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 Precision Laboratories
Precision Laboratories, Altamonte Springs, Fla, recently recognized its employees who have served the company for more than a decade: William E. Lassiter (27 years), assistant production manager, Earmolds and Special Products (Challenger Division); Frank Serrano (25 years), production manager, Earmolds; Robert Mota (21 years), monomer and polymer specialist; Pamela Duncan (20 years), sales and customer service, Earmolds; Evelyn Raines (20 years), customer service, Earmolds; Charles Brumbaugh (20 years), manager, Shell Laboratory; Kim Fisher (13 years), manager, Hearing Aids and Special Products (Challenger Division); Marsha Hall (13 years), Laboratory Technician; Kathleen Crager (11 years), customer service, Earmolds.
CAOHC
The Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC), Milwaukee, has announced two new appointments to its Council. Peter R. Rabinowitz, MD, was appointed as the representative for the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). Rabinowitz is assistant professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, and is director of clinical services at the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, New Haven, Conn. The CAOHC has also appointed Mary M. McDaniel, MS, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), as a representative to the Council. McDaniel is the owner of Pacific Hearing Conservation Inc, Seattle.  GN ReSound Web site
GN ReSound invites visitors to its Web site, www.gnresound.com. The site contains separate sections for consumers, professionals, and students. The professional section features news, FAQs, Tech Tips, and Tech Reports. Visitors will also find detailed specifications and descriptions of the company’s hearing instruments, the Canta Family and NewTone. Consumers can search the dispenser locator for a hearing healthcare professional by city and state. GN ReSound invites you to take a tour of the Web site and read up on what GN ReSound can offer you and your patients.
| Obituary One of the hearing industry’s most accomplished engineers, Elmer V. Carlson, died on January 23. Along with his many patents, innovations, and achievements in the amplification field, Carlson helped define engineering standards for modern hearing aids, and was an active member of the Acoustical Society of America and the Audio Engineering Society. Carlson was also the first recipient of the American Auditory Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Eulogizing Carlson, Mead Killion, president of Etymotic Research and an inventor who was a colleague and student of Carlson’s while working at Knowles Electronics, said: “Elmer’s legacy to those with hearing impairment was two-fold: He taught the next two generations of engineers how to make things better, and he left a string of his own inventions, his own solutions. One can truthfully say that nearly every hearing aid made today contains components that Elmer designed, helped design, or are based on something he designed. He made nearly all of the important breakthroughs in microphone and earphone design that made possible the tiny, high-quality hearing aids available today. When Elmer finished, complete hearing aids where so small that they could disappear deeply in an ear or have high-quality directional microphones that helped one hear better in noise. Elmer did all the firsts in those developments, and taught his students how to continue on. “Elmer had a full and often wonderful life,” continued Killion, “and he nurtured others. So while we all mourn the fact that he is no longer here, we can also celebrate the fact that he was here, and that each of us had the privilege of knowing him.” |
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