British Member Joins
Olympic Team

Among the scores of athletes who competed in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games was Daniel Caines, a member of the Chelmsley Wood Seventh-day Adventist Church in Birmingham, England, reports John Surridge of the British Union Conference. Caines competed in the men's 400 meters track event.

A runner for the Birchfield Harriers Athletic Club, Caines is the under 23-year-old national champion. He obtained a place on the British Olympic team after another team member withdrew over a drug controversy. Caines parents, Joe and Blondelle Caines, both former British champions, have accompanied him to Sydney. Daniel reached the semifinals round before being eliminated.

News Notes
Carlisle Simmons, Bermuda Conference president, was recently elected Atlantic Union Conference secretary. Simmons replaces Donald King who became president of Northeastern Conference.

LeRoy Finck, New Jersey Conference secretary, was elected conference president on August 31, 2000. Finck replaces Dowell W. Chow, who became treasurer of the Columbia Union Conference.

Daniel R. Jackson, Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference president, was recently elected British Columbia Conference president. Jackson replaces Reo Ganson, who became president of Canadian University College.

Berkeley Resolution. Adventist students from around the world are calling on church leaders to give "serious attention and support" to "ministry and evangelism on non-Adventist university and college campuses." The Berkeley Resolution was produced at the University of California, Berkeley, by delegates Berkeley 2000 (B2K), a first-ever gathering of Adventist students specifically focused on secular campus evangelism and ministry.

Are You a Whitecoat Volunteer?
The U.S. Army wants to contact all servicemen who participated in the Army's Whitecoat project between 1953 and 1974 at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland.

About 2,300 volunteer servicemen participated in more than 350 research projects. The program was recently showcased in a documentary on the Discovery Channel.

Frank Damazo, who acts as liaison between the Army, General Conference, and Whitecoat volunteers, says only 850 of the 2,300 volunteers have received their medals, certificates, history book, and information about Whitecoat reunions. Damazo is seeking to contact the other 1,450 volunteers.

Whitecoat volunteers, or those with information about participants may write Frank Damazo at 700 Montclaire Ave., Frederick, Maryland, 21701; call (301) 662-4502; or e-mail thedamazos@aol.com.