Sheila Rowan

ChildOak Ridge, TN

Family Member of Manhattan Project Veteran

Listen to Sheila Rowan’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

After her brother was drafted, Sheila Rowan and her family moved to Happy Valley, Tennessee to support the war effort. Although Rowan and her sister, Jo-Ellen Iacovino, were too young to participate in the construction of the K-25, gaseous diffusion plant, their older sister, Colleen Black, and their parents worked to support the Manhattan Project. When the war ended, Rowan left Happy Valley.

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