NEWSLETTER

of the

AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

VOLUME 30 NUMBER 5                                                             OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1988

FALL BRINGS CHANGES TO IPSWICH
In a small New England town like Ipswich, Mass., having your Area Code changed is pretty big news. It happened in July, so the ASA's telephone number is now (508) 356-5656. ASA's address is still P.O. Box 668 (or 55 Market St.), the Ipswich ZIP still 01938.

ASA executive director Robert Herrmann is also breaking the fall routine to take a two-part "sabbatical." From midSeptember to mid-November, Bob and Betty will stay at Regents Park College in Oxford, England, while Bob hobnobs with nabob A.R. Peacocke and other science/religion scholars. After returning for the fall Council meeting and other ASA business in December, he will spend January and February 1989 in a second period of study leave at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey. In Bob's absence, ASA president Charles Hummel will pop in from Grafton regularly to oversee births, weddings, and other ASA business.

SUMMER BRINGS ASA MEMBERS TOGETHER

About 170 registrants gathered at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, in August for the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation. Some ASAers baking in the East or Midwest may have hesitated to come to what they pictured as a pitiful little Christian college without air-conditioned dorms, shrouded in Los Angeles smog. What a miscalculation! Those who came basked in clear skies on a luxurious campus laid out like a set for a beachfront movie, cooled by breezes right off the Pacific Ocean. More about that next time.

It was hard to imagine people working in such an oasis, but that's what Stanley Moore does as professor of political science at Pepperdine. He really worked during the meeting. As chair of ASA's Commission on Arms Control he was in charge of the program, also handling local arrangerments--down to organizing safaris to hunt for incoming members lost in the L.A. jungle. Thanks, Stan.

Any ASAers who passed up this one because they thought the theme too political or expected the program to be one-sided made another miscalculation. We'll try to show you how rich and varied the presentations were, and how much excitement is generated when ASAers get together at an Annual Meeting. Next time: lights, camera, action. By then the black & white snapshots we took will be back from the processing lab. Any that turn out will save a few thousand words.

PERSONALS and other items have been piling up, so we'll hold the news from Malibu except for a taste of what each of the keynote speakers said.

BUBE ON CRISES OF CONSCIENCE

Friday night's lead-off speaker was our own highly respected Richard H. Bube, known to most of us from his 14-year stint as editor of ASA's Journal, ending in 1983. With over 200 research papers on photoelectronic properties of solids, the Stanford materials science professor has also found time to write several dozen technical reviews and nine books, five of them on the relation of science to Christian faith. He said 1988 marked his 40th year of research and 40th year of marriage to Betty. She was in the audience, as was their brand-new grandson.

Bube's address on "Crises of Conscience for Christians in Science" insured that the conference theme, "SCIENCE, WEAPONS, & HOPE: CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES," would not become academic or impersonal. In a sinful world, Christian stewards face crises whenever we take our responsibility with full seriousness. We do not always know what course of action is best, even when we seek the wisdom of the Word, the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and the counsel of wise believers. As scientists we may produce knowledge that can be used for destructive pur-poses. Science finds itself tied more and more to the economic concerns of big business or the military concerns of big government. Many personal crises arise from the industrialization and militarization of scientific work.

Bube urged Christians in scientific work to examine the "real situation" in their own branch of science.' He cited examples of the kinds of questions forced on those whose work relates to the beginning or ending of life, to environmental sensitivity, or to weapons research. As a guideline, he proposed that Christians focus on the life and teachings of Jesus, summarized in the statement that we should love our enemies and do good even to those who do evil. He warned against the temptation to "religious pragmatism" that denies Christ's teachings real significance for real-life situations.

Urging us first to be honest with ourselves and each other, then to explore how best to put the full message of Jesus Christ into practice in the real world, Bube ended on a hopeful note: "Crises of conscience can be opportunities for service and witness."

Some questioners found the issue of justice missing from Bube's summary of the "full message" of Christ. Others grappled with applications, from whether a Christian can serve on a police force to whether the state has been biblically sanctioned to punish wrongdoers. Bube agreed that applying the love principle is not easy at either the personal or political level, but argued that followers of Christ must not "effectively deny everything for which He lived, died, and rose again."

Pepperdine political science professor Dan Caldwell spoke on Saturday night after the banquet. As a fresh man at Stanford (where he also received his Ph.D.), he met Prof. Bube at an IVCF party, he said. A navy veteran, Presbyterian elder, and author of books and articles on
U.S. foreign policy, he approached "Ethical Dilemmas of Strategic Deterrence and Arms Control" from a number of different perspectives.

CALDWELL ON NUCLEAR DETERRENCE

Caldwell began and ended with Christian considerations, with special reference to the principles of just-war theory. In between, he outlined four different versions of nuclear deterrence and brought home to the audience the awesome destructive power of the U.S. and U.S.S.R., which between them have 95 percent of the 50,000 existing nuclear warheads.

It is staggering to realize that one submarine now carries more destructive power than that of all bombs dropped by both sides in World War II, equivalent to some 25 megatons of TNT. Caldwell acknowledged that there is no single Christian answer to the moral and ethical issues posed by any form of nuclear deterrence, but he managed  to end on a note of at least faint hope. Since the nuclear test-ban treaty 25 years ago, nine other bilateral agreements and ten multilateral agreements have limited the nuclear build-up at least to some extent.

Caldwell showed intimate familiarity with details of military and political realities as he fielded questions. New openness between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is encouraging, he said, but on a global scale one can be only guardedly optimistic. He confessed that without the hope engendered by faith in Christ, temptation to despair is understandable.

Hehir's historical introduction began with a distinction between Christian "abolitionists" who "just say no" to war, and Christian "architects" who try to set limits to war. The Cold War presented new problems for both positions, putting a heavier burden on the architects. Nuclear weapons are perceived as qualitatively different, changing the status of the moral acceptability of both use and threatened use (deterrence). The U.S. Catholic bishops' statement accepted nuclear deterrence on a conditional basis, holding it just barely acceptable as a way of reducing the dangers of war.

Questions from the audience ranged from targeting policies (when we shift away from targeting civilians we look more like we're moving to a first-strike position) to whether the INF treaty will make "hawks" nervous (probably not; Reagan campaigned eight years ago against nuclear arms control, so hawkish posture is changing), to eschatology (God said he would be with us, but he won't do our work for us; we have to be peacemakers, and that takes work).

Hehir's note of hope centered on present changes in Soviet foreign policy, which must be carefully monitored, but even more on the historical reality of France and Germany. Those two countries have hated each other for twoand-a-half times longer than the U.S. and Soviet Union have been at odds, and they have fought three bloody wars against each other. Yet within the last 25 years their relationship has been completely "converted" toward lasting peace.

Three Christian perspectives (and then some), on science, weapons, and, yes--even hope. What a meeting!

BULLETIN BOARD

1. On July 1, Marion College in Marion, Indiana, became Indiana Wesleyan Universitv. That's where the next ASA ANNUAL MEETING will be on 4-7 August 1999. General theme: Biomedical ethics. DON'T MISS THIS ONE.

2. The Neuroscience Christian Fellowship will hold a breakfast meeting in the Royal York Hotel in Toronto on Tuesday, 15 November 1988. According to Ken Dormer of the U. of Oklahoma College of Medicine, "we are coordinating with the CSCA which will meet the preceding week. Dan Osmond and Bob Vander Vennen will present a program on 'Science and Faith: Conformity or Conflict."' The Society for Neuroscience has grown to over 9,000 annual attendees and the fellowship breakfast also grows each year. "We meet for encouragement, challenge, and to let young scientists and students identify with older colleagues who love the Lord."

3. Creation: Science & Genesis-Are They Compatible? is the topic of six seminars to be held on successive Monday evenings, Nov 7-Dec 12, at Rolling Hills Covenant Church in the L.A. area. On Nov 7, USC prof Dallas Willard introduces the series. On Nov 14, anthropologist James Buswell of Wm. Carey University gives an ancientearth/ancient-man interpretation of Genesis. On Nov 21, astrophysicist Hugh Ross of Reasons to Beheve, an ancient-earth/recent-man interpretation. On Nov 28, Talbot Seminary prof Robert Saucy presents the gap theory. On Dee 5, biochemist Duane Gish of the Institute for Creation Research gives a recent-earth/recent-man view. On Dec 12, the five speakers conclude with a panel discussion. The series is a project of the church's Institute of Apologetics in the Study of Christianity (IASC, pronounced "I ask"). For information, contact Stuart Off, IASC, 2222 Palos Verdes Drive North, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 (tel. 213-541-3406).

4. Papers for Vol. 3 of the annual publication, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion should be submitted by 31 December 1988, and for Vol. 4 by 31 December 1989. Papers may be submitted to co-editor David 0. Moberg, Dept. of Social & Cultural Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233.

For one of its "Institutes," CT gathered several evangelical scientists and theologians representing various viewpoints on the doctrine of creation and let them have at each other in an open forum, with Bill there to record the whole thing and make sense out of it. At more or less opposite poles in the discussion were zoologist John Meyer of Baptist Bible College, Clarks Smmit,  Pennsyvania, and physicist Howard Van Till of Calvin College in Michigan. Meyer's view of Genesis as a literal account of natural history is treated with respect in the article, but criticized by Van Till as a confusion of the meaning of creation with God's methods of creation. Biologist Pattle Pun of Wheaton College in Illinois weighed in somewhere between with what he calls a "progressive creation" position.

The two theologians, Kenneth Kantzer and John Woodbridge of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, also seemed to disagree on the best strategy for taking both Scripture and science seriously. Kantzer said the three views expressed by Meyer, Pun, and Van Till are, with minor variations, all "rampant in what I would call evangelicalism." The article acknowledges a need for more dialogue between scientists and biblical scholars, and ends with a plea for humility in biblical understanding as well as in science.

Bill Durbin's 11-page article, including a helpful glossary, is followed by a 5-pager by Bruce Waltke, Old Testament professor at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, on how to read the creation narrative in Genesis. Waltke's taxonomy of evangelical interpretation makes a puzzling distinction between "scientific creationists" and "creation scientists," but its main distinction is between those who seek concord between the biblical and scientific accounts of creation and those who do not. Although he thinks Van Till's The Fourth Day goes too far in the nonconcordist direction, WaItke says that "incongruities in the text suggest to more and more evangelicals that a literary reading of Genesis 1:1-2:3 is called for."

Both articles cite ASA members or associates other than Pun and Van Till, such as Owen Gingerich, Charles Hummel, Clyde McCone, Charles Thaxton, and Norman Geisler. Van Till is the only name connected with ASA in the article, however, so the fact that the dialogue being called for has already been going on since 1941 is somewhat obscured. But why complain? The American Scientific Affiliation actually rates a whole paragraph in Durbin's story, including mention of Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy, which Van Till praises for "distinguishing scientific questions of mechanism from religious questions of purpose or purposelessness."

(In June, when we heard about Bill's forthcoming piece, we saw that the light would be good. We called CT, offering to create a small side-bar on the upcoming Annual Meeting and recent ASA doings. CT said they preferred to use their own stringer in the L.A. area. The only journahst who showed up at Pepperdine, however, was a young freelancer in search of a dramatic and hence marketable story. His outlook being without form and void ' various ASAers tried to add some firmament to his thinking, lest he bring forth a creepy thing. But before evening and morning came, he was gone. Maybe we'll make The National Enquirer. Shucks, fiat lux.-Ed.)

0n September 1, Ghillean T. Prance became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, in London. He returned to England from the U.S. and from his post at the New York Botanical Garden, where he has been senior vice president for science and also director of the Institute for Economic Botany.

Ghil Prance intends to remain an ASA member and wants to keep in touch, but he will certainly be missed. Active in ASA's New York-New Jersey section, he "took us with him" on his Amazon botanical adventures through colorful slide presentations at local and national ASA meetings. No one who heard Ghil is likely to forget the lush tropical rain forest or the devastation now being wrought by unwise exploitation. He plans to continue working on Christian ecology and the stewardship of creation.

Ghil's move partially reverses the brain-drain we used to hear so much about. He was educated, through the Ph.D., at Keble College at Oxford. He came to the New York Botanical Garden as a research fellow. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and has continued to garner honors and awards. In April 1988, for example, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences & Letters.

As we understand it, the Royal Botanic Gardens originated in a private garden established in the early 18th century at Kew, a London suburb about six miles down the Thames from the center of the city. Kew Gardens achieved economic fame by importing Hevea brasiliensis seeds from the Amazon valley in 1876 and successfully growing enough seedlings to replant in Ceylon and Malaya. From those few plants arose the vast Asian rubber plantations, just in time for development of the automobile.

Early explorers of Latin America had found natives bouncing balls of hardened Hevea latex, and even waterproofing their feet with the latex. The first European use was in erasers, hence the name "rubber." Other uses included the waterproof raincoats named for Macintosh, their Scottish inventor. Charles Goodyear's 1839 invention of vulcanization "put rubber on the road."

What other important discoveries might be lost with the disappearing tropical forests? We're glad Ghillean Prance cares about those forests, and we're glad he's been among us to raise our consciousness about them.

1. Science Held Hostage was released by IVP in August. It was written by three ASA members at Calvin College, physicist Howard J. Van Till and geologists Davis A. Young and Clarence Menninga. The "middle ground" occupied by the authors is indicated by the book's subtitle, What's Wrong with Creation Science AND Evolutionism, but the three were under investigation last year beause of complaints about their interpretation of Genesis. (Evidently a number of Newsletter readers wrote to the Calvin board of trustees in support of the three professors. Now it might be helpful to write in support of the trustees, who took a lot of flack at the synod meeting of the Christian Reformed Church in June for their report vindicating our colleagues. The trustees' action is being investigated by a CRC committee. You could write to Dr. Orin G. Gelderloos, Secretary, Board of Trustees, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49506.-Ed.)

3. Stephen Jay Gould's columns ("This View of Life") in Natural History are almost always interesting and valuable. In, the Sept 1988 issue he writes on "Genesis and Geology," reviewing a polemic exchange that took place between W.E. Gladstone and T'homas Henry Huxley following an 1885 article by Gladstone on the scientific truth of Genesis. Gould argues that the Genesis creation narrative is not about the linear addition of more complex things, but about God's differentation of things into new forms; in other words, the biblical story and the scientific story are organized in totally different ways. Gould goes on to say that neither story is perfectly suited to describing what really goes on in the world. If Genesis and geology did fit together in detail, "we would only learn something about the limits to our storytelling, not even the whisper of a lesson about the nature and meaning of life or God." Because of differences between Genesis and geology, "we had better pay mighty close attention to both."

Your Weary Old Editor (WOE is me -Ed.) also edits what Art Strahler refers to as ASA's "ostensibly new" publication. T'his is not the place to respond, even to the primary charge that SEARCH "homogenizes" science and religion. It's enough to quote Art's ostensibly critical summation of the writings of one Walter R. Hearn: "Special creationists have only one tape and they play it over and over again." We don't know much about Art, but we know what makes us laugh. Finally:

FOLLOW-UPS

1. Edwin A. Karlow, chair of the physics department at Loma Linda University in Riverside, California, wrote that a book he saw mentioned in the ASA Newsletter has been a real success in one of his classes. As part of a course exploring the integration of faith and leaming required of math and physics students at LLU, Ed used Robert Slocum's book, Ordinary Christians in a High Tech World. Students rated that book highest for readability and practicality. The book is no longer in print at Word Books, but while Bob Slocum seeks another publisher he still has copies available ($8 each plus shipping costs) at his home address: 307 Arborcrest, Richardson, TX 75080.

2. Ken Smith, senior lecturer in mathematics at the U. of Queensland in St. Lucia, wrote us from Australia. We reported a repudiation by ICR of the Norman/Setterfield claims about changes in the speed of light ("Way to Go, Guys," Aug/Sep 1988, p. 5). Ken thinks young-earth creationists in the USA must be "more prepared to be critical of shoddy work than their Australian counterparts." In that part of the world, he says, "creationist" has only one meaning: "If you are not a 'strict young-earth, floodgeology creatinist,' you are ~Iassified as an 'evolutionist' irrespective of how many times you refer to God's creation." Young-earthers down under are still using the Paluxy footprints as evidence, in spite of John Morris's ICR retraction.

Ken says that he and others have been Vying to point out to Setterfield the errors in his work since it first appeared over seven years ago. He adds that Trevor Norman has a bachelor's degree and is a computer systems officer, but Barry Setterfield has no degree. Their 1987 report originated in the School of Mathematical Sciences of Flinders University in South Australia. A letter from the dean of that school dated 30 June 1988 is circulating as a disclaimer, saving that reports by SMS staff are not normally refereed; either, "we have been informed by the SRI that the SRI employee, who in 1987 invited the above report as an SRI report and authorised its publication under the SRI cover-sheet, had no powers to do so and they, SRI, wish to disassociate themselves from the report." SRI is the Stanford Research Institute and the SRI employee was Lambert Dolphin, who left SRI in August 1987. This information has been on the "talk.origins" electronic newsgroup, along with "massive criticism of the work. "

(Ken asks if ASA has considered adding electronic mail addresses in the next printing of the membership list. "Communication this way is very much faster, and for overseas stuff from here is cheaper than airmail for anything up to about two pages." Don't ask a computer klutz like utz!-Ed.) (Good idea! Perhaps we could give it a try. More on that later-Man. Ed.)

FOLLOW-OOPS! 

James B. Patrick, chair of the chemistry department of Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, was distressed by our comments on handgun control in the Aug/Sep issue ("The World in Which We Live," p. 2). Jim said our version of the pros and cons of the Moynihan bill -must have come from Handgun Control, Inc., or other supporters of the bill, and tried to set us straight. According to Jim, the Kevlar-piercing KTW bullets have never figured in the death of a policeman and probably have never been fired at police. Professional criminals and terrorists not only wear Kevlar vests but carry heavier weapons than police, who tend to carry lighter pistols so they can wear them all the time; hence the need for special police ammunition. The National Rifle Association objected to a law banning any Kevlar-penetrating ammunition, which would also make hunting-rifles illegal.

On the general subject of gun control, Jim recommends an article by Kleck in Social Problems (Feb 1988) and a paper by Wright and Rossi cited by Kleck. The two sociologists find no evidence that any form of gun control has reduced the incidence of violent crime; Kleck adduces evidence that possession of arms by private citizens does deter violent crime.

(Our comments on handgun control were meant to bring problems of international arms proliferation down to "street level." Jim Patrick's response illustrates that' people of good will differ strongly about "deterrence" against criminal attack even at that level-so it's no wonder people disagree on far more complex problems of nuclear deterrence. We're not sure where we picked up the handgun story, but it could have come from a propaganda piece. We should have been more alert to both sides of a political issue. We did put "cop-killer," "gun lobby," and "Saturday night special" in quotes to indicate that they were somebody else's pejorative terms, not meaning to offend Jim or any other of the three million NRA members by using them. In fact, Jim says, it was the NRA that drafted a more useful bill which, after a long legislative battle, was actually passed.-Ed.)

His academic degrees included a B.A. in religion, a MS.T. in elementary ed. (w/a major in teaching science), and an Ed.D. in school administration. Dr. Bergen was with the Portland School system both as a teacher and administrator from 1958-1984. He was awarded three National Science Foundation grants in 1960s, one of which included a summer's study of astronomy at the U. of Illinois. He also did some experimental writing on AAAS and ESS, as well as science curriculum texts for the Portland school district. He retired in March of 1984 from the Portland school district, only to continue working as a dedicated administrator and consultant for Mt. Hood Christian Schools in Gresham, Oregon until his death in 1988.

According to his wife, Dr. Bergen's great joy in belonging to the ASA was their scholarly approach in resolving difficult philosophical problems as they related to science and our Christian faith. Dr. Bergen is survived by his wife (Verna), daughter (Lori) and two grandchildren. Memorial donations from friends and family have been received at the ASA Ipswich office.

Joseph J. Ambrose of N. Bellmore, NY, received a M.S. in computer science from Hoftstra U., Hempstead, NY.

LeVon Balzer became president of Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas, this summer, after serving as dean of arts & sciences at Seattle Pacific University since 1980. Lee, who lists his field as human ecology, has an interest in all phases of biological education and has contributed to major textbook writing projects. (Lee joins a select group of ASAers who have headed institutions of higher education, not least of which is current ASA president Charles Hummel, a former president of Barrington College in Rhode Island. How many others can you name?-Ed.)

Richard H. Bube and wife Betty have been on the road quite a bit. Dick was a Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar twice this spring. In March the lectures and interaction with students were at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where hospitality was offered by physics prof Richard Leo, along with the dean of the chapel and the student committee chair. In April, at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois, biologist Robert Woo4r helped with the hosting. Dick covers a lot of science/faiLh topics under the Staley rubric, but has been focusing on stewardship of the earth's resources. In June the Bubes vacationed in the NeucMtel region of Switzerland once again,-this time catching Reine and Johan Ramon on leave from their Third-World development assignment in Chad.

Robin J. 0. Catlin, M.D., has recently become head of the department of family medicine at L.S.U.M.C. School of Medicine in New Orleans. Robin's goal is to rebuild that department by attracting and developing a faculty with research interests in family and preventive medicine, and in behavioral medicine.

Victor Fiddes of Niagara Falls, Ontario, is new to ASA but not to questions of science and faith. In fact he is the author of Science and the Gospel, recently released as Vol. 7 in the "Theology & Science at the Frontiers of Knowledge" series edited by Thomas F. Torrance of Edinburgh, Scotland. The series is published by The Scottish Academic Press in association with the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton and the Templeton Foundation. Victor says his book is "written by a parish minister for an informed but not specialized readership."

H. Harold Hartzler likes Arizona's winter climate but loves summers back in Goshen, Indiana, where he and Dorothy have many friends and live close to Goshen College. An emeritus professor of physics from both Goshen and Mankato State in Minnesota, Harold does genealogical research in the Mennonite Historical Library. He's also an emeritus executive secretary of ASA. At age 80, he puts most of us to shame with his energy and determination. In a letter this spring, he outlined 20 projects he plans to work on in the next ten years, including two or three books and many articles. One was the paper he gave at Pepperdine on "Leaming to Be Peacemakers."

Ian Johnston is leaving the biology faculty of Northwestern College in Iowa to take up similar duties at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ian, who teaches microbiology, immunology, and ceH biology, has found the search for housing in the city very stressful after seven years in rural Orange City.

Sim D. Lessley has moved to Walnut Creek, California, to accept a position at Brown & Caldwell's laboratory in Emeryville. The lab has been in existence for 40 years and employs 60 people, mostly environmental and hazardous waste analysts. Sim graduated from Linville College in Oregon in 1967, has spent the past 12 years with Data Chem, Inc., an industrial hygiene & environmental lab in Salt Lake City, Utah. While there he earned an M.S. (1975) and Ph.D. (1980) in inorganic chemistry at the U. of Utah.

Sara Miles of the biology department at Wheaton College in Illinois successfully defended her dissertation at the U. of Chicago in June and received her Ph.D. in the history of science in August.

Eric Miller seems to have dropped his long-time membership in ASA, but that's not surprising: lie doesn't even have a return address. He opted to put his books in storage and give up a home base a few years ago, since his travels all over the world for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. (IFES) keep him on the go. Eric, now 44, worked as a marine biologist before joining InterVarsity staff and getting an M.Div. from Fuller. During a year of ministry to students in Kenya, he devised a way of using multimedia techniques to communicate the gospel-which grew into IVCF's ministry called "Twentyonehundred." Soon Eric was helping students in other countries do the same kind of thing. Now he works fulltime for IFES. A profile of Eric featured in the Spring 1988 issue of InterVarsity magazine was titled "Return to Sender; Address Unknown."

Mary Wilson Murphy of Denver has an M.A. in psychology and is writing a Ph.D. dissertation on the rise and decline of white male society. Mary is in charge of pastoral ministries for The American Academy and Institute of Human Reason, founded several years ago by Charles W. Lerch, a Denver businessman who has also established foundations to give awards to outstanding teachers and young citizens of Colorado. The American Academy has produced a 90-minute videotape on the educational theory and practice of Joe Clark, the controversial black school administrator featured on CBS's 60 Minutes and the cover of Time magazine. (A Morning with Joe Clark is available for $29 from The American Academy, 444 17th St., Denver, CO 80202.)

Allan N. Nishimura, professor of chemistry at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, has been awarded a $20,000 research giant from the American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund. Allan's grant is to study optically detected magnetic resonance of adsorbed molecules on thin metal films in high vacuum.

Daniel J. Price has been doing research at the U. of Aberdeen in Scotland, drawing together theology, psychology, and the philosophy of science. Karl Barth's view of humanity, like that of modem psychology, stresses the dynamic nature of the person, as opposed to the medieval view that a human person in the image of God must be primarily a thinking individual. Dan thinks problems of both medieval and Enlightenment rationalism can be overcome by adopting a more biblical anthropology. He sees a foundational premise, common to both psychology and theology, in the fact that cognition itself is a dynamic category of interrelations, built on recognition of God and others. Dan is the son of J. David Price of Springville, California, in one of ASA's two-generational families.

Allan R. Ronald, M.D., is in the department of medicine of the U. of Manitoba in Winnipeg. For the past eight years he and a number of colleagues have been investigating sexually transmitted diseases in Africa. The onset of AIDS virus has made their work more topical. Some results of a large study on risk factors in African society that permit heterosexual and maternal newborn spread of the virus were recently reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. Allan would like to hear from any other ASA/CSCA members with research interests in (1) AIDS, particularly in developing countries; (2) sexual behavior and its modifications; or (3) influence of family and church on "healthy sexual development."

R. Waldo Roth has begun his sabbatical from Taylor University (Indiana) with an appointment at Amoco Production Company's Tulsa Research Center in Oklahoma. Wally hopes to aid the quest for oil and gas by jazzing up their expert systems prototyping and the technology transfer within the company. This past year he has given talks on "How to Start a Small College Artificial Intelligence Program" at Carnegie-Mellon, Chattanooga~ Myrtle Beach, and the Dallas N.E.C.C. Conference. While he's in Oklahoma he'd like meet other ASAers in the Tulsa area (tel. 918-660-3000, ext. 3546).

Harold E. Stinehelfer, Sr., of Lundenburg, Massachusetts, received an Outstanding Author award in May from his employer, Raytheon Company, for having published 10 technical papers. In that same month he was also keynote speaker at the Automatic RF Techniques Group in New York City, speaking on "Time-Domain Metrology, Past, Present, and Future."

Claude E. Stipe has retired after twenty years in anthropology at Marquette University in Milwaukee, the last three as chair of the department of social & cultural sciences. The Stipes are currently renting an apartment in Escondido, not far from Don Boardman, while searching for an affordable house somewhere in San Diego county.

Michael J. Visser of California has moved from Bakersfield to Ridgecrm He is a programmer/analyst on the technical staff of Computer Sciences Corporation, which supports the Naval Weapons Center at China Lake, California.