Dorotha “Dot” Hogan Crisp, from Midway in Greene County, TN, began working for Tennessee Eastman Corporation as a cubicle operator, better known as a “Calutron Girl,” at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge in 1944, before transferring to the Y-12 personnel office as a clerical assistant in 1945.
First living in an Oak Ridge dormitory, she soon met and later married John P. Crisp, who was working with the G.G. Ray Company in constructing the K-25 plant, and they were assigned a trailer in Gamble Valley before moving into a small apartment and later a duplex on the Oak Ridge Reservation.