{"id":244653,"date":"2017-01-18T06:06:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T20:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=244653"},"modified":"2017-01-18T06:06:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T20:06:30","slug":"nmc-alumni-association-reestablished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmc-alumni-association-reestablished\/","title":{"rendered":"NMC Alumni Association reestablished"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_244654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244654\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Alumni-pix.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-244654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Alumni-pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Marianas College Alumni Association&#039;s newly elected president Jack Kiyoshi, back row, fifth from left, poses with members of the alumni association and NMC president Dr. Carmen Fernandez, center, front. (Contributed Photo) \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-244654\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Marianas College Alumni Association&#8217;s newly elected president Jack Kiyoshi, back row, fifth from left, poses with members of the alumni association and NMC president Dr. Carmen Fernandez, center, front. (Contributed Photo)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Northern Marianas College reestablished its alumni association last Jan. 13 when graduates of the CNMI\u2019s lone college met to elect a fresh set of officers.<\/p>\n<p>NMC president Dr. Carmen Fernandez said at the meeting that the alumni association, officially called Northern Marianas College Alumni Association, was one of her main priorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe organization plays a very important function in the overall mission of the college, and we are glad that plans are underway for a number of activities that will engage our graduates both on island and those who are living in other parts of the world,\u201d Fernandez said.<\/p>\n<p>The NMCAA has been dormant since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was called to allow members of the association to elect officials: Jack Kiyoshi as NMCAA president, Jesse Deleon Guerrero as vice president, Timberly Ngewakl as treasurer, and Christina Cruz as secretary. <\/p>\n<p>Kiyoshi said he is excited to work with the new officers and others who are committed to rebuild the alumni association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be organizing our first social event, which will be held in February,\u201d Kiyoshi said.<\/p>\n<p>He plans to add perks for being a member of the reestablished NMCAA, such as discounts and special offers exclusive to NMC alumnus.<\/p>\n<p>Kiyoshi also wants to create a membership card for NMC alumni that would allow them to benefit from discounts and special offers from business establishments on the island.<\/p>\n<p>Kiyoshi encouraged all NMC graduates or those who have earned at least 24 NMC credits to join the association.<\/p>\n<p>NMCAA is an association established in 2008 and is made up of both alumnus of the college and students that have earned at least 24 units in the college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas College reestablished its alumni association last Jan. 13 when graduates of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":244654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3349,26,534,15173],"class_list":["post-244653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","tag-carmen-fernandez","tag-cnmi","tag-jack-kiyoshi","tag-nmcaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}