FIG. 2. ASA President W. Dixon Ward presents the R. Bruce Lindsay Award to Mark F. Hamilton.

FIG. 3. ASA President-Elect Harvey H. Hubbard presents tuning fork to retiring President W. Dixon Ward.

Annual Reports of Technical Committees

(See September issue for other Technical Committee reports)

Architectural Acoustics

At the Honolulu meeting of the Society, held jointly with the Acousti- cal Society of Japan, the Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics sponsored or cosponsored nine sessions. These included 25 invited and 47 contributed papers. The topics covered encompassed concert hall acoustics, auditorium acoustics, reverberant sound fields, building acoustics, intensity techniques, structure-borne noise, active noise control, and vehicle interior noise. Dr. Yoichi Ando delivered a Vern O. Knudsen Lecture on concert

hall acoustics. W. Chu, R. Darby, L. Kirkegaard, D. Lubman, L. Sepmeyer, and E. Wet. herill organized and chaired sessions sponsored directly by TCAA.

The Technical Comittee on Architectural Acoustics sponsored four sessions at the Syracuse meeting, two jointly with the Technical Comiittee on Music. Additionally, Dr. Lothar W. Cremer received the Society's Gold Medal for his encyclopedic work and teaching in acoustics, including archi- tectural acoustics. TCAA technical sessions centered on film and television

production, on post-production and cinema spaces, on room acoustics and laboratory measurements, and on music education facilities (with both a paper session and a poster session on this last topic). These sessions includ- ed 11 invited papers, 12 contributed papers, and posters from 23 different individuals or organizations. A number of student posters were also con- tributed, and the National Council of Acoustical Consultants conducted a prize competition for these student posters. A. Campanella, E. Cohen, R.

Guernsey, E. McCue, and R. Talaske were instrumental in organizing and chairing sessions.

The Technical Committee met at both the' Honolulu and Syracuse meetings. Areas of particular activity were organizing technical sessions for future meetings, planning and proposing Distinguished Lectures (J. Blauert at the St. Louis meeting) and V. O. Knudsen Lectures, discussing liaison with technical groups outside the Society, and responding to Tech- nical Council intiatives. Architectural Acoustics publication in the Journal appea.rs healthy, as do activities of the Technical committee.

STEVEN M. BROWN

Chairman

Musical Acoustics

At the Hcinolulu meeting the TCMA jointly sponsored the following special sessions along with our counterparts from the Acoustical Society of Japan (organizers are given in parentheses): Digital Signal Processing in Musical Acoustics (J. Beauchamp and I. Nakamura); Musical Instruments East and West: Winds and Strings (W. J. Strong and Y. Ando); Musical Instruments East and West: Piano and Percussion (T. Rossing and H. Su- zuki ); Scales and Tunings in Eastern and Western Music (C. Monahan and T. Taguti). In addition to the technical papers, special demonstrations were made by E. Kottick (harpsichord tuning) and M. Ando. H. John Sathoff represented TCMA on the Program Organizing Committee.

At the Syracuse meeting, special sessions were on: Percussion Instru- ments (U. Hansen and T. Rossing); Piano (W. Y. Strong); Musical Dy- namics (C. Palmer and W. Hartmann); Vocal Fold Function in Singing (J. Sundberg); Music Education Facilities (R. Talaske and E. McCue). Wil- liam Y. Strong represented TCMA on the Program Organizing Committee. Informal musical activities included a violin performance by M. Kimura and barbershop harmony on and off the cruise ship by members and friends of TCMA. ß

THOMAS D. ROSSING

Chairman

Winners of student design competition announced

Ewart A. Wetherill, Past Chairman of the Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics, has announced the winning student designs for a music education facility. The $1000 Honor Design Award was made to the Clemson University team of Gabe Hulin, David Moore, and Davis Schull. Merit Awards of $500 each were given to two student teams from the Uni- versity of Maryland. The awards were made possible by a grant from the Wenger Corporation of Owatonna, Minnesota, a supplier of auditorium and music education equipment. The distinguished design competition jury included architects, musicians, acoustical scientists, and consultants.

Thirty-two graduates and undergraduates took part in the first ever participation by architectural students in an ASA meeting. The total of 16 entries represented five schools of architecture including Clemson Universi- ty, Oklahoma State University, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Florida, and the University of Maryland.

The competition was sponsored by the ASA Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics in cooperation with the Robert Bradford Newman Student Medal Committee, which annually sponsors student medal awards at schools of architecture throughout the world to recognize excellence in the study of acoustics and in its application to the architectural design.

JASA paper receives NASA award The article entitled "Low-frequency absorption of sound in air"

[Allan J. Zuckerwar and Roger W. Meredith, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 78, 946- 955 (1985) ] was selected to receive the Henry J. E. Reid Award for 1988 at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. The award recog- nizes annually the author, or authors, of the Center's most outstanding sci- entific or engineering paper. The significance or major impact of the paper must have been realized within 2 years prior to it nomination. Zuckerwar, a Fellow of ASA, joined Langley in 1980 and is now a senior research engi- neer in the Instrument Research Division. Meredith, a member of ASA, was a research associate at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia at the time he coauthored the paper, and is now a research physicist at the Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity, Bay St. Louis, Missis- sippi.

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