{"id":18653,"date":"2021-04-29T13:24:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/?p=18653"},"modified":"2021-07-02T11:56:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T15:56:47","slug":"college-of-nursing-75th-anniversary-signature-event-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/2021\/04\/29\/college-of-nursing-75th-anniversary-signature-event-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Nursing 75th Anniversary Signature Event details announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">URI College of Nursing<\/a> continues to recognize its 75th anniversary, the anniversary committee has planned a &#8220;signature event&#8221; to celebrate the milestone.<\/p>\n<p>College personnel, including faculty, staff, students and alumni will gather at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyndhamhotels.com\/wyndham\/middletown-rhode-island\/wyndham-newport-hotel\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wyndham Newport Hotel, 240 Aquidneck Ave., Middletown, <\/a>on Thursday, September 30. A reception is scheduled for 5 p.m., followed by a dinner and speaking program at 6, during which 75 &#8220;Luminaries&#8221; from the College&#8217;s history will be recognized.<\/p>\n<p>The Wyndham is a beautiful location close to the center of Newport and the Kingston Campus. The date also allows attendees to participate in a variety of activities that are scheduled for Alumni and Family Weekend held at the University.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the event cost $60 per person, $50 for recent graduates. RSVP by Sept. 13. Contact Hannah Laiho at 401-874-4962 for tickets and more information.<\/p>\n<p><em>As we prepare for this joyous occasion to honor the past, we remain focused on the future. Thanks to the anonymous support of a college friend, we\u2019re pleased to announce a matching gift opportunity. Every gift of $1,000 or more to any College of Nursing fund made through September 30, 2021, will generate a match up to $100,000 to the Anonymous Donor\u2019s Challenge Fund. To that end, we invite alumni and friends to make an anniversary contribution today by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/75th\/\">College of Nursing 75<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary website<\/a>. You may also contact Eric Schonewald at <a href=\"mailto:eschonewald@uri.edu\">eschonewald@uri.edu<\/a> or Tim Babcock at <a href=\"mailto:tbabcock@uri.edu\">tbabcock@uri.edu<\/a> from URI Foundation &amp; Alumni Engagement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the URI College of Nursing continues to recognize its 75th anniversary, the anniversary committee has planned a &#8220;signature event&#8221; to celebrate the milestone. College personnel, including faculty, staff, students and alumni will gather at the Wyndham Newport Hotel, 240 Aquidneck Ave., Middletown, on Thursday, September 30. A reception is scheduled for 5 p.m., followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":18864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18865,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions\/18865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}