Hunter College mourns the loss of Dr. Moe Bergan

Hunter College mourns the loss of Dr. Moe Bergman, who founded the College’s Speech and Hearing Center at the 68th Street campus in 1952. He died on Feb. 20, 2014, in Herzliya, Israel. He was 97 years old.

Dr. Bergman was also the first executive officer of the Doctoral Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the City University of New York, and one of the founders of the field of audiology.

He is survived by his wife of 75 years, Hannah Goodelman Bergman, of Herzliya, Israel, a son, Jay, of Newington, CT, and a grandson, Aaron, of New York City. Donations in his memory can be made to the Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.