Cooper Together 2024 in San Francisco

Saturday, February 10, 2024, 10am - 12pm

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Please join us to celebrate Cooper Together 2024 for a San Francisco regional meet-up hosted by Gilly Youner A'82 and John Leeper ARC'85. Join Gilly and John for a walk through Golden Gate Park.

Cooper Together 2024 San Francisco
Saturday, February 10
10:00 a.m. PST
Golden Gate Park
Rain Date: Saturday, February 17

After meeting in the lobby of the DeYoung Museum to enjoy the views from the tower, participants will make their way through the museum gardens to Stow Lake for a moderate walking loop on Strawberry Hill, a small island in the lake. Dress for moderate hiking and the weather. Open to all ages.

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Cooper Together is celebrate by alumni and friends around the world, commemorating Peter Cooper's Birthday and honoring his philanthropic spirit. To see the full line up of events, please click here.
 

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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.