NEWS
The American Scientifc Affiliation
VOL 5 NUMBER 1                   January 12, 1963

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NEW LOCAL SECTION ORGANIZES:- GRAND RAPIDS

On November 17th) 1962, the Grand Rapids Section of the ASA held its organizational meeting at the Grand Rapids Junior College. Dr. Phillip R. Van Eyl of the Psychology Department, Hope College, who gave the keynote address at the 1962 convention, read a paper on "Psychology as a Scientific Enterprise". The paper was very well received and extensive discussion followed. Professor Roland Constant of Grand Rapids Junior College was elected president, and John H. Baker, as Sec/Treas. Steps have been taken to interest others in the work of the ASA. Although 21 were present for this meeting, the potential is far broader

NEW YORK ALSO ORGANIZING NEW SECTION

On December 6, 1962, members and friends of the ASA of the New York City area met in the hall behind Old Hook Inn on Old Hook Road near Westwood, N.J. Dr. Donald he Carr and Dr. Wayne U. Ault are among the sparkplugs in this move, both of Isotopes, Inc. They elected an executive committee of 8 who will elect officers from within the group. The identity of the 8 has not yet been announced. Information on this new group can be obtained by telephoning Wayne or Don at 201-604-7070 during working hours, or writing to them C/O Isotopes, Inc., 123 Woodland Ave., Westwood, N. J,

FISCHER NEW COUNCIL MEMBER

Dr. Robert B, Fischer, Professor of Chemistry., Indiana University, edged out Dr. Donald Carr, Vice President of Isotopes, Inc.) in the race for Executive Council. This is for a term of five years and  Fischer will fill the vacancy created by the expiration of the 5 year term of Dr. Walter Hearn.

APS-AAPT NEW YORK MEETING

The American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers will be meeting in New York, Jan, 23-26, 1963.  ASA members wishing to get together at this convention should communicate immediately with Dr. Frederick H. Giles, Jr. Acting Head of the Department of Physics., University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Plans for a luncheon are under way. If time does not permit writing, see Dr. Giles at the convention where he will be manning a table to recruit now staff for the University and thus should be easily found. We already know that Dr. Frank E. Rose; of Cornell plans to be there and that he wants to meet with other ASA members. PHYSICISTS ARISE! Here Is the chance to show the world that the ASA isn't solid with chemists all the way through!

ASA/ETS JOINT CONFERENCE, ANNOUNCED

In one mail Dr, Donald F. Tweedie, Jr. asks when the joint conference of the American Scientific Affiliation and the Evangelical Theological Society will be hold and in another mail Dr. William J. Tinkle supplies the answer. An editor's life would be easy if everything worked out this nicely.

The ASA/ETS joint conference will be held June 19, 20 and 21, 1963 at Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, starting and ending at noon. Good rooms for meetings and warm Southern hospitality are assured. Most of the topics arc assigned, but there is time fur a few volunteered papers, the best of which will be selected, Be sure to put this on the calendar with a big red circle around it.

INDIANA SECTIOLN MEETS

All I have is a rumor. No facts other than that the Indiana ASA Section met at Indianapolis about the middle of November, 1962. How about it Dr. Barkman? We'd all like to know what was discussed, even though somewhat late. other sections pick up discussion topics this way.

JOURNAL NAME CONTEST

The Editorial Staff of the Journal of the ASA have decided to extend the contest for the journal name. Any substantial change in the format of JASA will have to wait until 1964 so if the title is changed, March, 1964 will be a convenient date for that change.

The Journal name contest is hereby extended to February 28, 1963, Send in your suggestions to the editor., Professor Dr David 0. Moberg, Bethel College., St. Paul, MN. If you have reactions either in favor of or against  changing the name, please send these in as well.

ASA FOLLOWS INFLATIONARY TREND

While many ASA speakers have been accused of being inflated, the ASA dues have always been the lowest of any on our list of professional societies. Until Dr. Hartzler can figure a way to be happy with a big deficit (like the U.S. Government), there is urgent need for greater income. The dues increase has been overwhelmingly accepted by the members. It is interesting to note that the first returns favored the increase 100 to 1 and over $1,000 of pledges and contributions accompanied the first 100 ballots. The emergency is far from over, but it is this spirit that encouraged the Executive Council to continue the expanded program rather than shrink it to the money available.

         Old     New
Fellows  $10.00  $12.00
Members    5.00    7.00
Associates 3.00    5.00 
Students   3.00    3.00

HOLGER LANGMACK DIES

Holfger Christian Landmack, 77,, prominent physical fitness export and author, died in Plainfield, N.J. of an apparent heart attack. A native of Denmark who came to the U.S. in 1912,Langmack taught physical education., physics., mathematics and character building in such institutions as Minnesota State Teachers, College, University of Minnesota, Now Jersey State Teachers College, Battle Creek and the Naval Academy at Annapolis. After his retirement, Dr. Langmack devoted his time to philosophical research, particularly the unification of science and religion through a concept of mathematical relativity. His publications include: "God and the Universe" "Let There Be Light", "God's World and Science" and "Scientific Faith and Logical Science", and to be published "Science By The Way of The Cross".

TWEEDIE ACTIVE IN PSYCHOLOGY

Dr. Donald F. Tweedie, Jr., at present a research psychologist at Veterans Administration Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, is on a year's leave of absence as Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Gordon Collages. He is participatin6 in a seminar on phenomenological psychology and psychiatry, functioning in the medical research laboratory, lecturing to the staff in psychology, psychiatry and social service, as well as supervising trainees in individual psychotherapy. In the spring of 1963. This book, The Christian and the Couch: An Introduction to Christian Logotherapy" will be published* This is a sequel of his "Logotherapy and the Christian Faith: An Evaluation of Frankl's Existential Approach to Psychothorapy" (Baker Books; 1961. Dr. Tweedie has also found time to speak at a faculty workshop on student counseling at King's College, New York.

CLAASEN HELPS BURY DEAD DOGMA

Dr, Howard H. Claasen, Professor of Physics at Wheaton College for the past ten summers and two years, has been working as a consultant at Argonne National Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Commission's laboratory operated by the University of Chicago. Last summer, Claason, with two associates succeeded in making xenon combine chemically with fluorine. The now compound is xenon tetrafluoide. Such a reaction has previously been thought to be impossible.

The story began last summer when Prof. Neil Bartlett of the University of British Columbia mixed colorless xenon with a brownish platinum haxafluoride and produced a yellowish powder, a very complex chemical., xenon-platinun hexafluoride. 

After repeating Bartlett's work, the team at Argonne decided to try a simpler, more direct approach. They sealed one part of xenon and about five parts of fluorine in a sealed nickel container, heated it to 400 deg. C for an hour and then rapidly cooled it to room temperature. They found colorless crystals of the new compound. Other noble gases have been made to form new compounds since that time and other laboratories arc frantically confirming their
work. Textbooks are outdated and new theorios of bonnding must be sought.

In a recent issue of Science, Philip Abelson said this about the discovery:

"There is a sobering lesson here, as well as an exciting prospect... all that was required to overthrow a respectable and entrenched dogma was a few hours of effort and a germ of skepticism.

VAN DER ZIEL GIVEN AWARD

Dr. Albert van der Ziel, Professor of Electrical at the University of MN, received and award in Oct. 1962 for a paper presented at the 1961 National Electronics Conference. He has also published numerous other papers on noise in electrical circuits.

1963 CONVENTION

The 1963 convention will be hold at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, 19-23 August, with the theme "Expanding Horizons in a Shrinking World". Dr. Paul Peachay, Program Chairman., announces that the purposes of the convention will be:

1. To assess some facets of-the contemporary world social change, revolution with the tools and perspectives of the social sciences.

3. To examine current Christian responses to the world revolution and to analyze the opportunities and problems it poses for the church. 

Within the confines of the above stated purposes, the program committee will accept for consideration papers on the following topics:

a. Interracial problems
b. International problems and
c. Interfaith problems (i.e., interrelations and/or encounters of Christianity and world religions).



RADIANT EMANATIONS FROM MALSKY

One Of the ASA's most prolific authors, Stanley J. Malsky (either as senior speaker or in conjunction with other associates) presented four papers at the Radiological Society of North America which met in Chicago in November. Also, Dr. Malsky was a joint recipient of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council award from the James Pickor Foundation for his study of thermoluminescent dosimetry.

FRASER AMONG NAVAHOS

Gordon H. Fraser, Associate Member of the ASA, is engaged in a very significant project having to do with education of Navajos. For one thing., the Navajos are having a little population explosion all their own, due to the successful attack on debilitating diseases. There are 60,000 Navajos at the present time who will never learn a word of English, and this figure will be 170,000 in ten years unless something very drastic is done. The bilingual problem centers around the fact that there are certain phonems in English that are not in the Navajo language and and vice versa. This makes it very difficult and discouraging to teachers as well as students. Dr. Frasor's job is to train 200 English teachers who will be aware of the  problems, at least.

ASA JOURNAL ON MISSION FIELD

Robert-Jayne Cooke has written a nice letter giving some evidence of the impact of the ASA Journal on the foreign field. He states,, "The articles from the Journal have provided the basis for many a discussion on our mission station. We had been getting together one night a month to discuss problems of science, philosophy, etc. and many references were made to the Journal by myself and Dr. Donald Edwards."

Mr. Cooke has now completed his work at Cornell University for the M.S. Degree in Science Education on June 11, 1962.

CHRISTIAN MEDICAL SOCIETY

A documentary filmstrip., "To The Multitudes Through Medicine, has been produced by the CMS to introduce their program to students and practicing physicians and dentists. The 80-frame filmstrip was produced by the Wheaton College Audio-Visual Center in cooperation with the CMS communications department.

The CMS Director, J. Raymond Knighton., has officially announced the Society's new program calling for eight regional field directors. The present membership of the CMS is 3200, 625 of whom are medical missionaries overseas, 80% of all English speaking medical missionaries*

HELP WANTED

Geneva College is seeking a chairman for their physics department. Preference is for a PhD with 6 - 10 years of college teaching experience but would consider someone compelled to retire while in good health at age 65. The college is co-educational with a day school student body of 1030 plus an evening enrollment of 600. It is controlled by the Reformed Presbyterian Church and faculty members must be non-users of alcohol and sympathetic to the "Reformed" theoloy. Those interested should write Dean John S. Isaac, Geneva College,
Beaver Falls, Pa.

Huntington College is in need of a chemist with a Ph.D. to teach advanced courses in organic chemistry and serve as a consulting chemist to a local engineering firm. The workload for teaching in the college will be about 7 hours per semester. About half time will be spent in local industry. it is desirable for this person to have a background in industry working in the fields of ceramics and plastics, organic coatings, inorganic compounds or metallurgy. Salary has been set at $10,000 per year.

Hope College wishes to employ a Ph.D. teacher in physics or one nearing completion of' the PhD. The salary will be according to experience. Anyone interested should address their inquiry to Chairman, Dept. of Physics, Hope College, Holland., MI.

Trinity Junior College, Langley, British Columbia, are seeking an additional staff member forr their college, to teach Physics and Mathematics next year. Should have a Masters.

POSITION WANTED

Robert J. Tonn, Ph.D., is so-eking an opportunity in some Christian University or college in the field of biology. At present Dr. Tonn has a post-doctorate in the parasitology section of the International Cantor for Medical Research and Training, in Costa Rica. This is only a temporary position and he has held it for a year, He is interested in something more permanent along the lines of teaching and research in parasitology, microbiology or entomology.


PERSONALS

Frank Allen, probably the oldest member of the ASA at 86.7 plus years, has written extensively during his career. He has 41 published papers on optics, 28 on various other subjects in the field of physics, 22 biblical ossa.1s, a book entitled, 'The Univarse From Crystal Spheres to 'Relativity" and has about completed a 100-page treatise on the senses.

Wayne Ault,wife Ruth and family are having a bit of difficulty in adjusting to the cold breath of Eastern seaboard winter after languishing on the island of Hawaii for a number of years. Wayne left his position with the US Geological Survey (Hawaii Volcano Observatory) for Isotopes, incorporated3 at Westwood., N.J.

Sarah E. Bryan, new member of the ASA3 was co-author on two papers presented at the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society held at Gatlinburg, Tenn., November 1,2.,3. These papers were on ion exchange. Miss Bryan is Instructor in Chemistry at Louisiana State University, New Orleans.

Kenton 'Brubaker has left for the foreign mission field. He will be under the Teachers Abroad Program with the Mennonite Central Committee and C.P.I. He will be in Brussels until approximately February 1963 studying French. Ile is going as a Horticulturist.

C. Philip Burman has written a booklet, "Commentary on Romans 9-10, dealing with the identity of those to whom Paul refers to as his "kinsmen according to the flesh who are Israelites". It-was published privately in 1962.

Steve E. Davidson, Assistant Professor of Biology, Evangel College, Springfield, Missouri, spent an interesting summer on a NSF grant doing research on the metabolism of Lactobacillus leichmannii at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Biochemistry Departmen~, He used the ultra-violet spectrophotometer in studying DNA and RNA extracted from the bacterial cells. He is trying to develop a reproducible method for isolating "compound 23011 ( a compound which absorbs UV at 230 mu ) which may be an intermediate metabolite in bacterial nucleic acid metabolism.

Alfred D. Dennison, private practice in cardiovascular diseases, has been elected to the National Board of Directors of the Christian Meddical Society,

Robert P. Dilworth, Professor of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, participated in the School Mathmatics Study Group first Panel meeting at Stanford University November 21, 1962. This test panel's job is to test the effectiveness of the S11,ZG and to compare it with other programs. Dr. Dilworth is an old hand in this sort of activity., having been in charge of the testing program-for the College Board Examinations for 6 years.

A.C. Eitzen, together with Mrs. Eitzen, have been busy giving lectures., mostly to churches, on their tour of the Orient where they visited, among other places, Singapore, Bankok, Hong Kong, Manila and Japan. Dr, Eitzon is in private practice of medicine in Hillsboro, Kansas.

H. Harold Hartzler attended the Minnesota Academy of Science meeting in Duluth in September of 1962. He and V, Elving Anderson are members of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Academy of Science.

Walter it. Hearn, Associate professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Iowa State University, spent December 4th on the campus of John Broizi University as a visiting biologist. His convocation program and various informal student conferences proved, as usual, to be very stimulating and challenging. The invitation was extended at the request of the Biology Department of John Brown University.

R. Dale Jantzo has received his doctorate in education from the University of Nebraska in June, 1961. He is now Director of Secondary Education at Friends University, Wichita, Kan. New Address- 751 Faulkner,

Russell L. Mixter, Chairman of the Department of Biology, Wheaton College, spoke to the district meeting of Evangelical Free Churches at the Arlington Illinois Free Church, on September 19, 1962., on "Interpreting Genesis in a Scientific Age".

Robert R. Sanders has left the U.S. Naval research work at Point Mugu and is now a lecture demonstration assistant in the Zoology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Edward H. Schludermann, who enjoyed his first ASA convention at St. Paul last August, is anxious for regional activity to got started around Chicago. Dr. Scludermann is active in research at University of Chicago in Neur0-psycholo&y. He is determining the qualitative and quantitative affects of brain loss. Address: 1414 East 59th Street, Chicago 37, Ill*

George K. Schweitzer presented a paper on extracting metal chelates and two papers as co-author at the Regional meeting of the America Chemical Society hold at Gatlinburg, Tenn, November 1-31 1962. Dr. Schweitzer is Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and consultant at Oak Ridge.

George F. Speake, is still healing up from his strenuous Sermons From Science campaign at Seattle World's Fair Over 417,000 persons wore diverted from the glitter of the fair to see a Moody science film (9 showings a day) or one of George's SFS demonstrations. For 184 days George gave three demonstrations per day, seven days a week. Over 221000-vient to the, counseling room for further spiritual instruction. Negotiations are now under way for a two-year stand at the Now York World's Fair in 1964-5.

Irvin A. Wills, Chairman of the Natural Science Division, John Brown University, was one of the participants of a conference on methods of teaching biology sponsored by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study at Denver, Dec. 8, 1962.