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Interviewee Sort descending | Collection | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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David Hamm | Voices from the Science Centers |
Marine Biologist and Computer Sciences expert Dave Hamm was born in Minnesota in 1949. His father was in the Air Force and he traveled all throughout his childhood. He started college in Orlando, Florida and then went on to earn his Bachelors of Science at the University of West Florida, specializing in biology with a minor in statistics and mathematics. He went to graduate school at the University of South Florida and studied Computer Sciences. This allowed him work with both fishery management and database management within and for fisheries. |
Edward Glazier | Kailua, HI | NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center | |
Jeanne Branch Johnston | Tsunamis Remembered: Oral Histories of Survivors and Observers in Hawai‘i |
The oldest of two children born to Willard Hogle Branch and Elizabeth Mason Branch, Jeanne Branch Johnston was born in Hilo on December 2, 1939. Johnston's maternal grandfather, Charles William Mason, was the inventor of Canec, a fiberboard made from sugarcane bagasse. Mason became the superintendent of Hawaiian Cane Products Company, Ltd., located in Hilo near the site of the Waiakea Mill Company. After spending her early childhood in Hilo, Honolulu, Midway Island, and California, Johnston and her mother returned to Hilo in 1944. |
Warren Nishimoto | Kailua, HI | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Oral History | |
Joe A. Joseph | Kalihi: Place of Transition |
Joe A. Joseph, Portuguese-Hawaiian, was born in Kalihi on March 10, 1913. His father, Antone Joseph ( 11Antone Joe 11 ) owned a dairy located near the present site of Kalihi Shopping Center. As a youth, Joe helped his father at the dairy. Joe attended Kalihi-Waena Elementary School and completed the ninth grade at Kalakaua Intermediate. In 1932, he began work as a surveyor at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Just prior to World War II, Joe moonlighted as a nightclub bouncer. Until 1945, Joe, along with his brothers, helped at the family-run dairy. |
Warren Nishimoto | Kailua, HI | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Oral History | |
Marsue McGinnis McShane | Tsunamis Remembered: Oral Histories of Survivors and Observers in Hawai‘i |
Marsue McGinnis McShane was born May 15, 1924 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father, Ralph McGinnis, was a professor of English and journalism at Miami University in Ohio. Her mother, Erma Kl>enig McGinnis, was a homemaker. McShane and an older brother were raised in the college town of Oxford, Ohio. She also spent part of her childhood with her grandmother in nearby Covington, Kentucky. McShane attended schools in Oxford, graduating from high school in 1941. |
Warren Nishimoto | Kailua, HI | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Oral History |