Recollections of Green Camp | CUAA First Tuesdays

Tuesday, June 1, 2021, 7 - 8pm

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Recollections of Green Camp | CUAA First Tuesdays

As part of Reunion 2021 programming, the Cooper Union Alumni Association is hosting a storytelling hour during which several alumni will share recollections of their time spent at Green Camp. 

Peter Cooper's grandson, Norvin Hewitt Green, donated land adjacent to the family's estate, Ringwood Manor, to The Cooper Union in 1940. This land became Green Camp. Among other things, Green Camp was used for school activities, including landscape drawing and painting, and courses in surveying. In the mid-1970s, Cooper Union transferred Green Camp to the State of New Jersey, Division of Parks and Forestry.

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  • 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.