DEPARTMENT HISTORY
Originally, the department was housed in the Division of Communication, which combined curricular elements of what would become the Departments of (a) Speech, (b) Theatre and Dance, and (c) Communications. The Department of Speech, established in 1964, was renamed the Department of Speech Communication in 1969 and was renamed the Department of Human Communication Studies in 2002. When the department name was changed to Speech Communication in 1969, its curriculum fell into two areas of emphasis: (a) public address and (b) speech pathology and audiology. The name represented as clearly as possible the departments curricular mission, and many similarly constituted departments had the same name. The two areas of emphasis became separate degree programs in 1979.
The B.A. and M.A. degree programs in Speech Communication have evolved from the public address emphasis, and the B.A. and M.A. programs in Communicative Disorders have evolved from the speech pathology and audiology emphasis. The speech communication degree program, from its original singular emphasis in public address, has evolved into an area with emphases in persuasion and argumentation, organizational communication, interpersonal communication, and intercultural communication. The communicative disorders program has evolved from an emphasis on disorders of speech itself to one that focuses predominantly on disorders of communication that are not speech (e.g., language, non-oral communication, assisted communication, pragmatic aspects of communication, and swallowing).
HISTORY OF THE ANDERSEN RESEARCH CENTER
On the occasion of his retirement in 1970, Dr. Martin Andersen donated his personal library to the department for use by students and faculty. Some years later he added a duplicating machine to ensure that study copies of materials would be available to all of us. The ARC now houses more donated materials and department acquisitions of hardcopy literature which are prized resources. By 1984-5, the ARC held subscriptions to over 22 different journals. The ARC is supervised by the Department Instructional Resource Committee, who constantly reviews and updates the collection and subscriptions.
HISTORY OF OUR FACULTY
| Year hired | Name | Born | Resigned/retired (* = retired) | Died | Emeritus | Comments |
| 1959 | Seth Fessenden | 9-29-1903 | 1973 * | 7-12-76 | 1973 | Chair, 1959-1968. Biography |
| 1959 | Emmett Long | 12-31-1923 | 2005 | 3-10-2005 | 1986 | FERP 1986. Biography |
| 1960 | Lee Grannell | 8-29-1933 | 7-9-1984 | Chair, 1968-1977. Biography. | ||
| 1963 | Kaye Good | 4-1-29 | 1986 | FERP 1986. Biography | ||
| 1964 | Forrest Seal | 1964 | Died prior to teaching | |||
| 1964 | Donald Kaplan | 8-13-1921 | 1983 | FERP 1983 | ||
| 1965 | Martin Andersen | 8-22-04 | 1970 * | 1-13-85 | 1970 | Biography |
| 1965 | Gloria Dwinell | 10-6-1933 | 1995 * | Dept. Secretary | ||
| 1965 | George Enell | 7-11-1934 | 1992 * | 9-13-2003 | 1992 | Biography |
| 1965 | Max Nelson | 1-15-1918 | 1988 * | 1988 | ||
| 1966 | Glyndon Riley | 10-31-1929 | 1986 * | 1986 | FERP 1986 | |
| 1966 | E. Ray Nichols | 10-8-1914 | 1977 * | 4-23-93 | 1977 | Biography |
| 1967 | Lucy Keele | 3-4-1941 | 1995 * | 1995 | Biography | |
| 1967 | Barbara Harris Ewbanks | 3-28-1940 | 1971 * | |||
| 1967 | Herbert Booth | 7-2-16 | 1978 * | 10-22-1982 | 1978 | Biography |
| 1968 | Louis Cockerham | 11-17-1930 | 1974 | |||
| 1968 | Martin Treon | 1970 | ||||
| 1969 | Joyce Flocken | 12-30-1939 | 2001 * | 2001 | Chair, 1983-1992. Biography | |
| 1969 | Jerry Koehler | 6-16-1941 | 1971 | |||
| 1969 | Mary Ann Grissom | 1970 | ||||
| 1969 | Bonnie McCracken | 1971 | ||||
| 1970 | Philip Schreiner | 2-5-1927 | 1982 * | 4-11-1983 | Biography | |
| 1970 | Ralph Beckett | 6-6-1923 | 1985 | 1985 | FERP 1985 | |
| 1970 | John Sattler | 11-28-1938 | 1972 | |||
| 1971 | Suzanne Hagen | 8-5-1937 | 1976 | |||
| 1971 | Patrick Mcdermott | 8-14-1942 | 1976 | |||
| 1972 | Norman Page | 10-5-1938 | 2009 * | |||
| 1972 | Michael Metz | 2-5-1943 | 1981 | |||
| 1973 | Robert Emry | 4-8-1943 | 2001 * | 2001 | Chair, 1992-2001, FERP 2000 | |
| 1973 | Arden Thorum | 11-1-1935 | 2000 * | 2000 | FERP 2000 | |
| 1974 | Daniel Crary | 9-19-1939 | 1998 | 1998 | FERP 1998 | |
| 1975 | Richard Abrassart | 1-7-1947 | ||||
| 1976 | Judith Sanders | 12-16-1951 | 1979 | |||
| 1977 | Wayne Brockreide | 7-24-1922 | 4-5-1986 | Chair, 1977-1983 | ||
| 1978 | Terralynn Walters | 6-30-1946 | 1980 | |||
| 1978 | Richard Wiseman | 4-8-1952 | 2006 | 11-29-2006 | ||
| 1981 | Kurt Kitselman | 5-25-1950 | Chair, 2001-present | |||
| 1981 | Michael Davis | 12-9-1951 | ||||
| 1983 | Robert Gass | 2-25-1952 | ||||
| 1983 | Peter Andersen | 6-26-1947 | ||||
| 1985 | Daniel Canary | 8-9-1951 | 1990 | |||
| 1985 | Edith Li | 10-24-1950 | ||||
| 1985 | Edward Hinck | 8-27-1956 | 1988 | |||
| 1987 | Daniel Cartledge | 3-3-1956 | 1988 | |||
| 1988 | A. Lynn Williams | 11-13-1956 | 1993 | |||
| 1989 | Teresa Boggs | 4-27-1960 | ||||
| 1989 | K. Jeanine Congalton | 8-23-1956 | ||||
| 1989 | William Gudykunst | 10-26-1947 | 2005 | 1-20-2005 | Biography | |
| 1989 | Stella Ting-Toomey | 5-22-1952 | ||||
| 1990 | Ruth Guzley | 4-15-1947 | ||||
| 1990 | Mary Blake Huer | 6-18-1954 | ||||
| 1990 | John Reinard | 5-13-1948 | ||||
| 1990 | Toya Wyatt | 5-8-1958 | ||||
| 1991 | Terry Saenz | 7-14-1952 | ||||
| 1991 | Robert Strain | |||||
| 1991 | Elizabeth Mechling | 2008* | ||||
| 1996 | Kenneth Tom | |||||
| 1996 | Gary Ruud | |||||
| 1997 | Jon Bruschke | |||||
| 1998 | Jeanne Flora | 2000 | ||||
| 1999 | Ying-Chiao Tsao | |||||
| 2000 | Archana Bhatt | 2002 | ||||
| 2001 | Irene Matz | |||||
| 2002 | Javette Hayes | |||||
| 2005 | Patty Malone | |||||
| 2006 | Hye-Keung Seung | |||||
| 2006 | Jason Teven | |||||
| 2008 | Tenzin Dorjee | |||||
| 2009 | Marcia Dawkins | |||||
| 2010 | Perry Pauley |
Department of Human Communication Studies
Listing of Tenure-Track, FERP1, and Lecturer2 by Year: 1995-2004
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Congalton Crary Dunn2 Emry, Chair Flocken Gass Gudykunst Mechling, S’96 Page Reinard Strain, F’95 Ting-Toomey Wiseman |
Congalton Crary Emry, Chair Flocken Gass Gudykunst Mechling Page Reinard, Act.Chair-S Ruud Ting-Toomey Tucker2 Wiseman |
Brushcke2 Congalton Crary Emry, Chair Flocken Gass Gudykunst Mechling Page Reinard Ruud Ting-Toomey Wiseman |
Brushcke2 Congalton Crary1 Emry, Chair Flocken Flora Gass Gudykunst Mechling Page Reinard Ruud Ting-Toomey Wiseman |
Bruschke Congalton Crary1 Emry, Chair Flocken Flora Gass Gudykunst Mechling Page Reinard Ruud Ting-Toomey Wiseman |
Bhatt2 Bruschke Congalton Crary1 Emry, Chair Flocken French2 Gass Gudykunst Mechling Page Reinard Ruud Ting-Toomey Wiseman |
Bhatt2 Bruschke Congalton Emry1 Gass Gudykunst Matz2 Mechling Page Reinard Ruud Ting-Toomey Wiseman
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Bruschke Congalton Emry1 Gass Gudykunst Hayes Lowrie2 Matz2 Mechling Page Reinard Ruud Ting-Toomey Wiseman
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Bruschke Congalton Emry1 Gass Gudykunst Hayes Lowrie2 Matz Mechling Page Reinard Ruud Ting-Toomey Wiseman
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Davis DiDonato2 Huer Kitselman Li Saenz Thorum Wyatt |
Davis Huer Kitselman Li Saenz Thorum Tom Wyatt |
Davis Huer Kitselman Li Saenz Thorum Tom Wyatt |
Davis Huer Kitselman, Act.Chr F Li Saenz Thorum Tom Wyatt |
Davis Huer Kitselman Li Saenz Thorum Tom Tsao Wyatt |
Davis Huer Kitselman, Chair Li Saenz Thorum1 Tom Tsao Wyatt |
Davis Huer Kitselman, Chair Li Saenz Thorum1 Tom Tsao Vickers2 Wyatt |
Davis Huer Kitselman, Chair Li Saenz Thorum1 Tom Tsao Vickers2 Wyatt |
Davis Huer Kitselman, Chair Li Saenz Thorum1 Tom Tsao Wyatt Young2 |
Retired Faculty**:
Long 1/94. Riley1/94. Keele6/95. Crary 6/01. Flocken 6/01. Emry 6/01.
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Timeline
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1959 |
Division of Communications founded, when Dr. Seth Arthur Fessenden (Professor of Education and Speech) was one of the original ten founding faculty members at Orange County State College. Fessenden was named Division Chair and charged by President William B. Langsdorf with recruiting faculty and planning curricula for various programs within the division. He develops programs and facilities in Journalism, Speech and Drama (the latter to become the Theatre Department), and Speech Pathology. Emmett Long joins the original ten founding faculty members and serves as first Dean of Admissions. |
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1960 |
Fessenden hires Lee
Granell to found Titan forensics program. |
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1964 |
Separate Department of Speech established. Curriculum includes two areas of emphasis: (a) public address and (b) speech pathology and audiology. |
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1969 |
Department name changed to Department of Speech Communication (consistent with name of national organizations). |
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1970 |
First Titan Forensics Debate team qualifies for National Debate Tournament (John Dolan and Patty Peoples take fifth place). In the 38years to follow, CSUF qualifies at least one team to the NDT 32 times. |
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1970 |
Andersen Research Center founded. On the occasion of his retirement in 1970, Dr. Martin Andersen donates his personal library to the Department for use by students and faculty. Some years later he added a duplicating machine to ensure that study copies of materials would be available to all. |
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July 12, 1976 |
Deranged employee indiscriminately opens fire on all present in the library. Founding Chair Seth Fessenden is among the 6 killed. Memorial evergreen trees planted south of gymnasium in memory of those lost. |
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1979 |
Two areas of emphasis (speech communication and communicative disorders) become separate degree programs |
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1995 |
Center for Children Who Stutter (a non-profit Speech Clinic dedicated to a future where, “a child who stutters need not become an adult who stutters”) founded. Since its founding, the center would provide over 1000 hours of no cost or low cost therapy to children in the greater Orange County area. |
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1996 |
Daniel Webster Project (which would become the Southern California Urban Debate League) founded with outreach bringing forensic education to Santa Ana High School. The program would grow to two additional schools the following year, blossom to over 20 high schools during the life of an Open Society Institute grant, and finally evolve into the entity it is today. |
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1999 |
First Titan Forensics individual events competitors qualify for the American Forensic Association-National Individual Events Tournament |
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1999 |
First Annual Fullerton Fluency Conference held |
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2002 |
First Titan Forensics debate team makes it to elimination rounds at Cross Examination Debate Association Nationals |
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2002 |
Department renamed Human Communication Studies |
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2007 |
California Speech-Language-Hearing Association gives Center for Children Who Stutter its “Program of the Year” Award |
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2008 |
Hosts National Debate Tournament |
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2007-2008 |
HCOM faculty sets research record for College with 2 books, 3 electronic publications, 19 journal articles, 3 book chapters, 14 research-based convention papers, and 2 short courses at professional conferences. |