The Annual Gray Cup Invitational Golf Classic named in honor of Gray Rogers for his many years of outstanding service. Gray served for 10 years on our board of trustees, including three years as chairman. During his tenure, Gray had a remarkable impact on the organization. Under his leadership, we grew from a regional land trust to a state leader in open space preservation, culminating in the name change from Morris Land Conservancy to The Land Conservancy of New Jersey in 2008. Gray was a founder of the investment management firm W.P. Stewart & Co., and he has always had a passion for the outdoors and the natural world. Gray and his wife Mollie, a retired teacher, established our Rogers Family Scholarship in 2005 to provide scholarships to college students from New Jersey pursuing careers in an environmental field. Since then, 20 of these scholarships have been awarded, for a total of $150,000.

 

We are grateful to our friends who joined us for in 2024 for a day of golfing on a world-class course to raise money to support our work. A wonderful time was had by all!

 

Most importantly, this event raised $106,750 to purchase 248 acres of limestone forest in Sussex County—the final capstone in creating a 1,200-acre greenway to connect the Paulinskill Wildlife Management Area to Swartswood State Park.