[ RadSafe ] OT: Secret City Festival & Manhattan Project Reunion

[Susan Gawarecki]

Hi all,

I ran into Ted Rockwell today at the BBQ lunch on the lawn at the K-25 
site.  He's down here with family for the 60th anniversary reunion of 
the Manhattan Project veterans. 

This is a fun time in Oak Ridge this weekend.  A commemorative walk for 
the founders of Oak Ridge was dedicated this morning--this effort was 
spearheaded by indefatigable Manhattan Project veteran and Rotarian Bill 
Wilcox.  Ted "Dutch" Van Kirk, navigator of the Enola Gay, is speaking 
several times during the events.  Former Senator Bob Dole is tonight's 
key note speaker in Knoxville.  TVA is having a big reunion also.  Ed 
Westcott, photographer for DOE and its predecessor agencies, is 
receiving long-overdue honors for his lifetime of fabulous photography 
with no less than three exhibitions.  The Children of the Manhattan 
Project are here in force.  Last night the first half of a 6-part 
documentary on the history of Oak Ridge premiered--when this gets to the 
History Channel, you will be awed!  Perhaps best of all the Beta 3 
Calutrons will be opened up for public tours on Saturday.  How NNSA was 
talked into that, I'll never know.  These tours are sold out, with over 
600 people signed up.  And much, much more....

It's nice to see the effort that created the atomic age finally getting 
some long-deserved positive attention.

Susan