Obituary [Hillel I. Reiskind]

Summary form only given, as follows. Hillel I. Reiskind (SM´52), manager of engineering for RCA Victor Records, died of a heart attack on May 7, in New York, NY, USA. He was 49. Mr. Reiskind graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1928, and spent the early part of his career with Paramount Pictures, Inc. as a recording engineer. He joined RCA in 1936, and in 1954 was appointed manager of engineering for the RCA Victor Record Division. He was a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the Audio Engineering Society, the SMPTE, and Sigma Xi. He will be remembered by his friends for the many important contributions which he made to the art of phonograph recording and reproduction.