These are but a few of my recollections of the Cotter Mill from its
1958 Fremont County, Colorado inauguration to the year 2000 when
General Atomics obtained the mill, four sections of industrial and
rural real estate, assets and obligations for the sum of
$1,000,000, or the value of a couple of neighboring homes. Contrary
to popular opinion, early Cotter was not welcomed with open arms by
Canon City society. As a matter of fact early employees were openly
referred to as, "The unwelcome foreign element." Individual and
collective efforts changed the atmosphere, especially when Cotter
conveyed bargain basement priced water to a beleaguered private
golf course. (29) Lynn Boughton was Cotter's Assistant Chief
Chemist from 1958 to 1964 and Chief Chemist until he resigned in
1979. Lynn was my husband. We were in love and happily married for
fifty-two years. We were also business partners, best friends, and
sounding boards. On the subject of Cotter, Lynn talked-I listened;
especially when our real estate was included in a Super Fund site,
when his illness appeared related to nuclear exposure, and even
more closely when his illness was proven to be indisputably caused
by working with nuclear material; an illness that took his life in
2001. My memory is reasonably good, but certainly not flawless. My
comments should not be taken as fact but as probably not too far
wrong. After Lynn's death, I donated thousands of his documents to
The University of Colorado Boulder Archives. ***** The future rests
on the past but new ownerships, new administration, new
bureaucracies always believe they start with a "clean slate"
ignoring the past as they persist in repeating the same mistakes.
In dealing with nuclear materials, mistakes affect, not only
fortunes, but the health and property of neighbors and future
generations. Deyon Boughton
General
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