NEWSLETTER

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AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 28 Number 3                                                  June/July 1986

THINKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD

In March the Call for Papers went out for ASA's 41st ANNUAL MEETING, to be held AUGUST 8-12 at HOUGHTON COLLEGE. By the time you're reading this, registration materials will be mailed.

How can the 1986 meeting be so near? We haven't finished telling readers about last summer's Annual Meeting. Anticipation of ASA fellowship at Houghton stirs up memories of our 1985 international meeting at Oxford with the Research Scientists' Christian Fellowship. Even though we have much in common with our British counterparts, ASA is unique.

We're less formal, for one thing. When an ASA Member at Oxford referred to "Bob Boyd," an RSCF Member replied, "You must mean Sir Robert." (Physicist Sir Robert Boyd, F.R.S., a long-time leader in RSCF, was knighted for running the British equivalent of NASA.)

Yes, children, the English still have Lords and Ladies, with Knights and Bishops and the whole chessboard, including a Queen. (That's better than having a Hollywood actor running your country, the English would probably say.-Ed.) Americans seldom pay such dignified respect to our "betters," or even seniors.

The RSCF custom is to call on a senior member for the first response to a speaker. The leaders most respected in RSCF were trained in the hard sciences. That seems to give RSCF a certain tilt. At Oxford a plenary session on "Radical Critiques of Science" produced some prompt and pungent put-downs of the social sciences. Evidently a group of RSCF "young Turks" had put up quite an argument even to get that session on the program. In contrast, with our broad view of science, ASA leadership has always been shared with psychologists, sociologists, historians, political scientists, and the like.

America's geography has also "broadened" us. We move ASA Annual Meetings across the United States in a cycle: east, midwest, west, midwest. The more compact RSCF has thrived on one-day meetings in a central location. Local groups often get together to hammer out a single paper. With papers circulated in advance, the time together, though shorter, can be used entirely for discussion. In contrast, a perennial complaint about ASA meetings is that good discussion has to be cut short.

Another striking difference has been in publication. Many RSCF members regret not having anything like ASA's scholarly Journal in which to publish studies of science/faith questions. On the other hand, RSCF is one of nearly twenty graduate fellowships of the UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship, formerly InterVarsity Fellowship). Hence RSCF has always had short pieces and reviews in a I section of a magazine that goes to all UCCF Associates (i.e., alumni), not just those in scientific work. Formerly called The Christian Graduate, the UCCF alumni magazine is now called Christian ARENA.

Since much of the leadership in evangelical churches in Great Britain comes from UCCF, that means that RSCF is well known and respected throughout the evangelical community there. That has never been true of ASA, whose existence seems to be a well kept secret in the American evangelical community.

So, at Oxford the grass at times seemed greener on the other side of the fence-from either direction. The Americans did O.K., though, fielding some excellent speakers and holding our own in discussions. Our one bit of one-upmanship passed almost unnoticed: ASA could boast the only registrant for whom a college at Oxford is named. The new Oxford Centre for Management Studies is known as Templeton College. If we have the story straight, it is named for ASA member John M. Templeton, a former Rhodes scholar attending the conference with wife Irene from their home in Nassau, Bahamas.

There is no doubt that we owe a lot to our British heritage. John Templeton's funding of an Oxford college helps to balance at least part of what Americans owe to another Oxonian, James Smithson. In his will that English scientist gave the United States the money to establish, in 1846, the scientific institution known as the Smithsonian.

Without a state religion or inherited aristocracy, Americans are free to muddle along. The ASA must do far better than that, however. We are called to serve God, God's people, and God's world-in concert with our counterparts in the U.K. and all over the world.

Let's get together at HOUGHTON COLLEGE, AUGUST 8-12, to think together about our unique calling.

CMDS recently appointed W. A. Peter Thompson to a full-time position as coordinator of field ministries. Peter, whose M.D. degree is from McGill University, has for the past eighteen years been assistant professor of anethesia at Dalhousie University in Halifax. In his new post he will probably do considerable traveling (home address: Peter Thompson, M.D., Site 1, Box 6, R.R. 1, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, BOT 1KO, Canada).

Like the Christian Medical Society in the U.S., the Christian Medical Dental Society provides a forum for thoughtful consideration of issues challenging the professions and a vehicle for practitioners and students to serve in missions in other parts of the world. (CMDS postal address: P.O. Box 3362, Vancouver, B.C. V613 3Y3, Canada.) The Society welcomes inquries from interested physicians and dentists.

1. Bruce Butler of the Division of Natural & Physical Sciences of Canadian Union College has a colleague interested in the subject of "assessing the spiritual distress or needs of hospital patients." Bruce is sure that some ASA/CSCA members could supply her with the materials she is looking for, or tell her where to find them. Responses should be directed to: Mrs. Gail Baumbach, Dept. of Nursing, Canadian Union College, Box 430, College Heights, Alberta TOC OZO, Canada.

2. The Institute for Advanced Christian Studies (IFACS) welcomes inquiries about its program of grants for scholarly writing. IFACS provides grants only for evangelical scholars with an earned doctorate, "whose record of research and writing establishes them in the forefront of their own fields of study." Grant applications must show promise of significant and original contributions, at a high academic level, to challenges of integrating the Christian faith with their own academic disciplines or with some pressing problem in contemporary society or in the church. Address inquiries to: IFACS, Box 95496, Chicago, IL 60694. (Former ASA president V. Elving Anderson is currently vice-president of IFACS.-Ed.)

3. James C. Hefley, who teaches writing at Hanniba-lLaGrange College in Missouri, for five days in June also directs a Mark Twain Writers' Conference at the college, featuring distinguished faculty. Next year Jim would like to add a workshop on writing for scholarly publications. He wonders if some ASAers would like to hone their talents in that direction. If you might be interested, drop a note to: Dr. James C. Hefley, Hannibal-LaGrange College, Hannibal, MO 63401.

4. Several members and friends of ASA are thinking of starting a small technical enterprise in North Africa. They will have openings for a few individuals with experience in business and/or electronics. Knowledge of French or Arabic would be desirable. Contact: Open Sesame, 1925 Delaware St., Apt. 1B, Berkeley, CA 94709.

5. The Center for Theology & the Natural Sciences in Berkeley, California, is an outstanding place to explore the overlap between the philosophy of science and the philosophy of religion. CTNS director Robert J. Russell spoke recently at an ASA meeting at Stanford University. (See LOCAL ACTIVITIES); ASA Newsletter editor Walt Hearn attended a stimulating CTNS conference devoted to Arthur R. Peacocke's "critical realism." Walt thinks many more ASAers should be associated with the Center, a great place to spend a study sabbatical. A $15 membership brings the CTNS Bulletin and broadens the base of intellectual and financial support. (Make checks out to CTNS, c/o The Graduate Theological Union, 2465 Le Conte Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709.)

6. An International Conference on Creationism devoted to "The Age of the Earth" will be held 4-9 August 1986 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (The Institute for Creation Research has disavowed the validity of the Paluxy River "man-tracks," but the ICC program gives no hint of stepping back from the "young-earth" position.-Ed.) Registration is $140 ($35 each day). Write to: International Conference on Creationism, P.O. Box 17578, Pittsburgh, PA 15235.

7. Robert L. Bohon sent us a clipping from the March 21 St. Paul Pioneer Press & Dispatch about a scientific study of the death of Christ. The study was evidently reported in a March 1986 issue of Journal of the Ameri can Medical Association. The newspaper story, written by Katherine Lanpher, identified one of the three JAMA authors as Dr. William Edwards, a Mayo Clinic pathologist and member of West Bethel United Methodist Church in Bethel, Minnesota. After consulting such sources as archeological data, early Roman writings, and Christian and Jewish historians, the authors concluded that Jesus indeed died on the cross, probably of respiratory failure and shock due to blood loss. The weight on the arms and shoulders of a crucified person caused excruciating pain simply from trying to breathe, causing a slow death from respiratory failure. Acute heart failure might have been a contributing cause of death. Edwards is quoted as saying that he became a Christian in 1980 and that, although the study was approached as clinically and scientifically as possible, "as a recent Christian I wanted to learn more about what Christ suffered on my behalf." Convinced that Christ died on the cross, Edwards said that "you have to look for some explanation for the Resurrection other than a resuscitation theory."

8. Don DeGraff of the U. of Michigan-Flint calls attention to an extensive and sympathetic article on "James Clerk Maxwell and Religion" in the April issue of American Journal of Physics, vol. 54 (4), pp. 312-17 (1986). The article is by Paul Theerman (address: Joseph Henry Papers, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560), who says in a brief abstract: "In his mature statements, Maxwell denied that scientific truth was dependent on religious truth, or the reverse. Nonetheless, scientific conclusions could enrich religious contemplation of God's actions in nature."

2. The Fourth Day: What the Bible and the Heavens are Telling Us about the Creation (Eerdmans, 1986. 280 pp., paper, $9.95) was written by Howard J. Van Till, professor of physics & astronomy at Calvin College. We've sampled Howard's writing in "Categorical Complementarity and the Creationomic Perspective," JASA 37 (3), pp. 149-157 (Sept 1985), and liked it. We haven't seen his new book yet, described as a "theologically sound, scientifically coherent vision of the cosmos." "Since evolution and creation deal with distinctly different questions, says Van Till, both concepts can be taught with integrity in schools-not as alternatives but as complementary views of the universe and its history." (Quotes from publisher's catalog.)

Bernard Zy1stra of Toronto, Ontario, died on 4 March 1986 at age 51, after a ten-month battle with cancer. His younger brother, Calvin College biology professor Uko Zylstra, paid tribute to him at a memorial service held on March 7 in Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. "Bernie" had been principal or president of the Institute for Christian Studies from its founding in 1967 until ill health forced him to resign in 1985. He was an alumnus and former staff member in political science of the Free University of Amsterdam. Liturgist at the memorial service was his former theology professor, Lewis Smedes of Fuller Theological Seminary, who had performed the wedding ceremony when Bernie married his wife Jocina in 1959.

Roy E. Cameron (3433 Woodridge Drive, Woodridge, IL 60517) is without a job despite wide experience in environmental science management, administration, and research. Roy has a Ph.D. in plant science and many publications from his years with NASA (on the Mars Viking Lander team) and Argonne National Lab (on energy extraction, land reclamation, and various other projects). His background includes chemistry, soils, bacteriology, and microclimatology. If you know of almost any kind of project needing an experienced technical manager, drop Roy a line.

The University of Swaziland in Africa, listed last time for physics, also has openings in ag education, ag economics, land use & mechanization, plant breeding, zoology & aquatic biology, animal physiology, geography, statistics, analytical & physical chemistry, and several other fields. This information comes from Wayne Linn, who taught there last year. He says not to worry about any stated cutoff dates for applications because the university is always in need of faculty. He adds that "salaries are lower than in the U.S., so a person has to go with a sense of service." Write to: The Senior Assistant Registrar, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland, Africa; or for more information to Dr. Wayne Linn, Dept. of Biology, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR 97520. (Received April 1986.)

Harvard professor Owen Gingerich's visit on March 26 was the 15th stop in the series of lectures organized by ASA's Bob Herrmann. Again an overflow crowd, this time of about 220 people in the U. of Toronto physics building. The lecture was taped for broadcast by the radio station of Ryerson Polytechnic Institute of Toronto. Also present at the lecture was a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), who asked Owen for permission to rebroadcast on the CBC network.

Both Russell and Gingerich were interviewed for broadcast on the Ryerson radio station for a History of Science course taught on the radio by Jim Maclachlan. Gingerich also met informally with about 15 people on the U.T. campus to talk about his 1982 Scientific American article on "The Galileo Affair." That group included astronomers (Helen Hogg and two from the U. of Western Ontario, 120 miles away), historians of science, and graduate students.

The section was looking forward to an April visit by chemist Charles Thaxton (co-author of The Mystery of Life's Origin).

METROPOLITAN NEW YORK

Robert C . Newman, professor of New Testament at Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, was the scheduled speaker at the section's April 26 meeting at The King's College in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The topic of his slide-illustrated lecture was "The Origin of the Universe." With a Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics from Cornell and theological training at several seminaries, Bob is well equipped to show how the Bible and science both point to a universe with an absolute beginning. New officers for the section are Wayne Frair, president; Linda Wanaselia, vice-president; Ralph Ellenberger, treasurer; Mary Lynn Morse, secretary. Bob Voss continues as executive secretary and editor of the section's f I ne Newsletter.

INDIANA

On March 25, ASA executive director Bob Herrmann and Harvard astronomy professor Owen Gingerich brought ASA's "road show" to Indianapolis. Following the usual pattern, a reception presented the vision of an ASA sponsored television series, with its content illustrated in Owen's public lecture on "Scientific Cosmogony and Biblical Creation." Chemist Ann Hunt of Eli Lilly & Co. (national president of ASA this year) sent us this report:

"Peter Cha and Tom Williams were the other members of the local crew. Peter is a graduate of Trinity Seminary, presently a half-time intern on the staff of Faith Missionary Church and half-time InterVarsity staff member at the local state University (I.I.I.P.U.I.). Tom is a geography professor at I.U.P.U.I. and IVCF faculty advisor there. Tom was very efficient in reserving the necessary rooms and arranging for audio-visual support. Peter and the IVCF students handled publicity on campus and among their off-campus friends at the commuter school.

CHICAGO

John W. ("Jack") Haas, Jr., professor of chemistry and chair of the Division of Science & Mathematics at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, was scheduled to speak to a section meeting at Judson College in Elgin on April 24. Topic: "The Alleged Contribution of Christianity to the Rise of Modern Science: a Case Study in Science History." Some historians of science have questioned the conclusion that Christian motivations and theological concepts provided a climate conducive, if not essential, to the flowering of science in the 17th century. The notice sent out by Marilyne Sally Flora cagily avoided saying which side of the argument Jack comes down on. You had to go to the lecture to find out!

SAN FRANCISCO BAY

On April 12 at least 60 people registered for a symposium on "God and Modern Science: Who Shapes Whom?" held in the auditorium of the Terman engineering building on the Stanford University campus. New College Berkeley cosponsored the symposium.

The well balanced program was excellent in all respects. U.C. Berkeley quantum chemist Henry F. ("Fritz") Schaefer led off with a lecture on the religious faith of the pioneers of modern science. Fritz has been developing the lecture since his own conversion thirteen years ago to show students and others that "Christians in science stand in an intellectually respectable tradition."

His "cloud of witnesses" stretched from Francis Bacon to Carnegie-Mellon physicist Robert Griffiths. After projecting on the screen a personal statement about belief in God from each scientist in turn, Schaefer closed with comments on his own current integration of theological and scientific questions.

Then Robert J. Russell spoke on the influence of today's physics on theological thinking, touching on such areas as cosmology and the anthropic principle, and various interpretations of the "quantum dilemma." Bob Russell is founder and director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union. The Center is devoted to exploring those areas of overlap between the philosophy of science and the philosophy of religion.

Russell illustrated parallels between theological metaphors and scientific models, and between doctrines and theories "(interpretive umbrellas for a whole set of models"). He compared the dilemma of quantum interpretation of the famous electron slit experiment with the classical theological problem of reconciling God's immanence with his transcendence. It may be beneficial to think about such problems with the vocabulary of modern physics, Russell said.

Lively circles of discussion continued during lunch break at the student union. In the afternoon, attention turned to yet another interaction of science with religion. J. Dudley Woodberry, professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, described the golden age of Islamic science in the period 900-1100 A.D. He outlined the historical background of the rise of science in the Muslim world. Before 800, Muslims drew heavily on the work of Nestorian Christian and Jewish thinkers, but by 850 their science was strictly Islamic and all in the Arabic language.

What happened to cause the later decline of Islamic science? A combination of factors moved the Muslim world toward a more rigid outlook promoting Islamic spirituality over worldly "foreign" ideas, including science. In distinguishing between the Sunni and Shiite ("fundamentalist") branches of Islam, Woodberry said that science causes problems for those who want to cling to traditional value systems. In that regard, Christians, Jews, and Muslims, all "people of the Book,"

face similar problems. In fact, he said, the values of a modern technological society seem to have little in common with the biblical values upheld by Christians.

Notification of the Saturday symposium in a New College mailing brought out fewer area church people than expected. Student turnout was also slight, in spite of free student registration. An advance press release sent by Walt Hearn to local papers attracted at least one reporter, Sheri Bjornson of the Fremont Argus. Her April 19 story in the Argus and other Bay area community newspapers in the Sparks chain focused on the first speaker's contribution to the symposium. "Science and Religion: Chemist an Exception" gave a clear account of Fritz Schaefer's testimony, and even an accurate description of the American Scientific Affiliation.

Dean E. Arnold. professor of anthropology at Wheaton College in Illinois, has returned from a profitable sabbatical in Yucatan, Mexico, and Cambridge, England. His six months in Mexico under an American Republics Research Grant (part of the Fulbright program) took him back to a community he had studied in the late 1960's. Dean wanted to see how pottery production, largely in the hands of three extended families, had changed. Neither the potters nor their thou sand-year-o I d technology had changed much. The styles of pots they produced had changed, though-now including clever copies of ancient Mavan Pottery to be marketed in tourist shops. At Cambridge, as a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall and a Visiting Scholar in archaeology at the university, Dean had the joy of seeing his book, Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process released by Cambridge University Press. The Arnolds worshiped at St. Barnaby's Parish Church and enjoyed traveling about in England. Dean found students in the Christian Union (British "InterVarsity") eager to discuss integration of the social sciences and Christian faith. In September 1986 he will return to England to present an invited paper on his work in Mexico to the World Archeological Congress in Southampton.

Glenn Bailey is studying electrical engineering at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, with an interest in electron transport. He expects to graduate in August 1986 and is looking for a teaching position.

Paul R. Bauman, a long-time ASA member, lives in Longview, Texas, where he was formerly administrative vice-president of LeTourneau College. Paul received an A.B. degree in biology at the University of Southern California in 1930 before turning to theology at Ashland Theological Seminary. Biola awarded him a D.D. in 1941. His wife's illness has caused a temporary relocation from Longview to Brownsburg, Indiana.

James E. Berney is general director of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of Canada. Jim says he helped the late John Howitt celebrate his 90th birthday, impressed by the venerable psychiatrist's "commitment to Christ and his youthful understanding of things." Jim wants to add a footnote to our obituary on John in the Feb/Mar issue. Besides his other avenues of Christian service, back in the late 1930's John Howitt was the first chair of the IVCF board in Canada.

Malcolm Bourne is a professor of food science at Cornell University's agricultural experiment station campus at Geneva, New York. He learned about ASA from Wil Lepkowski's story in Chemical & Engineering News two years ago. After graduating from the U. of Adelaide, he came to the U.S. to do a Ph.D. in chemistry at U.C. Davis. (Son Lincoln, now a physics grad student at U.C. Berkeley, is a Davis-born Bourne with no trace of his father's Australian accent.-Ed.) Malcolm learned from the Newsletter editor that Cornell president Frank Rhodes was a participant at the 1965 ASA Oxford Conference. He wasn't surprised, after hearing Rhodes' "remarkably Christian" commencement address last June. Coming after a number of campus confrontations, it was about the importance of combining knowledge with love.

Richard H. Bube of Stanford University recently taught a twelve-week core course in the adult education program of Foothill Covenant Church in Los Altos, California. The course was called "Science and Faith: Thinking and Living Christianly." In February Dick and Betty were in Fresno, where Dick was a Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar lecturer at Fresno Pacific College. At a faculty dinner Dick spoke on the creationevolution controversy in the public schools, "a rewarding meeting with much interest and empathetic reactions."

Keith L. Clemengrer completed his Ph.D. in physics at U.C. Berkeley last fall and since January has been in Beijing, studying Chinese. Keith went to China under auspices of Management Technologies, International, an outfit that has contracted to staff a new International Science and Technology Center in Tianjin, near Beijing. As we understand it, the Center, which is still under construction, will eventually host groups of Chinese technologists who come there for short-term training. Keith will be in the first cadre of instructors and consultants at Tianjin.

Edward B. "Ted" Davis of Messiah College in Pennsylvania is co-leading a one-week workshop on "Christianity and the History of Science" at George Fox College in Oregon, beginning June 27. David C. Lindberg and Ronald Numbers, both of the U. of Wisconsin, are the other workshop leaders. Lindberg is covering the middle ages and the Galileo affair, Davis the rise of modern science, Numbers the creation-evolution controversies. The workshop is sponsored by the Christian College Coalition for faculty of CCC member colleges.

David E. Elliott is in his second year of medical school at Wayne State University in Michigan after finishing his Ph.D. in immunology-microbiology there last December. His dissertation dealt with "Accessory/Regulatory Functions of Inflammatory Macrophages Isolated from Liver Granulomas of Schistosoma mansoni Infected Mice." The Elliotts plan on a residency in pathology and then a missionary career. They would like to hear from other ASAers in the Detroit area, especially from anyone interested in medical missions. (Address: 23114 Vance, Hazel Park, MI 48030.)

F. Alton Everest of Whittier, California, First President of ASA and Founder of this Newsletter, was in the Bay area in April with wife Elva. They dropped in on both Bernard Ramm in Walnut Creek and Walt Hearn in Berkeley. Alton is an acoustical engineer who worked on Moody Science Films for many years, then "retired" to spend three years teaching communications at Hong Kong Baptist College. Coming back from overseas, Alton launched an ambitious program of consulting in the audio field and writing such books as Acoustic Techniques for Home and Studio, Handbook of Multichannel Recording, and How to Build a Budget Recording Studio from Scratch. All published by Tab Books, they have made Alton's expertise available to Christian broadcasters all over the world. With Elva's help as managing editor, Alton self-published an audio training course on Critical Listening in 1982, a handbook accompanied by a set of audio cassette tapes. Critical Listening is distributed by Mix Magazine Bookshelf (2608 9th St., Berkeley, CA 94710). Consultation with Mix, an audio-industry trade magazine, on a new publishing project was what brought the Everests to Berkeley.

Richard H. Harrison, a Rutgers graduate student, was badly injured in a car accident a year ago (PERSONALS, Oct/Nov 1985). He has been transferred to the coma recovery program at Hartwyck Center in Plainfield, New Jersey. Dick makes small gains, such as purposeful movement of a finger or hand, holding an object, or returning a kiss, but he and Karen still need our prayers for the long struggle still ahead.

H. Harold Hartzler, retired physics professor, first ASA executive secretary, and author of the two-volume King Family History, has started a new enterprise. Under the name "Hartzlers' Charter and Tours" (3235 W. Jordan Lake Dr., Lake Odesa, MI 48849), Harold will lead an Amish-Mennonite-Brethren Heritage Tour from 24 Sept to 2 Oct 1986. On the route are such places as the Goshen (IN) College and Bluffton (OH) College historical libraries, Sugar Creek Festival in Ohio, various historic sites in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Berks County (Penna) Historical Library, the home of Jacob Hartzler (first Amish minister in America), and Germantown (first home of Mennonites in America). The ever-energetic "H-cubed" is writing a history of his high school class (of 1926!) in time for its June reunion. After a couple of Mennonite reunions Harold expects to check out the Conference on Creationism in Pittsburgh on his way to the ASA ANNUAL MEETING at HOUGHTON COLLEGE, AUGUST 8-12. (Will he see you there?-Ed.)

James C. Hefley of Hannibal, Missouri, Samuel Clemens's home town, had an article on the religious influences on Clemens, "probably the best known 19th century American writer," in the Dec 1985 issue of Moody Monthly. The article was entitled "The Greatness, and the Sadness, of Mark Twain." Jim has been traveling to Christian colleges about once a month to give lectures on Christianity and communications. He spoke at Grand Canyon College (AZ) in January, at Olivet Nazarene (IL) in February, at Campbellsville College (KY) in March, and was on his way to Harding University (AR) when we heard from him.

Warren E. Hoffman of Fountain City, Indiana, has been a visiting professor of organic chemistry at Butler University this year. Warren is keeping busy in such yearto-year jobs until his wife retires from her position as principal of Wayne County Elementary School. After 1986-87 they may move to Florida.

Charles R. Hummel of Grafton, Massachusetts, directs faculty ministries for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. In January he taught a one-week course on "Biblical and Scientific Views of Nature" at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, basing the course on the manuscript of The Galileo Connection, which had just gone to the printer. About half the participants were from outside the seminary, including a community college biology teacher who found the material immediately applicable to her classroom teaching.

David 0. Moberg, sociologist at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been on a peripatetic western sabbatical with wife Helen this spring. They dropped in on Stan Moore at Pepperdine University and on other ASAers at Fuller Seminary in southern California. In Fresno, Dave spoke to a combined gathering of ASA and the San Joaquin chapter of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, hosted by Stan Lindquist of Link-Care Center and Richard Arndt of Cal State Fresno. After visiting psychologist Mack Goldsmith in Modesto, the Mobergs made their way to Berkeley, where Ginny and Walt Hearn hosted an open house for them. Early in April Dave was to speak in Portland, Oregon, at a conference sponsored by the Sociology/Social Service Program of George Fox College. The topic, "Reaching Across Generations," is one of Dave Moberg's special interests.

Armand M. Nicholi is a practicing psychiatrist in Concord, Massachusetts, a member of the teaching faculty of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard College, and Mass General Hospital. His primary research interest is a large-scale medical-psychiatric study of late adolescence and early adulthood. He is editor and principal author of The Harvard Guide to Modern Psychiatry, a member of the board of the Family Research Council, and a consultant to a number of governmental bodies. In April Armand gave the 5th annual Dwight Lecture in Christian Thought at the University of Pennsylvania, speaking both on "Human Sexuality in the 1980's: A Psychiatric and Biblical Approach" and on "Hope: The Essential Ingredient of Physical and Emotional

Health." John Y. May served as academic coordinator for the two lectures, sponsored by Penn Christian Fellowship.

Allan M. Nishimura is serving as chair of chemistry at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, while Stanley Anderson is away on sabbatical. A card from Stan says that when his Fulbright lectureship at Khartoum in Sudan is up, he hopes to finish out his sabbatical in Cambridge, England, doing some writing. (Both A[ and Stan seem to think that the Fulbright program provides great opportunities for ASA members.-Ed.)

Charles G. Sanny is associate professor of biochemistry at the Oklahoma College of Osteopathic Medicine & Surgery (OCOMS). He moved to Tulsa from the University of Osteopathic Medicine & Health Sciences (where he was introduced to ASA by biochemistry colleague Mildred Carlson). Charles is continuing his studies of the effects of drugs on aldehyde metabolism; his paper, "Canine Liver Aldehyde Dehydrogenase: Distribution, Isolation, and Partial Characterization" appeared in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, vol. 9, pp. 255-262 (1985). He coordinates the medical biochemistry course at OCOMS and serves as faculty sponsor for the Christian Medical Society chapter there. Charles is interested in fostering discipleship among professionals and in helping to organize a local section of ASA. (Address: Dept. of Biochemistry, OCOMS, 1111 W. 17th St., Tulsa, OK 74107.)

Henry F. Schaefer ///, U.C. Berkeley chemistry professor, is the author of "Methylene: a Paradigm for Computational Quantum Chemistry" (Science, 7 Mar 1986). That paper outlines the history of successful quantum mechanical determinations of molecular structure and energetics. For anything more complex than the 2-atom hydrogen molecule, such history goes back less than three decades. (And Fritz Schaefer seems to have played a key role in it, making state-of-the-art theoretical chemistry a "full partner with experiment."-Ed.)

James W. Sire, senior editor for InterVarsity Press in Downers Grove, Illinois, lectured in Berkeley, California, in March at a conference on cults and deception sponsored by the Spiritual Counterfeits Project. Jim told the Newsletter editor tales of his lectures on various campuses and of exciting interactions with skeptics and seekers among students and faculty. He still needs funds to underwrite the itinerant speaking he began in 1986. (Make checks out to IVCF, 233 Langdon, Madison, WI 53703, designated for Jim Sire's ministry).

Charles B. Thaxton has moved from the Foundation for Thought and Ethics in Dallas to the Julian Center in Julian, California, a small study center near San Diego devoted to "discipling the whole person." Charlie met Dick Day, one of the directors of the center, when they were both speakers at campus forums sponsored by Probe Ministries. Charlie will be teaching, tutoring, and "mentoring" at Julian, but will continue writing, speaking at conferences, and guest lecturing on university campuses. He is working on a popular version of The Mystery of Life's Origin, for example, and this summer

will teach at Regent College in Vancouver, B.C. Charles continues to direct curriculum research for the Foundation for Thought and Ethics.

Kurt Wood, Debbie, and daughter Rachel are back in Casablanca, where the opportunity to build good relations and offer encouragement is as challenging as Kurt's job. He teaches chemistry (in French) at the university as a Fulbright lecturer. May 31 was the deadline for their fourth annual Postcard Competition, but your "bizarre, tacky, or boring" entries will count for next year. Kurt says they "stand ready to create a new category just for your entry. Multiple entries are encouraged." Address: 8 bis Abou Mouataz El Falaki, (ex-Rue de Vendee), Maarif 02, Casablanca, Morocco, Africa.