NEWS
The American Scientific Affiliation
VOLUME 11, NUMBER 3
3 August 1969
CONVENTION AT GORDON
The surgeon's scalpel is poised for that first incision. it's too late for more
preparation, one just has to wait and see how the "opening exercise$" work out.
That's the way it is at this awkward time with respect to the annual ASA convention.
The preparation has all been made, we know the skilled hands entrusted with the
scalpel; but we don't know who will be there to be operated on. YOU are the only
uncertain ingredient now.
Each member has received a copy of the final program so there is no use in mentioning the mighty men who will speak, names like Herrmann, Gingerich, Nilson, Lantz,
Collins, Anderson, Wright, Vincent, Taylor, Ault, Hatfield, Johnson, Reid, Roscoe,
Walker, Pannell, Horner, Jennings, Snow, Kreider, Gruber, Jekel and McIntyre.
Neither is there any sense in repeating what everyone knows that the topics will
range all over the social issues from over-population to poverty, from civil disobedience to pollution.
But
then, ASA NEWS has not been noted for making sense. That's the JOURNAL. We
just have fun in this rag. This is the ASA with its hair down.
Oh, yes! The Convention. This is your opportunity to see at first hand how that
10% elite of the ASA looks and sounds at close range. SEE YOU AT GORDON!
/Christian Faith" is due off the Inter-Varsity Press 1 October 1969; 168 pp., cloth
V1
$4.50. Of special interest to us -is the fact that 11 of the participants at this
most significant conference were ASA members. V. Elving Anderson, Richard H.
Bube, J. 0. Buswell, III. J. Frank Cassel. Walter R. Hearn. Norman D. Lea, Thomas H.
Leith, David-O. &erg. Bernard Ramm, George K. Schweitzer and Miguel Zandrino.
Science", "God, Creation and the Laws of Nature", "The Approach of the
Scientists", "The Nature of Scientific Knowledge", "Explanations, Models, Images
and Reality in Science and Religion", "The Language of Psychology and Religion",
and "Determinism in Psychology, Sociology and Cybernetics."
This book should be a welcome resource for professional scientists, students and
Christian leaders in general.
Inter-Varsity Press is also announcing the availability of another new book, "Philosophy and the Christian Faith" by Colin Brown, 320 pp., paper $2.50. Brown's
British wit makes reading philosophy a pleasure.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY
On 21 June 1969 Mr. Harold Caming spoke to the San Francisco Bay Section on the
topic, "When Were Our First Parents Created?." Mr. Camping, President of Family
Stations, Inc., moderator of "Open Forum Program" on KEAR and KEBR and President of
Camping Construction Co. has devoted considerable study to the Biblical record on
the subject. "The Bible gives us absolute dates considerably older than Ussher's
dates for Adam and the Noachian Flood. These can be compared with archaeological
evidence of the Pre-historic period as well as for the Historical period. Carbon-14
data relate very well with the Biblical statement". stated Camping.
The meeting was held at the home of John Amoore in El Cerrito.
Harold Winters fills us in a bit on their 10 May meeting with Dr. Bernard Ramm. The topic was, "The Doctrine of Inspiration and the Problem of Formal, Factual, and
Historical Contradictions." About 60 members and friends attended the meeting held
at the Evangelical Free Church of San Jose. Prof. Ramm suggested that historically
the church has not placed undue emphasis on the inerrancy of the scripture, but
rather on the "Affections of scripture"; i.e., its state, quality, or attributes
such as sufficiency, clarity, and self credibility. Prof. Ramm also stated that
the realm of contradiction and error is a complicated problem not unique to scripture. In any case, he stated that it was a very difficult task to objectively
demonstrate error or contradiction. In conclusion, Ramm suggested that an apparent
error in our scripture would not be a reason for rejecting it as God's word. Nor,
on the other hand, would a book demonstrated to be without error necessarily be
divine. The talk was followed by a panel discussion moderated by Prof. Richard Bube,
of Stanford University.
INDIANA
On 18 April 1969 the Indiana Section of the ASA met at Huntington College, Huntington, Indiana. It was a 9:30 A. M. to 4 P. M. session on a Friday which started
with a college chapel at which Dr. George J. Jennings spoke on "Cultural Factors
Contributing to the Use of Psychedelic Drugs." Dr. Jennings is Asst. Prof. of
Anthropology, Wheaton College and President of the Chicago Section of the ASA. The
remainder of the program included "A Look at LSD" by Mrs. Sue Mellendorf, Instructor
of Biology, Bethel College, Mishawaka, Indiana; Drug Use- Drug Dependence" by Dr.
Rodney C. Nickander, Senior Pharmacologist, The Lilly Research Laboratories, Indianapolis; "The Use of Drugs - Its Influence on our Lives", Sargeant Charles B.
Meeks of the Vice and Narcotics Division of the Allen County Police; Panel Discussion "Modern Society and Drug Abuse" moderated by Dr. Warren
E. Hoffman, program
chairman.
The 1969 officers of the Indiana Section are:
President: R. Waldo Roth, Computing Center Director, Taylor University,
Upland, Indiana.
President-Elect ' ; Warren E. Hoffman, Chairman, Chemistry Dept., Indiana
Institute of Technology, Fort Wayne.
Secretary: J. Phillip McLaren, Asst.. Prof. Natural Science, Bethel
College, Mishawaka.
Treasurer: Robert Werking, Asst. Prof. Physics, Marion College, Marion,
Indiana.
Additional Exec. Committee Member: Fred D. Morgan, Asst. Prof. of Biology,
Huntington College, Huntington, Indiana.
NEW YORK METROPOLITAN
On 10 May 1969 the Metropolitan New York ASA Section met at Long Hill-Chapel,
Chatham, N. J., for a rib roast dinner. For dessert they heard Dr. Edwin Yamauchi,
Assistant-Professor of History, Rutgers University, speak on "Herod the Great and
Jesusof Nazareth." The lecture was illustrated by slides of Israel including
shots, of recent archaeological, excavations in Jerusalem in which Dr. Yamauchi participated in gathering material for his book,
Jerusalem from Herod to Hadrian.
WILLIS TO HEAD DEPARTMENT
Dr. David L. Willis, Associate Professor of Biology at Oregon State University has
been appointed to head the university's Department of General Science. As head of
General Science, Willis will have responsibility for the university's largest
single department graduate program and second largest undergraduate program. More
than 25 faculty members teach in this department which includes an undergraduate
general science major and five specialized graduate programs, most of which are
geared to training college science teachers.
David is co-author of a standard textbook on radiation biology and is currently on
leave for a six-month's study of radiation ecology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He was acting general science chairman during the 1967-68
academic year. Prior to joining the OSU faculty, he taught at Fullerton Junior
College, Fullerton, California.
GORHAM TO ALASKA
Dr.John R. Gorham has joined the staff of the Arctic Health Research Center where
he will be concerned with biting fly control, especially mosquitoes, and certain
insecticides, and their effects upon the environment. While a number of taxonomic
studies have been made of Alaskan arthropods, the surface is but scratched in determining their roles in transmission of disease and in ecology. Man's surface is
also scratched as he tries to conquer the hinterlands of Alaska!
Dr. Gorham received his Master's degree in zoology from Miami University (Ohio) and
his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He has also studied at the Universities
of
New Mexico and Puerto Rico. His broad background includes: entomologist, Maine
Forest Service and Conservation Foundation; entomological consultant to the Pan
American Sanitary Bureau on malaria eradication in Paraguay; research associate,
University of Maryland Pakistan Medical Research Center, Lahore; Senior Scientist,
USPHS National Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta. Dr. Gorham, his wife and
four
children are now settled in Fairbanks, Alaska.
CHANG TO ARGONNE
Christopher Teh-Min Chang received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the
University of Southern California a year ago with a dissertation on "The Macroscopic
Configuration of Electrical Currents and Magnetic Fields in Type II Superconductors.
Since April of 1968 Dr. Chang has been assistant electrical engineer at Argonne
National Laboratory. His present work involves the development of a new type of
particle a separator for median energy (about I to 3 GeV/c) experiments.
During the past two years he has published several papers including two articles in
Solid State Communication and one in the Journal of Applied Physics last December.
With others he presented a paper at the Particle Accelerator Conference in Washington D. C. last spring. This paper will soon appear in IEEE
TRansactions on Nuclear
Science.
CALVIN COLLEGE HOLDS SYMPOSIUM
On 24-25 and 26 April, 1969, Calvin College held a symposium on "The Christian and
Science." Thursday afternoon was taken up by a consideration of "Problems of the
Past." Dr. M. Howard Rienstra, historian of science, of Calvin College and Dr.
Robert Vander Vennen, chemistry, of Trinity College spoke. The banquet Thursday
evening was held in conjunction with West Michigan Section of the ASA and Dr.
Charles Spoelhof, of Eastman Kodak Co., spoke on satellite exploration of the solar
system.
Friday morning the topic "The Nature of Science" was taken up. Prof. Dr. J. R. Van
de Fliert of the Free University, Amsterdam, and Dr. Clifton Orlebeke, Philosophy
of science, of Calvin College, spoke.
Friday afternoon "Problems of the Present" were considered as talks were given by
Dr. Lawrence Den Besten, surgeon, and Dr. Bastiaan Van Elderen,
theologian-archaeologist. Friday evening
Prof. Dr. Van de Fliert spoke on the Bible and
geology.
Saturday morning "problems of the future" was the topic as Dr. Roger Faber, physicist of Lake Forest College, and Dr. Fritz Rottman, biochemist of Michigan State
University, spoke.
WINTER IS HOT MISSIONARY
Dr. Ralph D. Winter started out right as a Cal Tech engineering graduate, but from
that point things got out of control. After a stint in the Naval Air Corps in WWII
he received his MA in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. In
1953 he received the Ph.D. in linguistics, anthropology and mathematical statistics
from Cornell and in 1956 the BD from Princeton Theological Seminary.
A member of the Presbytery of Los Angeles of the United Presbyterian Church in the
USA, Ralph has had two five-year terms with the National Evangelical Presbyterian
Church of Guatamala. Here his assignment has been with the Mam Christian Center
located at Ostuncalco in the moderately cold western highlands. Within the quarter
million Mam Indiana of this area, direct descendents of the ancient Maya, some 15
churches have been established.
Ralph has had a major role in total revamping of the Presbyterian Seminary such
that it now reaches down almost to the level of the Indian and also up to a higher,
university class than ever before. He has designed an extension program in secular
education as well in a nationwide program in educating 750 key adults. He has also
had a hand in establishing a rural industrial program and helping to found a new
evangelical university in Guatamala. His furlough assignment is as a visiting lecturer in the new School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena,
California.
BS ON RADIO
The oldest and strongest branch of the Bible-Science Association is in the Los
Angeles area. This group, within the past six months, has established a radio
broadcasting activity. As of 1 June 32 stations were carrying a 15-minute weekly
program, 2 a five-minute weekly program and 9 a 10-minute daily program. A budget
of $900 per month has been adopted to carry on this work.
A July letter states: "Today's overwhelming popularity of the evolution concept is
based not on its scientific truth but rather on its promotion by godless men.
Scientifically, the Evolution Theory has never been in worse shape. The incoming
scientific and technical facts are totally incongruous to current evolutionary explanations."
AUTOMATED APOLOGETICS
The Christian Research Institute (116 Surrey Drive, Wayne, N. J. 07074) is appealing
to Christian scholars for assistance in feeding significant apologetic data into the
memory of a computer for ready recall where and when needed. They are seeking for
the data-bank.
1) Criticisms that cover philosophies, theologies, non-Christian religions,
sects and all other ideologies that compete with the historic Christian faith for
ments allegiance (atheism, agnosticism, neo-orthodoxy, Islam, secularism, scientism,
Communism), including the "non-religious" religions (success, fame, etc.). Material
may deal either with individuals or with arguments.
2) Clarifications pertaining to Christian doctrine and to all objections
raised to the orthodox view of Scripture (errors, contradictions, destructive higher
criticism, etc.)
CRI has a scale of remuneration for time and services and will insofar as possible
work with you in underwriting the cost of supplying the information. They will
gladly pay for cost of reproducing the unusual piece of literature or the rare
edition.
EMPLOYMENT
Dr. Chi-Hang Lee (70 Rosedale Ave., Hastings, N. Y. 10706) is interested in an academic position, either in research or teaching with some opportunity to do research.
His field is in structural elucidation, biosynthesis, and organic synthesis of
natural products. Dr. Lee's Ph.D. was obtained from Rutgers University in 1966.
So far he has had three papers published on research work done at Rutgers. He is
present Senior Chemist in the Corporate Research Department of General Foods Corporation, Tarrytown, N. Y. He would prefer the Pacific Coast or South although
other locations would be considered if the position is attractive otherwise. He
does not insist on being in a chemistry department.
Paul R. Bauman, Vice President, Administration, Le Tourneau College, is Director of
the college's 1969 fall tour to the Bible lands. This is a 10-day tour, 18-27
October, flying directly to Tel Aviv, Israel.
James 0. Buswell III sent a card from Miami on his honeymoon. He and Kathleen
spoke to a Seminole lady 101 years old on the lunar landing day whose memory goes
back to the days when the only mode of transport was the dugout canoe.
F. Alton Everest and his old college "cellmate" and their wives visited the bristlecone pines in the White Mountains of California. Nothing like a 4600-year-old tree
to make one feel young!
James C. Hefley, ASA associate, is the author of an article, "My Day at the Space
Center" in July-August Moody Monthly. In this he recounts the many Christians involved in space work whom he met in Houston, including
Dr. Rodney W. Johnson, Fellow
ASA, program planner for post-Apollo lunar missions. Jim is gathering material for
his book, "Liftoff", soon to be released by Zondervan. Devoting full time to freelance writing, Jim recently visited Viet Nam for his book, "By Life or By Death",
and is currently planning a trip to South America.
Earl C. Hoffer, M. D., will be completing his internship next February and plans to
enter private practice in the Denver area after that. Has just submitted a paper
to Journal of Applied Physiology.
Chi-Hang Lee, Research Chemist for General Foods had a pleasant surprise at the
National Organic Chemistry Symposium in Salt Lake City in June. When he saw the
name Duane Gish on a name tag he introduced himself and two ASA members had a good
jaw-fest together. Chi-Hang remembered Duane's name from Journal and News references. Who says this business doesn't pay off?
Merton H. Pubols is on sabbatical leave from Washington State University for a year
and is spending the time at Brookhaven National Laboratories.
Francis H. Roberts received his Ph.D. in geology from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr,
Pa., in May. Frank is the head of the math-science department of the Delaware
County Christian School, Newton Square, Pa. He has been at the school for 14 years.
Richard B. Stuart, M. D. and LTC, has been named distinguished honor graduate of
the U. S. Army-Baylor University program in health administration, 27 June 69. He
is now Commanding Officer, U. S. Army Hospital, Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
Arthur H.-Svedberg is President of the Christian Medical Society International
which has been instrumental in taking medical help to the rural areas of Mexico for
the past four years. The group has also aided Indians of New Mexico and Arizona.
,Charles H. Troutman is truly giving a broader perspective to student work in Latin
America through his work with Latin America Mission. Through periodical issues of
Penetration he is succeeding in giving an in-depth study of the mind and heart of
the usual Latin student, so needed for effective student work.
William H. Van den Born is on sabbatical leave from the University of Alberta and is
spending the first 8 months at the University of California, Davis, in the Botany
Dept. After that he expects to spend 4-5 months at Oxford, England. He plans to
see a bit of California while there and hopes to meet some California ASA members.
(OK, you SF Bay men, here's your chance!)
A. Kurt Weiss, Professor of Physiology at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center,
has been elected Vice-President of the Hebrew Christian Alliance of America during
the Biennial Conference of the organization at Asheville, N. C., in June.
Anne M. Whiting has been employed since September 1968 as Assistant Professor of
Biology at Houghton College. She received her Ph.D. in zoology from Pennsylvania
State University in March of this year. Her thesis title: "Squamate cloacal
Glands: Morphology, Histology and Histochemistry."
Edwin M. Yamauchi has joined the staff of the Mount Hermon Japan Evangelical Missionary Society for their summer conferences. Ed has studied 18 languages, has
studied in seven universities and belongs to eight coveted scholarship societies.
Both Ed and his wife are Hawaiian-born Nisei and they have a son, Brian.
Richard F. Carlson, 318 Marcia St., Redlands, Calif. 92373. BS, MS, PhD all in
Physics and Math. Rank: Member
Charles M. Orr, 516 Calle Mayor, Redondo Beach, Calif. 90277. BS in Structures and
Civil Engr. Rank: Member
J. R. McDougall, 20335 Anza Ave., Apt. 14, Torrance, Calif. 90503. BS in Mech.
Engr., MS in Nuclear Engr. Rank: Member
Robert Lewis Cundall, Sabin Hall, Greeley, Colo. 80631 BA in Chem., Math. &
Physics; MA in Chem. Rank: Member
William L. Brown, lN411 Goodrich Ave., Glen Ellyn, Ill. 60137. BS in Applied Engr.
and Math; MA in Classroom Teaching. Rank: Member
James V. Panoch, 4001 Fairfield Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind. 46807. BGE, BS in Math.
Rank: Associate
Clyde W. Hibbs, 150 Riley Rd., Muncie, Ind. 47304. BS, MS in Vo. Agr., Biology;
MA, PhD in Conservation Ed. Rank: Member
Stanley Lee Burden, Jr., Box 528, Taylor Univ., Upland, Ind. 469j9. BS in Physics,
Chemistry; PhD in Chem., Physics. Rank: Member
Max Lowell Frazier, Jr., 820 So. Marshall, Boone, Iowa 50036. BS in Biology.
Rank: Member
John Chien-Chung Cheng, 405 Arizona Ave. S. W. Orange City, Iowa 51041 BS in
Physics; MS, PhD in Physics and Math. Rank: Member
James Robert Rahn, 120 Grapevine Rd., Wenham, Mass. 01934. BS in Math, Physics,
MA in Math. Rank: Member
Hessel Bouma, Jr., 5776 Higgins Ave., Kalamazoo, Mich. 49001. B.Ch.E in Chem. Engr.,
MS in Chem. Engr.; BD in Theology. Rank: Member
Donald LaClair Riggi , 183 Seymour Ave. S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. 55414. AB in
Math, BA in Bible. Rank: Member
Jack C. Oates III, Rt. 3, Oxford, Mississippi 3j655. AB, BD in Anthro., Bible.
Rank: Member
Richard Milton Johnston, 2067 E. Third St., Fremont, Nebraska 66025. BS, MA, MS,
Ed.D. Math, Educ. Rank: Member
Terry Lee Benson, 307 Village Place, Wyckoff, N. J. 07481. Student - Biology.
Rank: Associate
James Gilbert Miller, 228-D Harrison St., Princeton, N. J. 01540. AB in Math.
Rank: Member
Ernest Yee Yeung Lam, 23 Kent Drive, Shirley, N. Y. 11967. BS, BScSp, PhD in
Chem., Math. Rank: Member
Ronald Joseph Burwell, The King's College, Briarcliff Manor, New York 10510. AB in
Anthro., Soc. Sci.; BD in Theology. Rank: Member
Keith H. Bigger, 227-46 114th Road, Cambria Hgts, N. Y. 11411. Two years at RCA
Inst. - Elect. Tech. Rank: Associate
Robert B. Smith, 6168 Arlington Ave., Las Vegas, Nevada 39107. BS, PhD in Chem.
Rank: Member
Bruce J. Clark, 1959 Bradley Rd., Westlake, Ohio 44145. BSE, MSE in Chem. Engr.,
Math.; MA in Math., Chem. Engr. Rank: Member
Oklahoma
Kenneth C. Crawford, 1203 Kansas St., Norman, Oklahoma 73069. BES, MS in Meteorology, Math. Rank: Member
Pennsylvania
Bernard Joseph Piersma, 1243 Eagle Rd., St. Davids, Pa. 190J7. BA in Chem., Math.
MS, PhD in Chem. Rank: Member
Wisconsin
Garret Vanderkooi, 13 D University Houses, Madison, Wisconsin 53705. AB Chem.,
Biology; PhD Biochem, Phys. Chem. Rank: Member
Dwight Klaassen, Rt. 2, Platteville, Wis. 53318. BS in Biol., Chem.; MS, PhD
in Chem., Biochemistry. Rank: Member
Brasil
Wayne G. Bragg, Caixa Postal 20900, Rua Dr. Oliveira Pinto 58, J. Paulistano, Sao
Paulo, Brasil. BA in History, Ahthro.; MA in Biblical Lit. Rank: Member
Ecuador
Joe A. Blakeslee, Casilla 1007, Quito, Ecuador. BS in dairy science; MS in Veg.
Crops Intern. Agric. Development. Rank: Member
Germany
Hans Suffner, 645 Hanau-Dgh, An der Landwehr 40, Germany. degrees
in Math, Art. Rank: Associate
Netherlands
High school
Jan Rijnaud, Van de Pliert, Borssenburg 18, Amstelveen, Netherlands. Univ. of
Utrecht - Doctor of Science. Rank! Member
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