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Ruth Huddleston

Cubicle OperatorOak Ridge, TN

Y-12 Plant
Project Worker/Staff
Ruth Huddleston Listen to Ruth Huddleston’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Ruth Huddleston was born in Windrock, Tennessee on September 8, 1925. The oldest of seven children, Ruth grew up helping with the family farm. Later, Ruth became a school teacher and then worked at a hosiery mill before she and her father both got jobs at Oak Ridge. Ruth worked as a cubicle operator––or “calutron girl”––at the Y-12 plant. After working on the Manhattan Project, Ruth had a long career in education, first as a teacher and then as a guidance counselor, before retiring in 1989 to spend more time with her grandchildren.

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