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Norris, leading a project meeting with co-workers at MODOT’s office in Chesterfield
CHESTERFIELD, MO- (Leah Thorsen – St. Louis Post Dispatch. Click on the link to read the full story. Here is an excerpt.) When Shirley Norris began her studies at Vanderbilt University in 1947, she was one of three female engineering students in her class. The dean of the engineering school made it clear the women had to prove they could keep up at a time when World War II veterans using G.I. Bill benefits were filling classrooms, and he wasn’t subtle. Norris remembers what he said: “If you young ladies can’t cut the mustard, there are veterans who can.” They all made it. The other women became electrical and chemical engineers, and Norris, who said she learned a lot from those veterans, became a civil engineer. It’s a job she has no plans to give up — the 87-year-old is the Missouri Department of Transportation’s oldest employee. ….
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December 29, 2024
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