Symposium hosted by the atomic heritage symposium. This is 40 minutes. I hope youve enjoyed the morning program. Were now in for some additional treats this afternoon. This section is called girls of the Manhattan Project, and i sadly had to im not sad about filling in but im sad that Denise Kiernen who is the author of girls of the atomic city will not be here today. So i know many of you are looking forward to her. Shes just a wonderful, vivacious, engaging person and just fell in love with oak ridge and the girls that she met there and that are the heroines of her book. Her book reached New York Times best seller list when it came out and it fascinated people with a story of the women in world war ii who were working on this top secret project in oak ridge. And one of the girls she featured nine girls is with us this afternoon and thats Rosemary Meyers lane. Three of them are captured three of the girls that are the nine major characters not characters but people she focused on in h
The two women recently spoke about their experiences. This is 40 minutes. I hope you have enjoyed the morning program. We are now in for some additional treats this afternoon. This section is called grows of the Manhattan Project. I am not sad about filling income a but i am said that the niece kiernan, the author of the girls of the atomic city will not be here today. I know many of you are looking forward to her. She is a wonderful, vivacious, engaging person. These are the heroines of her book. Her book reached the New York Times best seller list when it came out. If fascinated people with a story of the women in world war ii who were working on this topsecret project in oak ridge. One of the girls, she featured nine girls, is with us this afternoon. That is Rosemary Myers lane. Three of the girls that are the nine major characters not characters, but the people she focused on in her book are on voice on our voices of the Manhattan Project on the website. We were able to do intervie
Symposium hosted by the atomic heritage symposium. This is 40 minutes. I hope youve enjoyed the morning program. Were now in for some additional treats this afternoon. This section is called girls of the Manhattan Project, and i sadly had to im not sad about filling in but im sad that Denise Kiernen who is the author of girls of the atomic city will not be here today. So i know many of you are looking forward to her. Shes just a wonderful, vivacious, engaging person and just fell in love with oak ridge and the girls that she met there and that are the heroines of her book. Her book reached New York Times best seller list when it came out and it fascinated people with a story of the women in world war ii who were working on this top secret project in oak ridge. And one of the girls she featured nine girls is with us this afternoon and thats Rosemary Meyers lane. Three of them are captured three of the girls that are the nine major characters not characters but people she focused on in h
Symposium hosted by the atomic heritage symposium. This is 40 minutes. I hope youve enjoyed the morning program. Were now in for some additional treats this afternoon. This section is called girls of the Manhattan Project, and i sadly had to im not sad about filling in but im sad that Denise Kiernen who is the author of girls of the atomic city will not be here today. So i know many of you are looking forward to her. Shes just a wonderful, vivacious, engaging person and just fell in love with oak ridge and the girls that she met there and that are the heroines of her book. Her book reached New York Times best seller list when it came out and it fascinated people with a story of the women in world war ii who were working on this top secret project in oak ridge. And one of the girls she featured nine girls is with us this afternoon and thats Rosemary Meyers lane. Three of them are captured three of the girls that are the nine major characters not characters but people she focused on in h
Persons and they lived in a trailer and worked in shifts so they could sleep in shifts, could all fit into the trailer. But she never talked about it without just exuding enthusiasm. Shell be missed. Another person that is focused in the book is katie strickland. She came from auburn, alabama, with her husband to work at the k25 only to discover that the armys segregation policies for bid her from living with her husband. So she had to bribe the military police with homemade biscuits in order to have a rendezvous with him. The book is full of great stories. Kind of like the stories weve been hearing yesterday and today. So one of the themes when i talked to denise about what she might like to talk about today is about the journey that each of these women took that was representative of the transformation going on in u. S. Society with respect to women and the world of work. It came from, you know, this necessity that there were huge manufacturing plants and manufacturing jobs that had