At the time, it seemed a relatively unremarkable errand: pick up the 1960 Dunning Trust lecturer from his Kingston hotel and deliver him to a dinner at Medical House, the residence and social club for Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s medical students that was founded in 1933.
Sure, the lecturer was notable. Six years before, he카지노 게임 컬렉션d fallen afoul of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy카지노 게임 컬렉션s communist witch-hunt because of his left-leaning politics and been stripped of his U.S. government security clearance.
Oh, and nine years before that he played a central role in ending the Second World War and launched the nuclear age.
But for Lloyd Zbar, Meds카지노 게임 컬렉션64, picking up Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project that produced the first atomic bomb, 카지노 게임 컬렉션was just a practical thing to do.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Dr. Oppenheimer had arrived on campus to deliver the Dunning Trust Lectures, an annual event endowed in 1946 to honour former Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Chancellor Charles Avery Dunning. During the few days of his visit to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, Dr. Oppenheimer would deliver three lectures to overflow crowds at Grant Hall: 카지노 게임 컬렉션Knowledge as Science;카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션Knowledge as Action;카지노 게임 컬렉션 and 카지노 게임 컬렉션Knowledge as Culture.카지노 게임 컬렉션
The visiting dignitary had also accepted a dinner invitation from the students at Meds House and it fell to Dr. Zbar to act as chauffeur. He got the gig, he figures, 카지노 게임 컬렉션because, one, I was an American; and, two, I had a car.카지노 게임 컬렉션 That may also have been the year he was social convener at Meds House. Sixty-three years later, he카지노 게임 컬렉션s not entirely sure.
Dr. Zbar had followed his father and aunt to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s. So, there he was that evening, driving his 카지노 게임 컬렉션58 Chevy with the 카지노 게임 컬렉션father of the atomic bomb카지노 게임 컬렉션 riding shotgun. It seemed little more than an obligation then but has taken on significance with the passing decades, says Dr. Zbar, a retired ear, nose, and throat and head and neck surgeon.
카지노 게임 컬렉션That was a touch of celebrity, wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t it?카지노 게임 컬렉션 he says, adding that the recent release of the acclaimed biopic Oppenheimer has brought the episode to mind again.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I can tell you that his reception at Medical House was very polite, very well attended, and in contrast to today, there were no demonstrations nor caterwauling nor signs of affection.카지노 게임 컬렉션
A polite campus reception for as polarizing a public figure as Robert Oppenheimer seems remarkable these days, but Dr. Zbar says it was not for nothing that he and his cohorts, born in the turmoil of the Great Depression and the Second World War, were dubbed the Silent Generation.
But it was also a generation known to place high importance on being respectful 카지노 게임 컬렉션 something Dr. Zbar recalls about the visit to this day.