Reunion 2022 Schedule of Events

Reunion 2022 Schedule of Events

FRIDAY, JUNE 3

Check-In - Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street - 3:30-6:30 p.m.

Optional Programming:

  • End of Year Show Open to Public - Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street & 41 Cooper Square - 12:00-7:00 p.m.
  • Library & Archives Open to Alumni - Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street - 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Welcome Reception - Alumni Roof Terrace, 41 Cooper Square - 5:00-6:30 p.m.

Introduction to the Voices from the Great Hall Digital Archive - The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street - 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Free Time for Dinner on Your Own

SATURDAY, JUNE 4

Check-In - Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street - 9:00-10:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast - Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street - 9:00-10:00 a.m.

State of The Cooper Union - The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street - 10:00-11:30 a.m.

  • Presenters: President Laura Sparks*, Board Chair Malcolm King EE'97, Dean Barry L. Shoop of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering, Dean Nader Tehrani of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture*, Associate Dean Hayley Eber AR'01 of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Dean Mike Essl A'96 of the School of Art, and Associate Dean Nada Ayad of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. *Pre-taped remarks

Luncheons - 12:00-2:00 p.m.

  • Golden Legion Luncheon - The Library at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street: Honoring our new Golden Legion members of the Class of 1972, plus members of the Class of 1977 and all earlier classes. Hosted by Dean Barry L. Shoop of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering.
  • All Other Classes Luncheon - Phebe's Tavern and Grill, 359 Bowery: Members of the Class of 1978 and all later classes.

Optional Campus Tours & Programming:

  • Planning for Change—Keeping Your Options Open - Room 201/201A, 41 Cooper Square - 2:00-3:00 p.m. Presented by Tracy Green Landauer. Flexibility in estate planning is a desirable goal, especially since we cannot usually predict the future.  The ability to maintain our own financial security while providing for the comfort, protection, and changing needs of our beneficiaries can often be accomplished by using thoughtfully designed trusts. Please join us to learn more: you have many options. Tracy is a partner at Culhane Meadows where she focuses her practice on Tax and Trusts & Estates counsel. She provides personal estate planning, charitable gift planning and closely-held business succession planning to a broad range of domestic and international individuals and families.
  • Campus Tours - Depart from Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street - 2:30-3:30 p.m. and 3:30-4:30 p.m. A highlights tour of Cooper's campus, featuring stops in 41 Cooper and the Foundation Building.
  • End of Year Show Open to Public - Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street & 41 Cooper Square - 12:00-7:00 p.m.
  • Library & Archives Open to Alumni - Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street - 2:00-4:30 p.m.
  • Alumni Roof Terrace Open to Alumni - 41 Cooper Square - 2:00-4:30 p.m.

All Cooper Reunion Dinner Cruise aboard the Spirit of New York - Pier 61 at Chelsea Piers, 61 Chelsea Piers - boarding at 6:15 p.m.; sailing from 7:00-10:00 p.m.

  • Enjoy a private chartered dinner cruise showing off incredible views of the Manhattan skyline, with access to indoor and outdoor spaces across four decks, including a rooftop bar and a lounge deck. The evening includes a delicious buffet dinner, a premium open bar, music and dancing with an interactive DJ, and onboard games like giant JENGA, shuffleboard and foosball!

  • 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.