Happy Birthday Rutgers University! Updated with Fireworks Info
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Also celebrating their 241st birthday today is the UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS!! Thanks to all who have served!
Saw a full page ad in today's USA Today! Great job by our marketing dept.
Just received an email from Dr. Barchi. A very nice letter. It also includes a link to the fireworks (at 6pm) and a note that the Empire State Building will be lit in scarlet tonight, in our honor.
For those of you who want to celebrate by getting some Rutgers merchandise, I know a couple places.
Queen’s College (aka Rutgers) was born on November 10, 1766 when the last Royal Governor of New Jersey (and Ben Franklin’s illegitimate son), William Franklin, granted a charter in the name of King George III of England (named for his consort Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg). Ben tried to convince William to join the Revolution but he was a lifelong loyalist to King George. He left for England in 1782 and never returned or reconciled with his father. It is unclear whether nearby Franklin Township, Somerset County is named after father or son.
The November 1, 1900 Targum reported Rutgers had to cancel a Charter Day game with Stevens because the Hoboken squad disbanded before they reached November 10. The first updated Charter Day celebration wasn’t until 1895. According to the November 11, 1895 New York Times, Rutgers erroneously celebrated its Centennial on June 21, 1871, 100 years after the first classes were held. According to the November 10, 1908 New Brunswick Home News, it wasn’t until a story discovered in the April 20, 1767 New York Mercury revealed Queen’s College original charter date of November 10, 1766. A second charter was issued on March 20, 1770 and is kept at Rutgers. The first has been lost to history. “The college is one of the few, possessing royal charters, it having been granted by George III.”
Old Queen’s held its first commencement on November 12, 1771 in the basement of the Sign of the Red Lion Tavern at the corner of Albany & Neilson Streets. Some of the original Tavern stones currently make up a wall and bench in the middle of Old Queen’s campus.
The quote, “Don’t let your studies interfere with your education,” is attributed to Henry Rutgers according to brainyquote.com. Queen’s College became Rutgers College on December 5, 1825 and Rutgers University in 1924 before becoming today's "Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey" officially, in 1956.
The November 1, 1900 Targum reported Rutgers had to cancel a Charter Day game with Stevens because the Hoboken squad disbanded before they reached November 10. The first updated Charter Day celebration wasn’t until 1895. According to the November 11, 1895 New York Times, Rutgers erroneously celebrated its Centennial on June 21, 1871, 100 years after the first classes were held. According to the November 10, 1908 New Brunswick Home News, it wasn’t until a story discovered in the April 20, 1767 New York Mercury revealed Queen’s College original charter date of November 10, 1766. A second charter was issued on March 20, 1770 and is kept at Rutgers. The first has been lost to history. “The college is one of the few, possessing royal charters, it having been granted by George III.”
Old Queen’s held its first commencement on November 12, 1771 in the basement of the Sign of the Red Lion Tavern at the corner of Albany & Neilson Streets. Some of the original Tavern stones currently make up a wall and bench in the middle of Old Queen’s campus.
The quote, “Don’t let your studies interfere with your education,” is attributed to Henry Rutgers according to brainyquote.com. Queen’s College became Rutgers College on December 5, 1825 and Rutgers University in 1924 before becoming today's "Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey" officially, in 1956.
In honor of that relationship, civic and religious buildings in all of the university’s host communities will ring their bells at 2:50 p.m. Thursday for 250 seconds in unison with the ringing of the Old Queens bell at Rutgers. The historic bell, located atop one of the university’s oldest buildings, was donated to the institution by benefactor and namesake Henry Rutgers when the school was a small, struggling, private college, and long before Rutgers was officially designated the State University of New Jersey in 1946.
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/stor...ory-new-beginnings-state-university/93536166/
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/stor...ory-new-beginnings-state-university/93536166/
How very Rutgers!
Anyone local to the New Brunswick area, please tell me if you can hear the bell-ringing from wherever you are. I imagine it'll be a pretty wonderful sound.
6 p.m. Fireworks
Best viewing locations:
Event Schedule:
http://www.nj.com/education/2016/11/rutgers_250th_anniversary_event_schedule.html
Best viewing locations:
- Camden: Gateway and quad across from 330 Cooper Street
- Newark: Golden Dome Athletic Center and tennis courts in view of Bradley Hall; upper floors of Stanley Bergen Building
- New Brunswick: Deiner Park, accessible via George Street; points with a view of the skyline above the Raritan; on the big screen at The Yard on College Avenue.
Event Schedule:
http://www.nj.com/education/2016/11/rutgers_250th_anniversary_event_schedule.html
Interesting:
Sunset:
Key Rutgers buildings will be lit in scarlet, including Old Queens in New Brunswick, Kirkpatrick Chapel Charter Window, Wellness Plaza, the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center in Piscataway, Rutgers Business School (Livingston Campus), Douglass Student Center and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Camden.
Sunset:
Key Rutgers buildings will be lit in scarlet, including Old Queens in New Brunswick, Kirkpatrick Chapel Charter Window, Wellness Plaza, the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center in Piscataway, Rutgers Business School (Livingston Campus), Douglass Student Center and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Camden.
You know what's so Rutgers? Making a bigger deal of Rutgers 249 (with people saying "happy 250 birthday, Rutgers" erroneously), than Rutgers 250 today. I was at both events. 249 had more hoopla. It's like making a bigger deal of your 20th birthday and saying, "meh" on your 21st.
The fireworks show was great and synched to the music very well! The reflection on the Raritan also looked nice. There wasn't much else in Deiner Park except food and bounce houses, though.
The new buildings by the seminary looked pretty and Old Queens has a big 250 projected on its sides.
The new buildings by the seminary looked pretty and Old Queens has a big 250 projected on its sides.
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