| Fay L. Cunningham was a graduate of the ASTP at the
Univ. of Maryland. Of the 30 graduates in mechanical
engineering, 9 were transferred to the Manhattan Engineer
District at Oak Ridge. Two, including Fay, were
shortly transferred to a Met Lab subsidiary at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one (Samuel Willis)
to the New York office of the MED, one to Los Alamos, with
the balance remaining at Oak Ridge. The MIT metallurgical
project consisted of about 30 people under the direction of
Dr. John Chipman. Dr. Arthur Compton of the Chicago
Met Lab was in charge of our project as well as the Chicago
group. My boss was Dr. Ted Magel, formerly at Los
Alamos. There were 8 SED's at MIT with the balance of
the team being civilians. The names of 7 of these
SED's were myself, William H, Smith, William Hillig,
Lawrence Friar, Kermit Lundell, Lawrence Garvey, and Lloyd
Forbes. I was at MIT from October 1944 until May 1946,
when I was left for Oak Ridge and then on to Bikini
(Operation Crossroads).
There were about 40 SED men in the Radiological Safety
Section (RSS) at Operation Crossroads with about 30
miscellaneous military officers who were MD's, DDS's, and
others who were along for the ride. Of the 40 SED men,
4 were from MIT, several from the Mound Project in Dayton,
OH, and the balance from Oak Ridge and Los Alamos. The
names of the SED's that I can remember were: William H.
Smith, Richard Bernstein, Irving Wollock, Danield Whitley,
Joseph Wallach, Milton Ellenby, Tom Dowd, Robert Goodell, ?
Tucker, ? Gudz, ? Whitehurst, ? Davidson, ? Shepherd, ?
Leonard, ? Robinson, and ? Grifo.
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