Memorial services are scheduled Friday at the Hill Air Force Base chapel for optical scientist Clarice L. Norton, a space photography expert who headed Hill's camera photonics facility until November.
Mrs. Norton died Dec. 28, 1992, at her daughter's home in Denver. She was 82.She was the chief optical scientist and director of the Camera Calibration Facility in Photonics at Hill, where she moved from New York in 1970.
Born Clarice Victoria Leisen on Oct. 21, 1910, in Springfield, Mass., she was a homemaker raising three children until returning to higher education in 1941. She was the first woman among 400 men admitted to the federally sponsored Defense Engineering Training Institute in New York City.
She began a 50-year engineering career with Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. in Syosset, N.Y., and became an internationally known authority in aviation and space photographic recon-naissance.
Mrs. Norton played a major role in the development of precision mapping techniques and was considered a visionary in the uses of cameras in space. She served as a consultant to the Surveyor space program and contributed to the design of testing equipment for topographic cameras.
She was a 50-year member of the American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing and of the International Society of Photogrammetry.
She was listed in Who's Who in Engineering, Who's Who of American Women and The World Who's Who of Women.