David Hough:
CLASS OF 1964
New Rochelle High SchoolClass of 1964
New rochelle, NY
Teachers College of Columbia UniversityClass of 1976
New york, NY
University of HawaiiClass of 1973
Honolulu, HI
University of Oregon - LinguisticsClass of 1972
Eugene, OR
David's Story
Life
I left New Rochelle, NY in '63 (after having gone to Mayflower Elementary, Albert Leonard Jr. High and NRHS) to move into the city, transferred to High School of Commerce in midtown Manhattan. Joined the Navy in January of '66, during the subway strike. After boot camp stationed as a US Navy journalist at Glynco Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Ga.; NSA DaNang in Vietnam and Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo. Married Risa Shiraishi. Went to University of Oregon on GI Bill, later U. of Hawaii. Majored in Linguistics. BA, MA, Linguistics, then Columbia University Teachers College in Applied Lingustics, eventuallty Ph.D. in Education and Social Change from Western Institute for Social Research in Berkeley, Calif.
Returned to Japan in 1977, now permanent resident. Divorced in 1980 and remarried Fumiko Imamura in 1988. Two sons, one from first marrriage, Jun, who is now 35 and fishing out of Dutch Harbor, Alaska seven months of the year, the other five living with his new Indonesian bride in Bali. Second sond, Ken, is now 17, attending Buxton School in Williamstown, Ma., to start 12th gr...Expand for more
ade this September. Plans on becoming a surgeon, hopes to start pre-med after graduating from high school. Both sons are wonderful bilingual/bicultural Japanese-Americans.
Am a tenured professor at Shonan Institue of Technology in Fujisawa, Japan. Major area of research is endangerd and minority languages. Have worked in Micronesia (particularly Nauru, Palau and Kosrae) on projects to preserve local indigenous languages and cultures. Also worked in Far East Russia. Am now on extended leave from my university in Japan and working as Chief Technical Adviser to the Nepal Ministry of Education and Sports (MOES) to help them develop a multilingual program so that all Nepalis (50 percent of the population of 25 million is indigenous non-Nepali speaking with maybe as many as 200 languages spoken in the country) can study through primary school in their mother tongue. The project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.
I am about to turn 61 in October and find life more wonderful and full of fun now than ever before. Never want to retire.
best to you all.
Dave Hough
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