Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science Volume 34 Number 1 Article 2 1967 News and Notes Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/jmas Recommended Citation (1967). News and Notes. Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science, Vol. 34 No.1, 3-8. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/jmas/vol34/iss1/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science by an authorized editor of University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Report of Nominating Committee, 1967 Publicity ... ....... .. ........ Miss Jane Kolgcs Slate of Nominees Exhibit Space ...... ........... .. Robert Reitz /'resident Elect: * Meal Functions .......... .... .... Clarence Skar Richard Fulmer ........... .. .. ..... Cargill Faculty Hosts .. .. ............ ...... 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University of Minnesota Anthropology Department Elect Two Directors - Academic* Museum of Natural History University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota 200 Ford Hall ( highest total vote receives four-year term 55455 Minneapolis, Minnesota second highest total vote receives one-year term) Home: 561-4557 55455 Merle Michaelson ...... .. St. Cloud State College Office: 373-2423 Office: 373-2601 James Underhill ...... .. .. University of Minnesota Charles Hamrum .... .. Gustavus Adolphus College Dr. L. D. Frenzel Dr. D. B. Lawrence 1506 Crawford Avenue 2420-34th Avenue South Secretary-Treasurer of the Junior Academy of Science* St. Paul, Minnesota 55113 Minneapolis, Minnesota Ken ward Steinbach ....... ... Bagley High School Home: 644-0348 55406 Denneth Dvergsten ....... Kellogg High School Office: 698-2414 Home: 729-8206 Office: 373-2223 ,;, Members may nominate additional candidates for any position. A name proposed in writing by JO or more members (I% of Mr. Raymond A. Haik Mr. Homer Luick the membership) will appear on the election ballot in addition 900 Farmers & Mechanics 4242 N. Washburn to the candidates listed here. Such additional nominations Bank Bldg. Minneapolis, Minnesota should have reached the Academy office by March I, 1967. A 88 S. 6th Street 55412 final ballot will be sent to the members in March. Minneapolis, Minnesota -----•----- 55402 Home: 529-6 7 I 2 Home: 789-5397 Annual Meeting Planning Committee Mr. Samuel H. Morgan Office: 335-9331 First National Bank Building Carleton College, Northfleld, Minnesota Room 2262 April 14-15, 1967 Dr. Henry L. Hansen St. Paul, Minnesota Paul Germann, Chairman ... ....... .. St. Thomas Forestry School Office: 227-802 I Charles Hamrum ........ Gustavus Adolphus College Green Hall Arnie Langsjoen . .... ... Gustavus Adolphus College University of Minnesota Dr. Max Partch James Smail ................. Macalester CoHege St. Paul, Minnesota 55 IO I Biology Department Wayne Wolsey ........ ....... 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Duncan Stewart Home: 789-4843 55416 Co-Chairman ............. ......... Robert Reitz Office: 373-3715 Home: 474-6867 Administration Representative ... ....... Clint HaU Office: 545-8851 Journal of, VolumeThirty-four,No. l, 1967 3 Department Advisors in context. Dr. Gustafson questioned what should be our Mr. U. W. Hella, Div. of Mr. Robert L. Herbst attitude toward exploration of the brain. He also cau­ State Parks 302 Centennial Building tioned against misuse of knowledge gained through brain Centennial Building St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 research~ and to distinguish between freedom of research St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 Home: 869-1066 and misuse of research. Home: 644-4064 Office: 221-2549 The form for these Nobel Conference was set up fol­ Office : 221-2531 lowing the dedication of the Nobel Hall of Science at ----•---- Gustavus Adolphus College in 1963. It was then pro­ posed to the Nobel Foundation that an "on-going" pro­ Gustavus Adolphus College: gram be established "to complement the whole Nobel Third Annual Nobel Conference Idea" at Gustavus. Jn consultation with Foundation officials, it was agreed Crowds of nearly I, 700 per session literally jammed that each year a conference be held on a science-based Christ Chapel and Alumni Hall during the two days of issue presented with adequate background by top scien­ the third annual Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus tists and discussed by leading representatives of other College, January 11 and 12. disciplines with references to the question's implications Representatives of 88 high schools and 39 colleges in for social, moral, religious, and political import on man­ Minnesota and the Upper Midwest came to the campus kind in the modern world. to hear featured top men in the fields of drugs, neurobi­ A Nobel Advisory Committee of three Nobel Lau­ ology, and neurophysiology, along with a theologian and reates ( Drs. Glenn T. Seaborg, Polykarp Kusch, and Ed­ a philosopher to temper the scientific discourse. ward L. Tatum, now joined by Sir John Eccles) annual­ The six lectures were presented by Sir John Eccles, ly give their advice to a faculty committee involved in Nobel Prize winner in medicine, 1963, from the John making the conference plans. Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra, Australia; The theme for the first Conference in 1965 was "Ge­ Dr. Holger Hyden, Chairman, Institute of Neurobiology, netics and the Future of man." In 1966, "The Control University of Gothenberg, Sweden ; Dr. Seymour S. Kety, of Environment" was the topic. Proceedings of these Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Science of the National conferences are now available in book form and the Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md.; Dr. Huston 1967 program will be printed in mid-1967. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, M.I.T.; Dr. James Gus­ Financial support for the first two years came from a tafson, Chairman, Department of Religious Studies, Yale nrant by the Hill Family Foundation of St. Paul. This University; and Dr. Francis 0. Schmitt, Chairman, Neu­ ;ear's Conference was supported by the Hill Family ro Sciences Research Program, M.I.T. Foundation, The Tozer Foundation, Stillwater, the Ar­ The conference closed with a panel discussion among nold Ryden Foundation, Minneapolis, and the Otto the lecturers, which was moderated by Dr. John Rosian­ Bremer Foundation, St. Paul. The provisions of these sky, research biologist at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, grants allow the high schools and colleges to be repre­ who is editor of the Nobel Conference proceedings. sented. In the openirtg lecture of the 1967 Conference, Sir John Eccles pointed to the evolutionary crises in human ----•--- development. Among these he selected the development of the brain, the invention of language, and the coloniz­ Advisory Committee to the Commissioner of ing habit as particularly important in accounting for Conservation on Scientific and Natural man's present position on this planet. Areas Organized Three of the lecturers described some advances made Preamble in understanding brain functions, i.e., learning, memory, "Scientific and Natural Areas" are areas of land or the effect of drugs on brain function, and the biophysical water in public or private ownership which have been nature of neuron function. Dr. Hyden convincingly re­ formally designated for preservation, protection, and viewed his experimental evidence linking RNA with management for the values inherent in their natural con­ learning and memory. Dr. Kety related changes in the dition;. These values, which are for the public welfare, chemical balance of the brain to mental state. Dr. include use as living museums, sites for scientific study, Schmitt described some of the experiments designed to areas for teaching of natural history and conservation, isolate protein synthetic sites