Danny Killeen

Danny Killeen graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans in 1953, and competed for the New Orleans Southern Yacht Club. He later earned a masters’ degree from Notre Dame and a PhD from Tulane. In 1955 he crewed for Eugene Walet, III’s Lightning crew at the Pan American championships. At the time of the 1956 Olympics Killeen was serving in the US Army. In 1996 he and he sons, Danny, Jr., and John, won the L-16 International Championships. Danny Killeen, Sr. served as Commodore at both the Southern Yacht Club and The Gulf Yachting Association. Killeen was on the Board of Directors of the US Sailing Association and served as President of The Olympic Sailing Association of New Orleans.

Killeen worked for IBM for four years and then had a 34-year career at Tulane, serving as director of the Computer Center for 25 years. He was also a professor at Tulane’s Freeman School of Business.