ObituaryRichard Stream
Submitted on Thursday, March 29, 2012
Richard William Stream, Denton, who worked at UNT from 1980 through 2000, died March
2. He joined the university as professor and chair of the Department of Communication
Sciences and Disorders, later Speech and Hearing Sciences, and was the first director
of admissions for the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. He served as a community
advisor to the College of Music. He also taught at the Vanderbilt University School
of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He earned a bachelor’s
degree from the University of Illinois, a master’s from Vanderbilt and a doctorate
from Northwestern University. He received a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral
fellowship at UCLA.