| Show 39 Engineering Y Years cars Lady Drafter Says Craft I A C Challenge lal enge engen i n By A. A W. W V. V Ferguson Just what is an occupational challenge where a woman is concerned concerned concerned con con- I Mrs Bess Leland 2152 Olympus dr makes a distinction distinction distinction dis dis- dis- dis between a career and a when she talks about her 39 years as a draftsman It hasn't been a career Mrs Leland says it was a challenge which Im I'm happy I accepted Before going to work for the federal government go in what is now the Bureau of Land Management she worked 10 years for the American American American Amer Amer- ican Telephone and Telegraph Co That was at a time when the transcontinental telephone line was being completed through Salt Lake City Petticoat Insulators Ironically one of her first assignments concerned petticoat insulators Bess then recently from University of Utah school of engineering helped solve on the drafting board some of the problems which developed in use of the cast glass and clay thimble- thimble shaped insulators essential to proper functioning of the long long- distance communication line It was one of the most interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting experiences of my life Mrs Leland recalled climaxed by the opportunity to be one of the first Salt Lakers to hear a human voice being transmitted for the first time across the nation She recalled how her formal education education edu edit cation was cut short by sudden illness of her father When she found employment in the drafting drafting- department of the telephone company company com corn pany she became the target of male workers workers' jibes one of which ran The end of man is near at hand There is a new invader in inthe inthe inthe the land the land the female engineer Doubles As Homemaker Doubling as a homemaker and wage earner outside the home posed no obstacles for Mrs Leland Ive kept house practically all of my adult life as well as followed my work as a draftsman The modem modern modern mod mod- em ern home is nothing to take care of and I believe belie that a woman who wants a full life should enlarge upon her natural talents outside the home As she talked about plans to begin her second trip abroad however however however how how- ever a nostalgic expression crossed her face Salt Lake City for an inland city is the most beautiful city of all Ive I've seen were the words which came to fit the expression I feel like I live in the Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland Switzer Switzer- land of America My house 10 lo located lo- lo near the foot of Mt Olympus in Holladay is Paradise Inn not a castle just a house lull full of rich memories lots of windows which admit sunlight and permit a grand view of the Wasatch mountains |
