Hear the World sets a Guinness World Record
LONDON—The Hear the World Foundation has set a Guinness World Record for staging the world’s largest photographic awareness campaign. Since 2006 when Sonova, parent company of the world’s largest hearing aid manufacturing group, created the foundation, scores of international celebrities have served as ambassadors. Each has been photographed in the campaign’s signature pose—with a hand cupped…
Read MoreThe membership has spoken: Bettie Borton is AAA’s next president-elect
American Academy of Audiology (AAA) members have elected Bettie B. Borton, AuD, as president-elect, effective July 1. Borton, who is CEO of Doctors Hearing Clinic in Montgomery, AL, and co-owner/director of Borton Audiology Consultants, will serve a year in that position, and then succeed Deborah Carlson, PhD, as president of the academy for 2013-2014. The academy…
Read MoreKenneth Dahlberg, founder of Miracle-Ear and a World War II flying ace, dies
DEEPHAVEN, MN—Kenneth Dahlberg, who as founder of Miracle-Ear helped shape the hearing aid industry in the 20th century, died October 4 at his home here. Dahlberg, a decorated hero of World War II, was 94. Though he gained fame in other areas as well, the former Wisconsin farm boy was a leading light in the…
Read MoreAnother hearing-impaired star comes clean
NEW YORK–Whoopi Goldberg’s secret is out. Hiding behind those signature dreadlocks are a pair of small hearing aids. So reported The National Enquirer in a recent interview with the Oscar-winning actress (for Ghost) and co-host of The View, the popular weekday television talk show. For those who follow the hearing industry, Whoopi’s hearing aids were…
Read MoreJohn Tracy Clinic names new president/CEO
LOS ANGELES–John Tracy Clinic, which has been serving deaf children and their families since 1942, has named J. Gaston Kent as president and chief executive officer, effective July 1. The clinic was founded by Louise Tracy, wife of the actor Spencer Tracy, in honor of their son, who suffered from hearing impairment. JTC serves 25,000…
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