William F. Prather, 85, passed away on June 15, 2017. Bill attended Pomona College from 1949-51 and the University of California at Berkeley from 1951-1953 from which he received his B.A. degree in psychology. After working in a psychiatric hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, he entered the Army in 1954 and after infantry basic training in Ft. Dix, N.J., was assigned to the Medical Service Corps at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and later to Murphy Army Hospital in Waltham, Massachusetts. Following discharge he entered the graduate program in speech and hearing science at the University of Iowa where he received his M.A. and then his Ph.D. degree in 1960. He taught for several years as an assistant professor in the University of Iowa Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology in the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Otolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery in the College of Medicine, then joined the Veterans Administration Medical Center system, first in Seattle in 1963, and transferred in 1976 at the request of the VA Central Office to the Phoenix Medical Center to start a new program as Chief of the Audiology and Speech Pathology Service. He retired from the VA in 1990. In addition to his Iowa professorship he was a clinical associate professor at the University of Washington, where he directed doctoral dissertations and supervised graduate student interns and as an adjunct professor of speech and hearing science at ASU. He received the Honors of the Washington Speech and Hearing Association (WSHA) and was elected a Fellow of the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association. As a severe stutterer most of his life he compensated through scientific publications, as editor of the Washington Speech and Hearing Association Newsletter and was recognized for establishing and editing the first VA Medical Center Newsletter in Phoenix, subsequently emulated throughout much of the VAMC system. Preceding him in death were his wife, Elizabeth, and a brother. Surviving are two children and four grandchildren. Remembrances may be sent to the Beatitudes Campus Foundation, 1610 W. Glendale Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85021, or Hospice of the Valley, 1510 E. Flower St., Phoenix, AZ 85014. (Source: Arizona Republic)