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of the AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION VOLUME 18, NUMBER 4 AUGUST 1976

PROGRAM NOTES All members of ASA and CSCA should have preliminary programs for the 1976 ASA ANNUAL MEETING at WHEATON COLLEGE. Note that except for the three keynote addresses by Donald MacKay (Fri evening, Sat & Mon mornings), all papers will be given in concurrent sessions. Executive secretary Bill Sisterson says this is the largest number of papers he can remember at an annual meeting. One way or another they all fit into the theme of the meeting to be addressed by Dr. MacKay: "BASIC INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY." Besides all the goodies on the regular program, the anthropologists have planned afternoon and evening sessions for Monday, August 23. Alan R. Tippett will chair those sessions. They will discuss a proposal for a society of Christian anthropologists, but they'll also hear formal papers by Claude Stipe, Bill Merrifield,, Jim Buswell, and Alan Tippett. (A second meeting of Christian anthropologists is being organized by Charles Taber for December 30 at the IVCF Urbana Missionary Convention.) Saturday evening, ASA president Claude Stipe's banquet address on "The ASA and Controversial Issues" ought to be a rouser. Sunday morning, there will be special ASA programs in local churches. Monday night, we'll all be exhausted! But we'll be full of ideas, questions, answers, thanksgiving for association with such great brothers and sisters--and new dedication to Jesus Christ and to our calling in the scientific enterprise. A MATHEMATICAL SUB-SET? A small group of Christian mathematicians will be getting together at the ASA Annual Meeting to plan a conference on "The Foundations of Mathematics" to be held at Wheaton College next April 28-30. At the April conference there will be sessions focusing on philosophy in general, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mathematics; on the nature of truth, question of existence, and the infinite; and on teaching mathematics in the Christian college and on the secular campus. Anyone who would like to attend the conference, propose speakers, or be on the mailing list should write to: Dr. Robert L. Brabenec, Chairman, Dept. of Mathematics, Wheaton College, Wheaton, 1176-0187.

MATERIALS AVAILABLE FROM TWO EARLIER CONFERENCES Proceedings of the January 1976 conference on "Research in Mental Health and Religious Behavior" are available in two different forms, a Conference Book and cassette tapes. The 31 papers deal with psychotherapy and counseling, integration models, pastoral psychology, human medicine, psychological assessment, philosphy of science, social work, and religious behavior. The American Scientific Affiliation was one of a number of evangelical organizations co-sponsoring the conference. Detailed information about titles and cost are available from Research in Mental Health and Religious Behavior, Religious Consultation & Research Society, Inc., P.O. Box 54271, Atlanta, GA 30308. Cassette tapes of the 64 papers given at the June 1976 meeting of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies and the Western Association of Christians for Psychological Studies are also now available. For a list of titles and prices of CAPS/WACPS tapes, write to Magnetic Communications Systems, Inc., 111 W. Dyer Rd. Suite F, Santa Ana, CA 92707. AN INVITATION TO HARVEY MUDD The Christian fellowship at Harvey Mudd College would like to invite any ASA member who will be in the Southern California area during the school year to address our fellowship meeting. The group is seeking active scientists and engineers who have a message of interest to college students. Harvey Mudd College is a small science and engineering school located in Claremont, a 40-minute drive from downtown Los Angeles. The fellowship has about 35 active members and is still growing. We would appreciate your joining us some evening. Contact Miguel Capote. Harvey Mudd College, Clar nt, CA 91711." If you're a possible speaker, you could also talk to Miguel at the 1976 ASA ANNUAL MEETING at WHEATON COLLEGE, AUGUST 20-23. Miguel will be able to attend because he's doing reseaich at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois this summer. ON SCIENCE-TEXTBOOK CONTROVERSIES Did you see the article in the April issue of Scientific American on "The Science Textbook Controversies"? Dorothy Nelkin, professor at Cornell University and a widely respected writer on science and public policy issues, discusses both the California creation/evolution controversy and the more recent flap over the MSF sponsored social science curriculum, Man: A Course of Study (MACOS). She says the public protests only partly reflect (disillusionment with science or worry that science threatens traditional religious and moral values. People also resent the authority represented by scientific dogmatism, particularly when expressed in the increased professionalism of the-School science curriculum. Finallythe protests reflect fears "that the structured, meritocratic processes operating within science threaten more egalitarian, pluralistic values," The ASA isn't mentioned in Nelkin's article, but we did have some input into her thinking. The Newsletter editor met her when we were both covering a symposium on such controversies at the 1974 AAAS meeting in San Francisco. She was glad to-learn about our Affiliation and the role of,some of our members in the California controversy. She was impressed by the quality of Journal ASA and asked many questions about ASA and about recent-creationist organizations such as the Creation Research Society, the Bible-Science Association, Institute for Creation Research, etc. Nelkin has a chapter on "Science or Scripture: the Politics of Equal Time" in Science and Its Public: The Changing Relationships, edited by Gerald Holton and William Blanpied (D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1976). HOW TO START SOMETHING No. 27. MIRIAM ROSS Since 1961, H. Miriam Ross has been a missionary nurse, midwife, and educator in the Republic of Zaire in Africa, serving under the Canadian Baptist Overseas Mission Board. In January 1975 she began a study leave from CBOMB, enrolling as a graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle. Miriam has an A.B. from Gordon College and an M.S. from the Boston University School of Nursing. In February 1976, Miriam organized a "Workshop on Anthropology in Relation to Medical Missions." Her account of how she went about it is full of enthusiasm and practical details. We hope it will inspire others to "start something" that needs doing. The idea for the workshop came when a missionary colleague told Miriam she wished she had a chance to learn some of the things about transcultural nursing and anthropology that Miriam was getting in her university courses. When Miriam realized her friend would be on deputation in Western Canada this spring, she thought maybe some kind of short study leave could be arranged for her friend to come to Seattle. "I asked ' Margaret Mitchell. another ASA member, 'Why don't we plan a workshop on medical Missions? There's an anthropology prof who might help. Maybe Miriam Adeney would give a paper. We could plan some discussions.' Margaret warmed to the topic and her enthusiasm was contagious. We phoned our friends Ginny Green and Lura Gregg and the four of us became the 'Local Initiative Committee.' "None of us had tackled this kind of project before but we'd tackled a few other things, Ginny had lived in an Israeli kibbutz and worked in a British hospice for the dying, then joined Lura at a small rural mission hospital in Sudan. Margaret had taught nurses' aides in Ethiopia and university students in Iran. I had helped in refugee relief work and taught nursing in Zaire." The committee chose a spokeswoman and contacted the anthropology professor, Dr. Paul Hiebert, who expressed interest and furnished a list of a dozen possible topics. The workshop was now "on" but there were many details to work out. In order to appeal to students as well as medical people interested in overseas work, they decided not to set the date near the end of the quarter or take up a whole weekend. An evening session would have meant having to plan a meal, so they settled on Saturday morning and afternoon sessions with a brown-bag lunch in between. It took four meetings of the Local Initiative Committee, plenty of prayer, and some legwork to get everything ready. "When we began to ask about accommodation and try to get the workshop announced at meetings, etc., we found we had to 'sell ourselves.' Even in'this day of individual enterprise and assertiveness, some people were reluctant to believe that four women had felt a need and decided to do something about it without any push from or reliance upon an organization or institution." The committee learned a few things about business procedures along the way. A price quoted by a shop for mimeographingi,300 flyers sounded reasonable, but after the work was done, they discovered extra charges for using colored paper, for printing on both sides, for running the machine. But some things went very well. A church near the university let then use a large room for the workshop, then waived any charges on learning there would be no registration fee. A container for donations placed by the coffee urn raised about half the expenses and committee members contributed the remainder. Expenses were kept-low and the work was spread around. "We found that the skills and interests of our committee members dovetailed beautifully. We worked together on the format of the flyer. One of the group volunteered to type the stencil and get it mimeographed. Ginny and Lura, who live in Seattle, made a list of churches, colleges, Bible schools, and organizations to receive the flyer. We each added names of friends and acquaintances who might be interested. Someone contacted the local CMS and a group of Christian dental students. Some churches even printed our announcement in their bulletin. "One committee member volunteered to arrange for the church building and to prepare tea and coffee. Another was conscripted into serving as emcee for the day. Another was keen to act as registrar, provide name tags, and make some posters. One of the group of four had access to a good tape recorder and knew how to run it. Someone offered to take charge of book displays. One person compiled a three-page bibliography of books and articles suggested by the group and mimeographed it for distribution at the workshop. "The bibliography was very popular, as was literature from Inter-Cristo, a Seattle based organization designed to link Christians with agencies that have personnel needs. Several hundred books for sale were provided by The Alternative, a nearby Christian bookstore managed by Miriam Adeney's husband Michael. Another table marked 'Browsing Only' displayed personal copies of books and journals loaned for the day by speakers and committee members." The program began at 9:30 a.m. with Professor Hiebert's lecture on "Role Analysis of Medical Missionaries." Nationals may see a missionary in the negative role of colonialist, landlord, policeman, etc. National Christians may cast the missionary in a negative role (such as empire builder) or a positive role (brother or sister in Christ). Dr. Hiebert had himself been a missionary in India. His presentation prompted many questions in the discussion period and copies of his six-page outline were snapped up immediately. In her 11 a.m. talk on "What Questions is Folk Medicine Answering?" Miriam Adeney called for a theology of suffering. In the West we ask how a person became ill and seek explanations in the germ theory. In the non-West people usually ask why a person got sick and look for the cause in their human relationships. She asked if we in the West provide healing in the context of community support and of economic possibilities. Have we become unable to acknowledge the natural powers of Divine healing? Do missionaries propose diagnosis and therapy that take the local world view into account? Miriam, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, was formerly a journalist and seminary instructor in the Philippines. After lunch Dr. Lindsay McClenny, a Seattle physician who had served as a missionary in Alaska, Sudan, Aden, and Ethiopia, presented "Illustrations from Medical Practice." He graphically described the daily dilemmas facing medical personnel in situations where languages and customs are different from their own, where supplies and staff are in short supply, and where sweeping political changes are taking place. Jesus Christ is the source of grace and hope in such circumstances. The workshop ended with a panel during which the speakers answered questions submitted by the audience, after a period for special interest group discussions. Four topics for small-group discussion had been announced on the flyer, but with only about 20 people on hand at that time of the afternoon, the topics were combined and two groups were formed. Early in the day, persons who had worked overseas were given opportunity to introduce themselves and mention their backgrounds, so at lunch and at breaks between sessions there was much sharing of experiences. On an evaluative questionnaire, many participants indicated they would like to explore certain topics further, so an important outgrowth of the workshop has been a continuing weekly noon seminar led by Dr. Hiebert. Eight to ten people, about half from the workshop, have attended these sessions dealing with culture shock, ethnocentrism, and biculturalism. What happened to the Local Initiative Committee? "It disbanded shortly afterward. Lura moved to another city. Margaret went back to Iran to do research for her master's thesis. Ginny and I are still here pursuing courses in transcultural nursing and anthropology." And did Miriam's missionary colleague get to attend the workshop? "No. The timing wasnit right for her. She was busy in deputation the day of the workshop. But when she came to Seattle a month later, we gave her the tape recording of the workshop to listen to, provided her with the bibliography and a huge stack of books to read, and took her to the noonday seminar." We don't know if copies of that bibliography are still available, but if you're interested you could write to H. Miriam Ross, 5257 18th Ave. N.E., Seattle, WA 98105. That's where we're sending her a dozen copies of the "Scientist's Psalm" greeting cards, to thank her for her contribution to HOW TO START SOMETHING. Who'd like to be next? WE CAN'T READ 'EM ALL... ...but we can rejoice that there is so much solid Christian journalism these days. Someone just gave us a 1970 copy of a journal we'd never seen before, the International Reformed Bulletin, containing articles by Hendrik Hart and Bernard Zylstra. The Bullet in has now been published for 19 years by the International Associaton for Reformed Faith and Action, discussing "the Christian world and life view" from international perspectives. Bernie Zylstra is on the editorial committee. They might send you a sample copy, too, if you asked for one. Subscription is $4 (4 issues): IRB, 1677 Gentian Drive, S.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49508. That reminds me of two other "little magazines" by evangelical Christians that pack a contemporary wallop. Do you know of Inside and The Other Side? Inside, in its 7th year, is published by the Evangelical Committee for Urban Ministries in Boston, edited by Roger Dewey. The current bicentennial issue has some powerful 19th century sermons by great Christian patriots like Charles Finney. Annual subscription, $4 (5 issues): ECUMB, P. 0. Box 658, Boston, MA 02119. The Other Side is edited by John F. Alexander, aided by a heavy-duty roster of evangelical thinkers and doers (including anthropologist Charles Taber). Born out of the specific issue of racism, it now discusses "the cost of grace" in every area of Christian discipleship. Current issue deals with the inspiration, authority, and meaning of Scripture. Subscription, $6 (9 issues): TOS, Box 158, Savannah, OH 44874. Two Christian underground newspapers have survived, matured, and recently changed their names. Post-American moved from Chicago to Washington, D. C., and metamorphosed into Sojourners. Its editor is Jim Wallis, author of Agenda for Biblical People (Harper & Row, 1976, paper, $3.95). Sojourners places increasing emphasis on renewing the church. Subscription, $5 (10 issues): Sojourners, 1029 Vermont Ave., Washington, D.C. 20005. Berkeley's Right On has changed its name to Radix (pronounced RAY-dix, meaning "root") with the current issue, signifying its rootedness in Jesus Christ as it tries to reach out into all area of human concern. It is sensitively edited by Sharon Gallagher, with a little help from her friends (such as Ginny Hearn as copy editor and Walt Hearn as "poetry rejection editor"). Radix tries to show Christians how Christ can make a difference in their thinking and living, and show non-Christians how they can become his disciples. Subscription, $5 (12 issues, some combined): Radix, P.O. Box 4307, Berkeley, CA 94704. Finally, a new little magazine devoted to one of the most important areas of discussion in contemporary Christianity is Daughters of Sarah. Each issue is put together by a group of women associated with the Evangelical Women's Caucus, sharing with readers their Christian feminist concerns. Subscription, $2 (6 issues): Daughters of Sarah, 5104 North Christiana, Chicago, IL 60625. Each of these journals is worth reading. And even if we don't have time to read them all, they're worth supporting. They carry little or no advertising, operate on shoestring budgets, pay their talented editors subsistence wages or less, and depend on faithful volunteers--just like our own Journal ASA. They also bear witness to the wholeness of Christians when we love God with all our minds as well as hearts and souls. HOW TO RECYCLE SOMETHING No. 15 Compost. We've had several communications from readers, thanking us for making No. 14 so simple that they're finally willing to start composting. Two ASA members from out of town even dropped in at the Troll House in Berkeley to see our famous compost pile. Actually, the way we're doing it this year is even simpler, although it keeps us from planting a garden. We turned our backyard garden plot into one big compost pile. Because it had too much slope and hard-packed clay soil, we built a retaining wall from scrounged 2-inch lumber and 4x4 posts at the lowest corner, standing about two feet above the clay. Then we started dumping our kitchen waste and other organic matter in the low end, covering each small plop with dirt shoveled from the high end of the garden. Thus we're building up the low end with composted soil, and digging the clay out of the high end, to be replaced with good compost from our bin. By next year, we'll have good, level soil. Another couple we know do the same kind of thing without giving up their whole garden. They use one row of the garden for composting, a different one each season. They dig a hole about 2 ft deep and maybe 2 ft square at one end of the garden, scattering the dirt on the rest of the garden. Compostable waste goes into the hole, covered bit-by bit with dirt dug from the next 2-ft section of the row. Thus they're digging the next compost hole while they're filling the first one, and so on. Of course, they're adding material, too, so every once in awhile they have to move some dirt to the pile by their regular compost bin. Tie-wires from produce. We save the paper-covered wires used by supermarkets to tie bunches of broccoli, spinach, radishes, etc., and use them for disposable tying jobs. For instance, I staked some tomato plants this year with frames built out of sticks saved from pruning trees and bushes on the place, tying the sticks together with a few twists of one of the wires. For tying the plants to the framework, strips of cloth are better; the thin iron wires would cut into the stems. The wires will probably rust through in a season, but the frames will be ready to take down by then, anyway. Those wires are also handy for tying rolled newspapers into tight rolls for burning in the fireplace. We first tried the rubber bands that came on the newspapers when they were delivered. But they would burn through and allow the papers to unroll in the fireplace. A pile of newspaper is very poor fuel, but paper "logs" make a good fire, or used with one wooden log they make a very long-lasting one, conserving our supply of logs. Actually, most of the papers we burn have already been used for something else, like protection while painting or under the kitty pans. And even their ashes have some use left in them! PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS John Cannon (Dept. of Chemistry, B-017, Univ. California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093) is interested primarily in a teaching position in organic, biochemistry, or inorganic chemistry. He would especially appreciate a Christian setting in a college or university. John did his PhD work at Princeton and is now doing postdoctoral research on chemical models for heme enzymes, with T. G. Traylor at UCSD. (John attended the 1975 ASA Annual Meeting and brought along his whole Bible study group to at least one of the sessions.) David Coldwell (2532 Lockhart, Dallas, TX 75228. Tel. 214-327-2971) is seeking a pastorate in an independent local church, preferably in a university town. Dave has a B.S. and Th.M., and is a former staff member of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma will open a new medical school in September 1978 with an initial class of 50 students. Faculty members are being recruited who are first of all committed to Jesus Christ, although excellence in both teaching and research is expected. In addition to Christian physicians with academic backgrounds for clinical departments, professors of anatomy, biochemistry, microbiology, pathology, pharmacology, and physiology are being sought. Vice-president for Medical Resources at Oral Roberts is C. James Krafft, former president of the Christian Medical Society. Address inquiries to Dean James E. Winslow, Jr., M.D., School of Medicine, Oral Roberts University, 7777 South Lewis, Tulsa, OK 74102) (Received 18 June 1976) Hillsdale College in Michigan needs an instructor or assistant professor of sociology/ social work. Course load is 12 hrs per semester including introduction to social services, social work methodology, and a practicum in social work. Other courses are in sociology. PhD desirable, all but dissertation required. Salary range $10,500-13,500. "Hillsdale is a private liberal arts college that stresses teaching, but research is encouraged." Send vita and references to: Dr. John Muller, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI 49242. (Received 26 June 1976) Azusa Pacific College in California has a vacancy for a mathematician with some physics background or for a physicist willing to teach mathematics and some physics. PhD preferred. "We are a Christian school and it is very important that our teachers be evangelical Christians." Contact Dr. David A. Ellis, Chairman, Division of Science and Mathematics, Azusa Pacific College, Highway 66 at Citrus Ave., Axusa, CA 91702. (Received 6 July 1976) Anderson College in Indiana is actively searching for two faculty members for September. One is in undergraduate social-work instruction and requires the M.S.W. degree. The other is in the general field of criminal justice, also for undergraduate instruction. "Anderson College is supported by the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), and has a cordial faculty of committed persons." Contact Dr. Val Clear, Chairman, Dept. of Sociology & Social Work, Anderson College, Anderson, IN 46011. Dr. Clear will accept collect calls about the positions at 317-644-0951-X258, or at 317-642-0795. (Received 7 July 1976)

NOTES FROM THE ELGIN OFFICE

This late spring and summer has seen the largest increase in new members in our history. Since April 1 we have seen 359 new members become a part of the ASA. About half of these are a part of a trial membership plan where a person may join on a temporary status for 6 months in order to see what the ASA is like. With all the positive response so far, we will probably try it again in the future. The income picture for the ASA over the long haul is really improved in 1976. While we have a severe cash shortage right now (we still need $5,000 in gifts in August and September) the increase in dues, subscriptions, and sales is substantial. This is good news as our major financial goal is to see the ASA self-sustaining on income from these areas rather than having to depend on large amounts of giving income. Dues income alone is up 50% over 1975. Pray that this trend will continue and that the Lord will establish our footing on solid financial ground. May I extend an invitation to you to visit our office whenever you are in the Chicago area. Several members have stopped by in the last year. It is a valuable experience for me to talk with members and benefit from their insights. Stop by and share your gifts with us. We can even put you up for the night if you need a place to stay. My wife and I just bought a large (22 room) old house in Elgin with another family and we are eager to practice our hospitality. Even with two families we have lots of extra room. Just write or call me at the Elgin office to give a little warning. In August, one of our first guests will be the distinguished editor of this Newsletter. Maybe he will show us how to start our own compost heap.

Sincerely in Christ,

Bill Sisterson

Executive Secretary

PERSONALS

anon. is in training with Wycliffe Bible Translators. She was converted to Christ as a grad student in social/cultural anthropology. Elinor would like to correspond with others interested in the definition, problems, and challenges of a Christian anthropology. Her address is 641 Main St., Hyannis, MA 02601. (We hope Elinor can attend the special session devoted to just those issues at the 1976 ASA ANNUAL MEETING, AUGUST 20-23, at WHEATON COLLEGE in ILLINOIS!) Jerry D. Albert of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, San Diego, was senior author with colleagues Geller, Geller, & Lopez, of "Prostate Concentrations of Endogenous Androgens by Radioimmunoassay," J. Steriod Biochem. 7, 301 (1976). Mark Cosgrove has taken a position at Taylor University, Upland, Indiana, as assistant professor of psychology. Mark was formerly with Probe Ministries, International (see "Creating a Counter-Curriculum," ASA/CSCA News, June 1975, p. 4). H. Taz Daughtrey recently received his M.Ed. in science education from the U. of Virginia. He is returning to the Lynchburg (VA) public schools, where he teaches science and occasionally speaks on two related interests: science fiction and the history and philosophy of science. Taz serves on a high-school textbook selection committee and would appreciate information and advice from others who have experience on such committees. His address is 736 Sandhill Drive, Lynchburg, VA 24502. Robert B. Fischer of California State U., Dominguez Hills, participated in a dialog Tn_~Scl7ence and Religion as Acts of Faith" at U.C. San Diego on May 19, part of a FourthCollege Symposium on "Who's Molding Your Mind?" Bob outlined views similar to those in his "Suppositions in Science and Theology," JASA 19 (4), 97 (1967).. The other participant was biochemist Paul Saltman, vice chancellor at UCSD, who described himself as a non-Christian seeker who had only recently came to realize that he lives and practices science by acts of faith. He differed with Bob, believing that nature is totally understandable through science, at least potentially. Fred Jappe had arranged for Bob's appearance with Saltman, and held the evening section of his S.D. Mesa Community College class in Science and Religion at the UCSD seminar. Jerry Albert, Craig Allen, and Jackie Allen were also in the audience. Charles Hatfield, mathematics professor at the U. of Missouri-Rolla, retired July 1 from the board of the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies after a term as president. V. Elving Anderson, genetics professor at the U. of Minnesota, remains on the IFACS board. Since its founding in 1966, IFACS has supported 16 scholars, one of whom was Edwin Yamauchi, history professor at Miami University in Ohio. Fred S. Hickernell of Phoenix, Arizona, had an invited paper on "Zinc Oxide Thin-Film Surface-Wave Transducers" in the May 1976 issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE. On March 9, Fred obtained U.S. Patent No. 3,943,389 for "Temperature Ultization of Surface Acoustic Wave Substrates." J. Lee Hoffer of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is into his second (or is it his third?) career. After 10 years in aerospace work at Marshal Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Lee returned to the U. of North Carolina for a PhD in biomedical engineering and an M.D as well. Now he has begun a residency in anesthesiology, also at UNC. Robert J. Hughes III is associate professor of science and chairman of the Division of General Studies at Fort Wayne Bible College in Indiana. He is endeavoring to develop a series of natural science studies to meet the requirements for training elementary teachers in Indiana, from a thoroughly creationist viewpoint. Bob says he appreciates ASA's outlook and help in his efforts. He hopes to extend the project into social science and literature areas eventually. G. Archie Johnston of Stanton, California, plans to open a private practice for marriage and family counseling. Archie was scheduled to defend his thesis for the PhD at California Western University in Santa Ana in June. His thesis is entitled "The Biblically-Oriented Family and a Search for Law-Like Propositions in Family Theory: A Cause for Alarm." (Hope we aren't causing Archie any alarm. We didn't quite know what to make of the announcement of his thesis defense. It came in a form that looked like a press release--but in an envelope marked "confidential"') Will Kirkendall II is a medical technologist in Bolivia. He and his wife Dorothea, an R.M., are responsible for teaching a health promoter course to selected individuals from the indigenous peoples of Bolivia, under the aegis of the Wycliffe Bible Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics. Irving Knobloch is a professor in the Dept. of Botany & Plant Pathology at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The third edition of his Readings in Biological Science ($6.95) is just off the press from Irvington Publishers (551 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10017). Earlier editions have been widely used in biology courses for their fascinating articles on such topics as organ transplants, preserving human bodies for future reanimation, chemical evolution, spontaneous generation, the uniqueness of man, mercy deaths, abortion, and the question of whether man is a machine. Lyle E. Larson, associate professor in the department of sociology at the U. of Alberta in Edmonton, has recently published a textbook, The Canadian Family In Comparative Perspective (Prentice-Hall of Canada). Lyle's most recent paper, on "Multilevel Family Interpersonal Perception of Ideal Marital Roles: An Exploratory Study,11 appeared in J. Comparative Family Studies 6, 2 (Autumn 1975). Edward (Ted) Maloney received a B.S. in psychology in 1974 from Portland State U. in Oregon, worked a year in a hospital, and then entered law school at the U. of Notre Dame, where he's just completed his first year. Ted is working this summer for the U.S. Attorney's office in Portland, helping with the defense of Indian tribal fishing rights in federal court. He says the injustice suffered by an oppressed people, spoken of so often by Old Testament prophets, is nowhere more apparent than among the Indiana in the Pacific Northwest. But believe it or not, "the U.S. government is being used by the Lord to protect the treaty rights of these Indians. I'm happy to play a small part in this immense-and emotion-packed task." J. H. McBride is arctic coordinator for the Canadian Atmospheric Environment Service. For7five weeks in April/May, he toured northern Quebec, all of Baffin Island, the High Artie Islands, and the upper Mackenzie River Valley, visiting the Service's forecast offices, surface stations, and radiosonde stations. He interviewed staff, inspected facilities, planned construction and renovation projects, etc. He hadn't been back to the artics since 1961. The scenery was still magnificent, and the temperature was --varied: from -200C in the frozen islands to +150C in Yellowknife where spring had just arrived. Before setting out, he spoke on the artic to some Christian couples in Montreal, and on his tour enjoyed visiting several Anglican churches, including the cathedral (built in the shape of an igloo) at Frobisher Bay. Eric J. Miller moved from California with the whole TWENTYONEHUNDRED operation to IVCF -headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. Several of their multimedia productions have been on tour this spring. Eric asks prayer for eight new presentations to be premiered at IVCF's Urbana Missionary Convention in December. The new major widescreen evangelistic presentation Eric is working on is based on the book of Habakkuk, with the themes: sin brings ultimate consequences; the just live by their faith in God; the Lord is at work in this seemingly chaotic world. Robert Schmitz has graduated with a B.S. in zoology from the U. of Washington in Seattle. Bob plans to take a year off and catch up on various projects before heading for graduate school in fall 1977. This summer he has been teaching a four-week seminar on Science and Christianity as part of the University Presbyterian Church (Seattle) Summer Institute. Bob says his minister got interested in joining ASA on the basis of their discussions to plan the seminar, which has made use of many articles from JASA. Stewart E. Stiling and his wife have taken on houseparent responsibilities at a Baptist children's home in Clyde, North Carolina. Stew says he never worked so hard in his life, but to make up for that-the pay is very low. The Stilings are confident they're where God wants them to be, though, and that's what counts. Charles D. Willis, M.D., of Fresno, California, is author of a book published by Exposition Press, entitled End of Days: 1971-2001. The hard-cover $7,.50 eschatological study is described in a flyer as "a survival manual, a fascinating synthesis of history and prophecy. Documented evidence of the establishment of Christ's Millenial Kingdom." According to the flyer, Charles has managed to put together not only history and prophecy but "the facts of physics and the theory of psychic thought." Warren Willis and his family had been on Guam to serve with Campus Crusade for Christ only a few months before super-typhoon Pamela tried to level the Island with winds in excess of 120 mph blowing for more than six hours. The Willises, safe and sound, have been helping their neighbors who lost roofs and whole houses. Warren is finding that the Lord has gone ahead of him in every area of his ministry, including his contact with Bishop Flores (96 percent of Guam's population is nominally Roman Catholic). NEW MEMBERS CALIFORNIA William H. Targgart, 117 Almendral Ave., Atherton, CA 94025 MD - Medicine Stephen L. Carman, 635 S. Golden Prados Dr., Diamond Bar, CA 91765 BSME - Mech. Engr. Paula R. Bush, 7234 E. Mooney Dr., So. San Gabriel, CA 91770 Student COLORADO Gerhard Hauch, 1424 Dayton Street, Aurora, CO 80010 BBS - Bible William M. Jordan, 770 So. Dale Ct., Denver, CO 80219 MS - Metallurgy IDAHO Gary M. Gregory, Box 607, Priest River, ID 83856 BS - Biology ILLINOIS Daniel Granquist, 8N375 Cheviot Drive, Bartlett, IL 60103 BS - Chemistry Thomas L. Frydenger, 508 S. Jefferson, Cerro Gordo, IL 61818 Student Carolyn M. Crail, 546 Landmeier, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 BA - Anthropology Andrew J. 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