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F. Alton Everest (1909–2005) was an American
acoustical engineer Acoustical engineering (also known as acoustic engineering) is the branch of engineering dealing with sound and vibration. It includes the application of acoustics, the science of sound and vibration, in technology. Acoustical engineers are typical ...
, a cofounder of the
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, and its first president.


Academic and acoustic research career

He held
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degrees from
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and
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, where he conducted his early work with such prominent engineers as
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(inventor of the
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) and
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founders William Hewlett and
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,F. Alton Everest: 1909–2005
Wes Phillips. ''
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'' Sept 19, 2005. then taught at
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at Corvallis from 1936, specialising in radio and television.Numbers(2006) pp181-182 During
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he headed a
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underwater sound research team. His book ''Master Handbook of Acoustics'' was described by ''
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'' magazine as "the best-selling book on the subject of acoustics for more than 20 years." After his work for the Moody Institute of Science, Everest worked as an acoustical consultant during the 1970s and 1980s.


Moody Institute of Science

After the war (from 1945 to 1971), he became the director of production for the Moody Institute of Science (MIS), a Christian evangelical ministry producing science films, described by ''American Cinematographer'' as "the biggest little studio in the world" in the 1960s. He published two books affiliated with the MIS: ''Dust or Destiny'' (
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, 1949) and ''Hidden Treasures'' (
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, 1951).


American Scientific Affiliation

Everest grew up a conservative
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, reading the works of
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and
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(although favouring physician Arthur I. Brown as an influence on the
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). In 1941 he attended a meeting of five evangelical scientists, convened by
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president William H. Houghton, in
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, which led to the founding of the
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, of which he became the organizational leader and president. Everest led the ASA through its first critical decision, that of how to relate to the pre-existing Deluge Geology Society (DGS). Everest was enthusiastic about the DGS's ability to draw "large crowds of non-scientific folk", its offer to allow the fledgling ASA to publish material in their ''Bulletin of Deluge Geology'' until it could start its own journal, and the "dignified but definite" tone of that journal, but questioned whether it was wise to become entangled with the DGS due to what he perceived as its "strong Seventh-Day Adventist flavor." After meeting with a group of people with close ties to the DGS, Everest wrote to the ASA executive council advising against "becoming affiliated with a deluge society right off" and that he thought " would never hope to gain even the Christian geologists if we espoused rice'scause." He wrote to the DGS, gently rebuffing affiliation, but expressing a desire for amicable cooperation. Everest had himself already joined the DGS, but thereafter specifically requested that he be listed as a "subscriber" rather than a "member". The influence of
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on the ASA was finally exorcised when, in 1948, Everest approached J. Laurence Kulp to explore the topic in the ASA's upcoming annual convention. Kulp presented a paper on the ''Antiquity of Hominoid Fossils'' at this convention and on ''Deluge Geology'' at the next convention, resulting in the discomfiture and isolation of Flood Geologists within the ASA. In 1996 he was nominated for the
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by a fellow member of the
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.''
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''. Hearn, Walter R. Volume 57 No.4. pp.265-266. Dec. 2005.


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References

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Further reading

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"Alton Everest (1909–2005): Founder and First President of ASA"
'' PSCF''. Hearn, Walter R. Volume 57 No.4. pp. 265–266. Dec. 2005.
"Irwin A. Moon, F. Alton Everest and Will H. Houghton: Early Links Between the Moody Bible Institute and the American Scientific Affiliation"
'' PSCF''. J. W. HAAS, JR. Volume 43 No.4. pp. 249–258. Dec. 1993.
"SEARCH: Scientists Who Serve God -- F. Alton Everest, For Half A Century, He’s Figured Out How"
Hearn, Walter R., '' PSCF''. Vol.40.No.2. p. 65-. June 1988.
"We Looked up to Alton Everest"
. ''Newsletter of the
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''. Vol.47 No.6. Nov/Dec 2005.


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Alton's Worldcat identity
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