Top: University Park resident and Vietnam War veteran Bob Headley.
Bottom: Bob Headley prior to his deployment, circa 1962. Photo courtesy Bob Headley.
Local resident Bob Headley recalls his service in the Vietnam War.
By Jenni Pompi
Riverdalepark.patch.com
Bob [Robert] Headley is a kind man of easy humor. He’s lived in University Park with his wife Anne since 1965. He has his PhD in the Celtic language and is the author of a Cambodian-to-English dictionary. He’s also a veteran of the Vietnam War.
Although he was born in a small town in Virginia, Headley grew up in Baltimore, where he had a high school Spanish teacher that got him interested in languages. He spent two years at junior college before moving on to the University of Florida where he studied anthropology.
It was while in college in Florida that Headley met a missionary recently returned from Vietnam. The missionary gave Headley a small pamphlet that displayed words in four languages; English, French, Vietnamese, and Jaral, a language spoken in a mountain village in Vietnam.
This pamphlet was Headley’s first exposure to Vietnamese.
“It piqued something in me,” he said.
Bottom: Bob Headley prior to his deployment, circa 1962. Photo courtesy Bob Headley.
Local resident Bob Headley recalls his service in the Vietnam War.
By Jenni Pompi
Riverdalepark.patch.com
Bob [Robert] Headley is a kind man of easy humor. He’s lived in University Park with his wife Anne since 1965. He has his PhD in the Celtic language and is the author of a Cambodian-to-English dictionary. He’s also a veteran of the Vietnam War.
Although he was born in a small town in Virginia, Headley grew up in Baltimore, where he had a high school Spanish teacher that got him interested in languages. He spent two years at junior college before moving on to the University of Florida where he studied anthropology.
It was while in college in Florida that Headley met a missionary recently returned from Vietnam. The missionary gave Headley a small pamphlet that displayed words in four languages; English, French, Vietnamese, and Jaral, a language spoken in a mountain village in Vietnam.
This pamphlet was Headley’s first exposure to Vietnamese.
“It piqued something in me,” he said.
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