NEWSLETTER
of the
American Scientific Affiliation &
Canadian Scientific & Christian Affiliation
VOLUME 33 NUMBER 6 DECEMBER 1991/JANUARY 1992
NEWSLETTER of the
ASA/CSCA is published bi-monthly for its membership by the American Scientific Affiliation, 55 Market St., Ipswich
MA 01938. Tel. 508-356-5656. Information for the Newsletter may be sent to the Editor:
Dr. Walter R. Hearn, 762 Arlington Ave., Berkeley
CA 94707. 0 1991 American Scientific Affiliation (except previously published material). All fights reserved.
TIME TO REMEMBER
Between September
and November
we remembered December, in time for
our annual Christmas Greeting to
top off 1991. ASA's 50th Anniversary year began with a high-tech
war in biblical lands. Then the Iron
Curtain rusted through. Rust in
Peace.
In our 22nd year of editing the
Newsletter, the 1991 Annual Meeting brought to mind ASA's unique
calling. One plenary speaker reviewed ASA's deep roots in
apologetics and evangelism. Another
urged us not merely
to build, but to be,
a bridge between
the scientific and
Christian communities. For the New
Year, we wish you joy in our
shared task of witness and reconciliation.
Remember: One piece of news
from "biblical lands" still counts for
more than all our technologies and
scientific knowledge
behind them. Jesus
Christ has come in
the flesh, putting us
in contact with the
Creator of the universe. Greetings
in His hopeful name.
Walt & Ginny Hearn
TIME TO RESPOND
Will ASA end its first half-century in the black? Executive
director Bob Herrmann's appeal letter is generating response but our financial situation remains critical.
For the time being, Bob has
dropped back to half time and financial manager Frances Polischuk to
three-quarter time to cut office expenses.
Never was there a better time in
ASA's history to contribute to the
work of ASA. The December issue
of Perspectives on Science and
Christian Faith will be lacking
SEARCH and will be as much as
4 weeks late. Science Press, itself
in a tight situation, needed to be
paid for June before starting on the
December issue. The printing bill
for each issue of ASA's journal
runs about $6,000.
For the December issue, not all
the delay will be due to slowness
in paying our bills. For one thing,
the December issue will be a special 50th ANNIVERSARY issue.
For another, ASA's new managing
editor, Patricia Ames, is still mastering ASA's Ventura Publisher
software and trying to figure out
why we do things the way we do.
"Patsy," married to Scott (in banking, doing grad work in
Government at Harvard), has lived
in Ipswich a few blocks from the
ASA office for nearly five years.
She used to do technical editing at
Lotus (software) Development Corp
in Cambridge. The Ameses' son
(Willie, born in June), stays with
their landlady during the day. Patsy
is the daughter of psychologist
Mack Goldsmith (of Modesto,
CA), who is active in the Christian
Association for Psychological Studies and a recent president of CAPSWest.
Talk about timing! In August the
Newsletter editor learned that Patsy
was job-hunting and suggested that
she check out ASA, not knowing
that Carol Aiken had already replaced Karen Brunstrom. Meanwhile,
though, Becky Petersen had just left
the managing editor's slot. Bob
Herrmann and Perspectives editor
Jack Haas were probably wishing
they'd learned how to use the Ventura Publisher software, when in
walked Patsy, who grew up doing
homework on her dad's early Radio
Shack computer. With Becky helping her plug in, Patsy cranked out
the Oct/Nov Newsletter in her first
few days. Whew!
TIME TO RELOCATE?
A bout this time two years ago,
readers were calling Berkeley to
ask if the Newsletter editor had survived the Oct 17 Loma Prieta
earthquake. This year-during another unusual World Series-they
were calling again. Yes, we survived the Oct 20 wildfire that
swept through the Oakland/Berkeley
hills and onto the nation's TV
screens. But we're feeling vulnerable, as we did in 1989.
The ASA Newsletter office is
three miles N of the fire area. The
fierce, hot Santa Ana winds were
blowing toward the W and S, so
we weren't in immediate danger.
The devastation was terrible, with
over 3,000 residences destroyed and
25 people burned to death. The
homes of some 30 families in Berkeley's First Presbyterian Church
are now ashes. Few had time to rescue priceless possessions, such as
the Tibetan language tapes of a former missionary who has been
working on a Tibetan grammar for
the past 50 years.
Had the winds changed, what
could we have done, even with
warning? Not much. We could'
hardly have gathered up all the records, documents, files, notes, and
correspondence from which this
issue of the Newsletter is woven.
We might have gotten out with a
computer and printer, along with
our six cats and some family photographs.
Thanks to all for your concern.
After two warnings we should get
our affairs in order, especially if
we stay in California. The Old Testament prophets never said that
living in the Promised Land would
guarantee against calamity. But they
didn't advise the Lord's people to
move out, either.
HOLI-ER THAN THOU?
Biophysicist/physiologist Tomuo
Hoshiko, of Case Western Reserve Medical School has been
appointed program chair for the
1992 ANNUAL MEETING, to be
held at the University of the Nations on the Island of HAWAII,
July 31-Aug 3. At recent meetings
Tom has brought up many issues
facing scientists in general and
ASA in particular. After examining
our past in 1991, Tom says, ASA
should consider our role for the future. Dick Bube laid out the
challenge in his banquet address at
Wheaton. Now we must figure out
how to proceed.
With the meeting scheduled for
Hawaii, the Executive Council may
have thought Tom could pass as a
kanaka (islander), but in fact Tom's
ancestral family came from Japan
without an intermediate stop. They
settled in British Columbia, where
Tom was born. Forcibly resettled
during WWII, his parents raised
sugar beets in the Canadian midwest. Tom got part of his advanced
education in Canada, the rest in the
U.S., so he's as much a haole
(mainlander) as the rest of us.
BULLETIN BOARD
1. On 22 Feb 1922 the Pascal
Centre (Redeemer College, Ancaster,
ON, Canada L9G 3N6) will
celebrate its official inauguration
and dedication in the Redeemer
College auditorium at 8 p.m. A
reception will follow an address by
philosopher Alvin Plantinga of
Notre Dame University on "When
Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution
and the Bible." (Our introduction to
the Pascal Centre in the Aug/Sep
issue failed to mention its quarterly
Notebook bulletin on science/faith
issues. The Winter 1991 issue, for
example, summarized a seminar on
new genetic data affecting paleoanthropology, given by David
Wilcox during his residence at the
Centre on sabbatical from Eastern
College in 1990.-Ed.)
2. After several years' hiatus, the
Wheaton College Geology Dept will
again offer a summer field course
for geology or earth science majors,
the kind of course required or
strongly recommended for all
undergraduates majoring in those
fields. Held at Wheaton's Science Station in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the course is split into an
initial two-week field methods class
followed by six weeks of mapping,
analysis of structural observations,
environmental topics, and a week's
tour of Yellowstone Park and the
Big Horn, Teton, and Bear Tooth
mountains. Students taking the
entire course earn eight semester
hours of credit. Students who have
already had field methods may take
only the latter six weeks. Contact:
Dr. Jeff Greenberg, Geology Dept,
Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
60187; tel. 708-752-5063. Jeff asks
ASAers at secular institutions to
pass this information on to geology
undergraduates. Non-Christian
students are welcome at the Science
Station; following a code of
behavior is required while enrolled.
Christian students at secular
institutions may appreciate the
fellowship and worship with
students from Christian colleges,
some of whom will be in biology
or general education science courses.
3. The Foundation for Thought and
Ethics (FIE) of Richardson, Texas,
has made available a nicely bound
offprint of Phillip E. Johnson's
1990 article, "Evolution As Dogma:
The Establishment of Naturalism,"
from First Things. Besides
Johnson's article, the 38-page
booklet includes a foreword by
FTE director Jon BueH; five
published responses to the article
by biologists William Provine,
Gareth Nelson, and Thomas Jukes,
editors Irving Kristol and Matthew
Berke; and Johnson's published
"Reply to My Critics." The booklet
is available for $5 each for 1-5
copies, down to $2.75 per copy
(for 101 or more copies) from the
publisher of FTE's Of Pandas and
People: Haughton Publishing Co.,
P.O. Box 180218, Dallas, TX
75218-0218.
INTO PRINT
THE EDITOR'S LAST WORDS
column below announces fonnation of an ASA/CSCA "Writers
Bloc." One purpose is to make our
Affiliations better known, by better
reportage of our events and by encouraging members to "fly the flag"
whenever appropriate. Getting ASA's
name in print takes constant effort
on many fronts. Editors, who have
their own definitions of what's newsworthy, are wary of being "used"
to publicize somebody else's party.
Even so, we expected ASA's
50th Anniversary to rate at least a
mention in the evangelical media.
So far we've heard of no published
stories elicited by a pre-meeting
news release from Ipswich. No reporter or "stringer" from Christianity
Today covered our meeting, despite
CT's nearness to Wheaton. An assistant news editor did call afterwards
to inquire about action on "the evolution resolution." Sounding
disappointed that no big controversy
occurred, he said he'd consider running a story. The two-pager we
faxed to him that day (Aug 10)
ended on the note to which his ear
was tuned, saying that the Council
expected to take final action in December.
Scanning subsequent issues of
CT, we spotted a news squib (Sep
16) about IVCF-USA's 50th Anniversary celebration, but no mention of
ASA's 50th Anniversary, celebrated
at the same time and place. An immediate Letter to the Editor
pointing that out also failed to
score but drew a nice reply explaining how ASA's story got
sidetracked and saying, "Keep in
touch. Down the line, we hope to
give your group proper attention. "
Happily, such failures are balanced by examples of getting ASA
into print where it counts. Each
issue of The Crucible ("A Journal
for Christian Graduate Students,"
c/o David Lines, Dept of Computer
Science, U. of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, NC 27599- 3175) has
a section in which Christian professional groups are described. Our
turn came in the Summer 1991
issue, with a full page of information taken from ASA's brochure,
ending with the Ipswich mailing address.
Another boost came in the form
of John Brobeck's positive review
of Teaching Science in a Climate
o Controversy, published in the
Fall/Winter 1991 issue of the
CMDS Journal (Christian Medical
& Dental Society, P.O. Box
830689, Richardson, TX 750830689). John described the booklet
as "a scientific document, not a rehgious one," but added that any
member of CMDS asked to discuss
evolution with a youth group or
Sunday school class "would do well
to include this booklet in his or
her preparation."
Why not write a review of
Teaching Science or an article describing ASA for a periodical you
read regularly? Don't worry if
ASA's full address doesn't make it
into print. Simply locating ASA in
Ipswich, MA, helps a lot. Ipswich
is small enough for potential members to find ASA once they know
the name of the town. Remember, if you read some periodical, probably others who would be interested
in ASA read it also.
Even a brief, cogent Letter to
the Editor is a good way to bring
ASA's name before the public. Letters from Jerry Bergman and
John Wiester both made it into
CT (Oct 28) with good comments
on Tom Woodward's essay-review
of Darwin on Trial (Aug 19). ASA
wasn't mentioned in either letter,
but as chair of ASA's Committee
on Integrity in Science Education,
John included "American Scientific
Affiliation" in his signature. Every
little bit helps.
A subtle but effective way of
bringing ASA's existence to the attention of scholarly readers is to
cite papers published in our journal.
Physicist George Murphy did that
in his paper on "Time, Thermodynamics, and Theology" in the Sep
1991 Zygon ("Journal of Religion
and Science," Chicago Center for
Religion and Science, 1100 East
55th
SL,
Chicago, IL 60615-5199).
Among many other citations,
George referred to a 1986 paper of
his in Journal ASA and to another
from 1987, after the journal's title
was changed to Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith.
"Down the line," it will dawn
on some readers that ASA exists.
THE EDITOR'S LAST
WORDS: 18.
A SAers and CSCAers with a professional or semi-professional
interest in writing, editing, and publishing are beginning to share ideas,
information, and the chit-chat that
seems to come easier than what we
should be writing. So far the group
is networking the old-fashioned
way, via a mailing list and roundrobin letter, though e-mail may yet
e-merge a-mong us.
The mailing list for the first
round (Sept 1991) was put together
hastily with no pretense of completeness. It had names of two dozen
people who came to mind, partly
from get-togethers at the last two
Annual Meetings. Each received a
list, a page of ideas on what we
might be able to do for ASA, and another page of ideas on how we
might encourage each other.
Is anyone else interested in joining this informal network, dubbed
WRITERS BLOC? So far all it
takes is your name, address, tel.
no. (FAX, e-mail addresses, etc., if
any), some info about your writing
interests (a c.v. with publications if
one is handy), plus any ideas about
writing in support of ASA or on
science/faith issues in general. To
get the group rolling, the Weary
Old Editor (WOE is me) agreed to
head it up, so send your "application" to: Wait Hearn, ASA BLOC
BEAD, 762 Arlington Ave, Berkeley, CA 94707.
The next round won't circulate
until Feb 1992. Since the day the
U.S. Postal Service dropped off an
entire mail bag at 762 Arlington
Ave, I've known I'll never get
caught up. As Bloc Head pro-tem I
may fall even further behind. But
who knows? A participant may turn
up to take over some of my responsibilities. On the other hand, I may
get excited about some new projects.
We'll see.
BITS OF HISTORY
Jim Buswell of Wm. Carey International U. in Pasadena has
corrected a few of our historical
slip-ups in the Oct/Nov Newsletter.
On p. 3 we said that Marie Fetzer
11
co-authored the anthropology chapter in Modern Science and
Christian Faith (1948)." Actually,
George Homer contributed the anthro chapter to the fast (1948)
edition; William Smalley & Marie
Fetzer co-authored the chapter in
the second (1950) edition.
On p. 5, while praising Howard
Claassen's proposal for financial support of ASA, the Newsletter
erroneously elected him ASA president "in the early 1980s" (an
obvious hedge-Ed.). Buswell explained why we couldn't figure out
the year: In the year Howard
should have become president, "he
decided to decline the post altogether, which left me as the next
one in line on the Council, so I became president suddenly in 1978
without a chance to get psyched up
or make plans ahead of time."
LOCAL SECTIONS
TORONTO
Under program chair Bob VanderVennen,
the academic
year is off to a good start. On
Oct 2, an evening meeting at Hart
House of the U. of Toronto focused on "Time: A Scientific and
Christian Perspective," with discussion led by Eric Moore from the
faculty of Upper Canada College.
On Oct 19, a one-day conference
on "How the Church Prepares Students for College or University"
was held at Spring Garden Church
in Willowdale. A welcome by
CSCA president Norman Macleod
of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
was followed by a panel of three
pastors from the area and a presentation by Dr. John Franklin of
Ontario bible College on equipping
church leaders to help students
headed for university. After lunch ,
Bob VanderVennen of the Institute
for Christian Studies contrasted Christian and university world views,
including the extreme form of naturalistic world view antithetical to
theism. Dan Osmond of U.T. then
moderated a general roundtable discussion with all the speakers as
resource people.
KNOXVILLE
A nother "U.T." heard from: the
U. of Tennessee. From Professor Roland Bagby of the Dept of
Zoology we learned of activities of
the Knoxville ASA local section,
which he chairs. When Roland,
Lewis Hodge, and Corey Bennett
(Campus Crusade for Christ's Campus Leadership Ministries staff
worker) read Fingerprints of God
by astrophysicist Hugh Ross of Reasons to Believe, they decided to
invite Hugh to speak on the U.T.
campus. Cedar Springs Presbyterian
Church agreed to plan its annual
apologetics conference around
Hugh's visit, thus helping to fund
his appearances on campus.
An excellent advertising piece announced the various events, spoke of Hugh's respect for both science
and the Bible, and described ASA
and Christian Leadership Ministries.
On Thursday night a campus lecture primarily for students was
co-sponsored by Campus Crusade.
The major ASA presentation, primarily for faculty, was a Friday
afternoon seminar. The church's seminar was held Friday evening and
Saturday morning, with a banquet
at the Oak Ridge Civic Center on
Saturday night co-sponsored by the
Knoxville church and Covenant Presbyterian in Oak Ridge. Topic for
the Friday seminar was "Scientific
Evidence for Design: An Astronomer Looks at the Universe."
Some of Hugh's other talks dealt
with creation/evolution questions, so
the ASA section followed up with
two panel discussions over the
lunch hour on Oct 9 and 16. Another effective advertising piece
emphasized options standing between
recent creationism and evolutionary
naturalism, listing a dozen books outlining such positions. The panel
consisted of Roland Bagby and two
Ph.D. candidates, Jon Bryan in geology and James Kidder in
anthropology. Great line: "Bring a
brown bag lunch if you wish, but
please bring an open mind."
Evidently all parties considered
the Hugh Ross visit "a huge success." The Knoxville section
encourages other sections to interact
with local churches as well as campus Christian organizations in
planning events of mutual interest.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
A May meeting with the Stanford IVCF grad group went so
well that another was held in July
at UC Berkeley with the UC "GIF"
(Graduate & International Fellow
ship). It was a last chance to catch
speaker Peter Payne, two days before he and wife Janet left for
Ann Arbor to work with grad students at the U. of Michigan. A
Stanford grad, Peter served on
IVCF staff in the Bay area in the
1970s, then spent three years studying philosophy at a Jesuit university
in Mexico City and working with
the IFES group there. His almost
completed Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy at Claremont Graduate
School provided the basis of his
talk.
Payne's talk, "Design in the Universe? Recent Cosmology and the
Design Argument," dealt with the anthropic principle and how
cosmologists, physicists, and philosophers have accounted for the "fine
tuning" of the fundamental constants
that makes human life possible in
even a speck of our universe. Of
six lines of argument outlined in
his dissertation, Peter regarded some
versions of the "multiple universe"
and "divine designer" hypotheses as
most acceptable philosophically. The
"designer" argument, though perfectly sound, is unlikely to
convince those who "assign a negligible prior probability to the
hypothesis of a designer." That is,
logic alone will seldom turn atheists into believers.
In the discussion, physics postdoc
Rob Kroeger from the Stanford Linear Accelerator said that the
"self-organizing universe" hypothesis
is also attractive to people because
it builds self-esteem, assigning the
human mind a significant role.
(Rob writes on "mystical physics"
for Hugh Ross's Reasons to Believe.) Payne considered Paul
Davies's version philosophically
more acceptable than that of Eugene Wigner and others, which
impresses "New Age" thinkers but
not many physicists. After Larry
Lagerstrorn adjourned the meeting,
conversations erupted spontaneously,
almost like an "inflationary big
bang of the intellect."
Those two interactions with Christian grad groups underline the
priority ASA is assigning to serving
grad students in the sciences. At
Stanford, Peter Payne profited from
Prof. Richard Bube's undergraduate
seminar on "Issues in Science and
Religion." Berkeley's GIF owes its
start to Gary Gates (now doing further study at Regent College), to
whom the section offered a gift
ASA membership a few years ago.
According to Peter, IVCF-related
grad groups now exist at 16 of the
top 35 graduate institutions in the
U.S.; IV's new graduate director,
Randy Bare, has targeted all 35,
plus 40 more.
In another joint effort this fall,
the Bay Area section piggybacked
on a Forum lecture of the Center
for Theology & the Natural Sciences held Sep 24 at Berkeley's
Graduate Theological Union. ASA
Newsletter editor Wait Hearn had
been asked to speak on "Science
and Religion in the Public Arena."
Addressing students at the theologically broad GTU, Walt defined
himself as a theological conservative, explaining why such Christians
tend to be concerned about impacts
of science on biblical interpretation.
After outlining evangelical and
fundamentalist outlooks, he compared the roles of ASA and CTNS
and described ASA's efforts to convey science/faith issues to "people
in the pew." Walt ended with some
thoughts on sorting out the socalled creation-evolution controversy
for ordinary citizens. Perhaps a
third of the 40 or 50 in attendance
were ASAers.
PERSONALS
Roland M. Bagby is professor
of zoology at the U. of Tennessee
in Knoxville. Last spring he responded to our Newsletter account
of writer Forrest Mims's difficulties
with Scientific American by writing
to the magazine's editor, Jonathan
Piel. Roland told Piel that, as a
member of a theologically conservative church, he might be considered
a "creationist" by some, even
though he teaches courses with evolutionary underpinnings. He added
that being a Christian has made
him treat evolutionary theory more
scientifically: "Before I was a Christian, I used to parrot the
evolutionary dogma I was taught as
a graduate student without really understanding the principles involved.
Now I am careful to treat evolution as a scientific theory rather
than a religious belief." Roland enclosed a copy of the "Amateur
Scientist" column from the May
1989 issue of Scientific American,
in which Jearl Walker, who then edited that column, credited Bagby
for information presented on how
to make holograms. Bagby urged
Piel to reinstate the dropped column and to reconsider Mims for
its editorship, asking if Bagby's warm relationship with Jearl Walker
would have turned cold "if he had
known my views on creation."
Norman Carlson of Ames, Iowa,
is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Iowa State and senior
scientist at the Dept of Energy's
Ames Laboratory. A letter from his
wife, Virginia, about multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) caught our
eye in the I Apr 1991 issue of
Chemical & Engineering News.
When the Carlsons attended the
1987 ASA Annual Meeting at Colorado College, Virginia had a
reaction to something in the main
lecture hall, possibly to a plasticizer
or other compound in the otherwise
comfortable seats. Her letter mentioned her work with the Human
Ecology Action League Inc.
(BEAL) of Atlanta. HEAL is in
contact with many individuals
around the world who seem to
have become ill from exposure to
one substance and then developed
sensitivity to others as well. According to a news story in the same
issue of C&EN, a workshop on the
controversial topic of MCS was
held in March at the Irvine (CA)
office of the National Academy of
Sciences. The EPA requested the
NAS workshop to discuss protocols
for investigating MCS. A special report on MCS became the cover
story on the 22 July issue of
C&EN, with letters pro and con appearing in the journal since then.
R. David Cole, professor of molecular & cell biology, has
officially retired from teaching at
U.C. Berkeley but will remain active in the lab until his grants run
out and his last grad student and
postdocs have finished their work.
He has played an important role in
a massive reorganization of biology
on the campus, presiding over renovation of space for a newly
organized Structural Biology unit.
Thomas C. Dent retired from
the Biology Dept of Gordon College this spring and moved to
Morgantown, West Virginia, which
happens to be halfway between the
locales of two Dent children. Tom
lives halfway up a mountain and
says "Retirement is great! I don't
do anything I don't want to"though he's actually working on a number of projects. Tom, a botanist, has moved some plants into
the W.V.U. herbarium and is working on the aceraceae (?) for a new
Illustrated Flora of Mexico and on
the hippocastenaccae (??) for another volume.
Karl Franklin and wife Joice
have moved to Kangaroo Ground,
Victoria, Australia, after a year's furlough in Texas, where Karl taught
at the Texas Summer Institute of
Linguistics (SIL) and was an adjunct professor at U.T. Arlington.
Karl is now principal of the South
Pacific SIL and has a relation with
the Linguistics Dept at LaTrobe University in Melbourne. In September
he gave a paper at Leiden, The
Netherlands, at a conference on
Papuan languages. Karl has a Ph.D.
in linguistics, and for 32 years the
Franklins worked in Papua New
Guinea with SIL and Wycliffe
Bible Translators.
Oskar Gruenwald of Santa Monica, California, founder and
president of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, sent us a copy
of Vol. 2 of the annual Journal of
Interdisciplinary Studies (1990). The
issue is devoted to 1) The Christian Challenge in Knowledge,
Ethics, and Faith, and 2) Freedom,
Religion, and Politics. Oskar, author
of The Yugoslav Search for Man,
says he had to leave the country
to discover ASA. A few years ago,
while attending a World Congress
of Sociology in Mexico City, he
met David 0. Moberg of Marquette University, who told him
about ASA.
George E. Jackson and wife
Judy now live in Port Charlotte,
Florida, having recently returned to
the U.S. after 17 years of service
in Taiwan with Child Evangelism
Fellowship. George will now try to
meet some of the staggering needs
of American children as associate director of CEF, Inc., of Florida.
Paul Jacobson has moved from
Illinois to Mountlake Terrace, Washington, where he has begun a
Ph.D. program in the Geophysics
Dept at U.W. in Seattle.
Glenn Kirkland's July wedding
was reported in die Oct/Nov PERSONALS but we failed to mention
(because we didn't know at the
time) that wife Barbara has a
Ph.D. in psychology. We also failed
to mention (for the same reason)
that November was designated as
Alzheimer's Disease Month, during
which PBS scheduled a program
called "Grace." It was made up of
excerpts from the three prize-winrung films that chronicled the
stages of the devastating disease in
Grace, Glenn's late wife. The composite film was produced by the
School of Medicine of the U. of
Maryland. An article by Glenn on
"Alzheimer's Disease from a
Caregiver's Perspective" appeared in
the Aug 1991 issue of the Journal
of Home Health Care Practice.
Mailen Kootsey has moved from
Duke University in North Carolina
to Berrien Springs, Michigan, where
he is now dean of the College of
Arts & Sciences of Andrews University. Mailen writes that deaning is
quite a change from a faculty position. He hopes to continue some
research in computer simulation of
ion transport in heart muscle and
to engage in some dialogue on science and religion with colleagues at
Andrews.
Stanley Lindquist, psychologist
and former president of ASA, became past president of Link Care
Center of Fresno, California, on 17
Jan 1991, passing the leadership to
his son, Brent. In the Spring issue
of Heart to Heart, Link Care newsletter, Stan paid tribute to a
devoted staff and to his wife, Ingrid, who has served on the board
for 20 of the 25 years since the
founding of the unique center. it
continues to provide psychological
support for missionary candidates
and returned missionaries, financed
in part by a residential center and
local counseling service. Stan wrote
of his amazement at seeing the
yearly budget grow from "nothing"
to $1.3 million, and of his gratitude to God for Link Care's
opportunity to serve the worldwide
cause of Jesus Christ.
Stephen 0. Moshier has moved
his family from Lexington, Kentucky, to St. Charles, Illinois, so he
can join Jeff Greenberg in the Geology Dept of Wheaton College.
Steve joined the U. of Kentucky faculty after earning his Ph.D. at LSU
with research on carbonate petrology. He will teach "soft rock"
courses to geology majors and will
also teach the course for non-majors next summer at Wheaton's
Science Station in the Black Hills.
Doing his professional work in a
Christian academic environment will
be a new experience for Steve,
whose interest in Christian higher education was sparked in part by
attending the 1990 ASA Annual
Meeting. Ironically, he missed the
1991 Wheaton meeting because he
was moving at the time. Steve replaces Gerald H. Haddock, refiring
after serving more than 30 years
on the Wheaton geology faculty.
Jerry will continue on a part-time
basis in curating, leading field trips,
and some classroom teaching.
David Snoke is on a two-year
stint as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck
Institut for materials science in Stuttgart, Germany. After graduating
from Cornell in physics and working at Westinghouse R&D in
Pittsburgh in 1983, he began grad
work at the U. of Illinois (where
he helped coordinate volunteers at
two IVCF Urbana missionary conventions). In 1990 he received his
Ph.D. in physics and headed for
Germany with wife Sandra and
three children. Besides David's nine
scientific publications, he used to
write a science column for World
magazine ($21.95/yr, Box 2330,
Asheville, NC 28802). He thinks
highly of World (successor to Eternity), "a kind of Christian
Newsweek." (We,hear that Forrest
Mims has taken over Dave's column. -Ed.)
Laurence C. Walker's new
book, The Southern Forest: A Chronicle, has just been released by the
U. of Texas Press. It covers 400
years of use and abuse of the
solid forest that once stretched from
the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas
and Oklahoma. Despite unwise practices based on the mistaken belief
that its bounty was inexhaustible,
that forest has made a comeback in
the 20th century. Larry is retired
from his position as Lacy Hunt professor of forestry at Stephen F.
Austin State U. in' Nacogdoches,
Texas. This summer he was teaching at the U. of Colorado's Mountain Research Station.
David M. Wolfrom is now on
the faculty at Paducah Community
College in Paducah, Kentucky, teaching anatomy, physiology, and other
courses in the biological sciences.
He has a B.S. and M.S. in biology
from Eastern Michigan U. and is
completing his Ph.D. work in anatomy at Michigan State.
John Wood called this summer
from the Au Sable Institute in Michigan, where he was teaching a
course in stream ecology. He said
we guessed right that the biology
position open at The King's College in Alberta (Apr/May
Newsletter) was for his replacement.
But he and Cathy have now decided to stay in Edmonton, so
maybe our notice made the job
sound so good that he decided to
reapply for it himself. (The two little Wood chips evidently loved the
winter snow, but when the thermometer hit 30' below that first year,
their parents wondered why they
ever left California.-Ed.)
Frank Young, pharmacologist
and assistant deputy director of the
federal government's Health &
Human Services Administration,
gave the commencement address at
Messiah College in Pennsylvania in
the spring. In a list of commencement speakers for 1991 at the 80
colleges of the Christian College Coalition, Frank's name stood out as
essentially the only scientist, with
the exception of child psychiatrist
Robert Coles, speaker at Gordon
College.
PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS.
Chemistry: Fraser Fleming (Dept of Chemistry, Oregon State U., Corvallis, OR 97331; tel. 503-7376765) seeks academic position in organic
chem, in U.S. or Canada. Has Honors B.Sc. (Massey U., New Zealand), Ph.D. (chemistry, U. of
British Columbia, Canada), postdoc research at OSU with J. D. White. Specialist in multistep synthesis and development of new synthetic methods.
Married, one child.
POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE.
Chemistry: Analytical, analytical/physical, or computational chemist for 2-year replacement position open
Feb 1992 (other specialties, Sep 1992 starting date considered for the fight applicant). Teach two courses with labs each semester, guide
undergraduate research, conforming to Reformed standards of Christian liberal arts education. After 15 Nov, check to see if filled before sending
c.v., transcripts, proposed research program, 3 letters of reference to: Dr. Arie
Leegwater, Chair, Dept of Chemistry, Calvin College, 3201 Burton
St. S.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49546. Tel. 616-957-6000; Fax 616-957-8551. Biology: Tenure-track position for Aug 1992. Teach botany, plant
physiology, ecology, environmental science, plant taxonomy; interest in molecular biology desirable. Doctorate in plant science plus teaching experience
preferred; masters required. Apply to: Dr. Robert Zwier, Vice Pres. for Academic Affairs, Northwestern College, Orange City, A 51041. Tel.
712-737-4821. Biology: Two tenure-track positions for Fall 1992, teaching & research. 1) Molecular biologist with immunochemistry & recombinant
DNA experience to teach 2 or 3 courses from genetics; immunology; cell, developmental, or micro-biology. 2) Vertebrate biologist to teach
general physiology plus 1 or 2 from human, comparative, or neuro-physiology; vertebrate behavior; or natural history. Contact: (ASA member)
Dr. Jeff Schloss, Biology Dept, Westmont College, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Tel. 805-565-6118. Chemistry: I year or
possibly 2 year sabbatical replacement position beginning Fall 1992. Physical/biochemistry preferred; other areas considered. Ph.D. and teaching,
experience preferred. Apply to: Dr. Larry L. Funck, Chair, Dept of Chemistry, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187.