Charter Members of ASHA, 1926

(Adapted from Paden, 1970, pp. 12–13; and Malone, 1999, p. 9)

1. Margaret Gray Blanton , lecturer at Tulane University and the University of Wisconsin in the field of speech correction. Her master’s thesis was on the subject of infant development (1917), and she also wrote books on stuttering (1925) and on speech training for children (1919, with Smiley Blanton). 
   
2. Smiley Blanton , psychiatrist and the director of the University of Wisconsin Speech and Mental Hygiene Clinic and a child guidance clinic in Minneapolis, MN. He authored a number of publications on various aspects of speech correction, including stuttering and voice and speech problems of preschool children.
   
3. Richard C. Borden , director of the Speech Clinic at New York University.
   
4. Frederick W. Brown , professor in the department of spoken English at Smith College.
   
5. Mary A. Brownell , graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. Robert West was her advisor.
   
6. Alvin Busse , professor of speech at New York University.
   
7. Pauline Camp , director of the Wisconsin State Program in Speech Correction.
   
8. Jane Dorsey , professor in the department of spoken English at Smith College.
   
9. Eudora P. Estabrook , director of the speech correction department in the Grand Rapids, MI, public schools.
   
10. Sina V. Fladeland Waterhouse , speech correctionist at Perkins Institute for the Blind in Watertown, MA.
    
11. Mabel F. Gifford , speech clinician in the department of pediatrics at the California Medical School Speech Clinic and director of the California State Public School Program.
    
12. Max Goldstein , otolaryngologist who studied the auditory training methods of the deaf with Victor Urbantschisch in Vienna, Austria. He founded the Central Institute for the Deaf in St Louis, MO, in 1914.
    
13. Ruth Green , program director of the Minneapolis Public Schools Speech Program.
    
14. Laura Heilman , public school speech correctionist in California.
    
15. Elmer L. Kenyon , otolaryngologist who studied with H. Gutzmann in Germany. He established a speech and hearing clinic at Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1910.
    
16. Mabel V. Lacy , principal of the School for the Deaf in Hawaii.
    
17. Elizabeth McDowell , professor of speech at Columbia University.
    
18. Thyrza Nichols , teacher of English at the Baldwin School, a K–12 private school for girls in Bryn Mawr, PA.
    
19. Samuel D. Robbins , director of the Boston Stammerers Institute. He was also a researcher affiliated with Harvard University.
    
20. Sara M. Stinchfield , first PhD to graduate with a major in speech pathology. She was an associate professor at Mount Holyoke College and was director of its speech clinic.
    
21. Jane Bliss Taylor , professor of speech at Hunter College.
    
22. Charles K. Thomas , PhD in phonetics with a specialty in American dialects. He taught at Cornell University.
    
23. Lee Edward Travis , faculty member at the University of Iowa. He established a major there in speech correction.
    
24. Lavilla Ward , followed Pauline Camp as the director of Wisconsin’s Public Schools Program.
    
25. Robert West , PhD in speech pathology from the University of Wisconsin, under the direction of Smiley Blanton. In 1925, West was the director of the speech pathology program at the University of Wisconsin.