This sounds like a fascinating project that I hope stirs all of us to look into the genealogy of our centers! I had started a bit of this work when we were working on procuring an endowment for our center and found that the circle of life exists even for our physical spaces. While I know that our center was actually founded as a language practice lab with reel-to-reel tapes on the top floor of what is now a campus icon in the 1940s, the details are pretty hazy until 1969. I have had some contact with all of the directors from that point on, and I have a fair amount of documents...somewhere in the "stack of papers", so I'll have to message you privately with those once they are found.  I know who founded our center in the 1940s, so I'll do some digging and see what I can find out for you on that as well.

I just wanted to publicly acknowledge this praiseworthy effort! I'll be in touch off-list.

doug

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Douglas W. Canfield, Ph.D.
Coordinator III, Language Resource Center

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures 
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:40 AM Paul Sebastian <sebastianpl@appstate.edu> wrote:
Dear colleagues,

I'm looking to gather information regarding the early language laboratories. I would be very grateful if you could send me any historical information regarding your labs and centers as in when they began and/or pictures you might have on hand. Letters, memos, captions and other sources that support the dates and stories would be even more helpful! I'm particularly interested in centers that date back to the early 20th century, say within the first three or four decades 1900-1930 or 1940. 

Cheers,

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Paul Sebastian
Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics
Director of the Language Acquisition Resource Center
Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Appalachian State University

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