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Medicine located in Winston-Salem, NC. At the Bowman Gray School of Medicine,
Dick joined his friend Jim McCormick in the Otolaryngology Department where
Dick worked on writing grants and interviewing for a full-time faculty position.
According to Cathy, she was not particularly enamored with the South and wanted
to leave as soon as possible! As Cathy mentioned “any place after Honolulu would
be a diffi cult adjustment at best.” During his time in North Carolina, Dick interviewed at Rensellaer Polytech in Troy New York and at Loyola University in
Chicago. Cathy said that she read that Chicago was the best place for a woman to
fi nd a job and that they would be moving to Chicago!
Soon after interviewing for full time faculty positions, Dick was offered a position as an Associate Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago. Three
months after leaving North Carolina, the Fays settled in Winnetka, IL and Dick
began his faculty position at Loyola University Chicago where he would spend the
next 36 years of his career. Cathy happily took a position at GD Searle Pharmaceutical
Company and then later became Editor-in-Chief of the Travel Division at Simon &
Schuster in Chicago. A few years later, Dick and Cathy had their second child
Amanda Hutchinson Fay who was born in April of 1979. Memorable highlights for
the Fays included their hosting the annual Psychology Picnic in their backyard
which continued for many years until the department grew too large and then the
picnic had to be moved to a much larger, real picnic ground. While at Loyola
University, Dick taught Physiological Psychology, Neuroscience and Statistics. He
often mentioned that he very much enjoyed teaching students and that he preferred
to teach rather than buy out of such responsibilities. Perhaps Dick greatest love at
Loyola University Chicago was being part of the Loyola-endowed Parmly Hearing
Institute. According to Cathy, Dick enjoyed every one of his days there working in
his spacious lab and he was enormously fond of his highly respected and eminent
colleagues, Bill Yost, Sheryl Coombs, Rich Bowen, Bill Shoffner, and Toby Dye.
Later in the mid 1990s, Dick began to take his research “on the road” and work
as a summer scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole,
MA. He brought his “shaker system” to the MBL and continued many years of
experiments with Peggy Edds-Walton, Steve Highstein, David Zeddies, and Joe
Sisneros. In 1993, Dick and Cathy bought a big old barn on “Shearwater Farm”
about a mile down the road from the MBL, and as Dick says, he put a lot of “sweat
equity” into it over the last 22 years bringing it up to snuff (as well as up to code)!
This research arrangement seemed to be ideal for Dick where he could teach and
perform his goldfi sh hearing research in Chicago during the academic year and then
spend the warm summers on Cape Cod with his family at their home in Falmouth
and work at the MBL on toadfi sh hearing research.
Another side note about Dick is his love for art. No picture of Dick Fay is complete without acknowledging his abiding love and keen interest in art. His particular
interest is in the moderns. Cathy says that he has an incredible memory for every
detail of every artist’s life and work and can expound on every artist and their contemporaries. Cathy says Dick has provided her with many art lessons for her to
cherish throughout her life.
J.A. Sisneros
Medicine located in Winston-Salem, NC. At the Bowman Gray School of Medicine,
Dick joined his friend Jim McCormick in the Otolaryngology Department where
Dick worked on writing grants and interviewing for a full-time faculty position.
According to Cathy, she was not particularly enamored with the South and wanted
to leave as soon as possible! As Cathy mentioned “any place after Honolulu would
be a diffi cult adjustment at best.” During his time in North Carolina, Dick interviewed at Rensellaer Polytech in Troy New York and at Loyola University in
Chicago. Cathy said that she read that Chicago was the best place for a woman to
fi nd a job and that they would be moving to Chicago!
Soon after interviewing for full time faculty positions, Dick was offered a position as an Associate Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago. Three
months after leaving North Carolina, the Fays settled in Winnetka, IL and Dick
began his faculty position at Loyola University Chicago where he would spend the
next 36 years of his career. Cathy happily took a position at GD Searle Pharmaceutical
Company and then later became Editor-in-Chief of the Travel Division at Simon &
Schuster in Chicago. A few years later, Dick and Cathy had their second child
Amanda Hutchinson Fay who was born in April of 1979. Memorable highlights for
the Fays included their hosting the annual Psychology Picnic in their backyard
which continued for many years until the department grew too large and then the
picnic had to be moved to a much larger, real picnic ground. While at Loyola
University, Dick taught Physiological Psychology, Neuroscience and Statistics. He
often mentioned that he very much enjoyed teaching students and that he preferred
to teach rather than buy out of such responsibilities. Perhaps Dick greatest love at
Loyola University Chicago was being part of the Loyola-endowed Parmly Hearing
Institute. According to Cathy, Dick enjoyed every one of his days there working in
his spacious lab and he was enormously fond of his highly respected and eminent
colleagues, Bill Yost, Sheryl Coombs, Rich Bowen, Bill Shoffner, and Toby Dye.
Later in the mid 1990s, Dick began to take his research “on the road” and work
as a summer scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole,
MA. He brought his “shaker system” to the MBL and continued many years of
experiments with Peggy Edds-Walton, Steve Highstein, David Zeddies, and Joe
Sisneros. In 1993, Dick and Cathy bought a big old barn on “Shearwater Farm”
about a mile down the road from the MBL, and as Dick says, he put a lot of “sweat
equity” into it over the last 22 years bringing it up to snuff (as well as up to code)!
This research arrangement seemed to be ideal for Dick where he could teach and
perform his goldfi sh hearing research in Chicago during the academic year and then
spend the warm summers on Cape Cod with his family at their home in Falmouth
and work at the MBL on toadfi sh hearing research.
Another side note about Dick is his love for art. No picture of Dick Fay is complete without acknowledging his abiding love and keen interest in art. His particular
interest is in the moderns. Cathy says that he has an incredible memory for every
detail of every artist’s life and work and can expound on every artist and their contemporaries. Cathy says Dick has provided her with many art lessons for her to
cherish throughout her life.
J.A. Sisneros