Upsala College
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Upsala College was the name of a private college in East Orange, New Jersey, USA, founded in 1893. The college was shut down in 1995, after several years of financial problems. Some of its famous graduates include Allen Klein and Vin Scelsa, creator of the "Idiots Delight" radio program heard on commercial and now public radio (WFUV in the New York area).
The school was founded on the initiative of the Swedish-American Augustana Synod and immigrant Swedes, and received its name partly in reference to the historic University of Uppsala in Sweden and partly in memory of the Meeting of Uppsala, which had taken place in 1593 – exactly 300 years before the founding of the college – establishing Lutheran Orthodoxy in the country after the attempts of King John III to reintroduce Roman-Catholic liturgy. (Upsala is an archaic spelling variation of Uppsala, replaced in the early part of the 20th century by the version with two P:s, except in some proper nouns which have retained the old spelling.)
The college originally opened in Brooklyn, New York City, New York and later moved to Kenilworth, New Jersey in 1898 before settling in East Orange in 1924. The campus was sold to the East Orange Board of Education, who built a high school on the site's eastern half and sold the western portion to the city. Over the years, the property and its buildings were left to deteriorate and had become a serious eyesore. Today, the site is being redeveloped for housing and all of the college's buildings have been or will be demolished.
The campus itself became the East Orange Campus High School, a public secondary school operated by the East Orange School District.
External links
- [www.upsala.org, Jim Coleman's website on Upsala College]
- [Bill Taebel's website on Upsala College]
- [I nya Uppsala. Bref från Carl Sundbeck] (Swedish, "In New Uppsala. Letter from Carl Sundbeck"), article in the Swedish periodical Hvar 8 Dag, 3:36 (1902).
- [City of East Orange - Press Release: Groundbreaking Ceremonies for Woodlands at Upsala]
- [wfmu.org, Website of former Upsala College radio station]
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