To: Dr. Toni Sauncy, Director, Sigma Pi Sigma

Just got my Radiations for Fall 2013, and was fascinated to read the abbreviated account of Worth Seagondollar’s lecture to the Sigma Pi Sigma Congress in 2004. I had to read the whole transcript on your website, and was fascinated to learn things I had never heard before. Thank you for making the transcript available. (I look forward to reading each issue of Radiations, especially the “Elegant Connections in Physics” by Dr. Neuenschwander.)

I never met Dr. Seagondollar personally, but worked with colleagues at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) who knew him. I notice that at the end of the transcript, Chairman Jim Stith remarks, “And we hope that when we get this transcribed, you could take a look at it and tell us those things that you meant to say and those things that we still need to know.” If you are interested, I offer some corrections and suggestions to the transcript for your consideration.

I am a long-time member of Sigma Pi Sigma, having joined at Emory University in 1961. My PhD in physics is from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and I worked at ORNL (in the Fusion Energy Division) for almost 30 years, retiring in 1994.

Richard Dyer