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Pass it on campaign...
Since the early 1960s RVC students have passed through the doors of the now mis-named ‘New Lecture Theatre’ (NLT) at the Hawkshead campus. The NLT started life as a practical classroom but over the years it has evolved into a lecture theatre-style teaching space becoming an integral part of student-life for all who have graduated from the RVC for the last fty years. Unfortunately, despite multiple facelifts and upgrades the NLT is now in need of major refurbishment and we want you to be a part of its future as well as part of its past.
We will soon be launching the Pass it On Campaign
to raise funds for the refurbishment of the NLT and would like to ask you, our treasured alumni and NLT graduates, what pearls of wisdom you would pass on to the next generation of veterinary surgeons, nurses and scientists? Our aim is to publish these pearls on the seats of the new NLT and we will also be renaming it the RVC Alumni Lecture Theatre in your honour.
In 2016 the theatre will undergo extensive refurbishment to improve its AV capabilities, upgrade the seating and increase the number of seats the theatre can provide to accommodate our student numbers.
Would you like the opportunity to pass on your knowledge and leave your mark on the next generation of professionals?
NLT As a practical classroom
Artists impressions of the new theatre
NLT as a lecture theatre today
The names of alumni and friends who donate £50 or more to the Pass it On Campaign will appear on the donor wall of the RVC Alumni Lecture Theatre. Alumni and friends who support us with £300 or more will have one of the seats in the lecture theatre dedicated to them and will be asked for a message
to impart to the next generation of veterinary professionals, which will be printed on a plaque on the seat. Your wisdom will become part of the future of the RVC.
What would you pass on?
What is that one thing you wish you had known as a student? What would you like to impart to the students of the future?
You are all part of an amazing profession, we have some truly inspiring alumni and we hope you will join us in helping to educate and inspire the upcoming generations.
If you would more information about the campaign please contact the Development Of ce at development@rvc.ac.uk.