NEWS
American Scientific Affiliation

VOLUME 9 NUMBER 3   7 October 1967

CONVENTION REPORT

This could be called a minority report; only about 6% of the ASA membership attended the annual convention at Stanford. Not only that, it is written by one belonging to the 94% group. This report appeals to the lower instincts of ASA members. Everyone could wait a year and read the full draft of the papers in the ASA Journal. But Russ Mixter, the editor of the Journal, would NEVER pollute that erudite rag with choice tidbits about Dick Bube's new beard, would he?

That crumbling sound you hear is ye editor's beard theory falling. There must be a reason why men grow beards. But there surely is no single reason which would explain a beard on Bube's chin (some 5 feet 19 inches off the ground) and on Harold Hartzler's chin! Unless both are reacting to Walt Hearn's red, silken beauty in a way to be explained by the psychologists. But Walt has probably left them both up in the air by shaving his off!

Special thanks are due to Dr. C. Eugene Walker and Dr. Richard Bube for supplying material upon which this report is base5. They must not be blamed, however, for the way the material has been used.

Press coverage was much better than usual, at least in the Palo Alto Times - some 60 column-inches.

SCIENTIFIC THEOLOGIANS TO ASSEMBLE

CHRISTIAN AIMS TOPIC OF SCIENTIST (Fischer)

PSYCHIATRIST SEES FUTURE ROLE OF LSD (Lynch)

• "Visibility"- ASA would become visible if it had something to say and said it, principally in a comprehensive and unrestricted publication program.

"Fidelity"- Faithfulness to Christ and to scientific integrity, shunning any complicity with pseudo-science, would place the ASA in a position to be of great service to the scientific community.

"Communication"- Relationships cannot exist without communication, not only through the printed page, but man-to-man.

"Service"- There is need to go beyond discussion of theological abstractions of interest to a limited group, to every area involving a proper understanding of science and a Christian world view.

Harold Hartzler's beard at the "shaggy dog" stage.

Paul Barkman's daughter, who attended some of the sessions, came down with the measles. Everyone from Stanford to the Eastern Seaboard exposed. And Dick Bube says the ASA doesn't communicate!

No one seemed to be very much interested in the resolutions which were passed, but everyone thought Dick Bube and his local committee and the Psychology and Biology Commissions (headed by Paul Barkman and Wilbur Bullock, respectively) did a fine job.

Leonard Swartz was there from Sweden, Brian Sutherland from British Columbia, Wayne Ault and Wayne Frair from New York, Carolyn Carr from Pennsylvania, Robert Thomson from Washington D. C., Dick Hendry from Pennsylvania, George Jennings from Illinois, Harold Hartzler from Minnesota and Martin Karsten from Michigan.

Four members of those present, Harold Hartzler, Brian Sutherland, Martin Karsten and Ludlow Corbin, were said to have been ASA members since 1940. Neat trick; the ASA was organized in 1941!

Famous psychologist E. R. Hilgard, while showing a group of ASA members through his hypnotism research laboratory, stated, "Anything that works is dangerous--that's a rule."


Hank Oorthuys must have gotten a lot out of the LSD paper; we have photographic proof of his involvement with a group of 25 of the flower people in the East end of Golden Date Park!

PERSONALS

Odvard Egil Dyrli completed his doctorate at Indiana University and is presently Assistant Professor of Science Education at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. He also signed a contract with Prentice-Hall for completion of a text in science education in 1968.

,Lester C. Eddington was busy in research this past summer at the Metabolism and Radiation Lab, Fargo, (USDA) and has moved to Biola College, La Mirada, California, where he will teach in the Science Division. He is about 50 hours past his M. S. degree and plans to continue as soon as his wife secures her masters.

Ralph G. Ellenberger has been appointed Assistant Professor of Sociology, Whitworth College. He likes both the Pacific Northwest and his associates which includes Ed Olson.

Ronald M. Enroth has been awarded the Ph.D. by the College of Medicine, University of Kentucky. His studies have been in Medical Sociology and his dissertation was, "Patterns of Response to Rural Medical Practice and Rural Life in Eastern Kentucky" which treats the maldistribution of physicians in depressed rural areas and the sociological implications.

Rhea H. Forman has moved his wife and new son from Orlando, Florida, where he was teaching Junior High science to Pasadena, where he is working on a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Fuller School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary.

Wendell Ford is now employed by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in the Engineering Department's electronic design group. He has noticed a paucity of ASA members at Los Alamos and New Mexico in general. The world's eyes will be upon you, Wendell, as you work toward changing the situation!

Charles R. Frame has returned from Nigeria for furlough. During this past term he was first principal of Titcomb College, a combined secondary school and junior college. For the last 15 months he was in charge of all of the educational work of the Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria and the Niger Republic. He intends to do deputation work and substitute teaching in some suburban Chicago high schools.

John D. Gill has received appointment for a NSF Academic Year Institute to study Earth Science at Penn State.

Stuart Harverson, missionary in Viet Nam, and his family have lost their son, John. He was a pilot for Missionary Aviation Fellowship and he disappeared in the highlands of New Guinea. "Twelve long years of preparation for the mission field - twelve short months of service. Yet we dare to believe that God in Fis perfect wisdom ordained it all", Sally Harverson writes.

Gilbert J. Hunter participated in an NDEA Geography Institute for trainers of teachers at University of Minnesota, summer of 1966. Visited Frank Cassel in July in Fargo and at conservation camp near Valley City. Resigned from Kutztown State College May 1967 to apply his geography to problems of cities as a planner for Reading (Pa.) city government.

James F. Jekel has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Epidemidogy and Public Health, Yale University Medical School as of 1 July 1967 and completed five years as an epidemiologist with the Communicable Disease Center of the U. S. Public Health Service.

Harry E. Jones has taken up a new position as Assistant Professor at the Public Health College, Haile Sellassie I University, Gondar, Ethiopia. He will be teaching behavioral sciences, advising seniors on their thesis research on psycho-sociological aspects of operating health centers in the villages, getting involved in mental health work with students, etc. He reports that most students do not seem to have been caught up in the empirical-materialistic-positivistic bias as so many were at home. He intends to research the relationship between certain personality variables, concepts of self and God, and physical health.

Donald A. Josephson attended a NSF summer institute for college math teachers but is teaching still at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

S. Richey Kamm, Professor of History and Social Science, Wheaton College, was selected as one of the two Teacher of the Year awards at Wheaton Spring Honors Convocation. Criteria for selection include academic preparation, performance in the classroom, productive scholarship, student guidance and counseling and institutional usefulness.

Kalon Lee Kelley is taking a year of postdoctoral research in linguistics at MIT after which he will be joining the linguistics faculty at UCIA.

James H. Kraakevik is returning to Wheaton College after a three-year leave of absence teaching at Titcomb College in Nigeria. Jim resumes his duties as Chairman of the Physics Department.

David C. Lindberg has accepted a position in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin where he will be teaching and directing graduate students in the history of medieval and early modern medicine. His book on medieval optics is being published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Hubert A. Mayes,, M. D., has returned from Army service in France to Fort Knox. He is looking for the Lord's right situation and location for practice as an anesthesiologist in Northern California, Spring or Summer 1968.

J. Terence Morrison has completed his Ph.D. at Syracuse University and has accepted a position as Associate Professor at Butler University, Indianapolis. He is interested in meeting ASA members around Indianapolis. He lives at 5145 Boulevard Place.

Kenneth V. Olson, Associate Professor of Science Education, Colorado State College, Greeley, was "sparkplug" for another Seminar Summer Discussion Series on the campus. Russ Mixter was at least oue ASA member on the list. Scheduled weekly through the summer, speakers are selected to guide the discussion over a wide range of topics.

J. Edward Sunderland ' has moved from Georgia Tech to North Carolina State University in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Sunderland received his degree from Purdue.

Arthur H. Svedberg, who practices internal medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, is currently president of the International Christian Medical Society.

Malcolm Tanigawa was married this summer. He is active with International Christian Leadership.

William Lloyd Taylor has recently assumed duties as Dean of Mount Vernon Nazarene College, Mount Vernon, Ohio. This is a new college established by the General Assembly of the Church in 1964 and will serve Ohio, West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky areas. It will open in September 1968 with a two-year operation, expanding to four year status when feasible.

Douglas H. Taylor has left Zululand for a furlough in the U. S. A doctor must always be up to date, so Doug is spending a year at Berrien General Hospital, Berrien Center, Michigan. After that a rest - doing deputation work in the West.

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