{"id":175,"date":"2015-12-30T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T04:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/?p=175"},"modified":"2016-04-19T17:17:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T07:17:20","slug":"the-rch-alumni-gala-dinner-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/the-rch-alumni-gala-dinner-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The RCH Alumni Gala Dinner 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This function was held at Kew Golf Club on November 24th 2015.\u00a0There were 62 members\u00a0and partners present and the CEO, Prof.\u00a0Christine Kilpatrick, was an invited guest.<\/p>\n<p>A relaxed dinner was followed by a brilliant and\u00a0highly amusing presentation\u00a0by the incoming President, Dr Kevin\u00a0Collins, introduced by the outgoing President\u00a0Prof. Andrew Kemp.<\/p>\n<p>The mock-serious\u00a0title to which Kevin spoke, \u201cFrench\u00a0advertisements and public signs \u2013 a\u00a0window on the national soul?\u201d was\u00a0illustrated with a hilarious collection of\u00a0photographs that showed the contrast\u00a0between the absurdities and sublime\u00a0aspects of French culture.<\/p>\n<p>To view Dr Kevin Collins talk\u00a0click this link: \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BEoySSpJxqM\">Kevin Collins&#8217; Gala Dinner Video recording<\/a><br \/>\n[wonderplugin_carousel id=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A relaxed dinner was followed by a brilliant and highly amusing presentation by the incoming President, Dr Kevin Collins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}