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Fundamental AcousticsLaboratories / Est. 1958
Portrait of Dr. Helen Vaught
Office of the Director

Dr. Helen Vaught

Institute Archivist & Historian

FAL-STAFF-209-HELENVAUGHTReviewed 2026-06-19Institute archivist, appointed 2014

Authorized public contact for reading-room policy, archive finding aids, and institutional history.

Switchboard(440) 805-2497· ext. 209

Helen Vaught keeps the Laboratories' records: six decades of field logs, correspondence, instrument drawings, and recordings. She is the author of the Laboratories' internal history and the steward of its archive.

Selected accomplishments

  • Assembled and preserved the complete 1958 founding record
  • Author of a forthcoming institutional history of the Laboratories
Current work
  • Catalogues accessioned field recordings from 1958 through 1974
  • Maintains the public reading-room calendar and researcher request queue
  • Reviews historical records before public release or retention hold
Selected work
  • Institute record
    FAL Archive Guide 24-01
    Public Use of Technical Reports and Field Logs
    Cite in reading-room request
  • Institute record
    FAL Historical Note 25-04
    The 1971 Calder Ridge Relocation
    Cite in reading-room request
  • Staff citation
    Vaught
    H., The Institution That Kept Recording
    Cite in reading-room request
Institute service
  • Secretary, Records Retention Committee
  • Reading room authority
Disclosure control

What this public profile can and cannot answer.

Release limits
  • No private personnel, candidate, or contributor records are released through public profiles.
  • Restricted station details and unpublished review materials remain outside the public directory.
  • Profile text is maintained for routing and accountability, not as a complete employment record.
Committee record
  • Secretary, Records Retention Committee
  • Reading room authority
Office record
  • Switchboard extension 209
  • Archive reading room, records wing
  • Program: Office of the Director