Doris J. Stanley was born Farmington, Maine in 1926. She worked two years in newspaper advertising for the Bangor Daily Commercial before coming to Durham, North Carolina in 1950 with a southern friend who was attending graduate school. In Durham, she took a drafting job with architect William Van Eaton Sprinkle. Sprinkle did his initial drawings at 1/8" scale, then handed them over to Stanley to recreate them at 1/4". Stanley retired in 1989.
From the description of Doris J. Stanley drawings 1961-1986 [manuscripts] (North Carolina State University). WorldCat record id: 464646409