| The Wetokian Web Issue |  |  | Fall 1999 |
| The Wetokian Web Issue | | | Fall 1999 |
I'm late again in writing this little corner of the paper. B.J. has the whole thing worked up and nearly ready to go. I've been chasing butterflies and rainbows. Many of you with e-mail know what I've been working on I have found about 31 CASTLE weathermen and already knew of three from IVY. So, I have a roster of 34 men on the web site. Nearly half of these folks have e-mail and they are passing notes and hellos back and forth. One of these men, Richard Bradley, has offered to host a reunion for the group at his home in Malabar, Florida. He chose January and that's a good time to be down there. The actual date has not been set yet. B.J. and I head south every winter and are familiar with that area around Malabar. We may stop in for a visit to meet some of these folks in person. Boley Caldwell said he would like to meet the Rongerik survivors and is planning to visit as well.
More good pictures have arrived and there are promises of still more to come. I have some 8xl0 action shots of a softball game at Pershing Field, pictures of the winning team (The weather detachment of course), and two pictures of the '54 Rawin group; One early in '54 and then another near '55. There is a dog and a cat posing with the later group. I have been promised a picture of Samson from early '55. Hope that pans out. Some of these will be on the Wetokian web site soon.
We plan to send out a pictorial with a selection of some of these people and scenes of that long ago place. There is a map of the island, some atomic test shots and some views inside the weather station during IVY. I had thought we would get this pictorial out before the regular issue but more stuff is coming in and that moves the mailing to sometime in November. B.J. says the pictorial would not fit very well into the Wetokian format and she knows. She's the editor.
Our trips to Cleveland and down south were the high points of our summer and the pictures were great. Our editor takes good snapshots.
I found an article, in the July 20, 1957 Saturday Evening Post, describing the entrapment of the firing team across the Bikini lagoon from the BRAVO shot. This story was written by Dr. John C. Clark. It is entitled: We Were Trapped by Radioactive Fallout. I found two of the team still living. I called Dr. Gaelen Felt and he gavc me Dr. Clark's address. Dr. Clark is totally deaf and I intend to send him a note. These are the men who set up the sequence of events that triggered that runaway test. Dr. Felt is over 80 and Dr. Clark is about 90. When they are gone, there will be none to tell what it was like to feel an underground concrete bunker move hack and forth Iike a pendulum. This article will soon be on thc web site. H.W.
Harold
| The Wetokian Web Issue | | Fall 1999 |