NEWSLETTER
of

THE AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION

VOLUME 15, NUMBER 5              October 1973

HOW ARE WE DOING?

 We have until November 30 to raise $10,000 to be matched dollar-for-dollar by a foundation. If we raise it all, the American Scientific Affiliation will have $20,000 to finance an intensive program -of adding new members and journal subscribers. Doubling our present number will not only reach new people. It will also provide a stable financial base for important new projects.

How are we doing? An advance letter to 100 past and present officers, plus an appeal to members at the annual meeting brought us up to $5,000. On September 17 a letter from the Executive Council went out to the entire membership. Responses are still coming in at press time. Praise the Lord! Latest tally shows a grand total of $8,000 received, in cash ($6,323) or pledges.

 We're sure every member or friend of ASA wants to be part of this "double-your money" opportunity. If you haven't contributed yet, NOW is the time. (If we go over $10,000, we have just that much more to work with!)

In Canada, make your check out to Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation, Inc., and mail it to Dr. John F. H. Stewart, P. 0. Box 234, Perth, Ontario, K7H 3E4.

In the USA or countries other than Canada, make your check out to American Scientific Affiliation, and mail it to ASA, 5 Douglas Ave., Elgin, IL 0.

MORE THAN WE CAN SAY

The ASA News editor came back from the 1973 Annual Meeting thanking God for the existence and maturity of our Affiliation, excited about the future, and with enough news and gossip for more than one issue. We'll have more comments in the December issue and we'd be glad to include yours if you were there.

Bill Sisterson discovered how many details a general chairman, has to take care of. We hope he also discovered how much we appreciate his doing the job. Program chairman Dick Wright's duties were essentially complete by the opening session. But local arrangements chairman George Jennings was kept so busy he had to ask people what was going on at the meeting. George did a marvelous job of transporting us (via a maze of picturesque back roads) to and from the Pittsburgh airport. Russ Heddendorf. Dave Carson. John Cruzan. and Martin Price were other Geneva College folk who made us feel at home. To these in particular, and to others who worked to make the meeting a success, we say "thank you." But toward all with whom we talked and listened and prayed and lived during the meeting, we feel more warmth than we can express.
THE 1973 ANNUAL METING: HAPPINESS WAS

...Outstanding papers! Many you'll see eventually in JASA. One day devoted to scientific findings, another to Christian interpretations, the third to implications for education. Fine lead-off paper by Dave Willis, Oregon State biologist. Vigorous evening address by Herman Eckelmann, pastor and physics research 'associate at Cornell. Banquet sermon on "The Future of Hope" by Fdmund Clowney, president of Westminster Seminary. And an illustrated lecture on "The Origin of the Solar System" by Bob Newman, physicist/theologian from Biblical School of Theology, New York, for lagniappe after the banquet.

... Specialists bringing their fields down to our level: biochemist Bob Herrmann, biologist Wayne Frair, geologist Frank Roberts, and paleontologist Roger Cuffey, for example. And the magnificent inside story of the California controversy by Bob Fischer of the committee that actually evaluated the textbooks. How expert can, you get?

...More ASA speakers "bi-lingual" in both theology and science, to help us put the two together: Dan Wonderly of Grace College, Jack Haas of Gordon College, Hugh Paine and Don Munro of Houghton, Al Smith of Wheaton, Calvin Freeman of Cleveland State University, for example.

... Respect for different points of view. Lively, intellectually stimulating disagreements without "put-downs." All of us, from the "young earth" types to theistic evolutionists, acknowledging God as our Creator and seeking the way to serve Him in our scientific careers.

... Morning devotions to bring us together before God's throne. Harold Hartzler, Bill Sisterson, and Walt Hearn leading them. Bob Knudsen's moving-testimony of the faith of his son Tim, who passed into the presence of Christ in May just eight months after his pulmonary hypertension was diagnosed. Harold's memorial tribute to Hazel Fetherhuff, ASA's Faithful office secretary, taken from us by a stroke only' three weeks before the meeting.

... "Christian women of science" as well as men. Marie Berg definitely no longer our token female, with chemists ' Phyllis Chamberlain and Linda Wanaselja, biochemist Ann Hunt, biologist Anne Whiting, and others finding places of service in ASA.

THE 1973 ANNUAL MEETING: DID YOU KNOW...

... That for only $37 you could have had an air-conditioned room at the "Geneva Arms" apartments (with free parking, elevators, swimming pool, the works) PLUS delicious meals at the college cafeteria and a banquet at Holiday Inn, PLUS registration for a superbly organized symposium on "Creation, Evolution, and Molecular Biology"? (Of course, you can spend $46.70 a year to subscribe to the Journal of X-4ecular Evolution and learn something about the topic, but you miss the applications to Christian faith and a lot of fellowship that way!)

...That annual meetings are always great times for family vacations? (Ask Ruth Ault,'Rosemary Biedebach, Evelyn Brace, Grace Fielding, Irene Howell, Maree Klingensmith, Ruby Loomis, Anne Lubansky, Mary Jane Mills, Olive Moore, Gwen Riegen, Pat Sisterson, Ann Smits, Earline Willis, Ann Wright, or any of the other wives who came with their husbands.) Local wives Ellie Heddendorf and Margaret Carson organized baby-sitting and a Pittsburgh sightseeing/shopping trip. The whole Mark Biedebach family drove all the way from California.
Bill Sisterson's toddler David was the youngest tad present, unless you also count the "as yet unnamed" Sisterson Scion. Chemist Bob ' Ziegler's son David, a chemistry major, and neurosurgeon Charles Taylor's son Gary, a geology student, were taking in the papers with their dads. All enjoyed the field trips, one to the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the other to Old Economy, 19th Century utopian community of the Harmony Society.

...That this was probably the most satisfying ASA meeting ever held? Everybody seemed to sense it. Council member Jack Haas commented that members kept coming up to him to volunteer to work for ASA in new ways. Venerable John Howitt said he felt a warmer spirit of love at this meeting than at any of the many others he has attended over the years. Fred Moore, retired teacher from Owosso, Michigan, expressed appreciation for ASA and joy over at last meeting so many people held read about in ASA News. We were all touched by president Jack McIntyre's challenge at the annual business meeting, and later by his report at the banquet that $2,500 had been given or pledges toward the matching grant fund during the meeting. You should've been there!
WELL, IF YOU MISSED IT...

... Start planning ahead for the next one. On AUGUST 19-24, 1974, the 29th ASA ANNUAL MEETING will be held at BETHANY COLLEGE, BETHANY, OKLAHOMA, a suburb of Oklahoma City. Among topics being considered for the program are "Our Planet Earth" (papers on geology, geography, the energy crisis, continental drift, age of the earth, etc.) and "The Scientist in Industry" (papers on witnessing, ethical problems, "whistle-blowing," etc.).

U.C. San Diego will be the site of the 1975 Annual Meeting. "Medical Ethics" is one of the topics being considered for that one.

AN EXPRESSION OF APPRECIATION

When Bob Fischer, dean of natural sciences and mathematics at California State College, Dominguez Hills, gave us his blow-by-blow account of the hassle over science textbooks in his state, it was obvious that a lot of blows (from both sides) had fallen on Vernon Grose. Vern authored the famous compromise wording in the 1969 science textbook "framework." Then in 1972 as a member of the advisory commission on curriculum development, he helped set up the "criteria" by which textbooks were eventually judged. Vern, a physicist and management specialist, thus seemed to "be there" at critical times, courageously offering a sane solution that couldn't possibly please everybody.

So, on the last day after Bob Fischer's chronicling of California cacophony, the following motion was passed:


SCRIBBLED NOTES FROM THE 29th ANNUAL MEETING

Public relations file: Executive secretary Bill Sisterson asks members to send o the Elgin office clippings or copies of any newspaper or magazine articles about ASA or its members. Experience in approaching granting agencies has-shown the wisdom of keeping a complete public relations file. The 1973 meeting rated two stories in the Beaver County Times and at least one in the. Pittsburgh Press. A press release was circulated widely to periodicals belonging to the Evangelical Press Association. The national office would like to have clippings of any stories generated by that release. Christianity Today sent theological reporter Harold Brown to cover the meeting.

Bibliographies for annual meetings: We're not sure whose idea this was, but Ken Olson and Dick Wright seemed to be in on it. Jim Neidhardt and Wayne Frair of the New Y07r-kMetropolitan local section produced excellent annotated bibliographies on topics related to the meeting's theme, to be distributed at the meeting. Let's do this again, and get started on it as soon as the next theme is set.

Alerting ASA to public controversies: Welt Hearn needs help for ASA News, to keep members informed of issue's touching on science and religion in each state as, they develop into public controversies. Following Vern Grose's lead in California, there may be places where we could render significance.   public service. In .particular, Walt wants to know the current status of any Creation/Evolution Conflict in public education in your state, both for ASA News and for the book he's writing on this subject.

Could ASA supply curriculum materials? Well, our publication track record is pretty weak, unless we count encouragement of members who write their own books. But a specific suggestion came up at this meeting. The striking color film, Evolution and the Origin of Life, shown on the day devoted to education, brought mixed responses. Some ASA  Theology professors use it, others have considered it. But it costs $35 to rent and $300 to buy from CRM Educational Films, Del Mar, CA 92014, and it doesn't always distinguish clearly enough between facts and speculation. Suppose ASA were to purchase this film and rent it at lower rates, supplying our own "Instructor's Film Guide" to raise the kind of critical questions offered by the panel and audience at the meeting. Would that be a worthwhile contribution to education about "Creation, Evolution, and Molecular Biology?"

EMERITUS MEMBER DIES

ASA has received word that Alf W. Swensen of Waverly, Iowa, has died. Alf had for many years been professor of chemistry at Wartburg College in Waverly. He had belonged to the American Scientific Affiliation since 1955, becoming an emeritus member in 1972.

MEDICAL ETHICS IN GENETIC THERAPY: TAPES AVAILABLE

Gary A. Zentmyer, president of Vericom, Inc., asks us to publicize the availability of tape recordings his company made of the ASA/CMS/CLS seminar held in San Diego on May 19 (Aug. 1973 ASA News, pp. 9-10). The following cassette tapes are available at $5.00 each from Vericom, Inc., 1277 North Wilton Place, Hollywood, CA 90038:
TWO NEW INTER-VARSITY BOOKLETS

 ASA members have authored two new booklets in the IVCF series aimed at communicating the gospel effectively to university students. One that speaks to questions being asked by many students today is entitled Jesus, Zoroaster, Buddha, Socrates, Muhammad. This Christian summary of comparative religion was written by Ed Yamauchi, professor 'of history at Miami University, oxford, Ohio. Its appeal is indicated by the fact that the first printing of 15,000 copies was nearly sold out in only six months. The pocket-size IVCF booklets sell for 25c each, from InterVarsity Press, Box F, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515.

NEW OPPORTUNITY AT TAYLOR UNIVERSITY

Taylor-University in Upland, Indiana, has been awarded a grant from the Lilly
 Endowment of Indianapolis to develop a "systems" curriculum supplementing Taylor's present liberal arts program. The 3-year, $300,000 grant will be used to train both faculty and students in systems analysis and "systems thinking." The new curriculum will include a special sequence in mathematics plus courses in systems analysis, integrated with courses in a student's chosen major.

Primary authors of the proposal were Taylor faculty members Stan Burden, Dave Neuhouser, and Waldo Roth, along with adjunct professors Ed Dayton and James Metcalfe. Ed and Jim have both had extensive professional experience in the industrial application of systems analysis. Jim has also taught systems courses at two liberal arts colleges. As founder of Missions Advanced Research & Communications Center (MARC) of Monrovia, California (Oct. 1972 ASA News, pp. 4-6), Ed has been applying systems concepts to the leadership and management problems of Christian organizations.

According to Wally Roth, the grant funds will be used for seminar speakers, faculty workshops, scholarships, purchase of computer equipment, supportive services, and the hiring of one or two new faculty at Taylor. ASA members interested in more details, or wishing to apply for faculty positions in this program (June 1974 - June 1976), should contact Prof. R. Waldo Roth, Computing Center, Taylor University, Upland, IN 46989.

SCIENCE AND FAITH AT REGENT COLIEGE

Walt Hearn, editor of ASA News, spent three weeks at Regent College this summer and came back very favorably impressed. The college is located on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, but is an autonomous body, trans-denominational and evangelical in character. It was founded in 1968 to provide a serious introduction to Christian studies for those without formal theological training and a continuing education for those already active in Christian work. Walt says he's never seen a better blend of serious (graduate level) scholarship and spiritual depth.

The American Scientific Affiliation is known and appreciated at Regent. That's not surprising, since Brian Sutherland has been vice-principal from its beginnings. Brian had just retired from a position as administrative assistant to the president of a Canadian nonferrous metals company when James Houston left a tenured post at Oxford to become principal. of the new college. So Brian found himself administratively assisting again. Houston, a geographer, has participated in at least one ASA annual meeting already. our Journal is read by Regent faculty' and frequently recommended to students. JASA editor Dick Bube was invited to teach a course on "Issue's in Science and Christian Faith " this summer, the course Walt taught instead. Over 200 students were in residence in two 3-week simmer sessions. The science/faith course drew about 15 students, including engineer Helmut Fandrich of Vancouver. The popular New Testament history course at the same hour was taught by distinguished scholar F. F. Bruce of Manchester University in England.

Three of the visiting professors also lectured at a Regent extension conference in Portland, Oregon. ASA'ers on hand to hear Walt lecture on "Christian Witness in the Scientific Establishment," included Paul Blattner and Marvin Darsie of Portland, and Roy Clunes, Dennis Feucht, and Hendrik Oorthuys from Corvallis. Walt discovered a number of prospective ASA members in the Portland audience as well as at Regent College.

Next year's summer sessions will feature another course on the integration of Christian faith and science, taught by Robert L. F. Boyd, head of the Mullard Space Science Lab of the Department of Physics, University College, London. Boyd has an excellent chapter in IVP's Christianity in a Mechanistic Universe and another in Zondervan's Why I Am Still.a Christian. For a folder on the 1974 summer session or for other information, address The Registrar, Regent College, 5990 Ions Drive, Vancouver 8, B.C., Canada.

REBOUNDING OFF THE BACK BOARD

How Dick Bube, editor of the ASA.Journal, manages to get so much done impressed us even before we learned about his literally aching back. This year his load seemed heavier and his back more troublesome. He had to pass up the ASA annual meeting and other trips to avoid exigencies of travel people with reliable backs never have to worry about (like standing in line for an hour). Standing and even sitting have been very painful to Dick this summer, although he has been able to -do some walking and even swimming. His doctor anticipates that severe attacks will probably let up somewhat, but that arthritis may keep his back for  much of the time from now on.

During 1973, Dick has seen five students through to their PhD's in materials science at Stanford, with jawbreaking (if not backbreaking) thesis topics like 11charge transport in amorphous chalcogenide semiconductors." He also read proof for his textbook due in November from Academic Press, Electronic Properties of Crystalline Solids: An Introduction to Fundamentals. In one book for seniors or graduate students, Dick seems to have covered e mechanics, energy bands in crystallina solids, galvanometric effects, optical absorption, photoelectronic
effects, and what-have-you. We hear that the index even includes one entry under "God.

In addition to all he puts into JASA, Dick also found time to write about science and Christian faith for Universitas ("A Proper View of Science Corrects Extremist Attitudes," March 1973) and The Reformed Journal ("Science Teaching in California," April 1973; "A Christian View of Science," July/August 1973).

This summer, and from a more or less horizontal position, Dick found a new outlet. He recorded twelve 6-minute talks on science and Christian faith for "Russia for Christ, Inc.," of Santa Barbara. Each talk will be made the central portion of a 15-minute radio program, to be broadcast partially in English and with Russian translation from the worldwide radio network to which Russia for Christ has access. In his spare time stretched out on the floor of his study, Dick was also preparing to lead this year's Freshman Seminar ~t Stanford on "Science and the Whole Man," and a 7-week Monday evening series, "Consider the Cults," be is presenting this fall at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church.

ASSOCIATES FOR BIBLICAL RESEARCH, INC.

Jamess W. Reid is an engineer who is also executive director of Associates for Biblicall Research, Inc. (P.O.-Box 117, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462). ABR uses modern archeological and scientific discoveries to show how relevant Scripture is for-today--largely, we gather, through Jim's own speaking and writing ministry. His book, God, the Atom, and the Universe, is in its 8th printing and has been translated into Chinese, He has also written Does Science Confront the Bible? (Zondervan) and many articles, and does a weekly column, "Today's Science and the Bible," plus a similarly titled daily 2-minute radio spot aired over the Family Radio Network,
Jim was with General Electric for over 13 years as manager of research equipment development in their Space Sciences Lab and later as a staff engineer assisting in forecasting new technologies. Before that he worked in atomic energy and aerodynamic R&D. For 10 years Jim was given national publicity as a member of G.E.'s Speakers Bureau. From his experience speaking at schools, conferences, and retreats, Jim feels that the natural interest people have-in science can be used to enhance their appreciation of the Bible and hence often to bring them to Christ.

DR CLOSE IS: MALE/FEMALE; /NEITHER/BOTH


We flunked. We sent Bonnidell Clause, associate professor of educational psyIchology at Indiana State.University, Terre Haute, a postcard . addressed to "Mr." Almost anything else would have been OK.  "Mrs.," Ms.," or "Dr."  We figured she must be tho Clouse at Indiana. State who co-authored The Cross and the Flag. Nope, but she and history professor Robert G. Clouse are wife and husband, have been for 18 Years, and have two sons to add credence to the fact.

"Psychological Theories of Child Development: Implications for the Christian Family" appeared in the April Journal of Psychology and Theology, and "Achievement Motivation and the Prostant Ethic," in Fides e Historia. Her study of "Attitudes of College Students as a Function of Sex, Folitics. and Religion" in the May Journal of College Student Personnel has some findings of interest. Bonnidell ran a 2X2X2 analysis of variance using sex (M or F), politics (liberal or conservative), and religion (liberal or conservative) on each of six issues: demonstrations against the establishment, drug legislation, cheating on exams, premarital sex, freedom to wear long hair or short skirts, and academic freedom. The sample consisted of 2-18 males and 225 females in teacher education.

To categorize religious faith, "statements on the questionnaire dealt with such matters as belief in the inspiration of Scripture  the deity of Jesus Christ, life after death, and the importance of a religious experience. The statements were chosen from an original list of 33 sent to the 79 ministers of Terre Haute churches; "The " statements chosen were those for which there was 70 percent or more agreement that a person conservative in his religious beliefs would agree with the statement or that a person . liberal in his religious beliefs would disagree with the statement." As we understand the results, religion made more ,difference than either politics or sex in attitude toward premarital sex, although sex made a difference, also significant at the .001 level, with males being more permissive than females. in fact, religious belief made a difference in attitudes on all questions except demonstrations.

HOW TO RECYCLE SOMETHING. No. 6.

Weeds. Our comments on eating dandelion greens reminded Floy Wilcox of Central Wesleyan College, Central, South Carolina, of home- "Being raised on a farm, my mother used everything available to her during the depression of the thirties. She found that most garden weeds such as lambs quarters, dock red root, pigweed, and milkweed, if picked young enough, made very delicious greens. With the modern trend of a small garden in every yard, the use of weed greens may be one way to get the most from a small amount of land available."

We think you're right, Floyd. Other readers (weeders?) who want to explore this subject (and neighborhood vacant lots?) might begin with the paperback Field Guide Edition of Euell Gibbons' Stalking the Wild Asparagus (1970, David McKay Co., Inc., N.Y.). It and Gibbons' other field guide for foraging. Stalking the Healthful Herbs and Stalking the Blue-eyed Scallop, sell for $2.95 new but are beginning to show up in, second-hand bookstores. We're still foraging for a cheap copy of his Beachcomber's Handbook.

Books, etc. Ken Van Dellen of Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, passes on a rumor about income and eductibility for ASAVers contributing their recyclable science books and other materials to needy libraries and schools. It's Ken's understanding that items received free, such as examination copies of textbooks, may not be used for a tax deduction if donated to a nonprofit organization; the deduction applies only to items for which the donor actually paid.

PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS

Bryan L. Duncan (Central Philippine University, Iloilo city, Philippines) Would like to find a college teaching position beginning in summer or fall 1974. Since August 1972 he has served in the Peace Corps as a fish pathologist, Bryan's wife is from the Philippines, so his service there gave them a chance to be near her family. Bryan is 31. Before the Peace Corps duty, he taught two years at Houghton College right after graduate school. His PhD in parasitology and microbiology was awarded in August 1972. Bryan also has teaching experience and interest in general biology, histology, and invertebrate zoology-

Calvin D. Freeman (20213 Shakerwood Road, Warrensville Heights, Ohio 44122) would like a change of both climate and atmosphere from his tenured position in the Biology Department of Cleveland State University. He would consider either a small college or a university, enjoys research but hasn't had time for much of it. He has had 14 years' experience teaching (general and developmental biology, comparative anatomy, vertebrate physiology, neuroanatomy, human gross anatomy, microbiology, histology, history of biology) and counseling (as pre-med advisor). Strong points are developmental biology, neuro- and gross anatomy, and histology. Cal has a B.S. from Calvin College, M.S. in medical microbiology from U. of Pennsylvania, PhD in anatomical sciences from Case Western Reserve, and B.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia.

Cal's annual meeting paper, "Evolution--A Legitimate Model," ~as itself something of a model, we thougbt--of clarity, philosophical insight, and forceful presentation. We seem to be running a "special" this issue for professors for Christian colleges to choose from. Read on. --Ed.

Daniel E. Wonderly (Route 3, Packerton Road, Warsaw, Indiana 46580) seeks employment as a teacher of biology in a Christian college or university. He will be available at the end of this year, possibly at the end of this semester at Grace College, where he has taught general biology, vertebrate zoology, and parasitology since 1966. Before that he taught five years at Wingate Junior College. He has an A. B. in anthropology from Wheaton College, a ThM. from Central Baptist Seminary of Kansas City, and an M.S. in zoology and botany from Ohio University (1961). Since 1963, most of Dan's summers have been spent in courses and institutes in various specialties: radiation biology, embryology, parasitology, comparative anatomy, paleontology. For the past three years he has supplemented



biological studies with study of the evidence for the age of the earth, and in 1973 spent two weeks at the Bermuda Biological Station studying environments of carbonate deposition.

(After hearing Dan's fine paper on "The Use of Non-radiometric Evidences for Age" at the annual meeting, we'd certainly expect him to be an outstanding and vigorous classroom teacher. We gather be has specialized in improving biology lab instruction on limited budgets, writing most of his own laboratory exercises and other study helps. He's been an ASA member since 1961.--Ed.)

POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE

.q_eattle Pacific College has had difficulty filling vacancies in the areas of educational psychology, special education, early childhood, and reading. of many applicants, few seem to be Christians. Established scholars interested in devoting their talents to upgrading the quality of Christian education at SPC should apply to: Dr. Max Jerman, Director, School of Educatlon, Seattle Pacific College, Seattle, WA 9C1_19._____

Taylor University has one or two openings for faculty in a 2-year program in systems analysis beginning June 1974 (See separate story in this issue). Taylor also has an opening for a faculty member with a strong background in botany and an interest in ecology and conservation. This person "should have the doctorate or be close to the completion of his program. Taylor is an independent Christian liberal arts college with a student body of approximately 1400. It has a strong program in the natural sciences and enjoys very adequate science teaching facilities. For further information please contact George W. Harrison, Acting Head, Biology Department, Taylor University, Upland,'IN 46989."

CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE THIS YEAR

It can happen to you. Go with John W. Montgomery behind the Iron Curtain to the birthplaces of the Reformation -;n-dw-ors'bip with East German Christians on New Year's Eve in Bach's church in Leipzig. This 8-day tour to Wittenberg, the Wartburg castle, Erfurt, Eisleben, Weimar, Buchenwald, Berlin, Paris, etc. with inspiring lectures throughout, will take place Dec. 26-Jan.2. All-expense paid trip for $674 - only a little more than Chicago - Berlin Airfare alone. For complete details on the trip write: Dept. of Church History, Trinity Seminary, Deerfield, Illinois 60015, or call collect 312/537-3986. Registration deadline is November 15.

LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES

San Francisco Bay

The July 26 meeting, held in conji-tuction with a Thursday evening fellowship supper at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, drew about 75 persons to a public lecture on "The Christian and Public Education." The speaker, Vernon L. Grose, vice president of Tustin Institute of Technology and a teacher of systems management, was well qualified to speak on the subject. He has been at the epicenter of the California science textbook controversy, having provided the wording for the muchdiscussed amendment to the Science Framework adopted by the State Board of Education back in 1969.

In his lecture, Vern addressed himself particularly to this question: "if we view ours as a pluralistic society, should the Christian seek or expect to have a significant voice in shaping public education policy in such subjects as physical science, social science, and student behavioral norms?" His first comment on the theme was to the effect that since this is a God-directed world, in the deepest sense we do not have a pluralistic society. He believes that Christians should probably not make a determined effort to get a school board to influence policy unless directly led to do so by God. But he does feel that the public school is about the only area for the development of values where influence can be exercised. The fruits, gifts, and signs of the Holy Spirit are needed badly in the minds and hearts of pupils in our public education,isystem. (Our thanks to ROY Gritter for a report of the meeting. --Ed.)

My apologies to any who have written to the office for information and not received a reply yet. The loss of our secretary has been severe and catised Eeveytll linfcrtunate delays.

I am happy to report that relief is on the way. After much looking I found a person almost exactly suited for the job. I marvel at the way our Lord makes things happen. I placed a large ad in the local paper and let it run for a week. At the end of the week there was only one response worth following up and I must say I was Pessimistic about much success with only one prospect. However, I had only asked the Lord for one secretary so I guess He wanted to be efficient with our time and sent us the right person without delay. After a lengthy intelview. some checking and a little prayer I offered the job to Doris Parker. the only qualified prospect. She accepted the job and will start Nov,-mber-1.

Doris attended both Bob Jones University and Moody Bible Institute before serving as a missionary in France. While in France she attended the University of Paris and received a certificate in French language. She returned to the Chicago area in 1955 and has worked in the headquarters of The Evangelical Alliance Mission in Wheaton since then with a variety of responsibilities. She has good secretarial skills and is enthusiastic about working for the ASA. I am looking forward to a long and pleasant working relationship.
                            In His Service,

                              6W

                            William D. Sisterson

                            Executive Secretary


PERSONALS

Miriam Adeney is beginning groAuate work in anthKopology at Washington State in Pullman, including a course in 14alayopolytionlan Syntax and an independent study project on conserving cultural traditions. Husband Michael tends a Christian bookstore ministering to students at WSU and the nearby U. of Idaho.

James J. Bare has been promoted to supervisor of the Clinical Laboratory in the Toxicology Dept. of the Miles Research Division, Miles Laboratories, Inc., Elkhart, Indiana. Jim joined the company soon after receiving his B.A. from Goshen College
in 1966. He has been an associate research biochemist since December 1969.

James E. Berney is back in Richmond, California, serving as western regional director of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. Jim had been on a year's study leave at Gordon-Conwell Seminary in the Boston area. He asks our prayers to undergird an "airlift" of west coast students to the 10th IVCF Missionary Convention at Urbana, Illinois, this Christmas, since serious problems arranging charter flights cropped up this summer.

,Terry Chin graduated from U. C. Berkeley last spring with an A.B. in medical PsYsics and psychology. He is now enrolled in Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and wants to get in touch with ASA'ers in our new Gulf-Southwest local section.

Gary Collins of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois had two books publish-ed this year: The Christian Psychology of Paul Tournier (Baker) and Man in Motion (Creation House), fourth volume in a series summarizing the findings of modern psychology for use by church leaders. Also, Gary's earlier book, A Psychologist1tooks  at Life, came out under a new title, Overcoming Aneiety.

Roger J. Cuffev has been promoted to associate professor of paleontology at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Roger's research on fossil and living bryozoans (miniature coral-like animals) took him to Australia in June, but he was back in time to give a paper at the ASA annual meeting featuring his favorite little fossil critters.

Wayne Frair, chairman of the Biology Dept. at The King's College, Briarcliff Manor, New York, also talked about his favorite animals (turtles) in his ASA paper--or at least about their serum,proteins. Wayne, who has been tidying up turtle taxa by electrophoretic and immunoelectrophoretic techniques, blended description of.his work into a more general discussion of studies on homologous proteins.

David W. Gill is now an instructor at the California Center for Biblical Studies in Cul r City, west of L.A. The Center is a Christian Brethren school offering a one-year, undergraduate-level program of Biblical and Christian studies. (CCBS Board chairman Clarke Howatt is professor of mechanical engineering at USC.) ,Founded in 1965, the school has 46 students and is expanding facilities to accommodate 80 next fall. Besides teaching apologetics, church history, and ethics, David is beginning PhD work in history at UCIA.

J. R. Gorham has moved from the Arctic Health Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, to FDAIHEW headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Roy J. Gritter of San Jose, California, is spending a 9-month sabbatical from the IBM Corporation Research Division as a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He will be studying mass spectrometry with professor Carl Dierassi of birth-control pill fame, and plans to continue research in this area (mass spec, not birth control) when he returns to IBM next July. Roy has been manager of the Analytical Group in the Organic and Polymer Dept., with responsibility for research in analytical methods.

Eugene C. Jekel has become chairman of the Chemistry Dept. at Hope College, Holland Michigan.

Max Jerman has become director of the School of Education, Seattle Pacific College, in Washington, moving from the mathematics education faculty of Penn State.

Paulette LeVantine has returned to U. C. San Diego. She is majoring in biology and employed by the Physics Dept. (Her address is 223 Ocean, Solana Beach, CA 92075, so you San Diego ASA'ers can contact her.)

Lawrence A. Nilson of Wayland, Mass., is on sabbatical leave from Weston High School, where he had been developing curricula in population education, environmental education (K-12), and plant physiology. His year at the University of Nottingham, England, will include visits to curriculum centers and schools as well as university courses. Lawrence received the National Association of BiOlogy Teachers 1973 award as "Outstanding Biology Teacher" for Massachusetts.

Allan M. Nishimura has completed his post-doctoral work at U.C. Berkeley and is now assistant professor of chemistry at Wichita State University in Kansas.

Duane E. Stevens of Belmont, Mass., received an M.S. in atmospheric physics I-A June from the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics of Harvard University.

Claude E. §Sipe, Marquette University anthropologist, has a paper on "Religion and Cultural Crises" in a special issue of Anglican Theological Review (Vol. 55, No. 3, July 1973) devoted to Issues in Theology and Culture. The same issue included an article by Paul Peachey on "Radicalization of the Religious Idiom and the Social Dislocation of Clergy," and mention of Gary Collins' various contributions (Our Society in Turmoil, Man in Transition, and Effective Counseling in a review Conservative Theology Today' by Harvey Arnold.

Charles R. Taber, after four years as translations consultant for the United Bible Societies in West Africa, is now visiting professor of anthropology and missions at Milligan College, Tennessee. In addition to the undergraduate program, Charles is planning a graduate institute of world studies and church growth hoping eventually to serve missionaries and Christian leaders from many countries. The Milligan College institute would maintain cordial contacts with Fuller's School of World Mission but develop its own distinctive emphases. Charles was the last editor of ' Practical Anthropology, now continuing as Missiology (see story this issue).

Charles Thaxton of Cambridge, Mass., is back in X-ray crystallography, figuring out how to cool crystals for the protein structure group in the Dept. of Chemistry at Brandeis University. After three years away from technical scientific work, he is surprised to find himself really enjoying it again. Charlie says "I think I was so tired when I finished my PhD that I must have mistaken fatigue for dislike."

Harold R. Tuttle is now junior and senior high school principal of Colorado Springs Christian School. He had been principal of Center High School in Center, Colorado.

Kenneth J. Van Dellen of Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, is a biologist who went back to school for ;-ome courses in geology and is now teaching geology at a community college. He says ASA News was "inope-Lativell again when we said the SKYLAB crew included the first- scientist sent into space: we must have overlooked geologist Jack Schmidt among the earlier astronauts. Ken had hoped to attend his first annual meeting after 10 years as an ASA member but some system must have been a No Go. (How about next year in Oklahoma, Ken? Lotsa geology down there.)

Merville Vincent will speak at the fall family conference of the Western Region, Christian Medi I Society, at Mt. Hermon, California, Nov. 2-4. Topic: "The Woman in Medicine: Wife, Single, Dr., or..." Merv is medical director of Homewood Sanitarium, Guelph, Ontario.

Sandra L. Wahl graduated from Mills College in May with a B.A. is psychology. Now she is beginning graduate work at the U. of Chicago. She hasn't made contact with ASA in the Chicago.area yet, so why don't you Chicago ASA'ers contact her? (Address: 1391 The Point, Barrington, Illinois 60010)

Edwin Yamauchi, recently promoted to full professor of history at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,,has had a new book, Pre-Christian Gnosticism: A Survey of the Proposed Evidences, released by Tyndale Press in England and by Eerdmans in the U.S. In June Ed was in the Boston area doing research for a book on ancient magic. While there he attended a surprise banquet in honor of his teacher, Cyrus H. Gordon, retiring from Brandeis University. Former students, including Ed, contributed to a book, Occident and Orient-, presented to Professor Gordon on the
occasion.

 IOctober 15, 1973

Dear Fellow Member of.the,ASA:

 I have just returned from our annual meeting at Geneva College and want to report to, you about the significance of this particular meeting. I have chosen the topic of significance for this report because I am convinced for many reasons that this meeting marked the attainment of a unity and a sense of Christian brotherhood in the ASA that is deeper and more pervasive than ever before. Many people at the meeting remarked about this; one veteran of 25 annual meetings stated that this was the most congenial and rewarding ASA meeting that he had-ever attended.

It is not immediately obvious why this meeting should have been so different from our others. Certainly, the setting and the accomodations of Geneva College as administered by George Jennings and Russ Heddendorf would have added greatly toward the success of any meeting. Also, the excellent program prepared by Dick Wright on Creation, Evolution, and Molecular Biology kept the lecture hall and corridors humming with discussion. Furthermore, the contributions of our new Executive Secretary Bill Sisterson were evident in the coordination of the various parts of the meeting. And finally, there was the presentation of the astounding events in the California textbook controversy by Bob Fischer which captured the imagination and emotional support of the audience.

Yet these factors, as numerous and important as they are, do not, for me at least, completely account for the new feeling that I mentioned above. We have been at other pleasant campuses and have had other good programs and, indeed, the 25-year veteran had already made his comment to me about the meeting before Bob Fischer gave his talk. Furthermore, the subject of Creation and Evolution has usually had a divisive rather than a unifying effect on our members.

So, what happened? Have the liberals or the conservatives taken over so that peace reigns by default? The answer, I believe, is-that neither group has taken over. Rather if anyone has taken over it is the Holy Spirit and we now have the lions and the lambs of the ASA lying together in peace. For, it is still a fact that there is great diversification of opinion in the ASA. At the meeting there was a hard-nosed paleontologist presenting evidence for evolution and an officer of the Creation Research Society presenting evidence against evolution. intellectually, there were no holds barred. Yet all discussion proceeded in the spirit of Christian brotherhood.

How can we account for this new spirit in the ASA? I believe that during our first 28 years, the ASA was, perhaps subconsciously, psychologically insecure. It was only too easy to doubt a person's Christian commitment if one disagreed with his interpretation of scripture. Those were difficult years in that the members in the ASA were a small minority defending a supposedly hopeless cause: the intellectual respectability of the Bible. The cause appeared hopeless to most people because the attacks on the Bible were strong. Thus, for 28 years the ASA has struggled with the intellectually demanding task of building a new foundation for intellectual trust in the Bible without giving away the message of the Bible as did the liberals, while at the same time accepting, but also critically evaluating, the conclusions of science. Naturally, during the construction of this foundation (for which there were few blueprints) many things were tried and many differences-of opinion were expressed. Now, however, while we all do not agree on the exact form of the foundation, most of us do agree that such a foundation has been constructed. Thus, we are now freed from the worst doubts and uncertainties of the past and we can discuss the form of the foundation with intellectual enjoyment.

I feel, therefore, that this new spirit among our membership is a permanent addition to the ASA. Naturally, it was sensed first by those in Christian fellowship at the meeting. I pray that this spirit will be recognized throughout our membership while we continue our work of strengthening those in the faith.

Sincerely in Him,


JOHN A McINTYRE
President