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Digression 2
When Art was a doctoral student at CCNY, he decided he wanted to do a
postdoc on shark hearing. He wrote to Al who responded that he had no funds
for a postdoc but that there was an open faculty position at UH teaching comparative anatomy. Art applied (as well as to postdocs with Dr. Arthur Myrberg
and Dr. Wever) and was offered the position.
Back in those days, postdocs were not critical to getting jobs, and on the
advice of Dr. Tavolga and several other mentors at City University of
New York (including George Gourevitch, who Art later found out was a close
friend of Dick’s), he took the faculty position. Again, back in those days,
interviews were rather less formal than now, and so rather than being invited
to interview in Hawai’i, Art was interviewed at the annual meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that took
place in Dallas in December 1968. (This was Art and Helen’s fi rst trip to
Texas and Art’s fi rst experience with Mexican food, something that resulted
in heartburn for several days, only to be “cured” by his mother-in-law’s
chicken soup.)
Fig. 3 The only picture we have of Jim Kendall ( left ) and Al Tester together. This was taken in
1972 on the beach in Eniwetok
It Started in Hawai’i Kai: Reminiscences of 43 Years (and Counting)…
Digression 2
When Art was a doctoral student at CCNY, he decided he wanted to do a
postdoc on shark hearing. He wrote to Al who responded that he had no funds
for a postdoc but that there was an open faculty position at UH teaching comparative anatomy. Art applied (as well as to postdocs with Dr. Arthur Myrberg
and Dr. Wever) and was offered the position.
Back in those days, postdocs were not critical to getting jobs, and on the
advice of Dr. Tavolga and several other mentors at City University of
New York (including George Gourevitch, who Art later found out was a close
friend of Dick’s), he took the faculty position. Again, back in those days,
interviews were rather less formal than now, and so rather than being invited
to interview in Hawai’i, Art was interviewed at the annual meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that took
place in Dallas in December 1968. (This was Art and Helen’s fi rst trip to
Texas and Art’s fi rst experience with Mexican food, something that resulted
in heartburn for several days, only to be “cured” by his mother-in-law’s
chicken soup.)
Fig. 3 The only picture we have of Jim Kendall ( left ) and Al Tester together. This was taken in
1972 on the beach in Eniwetok
It Started in Hawai’i Kai: Reminiscences of 43 Years (and Counting)…