John Little:
CLASS OF 1942
Grant Middle SchoolClass of 1942
Denver, CO
Merino High SchoolClass of 1953
Merino, CO
South High SchoolClass of 1946
Denver, CO
Leadville High SchoolClass of 1945
Leadville, CO
Rosedale Elementary SchoolClass of 1939
Denver, CO
John's Story
Life
Born 15 Feb. 1928, Atlanta, Georgia. Dad had TB, coughing blood, etc.; doctor said "move to the high mountains in the West, or you will die." So when I was 9 months of age, off to Denver, Colorado, in an Essex sedan, with Grandma Little (born 1865) along to take care of me. 1943, moved to Leadville, CO; graduated from high school there in May, 1945. U.S. Navy for one year, then U. of Colorado. B.A., 1952. Taught one-room mountain schools, 1950 (Chromo, CO), and 1950-51 (Parshall, CO). Taught History, Typing, and Shorthand at Merino, CO, high school, Jan. 1952-May, 1953. M.A., Linguistics, U. of Michigan, 1954. Instructor, then Senior Foreign Instructor, Indonesian English Teacher Training Project, Jogjakarta, Central Java, 1954-58. Director of Courses, projected Cambodian-American binational cultural center, Phnom Penh, 1959-61, and then Burma-America Institute, Rangoon, Dec., 1961-June, 1962. Asst. Prof., then Assoc. Prof., Robert College, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey, 1962-65 (Linguistics, Hist. of Engl. Lang., Composition). Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY, 1965-71. Field work, Gorontalo, North Celebes, Indonesia, 1968-69. Asst. Prof., Linguistics, Cornell U., 1970-71. Asst. Prof., Indonesian Language, ...Expand for more
U. of Wisconsin, 1971-76. Senior Lecturer in Indonesian, Griffith U., Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1976-80. Language adviser, Indonesian-Australian Technical Educ. Project, Bandung, West Java, 1981-83; senior lecturer in English, University College London (UK)-World Bank graduate engineering project, Institut Teknologi Bandung, 1983-86. Asst. Prof. and Coordinator, English Language instruction, U. of Kentucky-Western Indonesian Universities Agric. Educ. Project, Palembang, South Sumatra, 1986-88. Research Analyst, 4th PSYOP Group, Fort Bragg, NC, 1989-present. Occasional research or deployment trips to Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, East Timor), two conferences in Holland.
Married Catherine Jane Coakley, of Boulder, CO, in Dec., 1948. Two sons, Stephen and Philip. Stephen is the director of Hawai'i's foremost museum, the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Philip is a highly qualified expert in computer and printer maintenance (Alameda, CA). Married Liong Fung Chu, of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, in 1986, Two sons, Paul (1989) and Matthew (1992). 2008: Three operations, one to replace mitral valve (in the heart), another to remove my first melanoma, and another to check for more melanomas. None! Praise God!
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