{"id":376,"date":"2016-10-23T10:32:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T23:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/?p=376"},"modified":"2017-04-07T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:49:52","slug":"alumni-agm-and-gala-dinner-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/alumni-agm-and-gala-dinner-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Gala Dinner 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>The RCH Alumni Gala Dinner 2016<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Once again this function was held at Kew Golf Club, on Tuesday November 22nd 2016.\u00a0There were 76 members\u00a0and partners present and the CEO, Prof.\u00a0Christine Kilpatrick, was an invited guest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">An excellent dinner was followed by an entertaining and informative presentation\u00a0by the Alumni treasurer, Prof James\u00a0(Jim) Wilkinson, introduced by the acting President\u00a0Dr Hugo Gold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The title to which Jim spoke, \u201cSomething Presumptuous in Provincial Genius\u201d was a reference to a \u201ccritique\u201d of a book (memoirs) of Dr Joseph Priestley published in 1804. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The talk related to the members of \u201cThe Lunar Society\u201d which had been based in and around Jim Wilkinson\u2019s city of origin \u2013 Birmingham. The story was\u00a0illustrated with a large number of pictures of the main Lunar Members (or Lunatics as they were sometimes referred to) and their inventions, homes and achievements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">To view Jim Wilkinson\u2019s presentation, click this link: \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y_MANqNNlu8\"><span class=\"s2\">Jim Wilkinson\u2019s Gala Dinner Video recording<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGM and Gala Dinner. November 22nd 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}