committed to the recognition, evaluation, and control of occupational noise and heat exposures. The health of the exposed working men and women always came first; and his evaluations were the same whether he was re- tained by industry, labor, or government. He was a continuing source of inspiration, excitement, expertise, and good humor throughout his profes- sional life.

His loss to the industrial hygiene and noise control engineering profes- sions will be keenly felt. May his spirit and enthusiasm live on in the many young and not-so-young hygienists whose careers he influenced.

EDWIN H. TOOTHMAN

Bethlehem Steel Corporation

JOHN P. BARRY

Occupational Safety and Health •4dministration

Medal awarded to Edward David

Edward E. David, Jr., President, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, and Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, has been select- ed as the recipient of the 1984 Arthur M. Bueche Medal presented by the National Academy of Engineering for statesmanship in the field of technol- ogy. The award was established in 1983 in honor of Arthur M. Bueche, Senior Vice President for corporate technology at General Electric and a member of the NAE Council at the time of his death, who spoke out for the advancement of technology. Simon Ramo of TRW, Inc., was the first recipi- ent in 1983. The award consists of a silver medal, and the recipient is encour- aged to give a lecture at the university of his choice. The award is conferred on Dr. David for his seminal influence on engineering and science policy and in recognition of his roles as advisor to Presidents, leader of industrial research, upholder of engineering education, participant in industry-gov- ernment-university relationships, and catalyst for internationa. 1 collabora- tion in science and technology.

The Bueche Medal was to be presented at the NAE Annual Meeting on 3 October 1984.

Notice on change in page charge rate At the Minneapolis meeting of the Society, the Executive Council, on

the advice of the Treasurer, voted to reduce the page charge for publication in JASA from the current $60 per page to a price of $40 per page, beginning with the January 1985 issue. Such a reduction will be concurrent with simi- lar reductions in the page charges of journals published by the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics.

Whether this charge will be maintained indefinitely, or reduced further at some future date, depends on a number of factors that cannot be resolved at the present time. An unexpectedly large increase in the number of submit- ted manuscripts (thereby greatly increasing the burdens of the Associate Editors) or an unwarranted increase in the average length of papers are two such factors. The Society must continue to walk the narrow path between customer satisfaction and financial loss. It is therefore to be hoped that the change will be met chiefly with sighs of financial relief rather than with an unsettling of our financial balance.

At the same time, the Treasurer wishes to emphasize again most strongly the fact that this charge is a voluntary charge, that papers may be published by a given author, within a given year, both with the payment of the charge and without it, that the notification of lack of funds to pay the charge is neither a pauper's oath nor a disgrace, and that both types of papers are received and accepted or rejected on their quality and not on their level of financial support.

von Bekesy Medal In 1983, the Trustees of the Beltone Institute for Heating Research

donated $10 000 to the Society'with the hope that the money would be used to establish avon Btktsy medal as the Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics. At its meeting in November 1983, the Executive Council voted to accept the gift, and authorized the preparation of a silver

ROBERT T. BEYER, Treasurer 8 November 1984

AES Gold Medal awarded to Cyril Harris Cyril M. Harris, Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering

and Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, also former Presi- dent and present Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Audio Evgineering Society.

Dr. Harris received the Gold Medal in Paris on 29 March 1984. This award was given in recognition of his contributions to the field of architec- tural acoustics. He also received the Wallace Clement Sabine Medal of the

Acoustical Society in 1979, and is the author and editor of several well- known books-on sound and vibration.

Phillip Eisenberg honored Phillip Eisenberg has been given the Distinguished Engineering Alum-

ni Achievement Award and Charter Membership of the Engineering Hall of Fame. He is the retired President of Hydronautics, Inc., and a member of the Acoustical Society of America.

The award was conferred at the College of Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, on 11 April 1984. The award is made each year to a select group of individuals whose careers have brought distinction to them and to the engineering profession.

Photo of von B6k6sy Medal

medal. The Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics may now be designated as the von Btktsy Medal, much the same as the other area awards known as the Wallace Clement Sabine for Architectural Acoustics, the Pioneers for Underwater Acoustics, and the Trent-Crede for Shock and Vibration. The rules which apply to the Silver Medal and the other area awards also apply to the new medal.

The Society is grateful to Joan (Mrs. Peter) Dallos for preparing the design for the medal.

BETTY H. GOODFRIEND

Secretary

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