Reunion 2024 Schedule of Events

Reunion 2024

View photos from the All Cooper Reunion 2024 here. Thank You to everyone who attended!

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27


1:00-7:00 p.m.: Check-In, Foundation Building

Ongoing: 

  • Self-directed scavenger hunt to explore new and old spaces on the Cooper Union campus
  • Cable yearbooks and Peter Cooper paraphernalia on display in the Library
  • Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story documentary, directed by Janet Gardner A'65, showing in Library
  • Alumni Roof Terrace open for visiting

3:00-4:00 p.m.: Water Balloon Drop Competition with students, faculty, staff and alumni. Outside the Foundation Building. Learn more and register your team here.

5:00-6:15 p.m.: Welcome Reception, Library, Foundation Building

6:30-8:00 p.m.: Special Presentation by Shigeru Ban AR'84, The Great Hall, Foundation Building. Free and open to the public. Reunion registrants will have reserved seating.
 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
 

9:00-11:00 a.m.: Check-In, Foundation Building

9:00-10:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast, on campus

10:30-11:45 a.m.: State of the Cooper Union, Update by Cooper Union leadership.    Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square

12:00-2:00 p.m.: Luncheon, Alumni Roof Terrace, 41 Cooper Square

12:00-2:00 p.m.: Golden Legion Luncheon for Class of 1974 and earlier class years,    41 Cooper Gallery

2:00-3:30 p.m.: Campus tour led by students, gather in front of Foundation Building

3:30 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.: Q&A with director of Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story Janet Gardner A'65 and associate producer Keith Yeager ME'04, Library, Foundation Building

Ongoing: 

  • Self-directed scavenger hunt to explore new and old spaces on the Cooper Union campus
  • Cable yearbooks and Peter Cooper paraphernalia on display in the Library
  • Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story documentary, directed by Janet Gardner A'65, showing in Library on a recurring basis. Final showing will begin at 2:30 p.m., ahead of Q&A.
  • Alumni Roof Terrace open for visiting

6:00-9:00 p.m.: All Cooper Reunion Party, 230 Fifth Rooftop and Penthouse Lounge
Enjoy spectacular skyline views, premium top-shelf open bar, passed hors d’oeuvres, buffet dinner and dancing. Must be 21+ to attend.
 

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
 

10:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.: Tour of Philip Johnson's The Glass House and Shigeru Ban's Paper Log House in New Canaan, CT
This optional tour has separate ticketing from the rest of Reunion. Sold out! Learn more here.

Reunion is open to all alumni and their families. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Helen Freeman, Assistant Director for Alumni Affairs, at helen.freeman@cooper.edu.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.