NEWSLETTER

AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 28 Number                                                                          February/March 1986

LINDQUIST TO COUNCIL; HUNT PRESIDENT

Psychologist Stanley E. Lindquist, president of Link Care Center in Fresno, California, was elected to the ASA Executive Council for a five-year term beginning in 1986. Lindquist founded Link Care to provide counseling, training, and restoration for missionaries who serve in crosscultural situations. Considering the responsibility and lack of remuneration entailed in service on the Council, nominee Thomas F. Cummings may be glad for those few votes that gave Stan the edge. With an extremely close vote the ASA membership also honored Tom, a Bradley University chemistry professor who has long served ASA faithfully.

At its November 1985 meeting in Ipswich the Council elected the officers who will serve as ASA's officers for 1986. Chemist Ann Hunt of Eli Lilly & Co. was elected president. Geochemist Edwin Olson of Whitworth College became vice-president; IVCF faculty representative Charles Hummel, secretary; and sociologist Russell Heddendorf of Covenant College, past-president. (Ann probably wouldn't want much fuss about her being the first woman president of ASA; we're just stating the facts, ma'am.-Ed.)

Lindquist replaces biologist Donald Munro of Houghton College. Having completed his five-year term on the Council, including a year as president, does Don now recede quietly into the background? Not a bit of it. As local arrangements chair for the 1986 ASA ANNUAL MEETING, to be held AUGUST 8-10 at HOUGHTON COLLEGE in HOUGHTON, NEW YORK, he will be busier than ever than ever this year. (is that meeting on your calendar?-Ed.)

Maybe we all rate higher marks these days for making ASA better known. The name of our Affiliation keeps cropping up in unexpected places. In a Christianity Today story on U.S. evangelical groups that have lasted 50 years (8 Nov 1985, p. 41), writer Bruce Shelley notes that "the American Scientific Affiliation, a scholarly society for evangelical scientists," will reach that milestone in 1991, along with IVCF-US, beating out the National Association of Evangelicals by one year.

In Journal of Marriage and the Family (May 1985, pp. 369-79), ASA was at least mentioned in a paper on "The Religion and Family Connection: Increasing Dialogue in the Social Sciences" from Brigham Young University. Prof. Darwin Thomas and his student Gwendolyn Henry compiled a table of fifteen social science organizations focusing on religion. A footnote says that even though we "include a focus on religion," ASA is not in their list because "most of the members are either philosophers or physical scientists, rather than social scientists."

CTNS Bulletin of Berkeley's Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences has a new section called "Member Profiles." The Autumn 1985 issue features excerpts of a letter from ASA Newsletter editor Walter Hearn. It is mostly a testimony of ASA's significance in his life as a Christian in science, plus a discussion of problems addressed by both CTNS and ASA. (Too bad ASA's address didn't make it in. O.K., an "A-" for Wait.-Ed.)

(All this talk about grades reminds the Weary Old Editor why he gave up teaching. But he still has hard decisions to make, because there's never room for everything. If an item you submitted or an important story hasn't made it into print, don't give up. We ended 1985 with a lot of leftover Newsletter copy, some of it already "bumped" from earlier issues. That's a "minus"; the "plus" is that it shows how much is going on within ASA, in our 45th year.-WOE)

Time magazine's cute headline referred to the 13 Sept 1985 rejection by the California State Board of Education of all science textbooks submitted for adoption for grades 7 and 8. State Superintendent Bill Honig's complaint about watered-down treatment of biological evolution was widely endorsed in editorials in science journals. Anti-evolutionists also responded. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries in Florida sent a letter asking everyone on his huge mailing list to sign a petition to Honig, seeking "the right to have the biblical account of creation presented on an equal basis with the theory of evolution in our children's textbooks."

Three months later, on December 12, the State Board of Education held a hearing on revisions the publishers had thrown together to try to make their books acceptable. David Price and Walter Hearn of ASA's Committee for Integrity in Science Education went to Sacramento for the hearing. David was one of several dozen speakers, each allotted three minutes. Wait kept score. Twenty scientists and others said the revisions still weren't strong enough. Three representatives from the Creation Science Research Center (CSRC) and one other speaker wanted evolution watered down even more. One speaker stressed integrity and wisdom (a Price of great pearls?Ed.)

The next day the Board accepted the revisions, so the kids would at least have some textbooks. CSRC threatened to sue. The Board asked scientists to show interest earlier in the process next time around. The ASA Committee for Integrity in Science Education went back to work, on the current draft of its booklet to help teachers caught in the crossfire.

Bob also sent a letter he had written to CT early in 1982, applauding Pinnock and making its own eloquent points: "It's high time for Christian scientists to come together, develop a Christian philosophy of science (as Dr. Ramm suggested years ago) and offer the public-not just sectarian journals-an alternative, Christian, scientifically valid answer to Cosmos, evolution, and the like."

Bob was particularly upset by the blurring of metaphysical and scientific statements. When he wrote that letter he had not heard of ASA. "Where is the Christian, scientific community?" it asked. "Can't we raise funds to mount a series like Cosmos from a Christian perspective? I would be willing to work hard on such a project if I knew whom to talk to. Can you help?" Although CT never replied, various people to whom he sent copies, including Clark Pinnock, put him in touch with ASA. Someone invited him to a ASA local section meeting at Nyack College in March 1982. Bob Herrmann was there, had him read his CT letter to the participants, and the rest (as they say) is history.

Well, not history quite yet. But we're working on it. Meanwhile, Bob Mitchell says he (and his children) have learned a lot from watching TV-yes, even from Cosmos, The Ascent of Man, and other programs he can't agree with in their entirety. Would Hartzler say that because

the newsstands are full of pornography, Christians should have nothing to do with magazines? If so, we'd have no Readers's Digest, Christianity Today, or JASA. Even if some viewers won't get much out of ASA's proposed TV series, "the important point is that it will be a statement for Christ, a little light in a world overrun by darkness-the darkness of scientism that says that human reason and science alone can lead to truth." It is inconceivable to the Mitchell family that the most powerful means of communication should be abandoned by Christians. "For these reasons, the ASA TV series deserves and demands our undivided support and enthusiasm."

Speak of the universe, and .... Did you catch the PBSTV special on November 20, "The Creation of the Universe?" Underwritten by Texas Instruments, it was written by Timothy Ferris, an award-winning science writer who teaches journalism and the history and philosophy of science at USC in Los Angeles. Tying "Grand Unified Theories" of fundamental particles to the "Big Bang," the one-hour show was not only devoid of Saganism but actually reverent toward Scripture's statement of what happened "in the beginning."

(The program immediately following on our PBS channel was "Comet Halley," another excellent science documentary. And who was among the astronomers interviewed on that one? ASA member Kyle Cudworth of the U. of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory. Sorry, Harold. That one evening was enough to put us on the Mitchell/Herrmann/Gingerich side of the argument.-Ed.)

An emeritus professor of the U. of Michigan, Ken is known to most Christians for his association with Wycliffe Bible Translators and his role in establishing the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Ken helped translate the SIL's first New Testament into the Mixtec language of Mexico. (Fifty years later, Ken and Evelyn spent Christmas 1984 in San Miguel el Grande, and found that they speak Mixtec better than the Mixtec children-who now speak Spanish. This Christmas the Pikes were working in Guatemala, expecting to be in Asia for SIL in the spring.-Ed.)

In recent years Ken has been thinking and writing more broadly. His paper at a philosophy congress in Spain this fall went beyond the mechanistic framework of most of the other papers. What he and Evie dream of is "a kind of philosophy growing out of our linguistic experience which will help students to go to college, accept a thirst for knowledge through science, but not lose the thirst for truth through belief in God."

BULLETIN BOARD

1. Agricultural scientist Tom Dent leaves Gordon College (Wenham, MA 01984) about February 20 for a one-semester sabbatical, studying missionary influence on Central American agricultural and conservation practices. Tom requests information on agricultural missions and missionaries he might visit in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras from April to mid-May. In March he can be reached c/o ECHO, Inc., RR 2, Box 852, North Fort Myers, FIL 33903 (tel.: 813/997-4713), where he will work on the "plantation" Martin Price devotes to under-utilized Third World food plants. Information that doesn't reach Tom in time for the field portion of his project would still be useful for later follow-up work.

2. At the 1983 ASA Annual Meeting at George Fox College, George Murphy (Pastor, St. Mark Lutheran Church, 158 North Avenue, Box 201, Tallmadge, OH 44278) described an adult religious education program on theology and evolution which he had developed. For those who asked about it, George announces its publication in February 1986 by Morehouse-Barlow under the title The Trademark of God. George also deals with the major theological issues in a forthcoming JASA article.

1. Robert J. Albers, chemistry professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, died of stomach cancer at age 47 on 3 September 1985. A Calvin graduate, Bob received his Ph.D. at the U. of Connecticut (under ASA member Roy Gritter, now at IBM) and did postdoctoral work at Leiden in the Netherlands and at Florida State in Tallahassee. He had also taught at Northern Illinois in De Kalb before joining the Calvin faculty in 1972. Bob did collaborative research with Fritz Rottman, a Calvin classmate now on the biochemistry faculty at Case Western Reserve; they began publishing together when Rottman was at Michigan State. Bob Albers was a long-time member of ASA. He is survived by his wife and three children. (Our thanks for much of this information to Bob's brother-in-law, Calvin biologist Uko Zylstra. Uko is the brother of Bernard Zy1stra of Toronto's Institute for Christian Studies, whose illness has also been diagnosed as stomach cancer.-Ed.)

2. Arthur C. Custance of Brockville, Ontario, died on 22 October 1985. Arthur had not been a member for many years, but he attended Annual Meetings when he was just beginning to self-publish his long series of Doorway Papers. (Yes, our old copy of his Paper No. 3 dated "Ottawa, 1957," lists him as an ASA member on the title page.-Ed.) Those papers were eventually collected in a massive multivolume hardcover series by Zondervan, still in print. His last four books were Sovereignty of Grace, Seed of the Woman, Journey Out of Time, and Two Men Called Adam. Although his writings demonstrated great breadth of scholarship, he regarded himself primarily as an orientalist and anthropologist. Some years ago he visited the Kirklands in Bethesda; his secretary, Evelyn White, sent Glenn a copy of the program from the October 27 memorial service. It included a passage from Journey Out of Time in which Arthur anticipated his meeting with the Lord as "a day of rejoicing." (Thanks to Glenn Kirkland for passing the word on to us.-Ed.)

3. Gilbert E. Goheen of Kiln, Mississippi, died in the fall of 1985; on October 21 the ASA office was notified of his death. He had been a member only since February, perhaps after seeing the write-up of the 1984 Annual Meeting in Chem. & Engineering News. Born in 1912, he received a B.S. from Illinois in 1934, and an M.S. (1935) and Ph.D. (1938) from the U. of Iowa, all in chemistry. His specialties were organic and agricultural chemistry, and he eventually retired as assistant director of the Southern Regional Research Center of USDA's Agricultural Research Service in New Orleans. He was the author of 23 publications and patents.

4. John R. Howitt of Toronto died on 31 August 1985, halfway through his 94th year. He was buried on September 4 in Guelph, Ontario, where his parents and siblings were already buried. John received his M.B. in 1915 and his M.D. in 1928, both at the U. of Toronto. He specialized in psychiatry and eventually retired as superintendent of Ontario Hospital in Port Arthur. In addition to membership in various medical societies he was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of the American Psychiatric Association. A very-long-time member of ASA (later CSCA), he attended almost every Annual Meeting, generally assisted by his nephew, surgeon John Stewart. According to John Howitt's niece Barbara Stewart Ferguson, the few times when "Unc" was physically unable to attend, he listened avidly to her brother's reports of the meetings.

John Howitt was a model Christian gentleman of "the old school" but he had a twinkle in his eye and a sparkle in his speech. Born on February 29 in a leap year (1892), John often joked about his missing birthdays, including the one he felt cheated of in 1900. Maybe that's what kept him so young. He was remarkably tolerant of young squirts (like me, for instance-Ed.) who held views sometimes radically different from his own. John was the author (anonymously, because of his government employment) of a pocket-sized 96-page booklet entitled Evolution: "Science Falsely So-called," a compact summary of anti-evolutionary arguments published by the International Christian Crusade (205 Yonge St., Room 31, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M513 11\12; 50 cents per copy, plus postage). Including all editions, over 200,000 copies have been distributed. The 20th edition appeared in 1981. Over the years, as each new editon appeared, John would send the Newsletter editor a copy. I don't know that we ever convinced each other of anything, but I know that I will miss John Howitt.-Wa/t Hearn.

5. Charles Dinwiddle Stores of Cocoa Beach, Florida, died of cancer on 4 July 1985 at the age of 79. "Din" was a chemical patent attorney who retired from Exxon Corporation after writing some 300 patents issued to Exxon inventors. He had a B.S. from Roanoke College and L.L.B. from LaSalle Extension University, was a member of the bar of Virginia and the District of Columbia, of the U.S. Patent Office, and of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a deacon in the First Baptist Church of Cocoa Beach, where he also taught a men's Sunday school class. He was an avid reader of JASA. (Our thanks to retired chemistry teacher Edgar Bloom of Cocoa Beach, who notified the Ipswich office. Edgar added that it was Stores who first told him about ASA.-Ed.)

6. Edmund R. Woodside of La Verne, California, died on 15 December 1985 at age 64. He had joined ASA in 1967. Ed was a biblical scholar who loved to delve into the Greek text of the New Testament and the classical Greek behind it, sharing his insights in papers presented each year at the Asa Annual Meeting. At Oxford in 1985 he argued for Christian stewardship of the earth from a consideration of Genesis 1:28 and various New Testament passages. Ed had a B.S. and M.S. from the U. of Redlands and a doctorate from Kensington University. He was widely read and, to some extent, self-taught. From 1972 through 1983 he taught Greek at the California Center for Biblical Studies, a Plymouth Brethren Bible college that closed in 1983. Ed was a Bible teacher at the Pomona Bible Chapel.

Ed Woodside was author or co-author of a number of books, including A Programmed Guide to Philippians, Matthew 13 and The Earthly Life of the Lord Jesus. He was a member of many societies from the Society of Biblical Literature and the Evangelical Theological Society to AAAS, a Fellow of the Victoria Institute and the Institute for Biblical Research. Most of all, perhaps, he loved the fellowship he found within ASA. When Ed began dating a nurse considerably younger than he, he gave her a gift membership in ASA. Their first Annual Meeting together was at Stanford in 1979. Their trip to the Oxford ASA/RSCF conference gave Dorothy Woodside a chance to attend the Anglo-American School Nurse Conference in York. Dorothy is glad they made that trip, which gave Ed so much joy at meeting scholars of whom he had read, and left her with such good memories.

The circumstances of Ed's death came as a shock, especially so close to Christmas. Dorothy was in the hospital following surgery and had called Ed to come take her home. He never arrived. Eventually he was found in his car, just off the freeway on the way to the hospital. At first it was assumed that he felt sick, managed to get off the freeway and park, and died of a massive heart attack. Later the cause of death was determined to have been a spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.

Dorothy asks for our prayers for her, and for Ed's mother Mary, as they adjust to Ed's being "absent from the body and present with the Lord." Dorothy is certain that he has already approached the apostle Paul with some questions Ed had about the autographs. Ed's obituary in the local paper carried the notice that "memorial contributions may be made to the American Scientific Affiliation, P.O. Box J, Ipswich, MA 01938."

2. Michael Adeney of the ASA Bookservice (c/o Logos Bookstore, 4510 University Way, N.E., Seattle, WA 98105; tel.: 206/632-8830) reminds us that ASA members get a 10% discount (sometimes more) on most books, such as Russell's Cross-Currents, above. Since prices do change, Michael perfers to bill ASA customers, adding (within the U.S.) $1.50 postage & handling for the first book plus 50 cents for each additional book. He calls attention to these new arrivals:

The Person in Psychology: A Contemporary Christian Appraisal (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985. Paper, $10.95), by ASA psychologist Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Bookservice price, $9.85.

Wholistic Christianity: An Appeal for a Dynamic, Balanced Faith (Elgin, IL: Brethren Press, 1985. Paper, $11.95), by ASA sociologist David 0. Moberg. Bookservice price, $10.75.

Trial and Error: The American Controversy over Creation and Evolution (New York: Oxford U. Press, 1985. $17-95), by Edward J. Larson. Bookservice price, $16.15. A very positive review in Science (13 Dec 1985, pp. 1266-7) describes Larson as a lawyer with a Ph.D. in the history of science; Michael adds that Larson is a Christian in a major Seattle law firm.

Origins of Life (England: Lion Publishing, 1985. Cloth, $14.95), by Jim Brooks. Bookservice price, $13.45. Full of impressive illustrations characteristic of Lion books. Cover quote from Sir Robert Boyd (participant at both Oxford ASA/RSCF conferences: "An authoritative account, as seen by an eminent geochemist, of current thinking on the origins of life."

Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock (Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1985. Paper, $12.95), by theologian Langdon Gilkey, a witness in the Arkansas trial. Bookservice price, $11.65. Cover quote from Owen Gingerich: "Required reading for those who would understand the ongoing conflict between the creationists and mainstream Christianity."

Sound interesting? The Bookservice also has sociologist Tony Campolo's response to critics of evangelical Christianity, We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Partly Right (Waco: Word, 1985. Paper, $10.95), at a special discount price of $8.95.

Robert A . Kistler (Rt. 2, Box 156, Gooding, ID 83330; tel.: 208/934-8385) seeks an academic position in insect ecology or general biology. Bob has a B.S. from George Fox College, M.S. from Purdue, and Ph.D. from Northern Arizona University. He has published one paper in Environmental Entomology (v. 14, p. 507); his paper on "Nutritional Ecology of Bruchid Beetles" will soon appear in a book on the nutritional ecology of insects, spiders, and mites, published by John Wiley & Sons. Bob has been a member of ASA since 1975. He is currently at home writing and enjoying his new son Lathan.

The University of Botswana in Africa needs several Ph.D.'s in chemistry with specialization in any of the major subdisciplines, for teaching, lab instruction, and research. Well equipped department with strong emphasis on analytical chemistry. Contact: Dr. John Woollard, University of Botswana, P/Bag 0022, Gaborone, Botswana, Africa. (Received Nov 1985 from Oliver Barclay of RSCF, who says another Christian could have great usefulness in one of these posts; John and Eleanore Woollard attended the ASA/RSCF Oxford conference.)

Whitworth College in Washington has an opening in education for a Ph.D. or Ed.D. with course work and teaching experience in reading, to teach courses in reading methods and supervise student teachers. Contact: Education Search Committee, Personnel Office, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA 99251. (Received Nov 1985; call 509/466-3202 to see if still open.)

Pepperdine University's Seaver College in California seeks a chairperson for its social service division, consisting of 20 faculty members in economics, political science, psychology, sociology, and teacher education. The division chair will teach two courses in addition to administrative duties, and "contribute to the academic, social, and spiritual life of this Christian liberal arts college affiliated with the Churches of Christ." Contact: Dean of Seaver College, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA 90265. (Received Dec 1985; applications were due by 1 Feb 1986; call 213/456-4000 to see if still open.)

Calvin College in Michigan anticipates several openings in chemistry for September 1986: (1) a tenure-track position for a person trained in biochemistry; (2) a one- or two-year position, with preference for applicants in analytical or physical; (3) a one-year position, area open. Full ACS-certified major, undergraduate research. Applications especially sought from "women or members of North American ethnic minorities." Contact: Dr. Kenneth Piers, Chair, Chemistry Dept., Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Ml 49506. Tel.: (616) 957-6491. (Received Dec 1985.)

Calvin College also announces an opening in physics, starting September, 1986. This position is a one-year replacement for a staff member on sabbatical. The department offers a full undergraduate physics major with strong laboratory and classroom components. A Ph.D. degree is preferred; candidates holding an M.S. degree will be considered. Persons interested in teaching (research opportunities are also available to augment the teaching) in a Christian undergraduate college environment are invited to submit a c.v. or to contact for additional information Dr. John Van Zytveld, Chairman, Physics Department, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Ml 49506. Phone: (616) 957-6340. (Rec'd Jan 1986.) Calvin College is an equal opportunity employer.

Houghton College in New York has 1986-87 openings for (1) a one-year replacement in Mathematics; and (2) a faculty member in computer science, because of good student response to challenging major and minor programs. Contact: Dr. Kenneth Lindley, Chair, Division of Science & Mathematics, Houghton College, Houghton, NY 14744. (Received Dec 1985.)

The fall meeting held at Nyack College on November 2 featured afternoon and evening lectures by Clark Pinnock based on his latest book, The Scripture Principle (Harper & Row, 1984). Pinnock is professor of systematic theology at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario. He is the author of many other works of evangelical theology, from Set Forth Your Case: Studies in Christian Apologetics (Moody, 1967) to Reason Enough: A Case for the Christian Faith (IVP, 1980). Pinnock was keynote speaker at the 1978 ASA Annual Meeting at Hope College.

ASA executive director Bob Herrmann met with the section at the Wheaton College Science Building on December 6 to discuss a number of issues, such as how to attract more students and young scientists to ASA; how to be more help to Christians in industry and in public education; how ASA can reach a wider audience, in and out of the church, with our concern for integration of science and faith; and how ASA local sections can contribute to such programs.

Activities of The MacLaurin Institute at the U. of Minnesota keep alive hope of reviving an ASA local section in the Twin Cities area. Director Bill Monsma reports that at the end of summer, with enough cash in hand for the fall rent, the Institute moved its office to a strategic location just off campus.

Speakers last fall at noon discussions in the Campus Club included Peter Wilkes, former professor of materials science at Wisconsin and editor of Christianity Challenges the University (IVP, 1981); and UM political science professor Earl Shaw. Public lectures at Coffman Union were given by Keith Yandell of Philosophy and South Asian Studies at Wisconsin, on "Religion: Can Social Science Explain It?"; Richard Longenecker of the U. of Toronto on "Social Justice: The Relevance of the New Testament;" and Conrad Hyers of Gustavus Adolphus College on "Creation and Evolution: Picking Up the Pieces."

ASA member Conrad Hyers's visit on November 22 served as an excuse for a "real" ASA -local section meeting at Augsburg College the same evening-"just like the good old days." After eating together in the College Center, section members heard Conrad discuss "Ancient Cosmology and Genesis 1," with a response by Paul Bartz, managing director of the Bible-Science Association. (A rouser? Fire scientist Marie Berg added a note to her Christmas card about how much she enjoyed that meeting.-Ed.)

The joint ASA/New College conference is still set for April 12 at Stanford, but the topic has shifted somewhat. The committee still hopes to address science from a non-Western perspective, but with emphasis on the interaction of Western science and Christianity. Tentatively, U.C. Berkeley quantum chemist Fritz Schaefer will review the influence of Christian belief on the development of science; physicist/theologian Bob Russell of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences will discuss the reverse trend, the ways in which theology is now influenced by physical theory.

Joseph H. Boutwell, Jr., is an ASA old-timer. He has just retired from the U.S. Public Health Service Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta, Georgia. Joe is a Wheaton alumnus who went on to get M.S., Ph.D., and M.D. degrees at Northwestern. He taught physiological chemistry at Temple University before joining USPHS and moving to Atlanta. (Maybe "retirement" means he'll have time to stir up some action in the Southeastern ASA regional section.-Ed.)

James 0. Buswell, HI, is dean of William Carey International University (WCIU) in Pasadena, California, associated with the U.S. Center for World Mission. In December Jim was in Australia to give the commencement address at the Pacific College of Graduate Studies (an affiliate of WCIU), where wife Kathleen also gave a piano recital. On the way home the Buswells stopped off in Hawaii to visit the Pacific & Asian Christian University established by Youth With A Mission. Jim is proud of WCIU's first Ph.D. recipient, Charles Saunders, an American missionary serving under Taiwanese leadership in the Asia Evangelical Mission of Taiwan. Saunders, originally trained in E.E., wrote his WCIU dissertation on cross-cultural counseling among the Chinese in Taiwan; a summary appeared in the June 1985 issue of Evangelical Missions Quarterly.

Kenneth H. Carpenter welcomed the New Year as newly appointed professor of electrical & computer engineering at Kansas State University in Manhattan. Before his move in January, Ken was at the U. of Missouri, Rolla.

James A.Clark of Calvin College's geology faculty, Grand Rapids, Michigan, received last year's annual Applied Research Award of the U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics. A paper by Jim and his coworkers on gas well stimulation practices, "Determination of Hydraulic Fracture Azimuth by Geophysical, Geological, and Oriented Core Methods at the Multi-Well Experiment Site, Colorado," was judged the best publication of the year.

Bryan L. Duncan is an associate professor in the Dept. of Fisheries & Allied Aquacultures and a Fellow of the International Center for Aquaculture (ICA) at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. His first postdoctoral position was teaching biology at Houghton College, 197072. Since then his career has focused on international development, for the past ten years with ICA. Bryan's ASA membership has been somewhat erratic as he has worked in fifteen countries and spent a total of seven years overseas. He wants to communicate with ASAers interested in rural development in Third World countries-and with any others interested in an active Southeastern ASA regional section. (Contact Bryan at Swingle Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849.)

James C. Ellis of Scarborough, Ontario, became director of pastoral care at Scarborough's brand new Grace General Hospital in July 1985. Jim is excited about the caring community developing among the hospital staff, over 200 of whom come regularly to morning devotions in the hospital cafeteria. As people care for each other, Jim says, the presence of Christ is felt by new staff members, including those who are not Christians.

Roy J. Gritter is back as manager of a Materials Laboratory at IBM in San Jose, California, after spending several years helping to launch IBM Instruments, Inc. He is also executive secretary of the San Francisco Bay ASA local section. This fall Roy was happy to see a second edition of his Introduction to Chromatography published by Holden Day of Oakland. Co-authors James Bobbitt and Arthur Schwarting teach at the U. of Connecticut, where Roy spent a number of years before joining IBM. (Royalties from the first edition paid Roy's house taxes for years-even after the first publisher stopped advertising it.-Ed.)

Bill Hathaway of Bryan, Ohio, has been studying religion and problem-solving with a group at Bowling Green State University, to see if critics of religion like Ellis and Freud were right about religion's being detrimental to mental health. Bill's group proposed several different styles of religious problem-solving and devised scales for them, which were administered along with scales for religiousness and for mental health to several hundred subjects drawn from two churches. So far, the "active person/ active God" style (i.e., "God and I work together") seems to be positively correlated with mental health, the "passive person/active God" style negatively correlated.

Robert L. Herrmann, ASA's executive director, was on the campus of Eastern College in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, in October to give the Thomas F. Staley Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series. There he was hosted by Eastern biology faculty members Joe Sheldon, Dave Wilcox, and Marvin Meyer. In December he attended the annual board meeting of the Christian University Press in Chicago and continued to the west coast for meetings on various ASA projects, in Seattle with Davis Weyerhaueser and John Wiester, in Whittier, CA with ASA historian Alton Everest, and in Pasadena with Newton Malony, Tom Walters, and others at Fuller Seminary.

Fred J. Hickernell has moved from USC in Los Angeles to the mathematics faculty of Hong Kong Baptist College in Kowloon, one of five tertiary educational institutions in Hong Kong. About half of the students and staff are Christians, providing Fred and Elaine with many opportunities for both fellowship and witness. By next fall the college hopes to be admitting students to a new degree program in Combined Sciences.

Fred Jappe of San Diego, California, has had remarkable success presenting science/faith issues in a course he teaches at Mesa College. In November he led a workshop on "Science and Religion: Getting Down to Fundamentals" at the sixth annual meeting of the Pacific-Western Division of the Community College Humanities Association in Seattle. The moderator of that session was a community college teacher active in Young Life; Fred introduced him to ASA and hopes he will join.

Richard E. Klabunde of Grayslake, Illinois, is now a senior cardiovascular physiologist at Abbott Laboratories. He moved to the pharmaceutical house from the West Virginia U. School of Medicine, where he was an associate professor of physiology.

Neal A. Matson of Slana, Alaska, joined ASA when he was a geology student. Now he's holding down the pulpit and helping to put the finishing touches on a building (13.3 x 24 biblical cubits in size) for Homestead Christian Church, which had its beginnings in his home. The nondenominational body of believers is part of a new community formed since 1983, when a parcel of B.L.M. land was opened to homesteaders. Neal says their little church may be mentioned in a story on the area to appear in 1986 in Smithsonian magazine. Neal and Lisa were among the first to stake land in the new settlement. ASAers/CSCAers would be welcome visitors, Neal says, even more so with some advance notice (to Neal at Box 912 or the church at Box 881, Slana, AK, 99586). Slana is at "mile 4 on the Nabesna Road, between Glennallen and Tok." (The phone line doesn't go that far yet, but who cares? These are hardy folk; in October 1984 they baptized two new believers in the icy waters of Rufus Creek.-Ed.)

Clarence Menninga, geology professor at Calvin College in Michigan, spent eight weeks last summer at Virginia Tech as a participant in a Summer Seminar on Agreement and Disagreement in Science, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Besides considering how choices between rival theories are made in science, Clarence had time for some weekend hikes and field study of Appalachian geology.

Jeffrey Mullins is an astronomer at the Space Telescope Institute located at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is testing the Science Data Analysis Software that will be used to reduce data obtained from the space telescope. Jeff, who has an M.S. in astronomy from the U. of Virginia, says his institute is looking for Ph.D. astronomers. He would be glad to correspond with any interested ASA astronomers, and would like to hear from other ASAers in the Baltimore area. (Address: 18D Stag Horn Ct., Cockeysville, MD 21030. Tel.: home, 301/6831145; work, 301/338-4906.)

Harold Northup of Pawcatuck, Connecticut, is a research chemist in an electrochemical plant. At age 78, Harold is working only one day a week at the plant until it obtains a new contract. The rest of his time is spent writing a book in which he hopes to combine scientific and religious insights for improving relations between hostile nations.

D. Lowell Stacy received his Ph.D. in physiology at the U. of Nebraska Medical Center this fall with a dissertation on microvascular alterations occurring in renal hypertension. He is now at Eastern Virginia Medical Center in Norfolk, doing post-doctoral research on long-term adrenergic nerve effects in renal hypertension. Lowell couldn't find enough interested ASAers to start a local section in Nebraska, but he'd like to get together with others in the Norfolk area. (Lowell's new address: 1141 Turtle Rock Trace, Chesapeake, VA 23320.)

A. Kurt Weiss, physiology professor at the U. of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City and former ASA president, has told many of us of the miracles through which he escaped the Nazi holocaust, came to the U.S., and became a Christian. Kurt and Mary are rejoicing in another miracle in the life of their family. Several years ago they asked friends to pray for their daughter-in-law, Trudy, who had a potentially life-threatening ovarian tumor. The tumor was removed and a long series of chemotherapy treatments was begun. In October she gave birth to David Kurt, so that "not only do we still have Trudy with us, but now also a beautiful grandson, healthy in every way." (Imagine the joy of this birth to Kurt, who lost much of his family in Austria. Thank you, Lord.-Ed.)

Robin Wentworth of Mt. Olive, Mississippi, is now working for Pine Belt Mental Health and Retardation Services as a case management clinician for the chronically mentally ill. He is also doing graduate work in counseling psychology at the U. of Southern Mississippi.