Thornton Academy Postscripts Alumni Magazine Fall 2014 | Page 16

TA Treasure

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Thornton Academy’s Telescope

• 1880s Thornton Academy’s telescope
was built by highly-respected optics
manufacturer Alvan Clark & Sons;

• 1890s Frank Cutter Deering began

donating science equipment to Thornton
Academy (his home is now Dyer Library);

• 1950s telescope moved from atop Frank

Cutter Deering residence across street to TA;

• 1980s telescope moved from top of Main
Building to edge of athletic fields where it
remains today (see interior view above);

• 2014 science classes still use telescope to

study Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, the Moon, and
the Mizar star system of the Big Dipper;

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POSTSCRIPTS

Frank Cutter Deering
b. 1866
former TA student &
telescope donor
courtesy Dyer Library