Career
Slocum started out as a labourer in a steel mill and rose to the position of construction superintendent of the Grand Coulee Dam. Slocum joined the Bhakra Dam construction project as chief engineer in 1952 and imprinted on it his own distinctive style of working. He was a flamboyant personality who drove a current model powder blue cadillac convertible.
Not expected of an engineer in those times in India.
Slocum died in New Delhi at age 74.