Tour the Monterey Defense Language Institute (DLI) at the historic Presidio with Dr. James McNaughton and Shigeya Kihara as narrators.

The general public is invited to take a tour of the DLI before the Veterans Tribute Dinner on June 30th.  Free shuttle service will be provided from the DoubleTree Hotel.  Reservations are required.

Dr. James McNaughton

Dr. James McNaughton has been the command historian for the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center since 1987.  He has written seven annual command histories and numerous articles and research papers about the institute, including the Institute's accreditation self-study report in 1993.  McNaughton was born in Quantico, Va., the son of a career Marine Corps officer.  He received his doctorate in European history from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.  Before that, he received his bachelor's degree from Middlebury College, Vt.  In fiscal 2000, McNaughton hopes to complete his book on the Nisei linguists.

In recent years historical assignments have taken McNaughton far beyond the Institute.  In 1994 he received a one year Army-level fellowship for a historical study of the Defense Foreign Language Program.  When Congress asked the Army to produce an official history of the Japanese American "Nisei" who served as translators and interpreters in the U.S. Army in World War II, he took on that assignment as well.  These Nisei and the Army school where they were taught Japanese were the origins of today's Defense Language Institute.

Shigeya Kihara will narrate photographs in the Yankee Samurai Exhibition in Nakamura Hall at the DLI on June 30, 2000.