NEWSLETTER
of
 THE AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION

VOLUME 17, NUMBER 1        FEBRUARY 1975



BUSWELL ELECTED TO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL; WILLIS BECOMES ASA PRESIDENT

Newly elected to a five-year term on the five-member ASA Executive Council is James 0  Buswell, III, professor of sociology and anthropology at Trinity College, Deerfield, IL Jim has a B.A. from Wheaton College, M.A, from the U. of Pennsylvania, and ' PhD from St. Louis University, all in anthropology. He has published many articles on the relationship of anthropology to Christianity, including some 20 in Journal ASA. A member of ASA since 1949, he has served on executive councils of several ASA local sections, on the Journal editorial committee, and on the program committee for an ASA Annual Meeting. Jim is a member of the Evangelical Free Church.

Jim replaces retiring council member and ASA president Gary R. Collins. The new president of ASA is David L. Willis, professor of biology and chairman of the Department of General Science at Oregon State University, Corvallis. Dave has bachelor's degrees from Biola and Wheaton College, an M.A. from California State Collage at Long Beach, and a PhD in radiation biology from Oregon State. He automatically becomes president of ASA, having been elected "president-elect" last year by the Executive Council.

Other members of the Executive Council are chemist John W. Haas, Jr. of Gordon College (Wenham, Mass.); anthropologist Claude E. Stipe of Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wis.); and chemist Dewey K. Carpenter of Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.).

SUMMER INSTITUTE TO WORK ON CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

The Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, graduate school of the Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship, invites participation by ASA members and other Christian scholars in its 1975 Summer Institute on "The Philosophy of the Physical Sciences."

Seminars will be led by Dr. M. D. Stafleu, a theoretical pbysicist from the Netherlands, and Dr. Arie Leegwater, a chemist at Trinity Christian College in Chicago. Dr. Stafleu, who conducted similar seminars in 1970, will lecture from material in his new book manuscript, which will be mailed to seminar participants along with a selected biography in time to read before the seminars begin. The philosophical basis of the manuscript is for the most part that of Herman Dooyeweerd. Scholars able to assist in editing Stafleu's manuscript are also needed.

Applicants should have worked beyond the doctorate level in math, physics, chemistry, or a related area, and have a strong interest in the theoretical foundations of the physical sciences. Deadline for applications is March 1. Applicants are asked to express a preference among five two-week periods, with final choice of dates to be published by March 15. If selected dates are not suitable, the $25 registration fee will be refunded. Total cost of the two-week seminar will be $100. Information about accommodations will be suppliled on request. Participation will be limited to about fifteen persons in order to assure productive discussions.


Robert VanderVennen of AACS feels that this is the kind of theoretical work, at the level of the beat philosophical scholarship of the day, that ASA "could well be doing and urging its members to do together." If you wish to participate, write to Bob immediately for a brochure and application form, at Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship, 229 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T IR4, Canada (where the sessions will be held). Tel. (416) 923-3921.

ARE WE NEGLECTING PASTORS?

In his December letter to the membership, retiring president Gary Collins listed five characteristics appropriate for the work of Christians in science. Thomas Key (2633 Regal Circle, Lawrenceville, GA 30245) has his own list of  "areas between science and Christianity":

1. Apologetics: defense of the faith, confirmation of our beliefs. Polemics: correction of false beliefs, attacking heresy.

3. Technology: assisting missionaries, pastors, and other witnesses with technological facts, skills, and equipment.

4. Exegesis: assisting in interpreting Scripture (e.g., archaeology, linguistics, science history, cosmology, etc.).

5. Illustration: shedding light on scriptural terms such as "salt of the earth, pearl of great price, living water, bread of heaven, root of Jesse, lamb of God, born again, etc." and literally hundreds more concepts like these that make excellent lessons or sermon topics. "In my opinion," says Tom, "the ASA has done a-lot of good in certain of these five areas, but it seems out of balance. Our Lord and Creator emphasized the last of these but ASA has essentially ignored it. There is a vast treasure of spirisual truth in the nature illustrations in the Bible. Pastors typically ignore them, or make only limited use of them. Unfortunately, they sometimes make inaccurate use of them."

Tom says he has communicated his concern to-several "shining lights" in ASA, but they feel that such illustrations lie outside the scope of ASA's Journal. He proposes establishing a regular section in JASA devoted to "scriptural illustrations taken from nature."

Anybody want to correspond with ASA News or with Tom -about this? (I'm all for refining the "homily grist," Tom, but I guess I agree that our Journal isn't the best place for it. Proposals that .ASA launch a popular science/faith magazine that thousands of pastors and lay persons would read keep smashing up against financial reality. But couldn't individual ASA members or small groups be publishing such ' material in their own denominational papers, or in magazines like Christianity Today and Eternity? Then maybe Tom or somebody could make a collection of these homiletic helps to publish in book form for pastors. Any other ideas?--Ed.)

ON THE TRACT OF A TRACT. CHAPTER 3

(For earlier episodes of "The Strange Testimony of a Scientist," see Aug. 1974 and Oct. 1974 issues of ASA News.)

Richard A. Hendry of Westminster College, New Wilmington, Penna., is the latest to contribute some detective work to our search for one "N. Jerome Stowell,11 author of that strange but widely distributed evangelistic tract. Being a chemist, Dick started with Chemical Abstracts. Searching decennial and collective index volumes,' he found one reference to an N. J. Stowell:- a Nathan J. Stowell got a patent with James Hughes (U.S. No. 3,084,207) on a storage battery application, but no company, or other connection was mentioned (CA 58P 13455e). Could Nathan J. be N. Jerome?

Then a librarian helped Dick look up The Midnight Cry. Publications by that name go back to the 1800s, but the latest one began in 1930. Both the New York Historical Society and the Library of Congress have back issues, according to one of the Periodical Listings. Publisher of the 1930 one was listed as the Friends of Truth Society, Bethlehem, Penna. According to Frank Mead's handbook on denominations, Friends of Truth was an early name of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Dick asks, "Might the antiviolence theme in the tract hint that it had been written by a Quaker?"

Anybody else want to play detective and pick it up from there?

HAROLD HILL AND NASA'S MISSING DAY

Our tract-tracking efforts led Robert C. Newman. associate professor of New Testament at Biblical School of Theology,  to send us a copy of his article, "The Longest Day," in United Evangelical for August 23, 1974, Readers of Journal ASA may recall correspondence in the Sept. 1970 and March 1971 issues about a report from Mr. Harold Hill, president of the Curtis Engine Co., Baltimore, Md., that NASA's computers had verified Joshua's long day. Hill stuck to his story when queried by editor Dick Bube. but was vague and evasive about his sources.

In Bob Newman's article, the main features of the "long day hoax" are traced back to before both NASA and electronic computersl In fact, the source seems to be doubtful calculations made by Charles A. L. Totten, professor of military science at Yale, in Joshua's leng Day and the Dial of Ahaz, published in 1890, and picked up by Harry Rimmer in his 1936 The Harmony of Science and Scripture.

Detective Newman concludes: "Totten's work has no foundation independent of the Bible, and it is questionable whether he has properly understood Scripture in regard to his fixed point, the date of creation. Sometime between Totten's work in 1890 and Rimmer's in 1936, the results were put in the form of a dramatic story in which Totten becomes a bystander and a skeptical astronomer is the principal calculator. Since 1936, the story has apparently been updated by the addition of 'space age' features, including NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center scientists to replace the lone astronomer, and computers to speed up the tedious calculations."

Bob encourages us to keep on the track. He warns apologetes not to "bend" the truth even a little to make a stronger argument: "In the long run, when God allows the truth to come to light, such lies only give unbelievers modern examples by which to claim that the Bible writers were guilty of the same things. Our attempt to 'help' God thus becomes an argument for unbelief. Instead, Christians should have such zeal for the truth that unbelievers will come to see that we really have it."

 REGENERATIVE FEEDBACK

We oscillate when little notes come in scribbled on news items: "Enjoy ASA News. Keep up the good work." Feedback about how we've done somebody some good comes less often but is even more regenerative. Like these, for instance:

"...At the time we thought we ha d filled the position but later found we had not. I noticed in the most recent issue that I is still looking for a position. I have just written to him asking that he contact me again. He is, however, about to return to the States and I wonder if you would check with him on his return to see if he had heard from me. I think we might be seriously interested in placing
him so you would be doing me a great favor."

 "...Requests still come in occasionally for both the booklet and the syllabus mentioned in ASA News. You might be interested to know that the requests tend to be impassioned calls for help and expressions of happiness that someone possibly has something helpful. For answering these requests, I've prepared a form letter describing changes I've made since the material enclosed was first used and giving several specific suggestions based on my experience teaching the course."

 "In ASA News some time ago there was a request by someone for a concrete tester made from local 3rd World materials--I think it was someone stationed in Pakistan. My engineering students are interested in 'doing' the tester. Will you please look up the it,jkr~ and send me a copy? Thanks much."

WORKADAY WORLD

Florence M. Best (727 Bellevue Ave. E., Seattle, WA 98102) wonders if ASA News readers coii1d supply her with some references on the Christian in the work situation. She says she finds much written on Christian interpersonal relationships (dating, marriage, families, groups, etc.), but very little on relations between employees and employers, administrators, etc. "Has anyone addressed himself to a Christian work ethic, to relationships on the job, to attitudes toward work itself, to the sale of qualities such as loyalty, honesty, unselfishness, etc.?"

We hope Florence gets some response. Christians have begun to write knowledgeably on larger problems of industrialization, at least in Europe: cf. Jacque Ellul's The Technological Society and H. F. R. Catherwood's The Christian in Industrial Society. A few years ago, reading The Christian Grad-uate (Inter-Varsity Fellowship, 39 Bedford Square, London WClB 3EY, England), I noted that the "Management Study Group" often used its section of the magazine to discuss the individual and his work. A paper by Mary Miles on "The Christian and Work" appeared in CG for March 1971. In the June 1971 issue, Malcolm Langton recommended several paperbacks "For the Christian Starting Work," such as Randle Manwaring's The Christian's Guide to Daily Work (Hodder & Stoughton) and Barry Palmer & David Durston's On the Job (Falcon Books). These are probably hard to find in the U.S.

There is a Reformed group known as the Christian Labor Association of Canada (100 Rexdale Blvd., Rexdale, Ontario, Canada) which may have some publications on this subject, but I haven't seen them.

With regard to employment as a scientist, Ian G. Barbour's " Christianity and the Scientist (Association Press, New York, 1960) is the most helpful book I've found. The section on "Ethical Practice" in The Scientist and Ethical Decision (Charles Hatfield, ed., IV Press, Downers Grove, Ill., 1973) has a few things to say about the scientist's workaday world. (Should ASA be putting together a pamphlet or whole book on this subject?)

HOW TO START SOMETHING No. 21. JACK SPARKS

ASA members regard ourselves as called by God to follow his Son, Jesus Christ. Most of us also regard scientific work as our "calling." We thank God for the interesting and constructive work He gives us to do in the world of ideas as well as the workaday world. For many of us, science is a lifelong calling, but all of us seek to follow Christ wherever he leads, in or out of scientific work.

 The world changes, science and technology change, people change. Our Lord calls some of us to change directions completely, to find new ways to carry out his unchangeable purpose in a changing world. Sometimes he uses changing economic conditions to give us new work to do. Sometimes he leads us individually through his Spirit and his Word to go In a new direction. And no matter how different our new 11calling," we usually find that our scientific training and experience are still useful. Nothing is wasted in the Lord's economy.
Jack Sparks became a Christian soon after he got out of the army in 1954. He already had a B.S. from Purdue and an M.A. from the U. of Iowa, and he went back to Iowa City to complete his PhD in education in 1960. For five years he headed the Bureau of Research, Services at Colorado State College in Greeley, before becoming associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at Penn State in 1965. Jack taught statistics but he also served as an associate staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ. In 1968 he resigned to become a full-time Campus Crusade staffer and moved with his wife Esther and four kids to San Bernardino, California. People who knew him say that Jack was pretty "straight," introspective,, and academic in those days. You should see him now.

Jack's new book, God's Forever Family (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 1974). 287 pp., paper, $1.95), is a frank, personal account of the founding of the "Christian World Liberation Front" in Berkeley and the first five years of CWLF's development. We can give only hints of it here, but we heartily recommend God's Forever Family for the full story of a contemporary ministry in an urban, university, counterculture, 11revolutionary" setting.

Riots on the U.C. Berkeley campus in 1969 led Jack and Esther and two other couples to pray about moving to "where the action is," feeling that "we, who are Christians, have avoided being where things get violent and have avoided interacting with the people who are trying to make change happen." Tear-gassed in a street riot their first day in Berkeley, they felt helpless and unsure of how to proceed. Prayerfully they began to experiment with some of the techniques of the Third World Liberation Front and other "movements." They began producing leaflets about the revolutionary program of Jesus to bring new life to people and ultimately to society. At first they were threatened, spit on, and cursed by radicals who either hated religion or feared their political aims would be "co-opted" by Jack and his friends.

Gradually they won recognition and even respect, partly because they were willing to "drop out" of middle-class society and identify with "street people" in the radical scene. They tried to think of creative ways to meet the physical and emotional needs of such people as well as their spiritual needs. Individuals began to respond to the message of Christ in their own language.

A CWLF paraphrase of the New Testament epistles, Letters to Street Christians (Zondervan, paper, $1.65), was published in 1971. Romans 1:1 begins: "From brothers who see themselves as slaves to Jesus the Liberator, chosen by the Father to tell his Good News on the streets..." Romans 7 ends: "...When I want to do right, I get messed over by the wrong desires of my human,nature. On a spiritual level I can really get behind God's law, but the law of my human nature fights a war with me--and wins. My life with Jesus tells me to do what's right. But my human nature loves to do wrong. Messed up like this, how can I ever get rid of that lousy human nature? Thank you, Jesus! It's your problem, not Ours!"

 Soon there were new members of God's "forever family" to care for. Christian houses were established, and a ranch up in the mountains to give kids a break from the angry, dope-hazed, sex-confused, occult-shrouded rebellion that was their whole life before they became Christians. Some didn't last, but others did. New Christians off the street began to join the young college graduates and drop-outs who heard about CWLF and came to Berkeley to live on a subsistence level and minister to their own generation.

Some of the things CWLF has done have been creative responses to immediate situations in the fluid Berkeley scene. For example, when Billy Graham had a crusade in the Oakland Coliseum, how could CWLF get street people and students to go hear him? They formed a "People's Committee to Investigate Billy Graham" and chartered a bus to cruise slowly down Telegraph Avenue with a "freak" in the doorway proclaiming through a bullhorn: "People of Berkeley! Investigate Graham! Find out what he's saying. Is he a threat to the community? Is he really a prophet of God? Is he a lunatic? Is he a political agent of Nixon? Who is this man? Come to the Coliseum and find out. Free rides both ways. People's free buses returning at 10: 30! " ,

The buses were jammed every night. According to God's Forever Family, "More than a year later there were still people in the fellowship of believers in Berkeley who had come toknow Jesus the night they stepped on that bus."
One of CWLF's leafleting gambits might be of special interest to ASA members. In 1973, when the XIII International Congress of Genetics met on the Berkeley campus, delegates were handed a sheet of paper that read: (A few weeks later, the ASA News editor got a call from the young CWLF staffer who was the "DNA Information-Committee.' He didn't know beans (genes?) about genetics, he said, but somebody ought to respond to the two professors who had requested more information. So WRH wrote as a fellow scientist to introduce them to the gospel.)

Some CWLF ministries have had longer-lasting effects and reach out far beyond Berkeley. David Gill., an ASA member now in a doctoral program in church history at USC, played a role in the development of Right On, a well-rounded monthly newspaper, Right On still challenges both establishment counter-culture with the claims of Christ and the church with a call to radical discipleship. David also helped launch "Crucible," a Christian "free university" now in its third year. "Berkeley Street Theater" continues to grasp the attention of passers-by with dramatic guerrilla-style presentations of Christian truth. CWLF is "where the action is"
for sure, and now provides some of the action itself.

A new ministry that is definitely reaching beyond Berkeley is the "Spiritual Counterfeits Alert." Two CWLF staff members, Brooks Alexander and David Fetcho, are developing extensive files on all of the occult, psychic, and mystical groups of any significance operating in North America, and a reference library on all levels of traditional and contemporary esoteric thought. Their location in an area on which non-Christian spiritual activity is focused enables them to analyze trends and movements that will in time flow out to the rest of the country. They are preparing literature to alert Christians to what is coming. But they also need to hear from Christians outside of Berkeley about what is already going on elsewhere. Brooks and David will be glad to make you a part of their intelligence network if you send a note saying "Put me on your mailing list" to: Spiritual Counterfeits Alert, % Christian World Liberation Front, P. 0. Box 4309, Berkeley, CA 94704.

The same CWLF post office box will do to order God's Forever Family or Letters to Street Christians (also available from Christin Bookstores), subscribe to Right On. ask for copies of CWLF newsletters or other publications, or send a contribution to some brothers and sisters who don't have much to live on. It's also where we'll send Jack Sparks a dozen copies of our "Scientist's Psalm" greeting cards to thank him for his contribution to HOW TO START SOMETHING. Or maybe we'll just hike down there and hand 'em to him.

Yours, we'll mail. Just tell us what you've started, and how.
NEW EDITION OF SCIENCE, MAN, AND SOCIETY

An expanded and updated second edition of Robert B. Fischer's text, Science, Man, and Society, is due to be published this n;o-nth by W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. According to a publisher's flyer, discussion questions and review problems have been added at the end of each chapter, plus new material on "Basic Science and Applied Science" and "The Classification of Scientific Disciplines" and many new illustrations. Emphasis is on the nature of science and its relation to technology, education, public policy, and the individual citizen. Bob Fischer is dean of science at California State College, Dominguez Hills, and a past president of ASA.

TWO SIGNIFICANT BOOKS PUBLISHED IN DECEMBER

The Urban Mission (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1974. 230 pp., paper, $3.95) was edited by Craig W. Ellison, assistant professor of psychology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. Craig is currently familiar to ASA members as director of the International Conference on Human Engineering and the Future of Man to be held at Wheaton College in Illinois, July 21-24, 1975. The Urban Mission is his first book, a collection of 22 essays showing evangelicals how to "get it together" for effective Christian witness in the cities. One of the essays is by Craig's colleague Ronald M. Enroth, chairman of the sociology department at Westmont. "Highly recommended" by Christianity Today--and ASA News.

What They Did Right: Reflections on Parents by Their Children (T ndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois, 1974. 294 pp., paper, $3.95) was edited by Virginia Hearn, wife of the ASA News editor. A collection of 38 autobiographies by Christians who think their parents did something right in raising them, this book offers a lot of practical ideas and encouragement for Christian parents. The diver
sity is fascinating, both in the people writing and in the homes they recall. Six ASA members are among the authors: Jerry D. Albert, James E. Berney, Michael L. Chambers, David Gill. Walter R. Hearn and M. 0. Vincent. In addition, Margery B. Berney ( Berney's wife), Sharon E. Bube and Betty J. M. Bube (Dick Bubels daughter and wife), Beatrice Cairns (Edward Cairns' sister), Dawn FrRsieur (Forest Frasier's wife), Jean Sutherland (Brian Sutherland's wife), Joan Terpstra (Vern is sister), and Virginia Hearn (Walt Hearn's wife) all contributed chapters. "Highly recommended"--by all of the above!

SERVING CHRIST WITH SCIENTIFIC INSIGHT

Of all branches of science represented in ASA, anthropology seems to offer some of the most direct applications to Christianity. For years in Practical Anthropology and now in its quarterly successor, Missiology: An International Review ($8 per year, P. 0. Box 1041, New Canaan, CT 06840), anthropoloi~its have been making their insights available for use by the body of Christ. The July 1974 issue of Missiology has at least two fine articles by ASA members:

Charles H. Kraft, associate professor of anthropology and African studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, discusses "Ideological Factors in Intercultural Communication." The four principles Charles describes as important in 11getting an idea across" to someone with a different ideology seem eminently practical, for example, in witnessing to scientific colleagues: Find a common frame of reference, establish credibility, apply the message specifically to human experience, and enable the other person to make his or her own discovery of the insight or information we want to transmit.

Miriam Ann Adeney, PhD candidate in anthro at Washington State University, Pullman, discusses "What is 'Natural' About Witchcraft and Sorcery?" Her article encourages Christian leaders faced with these problems to work out satisfying alternatives after probing into the natural lines of tension in the local social structure. Many Christians who would be highly rational and skeptical about many other kinds of phenomena seem to "freak out" and turn off their minds when confronted by alleged supernatural powers. Miriam speaks to them without putting them down:

"I personally believe that some witchcraft and sorcery are the operation of genuine supernatural powers, probably personified. My own relationship with a supernatural God, statements in Scripture, and data reported by some thoughtful non-an'-'.ropologists are the basis for my belief. But while we can be vigorously confident that the power of God is the supreme antidote to malevolent powers, I do not believe that this confidence should prevent us from making intelligent use of sociulogical knowledge about witchcraft and sorcery."
GETTIN' IT ON IN BOSTON

David A. Saunders of the Boston Biomedical Research Institute wants ASA News readers to know out the Evangelical Committee for Urban Ministries in Boston ECUMB), with which he has come in contact. ECUMB exists primarily to channel the economic, political, and technical resources of white evangelicals into black-initiated and blackdirected urban ministries. Currently these include tutoring, occupational therapy for children with learning disabilities, scholarships for minority students at Christian colleges, food for the poor, personal counseling, and street ministries in conjunction with Young Life.

ECUMB publishes a bi-monthly nationally distributed magazine called Inside, whose local editorial advisory board is fully integrated. About half the issues speak to problems of racial-urban-social justice, the other half to more culture-wide topics, such as sexuality, economics, art, and social competition. The July-August 1974 issue was on "Mysticism," for example, and the Sept.-Oct. issue on "Security?" (That issue includes an article on "Waking Up in Suburbia" by Walt Hearn., by the way, and other articles on Christian life-style beautifully interdigitated with excerpts from T. S. Eliot's Choruses From the Rock.) Inside editor Roger L. Dewey has described the work of ECUMB in "A Comprehensive Model for Evangelical Urban Involvement" in Craig Ellison's new book, The Urban Mission (see earlier story).

Anyone can subscribe to Inside for $4 per year, but the average subscriber donates over $25 a year. Address: ECUMB, 130 Warren Street, Boston, Mass. 02119.

 OUR (BOARD)MAN IN PAKISTAN

 Donald C. Boardman, Wheaton College professor and a past president of ASA, has written us from Pakistan, where he is a visiting professor in the department of geology he helped set up at the University of Peshawar on an earlier leave of absence from Wheaton. Don says the political activities of the students and the English external examination system make his teaching somewhat frustrating, but It some students are learning something and a few are outstanding by any standards." Don is trying to make arrangements for graduate students to get their course work at American universities and do their thesis research back in Pakistan.

In spite of recent bombing of the American Center in Peshawar, Don and Bettie feel perfectly safe and have many friends among the Pakistanis. On their 6,800-mile automobile trip from Munich through Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan to Peshawar, and in Pakistan, they have seen a lot of geology and met a lot of people. Theylve been particularly inspired by seeing the Lord's work carried on by missionaries, including a number of Wheaton alumni. "We feel so fortunate in having these friends and trust we are able to be some encouragement to them." Don has even found a couple of prospective members for ASA out there--which should inspire all of us to keep turning over rocks.

CONSULTING FOR APOLLO AND PLUTO

Vernon Grose, vice-president of Tustin Institute of Technology in Santa Barbara, California, is an engineering and management consultant. A story in the Nov. 15 Van Nuys (Ca.) News informs us that in ceremonies at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Vern was recently presented the NASA "Silver Snoopy" award by Brig. General Tom Stafford. Stafford is the veteran Gemini 6, Gemini 9, and Apollo 10 astronaut who is commander of the upcoming Apollo-Soyuz joint U.S.-Soviet space venture. The Silver Snoopy medal is awared only on recommendation of astronauts to persons who "have demonstrated professional excellence in contributing to the success of space missions."

Vern's award had to do with his contributions to system safety. He has taught system management at all the NASA centers, and has himself held several key management positions in the space program in southern California, He was formerly director of applied technology at Northrop Ventura and chief of reliability at Rocketdyne.

Another story we picked from the Washington (D.C.) Post last summer described Vern as a consultant for the Washington D.C. Metro system. Again involved in safety considerations, Vern had written a report on fire hazards from certain synthetic materials used in the subway's rapid rail cars now being built in Georgia. Vern, who holds a professorship in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at George Washington University, was assigned by Metro's engineering consultant firm to review warnings by the D.C. fire marshal about polyurethane seat  cushions and polyvinyl chloride wall panels. Vern reported that although these plastics do give off toxic HCN and HCL gases when burned, the danger from fire in the electrically propelled cars is very slight, much less than that in commercial aircraft.

(Since Apollo gives Snoopy awards, and Pluto was the god of the "underground," we wonder if the Metro awards a "Popeye's Pupil medal.)

PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS

 Kenneth. Aring (Point Loma College, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, CA 92106) seeks a position teaching undergraduate physics. He has a B.A. from U.C. Riverside and a PhD from Cornell, in physics. In addition to teaching physics at several colleges, Ken has taught high school science and math, a wide variety of college math courses, and engineering drawing and graphics.

John E. Kroll (6244-B Rodman St., Hollywood, FL 33023) seeks a position primarily in_teaching. He received his PhD in 1973 from Yale in the Department of Engineering and Applied Science, and is currently doing post-doctoral theoretical research in physical oceanography at the Nova Oceanographic Laboratory (Dania, FL 33004). John would consider teaching general engineering, applied science, applied math, or oceanography.

Norman E. Shank (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Zambia, P. 0. Box 2379, Lusaka, Zambia) seeks a chemistry teaching position in a college or university any time after May, 1975. He has a B.S. from Eastern Mennonite College (1965) and a PhD in physical chemistry from Ohio State (1969). Norman is presently a lecturer in chemistry and assistant dean of natural sciences at the U. of Zambia. His research experience in the field of chemical kinetics includes post-doctoral research at the U. of Leeds, England.

Daniel R. Tucker (Dept. of Geology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056) is completing his PhD in geology and seeks employment as a teacher at a university or (preferably) a small college. He has affiliated with IVCF in the past and would like to work with a campus Christian group in some advisory capacity. His special interests in geology include field geology, igneous and metamorphic petrology, stratigraphy, and structure.
POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE

Geneva College in Pennsylvania is looking for a new head librarian, effective this summer or no later than September 1975. Contact Dr. William H. Russell, Dean, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA 15010. (Received 10 Dec. 1974)

Epiphanes K. Balian, M.D., of Maine seeks other psychiatrists to join him in private psychiatri practice. "Salary negotiable; opportunities unlimited. Area has plenty of hunting, fishing, skiing, and clean air." Send vita and letter of recommendation to Epiphanes K. Balian, M.D., 45 Hogan Road, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone (207) 947-7186. (Received 14 Dec. 1974)

Taylor University in Indiana is seeking applications from PhD's in sociology for a position to open in September 1975. "Good opportunity for empirical sociologist. Rank and salary negotiable. An early decision will be made." Contact Dr. Robert D. Pitts, Dean, Taylor University, Upland, IN 46989. (Received 23 Dec. 1974)

Grove City College in Pennsylvania seeks (1) and accounting teacher, and (2) a manager of data processing. The manager of data processing would have appropriate faculty rank, teach in the area of data processing and/or computer science, and have complete administrative responsibility for all DP equipment, operation, and personnel on campus. Salary approx. $15,000 for 12 months, one month vacation. "A fully accredited college of liberal arts, sciences, business administration, and engineering, with United Presbyterian affiliation. Enrollment limited to 2,100. Beautiful 150-acre campus in rural western Pennsylvania. Grove City population is 8,000." Contact Dr. Edward G. Groesbeck, Dean, Grove City College, Grove City, PA 16127. (Received 23 Dec. 1974)

 Westmont College in California is inviting immediate applications and nominations to the position of vice president and academic dean for July 1975. "The college is looking for someone with evidence of scholarly achievement, college-level teaching, administrative experience, and an earned doctorate or the equivalent." Contact Dr. Ronald Enroth, Dean Search Committee, Westmont College, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. (Received 23 Dec. 1974)

Bluffton College in northwest Ohio has an opening for an assistant professor of psychology beginning September 1975. "Priority on developmental and educational psychology. PhD preferred. Salary open. The college is affiliated with the General Conference Mennonite Church and seeks to integrate Christian faith and human knowledge. Current enrollment is 650 students. An equal opportunity/affirmative action employer." Send application, resum4, and credentials to Dr. Elmer Neufeld, Dean, Bluffton College, Bluffton, OH 45817. (Received 30 Jan. 1975)

The Growth Plan is now officially over. I want to thank each of you who helped us in this effort because the main contribution to the large membership gains came from individual members. During the Growth Plan we added 622 new members and 257 new subscribers for a total of 879. This was short of our goal of 1,000 yet it was nearly double the best previous year of growth. Let us join in thanksgiving to God for this fine increase and for the potential that each of these individuals represent for the future ministry of the ASA.

To give you some idea of the kind of increase we experienced I compiled the following
chart of the twelve largest areas:


                                       1973 1974     %
                         Area Membership                        Membership    Increase

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


These figures represent the "net" increase for each area taking into account members who drop and those who moved in or out. There were some excellent gains in other areas with the record being in Newfoundland which went from 1 member to 7 (if only we could do that everywhere). Another smaller area which did well in net gain was Louisiana-Mississippi which had a 84.6% net increase. 

One member asked me in a recent letter about including some prayer requests in the Newsletter. It reminded me of the sad way we often neglect going to our Lord for guidance as individuals and as an organization. Paul, the apostle, knew we would have this problem when he prayed for us over 1,900 years ago "that you will begin to understand how incredibly great His power is to help those who believe Him" (Eph. 1:19). Remember us in your prayers that we may know His will for the ASA.

Specific requests:
 (1) Executive Council meeting on March 7 and 8 here in Elgin. We need wisdom in making decisions about the future of the ASA.
(2) Finances. If things continue as they are we will fall short again this summer of what we need to meet our obligations. Pray for increased gifts and for alternate ways of meeting the problem (fire the Executive Secretary, burn down the office and use the insurance, etc.)
(3) Ministry. There are many good things to Jo (Speaker's Bureau, Local Sections, writing projects, etc.) but we don't have the resources to do them all. Pray that we will make good decisions on what we should be doing that God will be pleased with how we serve Him.


SAN FRANCISCO BAY

February is a busy month for the section. On Saturday evening, Feb. 1, a discussion of genetic engineering based on the current Journal ASA issue was held at the home of Neil Elsheimer in Sunnyvale. Neil and Don Stoner made the presentations.

On Monday, Feb. 10, a joint evening meeting with the IVCF chapter at Stanford was held in the Tressider Memorial Union on the Stanford campus. Professor Dick Bube had lined up speakers on "Science and Faith," "Science and Human Values, it and "Christian Opportunities in Science." Officers in the section were hoping that some shepherding of Christian students in the sciences by ASA members in their fields might come out of this effort. If so, it might turn out to be a good pilot project for other sections.

An IVCF-sponsored "Weekend Conference for Faculty and Professionals" has been planned for noon Saturday, Feb. 15, through noon Monday, Feb. 17. Jim Berney, IVCF regional director (1241-B N. Lake Ave., Pasadena, CA 91104. Phone ) 681-6161), is the person to contact for information and to register. The conference is being held in Santa Barbara, with participants making their own arrangements for housing and meals, except for a buffet supper on Sunday evening. Registration: $10 per person or $15 per couple, plus $2 per child. IVCF students will conduct a program for children of all ages.

Adults attending the conference may choose one of four seminars:

a. "Transformational Processes"--led by Evan Adams, director of Carmen Deo Community of Santa Barbara.

b. "Christianity and Science"--led by Dick Bube of Stanford University.

C. "Mark"--led by Paul Byer, IVCF staff.


d. "Ephesians"--(emphasizing the Christian facuity person on campus)-led by Robert Mannes of USC.

Marilyne Backlund has been Marilyne Gustafson since December 1973 but somehow we missed reporting it. Her husband Albin is a minister with the Assemblies of God and a builder. Marilyne has resigned her faculty position at the U. of Minnesota School of Nursing. When we heard from her, the Gustafsons were in Fort Myers, Florida, getting ready to return to Haiti to assist in the building of an orphanage.
Rodger K. Bufford is on the faculty of the Psychology Department of The American University, Washington, D. C. Rodger gave a paper at the American Psychological Association meeting in August on the relationship between student ability and performance in a self-paced child development course. "An Experimental Demonstration of Discriminated (Non-generalized) Imitation" will appear soon in J. Abnormal Child Psychol.

John B. Cannon completed his PhD in organometallic chemistry at Princeton this fall is now doing post-doctoral research at U.C. San Diego under professor T. G. Traylor. John is looking forward to fellowship with ASA'ers in the new San Diego local section. He expects to be on hand for the 1975 Annual Meeting, just a few covalent bond lengths from his lab.

Delbert N. Eggenberger, editor of Journal ASA in its formative years, designs such things as particle accelerators, X-ray imaging equipment, and breeder reactor instrumentation at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. He was project manager for design and construction of Q. U. Crewe's electron microscope, which made news. a year or so ago with its claim of visualizing individual thorium. atoms in an organometallic molecule. Del says he had to have a carotid artery cleaned out a few years ago but has been getting along okay since.

Harold Hurt, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Gillette, Wyoming, has started a new business called Safety Consulting Services in Casper, Wyoming. Harold says he offers a full line of safety services to central and northern Wyoming--but he hasn't made any money yet. (Guess they still live dangerously in the Wild West!)

Allen Johnson (3704 Oakmont Dr. S.E., Rio Rancho, NM 87124) attended the 1974 ASA Annual Meeting and has been pondering the discussions ever since. After studying the biblical creation and flood accounts in all the translations available to him, Allen says he's convinced they are historical accounts of a creation epoch of six diurnal periods and a global flood. Furthermore, he says he would confidently hold to his conclusions "even if the bulk of secularly recorded data were to deny these things." (Anybody in geology or other fields care to correspond with him about that?)

D. Wayne Linn, whose work in the Fisheries Department at Lilongwe, Malawi, has been described in ASA News, is now finding his name all over. An article on his work appeared in Farming International in 1974, and now he's had a fish from Lake Malawi named for him: Haplochromis linni (Tropical Fish Hobbyist, Jan. 1975). Wayne's wife Fae, a home economics graduate, kecps busy in prenatal and children's clinics and the Save the Children Fund supported by the Malawi Ministry of Health and by UNICEF.

Dennis Perry of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, gave a paper at the First Topical Meeting on Controlled Thermonuclear Reactors in San Diego last year. Besides his scientific work and teaching an adult class at the Christian and Missionary Alliance church, Denny has become an expert a~ woodworking. The walnut cradle he built for daughter Elizabeth (born Feb. 1974) won first prize at the County Fair!

Bruce Rowat expects to finish his residency in internal medicine in July and then join the staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. President of the Montreal Graduate Christian Fellowship this year, Bruce is concerned about of activating" Christian professionals to witness to colleagues day by day. "Sitting on church boards or participating as a Christian only in church settings seems a far cry from the early Christians who would 'turn the world upside down."' ASA members planning a trip to Montreal, please contact Bruce at 4577 Kensington, Montreal, Quebec.

David VanderMeulen hopes to receive his PhD in biophysics at the U. of Illinois in May. This month he reports on part of his work on "Anthroyl Stearate as a Fluorescent Probe of a Chloroplast Membrane High Energy State" at the annual meeting of the Biophysical Society in Philadelphia. Some of this work has been published in .FEBS Letters. Dave says he is grateful to be living at The Lord's Place, a unique Christian community near the Urbana campus.
Edwin Yamauchi of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, returned from nine weeks in the Middle East in November, impressed with the oneness in Christ shown by believers in many countries. At a student conference in Beirut, Ed preached at a commissioning service for Samuel Abdul-Shahid, the first Arab staff worker for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. In Egypt he met with members of the vigorous Coptic Evangelical churches in Cairo and Alexandria. Ed's article on "Gnosticism" was published in the International Dictionary of the Christian Church.


ALASKA
Charles B. Fahl, SRA Box 1588-V, Anchorage, AK 99507 PhD in Geophysics
Timothy Miller, 103 Harwood Hall - UA, Fairbanks, AK 99701 BSEE in EE
ARKANSAS
Monty Kester, 517 N. Madison, Siloam Springs, AR 72761 EdD in Math
CALIFORNIA
John D. Hestenes, 2059 Buckingham Place- Glendale, CA 91206 PhD in Physiology
Raymond S. Larsen, 161 N. Balsamina Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025 Deg.Eng. in EE
Richard D. Belles, 16 Oakes Blvd., San Leandro, CA 94577 BA in Physics
Richard Mangnall, 10233 Helendale Ave., Tujunga, CA 91042 BA in History
COLORADO
Patricia E. Frey, 2616 S. Linley Ct., Denver, CO 80219 BA in Soc.
Stephen J. Cyphers, 1708 13 Avenue, Greeley, CO 80631 BA in Biol. Sci.
FLORIDA
Hal Thornton, 4224 S.W. 60 Pl., Miami, FL 33155 BS in Ed. Sec.
Fred Kerr, 2416 Jackson Bluff Rd., #F-3, Tallahassee, FL 32304 MS in CSP
ILLINOIS
Dorothy Brown, 620 W. Healey #5, Champaign, IL 61820 MS in Geology
Gary Bailey, Box 914, La Harpe, IL 61450 MA in Greek-Ling.
David D'Armond, 5S324 Stewart Drive, Naperville, IL 60540 BS in Geology
Gregory C. Della-Croce, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187 BS in Mech. Engr.
INDIANA
Lowell Stine, 16432 Valley Trail, Mishawaka, IN 46544 MA in Biology
Dr. Robert H. Cooper, R.R.9, Box 242, Muncie, IN 47302 PhD in Zoology
MASSACHUSETTS
Carol J. Baker, 27 Ware Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 M.D. in Medicine
Russ T. Brown, 362 Memorial, Cambridge, MA 02139 MS
David J. O'Leary, 33 Willow Ave., Somerville, MA 02144 BA in English
Thomas R. Askew, 18 Daniels Rd., Wenham, MA 01984 Student
MICHIGAN
Jon A. Soper, 703 Calumet St., Lake Linden, MI 49945 PhD in EE
MINNESOTA
Paul E. Tavernier, 1651 W. County Rd. F, St. Paul, MN 55112 PhD in BioChem.
MISSOURI
Roger Siebert, Rt. #1, Millersville, MO 63766 Student
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Gerald Klippenstein, 25 Garden Lane, Durham, N. H. 03824 PhD in Chemistry
NEW JERSEY
Robert A. Orchard, 27 Chilhowie Drive, Kinnelon, N. J. 07405 MS in Math
Aaron Botbyl, Jr., Box 808, Milville, N. J. 08332 PhD in Psychology
Paul E. Thomas, 66 Mayfair Dr., West Orange, N. J. 07052 PhD in Biochemistry
NEW YORK
Frank Bonano, 85-30 261 Street, Floral Park, N. Y. 11001 Car Inspector
Dennis R. Ridley, Psychology Dept., Houghton College, Houghton, N. Y. 14744 PhD-Psych
Paul A. Zellmer, Nyack College, Box 610, Nyack, N. Y. 10960 BS in Fisheries Bio.
Duane H. Davis, 318 Bronson Street, Painted Post, N. Y. 14870 PhD in Chemistry
Mark T. Harrington, 1117 S. Plymouth #108, Rochester, N. Y. 14608 BS in Geo.
Joseph H. Wagnell, 92-17 Winchester Blvd., Queens Village, N. Y. 11428 Electrician
NORTH CAROLINA
Edward L. Barnard, 3407 Chapel Hill Road, Durham, N. C. 27707 MS in Forestry
OHIO
Douglas Tryon, 4238 Rickenbacker, Apt. 35, Columbus, OH 43213 MS in Statistics
Dorothy F. Chappell, 15 E. Spring St., Apt. 3, Oxford, OH 45056 MS in Biology
OREGON
Emil B. Gert, 2828 N. Kilpatrick, Portland, OR 97217 Retired Electronist
Bryan Murphy, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Pk.Rd., Portland, OR 97201 MD in Medicine
Gregory Needham, 1615 Bonnie Way NW, Salem, OR 97304 BS in Chemistry
PENNSYLVANIA
Alan W. Taylor, Jr., 510 Austin Drive, Fairless Hills, PA 19030 MDiv in Theology
Gerald D. Hess, Messiah College, Grantham, PA 17027 PhD in Physiology
Ronald T. Myers, 5139 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213 MS in Physics
Richard C. Taylor, 355 S. Aiken Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15232 MAT in Sec. Ed.
TENNESEE
Randy Pope, 111 Lakeview Drive, Knoxville, TN 37920 BA in History
TEXAS
Jerry M. Plemons, 4306 Valleycrest, Arlington, TX 76013 BA in Psych.
Wm. E. Denham, Jr., 805 W. 16th, Austin, TX 78701 PhD in N.T., Psych.
Kenneth L. Williams, 330 Brookwood Dr., Duncanville, TX 75116 PhD in Human Behavior
James H. Pirch, 128 San Marino, Galveston, TX 77550 PhD in Pharmacology
Sue Rantal, 2701 Bellefontaine, B28, Houston, TX 77025 BS in Biology
Dean R. Norris, 203 Cedar Lane, Seabrook, TX 77586 PhD in Oceanography
VIRGINIA
Eldon F. Layman, 110 N. Main St., Bridgewater, VA 22812 BS in Chemistry
WISCONSIN
Richard W. Heine, 1509 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 MS in Met. Engr.
FOREIGN
Thomas Hurshman, 5, Rue Rodin, 91380 Chilly-Mazarin, France MS in Met. Eng.
Kiyoo Shimada, % Mr. Hiroshi Watabe, 3-37-1 Yamato-cho, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 165 Japan
Robert L. Goette, Presby.Ms., 133 Ojung Dong, Taejon 300, Kore--t PhD-Org.Chem/PhD-Chem

MEETING REMINDERS

1975 Annual Meeting of the ASA will be held this year over the weekend of August 15-18 at the University of California campus in San Diego. The invited part of the program dealing with the nature of man is almost complete. We will send a preliminary program to you in about a month with an invitation to you to give a paper if you wish, so be thinking of what you would like to present (no limitation on topic) and let us know (Elgin office).

International Conference on Human Engineering & Future of Ilan will be held this July 21-24 on the campus of Wheaton College (near Chicago). You will receive a brochure on this soon but if you can't wait contact Dr. Craig Ellison, ICHEFM, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. See the last Newsletter for more info.

TNTERESTED IN MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH?

If you are involved in or interested in mental health research in any way from any scientific perspective, we have a conference you will be interested-in. The ASA, the Christian Association for Psychological Studies and the Religious Consultation and Resear6h Society will co-sponsor a joint conference on research in mental health from a Christian point of view. The meeting will be held in Atlanta, Georgia during the week of January 25-30, 1976. If you are interested in any way, especially in attending or giving a paper, please send your name and - address to the Elgin office (address below) as soon as possible. The program is still flexible and we want and need your input right away. When you write include any information on what you are doing in this areas well as ideas you have. With your name and address we will be ,able to keep you informed as well as get your ideas,

TEACHING A COURSE RELATING*SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY?

You help us and we will help you! Dan Geisler of the University of Wisconsin proposed this idea about a year ago and several others have urged us on. So, with, bureaucratic slowness, we finally are lurching forward in low gear: Send us your course outline and we will put it together with others we receive, sending you, in return for your outline contribution, a free copy of the final compilation. When you send your outline include notes of explanation about the outline, comments on the way the different parts of the course went, and annotated bibliographies as you have them. Please send us your contribution by March 31 to the Elgin office and we will do our best to get it out by sometime in the summer at latest. For non-contributors of outlines who want a copy: let us know by March 31 if you want a copy and we will send you one when completed. There will be a small charge to cover costs related to mimeographing but we will bill you later.

INVENTORY REDUCTION SALE IS STILL ON!

So far we have sold only 500 old copies but orders are still coming in for the remaining 19,500. As you might guess from these figures, we continue to have copies of every single issue we have ever published although we are low on a few of them. The following prices are in effect:

                  1949 - 1963 issues: $0.40 each
                  1964 - 1970 issues: 0.60 each
                  1971 - present no reduction in price

We also have copies left of an index of the contents of each issue available on request. Remember, these prices are post-paid, but you must send your money with your order. The minimum order we will accept is $2.00 and please indicate alternate choices. Send order to Elgin office. Indicate clearly the volume and number of the issue you want.