{"id":8659,"date":"2015-05-20T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=8659"},"modified":"2015-05-20T16:17:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:17:48","slug":"collett-43-receives-honorary-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2015\/05\/20\/collett-43-receives-honorary-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Collett \u201943 receives honorary degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Hugh S. Collett \u201943<\/strong> was the 2015 commencement speaker and received an honorary bachelor\u2019s degree from Great Basin College in Elko, Nevada.\u00a0 Hugh is a founder of Elko Community College, now GBC, and has been on the GBC advisory board since 1967.\u00a0 He has served and supported the Elko community and higher education in rural Nevada, including teaching classes for LPN\u2019s and EMT\u2019s.\u00a0 Hugh has been devoted to education, serving on the Elko County School Board for 12 years, and he is Emeritus Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Nevada, Reno.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh graduated from Crawfordsville High School and then Wabash College in 1943.\u00a0 He earned his M.D. from Northwestern University School of Medicine and completed surgical training at the University of Chicago.\u00a0 He owned a surgical practice in Elko for 30 years until he retired in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Hugh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Hugh S. Collett \u201943 was the 2015 commencement speaker and received an honorary bachelor\u2019s degree from Great Basin College in Elko, Nevada.\u00a0 Hugh is a founder of Elko Community College, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8661,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}