::Feature - The Only 4 Generations of Graduates in Cooper Union History - by Victoria Lief Bertotti A'82
Charles E. Heimerzheim ChE 1892, Luisita Keely Lief A'47, Clifford D. Keely EE'23 and
Bertram William Lief A'48
When I graduated from Cooper Union in 1982, I hadn't fully understood even then what it meant when the President stopped the processional of the entire graduating class to present and introduce me to the audience as Cooper Union's only 4th generation graduate.
The eagle, one of the original eagles that guarded Penn Station from 1910 to 1963, was acquired by Cooper Union in 1965. The 2009 class gift helped fund moving the eagle from the engineering building terrace to the Green Roof on the 8th floor at 41 Cooper Square.
The following contributed to the 2009 Class Gift:
Ryan Andrews
Stephen Antonelli
David Berger
Kevin Chang
Jeffrey Choi
Thomas Coleman
Mark Foster
Ian Jacobs
Sungae Kim
David Maron
Christopher Mascioli
Jacob Mautner
Chrystina Montuori-Sorrentino
Anthony Morris
Abigail Nedelka
Hanna Oh
Noelle Raffaele
Mukarram Razvi
Nicole Salazar
Jeffrey Tan
Anthony Tulino
Albert Wang
Krzysztof Wiater
Sojin Won
Kwame Wright
:: Annual Fund
Please continue Peter Cooper's legacy by making a gift to the Annual Fund before the end of the fiscal year, June 30th. We depend on every contribution to ensure that our outstanding students continue to receive free access to a Cooper Union education.
To make your gift before June 30, 2009,
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Formula SAE is a rapidly growing intercollegiate design competition that spans six continents with eight events and over 350 teams. It tasks students with a particularly grueling engineering challenge: conceive, design, fabricate, race, and even market to a panel of judges a Formula-style racecar. Students not only develop the traditional engineering virtues of design and analysis, they learn teamwork, leadership, and project management. Everything must be completed within a single year.
Standing on the shoulders of previous teams, our third Formula SAE entry is the result of thousands of hour's worth of careful design, advanced analysis, and student fabrication. With the support of our school and sponsors, we improved our previous international position by 38 places, to 37th out of the 123 teams that entered.
We competed directly with big name schools such as Cornell (nine-time world champion) and Columbia on a budget and team size less than a 10th of the top competitors. We've also garnered media attention and notoriety for Cooper Union with pieces in "Popular Science" and "Automotive Engineering Magazine".
What is the best career advice you've received and who gave it to you? Take your studies seriously. Do the work assigned, read the books thoroughly. Work hard and pray. Keep in touch with Cooper Union. Get involved. Contribute to the Annual Fund, attend Cooper events, keep in touch with classmates. They are your friends, and some of them will be movers and shakers in the art world. Honor your teachers. You can never thank them enough.
