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Green Camp 1940-1973

Opening:

• "Cooper Union Engineering Camp". Science. 91 (2351): 64–64. 19 January 1940. doi:10.1126/science.91.2351.64.a. Plans to establish an engineering camp for Cooper Union, New York City, on the Hewitt estate in the Ramapoo Mountains near Ringwood, N.J., were adopted at a recent meeting of the Cooper Union Board of Trustees. Norvin Hewitt Green has offered to convey by gift a tract of 150 acres to the union as a memorial to his mother, the late Amy Hewitt Green, daughter of Abram S. Hewitt, former mayor of New York, and granddaughter of Peter Cooper. Title to the property, which will be known as the Green Engineering Camp [...] will pass to Cooper Union early in January. [...] the camp will be opened in 1940 as a summer center of engineering education. [...] Dr. Gano Dunn, president of the union, pointed out that the Cooper and Hewitt families have been intimately associated with the institution since its founding by Peter Cooper in 1859 as a free school for the education of the working classes, and have made vital contributions to its progress.

Founding meeting of Society of Women Engineers:

• Evans, Phyllis (28 May 1950). "Minutes, Society of Women Engineers, Green Engineering Camp, Ringwood, N.J., 28 May 1950, Box 1, Folder 2, Society of Women Engineers National Records, Walter P. Reuther Library and Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan". Society of Women Engineers. Retrieved 20 March 2020. The meeting was called to order by the president Phyllis Evans. The meeting was a continuation of the meeting held on May 27th, 1950. [...]a motion was made and passed to make Dr. Gilbreth an honorary member.

Closing:

• Tomasson, Robert E. (28 June 1973). "Cooper Union's 1,000‐Acre Green Camp In Ringwood to Be Broken Up and Sold". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 28 November 2021. John F. White, president of Cooper Union, said the camp would be closed Saturday pursuant to a unanimous vote by the school's 11‐member board of trustees. "For years now the camp has been tremendously underutilized while our expenses have gone up. Last year, upkeep charges were $150,000 (equivalent to $1,092,600 in 2023) and we feel that we cannot continue to commit our resources to maintaining the camp," Mr. White said.

Lent (talk) 13:04, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Lent, are you suggesting that information about Green Camp be added to the article? It does sound interesting and seems to have some external connection as well with respect to the Society mentioned, so I'd think it would be okay but not exactly as you've posed it - needs some editing IMO. Do you want to try yourself, or would you rather someone else have a go? KeeYou Flib (talk) 16:10, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

[User:Qflib|KeeYou Flib]] Editing would be welcome, and I would rather "someone else have a go" at it. The SWE foundation meeting was interesting on its own, too :-) . The Green Camp closing had been mentioned as part of previous economic problems for the college. The naming of the camp after a member of the college's founding family made a nice bookend. Events that were held there are found in publications and blogs as significant to both engineering and art education. For example:

* Google Scholar references

* American Society of Civil Engineers and Green Camp

and the travels of a preserved Penn Station eagle by sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman might be notable:

* Blog of 1967 class stay Archive [1]

Lent (talk) 18:39, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for taking so long. I'll have a toss at this very soon. Qflib, aka KeeYou Flib (talk) 21:28, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

i haven’t forgotten about this but at present I have no good ideas on how to integrate it into the article. Perhaps a “Green Camp” section? But I’d like to hear some consensus here from others as to whether such a section would improve the article before starting. Thoughts, anyone? Qflib, aka KeeYou Flib (talk) 17:06, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

"Free Cooper Union" broken link

In Cooper_Union#Financial crisis_and tuition controversy, there is a "Free Cooper Union" link currently for cusos.org ... this currently gives an error, but here is the last working archived version.

Some current related pages are 10-year-plan and Your Support Matters. There's also the Free Cooper Union home page, which is basically a "links" page with topics pertinent to the "Free Cooper Union" movement.

This issue also affects Cooper Union financial crisis and tuition protests (under "external links"). Fabrickator (talk) 03:47, 23 May 2024 (UTC)