17 June 2013
Graduates to return to Dundee to celebrate 50 years of friendship
Photo opportunity: 12pm on Monday, 17th June at River Rooms, 9th Floor, Tower Building. The group will meet for lunch ahead of a campus tour.
A group of friends who met when studying in Dundee 50 years ago will next week travel from across the UK for a reunion.
The group, who began their studies in 1963 at what was then University College Dundee, have remained close friends throughout their lives and have staged reunions at five-year intervals since graduating in 1967. This year has seen an extra reunion scheduled to mark the 50th anniversary of them beginning their University career.
Seventeen graduates and their spouses will meet up at one of the group's house in Stanley for a barbeque on Sunday, 16th June before visiting the University of Dundee the following day to see how things have changed in the five decades since they left the institution.
They will be welcomed by Gavin Rennie from the University's Alumni & Development team and will be joined for lunch by senior academics before being given a tour of the University campus
Organiser Bill Cottam said, "Everyone is looking forward to meeting up once again, and we are delighted to be joined by one of our old friends who we haven't seen since her wedding 40 years ago.
"There is a core of around 20 who have always kept in touch and met up every five years since 1967. This is an extra reunion to mark the fact we started University and met 50 years ago. Not everyone is able to make every event, but there will be 17 of us meeting for the barbeque and visiting Dundee the next day.
"As most of us live in England, most of our reunions have taken place down here. I've not been back to the University for 20 years, and for some others it's been 30, so we're really excited to see the changes that have taken place since our days.
"I don't know exactly how we came to know each other - we studied different subjects and lived in different parts of town - but we made firm friendships that have stood the test of time."
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