{"id":66046,"date":"2019-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/09\/16\/retirement-tea-wednesday-for-mike-overton\/"},"modified":"2019-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:00:00","slug":"retirement-tea-wednesday-for-mike-overton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/09\/16\/retirement-tea-wednesday-for-mike-overton\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement tea Wednesday for Mike Overton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><TABLE border=\"0\" width=\"250\" cellspacing=\"10\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Overton0916.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"picture disc.\"><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:0.85em; line-height:150%;\">Michael Overton<\/span><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE><\/p>\n<p>A retirement tea will be held for Mike Overton from 2-4 p.m. Wednesday in the Durham Research Center common area.<\/p>\n<p>Overton, a senior zone facility technician in the UNMC Department of Facilities Management and Planning, joined UNMC in 1975 as a building mechanic in the mechanical maintenance department, performing maintenance on Conkling Hall, Bennett Hall, the Special Services Pavilion, and the Student Life Center, and soon working at the College of Nursing and College of Pharmacy buildings.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, he was promoted to manager, overseeing several of different shop tradesman, before becoming operations coordinator. 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