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AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 23 Number 2  April/May 1981

LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY

"THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD" That's the theme of our 1981 ASA ANNUAL MEETING to be held AUGUST 14-17 at EASTERN COLLEGE in ST. DAVIDS, PA. The call for papers" was maided in February with information on the keynote speaker, Dr. Owen Gingerich of Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Everyone wonders, "Will the Universe End with a Bang or a Whimper?" "Is There Life on Other Worlds?" Those are two of Dr. Gingerich's lectures, and the third, "The Censorship of Copernicus's De revolutionibus," will provide historical insights for coping with today's controversies in science and religion.

Beside outstanding illustrated talks by a distinguished Christian astronomer and historian of science, we will have symposia, papers contributed by members, topical discussion groups, field trips, worship together, and informal fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ-plus an annual business meeting and banquet. Three and a half stimulating days, beginning Friday evening and going all the way through Monday. Childcare arrangements will enable couples with young children to enjoy much of the program together. A tentative program should be out soon.

Although the Eastern College meeting will be our 36th Annual Meeting, the American Scientific Affiliation is actually celebrating its 40th anniversary. Formed in 1941 just before the United States was drawn into World War 11, the ASA was unable to hold national meetings for its first four years. With such a fine program shaping up, wouldn't this be a good summer to bring the family to historic Pennsylvania for our 40th birthday party? Meet our new Executive Director Bob Herrmann and give him and the Executive Council some encouragement-and your ideas for the ministry of our Affiliations for the next forty years.

At the 1981 ANNUAL MEETING at Eastern College we hope to get your input on the proposed popular science/faith publication-and have a sample copy to show you. Our readers continue to suggest names for it. Recent nominations include "Fulcrum" (David Bruce, Wheaton, IL), "Dialogue" or "Interface" (Brian Stimpson, Edmonton, Alberta), and "Logos" (Richard Herd, Ottawa, Ontario).

It's hard to think about putting out a new publication when this one keeps lagging behind. We don't know if a demonic computer or the retarded U.S. Mail is to blame this time, but we're casting our Apr/May copy on the waters, still waiting for the Feb/Mar issue to come floating in. And we're a week late-which won't help this issue return by June. Maybe we need a new name for this publication, something like "ASA Archives" or "Historical Record."

When we began assembling the crude data from which to fabricate this issue we still hoped to make our April 1 deadline. We missed for a number of reasons, including an orgy of news-watching when President Reagan was shot on March 30. Is it faith in the Creator or training in science that drives us to try to make sense out of the utterly senseless? We kept hoping that the emotional intensity of millions of people viewing an idiotic shooting over and over again in slow motion would translate into some kind of sensible response.

It was not encouraging to learn that 50 million handguns are at large in the United States. Or to hear a nervous Secretary of State "reassuring" our allies that we're as ready to counterattack as ever. Watching the blood pour out of Jim Brady's head and then hearing of the miracles performed in the hospital, we were struck with a grim thought: if every citizen with a pistol went crazy simultaneously and randomly shot people down in the streets, the country would be better off than if a single "sane" military commander were to trigger off an exchange of nuclear weapons. Fifty million murder attempts would be preferable to nuclear war because we would still have hospitals to treat the wounded.

Political scientist Bernard Zy1stra, principal of the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, announces three conferences being cosponsored by the Institute this summer. For information write to the Institute at 229 College St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1R4, where the three conferences will be held.

"General Economic Norms and Principles-Scriptural Basis" is a conference open to all Christian scholars but aimed at those familiar with current issues in economics. It will be held June 5-6, cosponsored by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship of Calvin College in Michigan.

"Interpreting an Authoritative Scripture," June 22-26, will be cosponsored by Fuller Theological Seminary of California. Open to all.

"Rationality in the Calvinian Tradition," Aug 3-8, will be cosponsored by Calvin College and by The Free University of Amsterdam. Open to all, of special interest to philosophers.

"Christian Perspectives on Mathematics and its Foundations" will be the theme of a conference to be held June 3-6 at Wheaton College in Illinois. The main speaker, Dr. Vern Poythress of Westminster Theological Seminary, will present one paper on the philosophy of science and one on the philosophy of mathematics. Other papers and several discussion groups will also be offered. This is the third conference of a series; copies of the Proceedings from the first two, held in 1977 and 1979, are still available. For more information contact Dr. Robert Brabenec, Chair, Dept. of Mathematics, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187.

An Industrial Hygienists Christian Fellowship is being organized to meet annually at the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) conference. Announcement of a breakfast fellowship and Bible- study wift be posted on the message board at this year's May meeting in Portland, Oregon. All ASA/CSCA members in industrial hygiene should contact Mare Sullivan, 3615 Phinney Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103.

Christian sociologists will meet this year on June 18-20 at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This small group of sociologists at Christian colleges, meeting annually since 1977, is open to any other interested sociologists. Formal papers are not a major focus. The informal discussions tend to center on personal efforts at integration, ideas for curriculum, and approaches to research. Jim White of Trinity Christian College in I Ilinois will be this year's keynote speaker. For information contact Dr. Russell Heddendorf, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA 15010.

DeWayne Coxon, president of Jordan College in Michigan, keeps us informed about energy education programs the college cosponsors. We find it encouraging both that people are learning about energy alternatives and that a Christian college is leading the way. One-day courses scheduled this spring include:

For information, contact Linda Bouwkamp, Energy Programs, Jordan College, 360 Pine St., Cedar Springs, MI 49319.

Two "solar tours" are in the works. Aug 11 to Sept 6 are the dates of a tour to England, France, or both. The International Solar Energy Society (ISES) Congress meets in Brighton, England, in August; after taking that in, solar installations in London and Milton Keynes (an experimental solarvillage) will be visited (plus Stratford-on-Avon and other points of interest). In France DeWayne expects people to be surprised at the large-scale advanced solar projects in such cities as Paris, Montpellier, Nice, Odeillo, Avignon, and Solon de Provence. French government support of Dr. Felix Trombe (of the Trombe heat-storage wall solar furnaces goes back to 1946. The tour will include the 1000 kw solar furnace at Odeillo built in 1970 (plus other sights tourists generally see). Nine days in either England or France for $1100 or sixteen days of both for $2100, including airfare from Chicago. For information contact tour director Herbert Sebree at the Jordan College address above. The tour is cosponsored by Solar Age and The Mother Earth News magazines.

Nov 1 -11, a Solar Tour of the USA will be cosponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education's Energy & Action Center and other government agencies. For info contact USA tour director James J. MacKenzie at the Jordan College address.

A few years ago biology prof Thomas L. Compton of LeTourneau College in Longview, Texas, showed some beautiful slides of the "Science Camp of the Rockies" he and wife Penni were developing. Their dream was to use the facility, ten miles west of Durango, Colorado, for an undergraduate teaching program integrating Christian faith, academic study, and an environmental emphasis. The first such "Fall Semester in the Rockies" was held in 1980, so successfully that Tom and Penni are thinking of taking a year off from LeTourneau for full-time development of the camp and getting the word out to other Christian colleges that the same program is available to their students.

If the twenty-two students in the 1980 program are even half as enthusiastic as Tom, something wonderful must have happened up in those mountains. It was Tom's best teaching experience, a time of learning together and renewing commitment to integration of the Christian faith with education. With the Comptons and another faculty couple as guides, students earned credits in natural sciences, history (of the western states), English, psychology, physical education, humanities, and Biblical studies, working as hard as on a regular campus. The setting, the quality of community life, and the focus on "putting it all together," made the difference.

Joe Sheldon of Eastern College in Pennsylvania, site of the 1981 ASA ANNUAL MEETING, AUGUST 14-17, visited the Science Camp last fall. Sheldon's commitment to scholarship integrated with Christian faith was so impressive that "if he's representative of the Eastern faculty, we can look forward to a tremendous Annual Meeting this year." Other Christian college faculty interested in the Science Camp program should write to Dr. Thomas L. Compton, Science Camp of the Rockies, 3120 CR 208, Durango, CO 81301.

Incidentally, a similar "mountain-top" undergraduate program focused on integration of faith and learning takes place each year at the Oregon Extension of Trinity College (the one in Deerfield, IL). Their fall semester has an academic emphasis, the spring semester an environmental one. Retired ASA Council member and Wheaton physics professor Howard Claassen lives an owl-hoot away on the same mountain and helps out. For information on that one, write to Dr. Douglas Frank, Lincoln Common, 15097 Hwy 66, Ashland, OR 97520.

Glenn 1. Kirkland of Bethesda, Maryland, has sent us information on the brain disorder affecting his wife Grace. Alzheimer's disease seems to be irreversible, and neither its cause nor cure is known. Glenn, who works at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab, has become a central figure in a new organization called the Alzheimer's Disease Association of Maryland, or ADAM for short.

According to Glenn, "ADAM exists to alleviate the impact of this scourge on our society. We hope to be able to provide patient care information; to help the public understand those disabled by the disease; to expedite the spread of information about it, especially in the medical community; to assist government officials by making them aware of the needs of caretaking families; and to raise a unified voice to catalyze academic and national interest in research." A national organization with the same goals is called the Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorder (ADRDA).

Alzheimer's disease was described in an article on "The Struggle Against Senility" by Barbara Katz in the November 1980 issue of Discover magazine. Another article on the disease will appear in Reader's Digest in the form of an interview with Dr. Robert Katzman of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. John Hopkins is initiating an Alzheimer's disease research program, beginning with a study of the efficacy of the drug Praxiline.

According to the 1965 edition of The Merck Manual, Alzheimer's disease is characterized by "fairly rapid mental deterioration, memory defects, disorientation, delirium, speech disturbances, restlessness, hallucinations, and apprehensive delusions." One lesion observed is development of "tangled threadlike fibrillary structures in the cortical ganglion cells," but there is also nerve cell atrophy and neuroglia proliferation. "Dementia becomes pronounced in later phases of the disease."

Most of us have never even heard of this terrible disease. Let's remember to pray for Glenn and Grace Kirkland, for other families affected, and for the medical scientists seeking to investigate Alzheimer's disease. ADAM's address is P.O. Box 9751, Baltimore, MD 21204.

NOTE: While this story was on the editor's desk, an article on "Clues to the Cause of Senile Dementia" by Gina Bari Kolata (Science, 6 March 1981) reported on an ADRDA sponsored conference held at NIH in January. According to that story, although about 50 causes of senility are known, Alzheimer's disease accounts for over half of the 1.5 million Americans with senile dementia. Six different groups reported finding that the brains of Alzheimer patients have significantly lower concentrations of choline acetyltransferase, the enzyme that makes the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. So even if Alzheimer's disease has multiple causes, there is hope of finding a single effective treatment.

One way for members to help ASA is to order books on science and faith from our Elgin office and make payment with your order. If you pay in advance the book is sent immediately without charge for postage or handling. And on most of the two-dozen books distributed by ASA you get a small discount off the list price, to boot.

Newly stocked in 1981 are David 0. Moberg's The Great Reversal.- Evangelism versus Social Concern (Holman, 1977, list $3.95) at a member price of $3.55, and the David E. Allen, Lewis P. Bird, and Robert Herrmann symposium Whole Person Medicine (IVP, 1980, 1 ist $8.95) at $8.50. Back in stock is Edwin Yamauchi's The Stones and the Scriptures (Holman, 1972, list $3.95) at a member price of $3.55.

Send for the complete 1981 ASA Book List from ASA, P.O. Box 862, Elgin, IL 60120, the address for ordering the books. The two JASA reprint collections are excellent for classroom use as well as for digging into the subject yourself and circulating among your colleagues. Every member should have a copy of Origins and Change (1978) edited by David Willis. Most of you will be interested in Making Whole Persons (1980) edited by Robert Herrmann and dealing both with human engineering and frontiers in medicine. Order either of these paperback selections of "the best Journal articles" from the Elgin office at $4.00 per copy, postpaid.

Last November Eternity magazine ran a story entitled "Where'd You Get Those Ideas?" A "round-up of fifty evangelical thinkers who influence you," it included a great cartoon of eighteen of those "movers and shakers" in characteristic (?) poses. Richard Bube, professor of materials science at Stanford and editor of the Journal of ASA, was drawn as a crouching primate being pondered by an unidentified figure-who may have been a recent-creationist wearing a mask from "Planet of the Apes." Members of ASA similarly drawn and quartered included John Warwick Montgomery and Bernard Ramm, along with other theologians Clark Pinnock and Carl Henry.

The text described Dick as a leader of the American Scientific Affiliation, "largest and oldest" of the "little recognized but markedly influential" half-dozen Christian learned societies. His writings on systematic theology and the philosophy of science were noted, with the comment that "his influence in the ASA has given that group its image of favoring theistic evolution."

In a subsequent letter to Eternity, Dick said he almost fell off his chair from laughter at the cartoon, then suggested what some future historian might write about him: "It is truly ironic that, while Bube devoted much effort to many areas of interaction between science and Christianity, he was repeatedly mentioned primarily as a defender of theistic evolution. A physicist and not a biologist, Bube regarded evolution only as an example of maintaining authentic science and authentic biblical faith. Actually he never argued for the truth of theistic evolution, but only for its possibility."

... We ought to say something about the ongoing "creationist controversy." We almost scooted up to Sacramento with our ASA press card to cover Segraves vs. The State of California firsthand . It wasn't only the price of gas that kept us in Berkeley. For one thing, the quality of reporting of such issues in newspapers and magazines has improved greatly in recent years. Also we doubted the trial would live up to its advance publicity.

Sure enough, local headlines progressed from "It's Evolution vs. the Bible-Again" and "Genesis Goes to Court Again" to "The New Monkey Trial: Evolution Dispute Narrows," to "Creationists Still Hope for Narrow Win," and finally to "State 'Monkey Trial' Ends in a Draw." The trial lasted five days, March 2-6.

In spite of "Monkey Trial" headlines, journalists for major publications seemed to get the story pretty straight. Time filled up its March 16 Education section with a good story by Kenneth Pierce, "Putting Darwin Back in the Dock." Maybe recent-creationists wouldn't consider it a good story but we thought their arguments were stated reasonably well. (Interesting comparison: "The creationist argument is a bit like claiming that because some trains are canceled or run way off schedule, the basic timetable is totally inaccurate.")

A story by William J. Broad in Science (20 March 1981), "Creationists Limit Scope of Education Case," outlined legal aspects of the suit filed by Kelly Segraves, director of the San Diego-based Creation Science Research Center (CSRC). Superior Court Judge Irving Perluss eventually ruled that the California Board of Education was not communicating clearly enough to teachers the "undogmatic" intent of the guidelines for the teaching 01 evolution. Segraves's attorney Richard K. Turner decided to drop the broader issue of whether "the teaching of evolution in public schools constitutes a 'religion' of secular humanism, and whether neutrality by the state demands equal time for competing explanations of man's origin." That issue had led journalists to picture the suit as a rerun of the 1925 Scopes trial, in reverse.

The Science reporter noted that if such a constitutional case were ever argued in the courts, "a rallying of the ranks would definitely be in order, especially in light of the increasing philosophical skill of the attackers." Ridicule and satire of recent-creationism are counter-productive in today's climate of opinion. "A credible scientific defense at a creationist trial would depend in no small parton the philosophical sophistication of the witnesses," said Broad, who noted that of the twenty witnesses the state of California would have called if the scientific case had been argued, none was a philosopher of science.

Newsletter readers supplied clippings from all over. John Setchell of Rochester, New York, sent us a colorful but balanced story from the March/April issue of Next, illustrated with a photo of ASA member Roy Slingo standing before his Scarsdale High School biology class comparing the theories of evolution and creation on the blackboard. "The Creationists are Coming-Again," written by David Black before the trial, made the dramatic prediction that "substantial success for the creationists will be the beginning of an eclipse of reason that could cast the country into a twilight age in which humanists, blundering in growing panic-like dinosaurs scenting the death of their species in the wind-will confront the prospect of their own extinction." (Here comes the Cretaceous, if not the Millennium.)

The Sunday after the trial, March 15, the Berkeley Independent & Gazette carried two thoughtful essays on the controversy. The one by Sr. Noel Riley, S.M., counselor and chemistry teacher at Bishop County Memorial High School in Los Angeles, was probably picked up from the Los Angeles Times. Sister Riley argued the way many ASA/CSCA members would, that some people draw unwarranted philosophical and religious inferences from scientific data and others mistakenly treat the Bible as a science textbook. Her essay was headlined "Manufacturing a Conflict Between Genesis and Evolution."

Writer Peter Steinhart's essay was headlined "Scopes 11: Our Mistrust of Reason." He said the reporters and TV technicians hovering around the Sacramento trial kept hoping to find some fundamentalist "yahoos" to spice up their stories: "When the first witness testified only about how textbooks are adopted in California, one impatient soul in the press pool moaned, 'Skip the bolts, let's get to the nuts.'" The author quoted CSRC science coordinator Robert Kofahl as saying that there wasn't much use in trying to convince most evolutionists because "their intellect is in bondage, you see, to the effects of the fall, and that prevents them from realizing what God wants them to do."

According to Steinhart, people are growing mistrustful of reason-for lots of reasons. "We recoil from scientists and experts because they are indecisive, and because their pronouncements sometimes lead us to military madness, environmental tragedy, and heartless confusion. But we will not take it upon ourselves to look carefully at the reasoning those experts present in the first place." Increasingly, said Steinhart, "we lean on slogans" and "creationism is a slogan seeking to dress itself as a science."

The Sacramento trial "might have been a test of our ability to live with complexity. But when the fundamentalists withdrew their challenge to the teaching of evolution, they prevented the court from discussing our understanding and support of science. The odds are that we will have another one of these trials soon."

Fred and Kathy Weiss (1437 Mildine Dr., Glendale, CA 91208) are a couple looking for the right place to utilize their skills, his in electrical engineering and hers in medicine. They hope it will turn out to be Oregon or elsewhere in the northwest but they're open to the Lord's leading. Both are graduates of the U. of Washington. Kathy completed her M.D. degree at USC in 1978 and has spent the last three years in internship and residency at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in the Roltywood area. !~he wo-uld- like to find a group practice, preferably with other Christians. Fred spent three years as a communications maintenance officer in the Air Force, worked as an electronic production engineer for two more, then began graduate work in E.E. at UCLA. He completed his M.S. in 1979 and expects to receive his Ph.D. in June 1981, when Kathy will also be ready to move. Fred is torn between wanting to work in industry and wanting to teach electrical engineering at the college level. His research interests are high-speed analog-to-digital conversion, transient digitization, and very-large-scale integrated circuit design.

Bethel College in Minnesota is looking for a biologist and a physical chemist, both with Ph.D., research interests, effectiveness in teaching undergraduates, and commitment to Christian liberal arts education. The biologist would teach anatomy and physiology and participate in introductory biology courses. The chemist would teach physical chemistry and participate in introductory chemistry courses. Contact: Dr. George K. Brushaber, Vice President and Dean, Bethel College, 3900 Bethel Dr., St. Paul, MN 55112. (Received by phone about 1 Feb 1981, as the last issue went to press.)

Oral Roberts University seeks individuals in radiation physics and radiation biology for the Dept. of Radiology at City of Faith Hospital and medical school. Committed believers will be considered regardless of denominational or charismatic expression, but "we would hope to recruit individuals who want their faith to permeate their profession and their professional quality and standards to reflect their Christian faith." Contact Patrick D. Lester, M.D., who recently accepted the position of department chair. Before June 1, write him at Dept. of Radiology, University of Utah, 50 North Medical Dr., Salt Lake City, LIT 84132. After June 1 he will be at Dept. of Radiology, City of Faith/ORU, 777 South Lewis, Tulsa, OK 74171. (Received 14 Feb 1981.) 

LeTourneau College in Texas has an opening for a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, specifically in thermal sciences. Contact: Dr. David E. Hartman, Chair, Engineering Division, LeTourneau College, Longview, TX 75602. (Received 26 Feb 1981.)

Whitworth College in Washington needs an assistant professor of business administration, a Ph.D. or MBA-CPA with economics as a preferred secondary field to teach undergraduate accounting, production management, and computer applications. "The candidate must be committed to the Christian orientation and educational goals of this independent, Presbyterian church-related, liberal arts college." Contact: George Weber, Chair, Bus. Admin. Search Committee, Personnel Office, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA 99251. (Received 27 Feb 1981, via Ed Olson of the Whitworth science faculty.)

Northwestern College in Iowa has a one-year opening in chemistry to replace a faculty member on sabbatical. M.S. required, Ph.D. preferred, to teach a two-semester lab course in general chemistry and one-semester lab courses in quant and instrumental analysis. Contact: Dr. Harold Heie, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Northwestern College, Orange City, IA 51041. (Received 2 March 1981.)

Pepperdine Universily in Califomia has two openings in home economics, one for an R.D. and Ph.D. to teach dietitics and biochemical nutrition. For the other position a Ph.D. is preferred, to teach foods, food management, and institutional management & equipment. "Pepperdine is a four-year liberal arts university with a Christian emphasis." Contact: Dr. Laurie Billes, Natural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA 90265. (Received 5 March 1981 from Ken Perrin, chair of Natural Sciences.)

Family Life Counseling Services in Texas seeks a psychologist with a Ph.D., eligible for licensure, to provide a variety of direct services with emphasis on marriage, family, and adolescent counseling. "Will work with other Christian therapists and have opportunities to conduct workshops and research. Must be committed to an evangelical position and to the integration of Scripture with sound professional practice." Contact: Dale Simpson, Family Life Counseling Service, P.O. Box 48, College Station, TX 77840. Tel. 713846-1015. (Received 9 March 1981.)

Montreat-Anderson College in North Carolina seeks a professor of biology. A Ph.D. is desirable but not required. A two-year liberal arts college. Contact: David L. Parks, Dean, Montreat-Anderson College, Montreat, NC 28757. Tel. 704669-8011. (From 13 March 1981 issue of IVCF's national newsletter.)

The Ottawa section, one year old this month, has a mailing list of about 80 people and potential to grow because of the large number of scientists in Ottawa. A strong Ottawa section can also strengthen the CSCA as a whole because many are government scientists who travel and have connections across Canada. There are 29 CSCA members in the area now, half of whom joined as a result of local meetings last year. Fourteen people attended last September's meeting to hear Allen Box and Fred Boyd discuss "Faith, Science, and the Future," topic of the World Council of Churches' 1979 conference at M.I.T. Allen, rector of Emmanuel Anglican Church in Arnprior, attended the M.I.T. conference and has since organized meetings on related subjects. At one of those meetings Fred was selected for a steering committee to communicate with the Anglican church on science/faith issues.

We haven't heard the outcome of the meeting planned for March 7 this year at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, a showing of the CSCA tape/slide presentation on Creation and Evolution, followed by a discussion.

Richard Herd of the Geological Survey sent out a fine newsletter to the local mailing list in February, laying out the potential and reporting signs of life in both the local and national CSCA. During March, for example, Colin McGregor organized four sessions on Christianity and Science at Bethany Baptist Church. Mark Garner sees many opportunities at Ottawa U. and Richard was encouraged to see many Christians in governmental offices when he attended the second annual meeting of the Public Service Christian Fellowship. He guesses that few scientists were there but thinks an active CSCA section could attract them. He and the few others keeping things going need more help: Richard was ill at the beginning of 1981 and will be away doing fieldwork this summer.

Gil's afternoon talk was on "Destruction of the Tropical Rain Forest and Christian Responsibility," his evening talk on "The Amazon Mission Field: A Layman Scientist's Perspective." Between the business meeting and the evening meal in the cafeteria, those in attendance viewed "Energy in a Twilight World," the new Moody Institute of Science film on the basic causes and deeper meaning of the energy crisis. Jim Neidhardt reports that approximately 120 people attended the meeting and were enthusiastic about Gil's talks.

Bob Voss reports that the section has gone to an automated mailing list, so that mailing labels and the dues notice both came cranking out of a "smart" disk storage system. "Sure beats hand addressing," says Bob. The section is increasing its dues to $10 for full members, $5 for associates, and $1 for students. Dues-paying members save $2 off the $4 registration fee at each of the two meetings. Students are charged a buck for registration unless their attendance at the lectures is assigned.

The New York Metropolitan is about to rate a "first"-the first section to have its own Executive Secretary if the appropriate changes-in the Byiaws-arevoted by the membership. The position would be a "dollar-a-year" one to provide more continuity and make busy members more willing to serve on the Executive Council. Section chair Jack Haynes sent us a copy of the proposed amendment. It specifies that the new "employee" would provide a job description and time-schedule check-list for each officer of the section, keep an updated summary of Council policies and current actions, and write an annual report on activities, statistics, finances, etc., to the Council president.

Bill Lucas sent us a copy of a preliminary edition of the section's new directory, generated from a computer database that can be used to print out mailing labels and personalized form letters, like the New York Metropolitan section's computerized list. The Washngton-Baltimore database seems to have enough information on each local member to enable it to send reports to all members who are Baptists, or all members interested in the philosophy of science, and so on. The information includes educational background (degrees, schools, dates, and fields of study), church affiliation and offices held, hobbies and interests, publications, ASA offices held, and the year of joining ASA, in addition to the regular statistics of home address, employment, and phone numbers. Very useful!

A lecture on "The Life and Influence of John Calvin" drew about fifty people to a meeting at Irvington United Presbyterian Church in Fremont on March 27. The speaker, Aahmes Overton, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Hayward and a Ph.D. in history, did a fine job of sketching the history of Reformation times to set the Swiss reformer's life in context and then enriched the biographical account with quotations and anecdotes. Paul McKowen, pastor of the host church and member of the ASA local section Executive Council, presided. Lots of Calvinists in attendance that evening seemed glad to learn about ASA as well as about John Calvin.

Robert L. Bohon of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, celebrated his 25th year with 3M Company this winter by sailing a 44foot mid-cockpit cutter around the British Virgin Islands with wife Lois. How can they top that this June, when they celebrate their 34th wedding anniversary?

Al Fairbanks, now ministering to the international student community in Minneapolis for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, was finally able to sell his Illinois home so his family could join him. They spent the Christmas holidays together at an "International House Party" at Bear Trap Ranch, then Al participated in IVCF's Washington '80 conference in D.C., where a thousand registrants focused on urban ministries. Al and Dawn still need to raise some financial support, and would appreciate our prayers.

Kirk E. Farnsworth, professor and chair of psychology at Trinity College in Deerfield, Illinois, has two books coming out. Life Planning: A Christian Approach to Careers (IVP) should be out in May, coauthored with Wendell Lawhead, director of Career Services at Trinity. It is a workbook for small groups to help individuals make wise career decisions within the context of Christian community, recognizing that one's career "is not a personal possession but a calling to seek first and further the kingdom of God through service to others." Integrating Psychology and Theology: Elbows Together but Hearts Apart, due in July from University Press of America, emphasizes "the wholeness of the person in human-divine encounter" and makes a contribution toward "the restructuring of psychological method to produce a truly Christian, or Spirit-filled, psychology."

George H. Fielding of Alexandria, Virginia, retired recently from the U.S. Naval Research Lab. George, who received his B.A. (1931) and M.A. (1936) in chemistry from UCLA, was also honored as a 50-year member of the American Chemical Society.

Richard Herd of the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, is taking advantage of Air Canada's cheapo rates this spring so he and his wife can visit fellow geologist Don Boardman and Betty in San Diego. Richard says the Boardmans left on a trip to Australia and New Zealand soon after reading in the Wheaton Record that the Dept. of Geology at Wheaton is being absorbed into Physics and the geology major dropped. At least Don had already retired, says Richard, and had some time "down under" to get over the shock.

Bruce J. Hrivnak completed his Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics at the U. of Pennsylvania last summer with a dissertation on "A Photometric Study of Active, Shor tPeriod Binary Systems: XY Leonis, AW Ursae Majoris, and ER Vulpeculae." Bruce is continuing his work on binary stars as a postdoctoral fellow in the Dept. of Physics at the University of Calgary in Alberta. He would like to hear from CSCAers in Calgary (contact Bruce at the Dept. of Physics, U. of Calgary).   Charles E. Hummel, director of faculty ministries for IVCF, Pennsylvania, upper New York, and Mexico City this spring, helping faculty members be more effective witnesses on their campuses. Charlie reports that a foundation has funded a special program in Tennessee to enable him to make regular visits to Chattanooga and other branches of U. of T. to help Christian faculty find each other and work together.

D. Gareth Jones, associate professor of anatomy and human biology at the U. of Western Australia in Perth, has set us all an example of integrating Christian faith and scholarly work at a popular level. His new book, Our Fragile Brains: A Christian Perspective on Brain Research (IVP, 1981, $8.95), summarizes the current status of brain research for nonprofessional readers, challenges Christians to think through the philosophical and theological issues raised by such research, and focuses attention on the whole human person in the light of God's purposes. (We're impressed that Gareth goes beyond such obvious "grabbers" as psychological engineering, split-brain research, and psychotropic drugs to help Christians think responsibly about care of brain-damaged individuals and the problem of Third-World malnutrition-which damages millions of human brains every day.)

David 0 . Moberg, sociologist at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. gave the keynote address at a mini-conference on the spiritual and ethical ethical dimensions of pro grams for the elderly in October 1980. The conference, held in Cincinnati, Ohio, was one of several dozen leading up to a White House Conference on Aging to be held in December 1981. (That's the kind of news item Glenn Kirkland picks up from Washington newspapers and passes on to us. Thanks, Glenn. How about the rest of you becoming reporters for the Newsletter? The pay isn't much but you set your own hours-Ed.)

William B. Monsma has been added to IVCF staff in Minnesota to work primarily with graduate students and faculty. Bill has a Ph.D. in physics from the U. of Colorado and an M.Div. from Calvin Theological Seminary. David Kaar of Minneapolis, another ASA member and chair of the local committee trying to raise "seed money" to get Bill's ministry underway, says he is hoping this project will serve as a model for ministry on university campuses across the country.

Linda Nutley of Guatemala City, Guatemala, has been Linda Nutley de Vdsquez for almost a year now. She met her husband through G.E.U., the IVCF group in Guatemala, and has been doing accounting in his office because she hasn't found regular work as a food technologist. She's going to Costa Rica in May, however, to give a short course in salted dried fish to fishermen there and do some consulting on sensory evaluation. iFelicitaciones, Sellora de Ve(squez!

J. Edwin Orr, roving faculty member of the School of World Missions at Fuller Seminary in California and author of some 35 books on revival and spiritual renewal movements, was guest speaker for the Miers Memorial preaching mission at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., in November 1980.

S. Hugh Paine, retired Houghton College physics professor, took a progressive-creationist position in a debate with H. James Birx, chair of the Canisius College Sociology/ Anthropology Dept. in March. Although Birx took the standard evolutionary position, they agreed on the age of the universe and of the earth. The debate took place on the S.U.N.Y. Buffalo campus, packing out the Conference Theater. Bob VanderVennen sent us a clipping from the Buffalo campus Reporter complete with photos. Reporter Linda Grace-Kobas wrote a balanced, full-page account of the debate, mentioning that Hugh Paine's long white beard made him "rather resemble the illustrations of a kindly God the Father in old catechism books." (To a certain uncatechized newsletter editor, however, Hugh's photograph looks quite a bit like Charles Darwin!)

W. Stanford Reid, who "winters" in Lake Placid, Florida, spent two months last summer traveling with his wife in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. Stan, a historian of the Reformation but ostensibly retired, delivered some 54 lectures and sermons on their trip. He spoke at several seminaries and gatherings of missionaries and native pastors, and at Presbyterian Church conferences, helping to put folk in touch with their "Scottish spiritual ancestry." Until November the Reids will be at 320 Scottsdale Dr., Guelph, Ont. N1G 2K8.

Mary Carman Rose, professor of philosophy at Goucher College in Maryland, has become a member of the Advisory Board of Consultants to the New Ecumenical Research Association, formed to "expand the ecumenical frontier" through dialogues, topical conferences, and publication of conference proceedings. NEW ERA has its origins in conferences sponsored by the Unification Theological Seminary (10 Dock Rd., Barrytown, NY 12507); its Executive Director is John T. Maniatis, head librarian of the "Moonie" seminary.

David Shotton of imperial College, London, spent part of 1980 teaching in the Summer Course in Neurobiology at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, which he had taken as a student in 1976. At Christmas David and Shirley were back in the States to show off their firstborn son Jamie Daniel Joseph to Shirley's extensive family in Texas. They had a visit with Carole and Charlie Thaxton in Dallas, friends from David's years at Harvard.

Mare Sullivan is the new name of Mare Koskovich of Seattle, Washington. Mare was married in December. She would welcome help in organizing an Industrial Hygienists Christian Fellowship from any ASA/CSCA members in industrial hygiene or occupational health (address: 3615 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98103).  Aldert van der Ziel, professor of electrical engineering at the U. of Minnesota, has been honored once again for his pioneering contributions to research in noise phenomena and "elaboration of a complete theory of noise in transistors based on the physical theory of fluctuation." This time Aldert is receiving the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa in Technical Sciences from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, the degree to be awarded on 8 May 1981. Notice of the award was signed by an Eindhoven professor with the title "Rector Magnificus." We think Aldert is pretty magnificus, too.

Dennis Wagner, editor of Origins Research (P.O. Box 203, Goleta, CA 93017), organized a discussion of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" TV series for the Carmen Deo Community's Center for Christian Study in Santa Barbara in January. Dennis read quotes from Sagan's book Cosmos to summarize his views on morality, human nature, ultimate reality, and epistemology, concluding that even though Christians can learn a lot from Sagan about the grandeur and details of creation, "his world view is drastically different from the Christian world view."

A. Kurt Weiss, professor in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at the U. of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City and past president of ASA, has become book editor for the biological and medical sciences for the Journal of Gerontology, among his other many activities.

Dorothy Ann Wells of Pomona, California, and Edmund R. Woodside of Pasadena, both ASA members, announce their wedding at Pomona Bible Chapel on February 14. What a wonderful way to celebrate Valentine's Day-with the first ASA "double wedding" we've been able to report in quite awhile.

Edwin Yamauchi of the Department of History at the U. of Miami in Oxford, Ohio, is the newly elected secretary-treasurer of ASA. He also serves on the editorial board of Fides et Historia. In the last six months Ed has published about a dozen papers and reviews, and has a book entitled The Archaeology of New Testament Cities forthcoming from Baker Book House.