Oral History Interview with Robb Cox
Title
Oral History Interview with Robb Cox
Narrator (written)
Robb Cox
Narrator First Name
Robb
Narrator Last Name
Cox
Interviewer
Lexi Sonnenfeld
Abstract
Robert M. Cox Jr. Class of 1965. Oral history interview for the Dartmouth Vietnam Project. Cox discusses growing up in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. He describes how he discovered and decided to attend Dartmouth College. While a student at Dartmouth, Cox participated in Rugby and the Freshman Rowing team, joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and learned to fly. He joined the Navy Reserves prior to attending graduate school at Kent State. After one year of graduate school Cox joined the Air Force and began his training at Lackland Airforce Base in Texas where he became a Lieutenant. He was sent to power plant school at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Cox describes his time on assignment at the Yokota Air Base in Japan. He was the social chairmen for the squadron and was head of maintenance for the aircrafts. Cox was promoted to a captain and spent three years in Japan. When Cox returned home from Japan he worked for his father in his retail stores. Cox describes his experience working with his father and later his career in the fashion and shopping center development industry.
Date of Interview
May 4, 2016
Subject
Dartmouth Alumni
Dartmouth History
Military Service
Military Service (Air Force)
Language
English
Rauner ID
DOH-500
Rights
CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Interview Audio Source (MP3)
//rcweb.dartmouth.edu/DDHI/histories/cox_robert/cox_robert.mp3
Interview Transcript Source (PDF)
//rcweb.dartmouth.edu/DDHI/histories/cox_robert/cox_robert_transcript_final.pdf
HTML
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