NEWS
American Scientific
Affiliation
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 1
February 1972
HOWS THIS FOR OPENERS?
We open the year with a pair of biologists (Don Boardman and Dave Willis), a pair
of social scientists
(Gary
Collins and Claude
Stipe), and a physicist
(Jack
McIntyre) on our ASA Executive Council. ding pat with Boardman as president and
McIntyre as vice-president for a second year, the Council picked Willis as secretary-treasurer for 1972. Mailing addresses (with year of retirement from Council in
parentheses) are:
Dr. Donald C. Boardman (1972) - Pres.
311 East Franklin Street
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
Dr. John A. McIntyre (1973) - V, P.
Department of Physics
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77840
Dr. David L. Willis (1975) - Secy-Treas.
3135 McKinley Street
Corvallis, Oregon 97330
Dr. Gary R. Collins (1974)
524 South Prairie Avenue
Mundelein, Illinois 60060
Dr Claude E. Stipe (1976)
Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
Marquette University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233
I guess you could call editors Dick Bube of the Journal and Walt Hearn of ASA News
our wild cards. And our ace in the
hole.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Our newly organized Executive Council met in Wheaton, Illinois, January 14-15, and
worked out a number of ways for individual members to expand the influence of the
American Scientific Affiliation. Here are some of them:
1) Each member will receive two copies of the March 1972 issue of the Journal instead of one. Each copy will have a membership application inserted. When yours
arrives, pass the extra copy along to a prospective member. if each of us does hl:~
Job, we should have a surge of new members at a total cost of only $200 for the
whole project.
2) If your college or university library, or the one nearest you, does not S0scribe to the Journal, notify the ASA National Office and a one-year gift Subscription will be entered. Each year free subscriptions to 100 selected college libraries have resulted in about 10 paid renewals. This year the membership is asked to
select the libraries.
3) Advertise the low student membership dues of $3 per year among the Christian
students you know who have an interest in science. This rate is a tremendous bargain. ASA is willing to subsidize student
mombership partly
as a service to young people and partly because today's
students
are a major source
of
members for the
future. (Incidentally, if you go back to school, or graduate--you should notify the
Mankato office of the change in your dues status.)
ON TO TORONTO!
Russell Heddendorf, chairman of the 1972 ASA Annual Meeting to be held in August at
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, says the program is shaping up already,
with an emphasis on the philosophy of science. There may also be a slight imbalance
so far toward the social sciences--not surprising since Russ is a sociologist. But
he is calling on other members of the program committee to stir up another eight or
nine papers to balance things out, preferably from some of you who haven't been
prominent in past programs.
With 1972 an election year in both the U. S. and Canada, Russ hopes to have some
papers on the interaction of Christianity, politics, and science. A potential
speaker for the public meeting is Canadian Parliament member Robert M. Thompson, on
"A Christian Politician's Attitude Toward Science." But Thompson may be actively
campaigning then, and may not be able to fit us into a busy schedule. Any other
ideas? If so, contact Dr. Russell Heddendorf, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Penna.
15010.
OBITUARIES
The Mankato office has received word of the death of John Gray, a physician in private practice in Hong Kong. An Englishman, Gray received his M.D. degree from Cambridge University in 1936 and had published several papers on urology. He was a
member of the Royal Society of Medicine, International Society of Urology, and International College of Surgeons. He was an Anglican but had served in the Gospel
Clinic of Lutheran World Service in Hong Kong and was a consultant surgeon at the
Fanlong, Hospital of LWS. On his 1963 application for membership in ASA, John Gray
described himself as "a firm believer in the inspiration of the scriptures as the
chief guide to a Christian life, and a firm believer also in the necessity for an
honest dedication to the scientific approach to medicine."
Edwin Y. Monsma, 77, biology professor emeritus of Calvin College, died in his
Grand Rapids, Michigan, home on January 17, 1972. Born in the Netherlands, Monsma
received his B.A. from Calvin College, M.S. from the U. of Illinois, and Ph.D. from
Michigan State University. He joined the Calvin College faculty permanently in
1932, was chairman of the Biology Department 1954-1961, and retired in 1965. He was
a member of the Michigan Academy of Science and president of its botanical section,
and also held membership in Sigma Xi and Phi Sigma, honorary scientific societies.
He had served as president of the Christian Reformed Board of Missions in 1952 and
was an elder in the Calvin Christian Reformed church. ASA members of long standing
will remember that Edwin Monsma once served on the Executive Council of the American
Scientific Affiliation, including a term of office as vice-president.
(LSA News thanks Anne Deckard for sending us a clipping from the Grand Rapids Press
about Dr. Monsma's death.--Ed.)
HOW TO INVERT AN EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Earle H. West, chemist in Silver Spring, Maryland, chides ASA News for our October
headstand headline on H. Harold Hartzler's
stunt at the ASA
Annual Meeting in
Spokane. West claims that H.H.H. upside down is *H'H*H, not H'H*H*
Back to your test-tubes, Earle. Or rather, back to a review of the rules for
two-dimensional projections of chiral chemical compounds! We didn't witness the inversion of our versatile and bilaterally symmetrical executive secretary, but we were
told he got that way (upside down) by a headstand, not a cartwheel. It makes a
difference, see? (P.S. My university's gymnastics team currently holds the national championship.--Ed.)
HOW TO START SOMETHING No. 10. JOHN E. RICHARDSON
John Richardson is a graduate of MIT (S.B. in E.E., 1962), currently working
part-time on an M.B.A. degree at the University of Toronto while serving as sales manager
for Digital Equipment Corporation for the western half of Canada. John is 31. He
and his wife Jane have been sponsors of church young people's groups since 1963. He
is currently a deacon in the Kenmuir Baptist Church of suburban Mississauga, where
the Richardsons live, about 15 miles from the center of Toronto.
In the December 1971 issue of ASA News we told you a little about an exciting project John initiated this
summer, Graham Clinton, a Gordon Divinity School graduate on the staff of the Yonge Street Mission and Youth Centre in Toronto, John wrote
a 12-page brochure analyzing the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, arranged for its
printing and distribution to 15,000 people attending Superstar performances in
Toronto, and as a result involved in a continuing ministry with Toronto "street
Christians."
As we mentioned last issue, the copyright holder, Keranuir Baptist Church, 1640
Carmen Drive, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, will grant rights to copy the brochure
on written request. John and Graham have also produced a 4-page "Reflections on an
Idea Implemented", explaining why the brochure was written and how it (or similar
ideas) can be used, with a 2-page appendix of discussion outlines on Jesus Christ
Superstar ' they have used for church young people's programs. These are available,
with a sample copy of the brochure, from J. E. Richardson, 1362 Lochlin Trail,
Mississauga, Ontario. (John says he began getting requests from our write-up even
before his copy of ASA News had arrived. That was ) encouraging both to John and to
us.--Ed.)
We won't be able to do justice to John's tightly written "Reflections", but summarizing them may encourage you to get cracking on an idea of your own. It's amazing
how John's idea grew and keeps growing. It began in April 1971 when a friend asked
him to listen to Jesus Christ Superstar and say if he thought it could be called
"Christian." John concluded that "the portrayal of the crowds and their superficiality and fickleness, and the taunting cynicism of Pilate and Herod were close
to the Scriptural description. The music did an excellent job of enhancing those
attitudes. However, the portrayal of the apostles as drunken partygoers, Judas as
the most perceptive but 'hardest-done-by' guy in the group, and Jesus as just a man
whose ideals and grandiose schemes had fallen through were definitely misleading and
contrary to the Scripture. The questions asked by Superstar were left unanswered,
implying that perhaps they didn't have an answer."
John then had his church young people's group listen to the full recording while
following the printed lyrics, to see if they picked up the contrast with the Gospel
accounts. This turned on the young people to serious searching and questioning,
surprising John with their perceptiveness, swiftness, and keenness. When the young
people asked to duplicate these programs with their parents in attendance, both generations had something to contribute. During those discussions, a parent mentioned
that Superstar would play to 5,000 people in Toronto a week from Saturday. Another
said the Hare Krishna group would be out in force handing their literature to the
crowds. A third asked, 'Why don't the Christians hand out something too?" John
said, "Why not?"
So these concerned Christian people, spanning the generations, talked over how to
fulfill the Great Commission, decided in principle on a plan, and began implementing the plan through prayer and reliance on God. The first requirement was that the
Superstar piece should glorify Jesus Christ by presenting a scriptural portrayal and
consequent implication of His life, trial, death, and resurrection. Beyond that,
it should be 1) attractively designed and printed (i.e., not cheap. 'We assumed
the money would come to pay for this--and it did."); 2) as positive as possible, to
give credit where due in its comments on the opera; 3) written for those attending
the opera, not for Christians; and 4) worthy of and even requiring further reading
and reflection (instead of a short poster-like message, an alternative considered
and rejected).
About a week before the first performance, Graham Clinton encountered a group of
street Christians or "Jesus freaks" who had been praying that they could witness
somehow at Varsity Stadium where the first performance was to be held. They were
11spiritually ecstatic" when they saw proofs of the brochure, and plans were made for
the brochure to be handed out by about 30 of them, a group that would be recognized
as peers by many attendees. They would also form the nucleus of a group to discuss
Jesus Christ at the Yonge Street Mission after the performance. Permission of the
police for the distribution was obtained. There wasn't a hitch, except that a
post-performance discussion couldn't be held after the second performance because of the
distance from the second auditorium. At the first discussion, Graham and several
street Christians made simple statements about Jesus Christ as found in the Scriptures and as known in their lives. The rap session lasted until 2 a.m.
John says he was impressed by the way in which Christians of widely differing
talents, backgrounds, and life-styles worked together with virtually no friction to
complete the project under a grueling schedule. Various groups backed the project
in prayer, from the street Christians to the church people to some Christian businessmen who provided financial support for printing the brochure. No one they asked
for any help--time, talent, or money--turned them down. The zeal of Christians,
street and straight, and the faithfulness of God in overseeing details were both
impressed upon John.
Out of the experience has come mutual understanding between different groups of
Christians, and at least two continuing activities. one was financial, prayer, and
editorial support for a Christian underground newspaper called Bread published to
fit the Toronto scene. Another was weekly doctrinal instruction for recent converts
living in the "experience-oriented" street culture. John says he had had virtually
no contact with street Christians before the Superstar project, but was deeply
moved by their simple yet profound faith and by their openness in witnessing as
they handed out the brochures.
To express our appreciation for his account, we've sent John a dozen "Scientist's
Psalm" greetings. We're anxious to send you a dozen, too, in exchange for the
story of one of your ideas we can use in HOW TO START SOMETHING.
MORE ON THE JESUS PEOPLE
Ronald M. Enroth, associate professor of sociology at Westmont College, Santa
Barbara, California, commends ASA News for our supportive comments on the Christian
World Liberation Front and Right On! in the December issue. Ron hadn't known that
Dave Gill, co-editor of Right On!, was an ASA member, but he says that Sharon
Gallagher, the other co-editor is of equal caliber: she was one of his sociology
majors and is a graduate of Westmont. "Most of the people at CWLF strike me as
quite articulate and certainly highly committed believers--and are among the few
Jesus People who are not anti-intellectual."
Ron is a serious student of the Jesus Movement, and in fact with two colleagues (Ed
Ericson and Breck Peters) has just written a book called The Jesus People, to be
published in paperback by Wm. B. Eerdmans Company in March. The authors spent the
entire summer and early fall as "participant observers" of the movement. They think
they have researched the phenomenon more thoroughly than any of the existing published reports. They had some stirring as well as some freaky experiences. They try
to look at the movement in the context of the discipline of sociology, "for it is
indeed a fascinating social psychological phenomenon as well as a movement of God's
Spirit." This outlook should give their book a slightly different perspective from
Edward Plowman's The Underground Church mentioned last issue, and from other books
you may have seen.
MAKING CONNECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD
This fall, after a busy one-year assignment teaching chemistry at Westmont College,,
Paul Wright took the long way home to Wheaton, Illinois. He and Mabel made a circuit around the world, warmly received by Wheaton alumni in places like London,
Karachi, New Delhi, Kathmandu ' Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Fairbanks, and New York.
But Paul completed many other (electronic) circuits along the way, breaking out
pliers and screwdriver wherever electrical work needed-doing.
The real purpose of the trip was to install a gospel sound system in the 200-bed
McCormick Hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Paul assembled 130 new loudspeakers and
rebuilt 32 old ones, installing about two miles of double wire in the 25 buildings,
with half a dozen Thai helpers. ("Ever try to control 7 pairs of hands when you
could talk to only one pair? But the Lord blessed and the impossible was finished
in 7-plus weeks by working 8 to 9 hours a day and 5.5 to 6 days a week.")
Now three circuits on one amplifier serve about 80 speakers in wards, nursing stations, and outdoor covered areas where relatives of patients congregate. Another
amplifier serves about 80 private rooms. The first system can also be used for
paging from any one of 75 telephones in the compound. When the phone is plugged
into a jack on the switchboard, regular programming stops for the announcement; if
no program is in progress, plugging in the phone turns the equipment on and then
off, automatically. Three times a day a program is broadcast consisting of music,
a
gospel message by the chaplain, and news items. It's a great contact medium for
Christ, the chaplain says.
On the way back, Paul did a few odd jobs, such as wiring up a laundry for missionaries in Japan and repairing the heater in the Wycliffe Bible
Translators' car in
Alaska. ("...hungry and you gave me food, freezing and you wired up my
heater"..
Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did
it to me.")
PUBLICITY RECENTLY CREATED
A number of ASA members oppose evolutionary ideas and devote a prodigious effort to
combating not only philosophical "evolutionism" but also evolution as a scientific
theory. The primary audience for their speaking and writing has been the conservative Christian public: Christian bookstores typically carry dozens of polemic anti-evolution books and tracts. Often their "science" category contains nothing else.
Increasingly, perhaps coinciding with a wave of skepticism toward science sweeping
the country, "special creationists" are having their say before wider audiences.
For example, listening to National Public Radio in-depth coverage of the Annual
Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last month, whom
should I hear being interviewed but John N. Moore, telling the world of science and
the N.P.R. network that biological evolution was all wrong! John is professor of
natural science at Michigan State University, East Lansing, and co-editor of "the
first textbook for high-school biology classes presenting the facts of biological
science in a creationist framework" (Biology: A Search for Order in Complexity, Zondervan, 1969, written by 20 members of the Creation Research Society).
D. Lee Chesnut, retired electrical engineer now living in Phoenix, Arizona, tells us
that he saw an excellent press release on John Moore's AAAS presentation, carried by
UPI and apparently given wide coverage: he saw it in both Phoenix papers and his
daughter sent him a clipping from Rochester, N. Y. Lee has done a bit of publicizing for the special creationist position himself, lately4 Arizona's monthly
Education News for January 1972 carried a short article by Lee introduced by his friend
W. P. Shofstall, Superintendent of Public Instruction. The paper has a circulation
of 5,000, going to principals of all schools in the state, all legislators, public
libraries, boards of education etc. The title of the piece was "Suppose ... " (that
Darwin had an electron microscope available to him). I'm afraid I didn't quite
follow the argument that electron microscopy would have kept the Darwinian theory
of evolution by natural selection from ever getting off the ground--but I was impressed by the number of influential people who must have read Lee's article.
We've also seen an attractive mailing piece from the Creation Science Research
Center, San Diego, California, of which Henry Morris is director and Duane Gish
is
assistant director for research. The folder describes a series of 17 books submitted to the State Board of Education on September 15 to be reviewed for possible
adoption in public schools of California (4.5 million pupils!). An excerpt from
the folder says:
"Creation and evolution are both 'religious' and both 'scientific', so that if
either is taught, then both should be taught, on as nearly an equal basis as possible. However, no textbooks presenting the
scientific aspects of creationism,
apart from any religious aspects, have heretofore been available. The 'Science and
Creation' series will now make it possible to teach creationism, on a purely scientific basis, as a valid alternative to evolution."
(Hmmm. Could it be that class time allotted to gradual development of a living form
over billions of years, versus its instantaneous appearance, has been proportional
to the time-span required by each theory? If no time-requiring mechanisms can be
discussed under instantaneous creation, what will that "equal-time" in the science
classroom be used for--assuming that divine purpose and other strictly religious
concepts are really excluded? But maybe equal-time will work out better for classroom discussion than it has for political broadcasting.--Ed.)
BOOKS NEEDED IN KOREA
Dear Friends; (January 19, 1972)
"As I send along the enclosed book order I'd like to request an ad in ASA News. (I'm just reading the October issue, thanks to last year's prolonged west-coast
dock strike.
"One of the several hats I wear is Director of the Library. One of our great lacks
is anything like an adequate budget for new acquisitions, Do you suppose ASA members would be willing to discard recent editions or second complimentary desk copies
of textbooks or reference works to our Library? Our three colleges are Engineering
(including a strong department of Computer Science), Liberal Arts and Sciences, and
Law & Foreign Trade.
"Books can be sent to me via sea mail in packages up to eleven pounds. I can
honestly say that any gifts of this sort will be most gratefully received. The
Ministry of Education has just upgraded us to university status, the result of both
prayer and hard work during several years. We are the United Presbyterian Church
USA's oldest school in Korea and one that is still serious about making Christ
central.
"Many thanks for helping us in this way and for the excellent job ASA continues to
do. I put my copies of the Journal in our periodicals room."
Sincerely yours, Betty Urquhart
OPEN LETTER TO PETER NORTHRUP
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, 233 Langdon, Madison, Wisconsin 53703:
Dear Peter:
How come when you listed eight "organizations of Christian scholars" in Section
Four of the IVCF Faculty Handbook, you left out the AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION,
of which you are a member? Did we misspell your name or otherwise goof when we
called attention to the Handbook in our August 1971 issue? Are you mad at us?
Your humble savant, ASA News
Just to show we're not mad at anybody, we now call attention to the Handbook's recently issued Section Four, "The Professional Life", and Five, "Relationship with
Peers." Both contain info and encouragement for faculty members who want to honor
Christ in their professional life. A request to Peter Northrup at the above address
should bring you all the Faculty Handbook published so far and put you on the mailing list to receive subsequent sections.
ANOTHER USEFUL IVCF PUBLICATION
Also available from Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (address above) is their
1971-72 ' Faculty Directory,- listing over 1,000 faculty in agreement with IVCF's doctrinal statement at U. S. colleges and universities. the faculty are listed by
state and college, by alphabet, and by department, making it easy to look up people
of kindred mind when you go off to lecture or spend a sabbatical at Isolated U.
THE SEARCH FOR REALITY--AND FOR $70,000
Evangelical scholars from 40 college, university, and seminary campuses were invited
to O'Hare Inn in Chicago, October 1-2, for a conference on "The Contemporary Search
for Reality." They heard people like George Mavrodes of the U. of Michigan and
Armand Nicholi of Harvard discuss the current mood of American youth. Their deliberations will issue in cassette recordings from Word and a book from Harper and Row
setting thbe culture crisis in Christian perspective. A brief report of the conference appeared in
Christianity Today, December 3, 1971.
This conference is one of a number of good things accomplished by the Institute for
Advanced Christian Studies, which tries to serve as an evangelical "university without walls." In October we encouraged you to contribute to help the Institute
qualify for a matching foundation grant by the December 31 deadline. Now the deadline has been extended to March 31, so you still have a chance to "double your
money" while investing in solid Christian scholarship. ASA members V. Elving
Anderson, Charles Hatfield, and Orville S. Walters serve on the IFACS board. Contributions (tax-deductible) would be welcomed by Institute for Advanced Christian
Studies, P. 0. Box 95496, Chicago, Illinois 60690.
PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS
James H. Brewer, candidate for the Ph.D. in physics at the University of Southern
California (June 1972), is looking for a research and development position that
need not be "pure physics." In fact, he would like to work at the interface be
tween R&D and industrial production. But he also has an interest in teaching under
graduate physics. His B.S. and M.A. in physics with math minors are from Loma Linda
University, where he taught physics and calculus. He also instructed in physics
labs at the University of Utah and at USC. Jim has investigated absorption and
emission spectroscopy of AlC13 with a 3.0 meter spectrometer and has studied the
de Haas-van Alphen effect on Al, AuGa2, and AuJn2. He helped set up a lab for such
studies by the torsion balance method and for magnetothermal studies using a 110KG
superconducting solenoid. He is co-author of "New Fermi Surface Observations in
AuGa 2mic.
Solid State Communications 9, 977-80 (1971). If you know of a job, write to
Jim H Brewer Bailey St., Apt. #1, LosAngeles, CA 90033.
Jonathan E. Hartzler seeks a zoology teaching position for fall 1972. His specialty
is animal behavior, with a strong background in ecology and physiology. He has a
B.A. from Goshen College and an M.A. from Mankato State in Minnesota (1968). The
substance of his master's thesis on social behavior in winter flocks of blackcapped chickadees was published in
Wilson Bulletin in 1970. Jonathan expects to receive his Ph.D. from Montana in June 1972 when he completes "An Analysis of Sage
Grouse Reproductive Behavior." He has been a teaching assistant in biology at
Mankato State and a Fellow of the Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit.
Jonathan would appreciate any leads on a job, c/o Zoology Department, University of
Montana, Missoula, Montana 59801.
0. Carroll Karkalits would like to be considered for an administrative post in a
college or university. With his long experience in research and engineering management, Carroll would make some school a fine dean of engineering or science, a research professor, or director of an associated research institute. After his 1938
B.S. at Rice, he obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering at the U.
of Michigan, where he also taught Ch.E. courses. Then came 20 years' experience in
R&D with 12 at the managerial level. Six years were devoted to engineering management in the chemical industry with emphasis on investment analysis, economics, and
corporate
planning. Carroll
is author or co-author of nine patents, two
on
development of catalysts
now
used
in
large-scale commercial
processes. He is currently
assistant director of engineering at Petro-Tex Chemical Corporation in Houston,
Texas. Contact him at 5135 Loch Lomond, Houston, Texas 77035. The area code is
713 and his office phone is 928-2551, home phone 665-2741.
WESTERN NEW
YORK
Another successful "overnighter" was held on October 22-23. Charles Hatfield, past
president of ASA and professor of mathematics at the University of Missouri in Rolla,
flew in for both Friday and Saturday and even stayed over to help teach a Sunday
school class. On Friday evening about 250 Houghton College students, faculty, and
ASA members heard Hatfield speak on one of his favorite topics, "Patterns." A ,
stimulating question and answer session with a smaller crowd followed refreshments.
Saturday a.m. began with devotions and a report on the Spokane ASA national meeting
by Russell Heddendorf, Geneva College sociologist. Russ also tried to drum up help
for the 1972 Toronto national meeting, of which he is chairman. A panel composed of
Heddendorf, Steve Calhoun and Larry Christensen, chemists, Phil Ogden, physicist,
and Dave Scott, biologist, debated "How one's Christian philosophy affects one
I
s
philosophical outlook on science." After a business meeting and luncheon, Chuck
Hatfield spoke to about 45 people on "The Limitations of Science." This time
Hatfield was introduced by fellow mathematician Robert
Luckey, interim executive
vice president of Houghton and a friend of Hatfield's since their graduate student
days at Cornell University.
This was our last report from retiring president Don Munro, Houghton biologist. New
officers were elected for two-year terms at the business meeting. Walter
Kaufmann, chairman of the Division of Science and Mathematics at Roberts Wesleyan College,
North Chili, took over as the new section president. Fred Shannon, Houghton College
chemist, became president-elect, and Phyllis Chamberlain of Roberts Wesleyan, also a
chemist, is secretary-treasurer.
Don says the two-day meeting pattern seems to suit their members, especially when
the speaker is an exciting guy to have around like Charlie Hatfield.
INDIANA
The section met November 19 in the Union Building at Huntington College with about
100 in attendance. Marion College and Taylor University both sent delegations of at
least 20 students to hear about "Evolution: Perspectives in 1971." One of the two
speakers, John Moore, professor of natural science at Michigan State University,
spoke at the chapel hour on "Creationism in Public Education." John shared with the
audience some of the changes in his viewpoint accompanying his own spiritual growth
as a Christian. He feels that school children should be given the opportunity of
having "creationism as well as evolution" as opposite patterns of thought developed
in the classroom. Later he spoke on the topic, "Evolution is Without Foundation."
Russell Mixter, professor of zoology at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, also
presented two lectures on "The Proofs of Evolution" and "The Process 6f Evolutioij."
and "The Process of Evolution." The final session, chaired by Timothy Burkholder,
assistant professor of biology at Huntington, allowed interaction between Moore,
Mixter, and the audience.
At the business meeting, Stanley Burden of Taylor University presided and the following slate of officers was elected:
Chairman and president-elect: George W. Welker (biology), Ball State University,
Mu
ncie.
Secretary: Margaret Hodson (biology), Marion College, Marion.
Treasurer: Roger Roth (math), Taylor University, Upland.
Executive committee member-at-large: EaZ Fuller, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis.
Margaret Hodson got busy right away and sent ASA News a fine report.
WESTERN MICHIGAN
Anne Deckard of Grand Rapids College wrote up the October 1 meeting of their section
with interesting comm nts. She says it was the last of a series of one-night stands
(not head-stands) for the renowned acrobat H. Harold Hartzler, on the way back to
his Mankato quarters (ASA headquarters) with t ler and family. "H-Cubed", as he
was introduced by physicist Harry Frissel, spoke enthusiastically on "The Future of
ASA. "
Second speaker of the evening was Don Wilson, anthropologist at Calvin College in
Grand Rapids, who discussed "The ATrTic-an Man-Ape: Man or Ape?" Don reviewed scientific thought about distinctive characteristics of man and of apes from the 1800s
to the present, and outlined current views of the African genesis of man.
Anne says their meeting of last April 30 attracted many newcomers, students, and
friends of ASA members, largely because of a publicity spread in the magazine section of the Sunday newspaper. Everybody who signed a roster at that meeting was
also sent a notice of the October meeting. The section intends to try to reach a
broad cross-section of local people in the future. Four new executive committee
members have been elected: Eugene Jekel (chemistry) of Hope College, Holland; Paul
Hoeksema (biology) of Ferris State College, Big Rapids; Edward Coleson (social
science) of Spring Arbor College, Spring Arbor; and John Van Zytveld (physics) of
Calvin College, Grand Rapids.
CHICAGO
On December 3, a meeting at Wheaton College was devoted to a much-publicized book:
Jacque Monod's Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern
Biology (translated from the 1970 French edition by Austryn Wainhouse), Knopf, New
York, 1971. Critiques were presented by philosopher Robert F. Elliot, Jr., of
Trinity Christian College, physicist Howard Claassen of Wheaton, and biologist James
Kennedy of North Park College. Agreeing that Monod's mechanistic accounts of protein synthesis and mutation are lucid, the speakers all were critical of his atheistic conclusions. For one thing, they have all been developed by earlier philosophers. For another, they do not follow necessarily from the science. William
Pollard's view was recalled, for example, in which the chance and probabilistic
conclusions of science are seen as consistent with the providence of God. The inadequacy of atheistic conclusions for man's needs was emphasized by a discussion of
human attitudes toward imminent death.
ASA members will be interested in the review of Monod's book by geneticist
Theodosius Dobzhansky in Science 175 (4017), 49-50 (7 January 1972). Another excellent review by George Steiner of Churchill College, Cambridge, appeared in
The
New York Times Book Review, 21 November 1971. Steiner says that when Nobel Prize
winners turn from their scientific work to philosophy, the result is sometimes commendable, as it was for Niels Bohr and Peter Medawar. "But at other points the result can be dubious. Neither a great artist nor an eminent scientist is necessarily
of any competence outside his craft. Arguably, indeed, the disciplined narrowness
of scientific concentration, the isolation of intricate formal problems from the
roughage of experience, will make for a very powerful but innocent intelligence."
(Ouch!-Ed.)
Of Monod's philosophical arguments, Steiner says, "How drastic is the contrast between the precision of the scientist, between the scrupulous definitions of his
technical argument and the impetuous vagueness of the sage." Also, "Where he has
launched out into metaphysics--and one says this with all due respect--Monod has
produced just the sort of inflated facility which he so wittingly and stringently
condemns in Bergson or Teilhard de Chardin." (May we in ASA be preserved from this
kind of Monodtheism.--Ed.)
We appreciate Russ Mixter's account of this timely meeting. The Chicago section
officers are:
President: Lawrence Starkey (philosophy), assoc. editor, Encyclopaedia
Britannica.
V.P.: Delbert Eggenberger (physics), Argonne National Laboratory.
Secy-Treas.: ' Russell Mixter (zoology), Wheaton College.
Members-at-large: Richard Aulie (biology), Encyclopaedia Britannica. James Kraakevik
(physics), Wheaton College.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY
We haven't had a report yet on the January meeting in San Jose, but we know the
speaker was Neil Elsheimer, analytical chemist at the U. S. Geological Survey in
Menlo Park. His topic was the same as for the August meeting of the Oregon section:
"The Role of the Christian in Ecological Crises."
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
1. State of the Affiliation. From Harold Hartzler's report to the Executive Council
at the January meeting:
Associates --------- 232 Subscribers ------------ 888
Members ------------ 1339 Sustaining Members ----- 36
Fellows ------------ 138 Patrons ---------------- 7
About 60 applications were on hand being processed, plus a number of new subscriptions.
2. Fulltime Executive Secretary. $6,119.23 is in the bank and $4,000 in definite
pledges is already available. Several persons have made application for the
position, but the Council feels it should actively seek out additional applicants before making an appointment that will affect the
whole-future course of
ASA.
3. Formation of New Local Sections. The present part-time (?) Executive Secretary
reported on his travels for ASA since the past Council meeting. He covered
30,000 miles in all, visiting established local sections and trying to engender
enthusiasm where new local sections might be organized. The Council voted to
reimburse Hartzler to the amount of $750 for his tour, and considered his list
of 25 potential areas for new local sections. They also authorized Hartzler to
pay travel expense of an experienced local section leader to visit and consult
with members of a potential new section. One such visit per year was authorized.
4. Journal. A motion to accept appropriate advertising in JASA not to exceed 10%
of the page space was passed unanimously, with editor Dick Bube to set advertising rates and standards for ad contents. A reciprocal journal discount policy
proposed by the general director of the Christian Medical Society was approved.
JASA will be available to CMS members at $4 (1 yr), $7 (2 yr), and $10 (3 yr);
CMS Journal will be available to ASA members at $3 (1 yr) and $5 (2 Yr). (Plans
to expandTJASA readership through member influence are reported on p. 1 of this
issue.--Ed.)
5. Reciprocal Publicity. A request of the Christian College Consortium to use the
ASA mailing list to send out a "news format" publicity piece was approved with
the proviso that free advertising in their publication be provided the ASA in
return. (In general, permission to circularize the mailing list must be obtained from the Executive Council, and a fee is charged.--Ed.)
6. Behavioral Science Research Fund to be Established. Donald M. Logan has generously offered to support a research fund in the
behavioral sciences in the names
of his father and grandfather, to the extent of $500 per year. The Council moved
unanimously to accept the offer and to express appreciation to Logan. Claude Stipe
will formulate guidelines for administering the fund. Hopefully the first
award can be made at the Annual Meeting, August 21-24, 1972, YORK UNIVERSITY,
TORONTO, ONTARIO.
Stephen W. Calhoon, whose son Steve Calhoon, Jr., is book review editor for the Journal of
ASA, is executive director of the Institute for Chronology, Inc., of
Columbus, Ohio, established in 1970. The senior Calhoon is working on revisions of
radiocarbon dating and hopes to publish some correlations of Old Testament chronology.
Lambert Dolphin was in Europe last summer, speaking to American servicemen and European young people, especially in Germany. European youth are keenly interested in
the American Jesus Movement, and Lambert believes that widescale spiritual awakening
is a definite possibility. In the fall he spent a week at the U. of Washington in
Seattle and was invited to bring a team of 15 back on January 9-15 for a "Truth and
Freedom Festival."
W. Maxey Jarman is now associate professor of mathematics education at Pennsylvania
State University in State College, Penna. Max writes that a monthly faculty prayer
breakfast has just been started there in cooperation with Campus Crusade. He was
expecting around 35 faculty and staff to attend this month's breakfast.
John W. Klotz has been appointed academic dean of Concordia Senior College, Fort
Wayne, Indiana. He was formerly director of college relations and head of the
natural ' sciences division. Our thanks to Waldo Roth, director of the Computing
Center of Taylor University, Upland, Indiana, for picking up this item from a recent
piece of Indiana.
Donald N. Larson, professor of linguistics and anthropology at Bethel College, St.
Paul, Minnesota, will begin a sabbatical year on July 15, 1972. He will serve as
consultant at the Union Language School in Bangkok, Thailand. Don would like to
get acquainted with any other ASA members who'll be in Bangkok or that part of the
world during his stay there.
John R. Meyer has received a third-year postdoctoral fellowship to study computer
analysis of carotid nerve activity control of ventilation, at the Cardiovascular
Pulmonary Research Lab of the U. of Colorado Medical Center in Denver. John is also
organizing the Creation Science Institute in Denver. He recently completed a 15day tour of New Brunswick Canada, speaking 46 times to well over 5,000 people on
the case for special creation. The Creation Science Institute will be primarily
involved in presenting lectures and seminars through fundamental Baptist churches.
Claude E. Stipe, anthropologist at Marquette University, Milwaukee, and newly
elected member of the ASA Executive Council, had a paper on "Eastern Dakota Clans:
The Solution of a Problem", in American Anthropologist 73 (5), 1031-5 (October 1971).
Claude also received an "Outstanding Educators of America" award for 1971.
Garret Vanderkooi of the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, presented the "lead-off" paper at a conference on "Membrane Structure
and Its Biological Applications" sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences
June 2-4, 1971. According to a report in Science 174, 863-7 (19 November 1971),
Garret's paper on detailed molecular structural models for the disk membrane of the
rod outer-segment, and for the membrane formed by cytochrome oxidase, set the tone
for the whole conference. There were 40 participants on the program and about 700
in attendance.
Lee Hayward Dunning, 7209 East 29th St., Tucson, Arizona 85710. Student. BS
Rensselaer Poly. Inst. in Geol., Engin.; MS in Ed. Siena College in Educ.; MST Union
College in Biology, Physics. Rank: Member
Kenneth R. Engh, 3622 W. El Camino Dr., Phoenix, Arizona 85021, Instructor at DeVry
Inst. of Technology. BS Arizona State University in Math. Rank: Member
Jimmie J. Abel, Box 37, SBC Walnut Ridge, Arkansas 72476. Prof. of Physical Science
at Southern Baptist College. AA Southwest Baptist College in History, Language; BA
William Jewell College in Hist., Language; MA Univ. of Northern Iowa in ScienceS
Physics. Rank: Member
Robert W. Franklin, 1640-B Ashby St., Berkeley, Calif. 94703. Teaching Asst. AB
Harvard in Physics, Math. Rank: Member
Peter R. Chastain, Box 887, Belmont, Calif. 94002. Engineer, Far East Broadcasting
Company. BS Univ. of Calif., Davis. Rank: Member
Juanita Blackwell, 6122 Nagel St., LaMesa, Calif. 92041. BA San Diego State College
in Soc. Science, English. Rank: Member
Arden H. Lrame, Jr., 1690 N. Altadena Dr., Altadena, Calif. 91001. Supervisory Los
Angeles County Dept. of Parks & Recreation. BA, MS Univ. of Calif. in Biology.
Rank: Member
Lionel A.-Richardson, 10945 S. W. 177 Ter., Miami, Florida 33160. Chief, Training
Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, Primate Res. Lab. BS West Virginia Univ.
in Agr., Chem.; MS Unif. oc Kentucky in Agr., Biochem.; Ph.D. Univ. of Minnesota
in Dairy, Chemistry. Rank: Member
Ronald G. Dean, Box 188, Franklin Springs, Ga. 30639. Instructor at Emmanuel
College. On leave of absence for grad. work at Univ. of Ga. AB East Carolina Univ.
in Physics, Math.; MA Southern 111. Univ. in Physics. Rank: Member
Warren Lee, 809 S. Busey Ave., Urbana, Ill. 61801. Student. BS Univ. of Calif.,
Berkeley in E. E. Rank: Member
William R. Merrifield, Dept. of Soc. & Anthropology, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.
60187. BA Wheaton College in Bible; MA, Ph.D. Cornell Univ. in Linguistics and
Anthropology. Rank: Member
Robert B. Wilhelmson, 906 W. Nevada #10, Urbana, Ill. 61801. Grad. Res. Asst. BS
Wheaton College in Math.; MS Univ. of Ill. in Computer Science. Rank: Member
Linda Kay Ratts, 900 So. 33rd St., Mattoon, Ill. 61938. Housewife. BS in Ed. at
Eastern Ill. Univ. in English, History. Rank: Associate
Duane E. Stevens, 3226 35th Ave., Rock Island, Ill. 61201. Student at Wheaton
College. Rank: Associate
Michael V. Lindsey, Room 2304, 5825 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60637. Student.
Rank: Associate
Thomas M. Nordlund, 1010 W. Green, Rm. 724, Urbana, Ill. 61801. Teaching Asst.
Univ. of Ill. BA Univ. of Oregon in Physics, Math. Rank: Member
Theodore T. Y. Hsieh, 1151 N. State St., Elgin, Ill. 60120. Chairman and Asst.
Prof. in Psychology at Judson College. BA Trinity College in Soc. Sciences; MA
Trinity Evan. Div. School in Missions; MA Northern Ill. Univ. in Psychology.
Rank: Member
Paul E. Johnson, 101 Reba Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906. Extension Agricultural Engineer at Purdue University. BS in Ag., Math.; MS in Ag. Engr.; MS Ed
in Administration - all at Purdue University. Rank; Member
Mary Alice Kenney, 926 Arizona, Ames, Iowa 50010. Assoc. Prof. of Food and Nutrition at Iowa State University. BS Texas Tech., Lubbock in Home Ec. Ed.; MS, Ph.D.
at Iowa State Univ. in Nutrition,, Biochem., Physiology. Rank: Member
Chi Choon Lee, 3550 Nicholson Dr., #1095, Baton Rouge, La. 70802. Grad. student.
BS at Seoul National Univ., Korea in Elec. Engr.; MS at LSU in Elec. Engr. Rank:
Member
Talivaldis Ivars Smits, 2811 Crest Ave., Cheverly, Md. 20785. Assoc. Prof. of
Elec. Engr. at The Catholic University of America, Washington D. C. BS Univ. of
Minn.; MS, Ph.D. Univ. of Minn. - all in Elec. Engr., Math. Rank: Member
John O'Dell Dunning, 221 Stoney Run Lane, Baltimore, Md. 21210. Grad. student at
Johns Hopkins Univ. AB Princeton Univ. in Biology, Chemistry. Rank: Member
Shirley F. Morris, 904 Dulaney Valley Court, Towson, Md. 21204. Teacher Baltimore
County Board of Education. BA Gordon College in History, Educ., MA Boston Univ. in
History. Rank: Member
Russell R. aCmp, 35 Village Lane, S. Hamilton, Mass. 01984. Asst. Prof. at Gordon
College. BS Baldwin-Wallace College in Biology; MA Miami Univ. in Botany and Zool.;
Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin in Botany, Zoology. Rank: Member
Meng Hee Tan, 126 Longwood Avenue, Brookline, Mass. 02146. Res. Fellow in Medicine,
Harvard Univ., Medical Research Council of Canada and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
BS Dalhousie U., Halifax in Biology, Chemistry; MD Dalhousie U.~ Halifax. Rank:
Member
Dean F. Miller, 705 Pawnee Trail, Temperance, Mich. 48182. Asst. Prof. of Health
at Univ. of Toledo. BS Wheaton College in PE, Biology; MS, Ph.D. Indiana Univ. in
Health Science. Rank: Member
Vern L. Huber, 3505 Curtis St., Hudsonville, Mich, 49426. Mathematics teacher at
Covenant Christian High School. BS Colorado State U. in Math., Ed.; MA Western
Michigan U. in Math. Rank: Member
Ronald B. Nicholas, 325 Drake Rd., Duluth, Minn. 55803. campus Staff Member InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. BS Univ. of Minn., Duluth in Soc. Sci., Phil.
Rank: Member (Missionary)
Dick Garey, 5722 Bryant Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. 55419. In training at MEDCOMP
Research Corp. as a computer programmer. BS Mankato State College in physics, Math.
Rank: Member
Harold F. Roellig, 27-03 203 St., Bayside, New York 11360. Asst. Prof. Earth
Science Dept. Adelphi University. AA Concordia College; Ph.D. Columbia Univ. in
Paleontology. Rank: Member
Karen G. Bach, 6 Elmcrest Circle, Ithaca, New York 14850. Student. BS Houghton
College in Zoology, Math. Rank:
Member
Donald H. Gent, 443 Guy Park Ave., Amsterdam, New York,J2010. Director, Montgomery
County Mental Health Clinic. BA Hamilton College in Biology, Chemistry; MD Columbia
University. Rank: Member
Paul R. Cook, 6751 Webster Rd., Westfield, New York 14787. Teacher at Brocton Central School.' BA Houghton College in Special Ministerial; MS Rensselaer P. I. in
Natural Science; MS SUNY in Physics. Rank: Member
Oklahoma
William W. Redmond, 3713 S. Winston, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135. Asst. Prof. Oral
Roberts Univ. and Consulting Chem. Engr. BS Univ. of N. Dak.; MS Univ. of Mich. -
all in Chem. Engr. Rank: Member
Pennsylvania
W. Barry Yoder, Box 114-D, Rt. 1, Perkasie, Pa. 18944. Asst. Prof. Philadelphia
College of Bible. BS East Stroudsburg State College in Chem., Soc. Studies; MA
Lehigh Univ. in Ed. Rank: Member
Richard A. Leo, 517 Woodland, Grove City, Pa. 16127. Asst. Prof. of Physics at
Grove City College. BS Arizona State U. in Physics, Math.; MS Univ. of Minn. in
Physics, E. E. Rank: Member
South Carolina
Gilbert G. Parkinson, Box 445, Due West, South Carolina 29639. Head, Dept. of
Physical Science at Erskine College. AB Erskine College in Chem., English; Ph.D.
at Columbia Univ. in Chemistry, English. Rank: Member
Texas
Thomas R. Crompton, 3507 Beryl Lane, El Paso, Texas 79904. Representative, The
Navigators. BS S. Dak. State Univ. in Engr. Physics. Rank: Member - Missionary
Canada
Andrew M. Kramer Apt. 6, 251 Mohawk Rd. E., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Teacher
Hamilton District Christian High School. BA Univ. of Waterloo in Chem. Engr.
Rank: Member