Note that the Department of Audiology and Speech is a medical sciences department. There was a department of Speech, Dramatics, and Radio Education until 1966. This department taught subjects related to performing arts and communication arts.

The collection of the department of Audiology and Speech Sciences consists of various reports on topics related to audiology, including one titled “Noise: The Acoustical Pollutant,” pamphlets on course offerings and study abroad programs, newsletters for alumni of the department.

The collection for Speech, Dramatics, and Radio Education includes faculty files for the period that the department was active in dramatics (theater) and radio broadcasting, information on the “Children’s Theatre Institute,” part of a course for students interested in studying the techniques of staging children’s plays.

The collection also includes unpublished annual reports for 1958 - 1969.