Oral History Interview with Alan Keiller
Title
Oral History Interview with Alan Keiller
Narrator (written)
Alan Keiller
Narrator First Name
Alan
Narrator Last Name
Keiller
Interviewer
Hannah Markowitz
Abstract
Alan C. Keiller. Dartmouth Class of 1966 and Tuck School of Business Class of 1967. Oral history interview for the Dartmouth Vietnam Project. Keiller discusses being one of three boys in his family who attended Dartmouth. Keiller describes his participation in the Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (NROTC) while at Dartmouth. He discusses his participation in freshman football. Keiller describes the summer trainings for the NROTC spent in Norfolk, Virginia at the Norfolk Naval Station and Naval Amphibious Base in Little Creek, Virginia. He shares his experience as a student in the 3-2 program at Tuck. Keiller describes getting married upon graduation and being sent to nuclear power school for six months. He describes many technical challenges and advantages of nuclear reactors that powered the Naval ships he worked on. He tells stories about his time on the USS Truxtun. He discusses the difference between the men who operate the nuclear reactors and the enlisted men. Keiller shares stories about his time as an instructor for the Navy in Saratoga Springs, New York. He discusses Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, known as the “father of the nuclear Navy.”
Date of Interview
February 23, 2017
Subject
Dartmouth Alumni
Dartmouth History
Military Service
Military Service (Navy)
Language
English
Rauner ID
DOH-538
Rights
CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Interview Audio Source (MP3)
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Interview Transcript Source (PDF)
//rcweb.dartmouth.edu/DDHI/histories/keiller_alan/keiller_alan_transcript_final.pdf
HTML
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