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The American Scientific Affiliation

VOLUME 12, NUMBER 6 DECEMBER 1970

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS ...
... and a Happy New Year! Another December issue must mean that we've been editing ASA News for a whole year, so we want to thank all who have supplied us with news items or offered encouragement in other ways. Writing up the news is fun. It's making it up that gets us down sometimes! Why do the deadlines always come at our busiest times? And just before the real ASA news breaks? We're writing this in Ames, Iowa, just before the December Executive Council meeting, and mailing off the copy for Mankato to fill in our blank NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE section. At the time of writing we don't know the 'outcome of the election for a new Council member, or details of an ASA breakfast to be held in a few weeks in Chicago at the AAAS meeting, or if any ASA'ers are going on John Montgomery's "Birthplaces of the Reformation" trip to Europe December 27. There are lots of things we don't know, but the agenda is full of fascinating items, from a five-year plan for ASA growth to a proposal for paying ASA editors! Wow! Maybe we should have gone to that meeting to get the scoop--and do a little lobbying. Well, sooner or later, faithful readers, we'll all find out what's going on. Meanwhile, our thanks for your help in 1970 and our best wishes for 1971. --Walt and Ginny Hearn ASA-AAAS BREAKFAST MEETING Date: December 29, 1970 Time: 8 A. M. Cost: $4.50 Place: Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago Contact: E. James Kennedy North Park College 5152 N. Spaulding Chicago, Illinois 60625 GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE HOT--AND DRY ASA members overseas get their copies of the Journal and ASA News by surface mail, which is very slow in reaching its destination. A member in England has asked the National Office to send his Journal airmail and enclosed money for that purpose. He didn't mention the other distinguished ASA publication. That may mean none of the bottles bearing our bi-monthly news messages have yet washed up on England's shore, so he's never even seen an issue of ASA News. Dr. Hartzler says he will be glad to send the Journal airmail to anyone overseas who requests it and sends $3 per year extra for that purpose to Mankato. ' ASA News will start using waterproof corks, at no extra charge. Surface mail may be slow, but eventually it should get there. DONALD W. OLSON DECEASED The ASA National Office has received word that Donald W. Olson, associate member of ASA since 1964, died on February 17, 1970. No details of his death or of his family are known to ASA News at this time. he had become a Christian in 1946, after receiving his B.A. from Jamestown College, Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1938. He went on to obtain an M.Ed. from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1954, and at the time of his death was living in Olympia, Washington, and serving as consultant in administration and finance for the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He had been superintendent of schools in Morton, Washington, and served as lay leader and Sunday school teaching in the Morton Methodist Church. He was a member of the American Association of School Administrators and the Nat. Educ. Assoc. PASSING ON THE TORCH Elias D. White was pastor of the First Brethren Church of La Verne, California, at the time of his death on December 17, 1968. He had an A.B. degree from Ashland College in Ohio, a Th.B. from Asbury Seminay, an MA. in philosophy from Oberlin, and a Th.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary. He had done graduate work later at U.S.C. and at Claremont College in California, and had taught apologetics. The ASA National Office failed to take note of his death, partly because Dr. White's wife continued to pay dues with the idea of transferring the membership to their son--who has the same name as his father. E. D. White, the son, received his M.A. from the University of Texas in 1969 and is now a Ph.D. candidate at U.S.C. in Los Angeles. Eventually the mix-up was straightened out, when a membership application for Doyle White was recently received at Mankato. We regret the misunderstanding, but we're glad to see the ASA tradition being carried on from one generation to another. There must be other family memberships of more than one generation. We think of philosopher J. Oliver Buswell,_ Jr , and anthropologist Jim Buswell III. And we've just heard from biochemist Liz Sutherland of Kingston, Ontario, who says, "I know two other ASA members, one of whom is my father." That must be chemist Brian Sutherland of Victoria, B. C. PREMEDITATED DEDICATION For those who plan ahead, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, is scheduling a symposium and dedication conference for October 7-9, 1971, at which a new science building for biology, physics, and mathematics will be dedicated. According to Ray Brand, chairman of the Division of Science and Mathematics at Wheaton, ASA members are invited to visit the campus, tour the new facilities, and listen to the symposium speakers. Roger Voskuyl and Richard Bube are two ASA members scheduled to speak so far. By the time that Wheaton symposium comes off, we'll probably have heard what happened at the Dordt College symposium held this October. Many ASA members attended that one, along with lots of people who ought to be in ASA, according to Waaldert van Hearnsma, correspondent. Aaldert Mennega, Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa 51250, is in charge of getting the Dordt symposium papers into print. STILL ANOTHER WAY TO SAY IT John E. Amoore, whose research activities at the USDA Western Regional Lab in Albany, California, have been mentioned a couple of times in ASA News, was interested in our comments on dedications and other personal touc that might appropriately distinguish a Christian's writing on technical subjects.

John sent us a copy of the last page of his new book, Molecular Basis of Odor (Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Springfield, Illinois, 1970), saying that "no doubt your probing proboscis would have picked up its trail eventually." We're flattered to have our "nose for news" commented on favorably by an expert in remote sensing systems. And we're glad to keep this discussion going with as many examples as we can find. Here are the closing paragraphs of John's monograph: "I would say that odor research is just now poised for the final attack on the olfactory code. Theoretical understanding and experimental methods are fully prepared for the task ahead. The greatest mystery is simply the actual number of primary odor code-words that must be deciphered. "To any faint-hearted person who is tempted to complain that 7, or 27, or 70 times 7 primaries are too many, I have but one reply. Far be it from us to criticize: Somebody else in His wisdom created the primary odors, and our job is merely to count them." HOW TO START SONETHING, No. 3. ALMN MOON Allen J. Moon is 27, married a little over two years, and a graduate student working toward a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of Georgia in Athens. Through the Green Acres Baptist Church of Athens, Allen has been in on the beginning of a' coffee house ministry to local youth. He says his pastor, the Rev. Don Leaptrott, was willing to use the efforts of anyone willing, so Allen became chairman of the Youth Committee and has found it a spiritually nourishing venture. ASA News questioned Allen about his coffee house experience. Here are his answers pretty much as he wrote them: "For the past three years the church has sponsored a week-end youth retreat in May. The kids are tremendous in that they are concerned about their friends who aren't close to Christ. So, many of them brought friends with them to the youth retreat this year. We had about 90 young people. Several of their friends were touched through this experience. But rather than being satisfied, the kids were challenged to continue. Young people like this challenge us adults! "This is the reason we felt we had to come up with something like a coffee house. The idea was a natural since we have quite a few active Baptist Student Union members from the University in our church who had been conducting one on campus. Also, most of our Youth Committee had read David Wilkerson's books. We wrote him for his suggestions. We also bought The Coffee House Itch from the Baptist Book Store. "In June we hired one of our young married couples, Jerry and Darsa Pinholster, as part-time youth directors. Both are college students and have tremendous rapport with kids. Beginning in June, they conducted coffee house workshops according to an outline in The Coffee House Itch. Through these workshops, attended by about 30, we discove. I red potential we had never seen before in some of our youth. They are very creative. "Then, the last week in June, a restaurant about 150 yards from the church decided they would close at 3 p.m. for the summer. The owner was willing to be there each Tuesday evening to operate the short-order and refreshment sales. He said he took in about $10 each Tuesday and he didn't charge us anything. We opened at 8 p.m. and closed at 10. At 6 p.m. about ten of the church kids would decorate the restaurant. At 7, the singing group of kids would practice. At 7:30 they came together for a prayer session. "We had a lot of help. A boy with a rock group whose mother is a member of the church agreed to help out with instruments and talent, and this really helped him. A young Methodist lady who teaches music in a junior high school in the community coordinated the music and singing. Jerry Pinholster was in charge of overall entertainment. "The kids who come from the church ate straight kids who try to dress as hip as their parents will let them. The unchurched kids are really hip. About ten hip kids show up every week, but only about two or three hip kids come regularly. We had no problems about who dominated the show or with drinking or drugs. The hip kids knew when they came who was sponsoring it, so those who came were searching. At first there was a little sneering at the music, but as soon as this was aired and the church kids let them know we were serious about it, nothing else was said. "Most of the publicity was by word of mouth. Four or five well-done, very colorful posters were placed in store windows of a nearby shopping center. Only teenagers were invited. Most of our active kids are in the 7th-10th grades.. "Only one other church in the immediate vicinity has an active youth program. Their kids were pretty busy for the summer so few came to our coffee house. Of the 50 who came each week, we'd have 10 hip kids, about 20 of our kids, and I guess the rest came from families who go to churches downtown. We have no way of knowing how many kids we reached this summer. We've known no public decisions for Christ as a result of the coffee house. Discussions at the coffee house were about 50% trivial and about 50% a forum for exchanges about God and extemporaneous testimonies. "The coffee house was financed through the church budget for the Youth Committee, but sheet music, posters, paints, and other mod decorations were about all that was involved. This fall we are in the local community center and we don't yet know what the financial requirements will be. "To others who might be interested in starting a coffee house: It's a good way to reach persons who will never be contacted any other way. If the same kids will attend most of the sessions, as in ours, the discussions should center mainly on Christian perspectives and Biblical interpretations of social issues. If the kids attending are predominantly non-Christians, then David Wilkerson's purely evangelistic format would be most appropriate. "In preparing kids for the discussions, instill in them that you really expect them to speak out. After that, the organization and operation should be rather loose except for the prayer sessions. We really had to drive this in on them because of their excitement. Each session, we left about 15 or 20 minutes when nothing was planned to encourage private talking. Jerry or Darsa had to lead just about all the other meaningful discussion by means of the microphone. On two or three occasions, nothing ever struck any interest for the whole two hours; then, on the way out, little passing remarks would stir up a conversation and five or ten would be there til midnight hashing out a topic. We considered this well worth the resulting parental concern. "We did encounter a communication gap with some of the adults of the church (but not with parents of teenagers). This caused the pastor some concern. The whole suspicion centered on Jerry's longer-than-normal hair and on another project in which our kids went over to a predominantly black housing project three days a week to provide recreation for kids aged 5-9. Only about eight of our kids participated, working with about 50 black children. Because of some strife in Athens this past spring, Rev. Leaptrott let us go on with the project. We prayed very often for those who had misgivings." ASA News appreciates this full description of an experiment still in progress. If any of you have further questions or need encouragement, you could write to Allen J. Moon, Rt. 3, Morton Road, Athens, Georgia 30601. We're sending Allen a dozen "Scientist's Psalm" greeting cards to thank him for contributing to our series. GREETING CARD SPECIAL "Scientist's Psalm" is a poem written by Walt Hearn, which was first published in HIS magazine in 1963. The magazine then issued it as a reprint in the form of an attractive contemporary greeting card that sold many thousands. Now ASA News has obtained the remaining stock, and there are two ways you can get hold of them, a dozen at a time with matching envelopes. One way is to get your dozen free, as Allen Moon did. We want ASA members to share with each other our efforts at innovation in the social arena, so we offer a dozen "Scientist's Psalm" cards for each usable contribution to HOW TO START SOMETHING. Something creative and redemptive is what we're after, something that might inspire other Christian experiments in meeting human needs. Another way to get your Psalms is to cross our palms with the coin of the realm. As long as they last, we're willing to sell the cards at $1 per dozen (with envelopes) plus 200 for packing and mailing. That's 10C apiece, and they originally sold at five for $1. Send your check for $1.20, or your contribution to HOW TO START SOMETHING to: Dr. Walter R. Hearn, ASA News Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50010 REPORT FROM LATIN AMERICA Charles H. Troutman, with the Latin America Mission in Costa Rica, reports that opportunities for Christian witness among university students are opening up to such an extent that missionaries who have known the battle of former years can scarcely believe what they see. Stirrings within the Roman Catholic Church have made teaching priests and nuns earnestly seek assistance in Bible study, in how to become "authentic Christians", and in ways to make Christ known. The Student Ministry of the LAM also serves high school students, politically as significant in Latin America as those in the universities. "The university ministry is carried on in a variety of ways. one of our team members in Bogoth, teaching in the leading university only two hours a day, has all the opportunities for counsel and witness that he can handle. In Costa Rica another member is seeking to reinforce the campus witness of several groups by working through the pastors and churches. Another is working to bring the resources of the Christian university graduates to bear on the campus witness of the students. And constantly we are seeking to help Christian teachers and professors. "This new openness towards the gospel is not confined to areas where the LAM is working. Members of the Student Ministry have already visited Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Colombia at the request of different churches and missions, and find the same openness in their schools and the same concern in their universities. We are praying that the Lord may show the Christian leaders in these countries their opportunities, and give us the power and wisdom to help. There is a whole continent before us, and we are just a small minority of a minority." With the scientific job market tight in the U. S., this might be a good time for some of us to consider teaching south of the border. For info on how to go about it, write to Charles H. Troutman, Latin America Mission, Apartado 1307, San Jose, Costa Rica. SEIN TUCC. ER HAT DREI ECKEN No use trying to find TUCC in your German dictionary. It's an abbreviation for The Triangle Universities Computation Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The triangle refers to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. TUCC was organized in 1965 as a non-profit corporation wholly owned by the three universities to support their computing activities through the use of a wide range of terminal devices connected to TUCC's System/360 Model 75. Also using TUCC facilities is the North Carolina Educational Computing Service (NCECS), an activity of the N. C. Board of Higher Educat1on. NCECS is an independent activity serving 42 institutions of higher learning in the state, making it the largest intercollegiate computer network in the U. S. And who is in charge of all these hungry computers, and of the people who feed them data, soothe their circuits, and get them to do tricks? Lelahd H. Williams, who became president and director of TUCC on June 23. Leland was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and did his undergraduate work at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Duke in 1961 and stayed on as an assistant professor until 1962. Then he became assistant director of the Computer Center at Florida State University, moving in 1966 to Auburn University in Alabama, where he has been director of their Computer Center and associate professor of mathematics. He has been active in the Association for Computing Machinery, the 27,000-member society of the computing community. Leland holds adjunct associate professorships at the three universities served by TUCC and will be teaching a course in numerical analysis at each on a rotating basis. The Williamses have two children and are happy to be near both beach and mountains. We learned all this from Tele-computing Newsline published by TUCC's Information Services. The rest of their news sheet was full of FORTRAN, MIXAL, READSCB, LBLIST, UNCSTAT, and other things I guess a computer would understand. DYE-HARDENING THE MINUTEMAN David L. Dye, whom most of you will recognize as the author of Eerdmans' paperback Faith and the Physical Wor ld. has returned to Boeing Aircraft in Seattle after two years as PL-313 senior scientist at Kirtland Air Force Base. Dave works on nuclear survivability of the Minuteman missile system. He has also established himself as a 11consulting physicist" available for work on nuclear effects or system analysis problems that do not conflict with his job at Boeing. Dave can take leave without pay from Boeing when consulting makes it necessary. At the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Symposium in La Jolla, California, in July, Dave presented a couple of papers on radiation effects. One, on a tentative "Method for Determining the Monoenergetic Equivalent Neutron Fluence for Silicon Bulk Damage", may become an ASTM standards definition . The other, on "Overdesign as a Means of Gaining Statistical Confidence in Hardness", dealt with "problems of optimizing the overdesign factors against radiation effects on electronics, the parts test program, and the system test program, to achieve a specified survivability probability and confidence at a given environment level for minimum cost." When you decode all that, it sounds like Dave is trying to make sure the good guys' nuclear missiles will still work after the bad guys fire off theirs. Hey wait a Minuteman! Wouldn't we all be dead guys, Dave, before you could find out if you-were right? AVAILABLE CHEMIST HAS MANY IONS IN THE FIRE Charles M. Flynn, Jr., is seeking a position for September 1971 in teaching and/or research in general and inorganic chemistry. Charles is single, has a B.S. in Chemistry from Cal Tech (1962) and a Ph.D. in inorganic with physical chemistry minor from the University of Illinois, Urbana (1967). He taught general and analytical chemistry at La Verne College, La Verne, California, for a year and then went to Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. He will have completed three years of post-doctoral research on synthesis and characterization of heteropoly complexes there under Prof. M. T. Pope by the time his position terminates next July. His Ph.D. thesis, under Prof. G. D. Stucky, dealt with heteropolyniobate complexes of transition metals. Charles has half a dozen research publications, and has had experience with X-ray diffraction, computer programming, and uv-visible-ir spectrometry in addition to synthesis and analysis of inorganic compounds. Charles has had a lot of teaching experience and is interested in innovations in teaching methods and curricula. A main long-range research interest has to do with lattice energies of ionic crystals, packing of ions in crystals and solvation energies of ions. His aim is to predict crystal structures and qualitative solubilities of ionic compounds, with applications in chemical analysis, pollution control, and resource recovery. He has ideas for tackling this problem both theoretically and experimentally, but he has other interests as well. If you have a position for Charles, contact him at the Chemistry Department, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. 20007. PSYCHIATRISTS NEED HELP, TOO Miriam F. Smith, M. D., 1275 McConnell Drive, Decatur, Georgia 30033, has asked us to insert this notice: "Clinical personnel, particularly clinical psychologists, needed to work with Christian psychiatrist in Atlanta, Georgia, area. Phone 1-404-634-9515 during the week, except Wednesday."

LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES

NORTH CENTRAL A dinner meeting at the Student Center of Augsburg College was planned for Friday, November 6. The theme was "Profits of Doom", with speakers James Spradley, anthropologist at Macalester College, and A. Berkeley Mickelsen, professor of New Testament interpretation at Bethel Seminary. Fred Hafner of General Mills Chemicals, Inc. sent us the announcement, but we haven't had a report yet on how it came out. WESTERN NEW YORK To celebrate the 25th anniversary of ASA, the Western New York section really went all out. They planned an overnight meeting for Friday and Saturday, October 30-31, at Houghton College, Houghton, New York, hoping for an unusually large attendance. On Friday evening, George Schweitzer of the University of Tennessee spoke on "The Cosmic Drama--The Christian Faith as Viewed in a Framework of Process Philosophy." Saturday began with morning devotions and then a report on the 1970 ASA Convention by Phil Harden, biologist at Roberts Wesleyan College. At 10 a.m. a panel discussed Christian concerns in the ecological crisis. The panel included biologists David Barnes and Anne Whiting and physicists Benjamin Dayton and Hugh Paine. After a buffet luncheon, ASA Executive Secretary H. Harold Hartzler spoke on "The Twenty-five Years of the ASA and a Look into the Future." The program committee obviously did a fine Job. So did the local arrangements c-, ittee, keeping costs low to attract members and guests from the whole area. Evidently the only thing anybody overlooked was sending a report on the meeting to ASA News! NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE David Willis has been elected to a five-year term on the Executive Council beginning January 1971, We welcome Dr. Willis to the Executive Council and hope that his work on the Council can be fruitful in the years to come. The Executive Secretary, H. Harold Hartzler', wishes to report that he had a fine experience on October 30 and 31 in visiting two local sections of the ASA. Friday night, October 30, he was one of the speakers at the Michigan section at Grand Rapids. Saturday, October 31, he was a luncheon speaker at the Western New York section held at Houghton College. In each case he spoke of the history and future possibilities of the ASA. PERSONALS Lloyd H. Ablem became president of North Park College and Theological Seminary in Chicago on September 1. He was formerly chairman and professor of psychology, Stanislaus State College, Turlock, California. Phil Bays has become chairman of the Department of Chemistry at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, where he is also faculty advisor for the Grinnell College Christian Fellowship. That's keeping it in the family: Phil replaced Jack Swenson in both capacities when Jack became chairman of the Chemistry Department at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Jack is now working with a small new IVCF chapter there, and has started a permanent Book Table in Arizona for Inter-Varsity Press. Dick Bube of Stanford University spent October 9 at Calvin College and Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan, before speaking in Grand Rapids the next day at a regional meeting of the National Science Teachers Association. At Calvin he visited with Vernon Ehlers, Martin Karsten. John van Zytveld, Donald Wilson, and a lot of people who ought to be ASA members. In the morning Dick gave a seminary chapel address on "Man Come of Age" and in the afternoon at the college spoke to physics students on "Photoconductivity of Solids" and to a faculty seminar on "Correlation of the Scientific Structure of the World with Christian Faith." Robert Buckwalter completed work for his Master of Professional Studies (Agriculture) degree at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in September. Now he is farming his dad's 200-acre dairy farm in Wellsville, New York, while the senior Buckwalter attends Eastern Mennonite College. (Wonder if they send Bob reports of his dad's grades.) J. Oliver Buswell, Jr., retired from Covenant Seminary in St. Louis in August, and is living at the Quarryville Presbyterian Home, Route 2, Box 12A, Quarryville, Pennsylvania 17566. The now-senior Buswell says he is available for Bible conferences or other speaking engagements. 0. Norman Carlson, senior metallurgist at the Ames Laboratory of the Atomic Energy Commission, Ames, Iowa, spoke on "Materials Problems--Today and Tomorrow" at a local section of the American Chemical Society meeting at Luther College,Decorah, Iowa, on November 11. Norm discussed some hot topics of ecological interest, such as the recycling of scrap automobiles, reclamation of municipal wastes, and the production of nuclear power. The 1970 ASA Convention was the first one Norm and his wife Virginia have had a chance to attend, by the way. Mark R. Ensign has returned to his position at the Helium Research Center in Amarillo, Texas, after a 5-month schooling tour of duty with the navy in Pensacola, Florida. Mark has just experienced the thrill of seeing his first scientific paper published in Review of Scientific Instruments for October 1970. Carl J. Jarboe of Messiah College, Grantham, Pa., was pleased to see his Ph.D. thesis work recently published: P. R. Jones and C. J. Jarboe, "Organocadmium Reagents VII. Competition Between Displacement of Alkoxy and Acyloxy in 3-Substituted Phthalides." I.Organometall. Chem. 24, 555 (1970). Carl's research at the University of New Hampshire was completed in September 1968 and he received his degree in January 1969. Eugene and Elaine Jekel, one of our ASA husband-and-wife teams, are spending a sabbatical year at the University of California in Berkeley. Gene is a visiting professor there, doing research in synthetic inorganic chemistry and scheduled to teach a course this winter. He has completed a three-year term as chairman of the Department of Chemistry at Hope College, Holland, Michigan. Elizabeth Mauger is now an assistant professor of chemistry at Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, having received her Ph.D. in organic and physical chemistry from Bryn Mawr College in May. She says she'd like to see ASA publications devote more time to practical up-to-date issues, like opportunities for witness of all kinds, to help those who are new to the scientific community. (Tell it like it iz, sez Liz.) Jack McIntyre of Texas A&M University, College Station, presented a 30-minute invited paper at the meeting of the American Physical Society in Houston, Oct. 15-17. Jack is still agitating for some ASA conventions south of the Mason-Dixon lines not just south of the arctic circle (as they've all been--so far). Donald Nash of Roberts Wesleyan College, North Chili, New York, has been working with a SuTday school group of 7th and 8th graders at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Rochester on an archeological study of the book of Isaiah. The kids are comparing chapters 1-38 with the rest of the book to see if there is evidence for more than one Isaiah. Cora Reno has a new book out entitled EVOLUTION ON TRIAL. It has proved to be a best-seller. (The National Office has copies of this book for sale.) W. Thomas, is now attending the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus as a candidate for the M.S. in biomedical engineering. Tom received his B.S. in electrical engineering technology in January 1970 from Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Floyd M. Shealy became dean of the college at Oklahoma City Southwestern College in Oklahoma City in July. OCSC is a Christian college with an enrollment of more than 1,000 students. Floyd was formerly at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa. Samuel G. Showalter is an M.D. in general practice in a multi-specialty group practice at the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Wise, Virginia. His Appalachian tour of duty counts as Sam's alternative service obligation as a conscientious objector to war. Edwin D. Sigurdson has moved to Portland, Oregon, where he is now working for a local CPA firm. Ed's previous training had been in biology, but in June he received a B.S. in business administration with a major in accounting from Oregon State University, Corvallis. Stewart E. Stiling retired with 28 years' service from the air force in October and has returned to western New York State where he is registered as a pharmacist. Stew, his wife, daughters Suzanne and Kim, and sons Mark and Ben attend Randall Memorial Baptist Church in Williamsville, New York. Suzanne is a junior at Houghton College and Kim, a high school senior, plans to enroll there next year. Daniel Suter is spending his sabbatical from Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg, Virginia, at the Medical School of the University of California in Davis. A postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences enables him to study effects of the insecticide parathion on the central nervous system. Dan, an anatomist, is using histochemical methods and acrylamide gel electrophoresis to study the locus of action and effects of age and cumulative dosage. Clinton Tatsch has been working on his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of Oklahoma in Norman and hopes to finish within the year. He has been doing singlecrystal X-ray diffraction molecular structure determinations of a copper (II) tyrosine chelate with an unexpectedly short Cu-uring distance, and of an unknown natural product of marine origin. Clint wonders if anyone will be looking for a physical chemist "hot off the press" when he finishes. Tatsch, anyone? Aldert van der Ziel took his wife with him on a wonderful trip to Japan in August and September to attend the Low Temperature Physics Conference and the Quantum Electronics Conference in Kyoto and to visit former co-workers. At about the same time his invited review paper on "Noise in Solid State Devices and Lasers" appeared in the Proceedings of the IEEE (Vol. 58, pp. 1178-1206, August, 1970). Floyd L. Wilcox, Sr., completed his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at S.U.N.Y. in Binghamton, New York, and is now associate professor of science at Central Wesleyan College, Central, South Carolina. His thesis work was presented at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago in September. David Winter became academic dean of Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington, in July, after serving as associate dean of Justin Morrill College of Michigan State University. Dave formerly taught anthropology at Wheaton College in Illinois. Eldon Woodcock is now professor of Bible at Nyack Missionary College, Nyack, New York. Robert K. Worman, a physician in private practice in Elmira, New York, has been elected to the board of trustees of the Christian Medical Society. NEW MEMBERS Arkansas R. James Holliday, Box 1035, John Brown University, Siloam Springs, Arkansas 72761. Asst. Prof. at John Brown University. BA, MS, Ph.D. in Chem. & Ch. Physics. Rank: Member. Larry Gene Seward, Apt. 1, Pine St., Siloam Springs, Arkansas 72761. Instructor of Biology, John Brown University. BA in Biol., Chem.; MS in Nat. Sci., Botany. Rank: Member California W. Mack Goldsmith, 1223 Yale Avenue, Modesto, California 95350. Associ Prof. of Psychology, Stanislaus State College. AB in Psych. & Philos.; PhD in Ex. Psych., Anthropology, Zoology. Rank: Member Elias Doyle White, 1614 Deventer Drive, La Verne, Calif. 91750. Proofreader (parttime) for Los Angeles Times; Student at Univ. of Southern Calif. AB, MA in Phil. 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