University of Tennessee pioneer in speech and hearing remembered
The Knoxville News-Sentinel 3/16/2021 John Shearer
Attorney Larry Silverstein of West Hills was just like a kid again as he took a mask-covered tour through the halls of the small University of Tennessee Hearing and Speech Center this month.
He pointed out his father’s first office on the left after entering from the north end and a later one down the hall.
“We used to come up here a lot on the weekends because my mother would be typing for my father,” said Silverstein, who is now in his 60s and had not been inside the building in a few years.
Attorney Larry Silverstein of West Hills was just like a kid again as he took a mask-covered tour through the halls of the small University of Tennessee Hearing and Speech Center this month.
He pointed out his father’s first office on the left after entering from the north end and a later one down the hall.
“We used to come up here a lot on the weekends because my mother would be typing for my father,” said Silverstein, who is now in his 60s and had not been inside the building in a few years.
Silverstein is obviously quite proud of his father, Dr. Bernard Silverstein, who was the founding director of the state-operated East Tennessee Hearing and Speech Center that later became part of UT. He was also involved in building the clinical foundation for the school’s Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology in 1962.