Acoustical Society of America

Shortly after Christmas in 1928, a small group of physicists and engineers who were professionally related by their common interest in acoustical phenomena attended a meeting held at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City to consider forming an acoustical society. Before another year had elapsed the first regular meeting of the Acoustical Society of America had taken place and been judged a success, a constitution and bylaws had been drafted and ratified, and the new Society with its charter membership of more than four hundred and fifty had elected a slate of officers and had been incorporated in the State of New York as a legal corporate body. At the time of this writing, some twenty‐two years later, the Acoustical Society has a total membership of about sixteen hundred.