Parmly Hearing Institute records, 1938-2001

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  • Creator Names Parmly Hearing Institute.
  • Title Parmly Hearing Institute records, 1938-2001 (bulk 1942-1967).
  • Physical description 4.75 linear feet.
  • Collection arrangement Organized into eleven series: 1. History, 1944-1956, n.d.; 2. Governance, 1949, 1990, n.d.; 3. Parmly Institute Reports, 1943-1999; 4. Correspondence, 1938, 1943-1971; 5. Parmly Staff Meetings, 1960-1963; 6. Financial Information, 1947, 1952-1964; 7. Directors and Staff, 1941-1970; 8. Research, 1947-1985; 9. PUblicity, 1942-2001; 10. Photographs, 1946-1960s; 11. Restricted, 1945-1967; Chronological arrangement .
  • Collection summary The Parmly Hearing Institue records span the years 1938 to 2001 (bulk 1942 to 1967) and include correspondence, reports, by-laws, histories, research papers, account books, notes, and photographs.
  • Biographical or Historical Note Established as the Parmly Foundation for Research in Hearing at the Illinois Institute of Technology, October 1942, through a trust fund left by Samuel P. Parmly, a Chicago businessman, the Parmly Hearing Institute seeks to solve problems in hearing through research. From its inception, Parmly regarded hearing difficulties as a bio-physics prblem and concentrated its work on the physics of hearing. in 1957, the foundation received a grant from the National Institues of Health and began a study of the psychological factors in hearing loss. By 1959 Parmly research revolved around three aspects: Physics, Psychology, and Physiology. The expansion of research to areas other than physics lead to the dissolutionof the Parmly Trust at IIT and the affiliation of the Institute with Loyola University Chicago in 1960. Also in 1959, the name of the institute was changed to the Parmly Hearing Insitute. Parmly has had six directors sinces its inception: Peter J. Mils (1943-1966); A. J. Derbyshire (1960-1963); Horacio J.A. (H. J. A.) Rimoldi (1969-1970); Terrence Dolan (1970-1977); William A. Yost (1977-2001); and Richard R. Fay (2001-present).
  • Finding Aids Note Finding aid available in repository and online; folder level.
  • Names
    • Mills, Peter J., 1899-1970 Archives.
    • Rimoldi, H. J. A. Archives.
    • Parmly Hearing Institute Archives.
    • Mills, Peter J., 1899-1970.
    • Rimoldi, H. J. A.
    • Parmly Hearing Institute.
    • Loyola University Chicago. Archives.
  • Subjects
    • Hearing disorders.
    • Deafness.
    • Hearing Research.
    • Auditory perception.
    • Deaf.
  • Finding aid URL Finding aid to the Parmly Hearing Institute records http://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/archives/pdfs/parmly.pdf