Art Kendall...contd.
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On the mall, with the reflecting pool and the Lincoln Memorial in the background
The eastern seaboard is in Art’s blood…family lore has it that Art’s ancestors on his father's side arrived on the Mayflower. His mother was born in Nova Scotia, and her parents moved to Rhode Island when she was one year old. Art was born in Providence and spent his early years on the Narragansett Bay. But it wasn’t all fun—Hurricane Carol swept through Providence in 1954 and washed away their house and all their belongings. He remembers, “…going up the hill, my sister and I had our little brother by the hand and the wind had his feet off the ground.”

As a child, he was quiet in school and a bit of a bookworm, although he participated in Boy Scouts and paid his high school tuition by shoveling snow. He was not frequently first in his class because he avoided “sticking out” as a youngster and was careful “not to let it be known how fast I was doing my homework.” Nevertheless, he feels fortunate to have attended schools that took education very seriously.

Art’s academic and intellectual abilities developed as he grew. He was graduated cum laude in philosophy from Our Lady of Providence Seminary and earned his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He was elected a fellow of both the American Psychological Association, based on his work in advancing multivariate statistical methods, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues for advancing methods used in studying social and policy issues (i.e., program evaluation). He has been a member of the International Society of Political Psychology since it was started. He is also president of the Capital Area Social Psychological Association.

He is also a mathematical statistician. He is a member of the American Statistical Association, was a signatory to the setting up of its Section on National Defense and Homeland Security and the Special Interest Group on Volunteerism. He is regularly a discussant on government and social statistics topics at ASA Conventions.

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