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Passings
Dick Stern
Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania 16804
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George C. Izenour
George C. Izenour passed away on 24
March 2007. He was Professor
Emeritus of Theater Design and
Technology and Director Emeritus of the Electro-Mechanical Laboratory of the Yale
University School of Drama, where he
served for thirty-eight years. He was an
internationally recognized authority in
the fields of theater design, engineering,
and acoustics. He has served with distinc-
tion as author, lecturer, inventor, designer,
and engineering consultant. He has writ-
ten technical articles for many professional journals, wrote the section on theater design for the 1974 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, and contributed to the McGraw Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction (1975). Dr. Izenour was the author of three books—Theater Design (1977) and Theater Technology (1988), a comprehensive, profusely-illustrated, two-volume study covering theater design and technology from ancient times to the present and Roofed Theaters of Classical Antiquity (1992), a pro- fusely illustrated study of the roofed theaters of ancient
Greece and Rome.
Dr. Izenour held fellowships in the
Rockefeller Foundation, The Ford Foundation and The Guggenheim Foundation. He was appointed a Benjamin Franklin Fellow of the Royal Society, was a member of The American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Acoustical Society of America, and the National Council of Acoustical Consultants. Dr. Izenour shared the Rogers and Hammerstein Prize (1960). He
received the Honor Award of the United States Institute for Theater Technology (1977), The George Freely Award from the Theater Library Association (1977), and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Theater Association (1978).
Jim Read
R. Duane Wilson
Jeffrey Milet
George C. Izenour Associates
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