From missiles toministry

Mik e Stallard, part-time math instructor and full-time seminary student, was a programmer analyst for missile defense systems before coming to LBC

As anemployee of Teledyne-Brown Engineering Co., Stallard was under contract totheUnited States government's Department ofDefense

"Iworked onWeapon System Evaluations, a pilot test program involving a heat-seeking missile," Stallard said.

Stallard alsoworked on atotal missile defense system involving tracking with radarfor the Republic of Korea,aswell asa classified missile defense system used by NATO.

Mike Stallardgrades an exam forhis Math 115 class. Stallard, amath majorin college and now a Liberty Baptist Seminary student, formerly worked on a classified missle defense system for NATO.

As asenior in collegeandmath major, Stallard worked part-time for a group of thermal engineers under contract to NASA.

After graduation inMay 1975, Stallard wasemployed full-time byTeledyne-Brown and planned topursue a master's degree incomputer science But Stallard's life suddenly changed.

"My twin brother,Jim, and Iwere saved the same day,"Stallard said. "We were both called topreach,but I didn't acknowledge my calling right away."

Stallard entered Liberty Baptist Seminary in1976 andgraduated with the 1981 class.

Weaver suggests that a substitute fornitratesbe used asafoodpreservative. In addition, he ispresently researching a method ofinhibitingsecondary amine production

"Many things we eatproduce secondary amines in thebody," Weaver says "Secondary amine production is almost always the result ofabreakB

But science has always been a part of Stallard's life

Stallard, whogrew up inthe hometown of the Marshall Space Flight Center, which developed NASA's Saturn Boosters,was encouraged byhis father

"My father worked on the Apollo Telescope mount which went on Skylab," Stallard said. "He used to take my brother and I to the base to watch the Saturn booster testfirings."

His plans include attending Dallas TheologicalSeminary foranadditional master's degree and a doctorate of theology.

Eventually, Stallard says he wants to start a church as well as a localchurch-oriented seminary.

"Pastors need tobeeducated,"Stallard said, "and fundamentalists are sadly lacking in that area."

-Lori A. Davis

• down ofprotein foods."

Weaver's project began six years ago while he was a professor atCornell University in New York.

"Previous researchers have investigated the formation of nitrosomine compounds in sewage, soil and water,"he said."Ineed science students who are interested in pursuing it— that's when most of the work gets done."

According toWeaver, intestinal career isusually undetected initsearly stages andis, therefore,more dangerous.

The major symptom isblood in the feces,which although hard to detect with the naked eye,iseasily tested for chemically in the laboratory,"hesaid. "In its laterstages, intestinalcancer is accompanied bypain, but then it's too late."

Weaver says that theinhibition of secondary amine production is crucial

"It is a link that could help save lives," he said "Ifwe could discover how todo it,we would have the answer."

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Dr.TerryWeaver,LBC biology program coordinator, conducts chemical tests forhis research project. Weaver is currently investigating the relationship betweennitrosamines and intestinal cancer.

Natural Science and Math faculty