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AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 27 Number I  February / March 1985

HUMMEL TO COUNCIL; HEDDENDORF PRESIDENT

Charles Hummel was elected to the ASA Executive Council for a five-year term beginning in 1985 in one of the closest (and largest) votes in years, showing the confidence members place in both the winner and the runner-up, physicist Paul Arveson. Hummel, trained as a chemical engineer, serves as faculty representative for Interarsity Christian Fellowship from a home base in Grafton, Massachusetts, not far from ASA's home base in Ipswich. He replaces Edwin Yamauchi, retiring after his fifth year on the council.

At its November meeting in Ipswich the Council elected the officers who will serve as ASA's officers for the coming year. Our 1985 president is sociologist Russell Heddendorf of Covenant College. Vice-president is chemist Ann Hunt of Eli Lilly & Co. Secretary-treasurer is Edwin Olson of Whitworth College. Biologist Donald Munro holds the position of Past President (in a scheme designed to give optimum continuity but not rigidified in the By-Laws).

The 1984 Council has asked "the new kid on the block," Charlie Hummel, to serve as program chair for the 1986 ASA ANNUAL MEETING, to be held at HOUGHTON COLLEGE in NEW YORK. (With such a head start, that should be a great one-Ed.)

We had to go to press before seeing the minutes of the Council meeting, but our impression from a phone call to executive director Robert Herrmann is that ASA is really "on the move." Bob has been moving around quite a bit himself. In England this fall he met with his RSCF counterpart and the committee planning the joint ASA/ RSCF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE at OXFORD, ENGLAND, JULY 26-29, 1985. After checking out St. Catherine's College at Oxford University, Bob says it will be a perfect site for the conference. (If you can possibly go, go. Write to ASA, P.O. Box J, Ipswich, MA 01938, for details. Sorry, the European tour is filled, with one busload of 36 ASAers going before the conference, another after-Ed.)

In January and February Bob and Owen Gingerich have dinner meetings lined up to present the proposed TV series at four major universities: Arizona (Tucson), Stanford, SMU (Dallas), and Rice (Houston). Response at places like Case Western Reserve has been so encouraging that Bob wonders if it's time for some kind of ASA

Traveling Lectureship-whatever happens with the TV series.

Meanwhile, back at the office, Caryl Proctor has taken Joan Lipsey's place better than anyone could have imagined, Bob says. Joni was the perfect person to computerize the ASA office and Caryl, who has a strong background in accounting, is looking forward to computerizing ASA's bookkeeping and financial records. Caryl is married to Jim, a Gordon-Conwell Seminary student, by the way, and they have an eight-year-old daughter, Hannah.

The Executive Council also voted to establish a "Committee for Integrity in Science Teaching" to make ASA's broad middle position in the so-called "creation-evolution controversy" more widely known. At press time a small working committee was about to meet to explore what kinds of correspondence, publication, or other means will best fulfill that goal. (Stay tuned! This could be exciting.-Ed.)

The ASA/CSCA Newsletter was established to keep members of our Affiliations in touch. We hope to start doing a better job of that. Before Joni left Ipswich, she and managing editor Ruth Herr taught ASA's computer to print an address label each time an address change is entered for a name on our membership list. That label goes on a double postcard asking the member for news.

As you'll see in this issue, that system is beginning to work. A steady stream of green return postcards is assuring us of a substantial PERSONALS section, without having to rely so much on the editor's personal contacts or tidbits gleaned from other publications. With your help, the Newsletter will now be more representative of the entire membership.

To accommodate an expanded PERSONALS section, the Weary Old Editor (WOE is me-Ed.) will have to control himself-just when he's getting the hang of his new word processor. No more long book reviews, esoteric essays, or "fillers." Some items we might have expanded in the past to full stories will probably be posted in our new BULLETIN BOARD section.

Getting used to all this may cramp our style a bit, but shouldn't squelch our sense of humor. Anyway, thanks for your patience-and for returning that green postcard when it comes your way.

The Aug/Sept 1983 Newsletter announced that Henry F. Schaefer ///, professor of chemistry at U.C. Berkeley, had won the 1983 Baekland award of the American Chemical Society. Now, a little over a year later, "Fritz" Schaefer's work in quantum chemistry has been recognized once again, this time by the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (IAQMS).

On July 19 at its 21st meeting in Menton, France, Schaefer was elected a member of the IAQMS. There are only 37 members worldwide (12 from the U.S.), and Fritz is the youngest member ever elected. (In fact, he's seven years younger than the previous youngest member, Roald Hoffmann, who won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1981-Ed.) Fritz received his Ph.D in chemical physics from Stanford in 1969. In August 1984 his second book, Quantum Chemistry: The Development of Ab Initio Methods in Molecular Electronic Structure, was published by Oxford University Press.

Fritz Schaefer's office is a place where students and faculty can discuss the claims of Jesus Christ as well as the intricacies of the quantum mechanics. He hosts a Tuesday luncheon group of grad students in chemistry and chemical engineering and a Thursday luncheon group of faculty under the leadership of biochemistry prof David Cole. (Fritz and Dave invite all ASA/CSCA academics passing through the bay area to drop in on their gettogethers in 237 Hildebrand Hall any Thursday during the school year-Ed.)

Despite his modesty, Fritz said he was glad his winning _Ahe Baek[and award made the front page of ASA/CSCA News. When he gave a lecture at the U. of British Columbia last September. Fritz was able to meet several Christians at U.B.C. and at Regent College who had been alerted by our story. That was a highlight of the trip, he said.

The only session of the 1984 Annual Meeting we haven't reported on yet was chaired by Jim Neidhardt of the Publications Committee. It contained some miscellaneous but fascinating papers. George Murphy, a Lutheran pastor with a Ph.D. in physics, discussed "Science and the Sacraments." In particular, he showed how "state of the art" physics has often influenced Christian thought about certain theological issues. When heat was still thought to be a substance, for example, theological opinion held that no heat should be added to "the pure water of baptism." In European winters, George said, that gave baptism "into Christ's death" an almost literal meaning. Most of his paper dealt with various ways the Eucharist has been seen as a point of interaction between physical and spiritual reality. Has modern understanding of space-time given us new ways to think of Christ's "real presence"? Such questions triggered a lively discussion of the sacramental view of reality, and of "natural theology" in general.

Biochemist Mildred Carlson of the U. of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences in Des Moines, Iowa, showed how consideration of biological structure and function can give one a fresh approach to how a local church body might be organized. Although the different organelles of a living cell have different functions, there is no hierarchy. The "cell model" worked out in her own church has Jesus Christ as the central "nucleus," and committees, teams, boards, and individual church members as "organelles" in direct communication with Christ and with each other. Rather than being "closer to Christ" (as in hierarchical models), the elders are seen as analogous to the "plasma membrane"-at the periphery. That novel idea makes a lot of sense: the elders are a body's mature members able to communicate with the external environment and serve as a protective barrier. (Now why didn't we think of that?-Ed.)

Terry Pence of Northern Kentucky U. and Valerie Pence of the U. of Cincinnati, a couple whose training includes both biology and philosophy, took us "Toward a Christian Perspective on the Use of Animals for Scientific Research." The fact that 80 million animals may be used for experimentation in the U.S. in a single year (a small fraction of those killed for food, of course) has produced a strong anti-vivisection movement and led to "animal rights" theories and even to "animal liberation" guerrilla attacks on laboratories. Christians seem to be divided on these matters. The Penses reviewed the history of Christian thought about limitations on the use of animals, based on biblical warnings against cruelty.

Turning to the writings of Peter Singer (Animal Liberation. Avon. 1977), Bernard Rollin (Animal Rights and Human Morality, Prometheus, 1981), and Tom Regan (The Case for Animal Rights, U.C. Press, 1983), the Penses found-a4l of them to have consequences incomm patible with Christian theology. Such theories may lead to counter-intuitive conclusions because they grapple with the question of the relative value of different "lives" under many different circumstances. The possibility that research requiring animals to suffer might be necessary to alleviate human suffering didn't come up in the Bible. The Penses seemed to think that Francis Schaeffer was on the right track in Pollution and the Death of Man, (Tyndale, 1970). Biblical injunctions to care for animals are intended both for the animals' good and for ours, to keep cruelty out of our lives.

2. The paper on "Misleadership in Psychology" given by Purnell H. Benson at the 1984 ASA Annual Meeting aroused enough interest for Purnell to send a circular letter to those in attendance inviting further correspondence on that subject. In his paper, Purnell, retired from

Rutgers but teaching at Columbia, followed Paul Vitz  (Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship, Eerdmans, 1977) in exposing the shallowness of psychology wedded to behaviorism and humanism. He goes further in urging a positive use of psychology in comprehending and communicating the gospel of Jesus Christ, stressing the psychological teachings of the Bible. Members of ASA/CSCA who would like a copy of Purnell's paper, or who would like to be on his mailing list, should write him at 21 Maple Ave., Madison, NJ 07940.

As we're composing this installment of A Computer Pilgrim's Progress we're having a little problem with our word processor. "Naturally," a cynic might say. "Your 90-day warranty just ran out, so what did you expect?" No, that's not the kind of trouble; the equipment works fine. It's just that we can't get to it. You see, wife Ginny has also discovered the computer. Right now she's using it to make a set of several hundred mailing labels for an announcement of her next journal-keeping workshop. So the rest of the family temporarily falls back on our back-up, faithful old UnderWood.

The fact is that our new Kaypro personal computer has been in use by one or the other of us, often both, almost every single day since we got it. We find that hard to believe. Yet we've barely begun to tap its potential.

We celebrated this past Thanksgiving with a two-computer family. Three months before, that concept would have seemed ridiculous to us. Several years ago we had ." all-ed t1-n- e-ler the PC ~oersoral computer) age with one of the early TRS (Tandy Radio Shack) models. Frankly, what we saw then provided little inducement to follow. The husband, a psychology professor given to gadgetry, seemed to be "playing with his computer" too much of the time. Their dotty printer gave the family Christmas letter a "computerized" look, we thought. But one by one their children have finished school, doing homework and writing papers on that "antique" computer (which has been updated in various ways). This year the wife, now an accountant, was learning to use complicated financial spreadsheets-on her own higher powered, higher-priced IBM PC. And this year, in the table talk about how a computer becomes "part of the family," even the Hearns could join in.

For years, people who knew we made our living by writing and editing have asked why we didn't have a word processor. A major reason was the cost, and the fact that those costs seemed to be coming down. We hoped that by the time we had to have one, we'd be able to afford it. The ASA grant last year kept us from having to wait any longer. We found what we consider a bargain word processor, yet we still paid more for it than we've ever paid for a car. (Of course, what we drive is a secondhand 1971 VW Bug, with a 1965 Bug as backup.)

Another reason was confusion, and not merely our own. The personal computer industry has been in confusion ever since it burst on the scene. As we understand it, manufacturers of "mainframe" computers for industry,

government, and academia such as IBM and DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) originally weren't interested in the PC market, even though they helped create it. By the time "silicon chip" technology made it possible to build "micro-computers" with a lot of computing power in a small box, a whole generation of engineers and business personnel had gotten used to working at individual terminals hooked up to big computers. Dozens of entrepreneurs began producing thousands of Apples, Ataris, Commodores, Epsons, Morrows, Osbornes, and other variations on the personal computer theme. IBM and other biggies took another look. Now new models come and go, whole companies come and go, and the "state of the art" is a very unsteady state.

Under such circumstances, one hesitates to invest several thousand dollars, lest you find out next week that a new computer that can do more now costs less. Nor do you want to pay for a lot of computing power you'll never use-and so far you've never used any. The catch is that until you actually "play" with a computer, you're unlikely to develop enough "computer literacy" to ask intelligent questions. Or to evaluate the conflicting answers you get.

Realizing early in 1984 that word processing might soon become for us an "appropriate technology" approaching "cost effectiveness," we began browsing in a local freebie paper called Computer Currents and talking to everybody we knew who owned a computer. Each time we spent half the night retyping 20 pages of Newsletter copy, consuming cups of coffee and bottles of Whiteout, we'd think "The time has come." But once we'd staggered bleary-eyed to the post office and put it in the mail (only a little past the deadline), we'd pat UnderWood proudly on the platen and say "We made it again, ol' pal." Then last summer an unexpected offer of a DEC Rainbow PC at half price thrust us into making a decision-and into the computer age. (To be continued.)

John Sowell (Dept. of Biological Sciences, U. of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843) seeks a position at a college that emphasizes quality teaching but encourages research incorporating undergraduate or graduate students. John has a B.S. in botany from U.C. Davis and expects his Ph.D. in botany (ecological plant physiology and biophysics) at Idaho in 1985. He (and his wife and daughter) would enjoy a Christian college in a small-town setting, but he believes he could have an effective ministry at a secular college as well.

Murree Christian School in Pakistan needs a high school mathematics teacher with two years of experience. Contact: Jack Irvine, President, Evangelical International Schools, Inc., P.O. Box 5453, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. (Received October 1984.

Westmont College in California is still looking for a permanent faculty member in mathematic  and icomputer science. Needed is a Ph.D. in mathematics (preferably analysis) competent to teach a reasonable variety of

undergrad math and computer science courses. Emphasis on excellence in teaching. Applicants must be able to sign the Doctrinal Statement of this interdenominational, evangelical liberal arts college and "be in agreement with the college Christian Life Expectations." Contact: Prof. David F. Neu, Chair, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. (Received October 1984; last year a temporary person was found through a notice in this Newsletter.)

Whitworth College in Washington may not yet have filled two positions open for fall 1985. One requires a Ph.D. in physics with practical knowledge of electronics and (preferably) experience in digital logic and computer hardware. Contact: Physics Search Committee. The other requires a Ph.D. (or near Ph.D. with laboratory-based thesis) in chemistry with emphasis in physical chemistry. Contact: Chemistry Search Committee. Both tenure-track positions are for general undergraduate teaching, require commitment to the Christian orientation and educational mission of the 1,200-student college affiliated with the presbyterian Church (USA). Address for both: Personnel Office, Auditorium #215, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA 99251. (Received October 1984; check before applying to see if applications still open.

Taylor University in Indiana seeks an additional faculty member for its growing computer science programs, with 150 majors in business applications, scientific programming. and artificial intelligence tracks. Contact: Richard Stanislaw. Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Taylor University, Upland, IN 46989. Tel. (317) 998-5204. (Received November 1984.)

Hope College in Michigan has a number of tenure track positions open. Ph.D. required for positions in molecular biology, organic chemistry, mathematics, and experimental physics; Ph.D. strongly preferred in computer science and mechanical engineering; several positions in nursing require M.S., prefer Ph.D. Hope is affiliated with Reformed Church in America, has over 2,400 students, Contact: Irwin J. Brink, Dean for the Natural Sciences, Hope College, Holland, MI 49423. Tel. (616) 392-5111 x2010. (Received November 1984.)

Gordon College is looking for a physicist (for a tenure track position) with interest in nuclear physics and computers and also for a chemist (for a tenure track position) in organic chemistry and biochemistry. Write to R. Judson Carlberg, Dean of the Faculty, Gordon College, Grapevine Road, Wenham, Mass. 10984.

The Minneapolis-St. Paul area once boasted the most active local section in ASA. At present it seems to be on "hold" but maybe not for long. In 1984 the Executive Council named William B. Monsma as our first "field representative," with the idea that he could promote ASA in that area while directing the Maclaurin Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. Under various auspices Bill has been puting together the kinds of programs at the U. of Minnesota that should draw present and prospective members of ASA.

In October 1984, Prof. A.R. Peacocke of Cambridge University, author of Science and the Christian Experiment, lectured on "Intimations of Reality: Critical Realism in Science and Religion." That same week Bill himself began a series of seven Friday noon seminars on "George Orwell and the Book of Revelation: Two Visions of the Future." Also in October, James Skillen of the Association for Public Justice in Washington, D.C., gave the first lecture in a series on "1984 and the Future," discussing "The Religious Right: Will It Destroy Our Freedom?" In November the second lecture in that series ("George Orwell and the Utopian Vision") was given by Herbert Schlossberg, the 1984 ASA keynote speaker, and the third ("Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity") by U. of Minnesota geneticist V. Eiving Anderson.

A November 3 evening meeting on the Stanford campus drew a relatively large crowd. Lambert T. Dolphin of SRI International in Menlo Park gave an illustrated lecture of his trips to the Near East to apply certain physical techniques to the archeological exploration of biblical sites. Lambert is a senior research physicist with the Science and Archeology Team and the Radio Physics Laboratory at SRI. His work ordinarily consists of designing equipment to help locate pipes and petroleum and other things buried underground. The tools used in archaeology may be ground-penetrating radar using extremely short pulses (sometimes good up to several hundred feet), seismic sounding (better than radar in wet rock), or high-resolution resistivity, which Lambert's group has automated for 24 electrodes to locate cavities, buried walls, and boundaries in subsurface strata and measure depth of soil cover to bedrock.

Lambert's search for hidden chambers in Egyptian pyramids a few years ago made the newspapers (and this Newsletter), but lately he has made many trips to Israel. His team does no digging but helps archeologists decide where it is worth digging. For instance, at the mountain fortress called the Herodium, about seven miles southeast of Bethlehem, the team may have pinpointed the tomb of Herod the Great (73 B.C. 4 A.D. ), locating an unexpected hollow space in a 60-foot-diameter stone tower previously thought to be solid. Of half a dozen sites with the most promise, the only one they couldn't get to was the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Although the SRI team had official permission, local police kept them from working there for fear of rioting by Muslims zealous to protect the Dome of the Rock, from which Mohammed is said to have ascended to heaven. The goal was to try to establish the exact location of the Second Temple, the one destroyed in A.D. 70.

A story in the November 5 Newsweek on "Who Owns the Temple Mount" made Lambert's talk even more exciting-adding dimensions of political and religious intrigue. Evidently some American Christians have formed a Jerusalem Temple Foundation, believing that biblical prophecy requires a Third Temple to be built where the older temple once stood. Rumors are that the foundation might help Jewish religious extremists try to wrest the Temple Mount from Muslim control. Terry Risenhoover, named in Newsweek as head of the Jerusalem Temple Foundation, is one of the private individuals who made grants to SRI for some of Lambert's work in Israelwhich may be what made the guardians of the Muslim holy places nervous.

David L. Bosley is now a first-year graduate student in the Dept. of Applied Mathematics at the U. of Washington in Seattle, and is active in Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship on that campus.

Herman H. Broene continues to live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after retiring in June 1984 from the Dept. of Chemistry of Calvin College.

Christopher F. Carson began work at TRW's Electronics & Defense Sector - Energy Development Group in ReBeach, California, this fall. Chris works on advanced isotope separation, thermal analysis, and advanced fusion reactor design analysis. He's in the same department of TRW as his brother, Ronald S. Carson, an ASA member and Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the U. of Washington (1983). Chris received his M.S. in nuclear engineering in August 1984 from U.C. Berkeley, after earning a B.S.M.E. there in 1983. At Berkeley Chris was active in Alpha Gamma Omega, a Christcentered fraternity functioning on a number of campuses. In case we hadn't heard of A.G.O., Chris pointed out that David R. Cole, professor of biochemistry at Cal, is also an A.G.O. alumnus.

David K. Carson became assistant professor of child development and family relations at North Dakota State U. in Fargo this fall, where he hopes to have a ministry among international students. David studies young children (ages 3-6), and is currently investigating the influence of temperament and home environment on their social competency and general adaptive behavior. He is also interested in such factors as circadian rhythms on their social initiative and emotionality.

James A. Clark is on the geology faculty at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This fall he began teaching a new upper-division paleontology course there. Jim has been awarded an NSF grant for a two-year study of computer prediction of glacial isostatic tilting of old preglacial lake shorelines that ring the Great Lakes. The project got off to a good start last summer with the help of three students in Calvin's new geology major program.

For a given ice-sheet history, Jim can already predict the elevations of any deformed shoreline in the U.S. or Canada. He thinks he has a valuable tool for exploring both the glacial stratigraphy and the Earth rheology of North America.

Edward R. Dayton, founder of World Vision International's MARC (Missions Advanced Research & Communication Center) in Monrovia, California, is the author of two books published in 1984: What Ever Happened to Commitment? (Zondervan) and Faith That Goes Farther: Facing the Contradictions of Life (Multnomah). In September 1984 Ed attended a meeting of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization in Stuttgart, Germany, as chair of the LCWE Strategy Working Group. The quarterly World Evangelization Information Bulletin is available to those interested in the task of world evangelism, on request from LCWE, 8008 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 401, Charlotte, NC 28211.

Dewey DeWitt, professor of chemistry at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, has become increasingly interested in the history of science. His departmental colleague Richard A. Hendry reports that Dewey is currently spending a sabbatical at U.C. Berkeley studying the papers of G.N. Lewis. Dewey gave a paper at the History of Science Society meeting at Stanford this fall, according to Dick (who is hoping soon to get his hands on a new Varian NMR instrument the college is buying for the department).

F. Alton Everest was one of the founders and the first president of ASA-back in 1941. On June 23, 1984, Alton and Elva Everest celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at their home in Whittier, California. Their three children came from Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Colorado for the occasion, for which Elva wore her 1934 wedding dress. At 75, Alton has also kept in good shape (professionally, at least), now writing his sixth book and still consulting in acoustical engineering. He says he marvels that he can have a hand in foreign mission activity, in the design of recording studios such as the recently completed Pacific Broadcasting Association studios in Tokyo and the Southern Baptist studios in Caracas, Venezuela.

Virgil H. Freed was honored at a banquet on his retirement from Oregon State University in Corvallis at the end of the 1983-84 academic year. Virgil joined the faculty shortly after his graduation from OSU in 1943, became head of the Dept. of Agricultural Chemistry in 1961, and served as director of the Environmental Health Sciences Center, 1967-81. He made many contributions to the science of weeds and weed control before turning his interests to environmental health. He is a member of a national team that for the past year has been reviewing potential health effects associated with chemical waste disposal sites. Last year Virgil was recipient of the Rosenfeld Agricultural Development Award at OSU, (Our thanks for this item to OSU alumnus Alton Everest, the founder and first editor of this Newsletter in addition to his other accomplishments-Ed.)

Earl W. Godfrey has moved from Texas Tech University to the Dept. of Anatomy of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He continues his research on the development of synapses.

Ann H. Hunt is a research chemist at Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company in Indianapolis, Indiana, and a member of the ASA Executive Council. Ann was bothered by a sore foot at the Annual Meeting but few realized how serious it was. She went into the hospital soon afterward for surgery on several toes to correct a drastic bunion. Two weeks later she was barely able to take her first step, leaning heavily on crutches, but still had pins sticking out of her foot. (Ouch!)

George J. Jennings of Le Mars, Iowa, is executive secretary of the Middle East Christian Outreach (USA), and a professor emeritus of anthropology from Geneva College. George has also taught at the U. of Minnesota, Bethel, and Wheaton. His latest book, entitled All things, All Men, All Means-To Save Some, is a 284-page paperback drawing on George's own field research as well as his wide reading, a kind of summary of major world views and social personalities for mission-oriented readers. George tries to get at the concepts held by Buddhists, Hindus, Confucianists, Marxists, Muslims, Shintoists, Syncretists, Taoists, and others. The book is available for $10.75 from George at Middle East Missions Research, 1072 - 7th Ave., S.E., Le Mars, IA 51031.

G. Archie Johnston is a licensed marriage, family, & child counselor and an orthomolecular nutritionist at the California Behavioral Science Institute in San Francisco. He is currently studying "supernutrition" and lithium as an adjunct to traditional psychotherapy, using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory before and after treatment. Archie's paper on "Depression and the Gay Person: An Orthomolecular Exploration and Treatment Approach" has recently been accepted for publication in the Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry.

Thomas Key of Chunchula, Alabama, is a biology teacher and also a minister. He is interested in helping churches grow both spiritually and numerically. Tom would like to locate a Bible-believing church that wants a pastor who preaches the whole Bible from a Pauline viewpoint. He was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of Antioch Bible College in Marietta, Georgia.

Frederick H. Kuttner made a career change this past summer and has moved to Morgan Hill, California, with his wife and four children to work for Wiltron, a microwave instrumentation company. Fred received his Ph.D. in physics at U.S. Santa Cruz in 1977 and stayed on to manage the physics laboratories until June 1984. Meanwhile he had earned an M.B.A. at the nearby U. of Santa Clara and has now moved into marketing. Fred was active in Christian Life Center of Santa Cruz and hopes to find time to be active in South Valley Community Church in the Morgan Hill area, which is just southeast of "silicon valley." He's interested in the problem of how to integrate science and faith in the area of the imagination.

Wilbert C. Lepkowski, a senior editor of Chemical & Engineering News who wrote the fine news story on the ASA in the August 27 issue of C&EN, is a hardworking science journalist. His trip to Ohio for the ASA Annual Meeting also netted him a major news story in the September 17 issue. Writing about what individual state governments are doing to attract high-tech industries to their states, Wil focused on Ohio as an example, discussing not only the promise of high technology but also some of its social consequences.

Priscilla Gilliam MacRae is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Andrew Norman Institute at USC's Gerontology Institute, investigating the effects of aging and exercise on central nervous system function. She finds it encouraging to meet other academics and scientists who are Christians, and hopes to interact with other ASA members in the Los Angeles area.

Joseph M. Martin is a Presbyterian missionary to Brazil on home assignment at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. Now teaching Old Testament and missions, Joe says he hopes to interest as many faculty and students as possible in ASA and our Journal before he returns to Brazil in July.

John McCalpin is a Ph.D. candidate in physical oceanography at Florida State U. in Tallahassee, after completing his M.S. in oceanography at Texas A&M. He is beginning a study of the Somali current system via a numerical model using observed winds as forcing for the oceanic flow. John has found a lot of grad students in the physical sciences in the IVCF chapter at Florida State, so he's passing around copies of JASA and ASA membership application forms to recruit some new ASA members. (That's what ASA needs: a new wave of enthusiasm!-Ed.)

Marvin McDonald has completed his Ph.D. in clinical=community psychology at Purdue and has a new job. He is now assistant professor in psychology at the U. of Wisconsin-Marathon Center and assistant professor in family practice and medicine at the U.W. School of Medicine, in affiliation with the Wausau Family Practice Center. (That's only one job?-Ed.) Marv's thesis at Purdue was on "Clergy as Gatekeepers: Networks of Counseling and Referral."

Denise Murphy received a B.S. in biology from Wheaton College and is now at UCLA. She's in her first year of a Master of Public Health program in tropical and infectious diseases. Denise is writing a paper on the epidemiology and symptornatology of helminthic and amoebic infections in children under five in Irian Jaya.

W. James Neidhardt of the Dept. of Physics at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark also serves as faculty advisor to the IVCF chapter on his campus. Jim is all in favor of increased ASA-IVCF cooperation. He sent us a schedule of special meetings held by the IV chapter at NJIT this fall, including one on "Christian Ethics and the Consultant Engineer." Speakers at that December 5 meeting were ASA members Robert Voss and Robert Chu, partners in a new consulting venture and both alumni of NJIT.

Martin L. Price is well-known to readers of this Newsletter as director of the Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO, Inc., RR 2, Box 852, North Fort Myers, FL 33903). Martin says that friends and supporters of ECHO are welcome to visit that agricultural development project devoted to subsistence farming in the Two-Thirds World. Periodic tours are scheduled, usually in the mornings (when it's cooler), with many visitors bringing a picnic lunch to eat on the grounds. Group tours can be scheduled for churches, civic organizations, garden clubs or other interested groups. Call Martin at (813) 997-4713 to make arrangements for a tour. An even better way is to come out and do some work on the farm, Martin says-strenous work like.mulching and weeding or less strenuous work like folding newsletters or shelling seeds.

Henry F. Schaefer ///, professor of chemistry at U.C. Berkeley, and his wife KAren are looking forward to spending the spring semester at the Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra. They'll take their four children with them, including Rebecca Jane, born 23 April 1984. Fritz is an elder (for evangelism) at Christ Community Church in Walnut Creek, a new congregation of about two hundred members affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America. That denomination includes such notables as James Montgomery Boice, R.C. Sproul, and Edith Schaeffer (no relation to the 1-F, 3-1, IAQMS Schaefer-Ed.). Fritz and K~ren also serve as discussion leaders for Bible Study Fellowship.

Harley C. Schreck has been employed by World Vision International in Monrovia, California, to do missions research in World Vision's unreached peoples program. He recently completed his doctoral work in anthropology at the U. of Washington in Seattle, where he studied the role of the church in providing in-home support to homebound elderly persons.

Terrell Smith, who serves the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Marburg, Germany, helped plan a conference last spring with representatives of 13 other evangelical missions. Called AMIKO '84 (for Auslander Mission Konference), it was attended by 110 people from 22 different countries. Terry gave one of the main Bible expositions and spoke on work among international students. He found it inspiring to see how well different missions could work together, and to hear how God brings people to himself through all sorts of evangelistic outreaches.

Jack C. Swearengen works for Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. After 15 years in materials research there, Jack has become supervisor of the Solar Components Division. He has responsibility for developing the components of solar central-receiver thermal systems for the Dept. of Energy, and for transferring the technology to industry. One goal of the program is to provide grid electricity at a cost competitive with fossilfired plants in the mid 1990s.

Henry J . Triezenburg is now K-12 science supervisor for Timothy Christian Schools in Elmhurst, Illinois. He was formerly administrator of the Curriculum Dept. of Christian Schools International in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

David L. Vander Meulen of Allen, Texas, works as a research biochemist-biophysicist at Baylor Research Institute in Dallas. At the February annual meeting of the Biophysical Society in Baltimore, David and a Baylor colleague are presenting a poster session on "Spectroscopic Studies of Anisotropic Rotational Motions of Muscle Proteins."

John M. Vayhinger retired from his post as professor of pastoral care and counseling at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, in June 1984. A clinical psychologist and an ordained United Methodist minister, John was already professor emeritus of the Anderson School of Theology in Indiana. He has also been on the faculties of the Iliff School of Theology (U. of Denver), Garrett Theological Seminary (Northwestern U.), and In diana U. He served as chief psychologist of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center in South Bend, Indiana, in the 1950s. John has been active in ASA both in the Indiana section and at the national level.

Henry D. Weaver lives in Santa Barbara, California, from which he supervises the overseas campus programs of all branches of the U. of California. Henry spent most of his academic career at Goshen College in Indiana, where he was a professor of chemistry but also directed Goshen's active overseas program. In the 1960s he also served on the ASA Executive Council and as president of ASA. Just about the time Hank moved to California he was stricken with cancer and told he might never walk again. Now Herald Press has published his book, Confronting the Big C: A Family Faces Cancer (1984. Paper, $5.95). In it, with the help of members of his family "Henry Weaver describes how hope, support of friends, prayer, humor, and good medical care worked together to heal." Norman Cousins was moved by the book's "passion, poetry, and integrity." (The last time we saw Hank on one of his visits to U.C. Berkeley he was wearing a barely noticeable plastic leg brace; recalling a tennis trouncing he gave us 20 years ago, we almost challenged him to a rematch. Glad we didn't. He might have trounced us again.-Ed.)

John R. Wood teaches at Simpson College in San Francisco while finishing up his Ph.D. in entomology at U.C. Berkeley. John pokes around the PG&E geothermal power plants at The Geysers near Santa Rosa, studying aquatic insects called caddisflies (Trichoptera). Caddisfly adults look like moths, and the larvae, which make portable cases out of sticks, sand grains, or leaves, are terrific fish bait. After studying environmental impact assessment and their population dynamics and taxonomy, John is currently working on their reproductive biology. John's paper on "Demonstration of Sex Pheromones in Caddisflies" has appeared in J. Chemical Ecology 10, 171 (1984), with two more papers in press. John and Cathy have a one-year-old, Katrina, and a four-year-old, Nathanael (abbreviated Nate, not Gnat, we're told, in spite of John's professional inclinations-Ed.).

Davis Young of Calvin College's Dept. of Geology, Geography, and Environmental Studies is a Fellow on the study team of the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship for 1984-85, the topic for the team's investigation being "Creation and Cosmogony." Clarence Menninga, who began teaching a new paleontology course this fall, served as Adjunct Fellow on the team during Interterm 1985. The department will gain more room for its expanded programs in fall 1986 when a major addition to the Calvin Science Building is completed. Among other news in recent issues of the Calvin Geogram is word that geographer Henk Aay team-teaches an interterm course on agriculture, food, and world hunger with biology prof Uko Zy1stra (thus covering the subject from Aay to Zylstra-Ed.)