monty.

Joel B. Lantz (9 Brook St., South Windsor, CT 06074) desires a position in chemistry ~_ta'Ehristian college: teaching, research, or both. Joel's 1974 Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island was in physical/analytical chemistry. He would prefer the East coast but would consider relocating elsewhere.

John Wagenaar (Dept. of Psychology, Northwestern College, Orange City, IA 51041. Tel. 712-737-4821; Ext 29) seeks a position in university or college teaching. He has a B.A. in psychology from Calvin College (1967) plus a subsequent year of religious studies at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in religion and psychological studies from the U. of Chicago (1971,'73). His dissertation on B. F. Skinner and cultural implications of operant behaviorism served as a basis for John's paper, "B. F. Skinner, Human Nature, Culture, and Religion," to appear in Zygon: Journal of Science and Religion (June 1975). He has also submitted for publication some experimental work on response bias in questionnaire research into sexual attitudes. Since 1973 John has been assistant professor of psychology at Northwestern College. He lists Northwestern president Lars Granberg as one of his references and says that Dave Moberg recommended ASA News as a place to list his availability. John has t-aug-ht courses in behavior analysis, .history & systems, social, personality, and general psychology, and a seminar on psychology, and a seminar on psychology & culture. His teaching interests lie in both the scientific and humanistic issues in psychology.

POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE

Wycliffe Bible Translators has job openings for Christian teachers in their schools for missionary children around the world. "Wycliffe offers career opportunities with a real difference: small class size; interested, highly motivated students; a praying Christian faculty to work with, all part of the team committed to taking God's Word in the mother tongue to each group on earth without it. Wycliffe also offers short-term opportunities for educato*rsi'l- Contact Dr. J. Daniel Harrison, Superintendent of Children's Education, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Huntington Beach, CA 92648. Tel. 714-536-9346. (Received 2 April 1975. We gather that April is the usual "contract-signing" month, but check with Dan anyway to see if there are still openings, or apply for 1976.)

Roberts Wesleyan College in New York will have a part-time position available in September for a biologist. "We are interested in someone who either has a Ph.D. degree or is a doctoral candidate and whose primary teaching is in the general area of ecology. The position may include instruction in general biology, plant biology, ecology, invertebrate biology, and microbiology. At present we can offer only 5/8ths of a full-time assigranent.11 Contact Dr. Philip L4. Ogden, Chairman, Division of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, N.Y. 14624. (Received 12 April 1975)

Montreat-Anderson College in North Carolina is looking for an instructor in biology for the coming year. "Preference will be given to a person with a Ph.D.; our emphasis, however, is on teaching rather than research. I am very concerned to have the position filled with someone sympathetic to the orientation of the American Scientific Affiliation. Montreat-Anderson is a small liberal arts junior college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., seeking to recruit evangelical faculty members for every area of the staff." Contact Dr. John N. Akers, Dean, Montreat-Anderson College, Montreat, NC 28757. (Received 3 May 1975)

Warner Pacific College in Oregon has an opening for a Ph.D. in zoology with a major in anatomy and physiology, beginning in September 1975. Send vitae to Dr. Ludlow Corbin, Chairman, Department of Science & Mathematics, Warner Pacific College, 2219 SE 68th Ave., Portland, OR 97215. (Received 7 May 1975)

New Life Centers, Inc., a Christian residential child caring facility in Maine working with emotionally disturbed youth, is expanding its services and wishes to hire a Ph.D. psychologist to provide direct services to the facility's more disturbed children. (Contact with ASA News comes via Jack Haas of Gordon College.) Applicants should write to Dr. Lawrence F. Hames, Coordinator of Psychological & Social Service,~- New Life Centers, Inc., Limerick, ME 04048. (Received 20 May 1975)

Miami University in Ohio has advertised an opening in botany for September 1975, for a Ph.D. with interests in physiological plant ecology. "Primary responsibility will be ecological instruction at introductory, intermediate, and graduate levels, including doctoral study. Will be expected to continue or develop a regearch program." ,(This notice comes from history professor Edwin Yamauchi, alway's eager to attract evangelical faculty to his secular university.) Applicants should contact Dr. Kenneth Wilson, Botany Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. (Received 28 May 1975)

A private church-related residential treatment program for adolescent girls in New York City needs two qualified individuals: 1) Clinical directors: "Experience in program direction or direct services to adolescents desirable. Salary open."
2) Social worker: "M.S.W. required. Experience in direct services to adolescents desirable. Salary open." For either position, send resum6 to Rowland ' Shank. Ph.D., % Philhaven Hospital, Route #5, Box 345, Lebanon, PA 17042. (Received 1 Jun 1975)

Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA is a Christian university and seeks applicants who support the ideals of the university. Right now they have the following two openings: 1) PsychSj~ - The division is seeking a Ph.D. in experimental or clinical to teach in the undergraduate program. While courses may vary, the division has a particular need in statistics, assessment, and developmental. Rank is open, assistant professor to professor. 2) Political Science - The division seeks a Ph.D. or an M.A. with work toward doctorate to teach in the undergraduate program. Two thirds of the responsibility will be as a part of a team in a general education American government and history course. The other one-third may be in one of the following: public administration, comparative, or constitutional law and jurisprudence. Rank: instructor to assistant professor. (Received 23 May 1975)  Contact: Dr. John D. Nicks, Jr., Pepperdine Univ., Malibu, CA 90265

NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE

LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES

PERSONALS

C. Ivan Branton is still doing agriculture, only now he's planting trees, shrubs, and flowers around a new home at Waikoloa on the Island of Hawaii. In July 1973, Ivan retired from the Ag Experiment Station at the University of Alaska and he and Eileen moved to Florence, Oregon. They started building their Waikoloa home six months later and moved into it last October.

Richard H. Bube of Stanford University was available to speak at that March 22 ASA meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota, we discovered, because he was a Staley lecturer at Bethel College for the three days preceding. Mr. & Mrs. Fred F. Staley of Rye, New York, established the Staley lectures in honor of their parents: "Convinced that the message of the Christian Gospel, when proclaimed in its historic fulness, is always contemporary and meaningful to each generation, the Thomas F. Staley Foundation was established in 1969 to bring to the college and university campuses of America distinguished scholars who truly believe and who can clearly communicate to students." That's Dick, all right.

Edward J. Cairns, professor of engineering at the B.C. Institute of Technology in Vancouver, has been recovering from a rather severe heart attack that kept him under intensive care for a week. Ed, an Irish-born Protestant, later shared a hospital room with a Catholic brother in Christ and a third man, for whom they prayed and to whom they both witnessed. Leaving the hospital, the third fellow said, "I've come out of this illness with three new friends--you two guys and Jesus Christ."

0. Norman Carlson, Iowa State University metallurgist, is spending the 1974-75 academic year as guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany. Norm has lectured at labs in Belgium and Holland as well as in Alich, Karlsruhe, and Munster, Germany. He attended conferences in London, Geneva, and Karlsruhe, and will be in on a NATO Study Institute in Copenhagen this summer. Florence and London are their favorites out of all the cities Norm and Virginia have visited. Their youngest son, Richard, has spent the last five months with them after graduating from U. of Iowa law school. Norm says the Christian -church is very much alive in Germany and they have been grateful for the fellowship of many Christians in their area. Besides beautiful services and great music in European cathedrals, they have also appreciated a first-rate Bible study on Colossians led by a chaplain of a U.S. army base near Stuttgart.

Charles Connell says he's trying to finish off his Ph.D. work in chemistry at the U. of Washington in Seattle before it finishes him off. Charles, a cartoonist as well as a chemist, is moonlighting some art work for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial, a heart disease prevention program in San Francisco.

Curtis K. Deckert is now in Huntsville, Alabama, working for Abbott Laboratories on automated blood cell counting. He was formerly employed in the aerospace industry on a wide variety of engineering assignments. Curt thinks the move will be good for his family, who've always lived in California, but they'll be returning when the cej.-,. counting program is fully developed. When they lived in Placentia (Orange County), Curt served as an elder and as a director of a nonprofit outreach-helpline community organization called Alpha Center. The Center provided help for burdened people without cost but with a "spiritual plus."

Steven Krogh Derr has been attending Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, teaching biology at Grand Valley State College, and pursuing research at Hope College on nutrient uptake by marsh systems. Triple-threat Steve also had time to lecture at Calvin College on the Christianity/science dialog and publish a review paper on effects of pesticides and other toxicants on freshwater invertebrates. Daughter Gretchen Lynn, the Derrs' first child, was born April 19.

Gordon E. Fish is a third-year grad student in solid state physics at the University of Illinois in Urbana. His group is interested in the magnetic resonance of rare earth ions, particularly electron spin lattice relaxation and ENDOR. Gordon has run across a review article of possible interest to many ASA members: "Geologic Time Scale," by F. J. Fitch, et al., Reports on Progress in Physics 37, 1433 (1974), covering radiometric methods; primarily. (Gordon says some-of his friends at University Baptist Church remember when the ASA News editor was a grad student there, 25 years ago!)

Duane T. Gish of the Institute for Creation Research of San Diego, California, is Ea-rd Co keep track of as he argues against evolution at one university after another. At U.C. Berkeley on May 23 he drew a packed house in a large lecture room in the Life Sciences Building and a very favorable report in the May 27 Daily Californian.

Walter R. Hearn and wife Ginny discussed personal and professional ethics at the Western Leadership Conference for Christian Medical Society students held at Mt. Hermon, California, in April. Mike Garnett, U. of Oregon med student, gave us news of his uncle, Hendrik Oorthuys, professor of engineering at Oregon State. Hendrik has had trouble with a detached retina, but we gather has still been teaching this year,

,Charles E. Hummel, faculty specialist for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, travels to encourage faculty members in their Christian influence on students and in friendship evangelism with other faculty. In January the first statewide faculty conference held in Ohio attracted 41 participants from 12 colleges and universities. In February Charles spoke at an equally well attended first-time conference in Kansas, where Glen Zumwalt of Wichita University led a forum. In March Charles was on hand at the New England conference at which Alan Pense of Lehigh University spoke then spoke himself at the Central New York conference. He values the prayer and financial support of faculty for this new ministry.

Kenneth L. Hurst received his M.D. from the U. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in December 1974. From January through March he and wife Janice ( a nurse) and baby Kristin were in Manzini, Swaziland, Africa, for ten weeks of voluntary medical mission work. Ken's service was sponsored by Medical Assistance Programs, Inc., and by several churches in which the Hursts have been members. They are now living temporarily with family in Ephrata (PA) before moving to Williamsport (PA), where on July 1 Ken will begin a three-year residency in family practice at Williamsport Hospital. Ken is also a member of the Christian Medical Society.

David Kaar is a grad student in physics at the University of Illinois, another ASAer active at University Baptist Church. This summer he expects to be working at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory of U.C. Berkeley, hopefully on a coal research program.

Thomas H. (Harry) Leith of Atkinson College, York University, Toronto, gave one of two invited papers at the annual meeting of the Christian Scholar's Review editorial board in Chicago on May 3. It was something of ~ homecoming for Harry, who as a faculty member at Gordon College had once been an editor of ' The Gordon Review, predecessor to CSR. Harry's paper, "On Understanding the Geological Record" (his half of a debate with Duane Gish), was responded to by Walt Hearn and by Edwin Olson, new member of the board representing Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington. The other paper, "Evangelical Theology Needs Anthropology," was given by Charles H. Kraft of the School of World Mission, Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, California.

William R. Merrifield serves as international coordinator of anthropological research for the Summer Institute of Linguistics. At Bill's headquarters at the International Linguistic Center in Dallas, Texas, he is now planning the development of a Museum of Anthropology of which he has been appointed director. The Museum, for which working architectural drawings are almost complete, will house in-depth cultural exhibits of the "by-passed peoples who remain at the margins of 20th century life," among whom the 3,000 SIL language specialists work. The museum design itself will evoke the configuration of a jungle village, with individual galleries clustered around an open pavilion or gathering place, but walk-in village scenes will also be constructed in the wooded area of the museum site.

J. P. Moreland has been on the Campus Crusade for Christ staff in Vermont but is leaving the staff to attend Dallas Theological Seminary in Texas. He says that this year CCC reached some 6,350 students at the University of Vermont, out of a total of 8,000 on campus.

Patrick L. Nolan received his B.S. in physics from Caltech in 1974. Pat is now a grad student in physics at U.C. San Diego, about to begin research in X-ray astronomy this summer. (U.C. San Diego is a great place to be this summer, Pat, especially AUGUST 15-18, when the AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION holds its annual meeting there!)

Norman A. Ross is moving his family this month to Ponce, Pterto Rico, where he will be executive officer of the Naval Communications Station. USN Commander Ross has completed a tour as executive officer of the Naval Space Surveillance System in Dahlgren; Virginia. While there he gave a 20-week lecture series on astronomy at the Emmaus Schools in King George, a Christian home for tro4bled teenage girls. Norm's lectures emphasized real relationships between us and the celestial universe as opposed to imagined astrological influences.

Karen Searle has been accepted by Indiana U. Law School in Indianapolis, where she will study to become a patent attorney. She is already a patent agent with Eli Lilly & Co. Her husband, Richard Searle, a Ph.D. in psychology, is practicing as a counseling psychologist in Indianapolis after receiving registration by examination by the Indiana State Board of Examiners in Psychology.

Claude Stipe, Marquette University anthropologist, attended the Illinois-Wisconsin Regional Conference of Danforth Associates in Milwaukee in April. He says it's good to see more ASA members becoming Danforth Associates, who serve as low-profile contacts with students for Danforth Foundation programs. At the meeting were Richard Carhart (U. of I., Chicago Circle), Josep Spradley (Wheaton), Archie MacKinna (U.W., Madison), and Calvin Huber (U.W., Milwaukee). Claude led a discussion on "Race and Intelligence: Doe;'the Evidence Support Jensen and Shockley?" and Archie one on "Origins of American Radicalism."

'Roger J Voskuyl has moved back to Santa Barbara, California, where he was president Of Westmont College before going to Washington, Do C., for six years as executive director of the Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges. Roger is now working Part-time with his former Westmont development officer, who has established a consulting firm, George M.-Caswell and Associates. Roger is also thinking of doing some traveling abroad.

Richard P..Walters of Kentwood, Michigan, has several recent publications, including Lllary Response Following Statements at Three Levels on a Communication Scale," J. Clinical Psychology (Jan. 1975). Human Relations.Development: A Manual for Health Sciences, by Go M. Gazda, R. P - Wa lters, and W. C. Childers, was released by Allyn and Bacon of Boston in May. Richard says he would appreciate suggestions from ASA members for a project hets now working on and field testing: a course and handbook for training lay persons in basic helping skills (visiting the sick, ministering to the grieving, discipline within the church body, outreach, friendship, reaching the lonely, etc.).

A. Kurt Weiss of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, U. of Oklahoma Health Services Center in Oklahoma City, has recently edited a book on Concanavalin A, published by Plenum Press as Vol. 55 in the series Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Kurt is currently serving on the councils of both the Society for Experimental Biology & Medicine and the Gerontological Society.

John R. Wood received a B.A. in biology from North Park College, where he was introduced to ASK by Science & Math Department chairman E. James Kennedy. Now John and wife Cathy are back in their home state of Washing on, n E lensburg, working on an M.S. in biology. John has just received a two-year U.S. Forest Service contract to
study the impact of logging on macroinvertebrate fauna populations in two streams in the Wenatchee National Forest, high in the beautiful Cascade Mountains. John is also enthuiastic about a Sunday school class on "Issues and Answers" which he led, asking "What About Evolutign?" Theme of the class was I Peter 3:15--"Quietly trust yourself to Christ your Lord and if anybody asks why you believe as you do, be ready to tell him, and do it in a gentle and respectful way" (TLB).

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