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presidents the 75th anniversary celebration itself was filmed. Additional sources for information designated by the Archives and History Committee are the three sites for stor- ing historical items and papers in certain fields: 1) Architectural Acoustics: Riverbank Acoustical Labs, IL; 2) Physical Acoustics, National Center for Physical Acoustics, MS; and 3) Musical Acoustics: The Catgut Acoustical Society Library (CASL), web pages in the Musical Acoustics Research Library (MARL), and at the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). In addition, the History Center of the American Institute of Physics in College Park, MD retains historical information, including oral histories from members of the Acoustical Society. A list of those whose interviews have
been completed is given at the end of this section.
Anyone reading all or parts of this history will conclude that there would have been no 75th celebration had not a lot of members volunteered their valuable time and creative ideas over the years to improve the Society—and improve the field of acoustics in general. In turn, they too have ben- efited in both their personal and their professional lives. Continuing this tradition will most certainly allow our
Society to live for many more human lifetimes.
In parting we note that the paragraph above is the easy way out to predict the future, namely the past is prologue. Perhaps we took a hint to avoid any stronger predictions from a JASA article entitled “Thoughts on the future of acoustics” moderated by Walter Rosenblith, with panelists James Barger, Lois Elliott, Tony Embleton and Robert Apfel. It was based on a session of the same name held at the 50th anniversary meeting. Lois Elliott was “willing to wager that when the Society celebrates its 100th anniversary, there will be people in the audience wearing and benefiting from implanted prostheses!” Her prediction would have been
correct for the 75th anniversary. AT
References
The resources for this article on the history of the Acoustical Society of America include the following:
1. JournaloftheAcousticalSocietyofAmerica(JASA)
History of Acoustical Society of America, Wallace Waterfall, Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1929
Dr. Frederick Hunt V. Hunt Awarded Presidential Medal for Merit, Vol. 19, No. 4, 1947
Acoustics Research Program at Harvard, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1947 Acoustical Society News, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1948
The Twentieth Anniversary Meeting, Vol. 21, No. 4, 1949 Acoustical Society News–Advertising, Vol. 22, No. 3, 1950 Acoustical Society News–Licklider, Vol. 22, No. 6, 1950 Acoustical Society News–Chicago Meeting, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1952 The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration, Vol. 26, No. 5, 1954 Acoustics and Basic Physics by Philip Morse, Vol. 27, No. 2,
1955
Acoustical Society News–Promotion and Development of ASA,
Vol. 28, No. 3, 1956
Acoustical Society News Report of 51st Meeting (with ICA),
Vol. 28, No. 6, 1956
Acoustical Society News, Vol. 29, No. 2, 1957
What Sort of a Journal Do We Want, Vol. 29, No. 10, 1957 Acoustical News 55th Meeting, Vol. 30, No. 9, 1958
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The Story of Acoustics by R. Bruce Lindsay, Vol. 39, No. 4, 1966 Publications of the Acoustical Society, A note from the
President, Ira Hirsh, Vol. 43, No.4, 1968 Reorganization of the Administrative Structure of the
ASA–Recommendations of the Executive Council, Vol. 44,
No. 3, 1968
Arden House Workshop on Noise Control Engineering, Vol. 49, No. 6, 1971
Wallace Waterfall Obituary, Vol. 56, No. 6, 1974
Report of the Long Range Planning Committee, Vol. 80, No. 3,
1986
ASA Technical Interests Survey, Vol. 83, No. 3, 1988 Thoughts on the Future of Acoustics by Rosenblith et al., Vol.
68, No. 1, 1980
A profile of the acoustics community in the United States and
Canada, Vol. 91, No. 2, 1992
A Report on the reCreation Process: Rethinking the ASA, Vol. 95, No. 5, 1994
2. NOISE Control, 1955-1961
3. Sound–Its Uses and Control, 1962-1963
4. ECHOES
Reflections on Acoustical Society Founders by Daniel W. Martin, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1993
Carleen Maley Hutchins interviewed by A. Thomas King,
Vol. 7, No. 2, 1997
Born to Learn Language, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1997
Robert Bruce Lindsay by Robert Beyer, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1998 Rudolf Koenig, 1832-1902 by Robert Beyer, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1999 ECHOES Celebrates 10th Anniversary, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2001 Dayton C. Miller by Peter Hoekje, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2003 Wallace Waterfall by Elaine Moran, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2003 Frederick A. Saunders by Carleen M. Hutchins,
Vol. 13. No. 3, 2003
Floyd Watson by Thomas D. Rossing, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2003 Vern O. Knudsen by Robert S. Gales, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2004 ASA was born at Bell Telephone Laboratories by Gary W.
Elko, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2004
Harvey Fletcher by William J. Strong and Jont B. Allen, Vol. 14,
No. 2, 2004
5. Minutes of the Executive Council, 1929-2003
6. Oral History Interview by Wallace Waterfall, 14 April 1964
7. Anecdotal History of the Science of Sound–To the beginning of the 20th Century, Dayton Clarence Miller (Macmillan Company, New York, 1935)
8. Collected Papers on Acoustics by Wallace Clement Sabine with an Introduction by Leo Beranek and F. V. Hunt (Peninsula Publishing, Los Altos, 1992)
9. Sounds of Our Times, Two Hundred Years of Acoustics, Robert T. Beyer (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999)
10. Speech and Hearing, Harvey Fletcher (D. Von Nostrand Publishing, New York, 1929)
11. “I Remember When” by Laymon Miller, Sound and Vibration, September 1979