Benjamin De La Selva

Babel By The Monterey Bay Benjamin De La Selva

This book, BABEL BY THE MONTEREY BAY, is an enhanced edition of BABEL BY THE BAY, first published in 2015. It describes Benjamin De La Selva's 35-year career with the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLI), beginning as a language student (French and Polish), then as language professor, supervisor, chairperson, course developer, faculty developer, and dean, for 20 consecutive years, of every DLI school/division . It includes his tour in Vietnam as Prisoners of War Interrogator with the 173rd Airbone Brigade. It narrates the Institute's history from 1941 to 2005, with the most important milestones from a small school of 60 Army "nisei" students to more than 5000 Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force students. An extraordinary reference book for those interested in the Defense Language Institute.