{"id":3162,"date":"2013-08-23T04:05:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T18:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2015-04-29T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T02:10:24","slug":"mrs-loti-smorgon-ao-a-remarkable-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/mrs-loti-smorgon-ao-a-remarkable-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs Loti Smorgon AO &#8211; a remarkable legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/11917_1345524890_237_167_2New-Image.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3163\" alt=\"11917_1345524890_237_167_2New-Image\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/11917_1345524890_237_167_2New-Image-210x160.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) is saddened by the news that Mrs Loti Smorgon AO, significant supporter and long term friend of the RCH, died on Tuesday, aged 94.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Smorgon was married to the late Victor Smorgon AC for 73 years and the two became well known in Australia for their remarkable generosity.<\/p>\n<p>A portrait of the\u00a0couple by artist Jenny Sages, and\u00a0kindly donated by the Smorgon family,\u00a0is displayed Main Street at the RCH and symbolises their generosity, leadership and\u00a0commitment to the health and wellbeing of children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Loti Smorgon was a committed philanthropist\u00a0who will be missed, but she\u00a0leaves a great legacy\u00a0for the RCH, including The Victor and Loti Smorgon Chair of Paediatrics,&#8221; said RCH CEO Professor\u00a0Christine Kilpatrick.<\/p>\n<div>The Smorgon family contributed to the construction of the Front Entry Building on the first Parkville hospital site and have made\u00a0other\u00a0major contributions to the RCH.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Mrs Smorgon reached thousands of Australians through her commitment to philanthropy and unparalleled community spirit and will be missed.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital is saddened by the news that Mrs Loti Smorgon AO, significant supporter and long term friend of the RCH, died on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}