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...collaboration on this project, we selected, with the University's approval, some experts: Goldberg LeMessurier Associates for structure, Delbrook Engineering, Inc, for heating-ventilating and air conditioning, Thompson Engineering Company, for the electrical engineering, Bolt, Beranek and Newman for acoustics, George Izenour (who had already developed a new system for lifting scenery) for stage lighting and special engineering in connection with the stage and convertibility features. The coordination of all the collaborators made it possible to carry out the Architect's functional and aesthetic concept of this theater...
Kresge's sound was shaped by Bolt, Beranek & Newman, acoustical engineers, headed by Dr. Richard H. Bolt, M.I.T. professor of acoustics. Into the design went a number of considerations...
There were also tragedies. The Hokah (Minn.) Chief reported: "The body of Wencil Beranek, 65, was found in a creek three and a half miles east of Waldorf. It was on its back and eyeglasses were still in place. Two pennies were found in a pocket." And the Jasper County (Ind.) Democrat recorded: "Irene, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Neeley, passed away at the Riley Hospital. She had been a patient for the past four years suffering with a heart ailment...
...Beranek, Guggenheim Research Fellow at the University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science Monday by Cornell College, Iowa...
...degree was presented in honor of Dr. Beranek's "contribution to the war effort as Director of Research and Sound Control at Harvard and in recognition of his achievements in theoretical and applied acoustical science...