NEWS

The American Scientific Affiliation

VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2 April 1971




FEDERATION CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM CHANGE

The Federation Christian Fellowship is still scheduled to meet at the Sheraton Blackstone Hotel in Chicago at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 15, 1971. However, illness of Ray Knighton, president of Medical Assistance Programs, has necessitated a slight program change.

James C. Kennedy, M. D., assistant professor of pathology at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, will speak on "A Scientific Approach to the Knowledge of God", followed by discussion of Jim's ideas. Then the work of Medical Assistance Programs will be presented by MAP's vice-president, the Rev. John Stucky, substituting for Ray Knighton. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be available in the Embassy Room, according to Kurt Weiss, professor of physiology at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City, who made these arrangements.

All ASA members attending the annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, and ASA members residing in the Chicago area even if not in biology or medicine, are invited to attend the annual FCF get-together. Bring your friends!

SCIENCE, SCRIPTURES'. AND MAN'S ENVIRONMENT

The earth is drooping, withering... and the sky wanes with the earth, for earth has been polluted by the dwellers on its face. Therefore a curse is crushing the earth, alighting on its guilty folk; mortals are dying off, til few are left."

So goes one translation of Isaiah 24:4-6. What man has done to God's creation, and what man can do with God's help to "redeem" the earth, form the framework of the 1971 ASA Annual Convention theme: "Science, Scriptures, and Man's Environment." The Convention will be held at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington, August 17-20. A trip to Spokane this summer will give you a chance not only to participate in a stimulating ASA discussion, but also to travel through still unspoiled environmental beauty. The Pacific coast, Mount Rainier, Yellowstone, the Tetons-dozens of scenic attractions await you in Northwestern USA. This is an ideal year to make the ASA National Convention part of a family camping vacation. Housing and meals at the Convention will be inexpensive.

More info will appear in the June and August issues of ASA News. Meanwhile, program chairman Bob Groner of Oregon State University has sent out a call for papers. There is still time to contact him if you want to give a paper or suggest a paper to be given. At least one general session will include miscellaneous contributed papers, but papers on the following subjects would be most welcome: Depletion of natural resources, waste disposal, ecology, environmental pollution, chemistry of pollution, natural phenomena (earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.), population problems,






7:00 Breakfast             Breakfast               Breakfast                 Breakfast
8:00 Devotions             Devotions               Devotions
8:30 Registration           SOCIAL                 PHYSICAL                  SPIRITUAL
                          Man Comes of            The Changing Holy     The Christian and
                          Age, Richard            Land Landscape,       Ecology, James
                           Bube                   George Jennings       Kennedy



12:00 Lunch                Lunch                   Lunch             Lunch
1:30 OPENING                    BUSINESS                     FIELD TRIPS
     CEREMONIES                 MEETING

2:00 MENTAL
Application of           30-year History
Systems                  of ASA, Harold
Vernon Grose             Hartzler

Ecology and              Scientists Look
Education, J.            At Issues of Human
Wright Baylor            Concern, David Moberg

Changes in                    COMMISSION MEETINGS
Catholic Student Values
David Moberg



6:00 Dinner                 Banquet              Dinner
8:00 Theological            Public Meeting
     Paper
9:00 Prayer                 Social               Social
     Meeting                Hour                  Hour

food crises, and moral considerations related to these topics. The
bearing of Scripture, science, and technology on such problems is to be brought out at the Convention.

Send an abstract of your paper to Robert R. Groner, ASA Program Committee, P. 0. Box 902, Corvallis, Oregon 97330. Do it now, so an early selection of papers can be made.

ANOTHER WAY TO GO

Ordinarily, unless you're somebody like Alton Everest in Hong Kong, you wouldn't think of going to the Spokane Convention by way of Taiwan. But it can be done. Just ask Gary Collins, who will be hosting a tour to the orient August 7-17. The round-trip cost from San Francisco is $1295 (which can be paid over a two-year period). This includes all travel expenses, first class accommodations, two meals a day, and sigbt-seeing. The tour will visit Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, and Taiwan; for $99 extra you can have four days in Hawaii all expenses paid on the way back. Without the stay in Hawaii you'll be back on the west coast on August 17, just in time to make the ASA Convention!

In addition to sight-seeing, the tour group will have meetings with missionaries and will discuss eastern religions and their impact on western man. "Guru" Collins, Professor of pastoral psychology and counseling at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, will be giving lectures along the way on Occultism, The Attraction of Eastern Religions for Western Man, and similar topics.

You gung ho to go? Hokay. Chop chop, you lite: Collins Tour of the Orient, Evangelical Tours Unusual, 642 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, California 91101.

RICHARD W. KRUSE DECEASED

The ASA National Office in Mankato has received a note from the widow of Richard W. Kruse telling of his death. He was employed both as a science instructor in the Syracuse public school system and as a research associate in pharmacology at the S.U.N.Y. Upstate Medical Center. With A. Farah he had recently published "The Relation of Cellular Sulfhydryl Changes to the Renal Action of the Antidiuretic Hormone", J. Pharm. & Exptl. Therapeutics 161, 169-182 (1968). Richard held a B. S. (1951) from Hartwick College and an M. S. (1955) from Albany State College for Teachers. He was a member of Sigma Xi, National Science Teachers Association, A-I.B.S., International Oceanographic Foundation, and National wildlife Federation in addition to ASA, of which he had been a member since 1966. He had worked with the Christian Service Brigade of the North Syracuse Baptist Church.

EMERITUS FELLOW DIES

Roy M. Allen, who has been a resident of the Elija Park Baptist Home in Civshire, Connecticut, died February 20, 1971. The ASA National Office received word of his death from his son, H. T. Allen. Dr. Allen had received as honorary Sc-D. degree from Wheaton College in 1942 and had been a member of ASA since 1949. For many years he lived in New Jersey and was church organist at Brookdale Baptist Church in Bloomfield. He had been in private consulting work as a metallurgist since 1925 until his retirement a few years ago. He was the euthor of The Microscope and Photomicrography, both published by D. Van Nostrand; The Microsco2e in Elementary C8st Iron Metallurgy published by Loizeaux Bros.; and numerous papers dealing either with metallurgy or with the relationship of science and Scripture. A number of his papers and notes appeared in early issues of JASA. Besides the American Scientific Affiliation (Emeritus Fellow), he was a member of the Anerican Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and the American Microscopical society; he was an Honorary Life Member of the American Foundryman's Society, had been a Member of the Council of the New York Academy of Sciences and President of
the New York Microscopical Society. He was a licensed Professional Engineer in New York State and was listed in Who's Who in the East and Who's Who in Engineering.

SOME NEW PUBLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE

Our Society in Turmoil, edited for ASA by Gary Collins primarily from papers presented at the 1968 ASA Annual Convention at Gordon College, has now been released by the publisher, Creation House, Carol Stream, Illinois. The price of the 306-page hard-cover book on current social issues from an evangelical Christian perspective is $5.95. However, ASA members receive a 20% discount when the book is ordered from the National Office. To order, send $5.00 ($4.75 plus .25 for postage and handling) to American Scientific Affiliation, 324k South Second St., Mankato, Minnesota 56001

International Directory of Religious Information Systems, edited by David 0. Moberg, is an 88-page paperback published by the Department of Sociology & nt ropology of Marquette University, of which Dave is chairman. The Directory includes agencies and organizations in 14 nations besides 16 states in the U. S., and is designed to serve as a research tool. It has information on data archives, information dissemination systems, bibliographical resources, personnel files, and abstracting services. Postage and shipping charges are included in the price of $2.95, which must b6 paid in advance. Checks should be made payable to Marquette University and 4% sales tax must be added if purchased in Wisconsin. Order from Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.53233. The Dordt College Scientific Symposium papers from October are now available at $2.50 per copy. ..Make out check or money order to Dordt College and request your copy from Dr. Aaldert Mennega, Department of Biology, Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa 51250.

HOW TO START SOMETHING No. 5. GEORGE GIACUMAKIS, JR.

"Free universities" existing in the "shadow" of established universities are a relatively new phenomenon in American higher education. Their formation has been encouraged by such writers as Paul Goodman s) to offer an alternative to present educational patterns. Shadow universities are  usually originated by student efforts with the encouragement and help of a few sympathetic faculty members. Sometimes the university administration officially recognizes and aids the shadow university (at least by letting it use university facilities). Sometimes the administration ignores its "shadow", or occasionally opposes it (since lack of control over free university offerings can lead to publicity the "real" university may consider detrimental to its own public image). In some places, faculty use the free university as a testing ground for experiments in curriculum change for the established university. At Iowa State University, for example, a free university course in "Big Science and Big Government" several years ago led to a statement by concerned students that science professors should incorporate into their regular classes some discussion of public policy matters (such as funding of scientific research, technological impact on the environment, and the dangers of dominance by a  military-industrial-educational complex). A number of professors acted on this recommendation. Walt Hearn offered an Honors Seminar on "Science and Society" through the official University Honors Program to deal with these questions. Student response to that seminar encouraged him to offer a subsequent Honors Seminar on "Science, Technology, and Religion", to which student response was also favorable.

Thus the free university movement has done much to re-open genuinely free inquiry in universities. Christian faculty no longer have to search hard for a suitable forum in which to present spiritual insights along with technical knowledge. We heard recently of a course on "The Environmental Crisis and the Christian" offered in the "Experimental College" at California State College at Fullerton. We asked George Giacumakis, Jr., to tell us more about it for the benefit of other ASA News readers who might profit from his experience. He answered all our questions and sent us a newspaper edition describing the Experimental College at Fullerton.

The Experimental College has a formal statement of its goals: "(1) To provide educational experiences that cannot be offered, or are presently not being offered, within the conventional structure of Cal State Fullerton; (2) To serve as a laboratory in which new educational concepts may be tested--concepts that can then be applied both to CSF and to the Experimental College; (3) To provide students with a place in which to test, exercise, and increase their own autonomy: to help students learn how to educate themselves."

The Experimental College is an Associated Students program financed by AS fees, organized by a Steering Committee made up of volunteers, and "administered" by a paid Director hired by the Steering Committee and the AS President. Anyone interested can join the Steering Committee simply by showing up at a meeting. Meetings, changes in classes, and "happenings" are announced on the EC bulletin board located in a prominent place on campus.

"EC Classes ... may be organized or taken by anyone ... are non-credit ... are mostly free --- can be any length ... can be started at any time-can be on any subject-may be held on or off campus ... and are run democratically by class members. You don't have to register for EC classes--just go to the classes you're interested in."

The schedule of EC classes for the fall of 1970 included how-to-do-it courses on organic gardening and cooking, skin diving, candle making, karate, creative writing, and "calculating with a slide rule." There were also encounter groups on blackwhite relations and psychedelic group processes, sessions on sex and love, on the ecstasy of jazz, and on legal and cultural aspects of marijuana. At a more philosophical level were courses on non-violence, yoga, "beginning witchcraft", ESP, "The Good News of Jesus Christ", and "The Environmental Crisis and the Christian."

Organizers of the environmental course were listed as Dr. Ted Hanes, biology; Dr. Russ Benson, math; Dr. George Giacumakis, history; Paul Friesen, Norman Kredit, and Bob Jones, students. (Later added to sponsors were Dr. Gerald Marley and Dr. Richard Gilbert, math.) The course was described as "A study of man's relationship to his total environment dealing with attitudes based on Christianity and possible solutions concerning social problems." Here is the schedule of one-hour noon class meetings:

What is the environmental crisis? The historical way man has related to his environment. A Christian's view of ecology. The Judeo-Christian approach to environment. Does science tell the truth? The Christian in a technological society. The individual Christian's responsibility in the environmental crisis. Institutional responsibility in the environmental crisis.

George says the course originated out of a discussion of both students and faculty related to the local Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship chapter. Students did the "footwork" for the program, but the course itself was the responsibility of the faculty members listed. George thinks it was well accepted by both students and staff. It started out with about 35 attending and diminished to about 15 by the end of the 8-week session. They faced the problem of all free university courses: courses offered for academic credit receive the student's first attention. If a mid-term exam came up in another course, the Experimental College course would be the first to get dropped.

"We used the format of both lecture-discussion and readings. Francis Schaeffer's recent book on ecology was a key starting point for a number of discussions. We would love to do this again for we have learned much from our experience. Perhaps the participation of so many faculty was not the wisest thing, but I'm not sure that the results would have been any different with just one or two faculty
members."

If you have further questions about this course or about teaching in a shadow university, write to Dr. George Giacumakis, Jr., Department of History, California State College, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton, Calif. 92631. That's where we're sending him his dozen free copies of the Scientist's Psalm greeting cards. (To get them you have to contribute a story to HOW TO START SOMETHING or else send $1.20 to Dr. Walter R. Hearn, Dept. of Biochem. & Biophysics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010.)

GEORGE HORNER DIGS IT

Jack Haas, Jr., of Gordon College sent ASA News a copy of the Boston Sunday Globe magazine for January 17, 1971. It featured a story on "The Underground Historians" --about archeological activity in the vicinity of Boston. The article described the work of academic archeologists but also pointed out that "amateur" archeologists from the Cohannet Chapter of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society have been responsible for the single most spectacular site ever excavated in New England, the
Wapanucket site on the northern shore of Lake Assawompsett in Middleboro, which they have worked for 15 years. And whose photograph graces the Globe story? "Dr. George Horner, professor of anthropology at Eastern Nazarene College, at work in diggings behind his
braintree home
." The author, Robert Wildau, closed his story with this paragraph: "Probably no one typifies the crusty spirit of the science better than your typical backyard antiquities hunter. Dr. George Horner is a trained archeologist with digging experience both in the U. S. and in Africa. He teaches the subject at Eastern Nazarene College. But in two years of quiet scraping with his trusty onion hoe behind his house in Braintree, he has come up with exactly six 'artifacts'--all from widely differing periods. Was he ready to make any earth-shattering announcements, I asked him the other day. "No', he said with a twinkle, 'but I think I'm onto some interesting trends."'

ANOTHER
UNIVERSITY CONTACT IN LATIN AMERICA

With some 65,000 scientists and engineers out of jobs in the U. S., we've been suggesting some ASA people who might know about teaching or research positions in other countries, in Latin America in particular. To contacts in Costa Rica and Brazil from recent issues, add this one in Bolivia:

W. Douglas Smith and his wife are missionaries to university students in Cochabamba, Bolivia, under the Andes Evangelical Mission (508 Central Ave., Plainfield, N. J. 07060). They could probably find out for you how to go about applying for a university position in Bolivia. Incidentally, Doug is now in need of extra financial support to enable him to travel to universities outside Cochabamba at the request of other student groups. Write to Doug and Audrey Smith, Caj6n 514, Cochabamba, Bolivia.

TUB FELLOWSHIP OF KINDRED MINDS ...

... Is rich, isn't it? Here's a tale of concatenating comradeship confirming the
it communion of the saints"--or at least the "Fellowship of the Affiliation."

Some 16 years ago, Walt Hearn,, then at Baylor Medical School, was a speaker at Baptist Student Week in Glorieta, New Mexico. There he met an undergraduate student, 222_LoSan, from Texas Tech in Lubbock. Their friendship grew as Walt tried to answer some of Don's questions about Christianity in correspondence, telling him about ASA in the process. Don majored in geology but an interest in Spanish developed while he was Iton tour" for the armed forces, so he returned to do graduate work in that field. He taught Spanish three years at Texas A. & I. in Kingsville, and having meanwhile joined ASA, corresponded with Walt again about how to initiate a Texas Local Section. (Guess it turned out that Texas just wasn't "local" enough.)

Recently Walt heard from Don again, from a new place and a new field of study. Now in Psychology, Don has completed everything but his thesis for a Ph.D. at Texas Tech. and is doing an internship in counseling and clinical psychology at the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at the New York University Medical Center. Don's wife Kathy teaches home economics at Lehman College (formerly Hunter College of the Bronx).

Don and Kathy, lonely Texans in the Big City, stumbled upon a Baptist Church in White Plains, with a pastor from Baylor and many warm people in the congregation. One couple they met and liked immediately was Ian Prance and his wife Ann. Ian has a degree in Botany from Oxford and is in charge of the Tropical Section of the New York Botanical Gardens. "It was funny", Don wrote, "Both of us planned to talk
16-o
the other about joining ASA one night when we were at their house for dinner." When Ian discovered Don was already an ASA member, he passed on information about the local section (New York Metropolitan).

Now Don has passed on the information to us that in January, Ian and Ann Prance and their two children left for a year's stay in Brazil. The family will stay in Manaus while Ian leads a party in the Amazon River country to collect new tropical specimens for the Botanical Gardens and to chart areas of growth for various species. 1"his is the 5th trip up the Amazon for Ian, who has already described 16 new species of tropical plants.

Don't you wonder if Ian will come across any other ASA members down there?


PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS

Donald L. Birx is a Christian known to Frank Roberts of Newton Square, Pa., and available for employment. Don has B. E. and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, 20 years' experience in research, development, and management of advanced technology programs, and a variety of teaching experience. He would consider a job in either R&D or teaching. He is married and has three children. In his technical career Don has worked for Hamilton Watch Co. and General Electric, but spent 16 years at the Franklin Institute Research Labs working on such projects as space navigation, optical techniques, radio frequency measurements, satellites for geodesic purposes, radar mapping, and noise suppression filters. He has taught radio theory for the U. S. Navy, instructed in electrical and RF measurements at Johns Hopkins, and from 1960-67 taught physical science at Philadelphia College of the Bible. He has been author or co-author of 7 publications and holds a U. S. patent for a "signal-seek tuner." If you have a job for Don, write him at 1880 Millport Road, Lancaster, Pa. 17602.

Chien-Chung (John) Cheng is recommended by Lars Granberg, president of Northwestern College of the Reformed Church in America, which has been forced by the current financial squeeze to cut back on faculty:

"Dr. Cheng took his B. A. degree at Tunghai University in Taiwan, spent a year in graduate study at Tsing-Hua National University of Taiwan, and then received his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the U. of Tennessee. He came to us with outstanding recommendations in 1968 and has done a fine piece of work for us these past three years. He has taught general physics, mechanics, modern physics, and.electricity and magnetism. During his graduate study and during 2 summers while a member of our faculty, he has done research at Oak Ridge and has 9 publications to his credit. He is an outstanding theoretical physicist and has done a good bit of work in plasma physics. Dr. Cheng is a real professional. His effectiveness in research has been demonstrated. He will strengthen materially any faculty he joins."

If you have a position for John Cheng, you could write either to him directly or to Lars Granberg, both at Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa 51041.

Alice Liu is looking for a teaching position in a Christian college for the fall of 1971. She took her Ph.D. in biochemistry at Wayne State University, Detroit, worked for 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow, and is currently research associate at the University of Pittsburgh. She is now working in the field of liver ribosomes. She would like to teach biochemistry but would consider teaching other courses as well. Write to Alice at 6 Oakland Square, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213.

POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE

"As superintendent of schools for our organization I am responsible for recruiting qualified teachers for our schools for missionary young people in the 23 different countries where we work around the world. Therefore I am seeking another avenue of communication to Christians trained as teachers. Specifically, would it be possible to make known our needs for teachers through your publication?

"Often the Christian public thinks that all members of Wycliffe Bible Translators are involved in linguistics and/or translation, and are unaware of our use of other trained persons such as teachers."

ASA members interested in this avenue of service to Christ should write to J. Daniel Harrison, Superintendent of Schools, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., 6340-C Ventnor Avenue, Ventnor, New Jersey 08406. (General address for WBT is P. 0. Box 1960, Santa Ana, Calif. 92702, if you're not familiar with the organization and want more information.)



INDIANA

Friday, April 30, is the date set for an all-day meeting at Taylor University, Upland, Indiana., a seminar on "Social Engineering." The seminar, part of a program in Ecology and Environmental Problems funded at Taylor by the S & H Foundation, will feature both Elving Anderson and Richard Terman as speakers. Anderson, who is assistant director of the Dight Institute for Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, will speak at 10 a.m. chapel on "Rights and Responsibilities in Human Reproduction"; and at 2 p.m. on "Genes and Human Behavior--the New Demonism?" Terman, professor of biology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and holder of an NIH Career Development Award in population dynamics, will speak at 11 a.m. on "Advances in the Biological Study of Behavior--Some Perplexing Ethical Considerations"; and at e p.m. on "Sociobiology and Population Problems--Perspectives."

At
4 p.m. Elving and Dick will be joined by other panelists to wind up the seminar with a question-and-answer session. This seminar will be something of a homecoming for Dick, who was associate professor of biology at Taylor from 1961-63. Meetings will be held at the Science Center except for the chapel talk in Maytag Gymnasium, and lunch ($1.30) served in Camp Dining Hall. A short business meeting of the Indiana ASA Local Section will be held during lunch.

METROPOLITAN NEW YORK

The spring meeting is planned for May l at The Kings College, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. This meeting should have wide appeal, being a "Symposium on the Life and Work of C. S. Lewis", jointly sponsored by the Few York C. S. Lewis Society. Tentative speakers include Henry Noel, editor of the New York CSL Society Bulletin, on "C. S. Lewis and Science"; and Nathan Starr on "My Friend, C. S. Lewis."

Many of us whose understanding of Christianity and whose commitment to Christ have been deepened by the writings of Lewis will be glad to know of this society devoted to studying the man and his works. The Society's charter was proposed in December 1969, amended early in 1970; the January 1971 issue of the monthly Bulletin is No. 15. The work discussed at the 15th meeting was The Abolition of Man, in which Lewis's suspicion and distrust of science are brought out. With anti-intellectual criticism of science rampant today, it is good for scientists to pay attention to the attitudes of C. S. Lewis, an extremely intelligent and literate Christian critic. The New York C. S. Lewis Society's Bulletin costs $7 for 12 consecutive issues, sent by first class mail. New subscriptions or other correspondence should be addressed to Henry Noel, Editor: 349 West 85th St., New York, N. Y. 10024.

Jack Faynes says he learned a lot from attending the society's 16th (February)
meeting, devoted to The Pilgrim's Regress. The executive council of the Metropolitan New York ASA Section hopes this preliminary announcement of the spring
meeting will bring out many ASA members in the NYC area who seldom come to meetings.
The new council, by the way, consists of:
Donald Abb Chi-Huang Lee
Donald Carr--Secretary Jim Neidhardt--President
Alston W. Collins Roy Slipgo--Vice President
John D. Haynes--Treasurer

WESTERN NEW YORK

Saturday, March 20, was the date for the spring meeting held at Roberts Wesleyan College, North Chili, New York. The program began with a paper by Don Munro professor of biology at Houghton College, on "An Aproach to the Teaching of a Course in Creation and Evolution in the Christian College." Then Steve Calhoon, professor of chemistry at Houghton, reviewed the book Pollution and the Death of Man by Francis Schaeffer.

After a coffee break, Dr. James Billet, assistant vice president for academic affairs at the State University College at Geneseo, N. Y., delivered an address on "The Rage for Order: our Search for Meaning and Significance."

Following a short business meeting, the group moved from the New Science Building to the commons for dinner. After dinner Dr. Billet gave a resum6 of his address, followed by a response from the arts by Prof. Paul Berry of Roberts Wesleyan and a response from philosophy and religion by Prof. Irwin Reist of Houghton. Then the audience had its chance to get into the act.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY

"Horoscopes, ESP, and the Occult--Harmony or Conflict with Christianity?" That was the title of a symposium held on Saturday, February 20, at San Jose State College, Jointly sponsored by the S. F. Bay Section of ASA and the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship chapter at the College. Running through the afternoon and into the evening, with a break for dinner together, the symposium included three major adresses and a panel discussion. Registration was free to students, both high school and college. Peak attendance was about 75, of whom more than half were college age.

William Nesbitt, M. D., from Fairfield, Calif., asked "Is ESP for Real?" In an effort to convince the audience of the reality of extra-sensory perception in its various forms, Bill described in some detail a number of experiments performed by Dr. Rhine's group at Duke University, testing subjects for telepathy3, precognition, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis. Bill's conclusion is that God has given to all human beings non-physical powers that at present are only dimly perceived.

Drawing on his experiences as dean of a Bible institute in Germany, Kermit Zopfi of Pasadena described
"Europe-an Origins of Our Current Preoccupation with the Occult." He recounted a number of incidents illustrating the prevalence of Satan worship in Germany, a practice that is seen, he observed, among educated people and leaders in the arts as well as among the poorly educated. Mr. Zopfi attributed this condition, not to a lack of education, but to a spiritual vacuum created by German philosophy and theology. He suggested that America may well be following the s ccurse.

After a coffee break,, a panel discussion on "The Student Scene--The Occult Is In" featured college students along with Kent Meads, youth minister of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, and Ronald Kernaghan, IVCF staff worker for Northern California. The discussion revealed a contusing picture. Political action seems to have failed in the eyes of many students, and many have turned to various forms of mysticism, possibly as a reaction. A deeper interest in Christianity seems also to be a side effect.

The final address, "Some Biblical Insights on the Occult", attempted to place preoccupation with the occult within a theological framework. The Rev. Gary Wells quoted Biblical accounts of the practice of spiritism, and God's warnings against such practices. He also described the case of a woman known personally to him whose life had been made chaotic by dabbling in the "black arts." (our thanks to Bob Anderson, secretary-treasurer of the section, for his good account of this meeting.)

We also have an account from Bob of that January 8 meeting at which Dick Bube, editor of our Journal, spoke on "Science, Technology, and Human Values." Approximately 40 persons heard Dick define science and ponder the question of why science has lost prestige in recent years. Bob's abstract of that lecture is worth presenting here, even though the full text of Bube's similar convention paper, "Whatever Happened to Scientific Prestige?" appears in the current (March 1971) issue of Journal ASA:

"Science is a way of knowing based on the interpretation of data, which are derived ultimately from the senses. To call science the way of knowing is to make an unjustifiable assumption, since there is no way that science can know that it is the Only way to find truth. The most important issues of life, those dealing with a mania relation to God and to other human beings, and with his purpose in life, are beyond the reach of scientific inquiry.

"Because data must always be interpreted, and because interpretation involves a subjective human element, science is not an infallible machine leading to greater greater triumphs. The human element affects both the discovery of scientific knowledge and the use to which it is put.

"Science has lost prestige in recent years, first because it has been seen by many as destroying human values. Science knows nothing of spiritual values, aspirations, or goals, but only of impersonal law and chance. Such a world-view is unsatisfying to many. Further, science is unable to provide any guidance for resolving moral issues, and has failed to fulfill its promise of relieving human misery. By nature science knows no right or wrong, and those who apply scientific knowledge may do so for evil as well as for good purposes."



1. The Executive Council is scheduled to meet April 16-17 at O'Hare Field and at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill. (We'll try to have a full report by next issue.)

2. The Executive Council requests the submission of names of members eligible for nomination to the grade of Fellow. A Fellow must be actively interested in the objectives of the Affiliation, be currently engaged in scientific or related work, and hold a doctorate degree or its equivalent in science or philosophy.

3. The National Office appreciates the kindness of Lawrence Starkey, who sent co,Dies of all ASA News issues completely missing from the files. Now they would like a few other members to donate copies of the issues Mankato is still low on, so they can bind three copies for the ASA Archives. The issues in shortest supply are:

Vol. 1: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Vol. 5: No. 2.
Vol.
7: Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 5. Vol. 7: No. 1.
Vol.
S: Nos. 4 and 5 Vol. '9:
No. 1.


(Please note: These are issues of ASA News wanted, not the Journal.)

4. Copies of the Journal offprint "What's the Next Move?" by Tom Skinner, are still available from the National Office at 10C each or 20 for $1.

5. Harold Hartzler reports that an ASA booth was displayed at neither the IVCF Missionary Convention in Urbana nor the AAAS meeting in Chicago during the Christmas holidays. He found out that booths at Urbana were restricted to missionary organizations with a minimum of 10 people on the field; booths at AAAS were restricted to organizations that paid $400 for the privilege of setting one up! But Harold did attend the Missionary Convention and the ASA Breakfast at the AAAS meeting, visiting with a number of ASA members at both places.



Wilford S. Bailey has been elected president of the American Society of Parasitologists. Will is also academic vice-president of Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, according to our correspondent among the parasites, Wilbur L. Bullock of the Department of Zoology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, N. H.

Dick Bube of the Department of Materials Science, Stanford University, teamed up on February 2 with physicist Harold Winters of San Jose, Calif., to present the work of ASA to the Men's Group of St. Paul's United Methodist Church in San Jose. On February 14, as a guest on "Parson to Person", a radio program broadcast by the minister of the church, the Rev. Douglas Henderson, Dick had the opportunity to spread the word on ASA to an even larger audience.

J. Frank Cassel, professor of zoology at North Dakota State University, Fargo, recently caT.T3;-zed a meeting between Phil Bays, chemist at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, and Walt Hearn, biochemist at7fo~-a State University, Ames. Frank went to Iowa to see two of his children studying at Grinnell and to attend a "Snow and Ice Symposium" at ISU. Frank says he went to learn about effects of winter on wildlife, not how to snow granting agencies--or ASA audiences.

Roger D. Griffioen is on leave from Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, this year, having been awarded a 12-month Science Faculty Fellowship. He is working with Dr. Raymond Sheline in the Department of Physics at Florida State University, Tallahassee, using the new 20 Mev tandem Van de Graaff accelerator to study direct reaction nuclear spectroscopy.

Carl J. Jarboe teaches chemistry at Messiah-College, Grantham, Pa. Much of Carl's recent postdoctoral work at Penn State (Hershey Medical Center) was reported in a paper on "The Influence of Various Substituents on the Stability of Dipeptides in Dilute Alkali" with B. W. Noll and L. F. Hass at a regional meeting of the American Chemical Society in Baltimore.

D. A. Lewis is an evangelist based in Fairmont, W. Va. He was scheduled to direct his 4th Holy Land tour March 9-23, but suffered a serious set-back in January when his car and the trailer he uses for an office were smashed up in a 20-car accident in Florida. All his files and correspondence about the tour, and about the International Student Literature Crusade he also heads, were in a complete mess at the time we heard from him.

Russ Maatman, professor of chemistry at Dordt College, Dordt, Iowa, has been awarded an $11,000 grant for undergraduate research on "Electrolyte-Surface Reactions and Catalytic Activity" from the American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund, according to Chemical & Engineering News.


Steven P. McNsel has been at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale as assistant professor of psychology since September. He specializes in experimental social psychology and in December gave a paper at the first annual meeting of the Midwest Section of the international Pence Research Society. He has papers in press in Acta Psychologic and European Journal of Social Psychology. Steve's wife Sandie  wrote the poem, "God's Man Is Who I Am", appearing in JASA 19, No. 2 (June 1967).

Dean E. Richardson is a chemical engineer employed by Union Carbide Corporation in Texas. He also teaches a College and Career Bible Class sings in the choir, and works with junior high youth on Sunday nights--besides helping wife Joyce with a literacy ministry. After attending a writers' workshop sponsored by tbe Southern Baptist Sunday School Board to teach people to write simplified materials for new readers, the semi-literate, and the deaf, they've been turning out writing assignments together for the S. S. Board. Last summer they spent a couple of weeks working on literacy problems among the Navajo with Southern Baptist missionaries in New Mexico (we learned from their 1970 Christmas letter.)

Leo Setian is now teaching electrical engineering at John Brown University, Siloam Springs, Arkansas. He says he didn't quite complete his thesis at Montana State University last year, so now he's trying to teach and write at the same time. (Leo, that's called "publishing AND perishing.")

Edwin D. Sigurdsonn works with a C.P.A firm in Portland. When we last heard from him he had passed 2 of the 4 parts of the C.P.A. exam, and was looking for some fellow Christians to join him in establishing in Portland a literature mission for Ote west coast.

Nicholas
J. Tavani. Washington D. C., has been promoted to Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason College, Fairfax, Virginia. He has also been serving as coordinator of the Washington Program for Evangel College, Springfield, Missouri, in which students come to the nation's capital for January-term studies on the decision-making processes of government. Nick has recently spoken to various groups on such topics as "Ihe Personal and Institutional Dimensions of Christianity" and "The Sociology of Love."

Momine Tielta, an R. N. who also holds the Ph.D. left the University of Washington School of Nursing in Seattle in September to become director of a new baccalaureate nursing program at the College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota. This academic year she is planning curriculum and recruiting faculty.

Ruiess van Fossen de Bravo received her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Wayne State
University in Detroit last year and then did 6 months of postdoctoral work at the
University of Pennsylvania with M. P. Cava. A paper on "Electron Impact Induced
Fermentation of Aromatic Cyclic Diazoketones" by Ruiess appeared in J. Mass
Spectroscopy, 3. 31 (1970). Now she and her husband, Dr. Luis Bravo, have begun work
on agricultural products of the sea in Santiago, Chile, where both are professors in the Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile.

Carel M. van Vliet has decided to stay in Montreal as professor of physics at the
Recherches Mathematiques of the Universit6 de Montreal, after trying it for a year as visiting professor. He finds the change of job refreshing, but the family misses Minnesota friends and a church-centered evangelical witness. Most of the "action" in Montreal seems to stem from Inter-Varsity, Youth for Christ, and Sermons from Science, rather than from churches, he reports.

A. James Wagner is employed by the Extended Forecast Division, U. S. Weatber Service, N.O.A.A., Suitland, Maryland. We recently tried to order some warmer weather for the midwest from him, but in reply he sent us a reprint from 11onthly Weather Review of a paper based on his thesis work in meteorology at M.T.T.: "Long-Period Variations in Seasonal Sea-Level Pressure Over the Northern Hemisphere." (If we understand what "quasi-biennial oscillation" (Q3O) means in his paper, we want to get out of Iowa before 2.2 to 2.5 years roll around again!)

A. Kurt Weiss, physiologist at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City, was program chairman for biological sciences of the 23rd annual meeting of the Gerontological Society in Toronto last fall. Kurt also chaired a symposium on "Alteration of the Life-Span."

John H. White was recently appointed dean of religious services and assistant professor of Biblical literature at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa. John authored a position paper for a Race Relations Conference held March 2-5 in Chicago by the North American Division of the Reformed Ecumenical Synod.



A letter has just been received in the National Office from Edwin A. Olson, Prof. of Geology, Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington 99218. Ed Olson is in charge of Local Arrangements for the 1971 convention. He tells us they have prepared a map showing distances to outstanding places that are within one-day's drive of Spokane. He also has brochures of Spokane that are very helpful. Anyone wanting this material can obtain it by writing Ed at the above address.


We are sure many of these places would be very worthwhile to see, so why don't you plan your vacation with this in mind? See you at the 1971 Convention - Spokane, Washington - Avioust 17-20, 1971, WHITWORTH COLLEGE.




                        California


Kenneth P. Bourke, Box 658, Solana Beach, Calif. 92075. Staff Engineer for Gulf Energy Environmental Systems, Gulf Radiation Technology. AS, BS, MS in E. E. Rank: Member

                          Colorado


Robert L. McFall, 3455 S. Akron St., Denver, Colorado 80231. Engineer for Meurer-Serafini-Meurer Inc. BS, MS in Ag. Engr. Rank: Member

                        Illinois


Gerald H. Haddock, 124 South Chase, Wheaton, Illinois 60187. Asst. Prof. at WLeaton College. BS, MS,
PhD in Geology, Biology, Mining. Rank: Member

 

                          Maine


Robert A. Walkling, 34 Boody Street, Brunswick, Maine 04011. Assoc. Professor of Physics University of Maine at Portland. BA, SM, PhD in Applied Physics. Rank: Member

                          Maryland


Isom H. Herron, Jr., 1210 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Maryland 21202. Grad. Student
at Johns Hopkins University. SB in Math. Rank: Member
Massachusetts

Charles A. McKay, 10 Indian Hill Rd., Medfield, Mass. 02052. Manager, Electronic Development - The Foxboro Co. AA, BS in Elec. Engr. Rank: Assoc. Requested.

                          Nebraska


Lloyd E. Sell, 12307 Oak St., Omaha, Nebraska 68144. Mechanical Engineer P.E. (Design) - U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. BS, Mech. Engr. Rank: Member

                          New York


John H. Stark, R. D. #1, Warwick, New York 10990. Research Chemist for International Paper Company, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. BSI MS, PhD in Biochem., Org. Chem. Rank: Member

John S. Babbitt, 71 Maple St., Canisteo, New York 14823. Ninth grade Earth Science Teacher at Canisteo Central School. BA in Gen. Sci., Psych. Rank: Member

Eugene F. Young, 43 Calver Court, Henrietta, New York 14467. Associate Scientist for Xerox Corp. BS, PhD in Physics. Rank: Member

                          Ohio



Dale Ritter, 1014 37th St. N. E., Canton, Ohio 44714. Asst. Prof. of Inorg. Chem. at Malone College. BS, In Chem., Math. PhD in Inorg. Chem., Phys. & Org. Chem. Rank: Member

                          Pennsylvania

Martin L. Price, 3111 4th Avenue, Beaver Falls, Pa. 15010. Asst. Prof. at Geneva College. BS in Chem.; PhD in Biochem., Org. Chem., Mass Communications. Rank: Member