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Passings
Dick Stern
Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University PO Box 30, State College, Pennsylvania 16804
Warren E. Blazier, Jr.
Warren E. Blazier, Jr., died on 20 February 2011 at the Veterans Administration Hospital, San Francisco. He was an internationally recognized expert in acoustics and vibration of buildings and was profes- sionally active until his death at the age of 87. Born in Sharon Springs, Kansas, he served in the US Air Force in World War II, studied music at Julliard, graduated in Engineering Physics from the University of Kansas, and earned a Master of Science in Acoustics from the University of Wichita. He worked with Boeing Airplane Company, and later Borg-Warner before joining the acoustics consulting firm of Bolt Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. In 1978 he founded his own group, Warren Blazier Associates, pioneer- ing work on mechanical systems in the design of concert halls and vibra- tion-sensitive laboratories.
Warren was a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-
Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and a founding member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering. He was active in ASHRAE technical committees TC 2.6 Sound & Vibration and TC 2.7 Seismic & Wind Restraint Design. He received a Distinguished 50-year Member Award from ASHRAE in 2008, and four awards for ASHRAE best paper presentations. He was a member of the National Council of Acoustical Consultants.
Both a consultant and mentor to other acoustical consultants, Warren encouraged closer collaboration between engineering disciplines. He contributed to many publications, including eight successive editions of the chapter on Sound & Vibration Control for the ASHRAE Handbook. He was the author of the widely-recognized Room Criteria method for rating ambient noise in rooms and co-author with Chuck Ebbing of Application of Manufacturers’ Sound Data.
Ewart A. Wetherill
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