NEWSLETTER

of the

American Scientific Affiliation & Canadian Scientific & Christian Affiliation


VOLUME 33 NUMBER 6 DECEMBER 1991/JANUARY 1992

NEWSLETTER of the ASA/CSCA is published bi-monthly for its membership by the American Scientific Affiliation, 55 Market St., Ipswich MA 01938. Tel. 508-356-5656. Information for the Newsletter may be sent to the Editor: Dr. Walter R. Hearn, 762 Arlington Ave., Berkeley CA 94707. 0 1991 American Scientific Affiliation (except previously published material). All fights reserved.

TIME TO REMEMBER

Between September and November we remembered December, in time for our annual Christmas Greeting to top off 1991. ASA's 50th Anniversary year began with a high-tech war in biblical lands. Then the Iron Curtain rusted through. Rust in Peace.

In our 22nd year of editing the Newsletter, the 1991 Annual Meeting brought to mind ASA's unique calling. One plenary speaker reviewed ASA's deep roots in apologetics and evangelism. Another urged us not merely to build, but to be, a bridge between the scientific and
Christian communities. For the New Year, we wish you joy in our shared task of witness and reconciliation.

Remember: One piece of news from "biblical lands" still counts for more than all our technologies and scientific knowledge behind them. Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, putting us in contact with the Creator of the universe. Greetings in His hopeful name.  Walt & Ginny Hearn


TIME TO RESPOND

Will ASA end its first half-century in the black? Executive director Bob Herrmann's appeal letter is generating response but our financial situation remains critical. For the time being, Bob has dropped back to half time and financial manager Frances Polischuk to three-quarter time to cut office expenses.

Never was there a better time in ASA's history to contribute to the work of ASA. The December issue of Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith will be lacking SEARCH and will be as much as 4 weeks late. Science Press, itself in a tight situation, needed to be paid for June before starting on the December issue. The printing bill for each issue of ASA's journal runs about $6,000.

For the December issue, not all the delay will be due to slowness in paying our bills. For one thing, the December issue will be a special 50th ANNIVERSARY issue. For another, ASA's new managing editor, Patricia Ames, is still mastering ASA's Ventura Publisher software and trying to figure out why we do things the way we do.

"Patsy," married to Scott (in banking, doing grad work in Government at Harvard), has lived in Ipswich a few blocks from the ASA office for nearly five years. She used to do technical editing at Lotus (software) Development Corp in Cambridge. The Ameses' son (Willie, born in June), stays with their landlady during the day. Patsy is the daughter of psychologist Mack Goldsmith (of Modesto, CA), who is active in the Christian Association for Psychological Studies and a recent president of CAPSWest.

Talk about timing! In August the Newsletter editor learned that Patsy was job-hunting and suggested that she check out ASA, not knowing that Carol Aiken had already replaced Karen Brunstrom. Meanwhile, though, Becky Petersen had just left the managing editor's slot. Bob Herrmann and Perspectives editor Jack Haas were probably wishing they'd learned how to use the Ventura Publisher software, when in walked Patsy, who grew up doing homework on her dad's early Radio Shack computer. With Becky helping her plug in, Patsy cranked out the Oct/Nov Newsletter in her first few days. Whew!

TIME TO RELOCATE?

A bout this time two years ago, readers were calling Berkeley to ask if the Newsletter editor had survived the Oct 17 Loma Prieta earthquake. This year-during another unusual World Series-they were calling again. Yes, we survived the Oct 20 wildfire that swept through the Oakland/Berkeley hills and onto the nation's TV screens. But we're feeling vulnerable, as we did in 1989.

The ASA Newsletter office is three miles N of the fire area. The fierce, hot Santa Ana winds were blowing toward the W and S, so we weren't in immediate danger. The devastation was terrible, with over 3,000 residences destroyed and 25 people burned to death. The homes of some 30 families in Berkeley's First Presbyterian Church are now ashes. Few had time to rescue priceless possessions, such as the Tibetan language tapes of a former missionary who has been working on a Tibetan grammar for the past 50 years.

Had the winds changed, what could we have done, even with warning? Not much. We could' hardly have gathered up all the records, documents, files, notes, and correspondence from which this issue of the Newsletter is woven. We might have gotten out with a computer and printer, along with our six cats and some family photographs.

Thanks to all for your concern. After two warnings we should get our affairs in order, especially if we stay in California. The Old Testament prophets never said that living in the Promised Land would guarantee against calamity. But they didn't advise the Lord's people to move out, either.

HOLI-ER THAN THOU?

Biophysicist/physiologist Tomuo Hoshiko, of Case Western Reserve Medical School has been appointed program chair for the 1992 ANNUAL MEETING, to be held at the University of the Nations on the Island of HAWAII, July 31-Aug 3. At recent meetings

Tom has brought up many issues facing scientists in general and ASA in particular. After examining our past in 1991, Tom says, ASA should consider our role for the future. Dick Bube laid out the challenge in his banquet address at Wheaton. Now we must figure out how to proceed.

With the meeting scheduled for Hawaii, the Executive Council may have thought Tom could pass as a kanaka (islander), but in fact Tom's ancestral family came from Japan without an intermediate stop. They settled in British Columbia, where Tom was born. Forcibly resettled during WWII, his parents raised sugar beets in the Canadian midwest. Tom got part of his advanced education in Canada, the rest in the U.S., so he's as much a haole (mainlander) as the rest of us.

BULLETIN BOARD

1. On 22 Feb 1922 the Pascal Centre (Redeemer College, Ancaster, ON, Canada L9G 3N6) will celebrate its official inauguration and dedication in the Redeemer College auditorium at 8 p.m. A reception will follow an address by philosopher Alvin Plantinga of Notre Dame University on "When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the Bible." (Our introduction to

the Pascal Centre in the Aug/Sep issue failed to mention its quarterly Notebook bulletin on science/faith issues. The Winter 1991 issue, for example, summarized a seminar on new genetic data affecting paleoanthropology, given by David Wilcox during his residence at the Centre on sabbatical from Eastern College in 1990.-Ed.)
2. After several years' hiatus, the Wheaton College Geology Dept will again offer a summer field course for geology or earth science majors,
the kind of course required or strongly recommended for all undergraduates majoring in those fields. Held at Wheaton's Science Station in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the course is split into an initial two-week field methods class followed by six weeks of mapping, analysis of structural observations, environmental topics, and a week's tour of Yellowstone Park and the Big Horn, Teton, and Bear Tooth mountains. Students taking the entire course earn eight semester hours of credit. Students who have already had field methods may take only the latter six weeks. Contact: Dr. Jeff Greenberg, Geology Dept, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187; tel. 708-752-5063. Jeff asks ASAers at secular institutions to pass this information on to geology undergraduates. Non-Christian students are welcome at the Science Station; following a code of behavior is required while enrolled. Christian students at secular institutions may appreciate the fellowship and worship with students from Christian colleges, some of whom will be in biology or general education science courses.

3. The Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FIE) of Richardson, Texas, has made available a nicely bound offprint of Phillip E. Johnson's 1990 article, "Evolution As Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism," from First Things. Besides Johnson's article, the 38-page booklet includes a foreword by FTE director Jon BueH; five published responses to the article by biologists William Provine, Gareth Nelson, and Thomas Jukes, editors Irving Kristol and Matthew Berke; and Johnson's published "Reply to My Critics." The booklet is available for $5 each for 1-5 copies, down to $2.75 per copy (for 101 or more copies) from the publisher of FTE's Of Pandas and People: Haughton Publishing Co., P.O. Box 180218, Dallas, TX 75218-0218.

INTO PRINT

THE EDITOR'S LAST WORDS column below announces fonnation of an ASA/CSCA "Writers Bloc." One purpose is to make our
Affiliations better known, by better reportage of our events and by encouraging members to "fly the flag" whenever appropriate. Getting ASA's
name in print takes constant effort on many fronts. Editors, who have their own definitions of what's newsworthy, are wary of being "used"
to publicize somebody else's party.

Even so, we expected ASA's 50th Anniversary to rate at least a mention in the evangelical media. So far we've heard of no published stories elicited by a pre-meeting news release from Ipswich. No reporter or "stringer" from Christianity Today covered our meeting, despite CT's nearness to Wheaton. An assistant news editor did call afterwards to inquire about action on "the evolution resolution." Sounding disappointed that no big controversy occurred, he said he'd consider running a story. The two-pager we faxed to him that day (Aug 10) ended on the note to which his ear was tuned, saying that the Council expected to take final action in December.

Scanning subsequent issues of CT, we spotted a news squib (Sep 16) about IVCF-USA's 50th Anniversary celebration, but no mention of ASA's 50th Anniversary, celebrated at the same time and place. An immediate Letter to the Editor pointing that out also failed to score but drew a nice reply explaining how ASA's story got sidetracked and saying, "Keep in touch. Down the line, we hope to give your group proper attention. "

Happily, such failures are balanced by examples of getting ASA into print where it counts. Each issue of The Crucible ("A Journal for Christian Graduate Students," c/o David Lines, Dept of Computer Science, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599- 3175) has a section in which Christian professional groups are described. Our turn came in the Summer 1991 issue, with a full page of information taken from ASA's brochure, ending with the Ipswich mailing address.

Another boost came in the form of John Brobeck's positive review of Teaching Science in a Climate o Controversy, published in the Fall/Winter 1991 issue of the CMDS Journal (Christian Medical & Dental Society, P.O. Box 830689, Richardson, TX 750830689). John described the booklet as "a scientific document, not a rehgious one," but added that any member of CMDS asked to discuss evolution with a youth group or Sunday school class "would do well to include this booklet in his or her preparation."

Why not write a review of Teaching Science or an article describing ASA for a periodical you read regularly? Don't worry if ASA's full address doesn't make it into print. Simply locating ASA in Ipswich, MA, helps a lot. Ipswich is small enough for potential members to find ASA once they know the name of the town. Remember,  if you read some periodical, probably others who would be interested in ASA read it also.

Even a brief, cogent Letter to the Editor is a good way to bring ASA's name before the public. Letters from Jerry Bergman and John Wiester both made it into CT (Oct 28) with good comments on Tom Woodward's essay-review of Darwin on Trial (Aug 19). ASA wasn't mentioned in either letter, but as chair of ASA's Committee on Integrity in Science Education, John included "American Scientific Affiliation" in his signature. Every little bit helps.

A subtle but effective way of bringing ASA's existence to the attention of scholarly readers is to cite papers published in our journal. Physicist George Murphy did that in his paper on "Time, Thermodynamics, and Theology" in the Sep 1991 Zygon ("Journal of Religion and Science," Chicago Center for Religion and Science, 1100 East 55th SL, Chicago, IL 60615-5199). Among many other citations, George referred to a 1986 paper of his in Journal ASA and to another from 1987, after the journal's title was changed to Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith.
"Down the line," it will dawn on some readers that ASA exists.

THE EDITOR'S LAST WORDS: 18.
A SAers and CSCAers with a professional or semi-professional interest in writing, editing, and publishing are beginning to share ideas, information, and the chit-chat that seems to come easier than what we should be writing. So far the group is networking the old-fashioned way, via a mailing list and roundrobin letter, though e-mail may yet e-merge a-mong us.

The mailing list for the first round (Sept 1991) was put together hastily with no pretense of completeness. It had names of two dozen people who came to mind, partly from get-togethers at the last two Annual Meetings. Each received a list, a page of ideas on what we might be able to do for ASA, and another page of ideas on how we might encourage each other.

Is anyone else interested in joining this informal network, dubbed WRITERS BLOC? So far all it takes is your name, address, tel. no. (FAX, e-mail addresses, etc., if any), some info about your writing interests (a c.v. with publications if one is handy), plus any ideas about writing in support of ASA or on science/faith issues in general. To get the group rolling, the Weary Old Editor (WOE is me) agreed to head it up, so send your "application" to: Wait Hearn, ASA BLOC BEAD, 762 Arlington Ave, Berkeley, CA 94707.

The next round won't circulate until Feb 1992. Since the day the U.S. Postal Service dropped off an entire mail bag at 762 Arlington Ave, I've known I'll never get caught up. As Bloc Head pro-tem I may fall even further behind. But who knows? A participant may turn up to take over some of my responsibilities. On the other hand, I may get excited about some new projects.

We'll see.

BITS OF HISTORY

Jim Buswell of Wm. Carey International U. in Pasadena has corrected a few of our historical slip-ups in the Oct/Nov Newsletter. On p. 3 we said that Marie Fetzer 11 co-authored the anthropology chapter in Modern Science and Christian Faith (1948)." Actually, George Homer contributed the anthro chapter to the fast (1948) edition; William Smalley & Marie Fetzer co-authored the chapter in the second (1950) edition.

On p. 5, while praising Howard Claassen's proposal for financial support of ASA, the Newsletter erroneously elected him ASA president "in the early 1980s" (an obvious hedge-Ed.). Buswell explained why we couldn't figure out the year: In the year Howard should have become president, "he decided to decline the post altogether, which left me as the next one in line on the Council, so I became president suddenly in 1978 without a chance to get psyched up or make plans ahead of time."

LOCAL SECTIONS

TORONTO

 Under program chair Bob VanderVennen, the academic year is off to a good start. On Oct 2, an evening meeting at Hart House of the U. of Toronto focused on "Time: A Scientific and Christian Perspective," with discussion led by Eric Moore from the faculty of Upper Canada College.

On Oct 19, a one-day conference on "How the Church Prepares Students for College or University" was held at Spring Garden Church in Willowdale. A welcome by CSCA president Norman Macleod of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute was followed by a panel of three pastors from the area and a presentation by Dr. John Franklin of Ontario bible College on equipping church leaders to help students headed for university. After lunch , Bob VanderVennen of the Institute for Christian Studies contrasted Christian and university world views, including the extreme form of naturalistic world view antithetical to theism. Dan Osmond of U.T. then moderated a general roundtable discussion with all the speakers as resource people.

KNOXVILLE
A nother "U.T." heard from: the U. of Tennessee. From Professor Roland Bagby of the Dept of Zoology we learned of activities of the Knoxville ASA local section, which he chairs. When Roland, Lewis Hodge, and Corey Bennett (Campus Crusade for Christ's Campus Leadership Ministries staff worker) read Fingerprints of God by astrophysicist Hugh Ross of Reasons to Believe, they decided to invite Hugh to speak on the U.T. campus. Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church agreed to plan its annual apologetics conference around Hugh's visit, thus helping to fund his appearances on campus.

An excellent advertising piece announced the various events, spoke of Hugh's respect for both science and the Bible, and described ASA and Christian Leadership Ministries. On Thursday night a campus lecture primarily for students was co-sponsored by Campus Crusade. The major ASA presentation, primarily for faculty, was a Friday afternoon seminar. The church's seminar was held Friday evening and Saturday morning, with a banquet at the Oak Ridge Civic Center on Saturday night co-sponsored by the Knoxville church and Covenant Presbyterian in Oak Ridge. Topic for the Friday seminar was "Scientific Evidence for Design: An Astronomer Looks at the Universe."

Some of Hugh's other talks dealt with creation/evolution questions, so the ASA section followed up with two panel discussions over the lunch hour on Oct 9 and 16. Another effective advertising piece emphasized options standing between recent creationism and evolutionary naturalism, listing a dozen books outlining such positions. The panel consisted of Roland Bagby and two Ph.D. candidates, Jon Bryan in geology and James Kidder in anthropology. Great line: "Bring a brown bag lunch if you wish, but please bring an open mind."

Evidently all parties considered the Hugh Ross visit "a huge success." The Knoxville section encourages other sections to interact with local churches as well as campus Christian organizations in planning events of mutual interest.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
 
A May meeting with the Stanford IVCF grad group went so well that another was held in July at UC Berkeley with the UC "GIF"
(Graduate & International Fellow ship). It was a last chance to catch speaker Peter Payne, two days before he and wife Janet left for
Ann Arbor to work with grad students at the U. of Michigan. A Stanford grad, Peter served on IVCF staff in the Bay area in the 1970s, then spent three years studying philosophy at a Jesuit university in Mexico City and working with the IFES group there. His almost completed Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy at Claremont Graduate School provided the basis of his talk.

Payne's talk, "Design in the Universe? Recent Cosmology and the Design Argument," dealt with the anthropic principle and how cosmologists, physicists, and philosophers have accounted for the "fine tuning" of the fundamental constants that makes human life possible in even a speck of our universe. Of six lines of argument outlined in his dissertation, Peter regarded some versions of the "multiple universe" and "divine designer" hypotheses as most acceptable philosophically. The "designer" argument, though perfectly sound, is unlikely to convince those who "assign a negligible prior probability to the hypothesis of a designer." That is, logic alone will seldom turn atheists into believers.

In the discussion, physics postdoc Rob Kroeger from the Stanford Linear Accelerator said that the "self-organizing universe" hypothesis is also attractive to people because it builds self-esteem, assigning the human mind a significant role. (Rob writes on "mystical physics" for Hugh Ross's Reasons to Believe.) Payne considered Paul Davies's version philosophically more acceptable than that of Eugene Wigner and others, which impresses "New Age" thinkers but not many physicists. After Larry Lagerstrorn adjourned the meeting, conversations erupted spontaneously, almost like an "inflationary big bang of the intellect."

Those two interactions with Christian grad groups underline the priority ASA is assigning to serving grad students in the sciences. At Stanford, Peter Payne profited from Prof. Richard Bube's undergraduate seminar on "Issues in Science and Religion." Berkeley's GIF owes its start to Gary Gates (now doing further study at Regent College), to whom the section offered a gift ASA membership a few years ago. According to Peter, IVCF-related grad groups now exist at 16 of the top 35 graduate institutions in the U.S.; IV's new graduate director, Randy Bare, has targeted all 35, plus 40 more.

In another joint effort this fall, the Bay Area section piggybacked on a Forum lecture of the Center for Theology & the Natural Sciences held Sep 24 at Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union. ASA Newsletter editor Wait Hearn had been asked to speak on "Science and Religion in the Public Arena." Addressing students at the theologically broad GTU, Walt defined himself as a theological conservative, explaining why such Christians tend to be concerned about impacts of science on biblical interpretation. After outlining evangelical and fundamentalist outlooks, he compared the roles of ASA and CTNS and described ASA's efforts to convey science/faith issues to "people in the pew." Walt ended with some thoughts on sorting out the socalled creation-evolution controversy for ordinary citizens. Perhaps a third of the 40 or 50 in attendance were ASAers.

PERSONALS

Roland M. Bagby is professor of zoology at the U. of Tennessee in Knoxville. Last spring he responded to our Newsletter account of writer Forrest Mims's difficulties with Scientific American by writing to the magazine's editor, Jonathan Piel. Roland told Piel that, as a member of a theologically conservative church, he might be considered a "creationist" by some, even though he teaches courses with evolutionary underpinnings. He added that being a Christian has made him treat evolutionary theory more scientifically: "Before I was a Christian, I used to parrot the evolutionary dogma I was taught as a graduate student without really understanding the principles involved. Now I am careful to treat evolution as a scientific theory rather than a religious belief." Roland enclosed a copy of the "Amateur Scientist" column from the May 1989 issue of Scientific American, in which Jearl Walker, who then edited that column, credited Bagby for information presented on how to make holograms. Bagby urged Piel to reinstate the dropped column and to reconsider Mims for its editorship, asking if Bagby's warm relationship with Jearl Walker would have turned cold "if he had known my views on creation."

Norman Carlson of Ames, Iowa, is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Iowa State and senior scientist at the Dept of Energy's Ames Laboratory. A letter from his wife, Virginia, about multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) caught our eye in the I Apr 1991 issue of Chemical & Engineering News. When the Carlsons attended the 1987 ASA Annual Meeting at Colorado College, Virginia had a reaction to something in the main lecture hall, possibly to a plasticizer or other compound in the otherwise comfortable seats. Her letter mentioned her work with the Human Ecology Action League Inc. (BEAL) of Atlanta. HEAL is in contact with many individuals around the world who seem to have become ill from exposure to one substance and then developed sensitivity to others as well. According to a news story in the same issue of C&EN, a workshop on the controversial topic of MCS was held in March at the Irvine (CA) office of the National Academy of Sciences. The EPA requested the NAS workshop to discuss protocols for investigating MCS. A special report on MCS became the cover story on the 22 July issue of C&EN, with letters pro and con appearing in the journal since then.

R. David Cole, professor of molecular & cell biology, has officially retired from teaching at U.C. Berkeley but will remain active in the lab until his grants run out and his last grad student and postdocs have finished their work. He has played an important role in a massive reorganization of biology on the campus, presiding over renovation of space for a newly organized Structural Biology unit.

Thomas C. Dent retired from the Biology Dept of Gordon College this spring and moved to Morgantown, West Virginia, which happens to be halfway between the locales of two Dent children. Tom lives halfway up a mountain and says "Retirement is great! I don't do anything I don't want to"though he's actually working on a number of projects. Tom, a botanist, has moved some plants into the W.V.U. herbarium and is working on the aceraceae (?) for a new Illustrated Flora of Mexico and on the hippocastenaccae (??) for another volume.

Karl Franklin and wife Joice have moved to Kangaroo Ground, Victoria, Australia, after a year's furlough in Texas, where Karl taught at the Texas Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and was an adjunct professor at U.T. Arlington. Karl is now principal of the South Pacific SIL and has a relation with the Linguistics Dept at LaTrobe University in Melbourne. In September he gave a paper at Leiden, The Netherlands, at a conference on Papuan languages. Karl has a Ph.D. in linguistics, and for 32 years the Franklins worked in Papua New Guinea with SIL and Wycliffe Bible Translators.

Oskar Gruenwald of Santa Monica, California, founder and president of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, sent us a copy of Vol. 2 of the annual Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (1990). The issue is devoted to 1) The Christian Challenge in Knowledge, Ethics, and Faith, and 2) Freedom, Religion, and Politics. Oskar, author of The Yugoslav Search for Man, says he had to leave the country to discover ASA. A few years ago, while attending a World Congress of Sociology in Mexico City, he met David 0. Moberg of Marquette University, who told him about ASA.

George E. Jackson and wife Judy now live in Port Charlotte, Florida, having recently returned to the U.S. after 17 years of service in Taiwan with Child Evangelism Fellowship. George will now try to meet some of the staggering needs of American children as associate director of CEF, Inc., of Florida.

Paul Jacobson has moved from Illinois to Mountlake Terrace, Washington, where he has begun a Ph.D. program in the Geophysics Dept at U.W. in Seattle.

Glenn Kirkland's July wedding was reported in die Oct/Nov PERSONALS but we failed to mention (because we didn't know at the time) that wife Barbara has a Ph.D. in psychology. We also failed to mention (for the same reason) that November was designated as Alzheimer's Disease Month, during which PBS scheduled a program called "Grace." It was made up of excerpts from the three prize-winrung films that chronicled the stages of the devastating disease in Grace, Glenn's late wife. The composite film was produced by the School of Medicine of the U. of Maryland. An article by Glenn on "Alzheimer's Disease from a Caregiver's Perspective" appeared in the Aug 1991 issue of the Journal of Home Health Care Practice.
Mailen Kootsey has moved from Duke University in North Carolina to Berrien Springs, Michigan, where he is now dean of the College of Arts & Sciences of Andrews University. Mailen writes that deaning is quite a change from a faculty position. He hopes to continue some research in computer simulation of ion transport in heart muscle and to engage in some dialogue on science and religion with colleagues at Andrews.

Stanley Lindquist, psychologist and former president of ASA, became past president of Link Care Center of Fresno, California, on 17 Jan 1991, passing the leadership to his son, Brent. In the Spring issue of Heart to Heart, Link Care newsletter, Stan paid tribute to a devoted staff and to his wife, Ingrid, who has served on the board for 20 of the 25 years since the founding of the unique center. it continues to provide psychological support for missionary candidates and returned missionaries, financed in part by a residential center and local counseling service. Stan wrote of his amazement at seeing the yearly budget grow from "nothing" to $1.3 million, and of his gratitude to God for Link Care's opportunity to serve the worldwide cause of Jesus Christ.

Stephen 0. Moshier has moved his family from Lexington, Kentucky, to St. Charles, Illinois, so he can join Jeff Greenberg in the Geology Dept of Wheaton College. Steve joined the U. of Kentucky faculty after earning his Ph.D. at LSU with research on carbonate petrology. He will teach "soft rock" courses to geology majors and will also teach the course for non-majors next summer at Wheaton's Science Station in the Black Hills. Doing his professional work in a Christian academic environment will be a new experience for Steve, whose interest in Christian higher education was sparked in part by attending the 1990 ASA Annual Meeting. Ironically, he missed the 1991 Wheaton meeting because he was moving at the time. Steve replaces Gerald H. Haddock, refiring after serving more than 30 years on the Wheaton geology faculty. Jerry will continue on a part-time basis in curating, leading field trips, and some classroom teaching.

David Snoke is on a two-year stint as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institut for materials science in Stuttgart, Germany. After graduating from Cornell in physics and working at Westinghouse R&D in Pittsburgh in 1983, he began grad work at the U. of Illinois (where he helped coordinate volunteers at two IVCF Urbana missionary conventions). In 1990 he received his Ph.D. in physics and headed for Germany with wife Sandra and three children. Besides David's nine scientific publications, he used to write a science column for World magazine ($21.95/yr, Box 2330, Asheville, NC 28802). He thinks highly of World (successor to Eternity), "a kind of Christian Newsweek." (We,hear that Forrest Mims has taken over Dave's column. -Ed.)
Laurence C. Walker's new book, The Southern Forest: A Chronicle, has just been released by the U. of Texas Press. It covers 400 years of use and abuse of the solid forest that once stretched from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas and Oklahoma. Despite unwise practices based on the mistaken belief that its bounty was inexhaustible, that forest has made a comeback in the 20th century. Larry is retired from his position as Lacy Hunt professor of forestry at Stephen F. Austin State U. in' Nacogdoches, Texas. This summer he was teaching at the U. of Colorado's Mountain Research Station.

David M. Wolfrom is now on the faculty at Paducah Community College in Paducah, Kentucky, teaching anatomy, physiology, and other courses in the biological sciences. He has a B.S. and M.S. in biology from Eastern Michigan U. and is completing his Ph.D. work in anatomy at Michigan State.

John Wood called this summer from the Au Sable Institute in Michigan, where he was teaching a course in stream ecology. He said we guessed right that the biology position open at The King's College in Alberta (Apr/May Newsletter) was for his replacement. But he and Cathy have now decided to stay in Edmonton, so maybe our notice made the job sound so good that he decided to reapply for it himself. (The two little Wood chips evidently loved the winter snow, but when the thermometer hit 30' below that first year, their parents wondered why they ever left California.-Ed.)
Frank Young, pharmacologist and assistant deputy director of the federal government's Health & Human Services Administration, gave the commencement address at Messiah College in Pennsylvania in the spring. In a list of commencement speakers for 1991 at the 80 colleges of the Christian College Coalition, Frank's name stood out as essentially the only scientist, with the exception of child psychiatrist Robert Coles, speaker at Gordon College.

PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS. Chemistry: Fraser Fleming (Dept of Chemistry, Oregon State U., Corvallis, OR 97331; tel. 503-7376765) seeks academic position in organic chem, in U.S. or Canada. Has Honors B.Sc. (Massey U., New Zealand), Ph.D. (chemistry, U. of British Columbia, Canada), postdoc research at OSU with J. D. White. Specialist in multistep synthesis and development of new synthetic methods. Married, one child.

POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE. Chemistry: Analytical, analytical/physical, or computational chemist for 2-year replacement position open Feb 1992 (other specialties, Sep 1992 starting date considered for the fight applicant). Teach two courses with labs each semester, guide undergraduate research, conforming to Reformed standards of Christian liberal arts education. After 15 Nov, check to see if filled before sending c.v., transcripts, proposed research program, 3 letters of reference to: Dr. Arie Leegwater, Chair, Dept of Chemistry, Calvin College, 3201 Burton St. S.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49546. Tel. 616-957-6000; Fax 616-957-8551. Biology: Tenure-track position for Aug 1992. Teach botany, plant physiology, ecology, environmental science, plant taxonomy; interest in molecular biology desirable. Doctorate in plant science plus teaching experience preferred; masters required. Apply to: Dr. Robert Zwier, Vice Pres. for Academic Affairs, Northwestern College, Orange City, A 51041. Tel. 712-737-4821. Biology: Two tenure-track positions for Fall 1992, teaching & research. 1) Molecular biologist with immunochemistry & recombinant DNA experience to teach 2 or 3 courses from genetics; immunology; cell, developmental, or micro-biology. 2) Vertebrate biologist to teach general physiology plus 1 or 2 from human, comparative, or neuro-physiology; vertebrate behavior; or natural history. Contact: (ASA member) Dr. Jeff Schloss, Biology Dept, Westmont College, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Tel. 805-565-6118. Chemistry: I year or possibly 2 year sabbatical replacement position beginning Fall 1992. Physical/biochemistry preferred; other areas considered. Ph.D. and teaching, experience preferred. Apply to: Dr. Larry L. Funck, Chair, Dept of Chemistry, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187.