Abstract:

The author joined Paul S. Veneklasen & Associates and the Western Electro-Acoustic Laboratory in 1956, the day after his graduation from UCLA with a B.S. in Applied Physics and a specialization in acoustics. During the next forty years, he was privileged to work side by side with Paul Veneklasen on a variety of projects ranging from speech communication in noise, acoustical model testing, and a wide variety of architectual acoustical commissions. Most people think of Paul in only one field of endeavor, but those who knew him best knew that as a physicist, he would be interested and try anything to make an advance in technology. The paper provides a brief chronology of his major interests, projects, patents, and unpublished ideas.