NEWS
The
American Scientific Affiliation
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 5 October 1971
GETTING OUR KICKS
Right up
to August we expected to attend the 26th Annual Convention of the American Scientific Affiliation in Spokane. We planned to write a Convention story to
make you kick yourself if you didn't attend. Now the reports from correspondents
Jerry Albert, Dick Bube, Harold Hartzler, Jack McIntyre. Ed Olson, and Dave Willis
have been so enthuiastic that we ourselves have bruises- on the gluteus. Taking pity on our readers, we distill off the merest essence so you'll do yourselves no
harm. But start making your plans now for next August, when the ASA meets at YORK
UNIVERSITY, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA. Do your intellect--and your anatomy--a favor
in 1972.
THE WRITTEN AND THE SPOKANE WORD
Praise was lavish for program chairman ' Bob Groner and local arrangements chairman
Ed Olson. We don't know which one arranged for the weather but it was superb:
pleasantly warm days and dry, cool nights. And scenery? Ask those who took the
Grand Coulee Dam field trip--about Crown Point Vista, their lunch stop with its
magnificent panoramic view. Another "high point" was the public meeting that night,
with a beautiful Apollo 14 movie and discussion of "Man's Stewardship of the Earth"
by Whitworth College president Edward B. Lindaman. An Atomic Energy Commission
film, "Endless Chair", was also impressive, depicting the balance of life in an
arid environment and the effects, both good and bad, of man's intrusion.
The banquet on Wednesday night drew about 85 people to hear Art Harrison speak on
"Acclimatization: Holding Hands With God." Landscape architect Harrison had a
little trouble with the landscape that evening. His car mired hopelessly in soft
sand in the parking lot, right down to the transmission-requiring rope, tow chains,
two vehicles, and five people (all duded up for the banquet) to get him loose. We
dig you, Art!
H. H. H. UPSIDE DOWN IS STILL H H H
The "unplanned social hour" following the banquet got off to a topsy-turvy start.
When the program chairman called for those with talent to volunteer, who was No. 1?
Our No. I ASA member, Executive Secretary H. Harold Hartzler, who else? And which
of his many talents did he display? He strode forward, inverted his dignified
frame, and demonstrated his ability to stand on his head. That loosened up the
audience and brought forth a number of musical volunteers, which was probably what
the chairman had in mind.
Other tales told on Harold had to do with his luxurious beard and his uxorial
harem (Harold pulled a travel trailer behind his car, visiting National Parks along
the way and accommodating not only wife Dorothy but also her three sisters). Several other ASA "elders" also looked the part: president
Don Boardman and Journal editor Dick Bube both sported beards. John Howitt, however, eldest of them all,
remains as smooth of chin and rosy of cheek as ever. Other beardless oldtimers
included Brian Sutherland, Roger Voskuyl, and (naturally) Cordelia Erdman Barber.
Jerry Albert was a stand-in for Walt Hearn in the younger hirsute set. Sorely
missed were Irving Cowperthwaite, first secretary of the Affiliation, and Alton
Everest, first president (for 9 years) and editor of ASA News (for 10 years), both
faithful in attending past conventions; Irv was unable to attend at the last minute,
and Alton was busy in Hong Kong (see separate news item).
Dr. John Montgomery, Deerfield, Illinois, sent word to us of
a Christmastide Lecture Tour to Berlin and the Birthplaces of
the Reformation in East Germany. There was a tour similar to
this last year and we know some of our ASA members took advantage of it and had a wonderful time. THIS IS THE
LAST TIME THIS
,TRIP WILL BE OFFERED so if you are interested please make your
reservations before November 15, 1971. For further information
please contact:
European Program
Dept. of Church History
Trinity Seminary
Deerfield, Illinois 60015
The cost of this trip is $649, which includes meals & roams.
About the only extra cost to you would be passport, certificate
for smallpox, personal insurance and other minor incidentals.
RANDOM MEMORANDA
Jack McIntyre, who keeps pushing for an Annual Convention nearer his home base in
Texas, kept track of the geographical distribution of registrants. He thinks having
next year's convention in Toronto is a natural outcome of our "flirtation" with the
Canadian border (1968, Grand Rapids; 1969, Boston; 1970, St. Paul; 1971, Spokane).
At any rate, there were as many registrants from Canada as from the state of Washington. California had the largest number, with over half from the San Francisco
Bay Area. The Willamette valley of Oregon also turned out in strength. There were
only about 50 registrants but many more people than that because so many brought the
family for a vacation trip.
Among the Canadian delegation were several members of the faculty of Regent College
in Vancouver, B. C.--including James H. Houston and Carl Armerding, who presented
papers on the program.
John T. Chappell probably gets the prize for coming the longest distance to this
convention, or any other convention for that matter. John, who has a Ph.D. in
chemistry and has been a member of ASA since 1943, is president of Sheng-Te Christian College, Chungli, Taiwan. Still going strong at 80, he is now writing a chemistry text with historical and philosophical overtones.
Publicity at the local level was expertly handled by the Whitworth College public
relations office. An invitation sent to Spokane churches on August 11 helped attract
about 30 people from the community to the public meeting. Pre-convention stories
appeared in the Spokane Daily Chronical and the Spokesman-Review, and each newspaper carried a story on at least one session. A quotation from Houston's paper
made the editorial page of The Spokesman-Review, a week after the Convention. In
addition, speakers Vernon Grose, Jim Kennedy, and Dick Terman were interviewed on TV.
ECOLOGY AND OTHER MATTERS
"Quality of Life", said Ed Lindaman, includes four ingredients: 1) a sense of
transcendence; 2) involvement in creativity; 3) acceptance of diversity; and 4) a
sense of the future.
Dick Bube, discussing "What Bonhoeffer Really Meant", at one point had to really
read what Bonhoeffer really wrote, after getting lost twice in the middle of a complex sentence and breaking up the audience. Bonhoeffer's statement that "Man Has
Come of Age" does not mean living without God, but that God has allowed himself to
be ruled out. A number of people who heard Dick's presentation resolved to make a
study of Bonhoeffer's letters and papers from prison.
Bob Shacklett tackled the controversial subject of abortion, attempting to answer
the usual objections to it: 1) It terminates human life; 2) It interferes with the
divine plan; 3) It denies the rights of the fetus; 4) It fosters sexual promiscuity.
He pointed out that the laws in a number of states now deny a woman authority over
her own body, force unwanted children upon society, discriminate against women in
low income groups, give preference to one religion over another, and are responsible
for unsafe medical practice.
Many of the papers will eventually appear in the ' Journal of ASA. Most dealt in some
way with the Christian's responsibility in ecological crises. Perhaps the most
direct was C. Richard Terman's "Sociobiology and Population Problems." In it he
laid out some guidelines for us all: 1) Face problems squarely; 2) Realize the magnitude of the crisis, which has 98% of ecological scientists deeply concerned;
3) Don't stop with a scriptural defence of the Christian view of ecology; 4) Don't
view man's task as merely keeping nature running smoothly; 5) Don't wait for men to
change (i.e., don't blame it all on original sin and let it go at that;) 6) Get involved in solving the problems.
ECOLOGY AND ETHICS
With the 1971 Convention theme on our mind, we ran across this quotation from an
address on "The Ecological Conscience" given by Aldo Leopold back in 1947 (when
hardly anybody was listening):
"Ecology is the science of communities, and the ecological conscience is,
therefore, the ethics of community life. The practice of conservation must
spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as
well as what is economically expedient. It is right only when it tends to
preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the
community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people.
Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is important
because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be
condoned because it pays. That philosophy is dead in human relations,
and its funeral in land-relations is overdue."
ECOLOGY AND ACTION
Many- ASA members are finding ways to use their scientific training to solve ecological problems. Here are a few we've heard about recently:
Carl R. Miller, a physicist, began working for the Office of Water Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D. C., last February. He is presently working
with a Special Studies Group in the Radiation Programs section, estimating radiation
doses to the U. S. population.
Stanley G. Chamberlain is employed at the Raytheon Environmental Research Lab in
New London, Connecticut. He and a colleague presented a paper at the annual meeting
of the Marine Technology Society in August, on "Analysis of Waste Diffusion in
Estuaries Using Fluorescent Tracer Dye." The dye is discharged with the wastes and
then measured at different times and locations, either by aerial photography or by
direct sampling from a boat downstream. With this technique it is possible to calculate how much waste material a given estuary can assimilate and still maintain
water quality levels set for that area. Stan, who received his Ph.D. in electrical
engineering from Brown University in 1969, is technical director of Applied Mathematics at the Raytheon Lab. It was his job to model mathematically the circulation
patterns and dispersion characteristics of the estuary.
0. Norman Carlson is senior metallurgist with the Metallurgy Division of the Atomic
Energy Commission's Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University. Norm is a principal
investigator on a new $40,000 grant from the Solid Waste Research branch of the
Environmental Protection Agency. Under the grant, Norm and his co-workers will
study the removal of copper, tin, and chromium from auto scrap steel. They hope to
develop an economical method to reclaim the steel, which would help rid the nation
of junked cars, slow down the depletion of iron ore, limestone, and coal, reduce
pollution associated with processing of iron ore, and maybe even recover some
high purity copper as a bonus. Melting techniques long used in Ames Lab's preparation of
ultra-pure metals will be applied to the steel scrap and then scaled up if they show
sufficient promise.
PROGRESS REPORT
During the Annual Convention, the Executive Council accepted the proposal drawn up
by Jack McIntyre on employing a full-time Executive Secretary. The good news is
that approximately $7,000 of the $15,000 goal has already been received, along with
a number of letters of encouragement and commendation for the ASA's taking this step.
Just think, with our 1,700 Members, a contribution of $10 from each would almost do
the trick; with our 140 Fellows, a contribution of $100 from each would do it again!
Since this is the first, and presumably the last, appeal from ASA for funds, requests for contributions of $10 from Members and perhaps $50 from Fellows don't
appear unreasonable. (According to the proposal, if the activities of a full-time
man bring 2,700 new members or subscribers into ASA, his salary will be paid for entirely from dues and subscriptions.)
Harold Hartzler is anxious to relinquish his position of part-time Executive Secretary after 11 years. (Incidentally, he is the only ASA member who has attended all
26 Annual Conventions.) On sabbatical this year, Harold hopes to discuss with local
section officers the setting of reasonable contributions toward the $15,000 goal.
He will also visit as many individual ASA members as possible and try to stimulate
formation of new local sections.
For the convenience of Canadian members (to insure that their contributions are deductible for income tax purposes), a separate Canadian office will be set up to receive contributions toward the goal. For the rest of us, the address is the ASA
National Office, 3241-2 South Second Street, Mankato, Minnesota 56001. Receipts are
issued for all contributions.
ITEMS AVAILABLE FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
1. Tapes of all sessions at the 1971 Annual Convention will be available from the
Mankato office at a price still to be worked out, but essentially at cost.
2. The striking new publicity brochure is ready for free distribution. It has bold
lettering that makes it suitable as a poster for bulletin boards. Ask the
National Office for as many as you can use as posters and for distribution to
prospective members.
3. An Index of Articles appearing in the Journal of ASA from the first issue through
1970 is available. The index is free, but since it is mimeographed and rather
bulky, it is sent only on request. After the December issue, 1971 will be added
to the index.
4. Our Society in Turmoil, the 306-page hard-cover book edited by Gary Collins largely from papers at the 1969 ASA Convention at Gordon College, has sold only
1,100 copies even though Christianity Today says it deserves wide and thoughtful
reading. Moody Monthly calls Merv Vincent's chapter the finest overview of the birth control issue seen by their reviewer. ALL ROYALTIES GO TO ASA, and ASA
MEMBERS GET A 20% DISCOUNT. The price in bookstores is $5.95. Why not give this significant book to friends, your pastor, your church library, as a Christmas
gift? Why not buy several copies for your own library and keep them circulating?
To order, send $5.00 ($4.75 plus 254~ postage and handling) for each copy to ASA,
32412 South Second St., Mankato, Minnesota 56001.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AT WHEATON OCTOBER 7-9
Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, dedicated its new science building with a symposium on "The Future of Planet Earth", October 7-9. Dick Bube of Stanford University spoke on Thursday and
Roger Voskuyl of the Council for the Advancement of Small
Colleges spoke on Saturday at the dedication.
Many ASA members were on hand for this event, including the Executive Council, who
scheduled their regular fall meeting to coincide with it. We'll have the scoop in
the next issue.
REPORT FROM HONG KONG
Alton Everest, a founding father of ASA and now head of the Communication Department
of Hong Kong Baptist College, didn't make it to Spokane for the convention but pushes
ASA every chance he gets. He just got the college library to subscribe to the Journal,
for example, a simple step more of us ought to take. Alton may also be
stirring up a local section out there, with Francella Woods, a Conservative Baptist
missionary and zoology Ph.D. teaching biology at the college, and John P. Chan, chairman of the Chemistry Department. John, whose Ph.D. is in metallurgy, is a
rare example of brains draining back to HK; he is picking up his research on velocity of sound in molten metals while Dr. Muerner Harvey is on a 6-month furlough.
Alton says they almost have chairman Harvey ready to join ASA, too.
Among Alton's own accomplishments was hi$ selection as one of two judges for the
Asian Film Festival held in Taipei in June. He spent two weeks screening 50 dramatic and documentary films from Asian countries before the festival. This was the
17th such festival and never before has a westerner been chosen as judge. The competition will be eliminated in future festivals, so Alton and Elva see the Lord's
timing in this, preparing for a new cinema major at the college. (The Everests tell
of many fascinating experience among Chinese neighbors, Chinese students, and
"freedom swimmers" still reaching Hong Kong shores.)
SCIENCE EXHIBIT TRAVELING TO CHURCHES
Emil Gaverluk is a Ph.D. with a background in mass communications and educational
technology. He has been serving as a professional science lecturer with School
Assembly Service, Inc., emphasizing that "New Worlds Need New People." Now he is
traveling with a science exhibit he displays in churches where he is lecturing. D. Lee Chesnut
and others have contributed items to the exhibit, and Emil would like
to meet other ASA members to exchange information and possibly to pick up other objects
de science.
Emil's dream is to obtain a motor home vehicle to haul equipment
to film and record interviews with scientists and to duplicate cassette tapes of
lectures in his "Science and the Bible" and "Man and the Future" series. He has already interviewed
Howard Claassen of Argonne National Lab and Stan Block of I. I. T.,
among others, in Films produced by OUTREACH 8 of Chicago.
As Emil meets scientists and engineers drawn to his presentations, he lets them know
about ASA and encourages them to join. His home address is 7428 Heather Heath Lane,
Birmingham, Michigan 48010. Here is his itinerary for the next few months for those
of you along the way.
Oct. 24-29 First Baptist Church, Ness City, Kansas
Oct. 31 - Nov. 5 Bethel Baptist Church, Denver, Colorado
Nov. 7-12 Riverside Baptist Church, Denver, Colorado
Nov. 14-19 First Baptist Church, Boulder, Colorado
Nov. 21-26 First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Kansas
Nov. 28 - Dec. 3 First Baptist Church, Freemont, Nebraska
Dec. 5-12 Bethlehem Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Jan. 2-7 First Baptist Church, Lancaster, California
Jan. 16-21 Calvary Baptist Church, Oroville, California
Jan. 23-28 First Baptist Church, Vallejo, California
HOW TO START SOMETHING NO. 8. ROBERT L. BOHON
Bob Bohon is a chemist at Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company in the Twin
Cities. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry about 20 years ago at the University of Illinois and worked for a number of years for Anderson Physical Labs in
Champaign-Urbana before moving to the central research facility of 3M. He and Lois
have raised two daughters, now 20 and 18, and a son, now 14, but have always found
time to serve in various capacities in their local church, now Woodbury Baptist in
St. Paul. Bob has served as deacon and trustee, as teacher of an adult class, and
as volunteer choir director. Several years ago he got the idea of doing something
on a slightly larger scale for young people through music. His idea has now proved
itself through two "seasons" and commends itself to others with the energy and
musical talent--and love for young people--to adapt it to your own community.
We learned about the first season from Bob and Lois at the ASA Annual Convention in
1970. We've since picked up details of the second season from a story, "They Turn
on With God and Song", by Marian Parrish in the Capital section of the St. Paul Dispatch
for July 18, 1971. The story includes photos by Dee Lynn Johnson with a
great shot of conductor Bohonstein in action at rehearsal. (Quotations below are
from the Dispatch story.)
Bob wanted to provide wholesome recreation for teenagers but he also wanted to do
something ecumenical and possibly evangelistic at the same time. He obtained the
Ralph Carmichael music and a recording of "Tell It Like It Is", visited a few church
youth groups to play the recording, and asked kids to sign up if they were interested in taking part in a production of the musical. Enough were interested to provide a full cast, so rehearsals began. Some people were skeptical, but after the
first performance in one of the churches from which the young people came, it was
clear they had a hit.
The next year the phone started ringing in October, Bob says, "with everyone wanting
to know what we were going to do for an encore." So he got hold of "Natural High",
Carmichael and Kurt Kaiser's sequel to "Tell It Like It Is." In the preface to the
music, the composers say "To an experimenter in drugs, being high carries with it the
connotation of escaping
...
This musical was written for another group of experimenters
"** kids who have found that truth is the essence of fulfillment. Christ is not an
escape from reality. He is reality. So, in this sense Christ is our natural high."
A passage from the musical puts it this way:
"Turn on your mind to wisdom,
Turn on your heart to love.
Turn on your soul but natural,
Turn on to God above.
Turn on your mind to good news,
Turn on your heart to care.
Turn on your soul to something sure,
Turn on to God, He's there."
Last year 70 kids from 19 different churches were in the "Natural High" cast. A few
were college age but most were in high schools and performed at various church
banquets and programs. And in May they were invited to sing at the annual American
Baptist Convention in Minneapolis. Bob says the contagious enthusiasm of the kids is
good for him, but admits it takes a lot of his time to be sure everything goes well.
It was especially difficult at the beginning, before the group developed momentum of
its own.
But he obviously feels the undertaking has been worth the effort, in addition to
being fun: "It's difficult to get the Christian message down to what kids can understand, but 'Natural High' does this. I hope it makes a positive spiritual contribution for the kids, so I do bear down on the meaning of the words. I don't hesitate
about stating my own beliefs, but I try not to turn the rehearsal into a worship service or make an issue of it."
The kids in the case of "Natural High" expressed their appreciation by giving Bob and
Lois a night out on the town in July: dinner and a performance of the St. Paul Civic
Opera. Bob reciprocated, inviting them all to get together again on Monday nights in
August for more music-making.
Cooperation is important in managing a group that size. One of the few requirements
for belonging is that a person be old enough to participate constructively. The kids
buy their own music and memorize it. Linda Amundson, a Hamline graduate who was
St. Paul's Princess of the East Wind, served as assistant director, and Bill Taylor,
another Hamline student, worked with the instrumentalists. None of them is paid.
Lorelei Weidman, a Bethel College student, has taken care of the secretarial work.
After paying various production expenses, there is usually enough left in the kitty
to provide seed money for the next year. All this started from an original $50
contribution.
If you'd like to ask more specific questions about starting such a group, or about
where to find suitable music, write to Impresario Robert L. Bohon, 1352 Margaret St.,
St. Paul, Minnesota 55106. We're sending him a dozen copies of the "Scientist's
Psalm" greeting cards for contributing to our series. (We'll send you a dozen, too,
complete with envelopes, free and postpaid--if you contribute a story we can use in
HOW TO START SOMETHING.)
...AND HOW TO KEEP IT GOING
In the October 1970 issue of ASA News, HOW TO START SOMETHING featured a project of
Ed Yamaucbi of the Department f History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The
Oxford Bible Fellowship, which began in February 1970 with a small nucleus of
Christians, has continued to function along the lines reported a year ago. Still
meeting in a municipal building, the Bible Fellowship has now grown in attendance
from 50 to over 150, three-fourths of whom are students. Their first "missionaries",
Joe and Diane Webb, who graduated from Miami in 1970, are now serving with Campus
Crusade at Boston University.
DUANE GISH TO CREATION SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER
After 11 years as research biochemist with the Research Division of The Upjohn
Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Duane Gish has become professor of natural history,
Christian Heritage College, and assistant director in charge of research, Creation
Science Research Center, 2716 Madison Ave., San Diego, California. Duane, a Fellow
of ASA, was also one of the founding members of the Creation Research Society in
1963 and has served on the CRS board ever since. Accompanying him to San Diego in
September were his wife and two younger children (a daughter is married and a son
is in the army). Duane's identical twin brother is a medical missionary in Indonesia.
one of two surgeons serving nearly a million people.
Henry Morris is director of the Creation Science Research Center, which is now preparing a series of textbooks for grades 1-8 which they hope will be adopted by the
State of California under the new guidelines adopted by the state for its textbooks.
Duane will assist in this project and participate in seminars and radio and television programs conducted by the Center, in addition to his research responsibilities.
Other technical staff include Dr. Robert F. Koontz in the life sciences and Dr.
William W. Boardman, Jr., in the physical sciences.
Duane has had th e unusual experience of working with two Nobel prize winners in his
research career. After receiving his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Berkeley in 1953,
he spent three years at Cornell University Medical College, where he collaborated
with Vincent du Vigneaud (1955 Nobelist) on the synthesis of vasopression. Then
Duane moved back to Berkeley for four years at the Virus Laboratory in the team
headed by Wendell Stanley (1947 Nobelist) that elucidated the structure of tobacco
mosaic virus protein. His recent publications include a chapter on "Peptide
Synthesis" in Protein Sequence Determination edited by S. B. Needleman (SpringerVerlag, Berlin, 1970), and several papers on immunosuppressive, antiviral, and
anti-tumor activities of 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (Cytarabine) derivatives
in J. Medicinal Chemistry and Biochemical Pharmacology.
SEX SENSE AND NONSENSE
That's the title of a new 95t,% paperback by James C. Hefley, published by David C.
Cook Publishing Co., Elgin, Illinois. The subtitle is What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say About
Sex. Jim feels that "the Bible is not a marriage manual, any more
than it is a geology textbook", but he used it as a principal source to base his
book on solid Christian values as well as scientific common sense. Much of the
factual information came from a seminar on "Sex and the Science Writer" in which Jim
participated at the invitation of Today's Health (American Medical Association
popular magazine edited by Byron T. Scott). And Jim's wife Marti edited the manuscript to "see that women were
fairly represented", since most sex books seem to be
written by men only.
AH, ROMANCE
Charles Thaxton came back from L'Abri in Switzerland enthusiastic not only about
Francis Schaeffer's approach to Christianity but also about a girl from New Jersey
he met there, Carole Cichon. Charlie and Carole were married in September and are
now getting ready to move to the Boston area. Charlie, who received his Ph.D. in
physical chemistry at Iowa State University last year, has made contact with Owen
Gingerich at Harvard and hopes to study the history and philosophy of science there.
Their recent wedding reminds us that we didn't report on an "All-ASA" wedding earlier
this year. Kathryn Louise Long and Richard Lewis Humphrey were married in June in
the chapel of the Decatur Presbyterian Church of Decatur, Georgia. Not only are they
both ASA members (he is a chemist, she a psychologist), but they met at the 1970
Annual Convention at Bethel College! Dick has been teaching high school in
Los Angeles and this past year Kathy was teaching at Atlanta University. After a
brief wedding trip to Gatlinburg, Kathy started teaching summer school and Dick
participated in an NSF institute at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. Then they had
a real honeymoon trip to Europe and scooted from Georgia to California just in time
for Dick to start teaching. When we last heard, they had found an apartment in
Glendale and Kathy was still job-hunting.
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CHRISTIAN STUDIES
The Institute for Advanced Christian Studies, in its four-year history, has supported 10 Christian scholars doing research in areas important to evangelical faith;
brought together prominent educators to find ways of advancing Christian truth on
campus; and helped 10 Christian colleges form a consortium for cooperative programs.
ASA members on the IACS board include Charles Hatfield and V. Elving Anderson.
The Institute has been offered a $75,000 grant on condition that this sum be matched
by gifts from interested donors before December 31. After you've contributed to
ASA's goal for a full-time Executive Secretary, you 973g-ht want to "double your money"
for Christian scholarship through the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies.
Their address is P. 0. Box 95496, Chicago, 111. 60690.
THE RELEVANT SCIENTIST
We've just seen a publicity blurb for a new journal, The Relevant Scientist, "an
open forum for concerned scientists", appearing for the first time in September 1971.
Science/religion is one of many aspects of the role of science in society to be
covered. That's all we know about the journal, except that it's a quarterly for $6
a year, from P. 0. Box 218, Haddonfield, New Jersey 08033.
PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS
What? Has the crisis passed? Or didn't you realize these ads are free?
Maybe this is a good spot for a version of the year Vern Grose told at the ASA
Annual convention:
An aerospace scientist was fired by his boas at the very beginning of the
employment crisis and looked for a job for months while his savings dwindled.
Desperate for any kind of job, he answered an ad from a zoo. It seems that
the zoo's star performer was a gorilla that had just died. Lacking the time
to import another gorilla from Africa, the zoo keeper had skinned the gorilla
and wanted someone to wear the gorilla skin and practice gorilla activities
until good enough to fool the people who thronged to watch him. Everything
was fine until one day the scientist slipped as he was swinging from one
side of the cage to the other, hit the floor, and rolled right across a moat
into the lion cage. With a roar the lion was upon him. Figuring this was
no time to perpetuate the deception, the gorilla called out weakly for help.
The lion shoved his furry mane down in the gorilla's face, and the voice of
his former boss whispered, "Shut up, you idiot. Do you want to get us both
fired?"
A letter has come to the National Office concerning a position wanted. We will
quote his letter:
"I am continuing to seek a new position in teaching, research, literature work,
or data compilation in inorganic chemistry to begin February to September
1972. One of my main achievements is the compilation and maintenance of a
large file (now about 40,000 references) of structural, thermochemical, and
other data on a wide variety of inorganic compounds including metal complexes and selected organometallic compounds in addition to all other types
of compounds including halides, oxides, chalcogenides, pnictides, and their
complexes."
Anyone interested should contact Charles M. Flynn, Jr., Chemistry Dept., Georgetown
University, Washington D. C. 20007.
POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE
A teaching position for a physical chemist is expected to open up in 1972-73. For
information, write Prof. G. G. Parkinson, Head, Department of Physical Science,
Erskine College, Due West, South Carolina 29639.
OREGON
Few local sections have programs in the summer, but the Oregon section picked up the
theme of the Annual Convention in a meeting at Corvallis on August 12. Neil Elsheimer
spoke on "The Role of the Christian in Ecological Crises", critically
reviewing Francis Schaeffer's book Pollution and the Death of Man: The Christian
View of Ecology. Neil commented also on Ian McHarg's eastern mystical views of man
and nature, and spelled out the distinctive ecological role to be played by a Christian, whether knowledgeable scientist, informed citizen, or dedicated government
official. Neil is an analytical chemist at the U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park,
California, who has served both as president and vice-president of the San Francisco
Bay local section of ASA. After graduating from Wheaton College he took an M. A. in
analytical chemistry at Indiana University under Robert Fischer, former
ASA
president. Then he worked in industry in Oklahoma and Colorado before moving to California.
METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
The section will participate in the llth Christian Education Convention of the
Northern New Jersey Sunday School Association at the Hawthorne Gospel Church,
Hawthorne, New Jersey, on Friday evening, October 15, and Saturday morning and
afternoon, October 16. There will be an ASA exhibit throughout the convention and
a 90-minute workshop session on Saturday on "The Encounter Between Christianity and
Science." Roy Slingo, biology teacher at Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, New
Jersey, and vice-president of the Metropolitan New York section, will lead the workshop with the help of ASA members from other disciplines.
(Jim Neidhardt, president
of the section, has consented to send us a full report for HOW TO START SOMETHING
next issue. A lot of other local sections may want to try something like this.--Ed.)
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
Several items from the Executive Council meeting of August 16 have been reported as
separate stories in this issue. Some other items from the minutes:
1. journal expansion. Editor Dick Bube has proposed expanding the Journal by 16
pages a year to allow publication of a sizeable backlog of good manuscripts.
Council agreed on the expansion and an increase in subscription rates to $6 for
one year, $11 for two years, and $15 for three years, effective December 1971.
Dues will not increase. Bube and Paul Seely, publicity manager for the Journal,
presented figures on advertising in various magazines. Council agreed to place
an advertising item in the 1972 budget.
2. Subscriptions to ASA News and ASA Directory. Requests by libraries and individuals for these publications will be honored at $2 per copy for the Directory
and $1.50 per year for the Newsletter. A clear statement that the Directory is
not to be used for advertising purposes will be made to all purchasers. An exchange
of mailing lists with the publication Zygon has been approved,
3. Canadian Scientific Affiliation? One Canadian member has proposed a separate
Canadian organization. Council members expressed strong feeling that the
"American" in our name was meant to be continental in scope, not national. They
did not oppose a separate Canadian Affiliation, however, and in fact pledged ASA
cooperation should such an organization be formed.
4. Local section delegates to Annual Conventions. The San Francisco Bay Area section asked the Council to go on record as encouraging each local section to appoint one or more official delegates to the Annual Convention. This would provide a vehicle for official action by delegates and better feedback to local
sections, and probably make convention expenses of delegates deductible on their
income tax returns. This matter was discussed at the Annual ASA Business Meeting
on August 18.
5. Executive Secretary's travel plans for 1971. Harold Hartzler's fall sabbatical
leave will be divided into four month-long trips with brief returns to Mankato in
between. The itinerary is as follows: September, Northeastern states; October,
the Northwest; November, Texas and the Southwest; December, Southeast and Gulf
states
6. A CERTIFICATE OF MEMBERSHIP in the ASA is now available from the National office.
It is approximately 8 1/2 x 11 and suitable for framing. There is no charge for
these. They will be sent out only on request. Write: American Scientific
Affiliation, 324k S. Second St., Mankato, Minnesota 56001.
Sydney E. Allen, Jr., spent last year writing a new curriculum for 10th grade theology classes, which he is now trying out at Lama Linda Academy, Loma Linda, California.
He faced the prospect of encountering high schoolers with some trepidation, having
taught college and graduate students for the past 14 years.
Eric C. Anderson recently graduated from M. I. T. with M. S. and E. E. degrees in
electrical engineering. Now he's employed at a new Christian communications company, Clear Light Productions, Inc. Their first project is a multi-media Jesus rock
show to be used as an evangelistic tool on college campuses. The show is
computer controlled, using 18 slide projectors and other special effects, with a 10 x 36-foot
screen. If you'd like info on scheduling the show, contact Eric at 75 Allison St.,
Newton, Massachusetts 02158.
Lawrence C. Anderson of Lake Crystal, Minnesota, has been investigating North American Hutterite colonies in connection with a geographical research project, preparing
maps for publication. In the October 1971 issue of Journal of Geography, Larry had
a paper on "The Use of Amateur Radio in Teaching Geography." This past year he enjoyed being able to get together for prayer each Wednesday morning with Harold
Hartzler, of Mankato.
Ernest D. Atkinson has received his B. Ed. degree at the University of Toronto's
College of Education. He married in August and in September began teaching business
education at Western Technical-Commercial High School in Toronto.
Elaine Bean is still teaching school (5th grade reading) for the U. S. Department of
Defense. Last time we heard from her she was at the northernmost tip of Japan. Now
she's in Frankfurt, Germany, traveling to England as often as she can and keeping a
close eye on the fluctuating value of the U. S. dollar. She hopes to visit Russia
and the Middle East for vacations this year.
James E. Berney, an engineer who has been a west coast area director for IVCF for
several years, reports that university students seem more teachable now than at any
time in his experience. Student hunger to know more about Christ demands an intense
response from Christians who see the university as their field of service. The
Berney's home base is Richmond, California.
Hugo Boschmann is a student at the University of Chicago. During summer quarter he
did volunteer work twice weekly at the Cook County jail, mainly tutoring inmates
trying to get a high school diploma. He was expecting to do the same work this fall
quarter. Hugo finds it exciting and rewarding to get to know prisoners personally
and to learn from them what it is they want from society. In the aftermath of
Attica, maybe more of us should seek opportunities for this kind of understanding.
William W. Conley has an M. A. in anthropology from the University of Minnesota and
is chairman of the Department of Missions and Anthropology at St. Paul Bible College.
This year he's using his sabbatical to do doctoral work in missiology under Donald
McGavran in the School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary, Glendale,
California. Next summer Bill hopes to do research in Kalimantan, Indonesia, where
he had been a missionary under the Christian and Missionary Alliance. We are sorry
to learn that Bill's wife died in March 1970.
James W. Eckblad has received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in limnology (lakes
and ponds, from Gr. limne, marsh). Jim is now assistant professor of biology at
Luther College, Decorah, Iowa.
Michael L. Franklin has been appointed instructor in pediatrics at the University of
Colorado Medical Center in Denver. He is conducting trace element nutrition studies
of children and adults using atomic emission spectroscopic techniques to analyze
body fluids and tissues.
Allen J. Harder has been teaching philosophy at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania
while finishing his dissertation for the University of Indiana. In Bloomington he
came into contact with other historians and philosophers of science Dave LindbeEa
and Peter Pav. Al received his Ph.D. this summer and is now assistant professor at
Iowa State University, Ames, teaching logic and the philosophy of science. His paper
on "Ecology, magic, and the Death of Man", Christian Scholar's Review 1 (2), 117
(1971), was the paper he read at the departmental seminar as a candidate for his new
position.
George J. Jennings is now assistant professor of anthropology in the Department of
Political Science and Sociology at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Russell Heddendorf
is his colleague in sociology there. George's paper on "Islamic
Culture and Christian Missions", Practical Anthropology 18 (3), 128 (1971), bears
upon his field experience in the Middle East and his membership on the board of the
Lebanon Overseas Village Evangel (LOVE), which carries on a missionary effort in the
villages of the Middle East. George is scheduled to present a paper on "A Primary
Factor Contributing to Drug Use" at the National Association of Biology Teachers in
Chicago in October, and one on "Three Subcultures in the Middle East" at the American
Anthropological Association in New York City in November.
Irving W. Knobloch of Michigan State University, East Lansing, is also on the program of the National Association of Biology Teachers in Chicago this month, participating in a panel on aspects of religion in the biology classroom. Recently Irv
gave a chapel talk on "The Christian Student in an Unchristian World" at Huntington
College, Huntington, Indiana.
Vincent J. Krabill is on leave from the Biology Department of Hesston College in
Kansas, employed by Project Hope in Chinle, Arizona. Vince is a health science educator in Navajo Community College, teaching anatomy, physiology, and microbiology in
a new A. A. nursing program.
T. H. Leith is back at Atkinson College, York University, Toronto, after a year of
sabbatical leave. Harry says he spent a terrific year in Spain, writing a book on
The Origins and Growth of the Physical Sciences.
James A. Manganello is presently enrolled in a doctoral program at Boston University.
Jim's area of concentration is counseling psychology.
Chester J. Minarcik, Jr, received a B. D. from Union Theological Seminary, Richmond,
Virginia, in May 1970. He was awarded the Sallie Shepard Perkins Fellowship for
Graduate Studies. Currently Chester is in his second year of medical studies at
Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. In 1971 he was ordained as a minister in
the Presbyterian Church in the U. S., served as assistant minister of a church in
Petersburg, and married Marjorie Bender, a graduate of Beaver College in Pennsylvania.
Marjorie is teaching 6th grade this year while Chester delves into pathology and
microbiology.
W. D. Morrison, formerly director of nutrition and research for Maple Leaf Mills Ltd.,
has become chairman of the Department of Animal and Poultry Science at the University
of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. We got the news on Doug from Ross Donovan of the Research and Development Laboratories of Canada Packers Ltd. of Toronto, our Canadian
correspondent.
Melvin R. Nelson received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of
Nebraska in July. Mel is now employed in a mental health center in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, with a joint appointment at the Medical School of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
Abner J. Schlabach has recently taken a position as a senior research virologist
with Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories at West Point, Pennsylvania.
Edwin D. Sigurdson became regional controller for ARCATH Communications in Portland,
Oregon, in July 1971.
James W. Sire, who began his academic career as a chemist but switched to English
for his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri, is now editor of Inter-Varsity Press in
Downers Grove, Illinois. Early in October Jim gave three lectures on "Literature
as Vision" at Grinnell College in Iowa, stopping off in Ames to visit Walt Hearn,
editor of ASA News. Good conversation about literature, science, religion, and
education. Jim's "Mr. Sammler and the God of Our Fathers", on the Saul Bellow
Novel, appeared in Christianity Today, pp. 6-9 (4 June, 1971).
Dale Solomon was transferred last April by the U. S. Forest Service to the SpruceFir Project at Orono, Maine. His research there deals with the growth and yield of
spruce and fir stands. Dale and his family are living on a farm in the town of
Hermon.
Daniel B. Suter is back at Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, Virginia, as
chairman of the Life Sciences Department. Dan had a great sabbatical year at the
University of California School of Medicine in Davis as an N. I. H. Research Fellow.
He reported some of his work on effects of the insecticide parathion on the brain at
the meeting of the American Association of Anatomists in Philadelphia in April.
Edward C. Trivette, Major, USAD, BSC, has been transferred to the 4th Epidemiological
Flight in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he is the consultant medical entomologist for
the USAF European Command. Ed, who has a Ph.D. in zoology, was honored in August by
presentation of the Joint Service Commendation Medal by the USAF Surgeon General,
Major General Alonzo A. Towner. The medal was for exceptionally meritorious achievement during Ed's tour of duty with the Military Entomology Information Service,
Armed Forces Pest Control Board, Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Fred N. Wagner started out as an engineer but he has just received a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. His dissertation was entitled "A
Theological and Historical Assessment of the Jesus People Phenomenon." Fred has resumed work with IVCF as area director for the Pacific Northwest, headquartered in
Portland, Oregon.
A Kurt Weiss, physiologist at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma
City, had a news items for us in September. He was just about to leave for the
quadrennial International Hebrew Christian Alliance conference at a little village on
Lake Thun in Switzerland. The other American delegate was Herbert Robinson, dentist
in St. Petersburg, Florida. The second piece of news was Kurt's invitation to be a
delegate to the White House Conference on Aging, Nov. 29-Dec. 3, and to chair a subcommittee for that conference. He's hoping to see
Dave Moberg, who was asked to
write a position paper on religious aspects of aging for the conference.
Edwin Yamauchi of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, has had his monograph, Gnostic
Ethics and Mandaean Origins, published by Harvard University Press. Last April he
gave a paper on the Mandaens at the American Oriental Society conference at Harvard.
Ed has also had articles in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society and
Christianity Today, and a number of significant speaking engagements. Last April he
shared with Dr. Myron Augsberger a ministry to about 250 international students at
a conference in Philadelphia, co-sponsored by IVCF, Campus Crusade, and International Students.
James Herbert Brewer, 601 Bailey St., Apt. 1, Los Angeles, Calif. 90033. BS, MA in
Physics, Math. - both from Loma Linda University. Grad. student at Univ. of Southern
California. Rank: Member
John R. Erisman, 1215 E. Darby, Orange, California 92665. Senior Engineer for Philco
Ford Corporation. BS in
M.
E. at Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill. Rank: Member
Marvin J. Branstrom, 10 Durham Rd., Woodside, Calif. 94062. Biology Instructor at
Canada Coffege, k-e-&ood City, Calif. BA, MA in Biol. Sci., Phy. Sci; Counseling
at San Jose State College. Rank: Member
John Richard Arndt, (Reinstatement), 1717 So. Chestnut, Fresno, Calif. 93702. Dean
of Student Affairs at Pacific College. BS in Geol., Bible from Wheaton College;
MS
in Geol., Ocean. and Ed.M. in Guid/Couns., Psych. both from Oregon State U.; Ph.D.
Higher Ed., Soc. Adm. from Michigan State Univ. Rank: Member
Indiana
Robert F. Heimburger, 4462 Central Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana 46205. Professor of
Surgery at Indiana University. BS Drury College in Chemistry; MD Vanderbilt Univ.
Rank: Member
C. Richard Terman, Biology Dept., Taylor University, Upland, Indiana. Associate
Prof. of Biology at Taylor University. AA Science, Spring Arbor College; BA in
Biol. Psych, P. E. Albion College; MS Zoology, Wild. Mgt., PhD in Zoology, Ecology -
both from Michigan State University. Rank: Member (Reinstatement)
Michigan
Wen-Jei Yang, 2214 Yorktown Dr., Ann Arbor, Mich. 48105. Prof. of Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan. BS National Taiwan Univ.; MS, Ph.D. University
of Michigan - all in Mech. Engr. Rank: Member
James P. Bosscher, 1429 Louise St. S. E., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49507. Prof. of
Engineering & Dept. Chairman, Engineering Dept. at Calvin College. BS, MS in Aero.
Engr. from Purdue University; PhD in Mech. Engr. at Univ. of Michigan. Rank: Member
New York
Betty Gallagher, 196 Crescent Ave., 20E, Buffalo, N. Y. 14214. Prof. of Communication Disorders at State Univ. College at Buffalo. BS in English, Soc. Studies; MA
Speech, English; PhD Speech Path., Psychology. BS State U. College, Buffalo; MA
Univ. of Michigan; PhD Univ. of Wisconsin. Rank: Associate
Pattle Pun, 207 Humboldt Pkwy, Buffalo, New York 14214. BS Chemistry at San Diego
State College; MA Molecular Biology from SUNY - in January 1972. Grad. student
at New York at Buffalo. Rank: Member
.Gerald Richard Wolfe, 402 South Main, New Knoxville, Ohio 45871. Student. Rank:
Associate.
Dennis L. Feucht, 3330 S. E. Tibbetts St., Portland, Oregon 97202. Student. Rank:
Associate
Betty Ripka, 2011 White Horse Road, Berwyn, Pa. 19312. Presently doing independent
research. BS in Bus. Ed.; M.Ed. Bus., Psych.; D.Ed. Bus. Psych. - all from Temple
University. Rank: Associate
,Paul G. Hook, Box 532 SMU, Dallas, Texas 75222. Director of Men's Intramurals -
Asst. Prof. Southern Methodist University. BA History from Westmont College; MA
in P. E. from SMU; ThM in Theology at Dallas Theo. Sem. Rank? Member
Sim D. Lessley, Chemistry Dept., Box 57, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
84112. BA in Chemistry from Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon. Grad. student
at present. Rank: Member
W. Ray Hook, RFD 4, Box 240, Yorktown, Va. 23490. Asst. Head Advanced Aerospace
Studies Branch, NASA Langley Research Center. BS in ME North Carolina State.
Rank: Member
john B. Waite, Univ. of Guam, P. 0. Box EK, Agana, Guam 96910. Asst. Prof. at
Univ. of Guam. BS, MS Oregon State University in Phys. Sci., Soc. Sci.; Gen. Sci.
Rank: Member
Robert Brown, c/o SIL, P. 0. Ukarumpa, E. H. D., Papua New Guinea. Missionary
linguist - Summer Institute of Linguistics - Wycliffe Bible Translatros. BS, PhD
University of Maryland, Chemistry; Org. Chemistry. Rank: Member