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Oral History of Gregory Crocker, interviewed by Kieran Walsh Taylor, 9 December, 2008
Gregory Crocker was born in Smithfield, Virginia. In this interview, Crocker talks about his family’s tradition of military service, its influence on his decision to attend The Citadel in 2004, and an unanticipated tour of duty in Afghanistan. During…
Oral History of Helen Rooks, interviewed by Rebecca Michaud, 14 February, 2011
Helen Rooks was born in Beaufort, South Carolina. She was the oldest of five children and her father worked as a lumberman, while her mother was a homemaker. Though she was initially interested in joining the Navy, a recruiter at the local courthouse…
Oral History of Henry Berlin, interviewed by Jack Bass, 31 October, 2008
Henry Berlin was born August 19, 1924, in Charleston and enrolled at The Citadel in 1941. After enlistment and training, Berlin eventually served as a radar operator on an LST during the early Normandy landings. After the war he studied law at the…
Oral History of Henry Rittenberg, interviewed by Jack Bass, 28 November, 2008
Henry Rittenberg was born and raised in Charleston, SC, only a few blocks away from the Citadel campus. In 1934 after winning the City of Charleston Scholarship, he had the means to attend The Citadel and entered that fall semester. After repeatedly…
Oral History of Henry Rittenberg, interviewed by Lester Bergen and Libby Rittenberg, 5 January, 2012
In this interview, Henry Rittenberg, a Citadel Graduate Class 1938, remembers his experiences as a Jewish cadet. At this time, about five hundred young men were part of the Corps of Cadets but only ten or twelve of them were Jewish. Catholics and…
Oral History of Henry W. Fleming, interviewed by Danielle Lightner, 17 March, 2012
Fleming was born in Charleston, South Carolina on 8 January 1922. To help support his family following the death of his father, Fleming joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1939 through which he worked on Bull’s Island. He recalls the Charleston…
Oral History of Herman Stramm, interviewed by Luke Yoder, 19 March, 2012
Herman Stramm was born 8 June 1927, in Charleston, South Carolina. In this interview, Stramm discusses his experiences in the Navy during WWII. He attended signalman school in Bainbridge, Maryland before being assigned to the USS Dale, DD353, at…
Oral History of Ida Ostendorff, interviewed by Rebecca Michaud, 1 March, 2011
Ida Ostendorff was born in Gilbert, South Carolina. At the start of WWII she traveled to Washington D.C. where she passed a typing course and began work as a “government girl” working in the Judge Advocate General’s office. In 1942, upon turning 21…
Oral History of James Carl Young, interviewed by Kathy Johnson, 24 March, 2012
In the spring of 2012, Citadel graduate students in Dr. Lauren Rule Maxwell’s Advanced Composition class conducted oral history interviews with a diverse group of area veterans regarding their military experiences during World War II, the Korean War,…
Oral History of Janie Campbell, interviewed by Kieran Walsh Taylor, 24 April, 2009
Janie Campbell was born in Moffett near Edisto Island, South Carolina, and raised in New Jersey. There, she worked in a group home for youth with disabilities and served as Chief Shop Steward for the American Federation of State, County, and…