NEWSLETTER
of the

AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 28 Number 2                                                                                                April/May 1986


IS ASA ON YOUR AUGUST AGENDA?

The call for contributed papers for the 1986 ASA ANNUAL MEETING at HOUGHTON COLLEGE, AUGUST 8-10, should have reached you by now. Program chair Charles Hummel says this one is not to be missed, with its keynoter David Myers of Hope College (author of The Human Puzzle, outstanding symposia, and YOUR paper.

Here's your chance to find out how other intelligent and devoted people relate their Christian faith to science and technology-and to let them hear how YOU do it. How about leading a special interest group? Bryan Duncan of Auburn University wants to get together with others interested in aquacultural and agricultural development in Third World countries, for example.

Another good idea: start corresponding with a few other ASAers about some project you're interested in, then get together at Houghton in August to thrash out details and get going on it. That's how ASA's Committee on Integrity in Science Education began at the 1984 Annual Meeting. Now it's almost to the publication stage with a major writing project.


HERRMANN-EUTICS

The "TV OR NOT TV" story in the Feb/Mar Newsletter leads me to comment on some aspects of our plan for a five-part ASA television series. Timothy Ferris's November 1985 PBS special, "The Creation of the Universe," certainly went far in the direction we want to go. It was an amazing example of the power of the medium to invoke images and convey profound ideas to the viewing public. Enough talk about science and philosophy being too complicated for the modestly educated! That program lucidly illustrated complex ideas about unified field theory, bosons and gluons, and cosmological space and time.

Yet there was so much more. Writer Ferris showed us also how beautifully antagonism between science and religion can be dissipated. He used a cathedral, with majestic vault and flying buttresses, as a medieval counterpart of present-day particle accelerators. That profound comparison had been made by physicist and sculptor Robert Wilson, who actually modeled the Fermilab tower after the Beauvais Cathedral of France.

Each structure expresses ideas that "reach across the universe." The cathedral achieves soaring heights in space, the accelerator unprecedented heights of energy, but both provide a kind of ultimate expression of the unity of the laws that govern the universe.

I believe the Ferris program clearly demonstrated that we are on the right track, that the expense of producing an ASA science/faith series would be a wise investment.

Bob Mitchell, mentioned as the original "idea man" behind this project, has offered to shepherd ASA through a direct marketing campaign (his area of expertise), beginning with a $10,000 trial mailing to church people. For such an effort we will need funds over and above those budgeted for the current lecture program featuring Owen Gingerich. Please let me know if you can help in this aspect of our project.

At one point in "The Creation of the Universe," Timothy Ferris read a prayer by the great 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler:

Great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, Glorify Him sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him, through Him, and in Him are all things, Every perception and every knowledge. Amen. -Bob Herrmann

CSCA MAKES ITS MOVE

The Canadian Scientific & Christian Affiliation has definitely not been hibernating this winter. Although ill health forced Len Thomas to resign his volunteer position as executive secretary, Norman MacLeod has volunteered to pick up his task of answering correspondence and promoting CSCA. Norman's address is 41 Gwendolyn Ave, Willowdale, Ontario M2N 1A1.


Robert E. VanderVennen, chair of CSCA's Executive Council, is especially happy about responses to a request for support of a part-time campus ministry (See TORONTO, under LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES). The 47 responses, from six provinces stretching from B.C. to N.B., produced a total of almost $3000, enabling CSCA to go ahead with a commitment for the current academic year for Donald H. McNally to serve CSCA on Ontario campuses.

Bob VanderVennen is hoping that CSCAers outside of southern Ontario will be inspired by this pilot project to think up their own proposals for campus ministry. The ASA began a similar pilot project several years ago, providing part-time support for Bill Monsma of the MacLaurin Institute at the U. of Minnesota.


"AND THE DEAF HEAR"

Kenneth J. Dormer of Oklahoma City seems to be carrying on the very work Jesus referred to in Matthew 11:4. Ken writes that "the Lord continues to bless our work with the cochlear implant prosthesis. We are now implanting a programmable 22-channel device that is allowing the deaf to hear again."

For that work, Ken and a colleague received the 1985 "Oklahoma Inventor of the Year" award from the patent group of the Oklahoma Bar Association. Ken is an associate professor in the Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics at the U. of Oklahoma Colege of Medicine.

Ken has found other ways to witness within the scientific community. With Kurt Weiss, another departmental colleague and former ASA president, Ken has shared major responsibilities for organizing meetings of the Federation Christian Fellowship at annual meetings of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. At the April 1986 FASEB meeting in St. Louis, for example, Robert Brungs of the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology will address the FCF on "Bioethics: A Necessary But Not Sufficient Discipline."

Ken has also spearheaded formation of a Neuroscience Christian Fellowship. The second meeting took place in Dallas on 23 October 1985, during the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. At that meeting Harold Habecker spoke on "Our Fragile Brain: The Mystery of Personhood," giving his appraisal of the 1981 book by Gareth Jones.

"Those who have ears, let them hear" (Matthew 13:9).

CONFRONTING CONTROVERSY

Use and Abuse of Science in the Defense of Religion, proceedings of a conference held on 5 October 1985 at Purdue University North Central, are now available. To order a copy, send a check for $14.78 payable to Purhase copies of The Religion-Science Controversy: The University North Central, c/o Finance Office, Purdue N.C., Westville, IN 46391.

According to PNC physics professor Sherman Kanagy, who organized the conference, the 120-page proceedings contain copies of the five papers presented, his own detailed editorial comments on the papers, a transcript of comments made during an hour-long questionand-answer period, a list of participants, and a fourpage selected bibliography on interrelationships between science, pseudoscience, and Christianity.

Two of the papers are by ASA members. In his own paper, Sherm Kanagy asked "is Scientific Evidence Relevant to Justifying Religious Claims?" Wheaton College biologist Sara Miles discussed "Conflict, Compartmentalization, and Complementarity: Three Models for Understanding the Relationship Between Science and Religion." The three other speakers were philosopher Harold 1. Brown of Northern Illinois U. (author of Perception, Theory, and Commitment: the New Philosophy of Science, U. of Chicago Press, 1979); John W. Klotz of Concordia Seminary (author of the influential Genes, Genesis, and Evolution, Concordia, 2nd edn., 1972); and theologian Frederick A. Niedner, Jr., of Valparaiso University (co-author of Keeping the Faith: A Guide to the Christian Message, 1981).

The audience attending the conference consisted largely of professors from neighboring states, although much effort had been made to advertise the conference at churches and local Christian organizations. Sherm was somewhat puzzled that no pastors showed up, and essentially no one from Valparaiso (only 30 miles away), the largest Lutheran school in the U. S., even though Niedner teaches theology there, Kanagy has taught physics there, and Klotz is a Missouri Synod Lutheran. In spite of Koltz's prominence as a "scientific creationist," few if any of the 60 members of the audience seemed to represent that position.

Kanagy was pleased that a broad spectrum of positions on the relationship of science and Christianity was presented, and that "the interaction was in the best of taste and in a scholarly manner despite the strong differences in viewpoints." Sherm's Ph.D. from Illinois is in astronomy, by the way; he gave a paper on "The Star of the Magi" at the 1981 ASA Annual Meeting and defines himself theologically as a "moderate conservative."

This was not Sherm's first experience at confronting controversy. A few years ago, at Illinois State U., he teamed up with biologist Boyce Drummond to sponsor a "Creation/Evol ut ion" symposium. At Purdue, having developed an interest in criteria for demarcation of science from pseudoscience, he thought of combining that with his abiding interest in science/religion. The result was a conference on science/pseudoscience/religion, leaving that big word pseudoscience out of the title in the hope of attracting at least some Christians without doctorates.

Well, we can't win 'em all-but we can keep on trying.

BULLETIN BOARD

1. Attention Gene-Splicers! Elving, Anderson and Bob Herrmann are planning a 2 or 3 day conference on "Ethical Issues in Genetic Engineering" to be convened next winter or the following spring. Would you let the Central Office know if you are interested in presenting a paper, responding to someone else's paper, or just attending. Please tell us what you do and what you think, and also about any non-ASA-ers who should know about this!

2. W. Douglas Morrison, professor of animal & poultry science at the U. of Guelph, Ontario, has prepared a summary of his "Thoughts on Animal Welfare" presented at the CSCA Annual Meeting in October 1985. Doug would be glad to get some critiques on his lecture, available on request from him at P. 0. Box 386, Fergus, Ontario N1M 3E2, Canada.

3. Helen E. Martin would like to correspond with any ASA/CSCA members using signals from weather satellites such as GOES, NOAA, or meteor satellites. Helen's paper, "Satellite Signals in the Classroom? We Did It!" describing the winter satellite tracking station built at her high school and the curriculum materials she is developing, will appear soon in The Science Teacher. Helen has organized a panel discussion on this subject for the National Science Teachers Association meeting in San Francisco, March 26-29. She will also be presenting a slide show on use of direct readout from weather satellites at the AAAS meeting in Philadelphia, May 26-29. Address: 329 Lamborntown Rd., West Grove, PA 19390. (How about an ASA gathering at the AAAS, a tradition that ought to be revived?-Ed.)

4. Edward B. Davis of Messiah College calls attention to a short-course for college teachers on "Numerical Methods in Differential Equations" to be held at the college, May 26-30. Lecture and lab sessions will be taught by John Vanlwaarden, chair of Mathematics at Hope College and author of both text and software (Vax, Apple) for the course. Registration ($100) limited to 30 participants. Info: Dr. Marvin Brubaker, Messiah College, Grantham, PA 17027. Tel. 717/766-2511.

5. Russell Maatman, Natural Science Division chair at Dordt College (Sioux Center, IA 51250), asks for help in recruiting Christian students interested in agriculture or engineering. Dordt offers four-year majors in agriculture, animal science, plant science, and agribusiness, in addition to a two-year associate of arts degree, all with an emphasis on Christian stewardship and the agricutural needs of the ~vhole world. The Dordt Agricultural Stewardship Center has two farms used for teaching and research. Similarly, four-year majors in E.E., M.E., and engineering science stress Christian responsibility to tackle such problems as energy and environmental pollution. Dordt, an evangelical college in the Reformed tradition with about 1,000 students, also has strong programs in the basic sciences.

6. Leendert P. Mos of the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology at the U. of Aberta in Edmonton, a CSCA member, is editor of a new serial publication entitled Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Subscriptions, vols. 1 and 2 (1984), and vol. 3 (1985) are available from Plenum Publishing Corp., 233 Spring St., New York, NY 10013. Leendert says the Annals are devoted to the advancement of metatheory in psychology, including methodology, philosophical presuppositions, and historical context. Major papers, commentaries, and exchanges on foundational matters are also invited from allied disciplines in the social sciences.

7. The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP, pronounced "PsiCop"), publishers of the quarterly Skeptical Inquirer, will hold its 1986 conference on "Science and Pseudoscience" at the U. of Colorado at Boulder on April 25-26. Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould will give the keynote address, marking CSICOP's tenth anniversary. Besides papers on UFOs and parapsychology, a session of three papers (Saturday afternoon) will be devoted to "Evolution and Science Education."

8. VITA (Volunteers in Technical Assistance) is a private, nonprofit organization that has supported people working on technical problems in developing countries for the past 25 years. Some 5,000 volunteer professional experts have helped solve problems for individuals and organizations overseas, and have published useful papers on such technologies as solar energy, agricultural waste recycling, rural health care, and brickmaking.

VITA needs new volunteers to broaden its base in certain skill areas, including agribusiness & agricultural economics; computers & other high-tech fields; business development & joint ventures; and small-scale, low-cost engineering & construction. For further information, contact; VITA, P.O. Box 12438, Arlington, VA 22209-2079.

9. Why doesn't some local section of ASA or CSCA (or both) figure out how to organize the collection of used technical books to send overseas to mission schools and other needy enterprises? If one section would pioneer such a ministry, a Newsletter report on your "R & D" efforts would spread the word to other sections. The International Book Project (address: 1440 Delaware Ave., Lexington, KY 40505) already knows how. Having sent books overseas on a grassroots, volunteer basis for years, IBP would welcome contributions of books (write first about their needs) or money for shipping costs, but would also be glad to help ASA/ CSCA set up our own operation. Their bimonthly What's New, with letters from recipients around the world, should inspire some ASA entrepreneurs, because the needs are so great. In 1984, over 30,000 books were sent by individuals or groups working with IBP, which shipped over 50,000 more itself, using contributed books and contributed funds for postage.

10. Over a year ago Gerald Bergman of Bowling Green, Ohio, sent us a copy of a magazine we hadn't seen before, Liberty, a publication of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and the International Religious Liberty Association. Dedicated to the preservation of religious freedom through quiet diplomacy, the association "advocates no political or economic theories." Published bimonthly by the Review and Herald Publishing Assn. (55 West Oak Ridge Dr., Hagerstown, MD 21740. $6.25 per year), Liberty is in its 80th volume.

The Jan/Feb 1985 issue had an article by Mitchell A. Tyner entitled "The Professor Who Lost His Job" detailing Jerry Bergman's religious discrimination suit against Bowling Green State. An article by Henry P. Zuidema in the same issue, "Teaching Scientific Creationism on Campus: Is The Controversy Cooling?" dealt with a flap at Michigan State over John N. Moore's teaching in MSU's General Education College. In it we learned that the G.E. College has been phased out and that Moore, now retired, provides a consulting service on how to teach "special creation" in public schools "without ACLU interference."

11. Research on what happened to the dinosaurs 65 million years ago continues, and continues to take surprising turns. In a search for meteoric material at Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sites in Denmark, Spain, and New Zealand, Edward Anders and coworkers at the U. of Chicago discovered evidence of a world-wide deposit of soot. In a paper on "Cretaceous Extinctions" in Science (11 Oct 1985; pp. 167-170), they argue that the collision of a giant meteorite with the earth must have caused wildfires that dumped tons of soot into the air. The soot, added to the rock dust from the impact (already accused of "doing in" the dinosaurs), made the "meteoric winter" even worse. The amount of soot found also indicated that wildfires would make a more devastating contribution than previously thought to the "nuclear winter" after an all-out nuclear war.

This topic has such wide-ranging implications for scientific theories and public attitudes that Sherm Kanagy (See CONFRONTING CONTROVERSY, above) is planning a conference tentatively titled "Dinosaur Extinction Theories: The Revival of Catastrophism in Biology, Geology, and Astronomy." The conference will be held at Purdue University North Central, probably in October 1986. For further information, or to suggest good speakers for such a conference, contact: Dr. Sherman Kanagy, Dept. of Physics, Purdue University North Central, Westville, IN 46391.

OBITUARIES

1. Robert M. Adams of Dallas, Texas, died of cardiac arrest on 22 November 1985, at age 72. Born in Rome, Georgia, Bob received a B.S. in mathematics from John B. Stetson University in Florida in 1938 and did graduate work at the U. of Texas in Austin, where he taught for many years. He was a member of various mathematics and engineering societies and of Scofield Memorial Church of Austin, where a memorial service was held on November 25, "befitting the passing of a believer."

Bob Adams was an effective witness on the U.T. campus, a man of deep faith, broad interests, and ready wit.

He is survived by his wife Annie Jo, a brother and sister, sons Bob, Jr., and Charles, three grandchildren-and a large extended family. Bob cared about people and was a good companion.

For the past ten years, since his retirement, Bob had worked at the center in Dallas where, young people are trained to become Wycliffe Bible translators. Contributions to the Robert Adams Memorial Fund may be sent to The International Linguistics Center, Inc., 7500 West Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236.

2. Donald H. Porter of Marion, Indiana, died of a massive heart attack on 7 February 1985. Donald was 78, a mathematics professor retired from Marion College, a member of ASA for over 35 years and Fellow for perhaps the last fifteen. He took an active role in the Indiana ASA local section and was a member of a Wesleyan church in Marion.

After graduating from Marion College in 1929, Donald earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Indiana University. He taught math and physics at Taylor as well as at Marion, was a member of Sigma Xi and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics at the time of his death. He had contributed a chapter to John Clover Monsma's Evidence of God in an Expanding Universe (Putnam, 1958).

Mrs. Olive Porter wrote ASA that the suddenness of her husband's death was responsible for the long delay in notifying us of his passing. She added that "the American Scientific Affiliation was very dear to Donald's heart."

BOOKENDS & NODS

At its 1985 meeting in Toronto, the international Fellowship of Faith for Muslims elected anthropologist and ASA member George Jennings its vice-chair. That reminded us to mention several books by George available from Middle East Missions Research, P.O. Box 632, Le Mars, IA 51031 (prepaid only; add $2 per book for postage & handling).

At reduced prices: All Things, All Men, All Means-To Save Some, $5.75 ("world-wide survey by a cultural anthropologist geared for mission work cross-culturally"); Hadith: A Composite Middle Eastern Village Under a Mission Consultant's Gaze, $4.85; and A Mission Consultant Views Middle Eastern Culture and Personality, $3.74 ("an extended probe into how Middle Easterners think, feel, and act, so commonly misunderstood").

Welcome Into the Middle East (pre-publication price, $14.50) is due early in 1986, "imperative for all mission personnel and organizations working there." Its publication will commemorate the merger ten years ago of the Lebanon Evangelical Mission (begun in 1860), Middle East General Mission, and Arabic Literature Mission; the resulting Middle East Christian Outreach is the largest international, interdenominational, evangelical Christian mission working in the Middle East today.

WELCOME TO THE 20TH CENTURY. PART 6

Personal computers give some people the jitters, partly because we don't understand how they work but also because they present us with choices we've never before had to make. That's why advertisements for software so often emphasize a product's "user friendliness." A "friendly" program guides the user through the options it offers. Although WordStar is considered by some to be complicated or even haughty, by now we're on very friendly terms with it. Of course, friends sometimes do kid around with each other.

We've mentioned the mischievous tricks WordStar plays on us when we hit the wrong key or forget to turn on or off one of its options. But it has also taught us many "tricks of the trade" to make writing easier and faster. For example, we've learned to "save to disk" whenever the telephone or some other interruption calls us away from the computer. (Otherwise, a power outage during an extended interruption could erase from memory what we've written.) On our return, instead of "scrolling" through a long document to get back to work, we can use a single command to take the cursor back to where we were, immediately.

A whole series of tricks is possible with "search and replace" commands. For example, if a new PERSONALS item comes in the mail after we've put most of the Newsletter together, we don't have to scroll all the way through 15 pages of text to get to that section. We use the search command. It asks us (on the screen) what to search for. We type in PERSONALS and the cursor goes right to that word. We scroll down to the right place in the alphabetical order and drop the item in, WordStar automatically shoving the following copy down to make room.

The search command will take the cursor to a designated word every time that word appears. The word can even be replaced automatically throughout the text. That trick can be expanded into a time-saver for typing the same phrase repeatedly. Suppose the phrase "American Scientific Affiliation" will appear many times. Instead of typing it each time, we can type in a short "stand-in" character (like % or $) or set of characters (like ZAP) that won't appear otherwise in the text. Then at the end we tell WordStar to find that character everywhere it occurs and zap in "American Scientific Affiliation" as a replacement.

Another shortcut is to reprogram seldom-used keys to perform special functions. Our CP/M (Control Program/ Microcomputers) operating disk has a built-in program to do that for certain keys, such as the ten-key numeric keypad included on our keyboard console. We put in the CP/M disk, type CONFIG, and a menu leads us through the steps to reconfigure, say, the "9" key on that pad. Then it automatically types in "American Scientific Affiliation," or maybe "Sincerely yours," whenever we hit that key while using WordStar.


Neat, huh? Some auxiliary programs do amazing things when linked to WordStar. MailMerge is a program used to "personalize" form letters. Type the basic text of the letter and tell MailMerge where to drop in an individual name, address, or whatever, plus the name of the file in which you've stored that information. It puts everything together correctly for dozens-or thousands-of letters.

We haven't used MailMerge yet but we've tried another program that came with our first package deal. It's a "spelling checker" called The Word Plus. With its 45,000-word dictionary stored in highly condensed form on our WordStar diskette, it's possible to check every word in a long document against that dictionary and also against our own list of additional words. The part of the program called Spell tells how many words didn't match, then calls them up one by one and gives the option of changing them or leaving them as is (and also of adding them to the dictionary or a supplemental word list).

Actually we don't use Spell regularly. It takes time and it isn't perfect; it has trouble with hyphenated words and possessives with apostrophes in them. Besides, an editor likes to eyeball "hard copy" anyway, and maybe we're too proud to admit that a machine might do a better proofreading job. But The Word Plus can do some cute tricks, such as showing us an alphabetical list of every word in a document, along with the number of times that word appears. One of its simplest programs is very handy for a writer. In a second or two, with a single command, Word Count will tell us the number of words in what we've written.

We just checked. This story has 797 words so far. That's probably enough. Hope they're all spelled right. (To be continued.)

PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS

John Paul McKiness (324 N. Howard St., Moscow, ID 83843) seeks either a summer job or a permanent position in geology. John, 36, has a B.A. in history (1976) and B.S. in geology (1981) from the U. of Idaho, and is writing his M.S. thesis in geology there now. His concentration has been in clastic sedimentology and paleoenvironmental analysis of the Late Cenozoic. He has taught physical and historical geology, and the geology of Idaho and Pacific Northwest at the university. John is interested in geological mapping and related field work, core analysis, or teaching introductory geology courses.

POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE

The University of Swaziland in Africa needs two staff members in physics to complement 3 Swazi physicists and 2 UK-trained lab technicians. An expatriate professor is leaving after 4 years, another retiring after 10 years. Teach lab and lecture, initiate M.S.-level research, develop new equipment, maintain contact with professional organizations, employers. Degree is closer to applied physics than pure physics. Two-year contract plus traveling expenses for family, other allowances. Labs are modern but equipment somewhat scarce (donations of equipment are welcome). Send 3 copies of application, including detailed c.v., copies of academic/professional certificates, and addresses of 3 references, by 30 March 1986, to: Senior Assistant Registrar, University of Swaziland, Kwaluseni, Swaziland, Africa. (Received Feb 1986 from D.Wayne Linn, Dept. of Biology, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR 97520; Wayne taught at Kwaluseni and would be glad to supply further information.)

Daystar University College in Kenya is another African school interested in expatriate teachers. The only Christian liberal arts college in black Africa, it offers degrees in communications at both the B.A. and M.A. levels. Contact: Dean of Faculty, Daystar University College, P.O.Box 44400, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa. (Received Jan 1986 from David Dunkerton, who teaches counseling and math and serves as college chaplain. For more information, contact David at P.O. Box 21141, Nairobi.)

Hong Kong Baptist College in Southeast Asia seeks applicants in biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics for fall 1986 and fall 1987. Normally a 2-year contract is required. HKBC is one of 5 tertiary institutions in the public sector, unique in its commitment to Christian principles and whole-person education. "The atmosphere encourages close fellowship and witness among a highly motivated professional staff and equally motivated students." A new course, B.Sc. (Honours) degree course in combined sciences, will begin in 1986, so the science faculty welcomes applied/interdisciplinary applicants for each of its departments. For further information, send c.v. to: Dr. Jerry W. Barrett, Dean, Faculty of Science, Hong Kong Baptist College, 224 Waterloo Rd., Kowloon, Hong Kong. (Received Feb 1986.)

John Brown University in Arkansas seeks a Ph.D. in zoology for a full-time position teaching zoology, anatomy & physiology, and general ed. science. Interest in directing undergraduate research desirable. An evangelical college located 90 miles east of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Contact: Dr. A. J. Anglin, Dean, John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR 72761. (Received Jan 1986.)

Whitworth College in Washington wants to fill the Edward B. Lindaman Chair in communications, technology, & change with an interdisciplinary scholar with a vision for "the appropriate use of technology to enhance liberal learning." Temporary or tenure-track appointment considered. Applications (including letter of interest, resum6, 3 recommendations, statement of personal Christian Faith) to: Personnel Office, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA 99251. (Received Jan 1986; call 509/466-3202 to see if still open.)

LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES

TORONTO

The section is experiencing a lot of activity this spring. Professor Colin Russell of Britain's Open University (See BOOKENDS & NODS in the Feb/Mar issue) will lecture under CSCA auspices in Toronto on March 17. He will be in Ontario to give the 1986 Pascal Lectures at the U. of Waterloo, on "Science and Apocalypse: Worlds in Decay, and Day of the Trumpet," Mar. 11-13.

On March 26, ASA's traveling roadshow plays at the U. of Toronto, with Harvard astronomer Owen Gingerich lecturing on "Copernicus and Worldviews" at 3 p.m., presenting the proposed ASA television series at a coffee and dessert at 6:30 p.m., and giving a general public lecture on "Creation of the Universe" at 8 p.m.

The most significant news may be the experimental appointment of Donald H. McNally as part-time campus resource person to give CSCA greater visibility on Canadian campuses. In the name of CSCA, Don will work directly with students as appropriate, serve as a consultant to leaders of existing campus ministries, produce short bibliographies and other materials, and advise campus groups on literature for their booktables. He will fly the CSCA flag about 25 hours per month.

Don is currently a part-time visiting associate professor in a joint appointment with the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and St. Michael's College, U. of Toronto. He divides his time between Toronto (Mon-Tues) and Hamilton (Wed-Sun). Don's teaching and research interests concern the interaction of Christian faith with the development of science, influenced both by his own Evangelical and Reformed Christian commitment and by the work of the Catholic scholar, Stanley Jaki.

PERSONALS

Stanley E. Anderson is on leave from Westmont College as a Fulbright professor of chemistry at Khartoum University in Sudan, Africa. He is teaching a course in organometallic chemistry and collaborating on several research projects. He is also consulting with people in several departments about curriculum revision. Inflation has made life very difficult for university faculty, so many moonlight at other jobs, or their spouses also work. Stan offers encouragement in various ways, finds the situation open to sensitive Christian concern in spite of the rule of Islamic law in Sudan. Sons Joel and Mike are in American and British schools; wife Suzanne helps out three days a week at a guest house run by the Sudan Interior Mission.

Anita L. Austin-Modzelewski is majoring in secondary education at Trenton State College in New Jersey while serving as "resident master" (i.e., dorm parent) at The Hun School in Princeton. Hun is a private prep school for grades 6-12, with boarding for grades 9-12. Anita is a voluntary leader for FOCUS (Fellowship of Christians in Universities & Schools), finding that her live-in job allows her freedom to integrate her faith with the academics taught at The Hun School. "God's detailing is perfect," she says.

Mark A. Breederland has been working at the AuSable Institute of Environmental Studies in Mancelona, Michigan. After a B.S. in biology & environmental sciences from Taylor in 1984, Mark pursued an M.S. in environmental science at Miami in Ohio. In April he begins work in environmental planning (water resources) for the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments in Traverse City, Michigan.

Donald G. Davis, associate professor of library & information science at the U. of Texas in Austin, was preparing for a lecture and study tour of Eastern European libraries in March 1986. In October 1985 Donald participated in a symposium on "Book Studies in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe" sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Bibliography and Documentation Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

Edward Lewis Dick corrected an item about himself that appeared a couple of issues ago. When he transferred from UCLA to the U. of Texas Health Science Center last fall, it was not to Houston but to the Center's extension program in San Antonio. Lew says he is interested in further grad studies in tropical medicine, international health, and/or microbiology, and is looking into service opportunities in China. He'd be glad to correspond with ASAers about choosing a graduate program and/or China. (Address: 2715 Marlborough, San Antonio, TX 78230.)

George Jennings, emeritus professor of psychological anthropology from Geneva College, settled down for his "retirement" in Le Mars, Iowa-which happens to be the birthplace of the late Clyde Kluckholm, world famous Harvard anthropologist. In the 1920's, while recuperating from illness on a New Mexico ranch, Kluckholm began a lifelong interest in the Navajo. George Jennings, better known for studies of the Muslim world, seems to continue that interest. He and wife June have visited Navajoland over a period of three decades. In October 1985 George led a seminar for Navajo pastors and lay Christian leaders at Window Rock, Arizona, headquarters for the 150,000-member tribe. George says that many Navajos have been receptive to the gospel message because-as Kluckholm observed-their worldview makes them more open to new ideas than some other Native American peoples.

Wil Lepkowski, senior editor of Chemical & Engineering News of the American Chemical Society, had a major 15-page story on "Bhopal: Indian City Begins to Heal but Conflicts Remain" in the 2 Dec 1985 issue of that weekly magazine. In 1984 Wil went to Bhopal, capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh, to cover the explosion of a Union Carbide plant that killed at least 1,800 people and affected probably a third of the city's million inhabitants one way or another. Wil's 1985 story probed what has been learned from "the calamity that rocked the conscience of the chemical industry" -and the legal and sociopolitical tangles that remain.

Richard J. Mawhorter, Jr., received his Ph.D. in experimental atomic physics at the U. of Texas in May 1985, and is now an NRC post-doc at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. His research in electron ion scattering is being published in J. Chem. Physics, Molecular Physics, and J. Physics B. Richard, wife Jennifer, and 14-month-old Sarah enjoy Pasadena, especially the fellowship with members of Pasadena Covenant Church, Fuller Seminary, and the U.S. Center for World Mission.

Eric J. Miller of IVCF's multimedia Twentyonehundred Productions team travels as a consultant to other Christian student movements associated with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. Last spring Eric led workshops at a European IFES student conference held in the Netherlands. In January 1986 he was in England and Scandinavia; in March he was expecting to be in the Philippines, where Christian students have played a significant role in opposing the autocratic Marcos regime. Reminding us that centuries ago the Reformers used the newly-invented printing press to spread God's Word, Eric points to today's revolution of electronic media and prays "that God will continue to give each of us creativity, insight, and clarity in communicating the Good News of the Gospel."

Kathryn A. Nelson is now assistant professor of library science and biology at Marycrest College in Davenport, Iowa, serving as the cataloguer in the college library. After a B.A. in biology from Grinnell and an M.S. in botany from the U. of Iowa, Kathryn taught biology for nine years at Hann i bal-LaGrange College in Missouri. Then she want back to the U. of Iowa to complete an M.A. in library & information science in August 1985. While there she wrote a bibliography and a collection development project dealing with creation and evolution.

Steven Schumacher is a member of the scientific staff of Bell Northern Research Ltd. in Toronto, Ontario. Steve received a B.Math. in computer science from the U. of Waterloo a couple of years ago, then studied hermeneutics, history, and philosophy at Regent College in Vancouver, B.C. Influenced there by Polanyi's "postcritical" epistemology, Steve feels indebted to Regent for a foundation for life-long learning , although he adds "God help the explorer." For example, after developing an interest in sacramental theology, he has explored Anglicanism, but concern over Anglican "lefthemisphere dominance" has recently led him to explore Jungian psychology. His life "breathes apologetics" and he hopes to do some writing, perhaps including science fiction.

Joseph Spradley is professor of physics at Wheaton College in Illinois, where he has been since 1959 (except for leaves of absence to teach in Lebanon and Nigeria). Joe wrote an article on "Yukawa and the Birth of Meson Theory" that appeared in the May 1985 issue of The Physics Teacher. The year 1985 was the 50th anniversary of the meson theory of nuclear forces (basis of today's prevailing quark iheory); the theory was developed in Japan by Hideki Yukawa, awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1949. Joe reviewed the rapid assimilation of Western science in that formerly isolated country as well as Yukawa's contributions,. Joe's fascinating article on "Particle Physics in Prewar Japan" in the Nov/Dec 1985 American Scientist is based on his earlier article in The Physics Teacher.

Merville 0. Vincent is a psychiatrist with a long history at The Homewood Sanitarium in Guelph, Ontario. Founded in 1883 as the first private psychiatric hospital in Ontario, Homewood is now the largest private psychiatric hospital in Canada. "M. 0." Vincent joined the staff in 1960, became executive director in 1972. In addition to his administrative and clinical duties, he is a contributing editor of the Christian Medical Society's CMS Journal. His God, Sex and You, originally published in 1971 by Holman (Lippincott), will soon be reissued by Barbour Company of New Jersey and G. R. Welch in Canada. A new phase of M. O.'s career is about to begin. Leaving Homewood after 26 years, he plans to move to Salmon Arm, B.C., to enter private psychiatric practice in the fall of 1986.

Glenn P. Vonk has left a position in organic synthesis at Ash Stevens Inc. to join Becton Dickinson's Research Center at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He is developing time-resolved fluorescent immunoassay procedures.

Margil W. Wadley of Orange, California, has been named laboratory services manager in the Technical Services Division of the South Coast Air Quality Management District in El Monte. The SCAQM District is a California state agency set up to monitor and control air pollution in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and part of San Bernardino counties. Margil's group of 30 chemists and technicians analyzes samples collected by several hundred inspectors throughout that notorious "smog basin." With a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Bethany Nazarene College, M.S. from Oklahoma State, and Ph.D. from Purdue, Margil also has over 16 years' experience in air pollution control.