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THE AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION
VOLUME 18, NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 1976
CLAASSEN JOINS COUNCIL; STIPE STEPS UP TO PRESIDENT
Howard H. Claassen, professor of physics at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, was
elected by the ASA membership to serve the next five-year term on the Executive Council.
He replaces outgoing president David L. Willis.
The Executive Council elects its own officers, who become officers of the American
Scientific Affiliation. Serving as President for 1976 will be Claude E. Stipe, anthropology professor at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Vice President, John W. Haas, Jr.,
biochemistry professor at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts.
Secretary-treasurer is James 0. Buswell III, anthropology professor at Wheaton College.
Fifth member of the Council
is
Dewey K. Carpenter, chemistry professor at Louisiana
State University, currently on leave at Stanford University.
SISTERSON ON THE GO
While we're describing the new ASA Executive Council, we shouldn't overlook Executive
Secretary William D. Sisterson, Affiliation workhorse. Bill has his own column in
ASA News to tell you what's going on in the national office, but this is a good time
to let him know how much we appreciate him. Thanks, Bill, from all of us in ASA.
Our workhorse may look more like a racehorse this year. We hear that contributions
have been coming in to Elgin to purchase a compact car to facilitate low-cost travel
for the Executive Secretary. In January, Bill attended the Atlanta Conference on
Research in Mental Health and Religious Behavior, co-sponsored by ASA and a number of
other organizations. In February, he's off to the AAAS meeting in Boston and a New
England local section meeting. On both trips, he planned to visit other sections and
potential sections along the way. In March, he expects to be in Minnesota for the
North Central section meeting. Hi Yo, Sisterson!
PLANNING UNDERWAY FOR 1976 ANNUAL MEETING
Mark August 20-23 on your calendar, and Wheaton, Illinois, on your map! The 1976
Annual Meeting should be one of the best-attended Affiliation meetings in years. With
two members of the Executive Council playing key roles, how can it miss? Jim Buswell
has been appointed Program Chairman and Howard Claassen, Local Arrangements Ci;a-irman.
Galloping Bill Sisterson, in nearby Elgin, is right on the scene this year.
They're off and running. It's already been announced that Donald M. MacKay, professor
of communication theory at the University of Leeds, England, and author of The Clockwork Image,
will be a featured speaker. Righto! (as they say in Leeds).
Right-On!
(as they say in Berkeley)
ATTENTION CHEMISTS: GUNG RAY FAT CHOY!
The spring meeting of the American Chemical Society will be held in New York City,
April 4-9. Chi-Hang Lee, research chemist at General Foods' Central Research Department, wants to get together with any ASA members and friends who will be attending
the ACS meeting. What he plans sounds great: a meeting in Chinatown (with authentic
Chinese food, of course) and perhaps a special program. Other members of the Metropolitan New York local section will probably be on hand to add to the fellowship.
If you'd like an adventure with an authentic Chinese food chemist, get in touch with
Dr. Chi-Hang Lee, General Foods Corporation Technical Center, 250 North Street,
White
Plains, N.Y. 10625. Office phone: (914) 631-6400 x496. Home phone: (914) 356-1639.
Help Chi-Hang usher in Year of the Dragon! Maybe he'll arrange for the menu to include
some Lo Han Kuo, from which he recently isolated an intense sweetening agent (evidently
a triterpenoid glycoside), C. H. Lee, Experentia 31, 533 (1975). According to the
Experentia report, "Memory from the author's own childhood experience that the cooked
broth of this fruit tasted both very sweet and bitter prompted the author to investigate
the constituents which give rise to such taste qualities."
THE LATEST STARKEY ENTERPRISE
A "philosopher-of-all-trades" is what we think Lawrence H.. Starkey is. For a long
time he was Principal Editor for Philosophy of the new Encyclopedia Britannica.
Then
he was chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Jamestown College in North Dakota.
Now what's he doing? He's Coordinator of Adult Television Studies at North Dakota
State University. For the next six months, under a federal contract, he is producing
a series of 30 half-hour programs designed to improve the leadership skills of rural
women in the tri-state area surrounding Fargo and Grand Forks. The idea is to help
women move into management positions.
Is this a strange thing for Larry to be doing? No, before he did all those - other things,
he was a writer for Irwin Moon at the Moody Institute of Science, so some of his talents
developed many years ago are just coming into play again. And after the TV project?
Well, he's considering a couple of posts in the philosophy of science, one in general
philosophy at a Christian college, an editorship at a major research lab, and even a
college deanship. But who knows? Larry developed a knack for coming up with interesting jobs when lots of people couldn't find even one dull job!
HE LEFT OUR MARK--IN VOLUME 7
Larry Starkey (see Story above) has left his mark in lots of places. But while helping
to edit Britannica, he left ASA's mark in their new edition. In Volume 7, in the
article on "Fundamentalist and Evangelical Churches," the following statement appears:
"The American Scientific Affiliation, which in 1970 numbered 1,437 practicing scientists
of Evangelical belief, holds meetings and publishes a journal in which the compatibility
of science with the Bible and with a Christian world view is emphasized." (Funny
.Britannica didn't mention the other well-known ASA publication. After all, we've given
them plenty of coverage.)
RESOURCES AVAILABLE ON HUMAN ENGINEERING ETHICS
Cassette tapes of major addresses and responses at the International Conference on
Human Engineering and the Future of Nan held in July 1975 are available from the
American Scientific Affiliation, one of the sponsoring organizations. Six sets, one
for each session, are available at $7.00 per set. Write to Bill Sisterson, ASA
Executive Secretary, 5 Douglas Avenue, Elgin, IL 60120, for information on ordering
the tapes.
Another resource is available from Carl F. Townsend, Center for the Study of the Future,
4110 N.E. Alameda, Portland, QR 97212. Carl has prepared an extensive computerized
bibliography with a sophisticated retrieval system on a number of topics related to
human engineering ethics. The 700 resources currently stored are those submitted by
the ICHEFM Commission as the most significant articles. Write to Carl for information
on the kinds of bibliographic searches available.
By the way, Carl's Center for the Study of the Future publishes a bimonthly newsletter,
Patterns, "exploring the future and how the Body of Christ should relate to it." Subscription price is $10 per year. (The December 1975 issue, discussing the U.S. economic
system and how Christians might become more independent of it, made us wish we had $10
to subscribe. Alas, we became too independent of the economic system several years ago!)
HOW TO START SOMETHING No. 26. DONALD E. DeGRAAF
One style of doing scientific work is to plan in detail a critical experiment that will
elegantly settle some theoretical question. Another is to plunge into experimental work
and pay attention to leads turned up as you go along. Our Lord seems to have somewhat
analogous styles for the life of faith of His disciples. Some of your experiments described in this series have resulted from a clear vision of what God wanted you to do.
In others, God has led step-by-step without revealing His whole plan for a project in
advance.
Don DeGraaf has a story that seems to fit somewhere in between. We're taking it from
three -newsletters about his work in Michigan for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
(IVCF) this fall. Don is a long-time member of ASA and a professor of physics at the
U. of Michigan campus in Flint. He has been associated With IVCF in one way or another
since he was a freshman at UM back in 1944.
Since November 1970, Don's membership on the Faculty Committee of the IVCF national
Board of Trustees has made him think about more effective means to minister to and
through faculty. In September 1973, he spoke to students and a few faculty members
from schools in Michigan's Upper Peninsula at an IVCF weekend conference. A sense of
satisfaction from that opportunity led him to pray and plan about taking a further step
in faculty ministry. He talked it over with both IVCF and the administration at UMFlint, his employer.
In the fall of 1975, Don had his appointment at UM-Flint reduced to four-fifths of
full time. This allowed him to spend one day each week (usually Friday), and occasional weekends, working as an IVCF Associate Staff Member for Faculty in the Michigan
area. Don saw as his ministry: visits to Christian faculty on their campuses to
encourage them in fellowship and ministry on campus, working with faculty advisors to
IVCF chapters, participating in conferences, witnessing to non-Christian faculty,
carrying on wider correspondence, and writing materials related to the needs of Christian faculty--all in consultation with and support of the IVCF campus staff members
working with Michigan college students.
As we understand it, Don is taking a 20 percent pay cut, contributing one fifth of
his time to faculty ministry. The only items budgeted by IVCF for Don's work are travel
expenses and some office expenses for telephone, postage, mailings, and a small amount
of secretarial help, totaling $845 for the 1975-76 academic year. As it turned out,
many of Don's friends from around the country responded to his first request for prayer
support with gifts and pledges as well as prayers. Overflow contributions to IVCF
designated for Don's work are being channeled into the nationwide faculty ministry of
IVCF, under the leadership of Charles Hummel (also a long-time ASA member).
In the first two months of the project, Don came into contact with some 330 faculty
members throughout Michigan, of whom 77 (from 37 colleges) are now listed in the first
Michigan Faculty Directory to be printed by IVCF. Many of these faculty advisors
attended a workshop organized and led by Don at the weekend fall conference for
IVCF
students in western Michigan, producing a new sense of partnership in the gospel
between students and faculty on several campuses. Faculty on various campuses in Michigan are
beginning tomeet together regularly to pray, study the Bible together, or discuss
issues facing Christians in scholarly work. Don senses a renewal of interest in spiritual growth and outreach among faculty in Michigan, and has found many doors opening
to him.
In January 1976, he has taken one more step--this time a long one that has landed him
in Perth, Australia, for six months. Don spent much of the past nine years developing
and implementing improved methods of teaching physics, and now has been awarded a
Fulbright Fellowship at Murdoch University in Perth to write materials for independent
study programs in introductory college physics. His wife Mae and 15-year old son David
have accompanied him to Australia, but son Dan remains at Michigan Tech as a sophomore
in civil engineering and daughter Gwen continues her first year at Calvin College.
Although the primary purpose of the present trip is physics education, Don has been
making contact with Christian faculty along the way, to learn from them and to share
the news of what God is doing among faculty in the U.S. On January 6, Don spoke at
a seminar on IVCF staff-faculty interaction in California, and on Jan. 7-8 he had
informal meetings with faculty at Hilo College and the U. of Hawaii. Then he stopped
in New Zealand on the last leg of his journey. He expects to return to the U.S in
August via Papua New Guinea and Fiji.
Both Michigan IVCF Area Director Bruce Dreon and the UM-Flint administration have
agreed to arrangements for resuming Don's faculty ministry with IVCF on his return to
Michigan in six months. Although that work will be interrupted for awhile, Don expects
to return enriched and better prepared to continue it. In late January, Don participated in the Annual Conference of the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students,
in Bathurst, Australia.
If any of you would like to discuss faculty witness with Don, I'm sure he'd be glad
to correspond with you. Address Dr. Donald E. DeGraff, Department of Physics, Murdoch
University, Murdoch, W.A. 6153, Australia. That's where we're sending Don a dozen
copies of the famous "Scientist's Psalm" greeting cards, to thank him for his contribution to HOW TO START SOMETHING. (No, come to think of it, he'll just have to stop off
in the Bay Area in August and pick them up. That way, we'll save a little postage-and promote a little fellowship.)
Now, whatever style of discipleship you and the Lord have worked out, we'd like you to
share one of your ventures with us in H0W TO START SOMETHING.
OUT OF THE BEAKER AND INTO THE BURNER
Jack S. Swenson thought the Lord was trying to tell him something last February. In
one week he received four unsolicited job offers--but none of them in his professional
field of organic chemistry. After much prayer, last July Jack resigned his post as
Chairman of the Chemistry Department and Chemistry Professor at Northern Arizona University, to become full-time Administrative Pastor of First Baptist Church of Flagstaff.
With Jack's gifts of teaching and administration, he felt that any of the job offers
in Christian ministry was a live option. "I chose the opportunity to administer and
teach in my own church because I've long felt that many of the things I've learned
through Inter-Varsity should be applied in the local church. In particular I've wanted
to see a local church organized on the basis of small groups."
This fall Jack organized and conducted the first round of training for small-group
leaders, who will lead groups Jack calls "Agape Families." Agape Families go beyond
Bible study and Bible study and prayer groups to include sharing, caring, and ministering to one another as extended Christian families. Now there are nine groups with
about 100 people in the Agape Family program. Jack is also planning to expand the adult
Sunday school offerings to include courses in Christian Social Concerns and Christian
Marriage and the Family.
Jack says he's enjoyed this work more than any other he's done. His family still loves
the country surrounding Flagstaff and gets out into it as often as they can. The only
disadvantage of his new job is that it doesn't pay nearly so well as being a chemistry
department chairman, but Jack is negotiating with Olin Corporation in New Haven, Connecticut, about a chemical invention he has offered them. If they decide to develop
it, they would hire Jack as a part-time consultant and eventually there ought to be some
royalties.
But if not, Jack is confident that God will take care of him and his family. As the
writer of Proverbs 30 said, "Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the
food
that is needful for me, lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, 'Who is the Lord?' or
lest I be poor, and steal, and profane the name of my God."
YOUR BASIC 14ORLD VIEW CATALOG
James W. Sire, editor of Inter-Varsity Press, has written a fascinating book entitled
The Universe Next Door, subtitled A Basic World View Catalog, published in January by
IVP (236 pp., paper, $4.25). Aimed at literate college students, the book treats
heavy philosophical matters in smoothly readable prose, rich in quotations and allusions to the world's great literature. Jim's PhD was in literature, and this is the
book he says "he's always wanted to write."
The author's own world view is Christian theism, of course. You might expect him to
discuss competing world views first, building up to theism as a climax; instead, he
begins with what he considers the most satisfactory world view. The sequence is theism,
deism, naturalism, nihilism, existentialism, Eastern pantheistic monism, and finally,
the new consciousness. The plot is the progressive loss of Truth, from Jesus Christ to
Carlos Casteneda. Jim's arrangement should ring true to many young people who have a
vague sense that something is missing from their philosophies. The Universe Next Door
closes with some gentle suggestions on how to choose a world view, and a few paragraphs
on "Christian Theism Revisited" in which "Gods Grandeur" makes its own appeal.
THE REFORMATION KEEPS ROLLING ALONG
W. Stanford Reid of the Department of History at the University of Guelph, Ontario,
attended an unusual conference in South Africa in September. The University of
Potschefstroom provided funds and facilities to enable delegates of a (Calvinistic
or Presbyterian and Reformed persuasion) from Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the
Far East to discuss "Reformed Institutions for Higher Education as a Bulwark for the
Kingdom of God--Present and Future." Over 140 official representatives and 100 observers attended the three-day conference.
Many of the papers dealt with the biblical basis for a philosophy of Christian higher
education. Those that delved deeply into the thought of Herman Dooyeweerd left some
delegates a bit dazed. (Imagine Dooyeweerd translated from Dutch to English to Japanese!) Some papers were practical discussions of current learning and science, the
ones from the non-Western world being of greatest interest to Stan. Stan's own paper
dealt with the Christian professor in the secular university. Other papers in that
session were by Dr. David Hanson from Leeds, England, on the Christian teacher of
medicine; and by Dr. Jong Sung Rhee of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Korea,
Seoul, on secular education in Far Eastern countries.
This first international conference of its kind, Stan says, laid the groundwork for
greater cooperation between likeminded scholars in the future. A second conference is
being planned for 1978, to be held at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
HOW TO RECYCLE SOMETHING No. 13
One of the most thoroughly recycled items we know of is the article Walt & Ginny
Hearn wrote in 1973 about the theory and practice of "living on less" as a form of Christian
discipleship. "Another Way" (the authors' title) was called "Poverty" when it was
first published in Berkeley's Right On. Under various titles it was reprinted in such
U.S. publications as Post-American, Inside, and The Catholic Agitator, in Canada's
Corban, and by House of the New World in Sydney, Australia. It's latest recycling has
led to some strange consequences.
Ed Dayton, a graduate of Fuller Seminary, was guest editor of the October 1975 issue of
Fuller's newsletter, Theology, News and Notes. Ed devoted the whole issue to "A Christian Response to a Hungry World," including Walt & Ginny's article and excerpts from
Stan Mooneyham's new book, What Do You Say to A Hungry World? World Vision reprinted
thousands of copies for distribution, minus the two pages of Fuller alumni news. ("A
Christian Response to a Hungry World" is excellent for church groups or individuals,
by the way. Available, I think, for 50~ a copy or at quantity discounts from Ed Dayton,
MARC, World Vision International, 919 West Huntington Drive, Monrovia, CA 91016.)
Then, Russell Chandler, religion writer for the Los Angeles Times, saw TN&N and came
up to Berkeley to interview the Hearns. His story in the Times brought out their
Christian motivation well but overlooked most of their productive labors to play up
their recycling and "scavenging." TItat theme caught the attention of other newspapers
when his story went out over a wire service. Soon the Hearns' mail was full of greetings from friends and strangers who'd seen the story in papers like the Washington
Post, the Milwpukee.Journal, or the Houston Chronicle.
Where will it all end? A Los Angeles talk show called to ask some questions on the
air. ("What does it do to your dignity as a PhD to pick up things that other people
have discarded?" Walt: "The world is full of poor people and non-PhDs; are you
saying they don't have dignity?") Now a reporter for National Public Radio wants an
interview...
HOW MANY ANGELS ON ONE SEMICONDUCTOR?
Mack Goldsmith, psychology professor at Stanislaus State College (California), sent us
a couple of related clippings from Science News. In the September 13 issue, an article
by John H. Douglas, "Computers 2: Brave New Components," discussed such things as
Josephson-junction memory cells, and included a paragraph illustrating the capabilities
of new intermediate-speed technologies. That paragraph pointed out that the Bible contains about a million words or roughly 40 million "bits" of information. "Thus the
Bible could be stored on one data cartridge in less than a minute or on two BEAMOS
tubes in about four seconds. Many central memories could not hold all the information,
but could read through it in as little as a hundredth of a second. Using a high-speed
page printer, the computer could then reproduce the Bible in about two minutes."
In a letter in the October 11 issue, K. Healy of San Francisco reacted to that paragraph with a poem:
In 40 million bits the Bible compressed. How can one be but duly impressed.
PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS
Bruce Buttler (25443 Gould St., Loma Linda, CA 92354; Tel. (714) 796-1361) expects to
complete his PhD in biology at Loma Linda University in June 1976 and seeks a teaching
position in the field of biology. (Bruce didn't send us much information about himself
or his special interests, but we had some great conversations with him at the ASA Annual
Meeting in San Diego.)
Charles M. Flynn, Jr. (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
22901) "is skilled in chemical syntheses, separations, analyses, and characterization
studies, especially of metal'complexes. He has 13 years of research and teaching experience. His extensive knowledge of descriptive and structural inorganic chemistry has
been gained also through a compilation of a large data file. This file serves interests
in thermochemistry and structural chemistry and their application to expedite syntheses
and separations. His prime desire is for a long-term research associate/instructor/
technician position in a university chemistry department. Contact him at the above
address or at (804) 924-2986 (days) or (804) 977-8656 (9-10 p.m., EST)."
Siegfried Schaible (D-5 K81n, Industrieseminar der Universitfft K81n, West Germany) is
seeking an academic position in operations research in the U.S. or Canada. Siegfried
spent last year doing research at Stanford, where Dick Bube got acquainted with him
and suggested he look for a position through ASA News. Siegfried received his doctorate
in mathematics at the U. of Cologne in West Germany in 1971. He has done research at
Stanford twice and once at Zurich, Switzerland. His background is in mathematics,
physics, and economics, and his research has been in mathematical programming. He has
taught operations research at Cologne since 1969.
Richard Alan Swanson (1913 Colfax St., Evanston, IL 60201; Tel. (312) 328-7542) seeks
a position in cultural anthropology. He expects to complete his PhD work at Northwestern University in the next few months, having completed field work in Upper Volta,
Africa, on "Gourma Ethnoa-natomy: Toward a Theory of the Human Body." Richard was
born in the Niger Republic in 1947 of parents who have spent over 30 years as teachers
and translators among the Gourma people for Sudan Interior Mission. He has spent 17
years in Africa, one year in Switzerland (his wife Ursina is Swiss), and 10 in the U.S.
He has a B.A. (1970) from Bethel College (where Donald Larson turned him on to anthropology and linguistics), and an M.S. (1971) fro thwestern. Richard is prepared to
teach courses in cultural anthropology, man & language, language & culture, linguistics,
ethnolinguistics/ethnoscience/sociolinguistics, and systems of folk medicine. He and
Ursina (also multilingual and interested in library science) have two young children.
POSITIO14S LOOKING FOR PEOPLE
E. K. Balian seeks a psychiatrist to share private practice and psychiatric services
in developing psychiatric facility. Salary $40,000 plus benefits; partnership after
one year. Located in central Maine, close to both the Atlantic Ocean and Appalachian
Mountains. Contact E. K. Balian, M.D., 45 Hogan Rd., Bangor, ME 04401. (Received
1 August 1975)
Taylor University ' in Indiana has an opening for a faculty member with a strong background in botany and ecology, and an active interest in
conservation and environmental
studies. Candidate should have doctorate or be close to completion of doctoral program.
"Taylor University is an independent Christian liberal arts college with an enrollment
of approximately 1,400, a strong program in the natural sciences, and very adequate
science teaching facilities." Contact: Dr. George W. Harrison, Head, Biology Dept.,
Taylor University, Upland, IN 46989. (Received 27 October 1975)
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Stanford University, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, seeks an assistant/associate professor, "A PhD with excellent teaching ability in areas related to materials characterization, including optical and electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction;
and with innovative research interests in development and/or utilization of modern
instrumental techniques for materials analysis or characterization. Stanford is an
Affirmative Action Employer and welcomes applications from women and minority group
members. Send resume to Professor Robert A. Huggins, Dept. of Materials Science and
Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 before March 15, 1976." (Received
5 December 1975, from Richard H. Bube)
Marion College in Indiana is seeking a biology teacher for September 1976. Applicants
should have either a master's or doctor's degree; rank will be determined by degrees
and teaching experience; 9-month salary is $9,000-$14,000 plus fringe benefits. A
person with a background in plant biology is desired. Teaching assignments include
plant biology, ecology, animal biology, ornithology, and genetics. Marion College is
a coeducational liberal arts college related to the Wesleyan Church, with an enrollment
of 840. Contact: Dr. Robert J. Wersking, Chairman, Division of Natural Science &
Mathematics, Marion College, Marion, IN 46952. Tel. (317) 674-6901. (Received 3
January 1976).
General Foods Corporation in New York needs a PhD carbohydrate chemist with 2-5 years'
experience, willing to work on the physical properties of carbohydrate solutions in
Chi-Hang
Lee's group in the Central Research Department in Tarrytown. Contact: Dr. Chi-Hang Lee, General Foods Corporation Technical Center, 250 North St., White Plains,
N.Y. 10625. (Received 6 January 1976)
Miami University in Ohio, an Equal Opportunity employer, has several positions open.
Applicants should contact the person listed, % Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056.
Economics: Two assistant professors, one continuing, the other for one year with
possibility of second year. PhD required, with specialization in industrial organization, labor & manpower economics, or monetary & fiscal theory. Emphasis on good
teaching, with encouragement of and recognition for research. Contact: Prof. W. J.
McKinstry.
Finance: One assistant professor, PhD or near it, to teach insurance and corporate
finance. One assistant professor, J.D., to teach business law. One instructor, M.B.S.,
to teach finance. Contact: Prof. William Serraino.
Engineering Technology: Faculty position for M.S. in M.E. or related field, preferably
with both industrial and teaching experience, to teach manufacturing processes, drafting and design, strength of materials, fluid mechanics, and basic metallurgy. Contact:
Prof. Gerald DiPalma. (Received 26 January from Edwin M. Yamauchi)
NOTE: April is the usual "contract-signing time" for elementary and secondary teachers
who serve with 1~ycliffe Bible Translators around the world. Contact: Dr. Dan Harrison,
Superintendent of Children's Education, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Huntington Beach,
CA 92648.
Also, Short Terms Abroad will send you on request one free copy of OPPORTUNITIES 1975-76
and a Personal Profile form, through which your skills and preferences can be matched
with current personnel needs of missionary organizations. Contact: Irving A. Philgreen,
Executive Director, Short Terms Abroad, Box 575, Downers Grove, IL 60515.
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
PERSONALS
February 23 - New England Section at Grace Chapel in Lexington, Massachusetts.
February 24 - New York City Section informal meeting with Executive Secretary in
home of Wayne Ault in Nanuet, N. Y.
February 25 - Washington-Baltimore Section meeting to reactivate section. Meet at Gunton-Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland.
March 12 - Indiana Section meeting at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana.
March 12&13 - Meeting of the National Executive Council of the ASA in Elgin, Illinois.
March 27 - North Central Section at Mankato State University in Mankato,
Minnesota
March 30 - Chicago Section with Henry Morris at Holiday Inn in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
ITEMS FOR SALE
There is still a large quantity of REPRINTS of six JASA articles available from the
Elgin office. These are available at a cost of l5c each or 10c. each for quantities
over 100. A sample packet of one of each is only 500, postage paid. Please send your
money with your order and we will pay postage and handling. The reprints available
are:
1. "We Believe in Creation", by Richard H. Bube.
2. "General Evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics", by J. A. Cramer.
3. "Christianity and Psychology: Contradictory or Complementary?" by Craig W. Ellison.
4. "Evangelical Theology and Technological Shock", by Bernard Ramm.
5. "Only a Machine, or Also A Living Soul?" by Walter C. Johnson.
6. "Mechanism, Naturalism, and the Nature of Social Science", by Gordon R. Lewthwaite.
OLD JOURNALS OF THE ASA - There is still a large supply of old Journals in our storeroom (basement of the executive secretary's house) and we (mainly the executive secretary) would be happy to see these put to better use. As a result the special sale
price from last year will continue: 40C per issue for issues from 1949-1963 and 60C
per issue for issues from 1964-1970. An index of the articles contained in these
issues is available at no charge from the Elgin office. We still have copies of
every issue, so send payment with your order. If we have to bill you we will have
to charge for both postage and handling.