{"id":53788,"date":"2015-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/02\/alumni-reunion-set-for-this-weekend-2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T20:05:38","slug":"alumni-reunion-set-for-this-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/02\/alumni-reunion-set-for-this-weekend-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni reunion set for this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>More than 200 UNMC alumni and their guests from the colleges of medicine, nursing and pharmacy will return to Omaha and the UNMC campus this weekend for events as part of the Alumni Reunion Weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Honor years for the reunion are 1955, 1960,  1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and Half Century Club members (those who graduated before 1965).<\/p>\n<p>This morning, College of Medicine Class of 1965 alum Robert Travnicek, M.D., will discuss the first responders who stayed behind when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Mississippi. 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