Woodbury Hall was an older science building given
to the Colorado Project for their use during the UFO
study. A "temporarily permanent" office was set up
there under the secretary-ship of Mary Lou Armstrong,
Edward Condon's then-current secretary. Bob Low set up
an office of his own, as did project leaders such as
Saunders and Levine. Phone calls for the Project were
directed here, and meetings were held. All the active
Project records were at Woodbury. All of this is
mentioned to make the point that this location WAS the
Colorado Project, but that Ed Condon did not have an
office there, and refused to be there for any reason
whatever except for important staff meetings [and
occasionally not even then]. Woodbury Hall, therefore,
stands as an iconic symbol for the inappropriate
neglect that the so-designated "Principal
Investigator" displayed towards the Project, and the
consequent inappropriateness of him writing in his
opinions about anything as the supposed final
conclusions of the Project's work. And, as a telling
aside: secretaries are notoriously loyal to their
bosses, but Mary Lou Armstrong wrote a lengthy and
pointedly critical letter-of-resignation to Condon
near the end of the active work era of the Project due
to his firing of Saunders and Levine and his generally
wrong-headed behavior towards Project business.
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