UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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PROF. GRACE WILSON .still doing the work she loves after nearly 50 years dominates the space before the south windows, and neat stacks of books and papers nearly cover the top of an oversized desk that fills most of the rest of the room. One illustrated calendar hangs on the wall In front of the drawing board and another hangs in front of the desk. The only other decoration is a plaque from the Ladies Auxiliary of the Champaign County Chapter of the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers awarded to her in

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1973 for service to the Il"I don't know why I like linois student chapter of it," she admitted. "Except the Society of Women En- that I can see something gineers. grow under my hands." Still, after nearly 50 That could go for the years of doing the kind of former students whose work she loves to do, Prof. careers she speaks of with Wilson is hard put to exp- such pride as well as for lain why she loves, doing it. jthe lines of her drawings.