Patricia “Pat” Postma came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee as a kindergartner after her father, Thomas Dunigan, was recruited from the Army Signal Corps to join the Manhattan Project.
She was a professor in the College of Business at the University of Tennessee and also involved in the effort to build Oak Ridge’s International Friendship Bell, a symbol of peace and reconciliation between the US and Japan.
She was married to Herman Postma who was director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1974-1988.