Thelma Van Norte

Thelma Louise Van Norte (née Augostat; January 12, 1912 – August 9, 1985) was an American medical records librarian.

She received the National Public Personnel Award in 1966, from the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, for her work in training blind medical transcriptionists.

She trained as a medical records librarian at Emory University Hospital, and held an LL.B.

[9] She was also a consultant to USAID, and spent time in British Guiana, teaching and establishing a medical records library at a hospital for leprosy patients.

[1][5] Thelma Augostat married physician William M. Schindledecker in 1932;[15] they had two sons, Samuel and Robert, and divorced in 1946.

A white man and woman, both smiling, as he presents a plaque to her; the man is wearing a suit and holding the plaque with a hook-like prosthetic hand; the woman has coiffed light hair and is wearing drop earrings and a boatneck sweater
Harold Russell and Thelma Van Norte, from a 1966 publication of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped