Manhattan Project veteran Seymour Bernstein passed away in Florida on April 21, 2015 at the age of 91. Bernstein was a chemical engineer and member of the Special Engineer Detachment at Oak Ridge. He worked as a laboratory supervisor at the K-25 Plant, and continued working at K-25 after the war as a civilian, after being discharged from the SED. In 1950 he was transferred to the gaseous diffusion plant in Paducah, KY, where he worked for almost 40 years until his retirement.
Sy met his wife, Clemmie, on V-J Day in 1945 at a dance on the tennis courts in Oak Ridge. Clemmie worked as a secretary on the Manhattan Project for Stone and Webster and Union Carbide and Carbon.
We know Sy would have been pleased to see the K-25 plant site as part of the new Manhattan Project park.