Gatekeeper to Los Alamos
Subtitle: Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin
Publisher: Los Alamos Historical Society Publications
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780941232302
Subjects: Los Alamos (N.M.); Scientists; History; Biography / Autobiography; New Mexico; Biography/Autobiography; McKibbin, Dorothy Scarritt,; Los Alamos; General; Biography; Secretaries; 1897-1985; 20th century
First sentence: Dorothy Ann Scarritt was born on December 12, 1897.
Description: Dorothy Ann Scarritt was born 12 December 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri. Her parents were William Chick Scarritt and Frances Virginia Davis. She graduated from Smith College in 1919. She married Joseph Chambers McKibbin (1893-1931), son of Joseph McKibbin and Mary Henderson Dorsey, 5 October 1927. They had one son, Kevin. She raised her son in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she became secretary for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1943 to 1963. She died in 1985.