[mairdie]

That’s because you were never locked in the building at night and found yourself followed by the footsteps of the ghost of William Herschel. Had to call the VP to come and get me out.

I ground a telescope mirror at Adler in 1960 and spent a vast amount of time there as I was engaged to the optics instructor. After I graduated college, I worked there for six months before the city caught me as a Republican election judge in a Democratic patronage job.

I gave hallway lectures on the Rand McNally globe and polished gold and silver astrolobes, as well as filing the oldest astronomical texts. It was NOT boring from my side of it. (Oldest alarm clock involved a sundial and a small cannon)

I DID check out on the Zeiss, but this was 1967 when I was told that I couldn’t do Zeiss lectures because I was a woman and the audience wouldn’t accept a female authority figure voice in the darkness. Sigh. There was a reason so many of us got hooked into early feminism.

I LOVED Adler!

Astronomical Images - Prince of Denmark’s March - Jeremiah Clarke
https://youtu.be/CCTOCCJ2Ixg

[nwrep]

I DID check out on the Zeiss, but this was 1967 when I was told that I couldn’t do Zeiss lectures because I was a woman and the audience wouldn’t accept a female authority figure voice in the darkness.

Was this in Jena?