PROFESSOR ALLEN BUSTED
Dr. Frank Allen,
Professor Emeritus of Physics of the University of
Manitoba and much honored Fellow of the ASA, was recently busted by the
authorities of the University. It is a bronze bust, and it will grace the
new "Allan Physics Building, named after him in recognition of the very great
contribution to science and to science education which he has made. Dr. Allen
is now 88 years old and was am of the first six faculty members of the unified campus formed in 1904, He was also wielder of the silver trowel at the
cornerstone laying of the group of buildings which form the science group on
the U. of Manitoba campus.
Dr. Allen's special research interest has boon in the field of the physics
of the human senses. He recently finished a manuscript of 1400 pages and is
busy at the task of preparing figures, a task made more difficult by failing
eyesight, In addition he has two papers ready for publication and is finishing a third, He states that he has enough work for the next 12 years. Dr.
Allen,
it is our sincere wish that you be granted these 12 years, the Lord willing!
What a record of productivity to lay before our young scientists in the ASA.
WESTMONT NEEDS MATHEMATICIAN
Westmont College, situated in that
Eden-like jewel of the Pacific, Santa
Barbara, is looking for a now faculty member for mathematics and physics., one
having a PhD in mathematics, preferably. He will have the opportunity of
developing a major in this area in the fall of 1962. Anyone interested should
communicate with Dean Frank L. Hieronymus, Westmont College,
955
La Paz Road,
Santa Barbara, California.
MEYERS TO AFRICA
Wayne Meyers, PhD, MD, has accepted a call to work among the lepers
in Africa. Following a medical internship in 1960S Dr. Meyers took some additional training in surgery at
Berrion County Hospital in southwestern Michigan.
He started a residency in pathology whon-an emergency need arose at the
Myandkanda Leprosarium, Ruyigi, Ruanda-Urundi, Africa, due to the illness of the
director of the Medical Center, Dr. Alan Bapty. After special study with the
leprologist, Dr. Robert G. Cochrane, in London, Dr. Meyers and his family
pushed on to Africa.
Nyankand Leprosarium is a joint enterprise of Amrican Leprosy Misions,
the Ruanda-Urundi Evangelical Alliance and the government. Established in 1950s
the leprosy treatment center is now caring for more than a thousand patients.
Personnel on the staff are drawn from six American and European mission societies
serving in the areas
HEARN'S SCHEDULE
Dr. Walter Hern, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Iowa
State University, Ames, has been appointed "Visiting Biologist To Colleges" by
the American Institute of Biological Sciences. On January 11 he visited Wisconsin
State Colleges and on January 31 he was at Southern Oregon College* His future
schedule is:
Zoology: Dr. Kenneth We
Allen, Asst. Prof., Zoology University of Calif, LA
Biochemistry: Dr. Richard
Beltz, Asst. Prof. of Biochemistry, Loma Linda University
Paleontology: Dr. Lee L. Harvill, Follow in Geology, UCLA
Dr. Lawrence H. Johnston, Physicist, Aerospace Corporation
Mr. G. Eric McAllister, Computer Applications Administrator, Douglas Aircraft Company
Dr. William A. McPherson, Surgeon-in-residence, Wadsworth Hospital, West Los Angeles
Moderator: Oliver G. Titrud, Assoc. Prof. of Biology , Los Angeles Pacific College
Technifax Corporation
LA SECTION ELECTS OFFICERS
The Executive Board of the Los Angeles ASA Section have elected officers as
follows:
Chairman: Oliver G. Titrud, Assoc. Prof. of Biology: Los Angeles Pacific
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Vice-Chair, David Fe Siemens, Jr., Lecturer in Philosophy, Los Angeles City College and Writor-Producer, Moody Institute of Science
Secretary-Treasurer: George H. Blount, Assist. Profs of Physics, Westmont College
Program Committee: Chairman: David F. Siemens,, Jr.
Membership Committee Chairman: Robert R, Sanders., Instructor in Life Sciences, Los Angeles Valley College.
Nominating Committee Chairman: Kermit 0, Ratzlaff, Research Follow in Physiology, UCLA.
Student Relations Committee Chairman: Robert C. Frost, Chairman, Division of Natural Science and Assoc. Professor of Biology, Westmont College.
Literature Committee Chairman-. Paul Co Davis., Doan and Professor of Psychology$ Los Angeles Pacific College
Service Committee Chairman: John L. Abernathy, Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry, Claremont Men's College and Editor, CATC Proceedings
BUBE MOVING TO STANFORD
Dr. Richard H. Bube has boon appointed Associate Professor of Materials
Science and Electrical Engineering by Stanford University. He will assume his
new duties on July 1. 1962,
when he will join the materials research program being sponsored under the ARPA grant in the new Center for Materials Research,
combining basic research in solid state with part-time graduate teaching.
Since 1948, Dr. Bube has been a member of the research staff of the RCA
laboratories in Princeton NJ. He has specialized in the fields of luminescence
and photoconductivity of solids, while also active in research in
semiconductors,
surface properties, trapping phenomena, and crystal growth and imperfections.
Recipient of RCA Achievement Awards in
1952
and 1957, Dr.
Bube has published
more than
60
technical articles. He is the author of Photoconductivity of Solids, the first comprehensive
treatment of that field, published by the Wiley Press of
Now York in 1960. Dr, Bube holds two issued patents in the field of
photoconductivity. He is a Follow of the American Physical Society and a member of
Sigma XI, as well as being a Follow 6f the ASA.
For many years interested in the correlation between science and Christianity.,
Dr Bube has been the author of several articles dealing with this topic,
including
those in the Journal of the ASA and a recent article in The Collegiate
Challenge,
published by the Campus Crusade for Christ, and is currently undertaking the assignment of the ASA as editor of a book proposed to replace Modern Science and the
Christian Faith, On Thanksgiving weekend 1961., Dr. Bube addressed a local chapter
of the ASA, meeting, in Alexandria, Virginia, on "Science and the Understanding of
Scriptural Inerrancy. He is also the author of A Textbook of Christian Doctrine a systematic study of the Biblical basis of Christian
doctrine, published by the
Moody Press of Chicago in
1955.
He is
a member of the Evangelical Theological Society. He is on the Publications Board of the
ASA.
During
1961) Dr. Bubo had the following technical papers published: "Effect
of Photoexcitation on the Mobility in Photoconducting Insulators."
"Monotonic
Trap Distributions," "Cross-Section Ratios of Sensitizing Centers in Photoconductors," and "Properties of
High-Resistivity Gallium Arsenid Compensated with
Diffused Copper." In August 1961, Dr, Bubo presented a paper on
"Photo-Hall
Effects in Photoconductors" at the International Conference on Photoconductivity
at Cornell University, for which he also served on the planning program and
editorial committees. Since March of-1961 he has been directing a contract
program with Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories on "Maximizing the
Performance of Photoconductors," as part of his activity as head of the Photo-electronics Materials section at RCA, He is an author of a paper on annealing
phenomena in gallium arsenide, presented at the New York American Physical
Society meeting in January 1962,
and of two papers on the growth and properties
of cadmium sulfide crystals with high impurity concentrations at the Baltimore
meeting of the Society in March 1962.
HEDDENDORF HITS HARTZIER HYPOTHESIS
Whenever word comes to the editor as succinctly as this from Russell Heddendorf, it
goes in without alteration: "Though not as esoteric as the
American Sunbathing Association, the American Sociological Association is
nevertheless, a legitimate kin of the ASA family. It is difficult to understand how it was omitted from the listing of
ASA societies in the Newsletter
of 31 December
1961
since sociologists certainly have less to hide."
Also, how about the American Standards Association?
(Besides the above additions., we have found the following ASA's;
American Society of Anesthotists
American Society of AppraisersAfrican Studies Association
Aircraft Service Association
Aluminum Siding Association
If you know of others we have omitted., lot us know. H.H.H.
ASA PERSONALITIES
Herein is chronicled not what just any ASA members are doing, but mhat
the ASA mimbers we hear about are doing* You could help by feeding in information
on yourself or others*
Roger J, Voskuyl, President of Westmont College was recently appointed president
of the Council For The Advancement of Small
Colleges
George H. Blount., Assistant Professor of Physics., Westmont College, Santa Barbara., has been granted a National Science Foundation Fellowship to attend either the University of California at La Jolla or Stanford University in physics and/or engineering*
Donald C, Boardman Head of Geology Department Wheaton College was recently asked by a local citizens committee to run for office on the high school board of education in Wheaton. In the interest of good college-community relations he accepted, and was voted in for a three year term. Even here geology, as usual, crept in. In a discussion concerning a new building program, peat bogs, pilings and the like played a part.
Jim Forrester, recently made President of Gordon College, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, had his heart warned recently as Gordon received accreditation. He left February 1 for a month in Gernmany with U. S. Chaplains. He has been chosen as the speaker at the Chaplain's Seminar. Dr. Forrester was a Marine Corps Chaplain during WWII, going through the very thickest fighting in island-hopping across the Southwest Pacific Islands.
Paul Bander, Dean, Hesston College, Hesston, Kansas is currently serving half time as Educational Coordinator for the Mennonite Board of Education and the other half time on the. faculty at Hesston.
Robert P. Dilworth on leave from California Institute of Technology for a year at Princeton working with the Institute For Defense 1~nalyses recently took a trip to Ghana. On December 15 he left for Accra to attend a Conference on Mathematics for Equatorial Africa. This conference is part of a broad program on educational methods and materials for the underdeveloped countries of Africa.Alfred D. Dennison, private practice in Cardiovascular Diseases~ recently broke out in print with an excellent devotional article in the Christian Business Men's Committee Magazine, CONTACT, November, 1961 issue. The article entitled "A Specialist Looks at the Heart," draws strong scriptural parallels between the physical heart and the spiritual heart.
Evans Roth: Associate Professor of Biophysics, Iowa State University, Ames: attended the 128th Annual Meeting" of the AAAS recently hold in Denver. He presented a paper with Dr. Yoshinobu Shigenaka entitled "The Cilia and Fibrillar System of the Ophryoscolocidae Observed by Electron Microscope." Dr, Roth was re-elected by the Society of Protozologists for another three-year terra as the Society's representative to the AAAS Council.
Charles Hummel, General
Director of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship was
on the Iowa State U. Campus during Religion In Life Week, January
21-24# He spoke in dorms and classrooms about the claims of
Christ
as a representative of the IVCF
group on the campus. He is an ASA member with a chemical engineering
background. Faculty sponsors on the campus include Evans Roth, Don Robertson) and Walt
Hearn. Don Robertson is the present
adviser to the IVCF undergraduate chapter.
June Hearn is not officially a member of the ASA., but it is felt that she is
closely enough allied to one (17,alt) to make us feel honored to mention
that she -has completed her work for her Masters degree in psychology.
She will receive her degree on February 24. Her
thesis was "Life History Antecedents of measured Personality
Variables." Congratulations to June, and to Walt for having a smart
wife like this.
Robert D. Fischer. A news clipping sent in by Del Eggenberger tells of a now super microscope to be installed at Indiana University and to be used in research on the physics and chemistry of materials in the solid state under the direction of Professors Robert B. Fischer and Walter J. Moore. It will achieve a magnification of one million times according to the report.
Delbert No Eggenberger, editor of the ASA Journal, attended the American Physical Society convention hold at UCLA in late December. He drove from Illinois with his family to visit their daughter in La Jolla. In the wilds of Arizona, on the return trip, the rear axle came loose from its bearing. With brakes gone, the friction of the tire on the body finally stopped the car without serious damage. As it turned out, it just wasn't the night to got emergency service - New Year's Eve. Del is sadder, wiser, and tireder.
ASA NEYBERS MEET IN NEW YORK CITY
John A. McIntyre, New Haven, CT, James Kraakevik, Wheaton, Illinois, Delbert Eggenberger, Downers
Grove,
IL and Harold Hartzler, Mankato,
MN, together with a friend, met in New York for a dinner meeting on January 25 and discussed ASA affairs, particularly with reference to the
Journal. John McIntyre is chairman of the Editorial Board of the JASA and Delbert Eggenberger is editor of the ASA Journal. The occasion that brought
them together in New York was the annual meeting of the American Physical society.
NEW ASA OFFICERS
As this goes to press$ results of the election of officers have been
received. 1962 ASA officers are as follows:
AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION
Statement of Receipts and Disbursements
for the year ended
DISBURSEMENTS:
Publication Expense:
Modern Science and Christian Faith $ 89.91
Journal of American Sci. Affiliation
2,816.41
Evolution and Christian Thought Today
390.11 $3,296.43
Wages
2,33O.75
Postage
471.45
Printing
2,475.56
Office Supplies & Equipment 1,204.42
Rent
265.00
Conventions
357.62
Executive Council Expenses 557.89
Telephone
151.70
Insurance
49.80
Office Moving Expense
214.55
Bank Charges
32.47
Miscellaneous & Petty Cash
167.55
TOTAL OPERATIONAL DISBURSEMENTS
$11,575.19
Excess of Total Receipts over Operational Disbursements
$ 289.00
Bank Balance January 1,
1961
$1,886.81
Bank Balance December 31,
1961
$2,175.81
American Scientific Affiliation
414 South Broad Street Mankato, Minnesota
Gentlemen:
February
13, 1962
We have examined the statement of receipts and disbursements for
the American Scientific Affiliation for the year beginning January
1) 1961 and ending December 31., 1961. Our examination was made in
accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and accordingly
included such tests of the accounting records as we considered
necessary in the circumstances.
In our opinion the accompanying statement of receipts and disbursements present fairly the operations of the American Scientific
Affiliation for the year ended December 31,
1961,
in conformity
with generally accepted accounting principles.
Respectfully submitted.,
/S/ William B. Montag
Certified Public Accountant
ASA Central Office:
Dr. H. Harold Hartzler,
Executive Secretary
414 South Broad Street
Mankato, Minnesota
ASA News Editor:
F,, Alton Everest
947
Stanford Street
Santa Monica
California