Ernest Graves
Mounted Cub Scouts at Fort Myer, Virginia.
Jimmy Guion (left), Richard Groves (center),son of Leslie Groves, and Ernest Graves (right).
A:
We did our Cub Scout activities on Sunday. We would go to Sunday school, and then
we would have a Scout meeting. That was at Myer. General Groves would take us to
that, too. So I knew him. Dick and I were about nine years old at that time, so it had
been that winter when I had known him very well. But he and my father were long-time
associates.
But I don't think that entered in greatly in my selection to go to New Mexico. The only
time I can remember that my friendship with General Groves, or his regard for my
family, entered in was at the end of 1947. There was an issue about going to graduate
school. The senior people at Sandia Base had not put me very high on their list of
candidates to go to school. They had put other people higher up on the list.
I had asked Dorland to be put on the list to go to school, and he, as was his way, had
not given me an answer.
39
Previous Page
