![]() I did all the projects and did them well, I think. Something that was very, very disturbing to me because I was specially sort of awarded a kind of scholarship to go down there to study art. Later on, I actually took a course at the Toledo Museum of Art. Raymond: Yep, we went on buses down to the Toledo Museum. But I was frightened because I don’t know exactly what I thought, but I must have thought that maybe I was being kidnapped or something. I remember being very frightened because the very first day of school, the first day I went to the school in Toledo, a trip had been arranged to the Toledo Museum of Art, which was quite a nice thing, actually. My parents couldn’t have afforded probably even to start buying it. We moved-I was in the fourth grade-to Toledo to our own house that my grandfather and grandmother had helped my parents buy. The house we lived in was a rented house. By then we had all four boys in our family, but we did not yet have the fifth baby girl. In Sylvania, Ohio, I must have been in second grade, maybe part of first, I don’t know. This was after he completed his Master’s Degree at the University of Michigan with a few hours on his doctorate. Then from there we moved to Sylvania, Ohio, and my father got a teaching job at Willard High School teaching Physics. She was Christina Kaiser, and she was called Tina. Jonathan: She was the one with the real bushy eyebrows, right? Raymond: I remember she was a very stern lady, very determined and very intelligent. Jonathan: What do you remember about her? She had never been taught to play the piano, never had lessons. ![]() And even though she only had a second grade education, she was amazingly smart and gifted. It was a Christian church, I guess Disciples of Christ, and my grandmother played the piano for the church. I also remember going to church in Eden, Ohio. ![]() I remember the other students being very kind to me. During this time, I went with him up to the University of Michigan once, and I remember I had a sprained knee that I needed to soak. He ended up getting a Master’s degree in Education, where his earlier degrees were in Engineering. My dad by then did not have a teaching job, but he worked he worked in the sawmill in Eden, Ohio, and also went to University of Michigan to get a higher degree. Looking back, it doesn’t sound like-it isn’t spelled like it sounds, and so I think he was being somewhat unreasonable. My dad was very upset with me because I couldn’t do that. I remember particularly that I couldn’t figure out how to spell the word eight, e-i-g-h-t, the number eight. They taught spelling, for example, in the first grade for complicated words. I think the people who were teachers were not really very well trained in teaching very young kids. It was my parents who arranged that I go, and I remember wanting to do really well because my parents wanted me to, but having some difficulty on spelling. Raymond: I assume both of my parents, I don’t know. I started ahead I started when I was five. The next thing was in Eden, Ohio and that’s where I started to first grade. That’s the only thing I can really remember from West Unity. I don’t think we had the third child, who was Richard yet. I remember my brother, Harry, just Harry and I, that I remember. I remember we had a house that was fairly cold in the winter. The first home I remember anything about was when we lived in West Unity, Ohio. Raymond Sheline: I’m not sure if I was born in Sandusky, Ohio or Port Clinton, Ohio but those are towns in northern Ohio close to Lake Erie. Dad, tell me where you were born and what you remember about your first few homes growing up. I am interviewing Dad about his early life. Jonathan Sheline: This is February 6, 2009. at the University of California, Berkeley, including briefly working in Germany, working at the University of Chicago, how his career began at Florida State University, and his time researching in Copenhagen. Lastly, Sheline discusses his life after earning his Ph.D. Sheline then recalls how he met his wife Yvonne. Army and how he came to work with the SED. ![]() He describes memories from growing up in Ohio and from his time studying Chemistry at Bethany College. In this interview, Sheline discusses his early life and educational background. At Los Alamos, he contributed to work on the trigger for the plutonium bomb. After being drafted into the Army, Sheline was sent to Oak Ridge and Los Alamos as a member of the Special Engineer Detachment. His group at the university focused on resolving problems caused by corrosion during the gaseous diffusion process. After graduating from college in 1942, Sheline received a telegram from Harold Urey inviting him to join the Manhattan Project at Columbia. Raymond Sheline was a chemist at Columbia University and a member of the Special Engineer Detachment at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos.
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