Senecan had notable career at Los Alamos

The body of Terry Hawkins has arrived at the Davenport Funeral Home, which is handling arrangements for the former Seneca man who enjoyed a notable career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.  The mission of that lab is solving national security challenges through scientific excellence.  Not long after the start of the 21st century, Hawkins became a special advisor to the national laboratory director, having earlier led the Nonproliferation and International Security Division.  The late Seneca historian Louise Bell considered Houston T. “Terry” Hawkins to be one of Seneca’s prized exports.  Hawkins work in the field of nuclear weapon stability brought to him to Clemson in 2013 to speak at a Calhoun Lecture Series.  Hawkins’ talk was attended by one of his 1959 Seneca High classmates, Devoe Blackston, who knew Hawkins well.  Hawkins believed in the need for the world to reduce strategic weapons.