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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This is our first attempt to
keep you informed about DLI events and activities. Although not extensive in its beginnings,
this newsletter will strive to refer you to or present items of general
interest to faculty, students, and alumni.
Benjamin De La Selva, President: president@dli-alumni.org
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CONTAINED
IN THIS ISSUE
Faculty Concerns –
Voluntary Separation Incentive Program
Reunions – Growing
Interest
Reunion Survey –
Popular Choices
Alumni Relations Office
(ARO) – New DLI Office
Recent Events – Hispanic
and Native American Month Celebrations
Russian and Other
Language Programs Realignments
Schools Locations - A1,
A2, A3, ME1, ME2, ML, RU, ELA
Calendar of Recent and
Future Events – From Exodus to ACTFL Conference
In Memoriam – Elliott
(Italian), Sujan (Hungarian)
Monterey Herald Headlines
related to DLI – Base Security and Base Closures
Evolution of the DLI
Faculty - From Japanese (1941) to Yakan (2003)
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FACULTY
CONCERNS
DLI has asked each
or its schools for names of GS and FPS faculty who would be interested in
taking advantage of VSIP (Voluntary Separation Incentive Program). DLI hopes to offer this incentive to about 60
faculty members who would have to leave between January and March
2004. If more than 60 faculty apply , the choice of who gets VSIP
will be made following a priority order that will probably begin with those
still in the GS system, and in those languages where faculty layoffs of
permanent employees are expected.
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REUNIONS
Interest in reunions is
increasing. Presently, there are three
alumni who have contacted us for assistance in organizing reunions in the next
three calendar years. For example,
R-9-4, who was here last April, wants to come back again in FY06. Class 01RU4700474 (Grad Mar75), led by W.
Clement Smith, plans to visit in April 2004. James Bullard and
his classmates of Korean class #37 want to celebrate the class' 50th
anniversary in May 2005. Additionally, Jack Frankie, who presently teaches
Russian Basic at DLI, is planning a reunion for class 01RU47W1083.
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We obtained the following results from the
1. What Kind?
No preference (16%); for all languages (31%); by
Language (53%)
2. How Often?
No pref (15%); Every Yr (11%); 2 yrs (20%); 5 yrs (36%);
10 yrs (18%)
3. When?
No pref (26%); In May/w Lang Day (58%);
In Nov w/DLI Anniv (16%)
As you see, more alumni
want to have big reunions By
Language, Every 5 Years, and In May to coincide with Language
Day.
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ALUMNI
RELATIONS OFFICE (ARO)
Our previous Commandant,
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RECENT
EVENTS
Five
DLI organizations, including DLIAA, recently sponsored several events commemorating
Hispanic Heritage and Native American Months.
In September, a panel of five Native Americans (visitors and students),
and in October a panel of five Hispanics (faculty and students) respectively
shared their experiences while growing up in
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RUSSIAN
AND OTHER LANGUAGE PROGRAMS REALIGNMENTS
Last month (Dec 03), the
Russian Basic program assigned to European School II and located in Nicholson
Hall since 1987, was relocated to the WWI buildings below the Post Theater,
home of
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SCHOOLS
LOCATIONS
Next time you visit DLI, here is where you
will find your language depart-ment or school:
Asian I (CM,
JA, TA, TH, VN) – Wooden buildings across the Medical Clinic and below
the Post Theater
Asian II (KP) – Munakata
Hall* – Three story building behind Snack Bar
Asian III (KP) – Collins
Hall* - Newest building, west of Munakata Hall
Middle East I
(AD) –Nakamura*, Hachiya*, & Mizutari* Halls – Building
behind Nisei Hall*
Middle East II (AD) –
Nisei Hall* - Building facing Troop Command
Multi Language School – (PF, SC, HE, TU) Nicholson Hall* - Across
the street from Belas Dining Facility*
Russian School (RU)
– Wooden buildings by Soldier's Field
European and Latin American School
(SP, FR, JT, PY, GM) – Pomerene Hall*
-Between Aiso Library* and Nisei Hall*
GOTW Languages (recently added
language programs) – Behind Aiso Library*
School for Continuing Education - Ord
Military Community (Former Ft Ord)
MIS(LS)= The Military
Intelligence Service (Language School)
*Nisei Hall-Named for the Japanese Americans who served in MIS during
WWII
*Munakata Hall—Named after Yutaka Munakata, instructor at MISLS; later Group
Director at DLIWC
*Collins Hall – Named after General James Collins, DLI Commandant from 1959 to
1962
*Nakamura Hall—Named after George Nakamura, killed in action in Luzon,
Philippines
*Hachiya Hall—Named after Frank Hachiya, killed in action in Leyte, Philippines
*Mizutari Hall—Named after Yukitaka “Terry” Mizutari, killed in action in New
Guinea
*Nicholson Hall – Named after LTC Arthur Nicholson, killed by a Soviet sentry
in East Germany, during the Cold War.
*Belas Hall – Named after Sgt Lee Belas, killed in a helicopter crash in Gulf
War I
*Pomerene Hall – Named after Capt Robert Pomerene, killed in action in the
Korean War
*Aiso Library—Named after John Aiso, director of academic training at MISLS
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CALENDAR OF RECENT AND FUTURE EVENTS
* Exodus 03 began at noon on 18
Dec 03
* First day of
class - Monday, 5 Jan 04
* Annual Language
Conference - Jan 04
* Annual Program
Review – Feb 04
* Command Language
Program Seminar - Apr 04
* Language Day – May 04
* Worldwide Language
Competition – May 04
* Digital Stream
Conference, CSUMB – Jun 04
* DLI 63rd
Anniversary – 1 Nov 04
* DCSOPS Off Site, -
Dec 04
* ACTFL* Conference – Nov
04 (Wash., DC)
American
Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
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IN
MEMORIAM
Two
former faculty passed away recently:
Juliana Elliott (Italian) - 24 Nov 03
and
Paul Sujan (Hungarian)-
12 Dec 03
http://www.dli-alumni.org/services/memoriam.htm
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MONTEREY
HERALD HEADLINES RELATED TO DLI
Military
schools beef up security
Source:
KEVIN HOWE
It's called "force protection." Just
two years ago, the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of
Local leaders speak up for DLI
Source VICTORIA MANLEY
Hundreds of Defense
Language Institute students left the Presidio of
The department is expected to publish a
report listing criteria for the closures of military installations by the end
of this month.
There's speculation that DLI is on the chopping
block because it is small and performs a single function, to teach soldiers
foreign languages. Entire
article appeared on Friday, Dec 19, 03, Page A1,
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EVOLUTION
OF THE DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE FACULTY
By Benjamin de La Selva
Many
things impress the ordinary citizen when first getting acquainted with the
Defense Language Institute. Among them are the number of languages taught, the
number of students from all services, the impressive size of the faculty, and
the kaleidoscopic variety of nationalities.
This
microcosm of the American melting pot has matured in more than 60 years to
produce the most renowned language institution in the world. At one point
DLI instructors taught more than 30 languages and dialects. In recent years
international events and national security considerations have caused the
Institute to consolidate to its present . 
Currently several hundred faculty members
from all corners of the globe teach more than two dozen languages and several
dialects.
The
Institute started on 1 November 1941 at Crissy Field on the Presidio of San
Francisco as the Fourth Army Intelligence School when second-generation
Americans of Japanese descent called Nisei - helped the nation by
teaching Japanese to American soldiers. The
The
expanding importance of
In
the early 1940s the Institute moved to
Initially,
minority communities in large cities such as
The
teaching of Arabic also began in 1947, with a faculty composed mainly of Iraqi
immigrants. Later the Institute hired instructors of other Arabic
nationalities, with Egyptians becoming the largest group. These Arabic
instructors now teach Modern Standard Arabic as well as Egyptian, Syrian and
Gulf dialects. Then in 1948 came Albanian, Czech, Bulgarian, Danish, Italian,
Swedish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Romanian, Polish, Serbian/Croatian and
Slovenian. During the 1950s, German, Finnish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Italian
were introduced.
Millions
of professionals had left the ruins of
More
Asian languages were added to the Institute's programs in the ensuing years. In
the mid-fifties the school began teaching Burmese, Chinese-Cantonese,
Vietnamese, Thai, Malay and Indonesian. Once again, recently arrived
immigrants, this time from
In
1963 the
Several
languages were also added in the 1970s and 80s: Dutch in the 1970s, drawing its
instructors from the
In
1973, the US Army Training and Doctrine Command took charge of the Institute
and in 1976 the Army consolidated all the resident training programs from the
east and west coasts on the Presidio of Monterey and renamed it the Defense
Language School Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC).
The
problems in the former Yugoslavia and Haiti in the early and mid 1990's
resulted in the reactivation of the resident Serbian/Croatian course, and the
temporary teaching of Haitian Creole in 1995. Czech and Polish were
discontinued in 2001, and 2002 respectively.
In
the mid 1980's the Institute opened branches in Lackland Air Force Base,
Presented
another way, the historical picture of languages added to the DLI curriculum
looks like the chart at the bottom of the page.
After
the September 11 tragedy, which began in earnest the War on Terrorism, a number
of languages and dialects were added to the Institute's resident program. These
included Dari, Pashto, Uzbek, Georgian, Tausug, Yakan, and other South West
Asian languages
After
additions and deletions the present count includes the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese-Mandarin, Dari, Dutch, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian,
Serbian/Croatian, Tagalog, Tausug, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Yakan, etc.
Four
Presidio of
The
War on Terrorism, including the Iraqi war and conflicts with
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YEAR(S) |
YEARS WHEN THESE LANGUAGE PROGRAMS STARTED |
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1941 |
Japanese |
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1947 |
Chinese, Korean,
Russian, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, Persian,
Arabic |
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1948 |
Albanian,
Czech/Slovak, Bulgarian, Danish, Swedish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Romanian,
Polish, Serbian/Croatian, Slovenian
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1960s |
Swahili |
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1970s |
Dutch |
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1980s |
Hebrew, Tagalog,
Dari, Pashto |
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2001/2002 |
Uzbek,
Georgean, Tausug, Yakan, and other South West Asian languages |
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