{"id":5170,"date":"2018-05-18T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2018-05-21T19:11:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T19:11:57","slug":"passing-of-a-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=5170","title":{"rendered":"Passing of a pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2018\/05\/Untitled-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5414\" src=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2018\/05\/Untitled-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Louise Torbert Huskey \u201946 died Feb. 10 in Auburn. Huskey was the first woman to earn a degree in civil engineering from Auburn University, or Alabama Polytechnic Institute, as it was then known, in May 1946.<\/p>\n<p>She worked a total of 37 years for the State of Alabama, first at the highway department in Montgomery, until the birth of her first child in 1952, and later for the Department of Pensions and Security.<\/p>\n<p>She served for 26 years as a volunteer Pink Lady at East Alabama Medical Center \u2013 until the age of 87 \u2013 and taught Sunday school for nearly 70 years, until just two months before her death at age 93.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story I remember most from her time at Auburn is about how she had to get special permission from the dean to wear brush pants in her surveying class,\u201d said her son, J.W. Huskey. \u201cShe had to wear the pants rolled up and not visible under a long dress and carry her field boots in a book bag. When she arrived, she had to go in a special room, take off the dress, roll down the pants, put on the boots, and secure her dress and shoes in the book bag. She then had to secure that bag so someone wouldn\u2019t find it and hide it to keep her from her next class because pants were not allowed for women students on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the class she\u2019d go back to that room, roll up her pants legs, boots off and in the bag, dress and shoes on, and carry the heavy bag completely across campus to her next class. She had to run to get there. She was definitely dedicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huskey called his mother a proud Delta Zeta, and in later life, a devoted Golden Eagle and says she loved Auburn football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fair to say she was very independent and dedicated. She devoted her life to public service, and she was proud to be a standard-bearer and barrier-breaker, especially as the first woman C.E. graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Torbert Huskey \u201946 died Feb. 10 in Auburn. Huskey was the first woman to earn a degree in civil engineering from Auburn University, or Alabama Polytechnic Institute, as it was then known, in May 1946. 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