This historic event will feature presentations by a number of pioneers in the field of atomic energy.  Below is a listing of those individuals who will be participating in this symposium as well as a complete agenda for the 3 day event.

Updated May 12, 2004

Agenda – Thursday, June 24, 2004

3:00 PM - Registration for the 3-day event begins (Hilton Garden Inn)

6:00 PM - Cocktail Hour (Hilton Garden Inn Ballroom)

7:00 PM - Buffet Dinner & Welcoming Presentation

9:00 PM - Hospitality Suite Open - Hilton Garden Inn

Agenda – Friday, June 25, 2004 

8:00 AM – Registration and Check-in Begins at the National Warplane Museum

• Continental Breakfast Available

9:00 AM – Children of the Manhattan Project pay respects to their parents by providing recollections of growing up under the legacy of the Manhattan Project.

• Dana Mitchell – Son of Dr. Dana P. Mitchell, a physicist and Assistant Director under J. Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos.  Prior to that he was professor at Columbia University’s SAM Laboratory.
• Sandy Carter – Daughter of Joyce Mari Peterson, a civilian employee of Tennessee Eastman at the Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant at Oak Ridge.  Susan will speak of the trials and tribulations that she encountered while trying to put together her mother’s work history with the Manhattan Project.
• Barb Pearson – Daughter of M/Sgt Edward G. Carlson of the Special Engineer Detachment at Los Alamos.  He was also a member of Project Alberta, the destination team on Tinian Island.

10:30 AM – Coffee Break

 10:45 AM – Guided tour of the National Warplane Museum including the restoration area where aircraft engineers and mechanics from around the country painstakingly restore vintage aircraft.

 11:45 AM Lunch Break (Catered at the National Warplane Museum)

 1:30 PM – Scheduled Tours Leave from the Hilton Garden Inn (Optional): 

• Tour of the Cyclotron and CHESS (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source) at Wilson Laboratory at Cornell University. (Note: Wilson Lab is named after Dr. Robert Wilson, a prominent physicist with the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos)
• Tour of the Corning Museum of Glass – World famous museum features more than 100 years of glass making.
• Tour of Watkins Glen Gorge – One of the 15 scenic wonders in America according to AAA. 
• Limousine Tour of Area Wineries – This tour will visit 2 or 3 wineries situated on Seneca Lake, the largest of the Finger Lakes.  This is the heart of the New York State wine industry.

 6:30 PM – Cocktail Hour at the National Warplane Museum:

• Relax and enjoy your favorite alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages while listening to a pianist.

 7:30 PM – Formal Banquet Dinner at the National Warplane Museum:

• This banquet dinner is being catered by the Hilltop Inn, a very popular area restaurant.

 8:30 PM – Keynote Speakers

• Henry Bethe – Son of Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe, Theoretical Group Leader at Los Alamos and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University  – Henry will present anecdotes of Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project that have been provided by both his mother and father.
• Ms. Tracy Brown – "The IAEA, an Atomic Legacy, Yesterday and Today." Ms. Brown is the Public Information Officer with the International Atomic Energy Agency at the United Nations in New York.  The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) serves as the world's foremost intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear technology.  Established as an autonomous organization under the United Nations aegis in 1957, the IAEA implements programs to maximize the useful contribution of nuclear technology to society while verifying its peaceful use.

Agenda – Saturday, June 26, 2004

 ATOMIC LEGACIES 

7:30 AM – Registration and Check-in Begins at the National Warplane Museum

• Continental Breakfast Available

 8:30 AM – Opening Remarks: A History Worth Preserving

• Mike Hall; Exec. Director – Wings of Eagles Museum
• ; Exec. Director – Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Assoc.

 9:00 AM – The Beginning of the Manhattan Project and Beyond: The Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab) at the University of Chicago

• David Rudolph – Manhattan Project Veteran at the Met  Lab, Los Alamos, and the Trinity Site – Author of “Pursuit of Plutonium: A Beancounter’s Odyssey with the Manhattan Project”;
• James Schoke – Manhattan Project Veteran at the Met Lab’s Instrument Division – Designed and developed electronic measurement instruments  and consulted on their use at Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, the Mound Project and Mallinckrodt Chemical; Founded Nuclear Chicago after the war.
• Dr. Donald Ames – Manhattan Project Veteran at the Met Lab’s Chemistry Division under Glenn Seaborg & a member of the Bikini Resurvey Team; Retired as Vice President & General Manager of McDonnell Douglas Research Labs.

 10:15 AM – Coffee Break

 10:30 AM – “The Secret City”, “The City Behind the Fence”, or “Site X”: Whatever name you called it – it was Oak Ridge, TN (1943 – 1946):

• Jack Brand – Manhattan Project Veteran at the Met Lab’s Instrument Division and at the X-10 Graphite Reactor (Clinton Labs) at Oak Ridge.
• Lawrence O’Rourke – Manhattan Project Veteran at the SAM Laboratory at Columbia University and the K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant at Oak Ridge.
• Robert Mitchell – Manhattan Project Veteran at the Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant at Oak Ridge.

 12:00 Lunch Break (Catered at the National Warplane Museum)

 1:15 PM – Atomic Legacies:  Post War Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy

• Dr. Theodore Rockwell – Manhattan Project Veteran of the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge and later Technical Director of the United States Navy’s Nuclear Power Program under Admiral Hyman Rickover.  Author of: The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made a Difference and Creating the New World: Stories & Images from the Dawn of the Atomic Age.

 2:15 PM – The Secret “Mound Project”

• George Mahfouz – Manhattan Project Veteran of Monsanto’s Mound Project at Dayton, Ohio – Currently he is a Trustee of the Mound Museum Association which is attempting to preserve the heritage of the Dayton Project and of the Mound Laboratory.  Mound produced the polonium used as the neutron source (initiator) in the “Fat Man” atomic bomb.

 2:45 PM – Coffee Break

 3:00 PM – Site Y – The Los Alamos Laboratory - Stories & reminiscences of life on “The Hill”:

• Daniel Gillespie – Manhattan Project Veteran at Los Alamos; Designed initiator used in the “Fat Man” plutonium bomb.
• Dr. Arnold Dion – Expert on the Criticality Experiments (“Tickling the Tail of the Dragon”) at Los Alamos that took the lives of two young physicists.
• Robert Schwerin – Manhattan Project Veteran and a Security Guard at Los Alamos; Entrusted with the security of fissionable material at Los Alamos and while transporting it to other sites.

 4:15 PM – “Little Boy” & “Fat Man”: The World’s First Atomic Bombs

• John Coster-Mullen – Manhattan Project Historian and author of “Atomic Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy & Fat Man” –

 4:45 PM – The Decision to Drop: Truman authorizes the 509^th Composite Group to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan in an attempt to bring an end to World War II.

• Joseph Papalia – 509^th Composite Group Historian – Will discuss the formation of the 509^th and the two atomic missions: The Enola Gay on August 6, 1945 and Bockscar on August 9, 1945.

 7:00 PM - Hospitality Suite Open at Hilton Garden Inn

Agenda – Sunday, June 27, 2004

 7:30 AM - Breakfast Buffet - Closing Statements - Hilton Garden Inn