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:\ ' ;' -/ '·/' 1 -..._..S - \:. l : / .,,.. ' {-: - 1. i J ;'j\ ,.,-\ / / I ,. i / l c., • /,,-/1/. Ji . I ~) , I \ ·'I ' \ -' / - ' f I # I / ., ,,,...,{ ,· i ' · . L?,A~_.!-1 · ~ 1. r . , , .-,, J, -s· / / I '!1 .. ' I I . ' ' I - /' f ;1 \(I__\I I\/ \ I \-\ Ii \j I\J EW C R ED t T - ,-7 --- --- \ .. TEKAWENNAKE ,\~ \ . i \ - ·· ,, / ~SIX N/-\TIOI\J __,_ ___ _ - -- - - - I Sixty-Fourth Edit.ion SIX NATIONS· NEWS ~~~~i_!ndian Grau.uate . of Caled.01~ia High School Caledonia High School is proud of the fact that one of its graduates is .Dr. ·Arriofd C .. Anderson, a member of the Six Nations and son of Mr. & Mrs. _S.- A-. An·derson, R.R. 1 Ohsweken o l Two years ago short sketches were written up of _what some of the graduating class of Caledonia High School of 1934 were doing, and the following account of the life of graduate A.C~.Anderson eventually came to light - one of the most interesting and accom- pl. ished of the graduate group. A,f; _, Anderson went on to become one of the key members of J0he team of scientists working under Dr. Albert Einstein in the production of the atom ·Qo!:lb which ende.d World War lL Dro Anderson was bnrn and brought up on the Six Nations Reserve. He attended ele- mentar y school here, t aught p~rt of the time by his father 1 a former teacher on the RGserve. He attended Caledonia High School taking 14 subjects in Upper School in order to be adequately prepared for any vocationo While attending high school he stayed part time wi th Mrs & M:rs. John Parker and worked on the farm during summer vacations. After grad- 1J.ating from high school I Arnold attended rfoMasier University in Hamil ton where most of hiG papers graded A 1, with che~istry the high spot. · Because of the dep~ession 7 Arnold was unable to continue at Mac. and wqrked ~t_9~d jobs. An ad in the ".Globe and Mail" urgently requested. applican.ts ·r-or Industrial Chem- - · is try. Arriold applied and in answer to the question "State your nationality, 11 he truth- fully wrote 1 " Indian~ 11 He never heard from-' them again, so another budding scientist went over the border to the UoS. He secured employment in Buffalo with the largest chemical company there, the Na~. tional Aniline Co. and later became its Director of Research. Meanwhile he had been persi stently pursuing his chemical studies through,.might courses and eventually received his degree from the University of Buffalo. · With the ent r ance of the United States into World War 11 there was a demand for top f light scientists. The noted Dr . Albert Einstein had warned the American Government about 8X:;,erim~nts in Germany to find at omic power and advised.the government to start work im- rr.ediately to find that power. Pr esident Roosevelt asked Einstein how to go about ~uch wo::ck·, Einstein's advice was to end out a call to all chemical factories in the · U. S. A. to nominate their best scientists and a team would work together on the project. The National Aniline Co . nominated Arnold C. Anderson and he worked with Dr. Ein- s Gein in the project kno,;:.1. a s Hanhattan 7. Fof·~security reasons, all scientists worked under eiard, The American t eam finally discovered the atom bomb. It ,/as.~g:ropped at Hi s oshima and World War 11 \·ias o,··er . ---~--~---- --- -·-- - - -- -------.