Reminiscences of Walter T. Galligan : oral history, 1979.

Biographical Note

Air Force officer.

Scope and Contents

Cammandant United States Air Force Academy, 1971-73: changing role of Air Officers Commanding, negative attitude of cadets; Vietnam War protesters; integration; preliminary planning for female cadets; tenure; cadets: attrition rate, acceptance of responsibility, development of drum and bugle corps, drug abuse, use of cars, summer programs, marriage counseling; honor code and scandal of 1972; role of athletes and athletic program.

Subjects

• Aeronautics, Military.
• Athletics.
• Aviation.
• Galligan Walter T.
• Interviews.
• Mank, Russell W., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Meilinger, Philip S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Military education.
• Oral histories.
• School administrators--Interviews.
• United States--Armed Forces--Women.
• United States. Air Force--African Americans.
• United States Air Force Academy.

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