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great discussions and good times together. Michaela did a wonderful dissertation on
hearing in lake sturgeon, a very important and endangered species (but she used
hatchery-raised animals that were, themselves, not endangered). Michaela has
moved on and is now a postdoc at Harvard.
8 Food
Food has always been an integral part of our relationship, starting at that very fi rst
barbeque in 1971. As mentioned earlier, having good food has always been a major
consideration as we organized meetings, but it has been a part of much of what we
have done. It should be noted that Art readily admits that Dick is the chef of the two
of us. Art’s contribution will be wine or whisky, but he would never try to compete
with Dick with respect in preparing a memorable meal. (Of course, it is worth
remembering that Dick is also a published food critic with his much acclaimed Hot
Dog Chicago , the basis of a fi lm that won an Emmy
4 on local public TV in Chicago.)
Perhaps our most memorable meal has become “legend” in our families. It took
place in May 1974 at the Maile Room in Honolulu, HI. We went there to celebrate
our birthdays (Art is 361 days older than Dick and so our birthdays are within 4 days
of one another) and Helen and Cathy arranged a “surprise.” The Maile Room was
one of two restaurants in Hawai’i that then required gentlemen to wear jackets and
ties (the other was the Cannon Club, the military club on the slopes of Diamond
Head that we went to several times with Jim Kendall). The fi rst memory of that
evening was that as we were leaving the Fay’s home (having picked them up), Helen
noticed that Dick was in a nice suit but, in true Hawaiian tradition, was wearing
sandals and no socks!
So, we had a lovely dinner and were about to order dessert. Just as we were doing
this, both of us noticed a birthday cake with candles being brought out and recall
looking at one another and saying something about the poor fools who were about
to be embarrassed by a cake. Needless to say, those two “fools” were us! But, someone messed up somewhere because the cake had Vick and Art on it!
9 The “Curse” of the Hearing “Specialist”
For the past 20 or 30 years, the term “hearing specialist” has been used to describe
fi shes that have structures that somehow enhance hearing capabilities compared
with fi shes without such specializations (“hearing generalists”). A number of years
ago, we came to the conclusion that these terms were more confusing than helpful
because there is so much overlap in fi sh hearing capabilities between various species. So we started to wonder where the terms came from. We searched the literature
4 For non-US reads, an Emmy is the TV equivalent to Academy Awards in the U.S.
A.N. Popper and R.R. Fay
great discussions and good times together. Michaela did a wonderful dissertation on
hearing in lake sturgeon, a very important and endangered species (but she used
hatchery-raised animals that were, themselves, not endangered). Michaela has
moved on and is now a postdoc at Harvard.
8 Food
Food has always been an integral part of our relationship, starting at that very fi rst
barbeque in 1971. As mentioned earlier, having good food has always been a major
consideration as we organized meetings, but it has been a part of much of what we
have done. It should be noted that Art readily admits that Dick is the chef of the two
of us. Art’s contribution will be wine or whisky, but he would never try to compete
with Dick with respect in preparing a memorable meal. (Of course, it is worth
remembering that Dick is also a published food critic with his much acclaimed Hot
Dog Chicago , the basis of a fi lm that won an Emmy
4 on local public TV in Chicago.)
Perhaps our most memorable meal has become “legend” in our families. It took
place in May 1974 at the Maile Room in Honolulu, HI. We went there to celebrate
our birthdays (Art is 361 days older than Dick and so our birthdays are within 4 days
of one another) and Helen and Cathy arranged a “surprise.” The Maile Room was
one of two restaurants in Hawai’i that then required gentlemen to wear jackets and
ties (the other was the Cannon Club, the military club on the slopes of Diamond
Head that we went to several times with Jim Kendall). The fi rst memory of that
evening was that as we were leaving the Fay’s home (having picked them up), Helen
noticed that Dick was in a nice suit but, in true Hawaiian tradition, was wearing
sandals and no socks!
So, we had a lovely dinner and were about to order dessert. Just as we were doing
this, both of us noticed a birthday cake with candles being brought out and recall
looking at one another and saying something about the poor fools who were about
to be embarrassed by a cake. Needless to say, those two “fools” were us! But, someone messed up somewhere because the cake had Vick and Art on it!
9 The “Curse” of the Hearing “Specialist”
For the past 20 or 30 years, the term “hearing specialist” has been used to describe
fi shes that have structures that somehow enhance hearing capabilities compared
with fi shes without such specializations (“hearing generalists”). A number of years
ago, we came to the conclusion that these terms were more confusing than helpful
because there is so much overlap in fi sh hearing capabilities between various species. So we started to wonder where the terms came from. We searched the literature
4 For non-US reads, an Emmy is the TV equivalent to Academy Awards in the U.S.
A.N. Popper and R.R. Fay