National Academy of Engineering elects Society members

Four Fellows of the Society are among the 117 engineers recent- ly elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering and to foreign associateship. These are listed below with their primary affiliation and a brief statement o f their principal engineering accomplishments.

Both a prolific writer and an experienced editor, Dr. Goodhill is the author of two books, 120 journal articles, and 15 chapters or sections in edited volumes. He is a member of the editorial boards

of •tnnals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology and the Audio- Digest Foundation and has served a chairman of the AMA's Section on Laryngology, Rhinology, and Otology.

ß William J. Galloway, Principal Consultant, Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., Canoga Park, California. Contributions to the reduc- tion of aircraft and motor vehicle noise and the assessment of traffic

noise impact on communities. ß Max V. Mathews, Director of Acoustical and Behavioral

Research Center, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, New Jersey. Contributions to computer generation and analysis of meaningful sounds.

ß Manfred R. Schroeder, Head, Heating and Speech Synthesis Research Department, Bell Telphone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, New Jersey. Founding the statistical theory of wave propaga- tion in multimode media and contributions to speech coding and acoustics.

ß Per V.. Bruel (Foreign Associate), General Manager, Bruel & Kjaer, Naerum, Denmark. Development and production of precision acoustical and vibrational measuring instruments.

Election to the Academy is one of the highest professional distinctions that can be conferred on an engineer and honors those who have made important contributions to engineering theory and practice or who have demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. The total membership of the Academy is 953 and therb are 74 foreign associates.

Victor Goodhill becomes first President of

American Academy of Otolaryngology

Dr. Victor Goodhill, a distin- guished otologist, educator, con- sultant, and author and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society, became the first President of the newly organized American Academy of Otolaryngology on 1 January 1979.

A native of Boston, Dr. Good- hill received the degree of doctor of medicine from the University of Southern California in 1937.

He served an internship at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital and a resi- dency in otolaryngology at Chil-

drens Hospital, both in Los Angeles, and took postgraduate training in otopathologic research at Washington University, St. Louis. He was certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology in 1941.

Dr. Goodhill began his teaching career in 1939 at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. In 1960 he joined the academic staff of the University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, where he has been professor of surgery (adjunct- otology) since 1968.

His deep interest in hearing disorders of children led Dr. Goodhill to found the Hearing and Speech Center, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, in 1952. Currently, he is chairman of the board of trustees, Hope for Heating Research Foundation, University of California, and consulting otologist at John Tracy Clinic. He is also attending otologic surgeon at Childtens Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, and Century City Hospital, and visiting otologic surgeon at UCLA Hospital.

Catgut Acoustical Society celebrates 15th anniversary

The Catgut Acoustical Society was founded in 1963 by the late Professor Saunders of Harvard to promote the exchange and coordi- nation of ideas in musical acoustics featuring string instruments. In celebrating its 15th anniversary, this society, which started as an informal organization and now has 671 members including 151 in 24 foreign countries, has summarized somi• of its accomplishments over this period. A number of these are listed below:

ß Musical instrument research in laboratories throughout the world has been consolidated through five international technical symposia; 12 000 copies of the C•tS Newletter, which has become an archival jounal; 122 lectures and demonstrations in violin acous- tics; two Benchmark in Acotrstlcs volumes'; and a Scientific American book entitled The Physics of Music. (The two Benchmark volumes, which contain a collection of definitive published papers in violin acoustics, were edited by C. M. Hutchins. The general series of Benchmarks in Acoustics is edited by R. B. Lindsay and pub- lished by Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc.)

ß Over 20 000 reprints have been distributed by the society over the past 15 years.

ß A number of research projects have been sponsored including research and development of eight new violin family instruments, application of acoustical principles to improve the tonal output of child-size violins, teaching of technical violin making, interpretation and publication of research findings for violin makers, and a study of acoustical properties of wood species and application of the findings to the development of a graphite epoxy soundboard for musical instruments. '

The current officers of the CAS are: Robert H. Scanlan, Presi- dent; Warren Creel, Treasurer; Robert E. Fryxell, Editor; George F. Foy (U.S.A.), Jurgen Meyer (Europe), Michael Mcintyre (United Kingdom) and Rex Thompson (Australia), Vice Presidents; Cafieen M. Hutchins, Permanent Secretary; Elizabeth McGilvray, Executive Secretary, and Dugald McGilvray, Financial Secretary. The office of the CAS is at 112 Essex Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042.

Papadakis appointed Research Supplement Editor of ASNT journal

Emmanuel P. Papadakis, a Fellow of the Society and the 1968 recipient of its Biennial Award, has been named to the posi,tion of Research Supplement Editor of Material Evaluation, the official journal of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT).

Initiated in 1977, the Research Supplement is published quarter- ly in the Journal to handle articles which are more technically research-oriented in the development of nondestructive testing methods as opposed to their applications. Dr. Papadakis, who is on the Research Staff of the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, has been serving as an associated technical editor since early 1976. His new duties will enable him both to accept papers from the review staff and to solicit research papers for possible inclusion in the supplement.

Technical papers for the Journal or the Research Supplement are welcomed and should be submitted to the Editor, Materials

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