Members of the Mooroopna Base Hospital and Goulburn Valley Base Hospital Graduates Association marked the occasion with scrumptious food and overdue catch-ups.
Association president Margaret Mouser said the 60th annual event was a chance for the women to revisit memories together.
‘‘We all just look at it as the opportunity to meet up with nurses that we perhaps haven’t seen for some time to reminisce on particularly our training days and our working life as nurses.’’
She said the first reunion was held in 1959 and has continued on all these decades later, with 84 people in attendance at last week’s event.
Association secretary Anne Lawer said the reunion had become an annual highlight for many.
She said while many of the former nurses had moved on from the Goulburn Valley area, many still made the effort to return for the event each year — with some women having attended more than 50 reunions.
Melbourne resident Kath Theobald who trained in the Mooroopna Base Hospital from 1943 to 1946, was among those at the event.
Ms Theobald made the trip from Melbourne where she was invited to cut the 60th anniversary cake as the earliest trainee present on the day.
‘‘I felt very privileged, I wasn’t expecting that at all,’’ she said.
Ms Mouser said overall the reunion was a successful event in which the women enjoyed their afternoon together.
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