Three Vermont Women is a short animated film based on the true stories of three extraordinary Vermont women: Ann Story, Daisy Turner, and Gladys Piper.
Gladys Piper
In 1920 Gladys Piper, elementary school teacher and draftsman, signed up for a telescope making class in Springfield, Vermont. She was the only woman in the group, which consisted of male machinists, tool makers, and pattern makers from a local machine company.
Group photo of the first telescope making class (October 1920). Photo courtesy of The Springfield Telescope Makers, Inc.
Over the next several months Gladys attended the telescope making classes and completed her own telescope in 1921.
Learn more about Gladys and the first telescope making class from The Springfield Telescope Makers.