ttt             All of the images that are on this page are borrowed from this webpage: <http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/>  I have been researching dad’s life intensively for 7 years now. The above page is borrowed from the I have all of the documents and items that he had preserved specifically in anticipation of my doing this.  He planned, it turned out, on my writing his story. Somehow, he just forgot to tell me about it. That didn’t matter, however, because I was going to do it regardless. (The way I found out about the expectation was from his now-deceased baby sister Ruth. In a 2-year long email dialogue she told me that he had told her and sister Doris that I was going to write his history!
       Given how much time I’ve been at this project, and given the amount of material I have to work with, it is difficult to believe that I STILL haven’t figured out the chronology of dad’s work in Hanford and in Pearl Harbor. He was in both places, and he couldn’t have been in both places at the same time, yet I have at least one pair of documents that shows that he WAS in both places at the same time. Whatever, we’ll just talk about Hanford for a minute. I have posted dad’s name on the roster at the above-mentioned website, so he is represented there as well as on this page. The life the men and women led on the project was pretty spartan.
           That photo shows most of the housing units that were built specifically for this

Project, spartan isn’t it. The project was located on Columbia River in eastern Washington because the project needed massive amounts of water. The image on the right shows the crowded dining halls, of which there were 6 like this one.
         He sent mom one of his cancelled meal tickets. The ticket is sampted Dec 28, 1843.  I was a year and a half old, in Utah with mom who also had a 6 month old, while he was away working on the Project.  He and the men understood that while officially they were not to talk about the nature of the project, it involved atomic energy some way. I have 2 books he bought while at Hanford, one “The Cyclotron” with a preface by Dr. Lawrence, the Lawrence-Lovermore Lab man, and the other “Atomic Artillery.”  The work he did which was most directly related to atomic things was the work he did on a lathe.
             He worked on a Reactor like the one which would have been in the front building in the left image. The right image shows the “inside” of an actual reactor.  His job was to pass through secure gates alone, enter a locked machine shop for one man, opean the prints, unwrap the stock, turn the stock to the specks, seal the prints, sweep up and secure the chips, and leave the prints, chips and finished item for the next men to handle.  Then he exited through another door and returned to his apartment.

Go to Kronosaurus for details about how he used his trade.

Metal Working	Rock Climber-Rescuer
Inventor	Stevedore
Taxidermy	Home-builder
Mold Maker	Truck Driver
Gun Smith	Silver smith

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