Start here...Go Anywhere Mystery Cache
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The above coordinates are for the parking area where you will begin your walk. A walk around the area will familiarize you with the campus and the veteran's cemetery.
NOTE: THE LAST PICTURE IS INCORRECT - There is no longer a stake and flag. Look for a split rock that holds the cache.
Use the following pictures as waypoints to go from point to point. Go to the first picture and look around for the second picture. Walk to that area and you will see the third picture. etc. Almost all walking is on a paved surface - the 2 difficulty is for the one mile length of the walk. The cache is a BLUE container. Bring a pen or pencil to log cache.
Be sure to sign only the log in the clear container and not the one someone else (who could not find the real cache) hid.
Rockland Community Collage has provided a higher education to thousands of students from 1959 to the present. To celebrate the institution's semi centennial, quinquagenary or Golden Anniversary from September 2009 through August 2010, I am giving you an opportunity to tour the campus. As you take the mile hike around the campus, you will pass many buildings, places and objects that the students take for granted.
Some of the things you will see (these are in random order) ----
The Peace Pole Project started in Japan in 1955 by Masahisa Goi, who decided to dedicate his life to spreading the message, “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in response to the bombings on Hiroshima. Peace Poles are handcrafted monuments erected the world over as international symbols of Peace. Their purpose is to spread the message “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in a different language, one on each of its many sides.
The Korean War Memorial. This monument is dedicated to the 27 Rockland County residents who perished during the Korean War.
The Technology Center that features 21 state-of-the-art classrooms, including a tiered lecture hall equipped with computer connection and computer laboratories increasing classroom capacity on campus by about 40%. This 100,000 sq. ft center is Rockland County's first certified "Green Building." The first floor houses Admissions, the Bursar's Office, Records, and Financial Aid, allowing students a "One-Stop Shopping" experience during registration. Stop in here for information about the many programs that Rockland Community College has to offer.
People from all over come to SUNY Rockland Community College campus to view the sunset on the Gnomon sculpture by the artist Gillian Jagger, specifically designed to mark the Winter Solstice. At the moment of sunset, a dramatic splash of light is seen against the stone as the sun sinks into the opening before disappearing. The Gnomon sculpture was installed in 1993 through a grant awarded by the Art in Public Places Committee. The Gnomon, which means "sundial" in French, consists of four Paleozoic slabs of limestone that have been cut into two vertical, triangular shapes, 11 feet high by 5 feet wide. The placement of the stones forms an opening which is perfectly aligned with the place in the sky where the sun sets on every Winter Solstice.
Follow the path through the Gary Onderdonk Veterans Memorial Cemetery. In 1959, land from the small Hamlet of Viola, New York was granted to Rockland Community College, as a means to educate the area residents for more skilled labor. The first building to be converted to educational purposes was the old Alms House (county poor house), which was built in 1837 to assist the destitute in the area. A cemetery, or potter's field, where the graves of many unknown residents of the Alms House still sits on the grounds of the college. Shortly after the college was founded, a tract of the northern end of the field was donated for use as a Veteran's Cemetery. Many of the graves are WWII and Korean veterans.
Daniel Brucker was one of the founding trustees and a long time member of it Board of Directors.
Not pictured in the waypoints is the Theresa Morahan Child Care Center. This is a day care center where students can leave their own children, while they continue with their education. This new facility provides a program that includes art, music, language activities and social skills to over 100 children. It is also open to members of the community to meet their childcare needs. The center accommodates infants to school age children from 6 am to 6 pm, has an after school program and will have a summer program.
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