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America's first parks.

In the 1800s, many cemeteries were beautifully landscaped parks that were popular as tourist destinations. Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, was founded in 1838 as one of America’s first rural cemeteries. By 1860, there were 500,000 visitors a year, rivaling Niagara Falls as the countries greatest tourist attraction.In 1831, Mount Auburn Cemetery,  in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded as “a natural setting for the commemoration of the dead and for the comfort and inspiration of the bereaved and the general public.” 

In the 1850s, with little land set aside for public use in Chicago, private cemeteries charged a fee to picnickers and did a booming business. Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia is another example of the romantic Victorian style landscaping.

Take a moment to enjoy the various monuments, landscaping, and sweeping views.

WALK THROUGH HISTORY .

Learn about our historic chapel and mausoleum, George Taylor, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Traill Green, founder of the Easton Cemetery, a medal of honor recipient from the Civil War, the founders of Lafayette College, and many Easton notables. 

Grab a tour booklet on the porch of the cemetery office near the N. 7th Street entrance to the Easton Cemetery. Or familiarize yourself ahead of your visit and download from the links below. 

SELF-GUIDED WALKING TOUR.

The Cemetery is divided into sections which are indicated by letters of the alphabet. Follow the map on the inside back cover. This will help you locate sites of interest. Allow about an hour or so if walking. As you continue the tour, you will see fine examples of funerary art, most carved by hand. Although the pas- sage of time has worn away some of the intricate details, what remains is priceless and meaningful. Later in this booklet, you can learn about the symbolism behind some of this artwork. (Note: the Self-Guided Tour was created prior to the merger of Easton Cemetery and Easton Heights Cemetery, and focuses on the oldest sections of Easton Cemetery.)

Pick up a hard copy on the porch of the Superintendent’s office (just outside of the main gate at 401 N. 7th Street) or view it online.

SELF-GUIDED LAFAYETTE  COLLEGE “NOTABLES” WALKING TOUR.

This special walking tour is our tribute to the remarkable men and women who have helped make Lafayette College so special and to the College itself for being such an important part of Easton. Copies are available on the porch of the Superintendent’s office (just outside of the main gate at 401 N. 7th Street) or view it online.

SELF-GUIDED CEMETERY "HIGHLIGHTS" WALKING TOUR - EN ESPAÑOL.

¡Un recorrido a pie de 30 minutos por los “puntos más destacados” del cementerio ahora está disponible en español.

Gracias to Ana Luhrs at the Lafayette Library. 

Building a community, one idea at a time

2024 Pepper Prize winner Remy Oktay ’24 shares his vision for a community-driven future

By Margaret Wilson

Remy Oktay ’24 is the kind of person who needs to be told to slow down and enjoy his senior year. 

The recipient of the 2024 George Wharton Pepper Prize, Oktay has been busy during his time at Lafayette. His fingerprints can be seen across the campus: on the ground, in the sky, and even in the trees. 

“I’m someone who, when I have an idea of something I want to do, I just can’t stop thinking about it,” Oktay says. “I’m thinking about it when I’m eating, when I’m falling asleep, and when I wake up in the morning.” 

The engineering studies and environmental studies double major and data science minor has successfully launched a variety of projects during his tenure. In 2022, Oktay solicited FAA approval and piloted what is presumed to be the first manned electric plane stadium flyover at the Lafayette vs. Lehigh football game. The project brought awareness of electric aviation to the nation’s longest-running college football rivalry with its “Lafayette Gets Electric” campaign. 

That same year, alongside Kristen Stuedel ’22 , Oktay installed tree swings throughout campus to celebrate Earth Month. Over the past two years since that first installation, he’s led a team to develop and refine the original design to reduce impact on the trees’ branches and make the swings safer for humans. The aim of the project is to get the community outdoors, engaged with each other, and caring about trees in order to help combat climate change. 

“I’ve always been someone who loves to build things, and I’m a very curious person,” Oktay says. “I guess it’s a mentality of not settling for the status quo, and thinking we can always do better.”  

As an engineer, environmentalist, and Creating and Performing Arts (CaPA) scholar, Oktay finds unique ways to challenge that status quo. During a sophomore year sculpture class in which students were tasked with molding 100 identical plaster objects, Oktay realized it would take days to complete the assignment. He chose to cast life-size feet and arrange them walking up to and climbing 50 feet into a tree on the campus Quad, with the goal of inviting the community to climb trees. He invented his own casting system that dried faster, allowing him to create his 100 feet in less than 24 hours. 

“It was a fun example of having a creative liberal arts brain and having an engineering brain, and being able to switch between the two,” Oktay says. “I think that’s something that’s really been representative of my time here at Lafayette. It’s something that has been incredibly impactful for me and exciting to learn how to do.”

Oktay specifically looked for a mix of engineering and liberal arts during his college search, and felt Lafayette was the place to find it. While constructing the tree swings, Oktay realized how that mix could bring his thinking to the next level. He was able to bring a socio-technical design lens to the project, soliciting feedback from stakeholders and considering the emotional and social impact of the physical design. 

“It was a really awesome experience [to see] how powerful our community is, and how powerful Lafayette is in educating people to see so many different angles,” Oktay says. “That takes something from just being good to being great.” 

For the past three years, Oktay has served as an innovation lead for the Dyer Center , which offers a four-year fellowship that helps foster entrepreneurship and fund innovation projects. Oktay has relished the opportunity to connect with other entrepreneurial students through the program. 

“There are so many awesome students that I’ve interacted with both inside and outside of the fellowship who have fantastic ideas. I’ve been able to spark that same kind of spirit and fire in a bunch of first-, second-, and third-year students, encouraging them to get out there and start doing stuff and exploring,” Oktay says. “This has been really, really rewarding.”

Among his accomplishments, Oktay also conducted research through the Bergh Family Fellow Summer Research scholarship, and is a Marquis Fellow. After graduation, Oktay plans to spend his summer finalizing the next phase of the swings, working with the Lafayette Patent Program to patent the technology and launching a company that will bring the swings to other campuses and green spaces across the country. 

Whether it’s through connecting humans to nature, raising awareness of the climate crisis, or just having fun together, Oktay focuses his passion and his drive on one thing: community. 

“I want people to feel connected. We’re going to be alumni longer than we were students,” Oktay says. “I’d love to be able to rally our class in a way that makes everybody feel represented, which is hopefully a catalyst for remaining a community that looks out for each other after graduation.” 

And what’s his advice for that community? 

“Let’s dream about what the world could be like, and start fighting for that.” 

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Take a walking tour of campus with student tour guides and a small group of other prospective students.

The tour lasts about two hours, including breaks. You’ll visit our comfortable residence halls, state-of-the-art labs, wildlife in Cypress Lake, and the iconic fleur-de-lis sculpture in the Quad.

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If you have any questions about your campus visit, contact: Office of Admissions and Recruitment (337) 482-6495 [email protected]

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Weekday Tours

Weekday tours are offered during the fall and spring semesters on:

• Mondays-Thursdays at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.
• Fridays at 9 a.m.

On the day of your tour, join us in the French House at 1511 Johnston Street. You can park at the building and will receive a visitor’s parking permit.

With several days’ notice, we can arrange a tour of campus and the residence halls. With two weeks’ notice, we’ll work to schedule a meeting with a professor in your major.

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If you can’t make it during the week, join us for a Saturday tour on select weekends throughout the year. Saturday tours start at 10 a.m. at Martin Hall, located at 104 E. University Circle.

Please note that Saturday tours don’t include the option of meeting with a professor. To meet a faculty member, we recommend that you schedule a weekday tour or sign up for Preview Day.

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Robert Mattison

Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art

Curriculum vitae.

• BA Middlebury College
• MA Williams College
• MFA Princeton University
• Ph.D. Princeton University

Research interests: modern and contemporary art; 19th-century art, and the history of architecture.

I am interested in using modern art and architecture as lenses through which to investigate the cultural, social, political, ethnic, and gender issues of our day. I have spent much of my career working directly with artists, including such pivotal figures as Robert Motherwell, Grace Hartigan and Robert Rauschenberg. I also work with dancers, writers, musicians, curators, and gallerists. I bring these experiences to the students both in the classroom and through field trips to artists’ studios, museums, galleries, collectors’ homes, auction houses, and architectural walking tours. I utilize Lafayette’s proximity to New York City and Philadelphia as well as overseas study tours to Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna, and other cities. I encourage students to think and write incisively about modern art and architecture. Many students have been invited to participate in research for my books and exhibition catalogues.

Awards : Samuel H. Kress Foundation (2), Princeton University Dissertation Grant, Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Grant, Recipient of Sears-Roebuck Award for Teaching and Scholarship, the Jones Lecture Award, the Jones Award, the Daniel L. Golden Faculty Service Award (2), the Marquis Distinguished Teaching Award for distinctive and extraordinary teaching, and the Mary Louise Van Artsdalen Prize for outstanding scholarly achievement

Books and Extended Catalogs:

Franz Kline, Paintings 1950 – 1962 , Catalogue  Raisonné, Director and Author, Hauser & Wirth Institute

Ronald Bladen: Sculpture , Abbeville Press, 2019

Franz Kline: Coal and Steel , Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley, 2012/13 and Sidney Mishkin Art Gallery, CUNY, New York, 2013.

Theodoros Stamos: A Communion with Nature , Hollis Taggart Art Galleries, New York, 2010.

Arshile Gorky: Works, Writings , Editiones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 2010.

Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries , Yale University Press, London, 2004.

Masterworks: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, and Frank Stella in the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection , Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1995.

Grace Hartigan: A Painter’s World , Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1990.

Robert Motherwell: The Formative Years , UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, 1987.

Selected recent exhibition catalogs and articles :

“Joan Miró: Intuition and Metamorphosis,” Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich and New York, 2021

“Arnulf Rainer: Paintings, Drawings, Books,” Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich and New York, 2021

“Roberto Matta Odisseano : A Voyage,” Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich and New York, 2021

Emil Lukas: Walking the Earth , Sperone Westwater  Gallery, New York City, 2020

Thom Cooney Crawford: The Inner Eye of Art , Nurture Nature Foundation, 2019

Stephen Antonakos: Late Light , Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, 2019

Carol Brown Goldberg: Entanglement (exhibition catalogue), American University, Washington, D.C. 2018.

Thomas Chimes: Alchemy Machine (exhibition catalogue), Locks Gallery, Philadelphia 2018.

Expanding Space: Ronald Bladen, Al Held, Yvonne Rainer, and George Sugarman (exhibition catalogue), Loretta Howard Gallery 2017.

“Frank Stella: Vortices, Turbulence and Chaos Theory,” SciArt in America. February 2018.

Alert!: The Recent Art of Hasan Elahi (exhibition catalogue), C. Grimaldis Gallery,Baltimore 2016

Robert Rauschenberg: Making Tracks (exhibition catalogue), Jim Kempner Fine Arts, New York 2015.

“Emil Lukas: The Ringing of Distant Events” (exhibition catalog) Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, 2015.

“Brandon Ballengée: Art, Science, Activism,” (book chapter) From Scales to Feathers: The Avian Works of Brandon Ballengée , Shropshire Museum and Art Gallery, 2015.

Heroines: Audrey Flack’s Transcendent Drawings and Prints (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College Art Galleries and Hyde Museum, 2015.

Audrey Flack: The Abstract Expressionist Years (exhibition catalog) Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, 2015.

William Baziotes:The Surrealist Watercolors” (exhibition catalog), Allentown Art Museum, 2015.

Why Nature?: Hofmann, Mitchell, Pousette-Dart and Stamos (exhibition catalog), Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, 2014.

“Grace Hartigan: A Survey 1966-2007” (exhibition catalog) Strathmore Art Foundation, 2014.

“Robert Motherwell’s Early Collages” (exhibition review) Journal of the College Art Association , 2014.

In Arcadia: The Paintings of Bill Scott, Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2013.

“Robert Rauschenberg: Sleep for Yvonne Rainer , The Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and J.P. Getty Foundation, 2013.

“Robert Rauschenberg: Pyramid Series,” The Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and J.P. Getty Foundation, 2013.

Richard Anuszkiewicz: New Work 2003-2013, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, 2013.

Black Mountain College and Its Legacy , Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, 2011.

Terry Winters: A New Description of Nature , Lafayette College Art Galleries, 2011.

Helen Frankenthaler: Paper Is Painting , Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 2010.

“Robert Motherwell’s Opens in Context,” for exhibition catalog Motherwell: The Opens , Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 2009.

Stephen Antonakos: The Power of Light , Allentown Art Museum, 2008.

“Robert Rauschenberg” in Robert Rauschenberg Critica e Obra de 1949 a 1974 , Publico Serrivales, Lisbon, Portugal, 2008.

Robert Rauschenberg’s Environmental Activism in Last Turn, Your Turn: Robert Rauschenberg and the Environmental Crisis , Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, 2008.

After Image: Op Art of the 1960s , Jacobson Howard Gallery, New york, 2007.

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