NEWSLETTER

of the

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 spite of the numbers, in spite of the fact, The Bible contains a BIT more than that!



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.

As Walt mentioned earlier in this Newsletter, I recently returned from an evangelical conference on mental health held in Atlanta. It was sponsored by several evangelical professional groups including the ASA. I manned a table' with information about the ASA and had more people coming up interested in membership than any conference I have attended in the past. The total attendance at the conference was in excess of 200 with a significant proportion of students.

From my limited vantage point, the conference appeared to be a significant success. Individual attendees were excited and amazed at what was going on in all parts of the country on the relationship between Biblical teaching and mental health. One great value of the conference seemed to be the opportunity for individual researchers and counsellors to get together with others working on similar problems. Many who had felt alone suddenly met many others with the same concerns and interests. 

An example of the subject matter was a discussion of how (if indeed it is possible) to measure the mental health impact of becoming a Christian. Some presenters felt that no current tests could measure such a difference while others presented data that supported the difference. All felt that there must be some way to measure this conclusively but most were reluctant to make significant claims based on what is now known.

There were numerous ASA members in attendance. I renewed relationships from earlier meetings with Paul Feinberg, Rodger Bufford. Ronald Koteskey, and Douglas Sizemore.  Gary Collins, recent president of the ASA, was much in evidence in the program and we had time for a couple of brief chats. I met Paul Arveson and his wife from the D.C. area and finally talked with .Jack Balswick from Georgia after we had corresponded several times. Lars Granberg, who recently moved from Iowa to Hope College in Michigan, stopped by the table and encouraged me to pay a visit to Hope to recruit some new members there. Other ASA members in the program were John Carter, C. Markham Berry, John Vayhinger, and Newton Malony.

This trip was made in the new Pinto wagon of the ASA which was purchased by the gifts of 100 ASA Fellows and Members. We were offered a gift of $1,500 from two members to purchase a car if we could raise the additional money. I wrote to 140 members who had been very supportive in the past and 100 replied with gifts that put us just over what we needed.

I wish to extend my personal thanks to these 100 on behalf of the whole organization. With the gift of the car I will be able to increase the amount of travel I do to extend the ministry of the ASA and yet we will be able to cut our travel budget nearly in half. This kind of project is a great help to our finances as well as to our ministry.



SAN FRA14CISCO BAY AREA

Although not an official ASA function, the IVCF-sponsored California Faculty Conference, to be held at Alliance Redwoods near Santa Rosa, February 20-21, will be of interest to many ASA members, according to Ken Lincoln, who sent out notices to the local section mailing list. The conference begins at 7 p.m. Friday and ends at 8 p.m. Saturday, but participants can stay over Saturday night for a slight extra fee. It's a family conference, with activities for children during scheduled times.

Charles E. Hummel, IVCF faculty specialist and former president of Barrington College, is the main speaker. Charlie will speak Friday evening on "Loving God With Your Mind," and close the conference Saturday evening with a Faculty Forum. Saturday morning, Walter R. Hearn, editor of ASA News and former biochemistry professor, will speak on "Science and God's Truth." Saturday afternoon, Kent Meads, associate pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, will speak on "Theology and Learning." There will also be times for small sharing groups, study groups, and open discussions, plus quiet time, singing, and meals (all for $14.50 per person, less for children under 9 years).

Another IVCF-sponsored activity probably of interest to ASA members will be the February 28 conversation forum at Stanford University, featuring Clark Pinnock of Regent College and the Dean of the Stanford Chapel on "The Authority and Interpretation of Scripture."

                          PERSONALS

Jerry D. Albert of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, San Diego, was co-author with Jack Geller & Thomas Cantor of "Evidence for a Specific Dihydrotestosterone-bindingCystosol Receptor in the Human Prostate," J. Clinidal Endocrinol. & Metabolism 41, 854 (Nov. 1975).

Richard H. Bube, editor of JASA and professor of materials science at Stanford University, reports that "a curious congruence of ASA members" took place at his home on January 6, filling all the spare beds with seven overnight guests. First on hand was Dewey Carpenter with Marie and their two children, arriving at Stanford ~(on a 6-month sabbatical to study light scattering in the Chemistry Department) before their rented house was ready. But then Don DeGraaf with Mae and their son David showed up to spend the night on their way to Australia, after Don had spoken that afternoon at a Western Regional IVCF Staff Conference. (Fortunately, since three of their own children have left the nest, Dick and Betty have a lot of spare beds on hand.)

Thomas J. Elliott of Southwick, Massachusetts, completed graduate work in ocean engineering at M.I.T. in November 1974, and began naval nuclear power training for submarine duty. He has just completed nuclear propulsion training. Tom says that five years ago he began pr~a ing for men who love God to join the submarine service and make Christ know there. The class before Tom's had 16 Christians out of 60, so soon there'll be enough Christians to have one on each sub! Tom asks our prayers for those who serve "down under."

Donald H. Grove reports that a small but regular and healthy Bible study group meets once a week at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Don says there are other ASA members around the Center, and a number of potential ASA members in the group.

David Lindberg has become an advisory editor of Isis, the journal of the History of Science Society. His book on the history of early visual theory (Theories of Vision from al-Kindi to Kepler) will be published this spring by U. of Chicago Press. Dave continues to serve as chairman of the Department of the History of Science at the U. of Wisconsin in Madison.

Robert C. MacLean is in a church-planting ministry in Indonesia. He writes that "ASA news has been very useful here in Java in keeping in contact with and obtaining scientifically oriented materials." The MacLeans also have the challenge of teaching their four children in four different grades. Mrs. MacLean takes charge of English, math, social studies, etc., and Robert enjoys teaching them science. (His letter asking about high school correspondence courses for their daughter got lost on the editor's desk for awhile. But cheer up, MacLeans--a catalog is now on its way from U.C. Berkeley Extension to Jalan Taman Pahlawan 41, Salatiga, Jateng.)

Argyrios Margaritis ' received his PhD in chemical engineering at U.C. Berkeley and is now teaching and doing research in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at the U. of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

Walter Partenheimer left his sixth year of chemistry teaching and research at Clarkson College of Technology last January to join Amoco Chemicals at Naperville, Illinois. After a year, Walt says he is surprisingly happy in industry, where he can still do inorganic chemistry and where his teaching background has given him theoretical tools to solve applied problems. He has more time to read books and pursue outside interests now than he had in academia, since he's no longer "publishing and/or perishing." Walt enjoys the adult class at an Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Wheaton, and looks forward to Chicago ASA local section activities.

E. Mansell Pattison is associate professor and vice-chairman of the Dept. of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the U. of California, Irvine. His article, "The Christian Psychotherapist: Yes/No?", appeared in the Fall 1975 issue of Christian Medical Society Journal. The whole issue was devoted to Christianity and Psychiatry, gnd-featured a moving article on "A Psychiatrist's Approach to Death," written by the late Orville S. Walters just before his death on Feb. 18, 1975.

Philip W. Payne has received his PhD in chemistry from Princeton University and is now doing postdoctoral research in surface chemistry at the U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Phil says he is grateful for the ministry and fellowship of the Chapel Hill Bible Church, and looks forward to participating in the Research Triangle ASA local section.

W. Stanford Reid, of the Dept. of History at the U. of Guelph, Ontario, gave a paper in October to the Huguenot Society of Canada on "French Influence on the Scottish Reformation." Stan has also completed editing The Scottish Tradition in Canada, to be published by the Government of Canada in thei-r Multicultural Series.

Lindley J. Reimer is a petroleum geologist with Mobil Exploration International, presently located in Dallas. He received his M.S. in geology from Kansas State in January 1975, after completing a thesis on petrology of various river sands near Junction City, Kansas. After joining Mobil in February 1975, Lin gained experience
as a wellsite geologist in Tunisia in July and in Stanvanger, Norway, from September to December, sitting wildcat wells in Mobil's North Sea Statfjord Field.

David M. Shotton is a research biochemist at the Bio~ogical Laboratories of Harvard Vn_ive~_sity. A research conference on non-muscle cell motility at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, in September excited him with the wonders of cell biology--"106 lectures in 5 days, and almost all first class!" Two months later, after another conference in Puerto Rico, he was deeply impressed in another way. Visiting friends in the U.N. Development Mission in Haiti, David got an inside view of what poverty and years of misgovernment have done to that island. "My first visit to an underdeveloped land has left me very conscious of the benefits of modern society we usually take for granted--a tap giving drinkable water in one's own home, for instance--and more eager to share these advantages with those who lack them."

William H. Van den Born has completed a five-year term as chairman of the Dept. of Plant Science at the U. of Alberta, Edmonton, and has returned to full-time teaching and research on weed science in the department.

Warren Willis has kept us informed of his move to Guam to establish a witness there under auspices of Campus Crusade for Christ. The Willis family was due to arrive on January 19 after stops at Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Ponage, and Truk to visit and encourage Christians there. In November and December, Warren was in Baguio City and Manila (Philippines) at CCC's Asian Training Center. The response to Warren's presentation of the claims of Christ to college and university students in the Philippines was so much greater than what he's seen over the years in Berkeley that he "wouldn't believe it if I hadn't been there." After the kind of cross-cultural training Warren has been receiving, we doubt that he's just misreading the Asian response. Sounds like the grapes are ripe in that corner of the Lord's vineyard. Let's pray for new wineskins to contain that new wine (Mark 2:22).
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PEOPLE, POWER, AND PROTEIN (A REMINDER)

In the previous issue of the Newsletter and the Journal a special supplemental issue of the Journal was advertised. This special issue is made up-of papers from the Calvin College Centennial Conference held last October on the topic: "People, Power, and Protein: Moral Challenges to Christians in an Age of Scarcity." This supplement is not part of your regular dues and must be especially ordered. To order your copy mail a $3.00 check (made out to the ASA) to the Editor, Journal ASA, 753 Mayfield Ave., Stanford, CA 94305 and ask for People, Power, and Protein. The scheduled date of publication is in April. The following papers are included:

"Rethinking Christian Perspectives on Family Planning and Population Control," by John Scanzoni, professor of sociology, Indiana University.
"A New Consciousness: Energy and Christian Stewardship," by Richard H. Bube, professor materials science and electrical engineering, Stanford University.
"The World Food Situation: the Light at the Beginning of the Tunnel," by Karen De Vos, Christian Reformed World Relief Committee.
"What to Do When There Is Nothing You Can Do," by Lewis B. Smedes, professor of ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary.
"Books, and Bread: the Christian Academy and Christian Life-Style," by M. Howard Rienstra, professor of history, Calvin College.

MEETING NOTICES

February 10 - Research Triangle Section at York Chapel on Duke University Campus..

February 19 - Philadelphia area members to consider formation of section. Meet at Delaware Co. Christian School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

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.