Graduate level acoustics at Brown University 1950–1955

When Sam Elder considered graduate school he had in mind going into some exotic field like low‐temperature physics, but when Dr. Lindsay offered him a good deal on a teaching assistantship, he could not turn it down. Then, when he started there in 1950, he began to realize that Brown was becoming known as a powerhouse of research in acoustics, so he happily changed his direction in order to study under that great man. As editor of JASA, Lindsay and the other acoustics experts he had gathered around him were at the very heart of the Society and it was an exciting time to be there.