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BILL NUMBER: SCR 72 CHAPTERED 08/15/06

RESOLUTION CHAPTER 96

FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE AUGUST 15, 2006

ADOPTED IN SENATE AUGUST 10, 2006

ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 7, 2006

AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 25, 2006

AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 8, 2006

AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 23, 2006

AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 13, 2006

INTRODUCED BY Senator Maldonado

(Coauthor: Senator Bowen)

(Coauthor: Assembly Member Blakeslee)

JANUARY 13, 2006

Relative to the Vernon L. Sturgeon Memorial Highway, and to the

Marilyn Jorgenson Reece Memorial Interchange.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SCR 72, Maldonado Vernon L. Sturgeon Memorial Highway and the

Marilyn Jorgenson Reece Memorial Interchange.

...

WHEREAS, Marilyn Jorgenson Reece was born and raised in North

Dakota and earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the

University of Minnesota in 1948; and

WHEREAS, Marilyn Jorgenson Reece moved to Los Angeles with her

parents shortly after graduation in 1948, and went to work for the

State Division of Highways, which later became the Department of

Transportation, as a junior civil engineer in Los Angeles; and

WHEREAS, After six years of experience required to sit for the

Professional Engineers Exam, Marilyn Jorgenson Reece became the state'

s first fully licensed female civil engineer in 1954; and

WHEREAS, In 1962, Marilyn Jorgenson Reece received the Governor's

Design Excellence Award from Governor Pat Brown for designing the

Interstate 10 and Interstate 405 interchange; and

WHEREAS, Marilyn Jorgenson Reece became the Division of Highway's

first woman resident engineer for construction projects shortly after

receiving that award; and

WHEREAS, The three-level Interstate 10 and Interstate 405

interchange designed by Marilyn Jorgenson Reece opened in 1964 and

was the first interchange designed in California by a woman engineer;

and

WHEREAS, Urban critic Reyner Banham, author of Los Angeles: The

Architecture of Four Ecologies, admired the wide-swinging curved

ramps connecting the two freeways, and wrote that the Interstate 10

and Interstate 405 interchange "is a work of art, both as a pattern

on the map, as a monument against the sky, and as a kinetic

experience as one sweeps through it"; and

WHEREAS, During her 35-year career, Marilyn Jorgenson Reece's

projects included serving as senior engineer for the completion of

State Highway Route 210 through Sunland in 1975-at the time, the

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