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Steve Buckingham on his work as a Chemist at Hanford

Joan Sherwood Talks about her experiences of living in Early Richland

Patricia Tolley – On living in the new community of Richland, Washington.

Patricia Tolley moved to Richland  from Tucson, Arizona.

She talks about secrecy surrounding Hanford, living in Richland, how Urine Test Bottles were a sign that something might be dangerous, how the government made it pleasant to stay in Richland.  She also speaks about learning Braille & playing croquet.

Patricia was a homemaker, very few women had jobs outside the home.

Lewis Tolley

On his work as a Chemist 1951 -1956

Lewis was a lab worker

He worked preparing plutonium Metal.

He had patents – published reports on separation of plutonium.

Greg grew up in Nebraska and went to University on the G. I Bill.

A friend told him that Hanford was hiring radiation monitors.

He has no idea what that was but left Nebraska and came to Hanford in 1951.

Learn about his working life and living in Richland.

al History George Greg Greger

Roland Harvey – Worked at Hanford

Hear his fascinating story about his working life.

Roland Harvey originally worked for General Electric Co in New York .

While working for GE he transferred to the Tri-Cities in 1953.

At that time he was a Radiological Instrumentation Manager until 1958 when he became Manager
of Systems Analysis until 1964.  At that time, he transferred to Battelle Northwest Laboratories
(still in Systems Analysis) until 1970. He then was employed by Westinghouse Hanford for the Fast
Flux Test Facility startup from 1970 to 1980. In 1980 through 1984 Roland conducted special
analyses and consultation for lathe control systems, pressurization control and linear accelerator failure
analysis.

He taught classes in Electrical Engineering for feedback control systems.  He earned a BSEE degree
from Oregon State College and was elected to five honorary societies.