William van
Eaton Sprinkle
(1906–1965)
As shown below, their work was a mix of traditional and Modernist. Special thanks to Greg Taylor and Todd Hancock for research and photos.
Doris J. (Dee) Stanley
(1926–2018)
Stanley, a native of Farmington ME, and a 1948 graduate of the University of Maine, majored in psychology and took drafting classes for fun. She worked two years in newspaper advertising for the Bangor Daily Commercial before coming to Durham in 1950 with a friend who was attending graduate school. When the Durham employment office asked about her skills, she mentioned drafting and was told an architect was looking for help, so she took the job with Sprinkle. "The first day I put paper to pencil, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven," she told interviewers Lynn Richardson and Frank DePasquale in 2007. Sprinkle did his initial drawings at 1/8" scale, then handed them over to Stanley to recreate at 1/4". She was one of the first female draftsmen practicing in North Carolina until 1952 when Lib Lee graduated from the NCSU School of Design. Stanley retired in 1989. 2012 interview.
Sources include: Sprinkle-Stanley Collection at the Durham County Library; Stanley and Sprinkle Collection at North Carolina State University; Bif Bream; The Camel's Nose by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen; Susan Peak; Doris Stanley