AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION
VOLUME 9 NUMBER 5 30 December 1967
The Executive Council has selected the following as officers for 1968:
Dr. Richard H. Bube, President
Dr. Charles Hatfield, Jr., Vice-President
Dr. Virgil H. Freed,, Secretary-Treasurer
We are now completely in the hands of THE PROFESSORS. Dr. Bube is Professor of
Materials Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Dr. Hatfield
is Chairman, Department of Mathematics, University 'of Missouri, Rolla, and Dr.
Freed is Professor of Agricultural and Biological Chemistry at Oregon State University. Of the Executive Council, only
Dr. Wayne U. Ault is a maverick, an industrial
researcher with Isotopes, Inc. The other Council member is Dr. George K. Schweitzer,
Professor of Chemistry at University of Tennessee. A reasonably representative
Council, however: 3 physical, 1 biological science and a mathematician.
GLEANINGS FROM CHRISTMAS CARDS
Of the scads of Christmas cards received, some are printed in sterile, austere
fashion, some have merely a "Herman,and Phoebe" written after the trite, commercial
message but some dear people take the occasion to put a friendly, human dimension
to the greeting. From the latter, as far as ASA members are concerned, the following is gleaned:
Marion Barnes ' is living happily, but temporarily,' in the summer home of the late
Senator Kefauver. The panoramic view of Chattanooga from the heights of Lookout
Mountain is breathtaking.
Harold Hartzler is the only person who has a perfect record of attendance at the
annual meetings of the ASA. Returning from the Stanford meeting he spent a week at
Bear Trap Ranch in Colorado, IVCF camp.
Elving Anderson says there is a sizable group of Christians in the Harvard Medical
School area and is finding the stay highly interesting. He will be speaking-at the
AAAS breakfast for ASA members. On a nine-months sabbatical from University of
Minnesota he is a research associate at Children's Hospital, Harvard, and is learning about chromosome studies, biochemical tests and evaluation of retarded children.
Roland Icke is very proud of the Coalinga College football team who barely missed a
rating in the "top-ten" as co-champions of*the California Junior College Conference.
As doctor-trainer he is glad no major injuries occurred.
Eugene Walker is program chairman for the California Psychological Association convention to be held in January, 1968, and has had good success in lining up significant papers. Gene is
searching, for that right position at a college or university
having a strong graduate program and opportunities for research.
Hendrik Oorthuys is spending time in the Oregon State Penitentiary-teaching an
engineering orientation course to a select group. With a touch of embarrassment
he states that he cannot tell any difference between this class and the students
at Oregon State University, except that the "cons" are more mature.
Lawrence Starkey spent last summer in science and ended up with a 47-page manuscript entitled, "A Double-Universe Cosmology With Nil Total Mass-Energy" which he
hopes to publish soon. Perhaps he will get into the Hoyle/Gamow squabble yet!
Wayne Ault seems to be busy testing radiation in many tree slices and teaching
science at nearby Nyack Missionary College.
ASA/ETS ISRAEL MEETING
Progress is being made oft-a proposed joint meeting of the ASA and the Evangelical
Theological Association. A survey is being made in each group regarding the interest that prevails in a June, 1968,..meeting in Israel. Dr. Fischer, past ASA President, appointed Drs.
Ralph Lowell Alfred Eckert and Ray Brand as ASA representAtives on a joint committee to coordinate plans for such a trip.
Born in Smilde, Drenthe, the Netherlands, Dr. DeVries emigrated ~to the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 1920. He attended Calvin College and received his Ph.D. in the field of molecular structure from the University of Illinois in 1933. He worked vigorously to bring about an understanding of science among Christians and Christianity among his peers in the world of science.
ASA AUTHORS
In "Faith and Thought", the journal of the Victoria Institute of England, James 0.
Buswell III has published his paper read at the Oxford Conference of 1965 entitled,
"Genesis, The Neolithic Age, and the Antiquity of Adam", (Volume 96, No. 1, summer
1967). This is an exploratory excursion among the biblical and scientific-elements
of a problem which may be viewed most profitably from a number of different perspectives. The purpose of the paper is to examine relevant factors rather than to
hand down solutions and Jim has done an excellent job in this direction. An
abridged, popularized version appeared in Eternity of February 1967 under the title,
"Adam and Neolithic Man."
Peter Stoner's "Science Speaks" book is now in five languages other than English
and has sold well over 150,000 copies in English alone. Recently a copy was shown
to a young Jew in Pasadena and he was asked if he had ever heard of it. "That is
the book our Rabbi uses when he teaches Genesis", he said. Professor Stoner, now
in "retirement" is working on a revision of this book. The burden of Science
Speaks is reflected in the Moody Institute of Science Film, "The Professor and the
Prophets" in which Peter appears. This film is in French, Spanish, Portuguese and
Japanese and will be one of the series to be released on TV in the Caribbean and
throughout Latin America beginning in 1968.
"Faith and the Physical World" is a new book published by Eerdman's and authored by
ASA's own, Dr. David L. Pye, of the Physics Technology Aerospace group at the Boeing
Company, Seattle. As a practicing physicist, David takes great exception to the
idea that one must choose between scientific data and the Scriptures. He carefully
emphasizes the difference between raw and processed data, both in science and the
Bible and presents a consistent Christian World View that has nothing to fear in
the advances of the scientific behemoth. A thoroughly scholarly treatment of great
interest to ASA members. Dr. Burton J. Moyer, Professor of Physics, University of
California, Berkeley, has evaluated this book this way: "You have well maintained
the fact, and illustrated it well, that a Christian faith and a critical, scholarly
attitude can coexist in one and the same man, and that such a fact need not involve
a break with integrity.."
Dr. George F. Howe, Associate Professor of Biology at Westmont College, has a series
of five installments running in Moody Monthly under the title, "The Bible and
Science." This material has been adapted from a Moody Correspondence School Course,
"Truth Triumphant" which George has written. The series started in the October,
1967, issue, part 2 was in November issue and part 3 in December.
NSF SUMMER PROGRAMS
Dr. Arthur Breyer is laying plans for his seventh year of directing a National
Science Foundation Chemistry Institute at Beaver College for next summer. This institute is designed especially for High School Chemistry teachers and his was the
first institute ever to present both the CHEM STUDY and the CBA (Chemical Systems)'.
approaches. Each participant also builds about $400 worth of models (cost about
$40 for materials) and previews about 60 science films. Normally, Dr. Breyer's
institute attracts about 10 foreign teachers, 35 from the United States and five
college students expecting to become teachers. He would particularly like to have
some ASA members to brighten his outlook. For a brochure describing the program,
write to Dr. Arthur Breyer, Director, NSF Chemistry Institute, Beaver College,
Glenside, Pa. 19038.
On the other side of the nation Dr. David L. Willis has been conducting the same
type of Institute at Oregon State University. His three usual programs have been
funded. The first two are for teachers who have previously attended AEC-NSF summer
institutes in radiation biology. The third is for College Biology teachers, particularly those working toward a Ph.D in biological science, as follows:
weeks (June 24-August 2, 1968); courses may be selected from the
following areas: Ecology of the Pacific Northwest, Radiation
Biology, Animal Physiology, Biological Oceanography, Population Biology,
and History of Biological Science; in addition, a Seminar in College
Biology Teaching will be required of all participants. Thirty-six
college and junior college teachers will be selected on March 5,
1968; completed applications should be received no later than March
1, 1968 for first consideration, but later applications will also be
accepted.PERSONALS
Eugene R. Chenette has joined the staff of the University of Florida as Professor
of Electrical Engineering after spending the last year as a member of the technical
staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Victor S. Cox, D.V.M., received a National Institute of Health post-doctoral fellowship at University of Missouri, Department of Veterinary Anatomy to study
,"Retrograde Transneuronal Degeneration in the HammalAry Body, a Light and Electron
Microscopic Study."
Paul G. Culley is retired after 19 years as Director of the Graduate School of
Missions at Columbia Bible College. Paul is now enjoying the warm spiritual fellowship at Ben Lippen School and is teaching Biology and Physics and Missions to
sons and daughters of former students at Columbia and Wheaton. He has always considered the secondary school critical in the development of Christian character and
now he has an opportunity to share at that level. Paul, did you say "retired?"
Carl K. Dudley,received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University this past June. His
dissertation was entitled, "Reduction of Backscattering From the Infinite Cone and
Sphere by Impedance Loading." He it a Moody Bible Institute graduate and received
his B.S. from Tri-State College, where he taught three years, and his M.S. from
Michigan State. He
is now
teaching in Electrical Engineering at University of
Toledo.
Vernon J. Ehlers presented a paper at the American Physical Society meeting in New
York in November, "The Nuclear Magnetic Moment of Rubidium-85." This paper covered
work done at University of California, Beikeley, this past summer. Dr. Ehlers is
Associate Professor of Physics, Calvin College.
Morris E. Fuller was the doctor on duty at Presbyterian Community Hospital, Whittier,
California, when ye ed took his wife to the emergency ward to have her head sewed up
a bit after a fall. What an excellent way to take one's mind off the procedure .....
reminiscences on Quito, Ecuador where we met in 1966!
John W. Haas has also published papers recently in his field of chemiluminescence
reactions: "Sodium Napthalenide-Alkyl Halide Chemiluminescence" with J. Elain Baird,
NATURE, Vol. 214, No. 5092, p. 1006 (1967) and "Chemiluminescent Reactions
in Solution", J. Chem. Educ., Vol. 44,
p. 396 (1967).
J. Lee Hoffer has left his space engineering job and has started graduate study at
the University of North Carolina in Biomedical Engineering. He was an Engineering
Section Supervisor with the Space Division of Chrysler Corporation in Huntsville,
Alabama.
Earl C. Hoffer J. Lee's brother, made a similar change a few years back and is now
scheduled to receive his M. D. degree from the University of Alabama Medical School
in April. He plans a year of post-doctoral training in Birmingham and then an internship in Denver.
Richard E. Johnson received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Texas A&M University in May, 1967. He is now employed at Honeywell Research Center, Minneapolis,
as a Principle Research Scientist.
Richard A. Lane has been discharged from the USAF and is now at the Missionary
Orientation Center, Stony Point, New York, preparing to go to Cameroun via France
for language study. He will be a medical missionary at Central Hospital, Elat.
Douglas W. Muir, an engineer at Automatic Electric Laboratories, Northlake, Illinois,
,is the co-author of an article in the July issue of the Automatic Electric Technical
Journal entitled, "Hotel-Motel PABX and PBX."
Beniamin T. Sims has moved to Cheney, Washington, where he is now Associate Professor
of Mathematics at Eastern Washington State College.
Paul B. Stam has joined Burlington Industries as deputy director of research and
development.
Judith Swanson has received the B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, in August. She is currently a graduate teaching assistant in the philosophy department at the same school.
PLEASE NOTE:
MEMBERS CAN BE OF MUCH HELP TO THE NATIONAL OFFICE BY PROMPTLY REPORTING
CHANGES OF ADDRESS. THANK YOU.
1. For: All members of the ASA-ETS and their friends.
2. Host: American Institute of Holy Land Study, Mt. Zion, Jerusalem, Israel.
3. Schedule:
Group B. June 17-July 2 July 2-8.
Group A radiate out of Zurich. Alternating suggestions for the Europe stopover center are Copenhagen, Paris or Rome.
Group B radiate out of Rome. Alternating suggestions for the Europe stopover center are Zurich, Paris or Copenhagen.Wednesday, June 19, A. M. - Geographical orientation to the Land of the Bible and to the reunited Jerusalem.
P. M. - Study trip to Jericho and Qumran, Jordan Valley.
Thursday, June 20, A. M. - Official reception by the city of Jerusalem. P. M. - Study of the border of Judah and Benjamin.
Friday, June 21 - Study of the south; Bethlehem and Hebron to Arad or Beer Sheba.
Saturday, June'22 - Visit to Maffada, Ein Gedi, Sodom and the Dead Sea.
Sunday, June 23, A. M. - Free to attend the church of your choice.
P. M. - Registration and reception, meeting the Israeli scholars.
Monday, June 24, A.-M. - The study sea scroll and related topics in convention
session. One seminar session with Israeli scholars.
P. M. - Visit to the Shrine of the Book.
Tuesday, June 25, A. M. - Survey of current archaeology in Israel, Israeli archaeologists participating in one session. ETS-ASA will present papers.
P. M. Tour of two museums conducted by Israeli archaeblogists
Wednesday, June 26, A. M. - Intensive visit to the Hebrew University and other
academic centers and/or the Hadassah Medical Center.
P. M. - Old City, the remains of the Antonio Fortress St. Peter
where the cock crew, the Western Wall etc.
Friday, June 28 - A. M. - Meeting Jerusalem's church leaders and educational institutional leaders (the eastern and western churches) Ecole Biblique, American schools of oriental research, Hebrew University, college etc. P. M. - After guided visit to the 1-50 scale model of Jerusalem of Herod's day, leave for the north via Samaria.
Monday, July I Study of the North, Megiddo, Sea of Galilee, Syrian Heights (Golan),
Nazareth, Carmel range, Caesarea, the Coastal Plain.
Tuesday, July 2 Leave for New York (Group A) - Europe (Group B)