Dorothy Stinnett

Project StaffY-12 Plant

Dorothy Louise Stinnett graduated as the valedictorian of the 1943 Class of Lenoir City, TN. She was then hired to work on the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, where she lived in a trailer for a while. She and her best friend, Helen Atchley, are both pictured in Ed Westcott’s famous photograph of people going to work in the Y-12 Plant.

Women going to work at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge

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