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{{short description|American medical librarian}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Thelma Van Norte
| image = ThelmaAugostat1927.png
| alt = A young white woman with her hair cut in a bob with bangs, wearing a round-collared dress or blouse
| caption = Thelma Augostat (later Van Norte), from the 1927 yearbook of Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis
| other_names = Thelma Schindledecker
| birth_name = Thelma Louise Augostat
| birth_date = January 12, 1912
| birth_place = Indianapolis, Indiana
| death_date = August 9, 1985 (aged 73)
| death_place = Sandersville, Georgia
| occupation = Medical librarian, medical transcriptionist
}}

'''Thelma Louise Van Norte''' ({{nee}} Augostat; January 12, 1912 – August 9, 1985) was an American [[Medical library|medical records librarian]]. She received the National Public Personnel Award in 1966, from the [[Executive Order 10555|President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped]], for her work in training blind medical transcriptionists.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1966-10-20 |title=Mrs. Van Norte Receives National Award for Work |pages=2 |work=The Macon Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124043870/mrs-van-norte-receives-national-award/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Thelma Louise Augostat was born in [[Indianapolis]], the daughter of Otto Augostat<ref>{{Cite news |date=1977-01-05 |title=Obituary for Otto Augostat |pages=38 |work=The Indianapolis Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124046027/obituary-for-otto-augostat/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and Maud Wilson Augostat. Her father was a plumber. She graduated from [[Arsenal Technical High School]] in 1927, at age 15.<ref>Arsenal Technical HIgh School, ''The Arsenal Cannon'' (1927 yearbook): 18. via Ancestry</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=McKay |first=Blythe |date=1959-10-04 |title=Librarian at Hospital Continually at College |pages=23 |work=The Macon Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124043490/librarian-at-hospital-continually-at/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She earned a bachelor's degree from [[Indiana University]] and a master's degree from [[Georgia College & State University|Georgia Women's College]]. She trained as a medical records librarian at [[Emory University Hospital]], and held an [[Bachelor of Laws|LL.B.]] degree from the [[Atlanta Law School|Woodrow Wilson College of Law]].<ref name=":2">[https://books.google.com/books?id=kYxGAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA16-PA5 "Public Personnel Award"] ''Performance: The Story of the Handicapped'' 17(5)(December 1966): 5.</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=1985-08-13 |title=Mrs. Thelma Van Norte, retired records librarian |pages=74 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124039738/mrs-thelma-van-norte-retired-records/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

== Career ==
Thelma Augostat played violin in a trio as a young woman.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Frye |first=G. Shubert |date=April 16, 1928 |title=Fishing the Air |pages=8 |work=Indianapolis Times |url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=IPT19280416.1.8&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- |access-date=May 4, 2023 |via=The Hoosier Chronicles}}</ref> She became medical records librarian at a hospital in [[Macon, Georgia]] in 1959.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1959-07-15 |title=Macon Hospital Gets New Medical Records Librarian |pages=12 |work=The Macon News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124045649/macon-hospital-gets-new-medical-records/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> There, Van Norte established a training program for blind medical transcriptionists.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fortston |first=Mary |date=1960-09-23 |title=Typists at Macon Hospital Find Blindness No Handicap |pages=12 |work=The Macon News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124045410/typists-at-macon-hospital-find/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She was also a consultant to [[United States Agency for International Development|USAID]], and spent time in [[British Guiana]], teaching and establishing a medical records library at a hospital for [[leprosy]] patients.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Sara |date=1962-07-10 |title=Staff Member at Macon Hospital Returns from Similar Job in British Guiana |pages=9 |work=The Macon News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124042998/staff-member-at-macon-hospital-returns/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In the 1970s, she worked on contacting families of deceased [[Central State Hospital (Milledgeville, Georgia)|Central State Hospital]] patients. "We just hunt, hunt, hunt until we get a clue," she explained in a 1973 newspaper article.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lanier |first=Linda |date=1973-05-02 |title=Central State Patients, the Forgotten Ones |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-macon-telegraph-forgotten-ones-at-ce/124044060/ 2] |work=The Macon Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124044104/central-state-patients-the-forgotten/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
[[File:HaroldRussellThelmaVanNorte1966.png|alt=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|thumb|[[Harold Russell]] and Thelma Van Norte, from a 1966 publication of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped]]
Van Norte received the 1966 Georgia State Public Personnel Award,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1966-10-08 |title=Mrs. Norte is Given State Award |pages=9 |work=The Macon Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124045259/mrs-norte-is-given-state-award/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1966-10-11 |title=Macon Proud of State Winner |pages=4 |work=The Macon Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124045535/macon-proud-of-state-winner/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and the National Public Personnel Award from the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1966-10-19 |title=Maconite Cited for Work with Handicapped |pages=1 |work=The Macon News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124045792/maconite-cited-for-work-with-handicapped/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The national award was presented to her by actor [[Harold Russell]] at a banquet in Milwaukee.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />

== Personal life ==
Thelma Augostat married physician William M. Schindledecker in 1932;<ref>{{Cite news |date=1932-10-18 |title=Marriage Licenses |pages=9 |work=The Indianapolis Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124041111/marriage-licenses/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> they had two sons, Samuel and Robert, and divorced in 1946. She married again, to Lloyd F. Van Norte, before 1950. He was postmaster of [[Edisto Island|Edisto Island, South Carolina]].<ref name=":1" /> She died in 1985, at the age of 73, at a hospital in [[Sandersville, Georgia]].<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=1985-08-12 |title=Thelma Van Norte, 73, retired medical librarian |pages=20 |work=The Macon Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124042677/thelma-van-norte-73-retired-medical/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

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