The Mirror’s oldest employee called it a career last week. Shirley Beck, the newspaper’s switchboard operator who began in 1952, was feted with a retirement cake and good wishes on her last day. “I ...

With a 1-year-old daughter and a recently laid-off husband, Minnie Carver needed a job, so in May 1968, she started as a switchboard operator at Blount Memorial Hospital. She will retire at the end of ...