Acoustical Society of America

COMMENCING with the March 1960 issue, the managing editor of the Acoustical Society’s publication Noise Control has been Herbert A. Erf, president of the H. A. Erf Acoustical Company of Cleveland, who has served as treasurer of the Society since 1950. The former editor of the magazine, Preston W. Smith, Jr., resigned recently to give his full time to consulting work in acoustics and noise control with the firm of Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., in Cambridge, Mass. A special committee charged with proposing a plan for the continuing management of Noise Control was subsequently appointed by the Society’s Executive Council, and after examining the problem, that committee recommended a division in the journal’s editorial and managerial responsibilities to avoid imposing too heavy a responsibility on any single editor.