National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Madonna Elaine Thennes was in born 1925. When she had just graduated from high school in Pocahontas, Arkansas, in 1943, her father told her the military had good-paying jobs for civilians in a new place in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Donald G. Sturges worked on the Manhattan Project. He went on to become director of the operations division at Hanford, WA, until he left to join private industry.
