311B Oak Ridge Pioneers
History | Registration opens 12/3/24 9:00 AM EST
Mike Stallo will highlight some of the early citizens of Oak Ridge. The focus will be from 1940s until 1959 when the town incorporated. Biographical sketches include former Mayor A. K. Bissell, Union Carbide manager Clark Center and physicist Frances Pleasonton.
This one session class will be offered twice. Please only choose one session to attend.
Michael Stallo
Mike Stallo’s career in records management at DOE transitioned into a reputation as a historian for Oak Ridge and then a staff position at the Oak Ridge Public Library. Mike currently manages the “Oak Ridge Room.” Mike also contributes to Ray Smith’s popular “Historically Speaking” column on occasion. The Oak Ridge Room digital collection includes photographs, documents, and letters. In the physical collection at the library are primary and secondary resources on Oak Ridge, the Manhattan Project and atomic history including documents, letters, reports, articles, photographs, artifacts, maps, school annuals, newspapers and books. He was president of the Oak Ridge Heritage & Preservation Association the founding year of Oak Ridge History Museum and continues his board membership.