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NEWS American Scientific Affiliation
VOLUME 10 NUMBER 3 10 June 1968

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE AT 1968 CONVENTION Responding to grass-roots pressures, the Executive Council has decided that the 1968 convention shall not follow the "one-theme" plan of recent years but cover the area and let the depth take care of itself. The program is structured around the five commissions. Social Science Commission: student's religion and perspectives on the impact of science on the church (Moberg); teacher's dilemma (Berg); the-l"gi-1. fljl-~th"01`gy and the Christian teacher (Sandin). Psychology Commission: Rorschach African leper protocols (Horner and Hilyard). Biological Science Commission: Kornberg, viruses and the creation of life (Gish), a comparison of Kornberg's test tube created viral DNA with a simple model for primeval organisms, panel discussion on the historical roots of our ecological crises (Bullock, Feenstra et al). History and Philosophy of Science Commission: theological implications of life in space (Johnson); the historicity of Genesis 1-3 (Holwerda). Physical Science Commission: research a key to renewal? (Dayton); extraterrestrial life? A Biblical-scientific view (Reid); the history of the universe; information theory (Van der Ziel). A special event will be ASA DIALOG WITH DR. POLLARD, Executive Director~ Oak Ridge Associated Universities, on the important task before the Christian man of science and how the ASA can contribute. Dr. Pollard will also give the public address on Wednesday evening, "Man on a Spaceship" (earth) with special emphasis on the spaceship crew of 6 billion (32 years hence). Dr. Richard H. Bube, President of the ASA, will give the keynote banquet address "Christian Responsibilities in Science", stating his conviction that the ASA belongs at the center of interaction with special responsibilities in areas of philosophy, practice and service. DATE 20-23 August PLACE Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan LOCAL INFORMATION Mr. Henry Bengelink Calvin College 1331 Franklin St. S. E. Grand Rapids, Michigan 49506 RETREAT A special feature of this year's convention will be the holding of a retreat on Monday, 19 August,, the day before the opening of the sessions. This is an opportunity to discuss leisurely the program of the ASA, something hard to work into a crowded convention program. MUSIC CONFERENCE Calvin College's seventh conference on church music will be held on the campus while the ASA convention is in progress. Musically-minded ASAers will have several opportunities to sample tidbits from the other side. DARS IE TO PORTLAND Dr. Marvin L. Darsie, probably the only "gasser" in the ASA, is leaving private practice at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, to take over the work of the anesthesiology department of the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Marvin will also occupy a chair at the University of Oregon Medical School. YOUNG RETURNS TO ISRAEL Dr. C. Douglas Young, Director of the American Institute of Holy Land Studies, recently returned to Israel after a semester of teaching at Trinity Seminary. The Institute is perched on Mt. Zion in Jerusalem and is the center of study for 23 students now in attendance. While in the U. S.., Doug consulted with the deans and Presidents of Christian Seminaries and Colleges cooperating with the Institute. Included among these are Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Fuller Theological Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary, Houghton College and Westmont College. The U. S. State Department has made its third grant of $20,000 to the Institute for assistance to future students. The Institute has also been certified for students on the G. I. Bill. There are plans for a summer school for seminary faculty members and it will be remembered that the ASA-ETS tours of this summer will center many activities at the Institute. POSITIONS WANTED William D. Osborne, Jr. has recently returned from Inter-American University, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. He is interested in learning of openings for a teacher of English, English as a second language or linguistics. His address is: 105 W. Miller Rd., Ithaca, New York 14850. Miss A. Shannon Cumming writes from Congo that after August she will no longer be.:a non-dues-paying missionary nor a Miss Cumming but Mrs. Joe McCormick. She is interested in learning of openings for a biology teacher or lab assistant, near Durham, North Carolina. She has an M. A. in ecology. Please write to her at Box 2809 Duke Hospital, Durham, North Carolina 27706. HELP WANTED Geneva College has an opening in the Biology Department for a biologist. This is a four-man department and the present chairman will be retiring within a few years. A PhD is preferred. Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania 15010. Houghton College needs additional faculty members in physics, mathematics and physical chemistry. Write to Dr. Kenneth Lindley, Chairman, Division of Science and Mathematics, Houghton College, Houghton, New York 14744. Minnehaha Academy, Minneapolis, Minnesota has need for a chemistry/physics teacher for the coming school year. There are two important criteria: a highly qualified teacher and a person committed to the Christian faith. Minnehaha is a school owned by the Evangelical Covenant Church with an enrollment of 600 students and a faculty of 34. Write to Arlene E. Anderson, Minnehaha Academy, Mississippi, River Road at 31st St., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55406.

receipts for selected quantities against the large lot purchased. Leveraging with 70% loans and reinvesting would yield 45% with 6% money." It is rumored that the Executive Council is studying this plan with an eye to solving the perennial ASA financial problem! GORHAM CHASES SPIDER

Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet Eating her curds and whey. Along came a brown recluse spider And sat down on her And she got a bad case of necrotic arachnidism.

That's just the trouble with brown recluse spiders. They're deadly. And the more necrotic arachnidism is discussed in the medical literature, the more cases are reported. In other words, while it has been going on for a long time, they didn't know what was doing it. What I mean is, the range of this spider is growing. Two ways. Scientists are going out looking for the shy little beastie, rather than waiting for it to walk into the lab, and specimens are inadvertently being shipped around the country in packing cases. Anyway Dr. J. Richard Gorham of the Communicable Disease Center has published a paper (U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Econ. Ins. Rpt. 18(10):171-175,1968) on the geographic distribution of the brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusa (Arareae, Scytodidae) and related species in the United States. His map of the distribution of this spider looks like the distribution of the electoral votes Humphrey has sewed up.

LOCAL SECTION NEWS

NEW YORK METROPOLITAN On 4 May 1968 the N. Y. section met at Northeastern Collegiate Bible Institute, Essex Falls, New Jersey, for a Saturday afternoon and evening of intellectual challenge and fellowship. W. Jim Neidhardt presented the first paper on "Quantum Physics on a Macroscopic Scale: Superfluid Helium and Superconductors." Jim is Associate Professor of Physics, Newark College of Engineering Coffee and buns provided sufficient recuperative effect to launch into Charles Hummel's * "The Scientific Revolution." Dr. Hummel is one college president (Barrington College, Rhode Island) with a solid background of experience in chemical engineering and Inter-varsity work. After that it took a Smorgasbord banquet to prepare the way for a second presentation by Dr. Hummel, this one, "The Biblical and Scientific Approaches to Nature." The 1968 executive council of this section is: Milton Trautman, President (Isotopes-Teledyne Co.) Carl G. Gustafson, Vice Pres. (The King's College) Harry Lubansky, Treasurer (Ortho-Pharm. Corp.) Jim Neidhardt, Secretary (Newark College of Engr.) Tom Parks (Research-Fragrance Materials) Roberta A. Wilcox (CIBA Pharmaceutical Co. Don Carr (Am. Inst. Holy Land Studies) Elizabeth M. Zipf (Biological Abstracts) WESTERN MICHIGAN On 25 April 1968 the Western Michigan section of the ASA met in Grand Rapids at a local bistro to hear Dr. Roelof J. Bijkerk, Director of the Psychological Institute of Calvin College speak on "Some Thoughts on Dreams." John I. Deckard, Secretary, states that it was a fine blend of humor and knowledge. Unbeatable combo! SAN FRANCISCO BAY SECTION The San Francisco Bay area held a meeting 23 March 1968 at which two of its members presented critical essays on Kornberg's recent contribution to a recurring biochemical controversey. Stanford scientist Prof. Kornberg's news conference of 15 December 1967 announcing the laboratory duplication of the genetic core (DNA) of a living virus, stimulated Dr. John Amoore to ask whether this is a true chemical synthesis, and whether the viral core is a living entity. John decided emphatically against its being an actual synthesis, because enzymes from natural sources had to be employed; but he did come down rather grudgingly on Kornberg's side that it was a living organism that had been produced. Dr. Donald De Jong was prompted to assail the ethics of a scientist possibly manipulating the public mind for the political advantage of science, and to inquire whether any re-thinking of Christian principles would be necessitated by Kornberg's achievement. The concensus was that Christian doctrine ought to be as unruffled by this announcement as it had been by lesser discoveries in the past, and that even the true creation of life in the future, though momentous for science, should be of little consequence for Christianity. WESTERN NEW YORK SECTION The Western New York section of the ASA met at Houghton College on 9 March 1968. After registration and refreshments, 33 persons listened while Dr. Raymon Elliott, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Roberts Wesleyan College, reviewed "Believing and Knowing" by E. W. Schidler (Iowa State University Press, 1966). After a discussion period, Prof. S. Hugh Paine, Professor of Physics at Houghton College, presented a paper entitled, "Some Advantages in the Reconstitution Theory of Origins." This presentation was followed by a spirited discussion after which the group partook of a buffet dinner. The after-dinner speaker was Dr. V. Elving_Anderson who spoke on "Moral rroblems in Genetic Control." The 75 in attendance were challenged by this presentation as indicated by the discussion which followed. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SECTION On Saturday afternoon 4 May 1968 the Southern California section of the ASA met at Moody Institute of Science in Whittier. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Robert P. Dilworth of Caltech. "The Influence of MIS" was briefly presented by F. Alton Everest as he sketched the world-wide use of the science films in 80 countries and in 17 languages and the Sermons From Science films in general use and the educational films in 2200 school systems in this country. Lewis H. Humphrey treated the "Facilities of MIS" and put legs to his topic by a tour of the sound stage, sound recording studios, film editing, technical photography, film printing and processing, passing by the tea and crumpet department on the way. Robert L. Miller presented a film now in production on radio astronomy and conducted an extensive question and answer period. The group then went to a local restaurant for a dutch treat dinner. About 50 attended, half of whom stayed for the dinner. The new officers elected are: David R. Sheriff, Chairman Mark C. Biedebach, Program Ch. Vernon L. Grose, Secretary Craig R. Allen, Treasurer George Giacumakis, Jr. (Consolidated Electrodyn. Corp.) (Cal. State, Long Beach) (Tustin Inst. Technology) (Navy Electronics Lab.) (Cal. State Fullerton) GROSE ON THE WIRE ASA members are frequently put on the carpet, put on the spot or just plain put on, but Vern Grose was put on the wire by Associated Press, no less. The occasion was the Fifth Space Congress held at Cocoa Beach, Florida, last March. He revealed that a close study of the Gemini 8 emergency and subsequent landing showed that the physical effects of tumbling through space hurt the astronauts' judgment and physical ability to cope with the emergency. They finally regained control but used up their margin of safety in control fuel and were forced to return to earth prematurely. This was not a criticism of the astronauts but only a recognition of limitations in the human system, Grose said. This was one of 40 papers presented but it received much attention. Vern also spoke at Hanscom Field, Mass. on the subject, "When will science supercede religion?." While holding two three-day seminars for the Tustin Institute on System Effectiveness Management in Boston, Vern gets around like this, using every opportunity of sharing his testimony with others. HOUGHTON LIBRARY PROJECT The constituency of the ASA may be interested in the project presently being undertaken by the Houghton College Science Faculty in cooperation with the Western New York Section of the ASA. This consists of the collecting of a comprehensive holding of books on the general subject of "Science and Scripture" and the compilation of an annotated bibliography. The latter will consist of a listing of the book titles with a short abstract-critique and will be printed in such a form as to be available to interested members of the ASA. Difficulty has been encountered in obtaining out-of-print titles. If any members of the ASA have such they would like to donate, it would be greatly appreciated. Also if any members would care to help in the annotation of the bibliography it would be appreciated. Contact concerning this project may be made through Dr. Stephen Calhoon, Professor of Chemistry, Houghton College, Houghton, New York. (Note: Don't forget there is a central ASA library in the care of Dr. Mixter at Wheaton College. Shouldn't this be coordinated for maximum value to all and greatest usefulness?) NEW EDITOR COMING, CHEER UP Dr. Walter R. Hearn has been appointed by the Executive Council as the new editor of ASA NEWS to replace F. Alton Everest who has asked to be relieved of the job after almost 10 years. Although Everest asked to be relieved at the end of 1968, Walt's year of work at University of California, Berkeley, is getting in the way and Everest has agreed to hold on until September 1969. If you think the present style is sick, just you wait until Walt and Ginny get their fingers in it! BANANA SEEDS DEPARTMENT ----- Must report a decrease of two members since January; 75 new members joined, but 77 dropped out. ----- Dr. Richard Bube has been appointed Editor of the Journal starting in 1969. ----- Dr. Anderson feels that Modern Science and Christian Faith should not be reprinted in present form but broken down into single-topic monographs. (Bravo, Elving!) -----The Executive Secretary, Dr. Harold Hartzler, has sent out over 500 letters to teachers in Negro colleges suggesting membership in the ASA; a few have indicated interest. PERSONALS Roy M. Adams has been appointed one of two American representatives on the Inorganic Nomenclature Commission of the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry and in this capacity will go to Copenhagen in August. Roy, Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa., was one of several ASA members on an undergraduate equipment panel in Chicago this spring. Dr. Aldert Van der Ziel and Dr. Charles Hatfield were also in it. Paul F. Barkman is serving as a psychological consultant to a missions survey being conducted jointly by Intervarsity and the Missions Advanced Research and Communication Center of Fuller Theological Seminary.- They will poll the 10,000 persons who attended the I-V conference at Urbana last December. John Bennett reports from Mosvold Hospital in Zululand, South Africa that he is doing both the business administrative duties and the medical work of the hospital. There is hope for assistance with the business work soon. Douglas A. Clark read a paper "Early American Sociologists and the Institutional Churchff-at-the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association in Dallas, Texas. In May he read another, "Changing Religious Attitudes of a Pioneer American Sociologist: Lester Frank Ward", at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Social Science Association in Denver, Colorado. George H. Fielding of Naval Research Laboratories visited with ye editor recently, discussing his work. This is what he said classified Stuart Harverson's strenuous activities as a missionary in Vietnam have resulted in his coming down with a fever, apparently malaria. Many of the boys he has trained and worked with have been through fierce fighting; not all have come back. The Caribou pilots have been of great help, even making special descents to accommodate him. One Air Force Colonel remarked, "We need more missionaries. " W. Neil Hawkins, missionary anthropologist with Unevangelized Fields Mission, recently was one of five speakers in a missionary emphasis series at Wheaton College. Carl F. H. Henry, although not a member of the ASA was the author of one of the chapters in "Evolution and Christian Thought Today." Dr. Henry has left the editorship of Christianity Today to engage in theological research and writing after July 1. Michael Mecherikoff has resigned from the Psychology Department of Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California, feeling that the past 10 years have completed his task there. Mike hasn't any definite plans for the future other than catching up on some class work he feels he needs. Claude E. Stipe, scheduled to move from Bethel to Marquette next fall, has an article in the January issue of Christian Life Magazine entitled, "Created or Evolved?" Larry J. Smith has been teaching at Guilford High School, Rockford, Illinois. He and his wife attended a missionary conference recently and learned of the critical shortage of "technical missionaries" in foreign countries. The Smith family, including four young girls, will be leaving July 21 for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to teach in an interdenominational school there. Mrs. Smith, a nurse, will also serve in the school of 300-400 children of missionaries from 22 African countries. Well, Larry, that means you qualify for the free ASA dues! George E. Speake is in the midst of a European tour with his Sermons From Science equipment. He is appearing chiefly at U. S. Military bases, although a few civilian meetings are involved. Jack S. Swenson, recently elected Chairman of the Chemistry Department of Grinnell College, is currently on a five-month sabbatical for study at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, as a Visiting Associate in Chemistry. He will be returning to Grinnell this month to continue a summer research program sponsored by funds from Petroleum Research Fund and National Science Foundation. Charles H. Troutman is working with students of Latin America, serving under the Latin America Mission, San Jose, Costa Rica. He is anxious to see Christian professors volunteering to teach in universities down south as a supporting element to student work. The Troutmans report that their son David talked in his sleep - in Spanish - so he's arrived! Edwin Yamauchi has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant and will spend the spring of 1968 as a research fellow at the American Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem. NEW MEMBERS Alabama Ellen W. McLaughlin, 833 Shades Crest Rd., Birmingham, Alabama. BS in Biology & Phys. Chem.; MA in Zoology & Botany; PhD in Biology. Rank: Member John A. Blake, 2628 Brookline Dr., Huntsville, Alabama 35810. BS, MS in Math. Rank: Member California Warren Willis, 769 Santa Ray Ave., Oakland, Calif. 94610. AB in Speech, Eng. Lit., German, Soc. Rank: Associate Paul James Ferguson, 1981 Cherokee, Stockton, Calif. 95205. BS in Biol., Religion, History; MA in 0. T., Bib. Lang. Rank: Associate Donald V. Noren, 2313 W. 183rd St., Torrance, Calif. 90504. BS in E. E. Rank: Member Connecticut John Jacob O'Neill 5 Crown St., Danbury, Conn. 06810. BS in Chem., Biol.; MS in Biochem., Bact. Rank: Member D. C. Robert M. Thomson, 3666 Upton St. N. W., Washington D, C. AB in German, Psych.; MA in Psych., Econ.; PhD Psych., Indust. Engr. Rank: Member Illinois 0. Kem Luther, 820 N. LaSalle, Chicago, Ill. 60610. Diploma from Moody Bible Inst. Rank: Associate Stanley J. Koster, 15565 Natalie Dr., Oak Forest, Ill. 60452. AB in Biol., German; MA in Biology. Rank: Member Iowa Roger Dennis Olson, 2315 Helmer, Sioux City, Iowa 51103. BS in Math., Educ. Rank: Member Massachusetts Elmer K. Parent, 19 Ray St., Danvers, Mass. 01923. 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BS in Physics, Math-Chem; MS, PhD in Physics, Math. Rank: Member Pennsylvania Allen Hill Davis, Jr., 501 Wayne Dr, $108, King of Prussia, Pa. 19406. BS, MS in Zoology (Ecology). Rank: Member Garry L. Denlinger, 1707 Hans Herr Dr., Lancaster, Pa. 17602. Student at Univ. of Virginia. Rank: Associate Texas David Curtis Reed, 137 College Blvd., San Antonio, Texas 78209. Student at Texas A&I Univ. Rank: Associate Canada James Clarence Bax, Jr., 21 Windermere Ct., Guelph, Ontario, Canada. BA in Psycho., Sociol., student for MA at Univ. of Guelph. Rank: Member India M. Samuel Jayaral, Balaji Rd., Krishnanagar, Vellore.1 N. A. Dt. South India. BS Zoology, Botany and Geology; MS Zoology with Entomology. Send all news items to: F. Alton Everest, Editor ASA NEWS 6275 South Roundhill Drive Whittier, California 90601 Send all other ASA material to: H. Harold Hartzler, Executive Secretary American Scientific Affiliation 324k South Second Street Mankato, Minnesota 56001