Childhood in New York; early interest in music and drama; high school education; New York State College for Teachers at Albany (B.A.); Graduate work on experimental phonetics at Northwestern (M.A.); Air Force service, including Army Medical Department's work on hearing aids; Employment and Ph.D. training in psychology at Harvard University's Psychoacoustic Laboratory (P.A.L.); Harvard post doc, including hush-a-phone project; publication of "The Measurement of Hearing:, summer teacing at University of Michigan; career at Central Institute for the Deaf (CID); psychoacoustics research; influence of Hal Davis and Dick Silverman on career; success of CID; Washington University, including campus demonstrations against Vietnam war; membership to the Acoustical Society of America (ASA); critique of later direction taken by ASA; membership to American Speech and Hearing Association, American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, and the National Academy of Sciences (including National Research Council); editor of "Psychological and Physiological Acoustics"; marriage, children, and grandchildren; wife's career; favorite books, music, artists, entertainers, and hobbies; future plans. Also prominently mentioned are Edwin G. Boring, Ray Carhart, Donald Eldridge, J.C.R. Licklider, George Miller, Eddie Newman, and S.S. (Smitty) Stevens.