NEWSLETTER

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AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

VOLUME 18, NUMBER 2 APRIL 1976




1976 ANNUAL MEETING: CALL FOR PAPERS GOES OUT

Members of the American Scientific Affiliation received in February a call for papers for the 1976 ASA ANNUAL MEETING. The meeting will be held AUGUST 20-23 on the campus of WHEATON COLLEGE, near Chicago. Titles and abstracts for 20-minute papers are due in the Elgin office by April 15, according to Executive Secretary Bill Sisterson. Jim Buswell is Program Chairman for the meeting and Howard Claassen is Local Arrangements Chairman. Both are on the Wheaton faculty and on the ASA Executive Council.

In addition to papers contributed by ASA members, there will be an invited program on the basic integration of science and Christianity. Professor Donald MacKay of England (The Clockwork Image) will give three major addresses.

Many spouses and some scions will enjoy both programs. Child-care will be provided during the sessions. Sight-seeing trips will interest family members not attending sessions. Details on housing and registration should be mailed out within the next two months, but plan now to bring the whole family to this good'un.

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE JOURNAL

The special issue of the JASA entitled "People, Power, and Protein" is now printed and ready to mail to any who order. This is the proceedings of a Calvin College conference on the subject last October and includes papers by Dick Bube, John Scanzoni, Karen DeVos,
Lewis Smedes, and Howard Rienstra. 

This issue must be specially ordered by members for you to receive a copy. It is not sent automatically to anyone. To get your copy send $3.00 now to Editor, JOURNAL ASA, 753 Mayfield Avenue, Stanford, CA 94305. Make check payable to ASA.

This supplement is also a special effort to see what interest there is in timely editions of the Journal. Indicate your positive interest by placing an order today. (Note - If you would like extra copies to give to friends, your pastor or church, and interested people you know, a special price of $2.00 per issue is in effect when you order five (5) or more copies).

CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGISTS EXPECT BIG TURNOUT

Two months before the ASA meets in Wheaton, the Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) and the Western Association of Christians for Psychological Studies (WACPS) will meet in Santa Barbara, California, June 25-29. About 800 people are expected to attend the joint meeting at the Francisco Torres Conference Center of UC Santa Barbara. Special group flights have been arranged from New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Oklahoma City, and Portland.

The CAPS/WACPS program will include papers, symposia, demonstrations, seminars, and interest-group sessions. Interest groups will draw together those in similar disciplines (e.g., psychology; clinical social work) or subdisciplines (experimental psych; social psych), or simply with common interests (e.g., aviation psych). All these items and details or auxiliary programs for spouses and families are described ina 40-page convention book (available for $1.50 to nonmembers who wish to attend). Write to Dr. Craig Ellison, Executive Director of WACPS, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

WHEN MORAL TRADITION CONFLICTS WITH PSYCHOLOGY

Kirk E. Farnsworth, associate professor of psychology and director of counseling at Trinity College, Deerfield, Illinois, sent ASA News an announcement of a significant colloquium to be held on Saturday, April 247.-fh-ecolloquium will feature the current president of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Donald T. Campbell, speaking on "The Scientific Case for Moral Tradition When it Conflicts with Current Psychology."

In his Presidential Address at the APA national convention in Chicago last fall, Dr. Campbell argued that when the two conflict, historic moral tradition should take precedence over contemporary psychology. As you can imagine, his address caused more than ripples among all those contemporary psychologists in the audience. The splash was written up in Time Magazine and commented on widely and sometimes wisely elsewhere. The Trinity College Psychology Dept. has invited Dr. Campbell to develop the theme of his APA address at the April 24 colloquium.

The colloquium will take place on the Trinity campus from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information contact: Dr. Clark Barshinger, Chair, Dept. of Psychology, Trinity College, Deerfield, IL 60015. Telephone (312) 945-6700 ext. 231.

14HO WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE IF WE DON'T?

Robert E. Jervis, associate dean of engineering at the U. of Toronto, Ontario, has sent us advance information on an important conference being planned for next fall. Bob, Harry Leith of York University, and some other members of the Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation (CSCA) have been working with a group of Christians in Deep River, Ontario--Canada's atomic energy research center. Their concern about the impact of technology on society has led to a conference to be held in Deep River, October 8-10, on "SHAPING THE FUTURE: A SCIENTIFIC AND CHRISTIAN CONCERN."

Three areas of concern (nuclear development; human and social engineering; environmental deterioration) will each be addressed by two speakers: 1) a person of scientific eminence in that field; and 2) someone who will place the topic in the context of social and moral concerns. Workshops, a banquet, and worship will also be on the program. The conference is being planned for scientists, politicians, students, teachers, church leaders, and concerned citizens.

The conference planning committee is not seeking joint sponsorship by Christian or scientific organizations, but invites active participation by individuals in the CSCA and ASA. For further details, write to: Shaping the Future, Box 1439, Deep River, Ontario KOJ 1PO, Canada.

Wilber Sutherland of Imago ministries in Toronto says that when Dr. Arthur Porter was appointed to chair a Royal Commission to investigate the public interest in Ontario Power's nuclear power proposals, he asked for the public's help in thinking through this issue but "above all your prayers." Wilber says, "I wonder if he will get them.

I wonder how many Christians know about the Commission's work, or if they know, consider it a matter for serious Christian concern and action."

FACING THE CHALLENGE OF OVERSEAS SERVICE

Before they were married three years ago, biochemist Susan Brownlee and physician Ed Crowell were both members of ASA who felt a strong interest in the foreign mission field. At the International Conference on Missionary Medicine at Wheaton last March, Ed and Susan Crowell found their opportunity through the Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. Under BM_MF, which has been in existence for 120 years in Great Britain but only 10 in the U.S., the Crowells (with son Jonathan) will serve the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, beginning this fall. They have both resigned from the U. of Wisconsin faculty, and hope to be in language school in India by June. At Ludhiana, Susan will teach biochemistry and Ed will teach clinical medicine, set up a hematology lab, and train an Indian physician in hematology. The Christian Medical College is now under Indian leadership, with a strong evangelical Christian, Dr. K. N. Nambudripad, beginning his second year as director. The Crowells will try to work themselves out of a job by training Indians to replace them. (NOTE: If you know of any used instruments or other equipment for hematology or biochemistry that might be donated to Ludhiana, please get in touch with the Crowells at 934 Wahan Hill, Madison, WI 53711.)

Although the Christian Medical College was founded in 1894, only certificates were awarded until the first degree class in medicine was admitted in the fall of 1953. Teaching physiology to that first class was Jim Ashwin, fresh from his PhD work at McGill. But in April 1955, Jim came down with poliomyelitis and had to return to Canada. Some years later he married a nurse, Myrtle, and they now have a son, Robbie. Jim's life in a wheelchair has made the Ashwins sensitive to the needs of the more than 16,000 disabled people, mostly jobless and lonely, who live in their city of Ottawa. In November 1975 they once again got personally involved in foreign missions, when Myrtle participated in the Christian Medical Society's short-term mission to Taiwan. She worked mostly in HsinChu, a very difficult area for the Christian church. The CMS medical teams worked in more than a dozen mission stations, relieving tired missionary personnel, performing special surgery, and offering support and encouragement.

Lonnie Grant and his wife Lydia went back to Jos, Nigeria, in July 1975. They were pleased at how much of the Hausa language they remembered after nine years in the U.S. Many changes had occurred in Nigeria and in Sudan Interior Mission's Evangel Hospital, where Lonnie used to be the only doctor most of the time. Now there are four doctors, but also hundreds of patients to be seen daily. The Grants report encouraging response to the Gospel witness at the hospital, where "we work under greater difficulties and with more frustrations than in the old days so we need more grace. But God is able to supply that grace." Lydia was refused a work permit under new restrictions on missionaries, but then given permission to teach Bible classes in a technical school. She also does visitation in villages near the hospital, a kind of "work" she wouldn't have had time for without the visa restriction.


Sometimes people can't go back. M.D. Bill Campbell and his wife Holly were kicked out of Morocco for preaching the Gospel, so they're waiting on the Lord for a new field of service. Bill says other Christian workers are still in Morocco, but they have to be very careful in the way they go about the Lord's business. He also says that any science teacher who can speak French could find an opening in Morocco today as a nonprofessional missionary. For information, write to: North Africa Mission, 239 Fairfield Avenue, Upper Darby, PA 19082.

Service d'outre-mer, quelqu'un

H014 HAROLD HARTZLER DEFINES RETIREMENT

It's hard to imagine H.(for Hyperactive?) Harold Hartzler retiring on 1 June 1976. But it's a little easier when you read his news release about what he proposes to do. Harold steps down from his professorship of mathematics and astronomy at Mankato State University in Minnesota this spring. His plans are to step into a new phase of his life that hardly sounds like retirement. He hopes to put together a lecture tour that will keep him on the road from September 1976 through May 1977, and has a whole list of lecture topics, all related to the general subject of science and the Bible.

Harold would welcome invitations to lecture before church groups, Sunday schools, public and private schools, colleges and universities, service clubs, ASA local sections, or any other interested groups. For September he would like to restrict his travels to Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Iowa. Then he expects to spend several months in Europe, returning to lecture from January through March in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. In April and May, he wants to visit Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska. If this tour works out well, he'll consider doing the eastern part of the U.S. another year.

Newcomers may not know Harold, who has served ASA faithfully for many years. Born in Indiana in 1908, Harold graduated from Juniata College (PA) and took his PhD in physics at Rutgers (NJ). He did postdoctoral work at several universities and has taught physics, math, and astronomy ever since. He was on the faculties of Elizabethtown and Bluffton Colleges briefly but spent about 20 years at Goshen College (IN) and then almost as many at Mankato State. He has membership in more than a dozen professional societies from the American Physical Society to the Creation Research Society, and has been active in his church (Mennonite; Evangelical Covenant), the Gideons.and Christian Business Men's Committee International as well.

From 1951 to 1972 he gave much time to positions of leadership in ASA, as secretary-treasurer, then president, finally as our first Executive Secretary. It is characteristic of Harold that along with the news release about his lecture tour he sends another page, a straightforward account of his personal testimony as a Christian.

Financial arrangements aren't mentioned in his request for lecture invitations, but Harold and his wife Dorothy have a travel trailer they plan to live in on the road. We canit think of a better ambassador for Christ (or for ASA), so let's spread the word-and help Harold spread the Word. Address all correspondence to: 1311 Warren Street, Mankato, M4 56001. The Hartzlers' home phone is (507) 388-4461.

ASA ON SAN DIEGO TV

Jerry Albert put in a good word for the American Scientific Affiliation on San Diego Channel 10 in February. KGTV (NBC) has a monthly program called "Challenge" directed by leaders from the San Diego Ecumenical Conference. Jerry was asked to participate as an evolutionist in an unrehearsed, informal, moderated discussion of "Creation and Evolution." The show ww taped a week before being aired at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28. Someone from the Institute for Creation Research or the Creation Science Research Center who was supposed to speak for recent-creationism failed to show up on time. So the moderator asked Dr. John R. Ford, president of the State Board of Education and on hand as a resource person concerning "the textbook controversy" to substitute for the absent creationist.

Dr. Ford presented the recent-creationist case very well, according to Jerry. As a member of the Board of Education for about seven years, Ford has consistently pushed for inclusion of creationist views in textbooks. Recently the social science curriculum has been required to discuss creationism in its historical setting. Dr. Ford is a surgeon in private practice in San Diego and an assistant professor of surgery at UCSD's medical school. Jerry Albert is a research biochemist at Mercy Hospital in San Diego.

On the program, Jerry was asked how he could be an evolutionist and remain a Christian. He says that in his reply, "I noted that my metamorphosis from a special creationist to a theistic evolutionist was aided by the faithful witness of science professors in a state university who taught evolution and still were Christians, and by writings of some ASA members. They showed that acceptance of the biological theory of evolution as scientific mechanism, but not as world view or philosophy, can be reconciled with the Judeo-Christian doctrine of creation, which reveals the richness and meaning of God's purposes rather than human ideas on how and when creation took place from literal interpretations of Genesis."

DID DARWIN GOOF?

J. Richard Arndt of California State University Fresno thinks many ASA members will be int~_rested in an article in the February issue of Harper's Magazine. The article, entitled "Darwin's Mistake," asks whether the mec nism of natural selection ("survival* of the fittest") is merely a tautology: "The machinery of evolution that he supposedly discovered has been challenged, and it is beginning to look as though what he really discovered was nothing more than the Victorian propensity to believe in progress."

The author, Tom Bethell, is an editor of The Washington Monthly who says he got interested in evolution when he picked up Norman Macbeth's Darwin Retried. Bethell wondered what Macbeth, a lawyer, could have to say on the subject, but was struck by an endorsement on the book's cover by philosopher Karl Popper. Bethell had read philosophy at Oxford and was surprised to find that Macbeth's bibliography listed a few recent articles in academic philosophy journals with which he was familiar. Some of these are cited in his article in Harper's.

(Biological scientists may feel that these arguments of lawyers, journalists, and philosophers are more attended to the courtroom than the laboratory, but we can probably learn something useful from them. Biologists must not have emphasized strongly enough the negative character of natural selection or of changes in the biological environment, if philosophers think natural selection is being claimed as a creative mechanism by itself. Historically, wasn't it often evidence for a failure of certain species to survive that made people question the older tautology, "What is is what God made"? I.e., if God made dinosaurs, why didn't they survive? To a theistic evolutionist it probably seems reasonable that God used survivors to make what is, through changes in the external environment and mutations (changes in the inter

nal environment) to do it, right?--Ed.)

NAKED AND NOT ASHAMED

Wow. That's the title of a new book by Lowell L. Noble of Jackson, Michigan. Is it a lurld novel? No, the subtitle describes it an "An Anthropological, Biblical, and Psychological Study of Shame." It deals with such questions as: "How does a person preach a guilt-oriented gospel to a shame-oriented culture? Is the gospel of Jesus Christ as guilt-oriented as we Westerners tend to think it is? Are there any cultures where the idea of guilt is unknown?"

Lowell says he became interested in the concepts of guilt and shame from a comment in Eugene Nida's Customs and Cultures: Anthropology for Christian Missions (Harper, 1954). Lowell himself has both a masters degree in anthropology and a masters in religion, plus 14 years of experience teaching anthropology, sociology, and missions. In Naked and Not Ashamed (see Genesis 2:25), he analyzes the nature of shame from both a sociological and a biblical viewpoint, discusses shame's role in a dozen different cultures, gives practical suggestions for evangelism and preaching based on these considerations, and then closes with a section on living openly in fellowship as Christians in our own culture. Lowell illustrates his points with many quotations and provides an extensive bibliography.

The 142-page paperback was printed privately by Jackson Printing, and is available for $2.50 ($2.00 if ten or more are sent to the same address) from Lowell Noble, 141 W. Addison, Jackson, MI 49203. Lowell doesn't charge for postage, so he requests payment in cash, check, or money order in advance.

And don't worry. Your copy of Naked and Not Ashamed will be sent in a plain wrapper.

HOW TO RECYCLE SOMETHING No. 14

CoMost. The willingness of some organic gardening enthusiasts to embrace all kinds of pseudoscientific nonsense may have kept some of us from taking seriously the other things they've had to say over the years. That's too bad, since composting, the basic principle of organic gardening, makes a lot of sense. Composting is a way of speeding up microbial decomposition of animal and vegetable wastes to return nutrients to the soil and to improve soil condition.

Everybody seems to be "into compost" these days. Composting in the City, a booklet telling how-to on a household, neighborhood, or even municipalities, is available by mail for $1.00 from The Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 1717 18th Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009. "Agribusiness" is getting into the act, producing "revolutionary new compost tumblers" (Kemp Shredder Co., Erie, PA) and the Rotocrop "Accelerator" compost bin. The latter is a green polyvinyl chloride structure that "looks good anywhere in the garden" and sells for about $40. However, for free, the same company (Rotocrop USA Inc., 58 Buttonwood Street, New Hope, PA 18938) will send you a pamphlet entitled A Lot of Rot on Gardens that tells you all you need to know about small-scale composting. And you won't need a $40 plastic bin.

We scrounged three old wooden pallets from dumpsters at industrial plants and crudely nailed them together to make our first compost bin. Now we've added two more pallets to make an E-shaped structure (seen from above), another to wire in front to make a four-sided box of half of that E, and an old piece of plywood for a roof.

We keep milk cartons on a kitchen counter to collect all our nonburnable wastes (burnables go into the compost later as fireplace ashes). Several times a week, sometimes once a day, we take this organic matter out and dump it on the pile, covering it with a shovel or two of dirt dug from the garden and piled by the bin. Grass cuttings go in, too, and raked-up leaves, but no layer should be more than an inch or so thick. Branches pruned from shrubs and trees are piled up until the leaves fall off, since we don't have a shredder. The leaves go in directly, the branches as ashes after they've warmed our living room. Fecal matter from our indoor cat boxes and eventually the urine-soaked kitty-litter itself provide nitrogen. If we had 'em, we'd add manure, sawdust, sand--all kinds of good stuff between layers of dirt.

Everything goes in fairly moist, or else we wet down the pile a little. Covering the pile helps keep the sun from drying it out too much or a rain from soaking it. In a pallet-sized bin, the outside layer acts as an insulator to hold in heat from the digestive process, which kills weed seeds and roots. The open structure of pallets lets air get in to encourage the ight kinds of organisms (aerobes). If some compost falls through the cracks we scoop it back in or let it make its cofitribution right there. When one bin is full, we remove the front pallet and shift it to the other bin. Compost that's "made" goes on the garden. If the outside still isn't fully decomposed, we use it a shovel full at a time as dirt for the pile we've now started in the other bin. Scientific composters know lots of tricks to speed things up, put in more time and effort turning the pile, etc. But we're not in that big a hurry.

A year of composting has begun to improve the miserable clay soil of our vegetable garden, and has so cut down what goes into our garbage can that we could almost stop paying for garbage service. It also has given us a sense of day-by-day stewardship of the tiny part of the earth we actually have dominion over--which seems to keep us alert to other possibilities for stewardship.

"The man who is faithful in the little things will be faithful in the big things, and the man who cheats in the little things will cheat in the big things too. So that if you are not fit to be trusted with the wicked wealth of this world, who will trust you with the true riches? And if you are not trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you property of your own? No servant can serve two masters. He is bound to hate one and love the other, or give his loyalty to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and the power of money at the same time" (Luke 16:10-13, J. B. Phillips).

PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS

Stephen M. Butt (414 Campus Heights, Flagstaff, AR 86001) is completing an M.S. degree in biology this summer. His research experience has been in the area of insect ecology. Steve is interested in a research, technical assistance, or teaching position.

Lynn Mabelle Parson (121-Matoaka Court, Williamsburg, VA 23185) seeks a position in animal behavior research after completing the M.A. in biology in June 1976. Lynn's research at the College of William and Mary has included a field study of the homing ability of the white-footed mouse and laboratory studies under C. Richard Terman, who suggested that Lynn seek employment through ASA News. Lynn's B.A. is from the U. of Maine. In addition to a year's experience as a teaching assistant in introductory biology, Lynn has been a water safety and swimming instructor, and has held a number of offices in IVCF.

Fred H. Walters (Room 201, Cody Hall, Univ. of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) would like to teach chemistry in a small Christian university. Fred has a PhD in analytical chemistry and is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the U. of Windsor.

POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE

Houghton College in New York has a biology position open for fall 1976. They would like a Christian with.a doctorate, emphasis in microbiology, additional teaching in other areas, and experience with electron microscopy. Letter and supporting vita should go to: Dr. Donald W. Munro, Head, Biology Dept., Houghton College, Houghton, N.Y. 14744. 

Calvin College in Michigan has an opening for a faculty member in the field of geology. Submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, transcripts of graduate training, and names and addresses of several references to: Dr. Clarence Menninga, Professor of Geology, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49506. (Received 24 Feb. 1976.)

Whitworth College in Washington has an opening for a candidate with a doctorate, with demonstrated strength in biochemistry and physiology, and preferably with expertise in histology and other advanced biological courses. "Candidates should have a willingness to become involved in student advising and departmental administration, and must be in accord with the high moral ethical stance of the College." Ed Olson of Whitworth's Earth Sciences Dept. says you should contact: Dr. Robert D. Bocksh, Chairman, Health Sciences Dept., Whitworth College, Spokane, 14A 99251. (Received 3 March 1976.)

Roberts Wesleyan College in New York needs a theoretical or experimental psychologist for fall 1976, with a PhD or a B.D. Contact: Dr. Walter Kaufmann, Academic Dean, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, N. Y. 14624. (Received 4 March 1976. Walter says he received half a dozen good inquiries from the announcement of another position in ASA News last year, by the way. A satisfied customer!)

Midland Christian School in Michigan has a junior high position open for the coming school year for someone with a Michigan Secondary Certificate qualified to teach in any two of the following areas: math, science, language arts, or physical ed. Also several openings in the lower grades. The school has been going since 1960 but now has a beautiful new building for 175 students and a present enrollment of 140. Contact: Mr. Barry D. Ter Beek, Principal, Midland Christian School, 4417 W. Wackerly Rd., Midland, MI 48640. (Received 13 March 1976.)

Warner Southern College in Florida seeks a committed Christian to teach in the areas of biology and mathematics. Deryl Johnson of the Bible Dept. says to contact: Dr. Leslie Ratzlaff, Dean, Warner Southern College, Route 3, Lake Wales, FL 33853. (Received 13 March 1976.)

"Clinic psychologist is needed for a Christian counseling center in a medium-sized midwestern city. Excellent opportunity to guide development of recently established ongoing ministry. Experienced clinician or recent graduate acceptable. Contact: Paul D. Carter, M.D., 2404 Manchester Drive, Toledo, OH 43606. Phone (419) 536-4700." (Received 30 March 1976.)

There are many encouraging signs among local sections in the ASA. In the last 9 months there has been more activity than anytime in our history and much variety of expression. Activities have ranged from multi-media presentations to traditional speaker oriented meetings. Four sections that were inactive have reorganized and started to function effectively. At the same time one new section has been recognized (Delaware Valley - see below).

My recent trip east demonstrated this revival of interest. I was present at the birth of the Delaware Valley section in February and was amazed at the extensive interest (24 at meeting to organize and another 20 wrote to say they were interested). From there I went to the New England section meeting in Boston and strong interest was expressed by several to reorganize the section to continue regular meeting. It was a special pleasure for me to meet Irving Cowperthwaite at the Boston meeting, one of the three living founders of the ASA. I have now had the privilege of meeting personally all three of these founders (Alton Everest and Peter Stoner are the other two) who are all actively interested in an supporting the affiliation.

After Boston and attendance at the AAAS meetings I visited wtih officers in the New York City section. This is our strongest and most mature section and they have a great wealth of leadership. They routinely have 150 at their section meetings and engage in several other activities as well. It was a time of mutual encouragement to rieet with them.

Finally I met with members in the Washington, D.C. area to see about reactivating that section. Eighteen came to the organizational meeting and another 25 wrote that they were interested. After some lively and positive discussion it was agreed to reorganize and a steering committee was appointed. They will have their first open meeting since 10 years ago later this month.

These activities indicate the value of having a full-time person around to keep things stirred up. It has been a real pleasure for me to serve you in this role. I have especially enjoyed the opportunity of meeting so many of you and I appreciate the kind hospitality I have enjoyed in the homes of members all over the United States and Canada.




NEW ENGLAND

Russell Camp of the Gordon College biology faculty sent us an account of the Feb. 23 meeting of the section at Grace Chapel, Lexington, Massachusetts. A miniature symposium devoted to "The Psychology of B. F. Skinner in Critical Perspective" featured a panel of speakers from four different institutions: Allen Andrews from North Shore Community College; Galen Johnson from Boston University; Raymond Pendleton from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; and Bert Hodges from Gordon College.

"A lively exchange occurred between the 40-member audience and the panel member after the excellent formal remarks of each person on the panel. Refreshments and good conversation followed the symposium. And by the way, Bill Sisterson from the Elgin office was on hand to beat the ASA drums."

DELAWARE VALLEY

Frank Roberts of Delaware County Christian School reports on activities of the section, including the evening meeting held Thursday, Feb. 19, on his campus in Newton Square,

Pennsylvania. That was the organization meeting chaired by Bill Sisterson (who must have galloped in on ASA's new Pinto on his way to the Boston AAAS meeting). The 24 persons present represented six educational institutions and four commerical firms, and included eight students from three schools. After vigorous discussion of Bill's presentation, the group voted unanimously to form a local section. A petition to the national ASA Executive Council was signed by a dozen members.

Benjamin Hatch, Thomas Opie, and Frank Roberts were appointed to serve as a steering committee to formulate a set of by-laws, nominate a slate of members to serve on a local council, and arrange the first public meeting. They accomplished all these things at a meeting on March 2.

So, on Saturday, April 10, the first public meeting of the section will be held, featuring Robert C. Newman of the Biblical School of Theology, Hatfield (PA), speaking on "The Location of Heaven--Some Proposals in the Light of 20th Century Cosmology." Bob has a PhD in astrophysics from Cornell as well as a degree in theology. The meeting, held at Eastern College in St. Davids (PA), will begin with registration ($1.50) and coffee at 1:30 p.m. At a business meeting before Bob Newman's 3 p.m. lecture, the by-laws will be voted on and the local council elected. The meeting will adjourn at 5 p.m. after discussion.

SAN DIEGO

According to advance word from Jerry Albert, the section is planning another program with CMS and CLS on medical ethics. A panel of speakers from the three groups will present 10-minute papers on Christian faith as a source of guidelines in various problem areas: abortion, euthanasia, informed consent, distribution of health care services, genetic counseling, and fetal research. The meeting will be held at the Aztec Center of San Diego State University on May 8. The Southern California (L.A.) will also be invited.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

Of the 50 persons attending the IVCF Faculty Conference near Santa Rosa in February, probably ten were members of ASA, including speakers Charles Hummel and Walt Hearn. A whole stack of ASA brochures was picked up and at least one person has since become a member as a result of the conference, Gordon Chan of the Biology Dept. at College of Marin in Kentfield.

The official section meeting on Saturday, March 20, featured ASA Executive Council member and Stanford visiting professor of chemistry, Dewey Carpenter, speaking on "Miracles and Modern Physical Understanding." According to secretary-treasurer " Bob Anderson, the section is trying a new policy of having Saturday morning meetings followed by an optional restaurant lunch. However, the first time out they hit a small snag. At that hour of the morning during exam week, nobody was around with a key to open the room reserved in Tresidder Union on the Stanford campus. Oh, well. Since it was exam week, there were few students around anyway, so the 24 ASA members and friends held a sit-in in the center of the second floor lobby for Dewey's talk. According to Dick Bube, the spaciousness of the environment had no attenuating effect on the warmth of the discussion or the closeness of the fellowship.

CHICAGO

There were 75 persons on hand to hear Henry Morris talk about the Plinimum Biblical requirements with regard to the creation-evolution issue. He outlined four positions that Christians hold on the subject and indicated his own involvement in each. Even though he is now settled into the "recent creationist" position, he sees the other positions as responsible Christian positions. His talk was followed by a long, but friendly discussion moderated by Jim Buswell. It was gratifying to see once again demonstrated the unity of basic Christian beliefs we hold to in the ASA despite the wide spectrum of convictions on matters of individual interpretation.
Miriam Adeney, teaching part-time at Seattle Pacific College while working on her PhD in anthropology, had an article on Christian communes in the December issue of Eternity. With anthropologist Paul Hiebert and a Seattle physician, Miriam spoke at a February conference on "Anthropology in Relation to Medical Missions." The conference was organized by missionary nurses in the transcultural nursing program at the U. of Washington, spearheaded by Miriam Ross and Margaret Mitchell.

David W. Bennett is on the pastoral staff of Mariners Church in Newport Beach, CA. Dave received his Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Seminary in 1974. He has oversight of missions in his church and trains leaders of small groups. This fall he will take a team of laymen from the church to teach biblical principles of ministry in Japan and India.

Allan W. Bjerkas is a senior physicist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Recently Allan was ordained and installed as an elder in the Covenant Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Burtonsville, Maryland.

Geoffrey B. Churchill has moved from Springfield to Longmeadow, Massachusetts. He is an engineer at Monsanto's Springfield Research Center, where he participates in a weekly lunch-hour Bible study that began in February. Two other engineers, a technician, and a secretary regularly attend. Geoff says they thank God for both the fellowship and the encouragement in ministry to their coworkers who don't know Jesus Christ.

Gary R. Collins teaches psychology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He recently gave Staley lectures at Rockmont College in Denver and at Trinity Western College in Vancouver, B. C.

John Cramer is now teaching physics at The King's College in Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., replacing William W. Watts in that position. Bill has become college registrar.

John Fish, of the Materials Characterization Laboratory of Texas Instruments, Inc., has begun serving as chairman-elect of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Section of the American Chemical Society. John also teaches a graduate course in polymer science at the U. of Texas at Dallas.

Melbourne E. Holsteen is on sabbatical leave from teaching anthropology at the U. of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Mel is spending the year studying at the U. of Florida in Gainesville.

Deryl F. Johnson became associate professor of biblical literature at Warner Southern College in Lake Wales, Florida, in September 1975.

David R. Kaar is a graduate student working on oxide catalysts at the U. of Illinois, Urbana, supported by an NSF Energy Traineeship. Dave's interest in politics goes beyond the campus, where he serves as general chair of the U. of I. Graduate Student Association. He's a delegate (pledged to Jimmy Carter) to the July Democratic National Convention). On the way home from his 1975 summer research job at the U. of California's Lawrence Livermore Lab, the Kaar-car pulled a boo-boo, blowing its radiator in the Mojave Desert. Sun-fun, says Dave.

.Joseph C. J. Kim is employed at the Hydrograph Laboratory of the Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland, where he does mathematical modeling for watershed hydrography. Before last fall, Joe was teaching at Missouri Baptist College.

John Kroll is now an instructor in applied mathematics at M.I.T. John lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

James F. Kurfees teaches pathophysiology at the U. of Louisville School of Medicine, Eo-uisJille, Kentucky, trains residents in the Dept. of Family Medicine, and does research on serum osmolality. At Louisville Bible College, Jim teaches New Testament, pastoral counseling, and Christian ethics while working on an M.Th. degree. Active in the Christian Medical Society, he also preaches at a local Christian church.


Daniel T. Law completed his PhD in zoology (parasitology) at Oregon State in September 1-975. 'He is collection development librarian for science and technology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Dan is also advisor to the Chinese Christian Fellowship at the U. of Houston, a group whose regular attendance has jumped from 25 to 80 in the past year. More than 40 overseas Chinese students have accepted Christ. Dan says, "God's grace and love have been poured out as the students committed themselves to prayer and personal evangelism." Dan's translation into Chinese of Alan Stibb's Understanding God's Word was published by the Christian Chinese Translation Center early in 1975.

Lane P. Lester of Orlando, Florida, says he's been learning some of the same economic 1-esso'ns as the ASA News editor about starting a new venture. While Lane was a research biologist at theInstitute for Creation Research, he "encountered the biblical counseling methodology developed by Jay Adams." A chain of events led him to return to his home town of Orlando to open a personal and family counseling practice.

Although the Lesters' savings have dwindled since he left the payroll and each bill has been "a new test of faith," Lane feels he has been privileged "to have God use me to bring His answers to people's problems."

Paul McKowen is on the pastoral staff of First Presbyterian Church of Richmond, California. Paul sent us a copy of the sermon he preached at Thanksgiving, his testimony of God's grace in helping him recover from a painful disc injury last year. He referred to the three models of man he heard of in Walt Hearn's paper at the 1975 ASA Annual Meeting in San Diego: "The doctors treated me like a machine, whose parts obey the laws of physics and life sciences. The nurses and other personnel treated me like dn animal, bathing me, feeding me, and giving me pills. Church visitors treated my spiritual self, coming to shake my hand, look into my eyes, pray for me, and boost my spirits." Paul has had to give up volleyball and basketball, but has become an accomplished swimmer (a mile in 33 minutes), and may not need an operation after all.

David J..Neweceral lives in Hampton, Virginia, and has recently been promoted in the management of the Naval Engineering Center of the U.S. Dept. of the Navy. Dave has had special training in management in various cities and is active in naval engineering audits and surveys.

Curtis Nissly is finishing a PhD in agronomy at the U. of Illinois, Urbana, to prepare for service in research, education, and development somewhere in the developing world. Curtis asks our prayers that he find the voluntary or government agency of the Lord's choosing in which to serve.

John Orchanian, trained in chemistry, serves St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tremont in the Bronx, N. Y., as deacon. He sent us a page of the church newspaper featuring a Christological poem of John's, "The Itan." From meager evidence we deduce that John's church (a) has been in existence for a good many years (from "Vol. LXXII, No. 14" on the masthead); and (b) has Spanish-speaking communicants (from "La Iglesia Luterana de San Pablo"). A few lines from "The Ilan":

They claimed he came from heaven above

To teach mankind to care and love;

He taught the oppressed how to be free

And the dignitaries accused him of treachery...


Dean C. Ortner just completed a one-month tour with the military through central and southern U.S. for "Sermons from Science." Upcoming engagements for Dean include two months with the military in the Pacific, a possible series in Alaska, the Montreal Olympics, and several military and civilian meetings in the upper midwest, including a series in Mankato, Minnesota, September 27-30, arranged by Harold Hartzler.

L. Rebecca Propst is excited about her first job: assistant professor of clinical psic-hology at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. In her developing research program on the role of religious behavior (particularly Christian faith) in mental health, Rebecca has been encouraged by having an evangelical graduate student in the PhD program. She's also found enough evangelical undergrad psych majors to form a "Christian research team," complete with weekly seminar discussing the relationship between "Chi & Psi." Rebecca will offer a summer course for graduate and undergraduate credit on relationships between theological and psychological concepts.

Ronald S. Remmel moved last summer from Johns Hopkins to the Physiology Dept. of the U. of Arkansas School of Medicine in Little Rock. Ron teaches neurophysiology and is very busy investigating neurons which make the eyes of a cat move.

Joe C. Roberts of Pocomoke City, Maryland, has rapidly expanded his family without expanding the world's population. In November 1975, he and Mary went to New York City to pick up twin eight-month-old Korea girls whom they are adopting through the Holt Agency. In February 1976, Joe became a member of the technical staff of Computer Sciences Corporation. His first assignment is to design and implement a generalized data-base management system for the Nova Eclipse minicomputer.

R. Waldo Roth is currently director of computer services at Navajo Community College in Tsaile, Arizona. In March Wally taught a course in BASIC to 50 minority college faculty at a meeting in Atlanta (GA) devoted to Educational Computing in Minority Institutions. In May he will discuss his Tasaile experience at the International Association of Educational Data Systems meeting in Phoenix.

Gary B. Saylor has finished his work for an M.S. in biology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and expects to be awarded the degree in June. He and his wife, a nurse, are presently at Wheaton College (IL) taking Bible and education courses in preparation for missionary service. They'll be looking for an overseas opening for the two of them beginning June 1977.

Alvin J. Schmidt became associate professor and dean of graduate studies at Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois, in September 1975. Al was formerly at Lenoir Rhyne College (Hickory, NC).

William F. Seip is a Baltimore microbiological chemist who has been a member of ASA for years and usually reticent about his activities. We found out, though, that Bill will give a paper on redox potentials in culture media at the American Society for Microbiology in May. Bill's publications have been on such varied subjects as blood coagulation, crystal structure, agar extracted from red algae, hepatitis detection, organ transplantation, geothermal springs, and pigeon nests (!).

David S. Shaw is in the Pathology Dept. of Billings Hospital of the U. of Chicago medical school. With Prof. Godfrey S. Getz, he recently carried out isolation and quantitation of phospholipids from rat heart ventricles, part of a study on cardiac hypertrophy induced by aortic ligation. David was married on Dec. 20, 1975, no doubt after some hypertrophy (or some kind of trophy) of the heart.

Fred R. Skaggs of Mechanicsville, Virginia, was recently re-elected secretary of the Academy of Parish Clergy. He was pleased to be listed in the Dictionary of International Biography, but even more pleased that his daughter Debra Jane was just elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the U. of Richmond.

John H. Stoll is not teaching this year, but living in Westboro, Wisconsin, and writing two books. One is on the psychology of living as seen in the book of Philippians. John, who is listed in Who's Who in Religion and Who's Who in the Midwest, is interested in a teaching position in theology or philosophy of religion, or in an academic deanship--or will be, when he finishes those books.

Richard C. Taylor had an eventful fall and winter. In August 1975 he married Linda Blanchard in Pittsburgh and moved to Philadelphia, where he is now teaching science at the middle school level for the Philadelphia Association of Christian Schools. Yick is very excited about the work the Lord is doing through the Association in the much neglected and needy inner city. A total of 330 children in grades K-9 are being taught of Christ's lordship in all areas of life. (Dick would welcome correspondence with others in similar work. Address: Apt. 7, 5119 North 6th St., Philadelphia, PA 19120.)

Kenell J. Touryan of Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted Dick Bube at breakfast on March 12 for a kind of ASA mini-symposium. Dick had lectured the day before at the U. of New Mexico on energy-related materials-limited problems.

Robert W. Trimmer of Elkhart, Indiana, had two papers published with J. P. Ferris in the same issue of J. Org. Cheri 41 (1976): "Mechanistic Studies on the Photochemical Reactions of Tsoxazoles"
G..U), and "Photochemical Conversion of Enaminonitriles to Imidazoles. Scope and Mechanism" (p. 19).

Daniel R. Tucker is assistant professor of geology at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana. After receiving his PhD from Miami University, Oxford (OH), Dan has been frantically preparing for classes while learning the unfrantic southern style of doing things.

Alvin H. Vanderpol is in the Statistics Dept. of Princeton University. He received a one-year Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Environmental Affairs to explore techniques for large data bases from air pollution and health research. Al recently spent three weeks as visiting scientist at the International Meteorological Institute and the Dept. of Meteorology of the U. of Stockholm, Sweden, and three days at the National Institute for Air Research in Kieller, Norway.

Leslie J. Wiemerslage is teaching human anatomy and physiology at Belleville Area College, Belleville, Illinois. Leslie had a paper entitled "Lipid Droplet Formation During Vitellogenesis in the Cecropia Moth" in J. Insect Phvsiol. 22, 41 (1976).

Lawrence C. Wit received his PhD from the U. of Missouri in December 1975 and is presently assistant professor in the Dept. of Zoology & Entomology at the Auburn University branch in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Books

From time to time we have added books to our book service for members. In an effort to make this service more effective, one of the executive council members (Dewey K. Carpenter has been appointed to oversee

the service. Dewey is responsible to receive prospective books and see that they are reviewed for possible addition to the service. We are working directly with the publishers to obtain pre-publication information on strategic books on science and Christianity. The discount will be 10% but there will be no charge for postage and handling when payment is made with the order. We have a new book to announce now:

Theology, Physics, and Miracles, by Werner Schaaffs, translated by R. L. Renfield, Canon Press, Washington, D. C., 1974. 100 pages (List price - $2.95; ASA Member price - $2.65). The author, a German physicist, is convinced that most of the conflicts between Christianity and science are related to misunderstanding. In particular, he chides such theologians as Bultmann who needlessly accommodate theology to an outmoded science of the past century. Schaaffs argues that a knowledge of modern science (by which he means primarily physics) is of positive value not only in appreciating the details of God's working in natural processes, but also in understanding (some readers might say rationalizing) the miracle stories of the Bible. There is valuable material in the book on both modern physics and on miracles. At times Schaaffs seems far-fetched in his interpretation of particular miracles, but this does not detract too much from the force of his forthright insistence that the modern scientist who is a Christian should not live a divided intellectual life. The book is short and readable, despite some awkward expressions which probably are related to the translation from German.

To order this book send your check for $2.65 to the Elgin office (ASA, 5 Douglas Avenue, Elgin, IL 60120). Make check payable to the ASA and ask for the book by title. Books will be sent by return mail since we maintain an inventory. If demand is high there may be a delay while we reorder a new supply.