sentences:  The former Curator of Oceanic Archaeology in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and director of that museum from 1999 to 2002, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bishop Museum.Kirch was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and was raised in Manoa valley from 1950s to 1960s.At the age of 13, he became an intern to Yoshio Kondo, a Bishop Museum malacologist.