{"id":253073,"date":"2017-05-25T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=253073"},"modified":"2017-05-25T06:06:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T20:06:14","slug":"khs-last-class-90s-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/khs-last-class-90s-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"KHS\u2019 last class of the \u201990s graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-253073 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/khs-last-class-90s-graduate\/khs-pix-2-4\/'>KHS-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-253074'>\n\t\t\t\tIramhel N. Talon, Salutatorian\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/khs-last-class-90s-graduate\/khs-pix-3-2\/'>KHS-pix-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-253075'>\n\t\t\t\tGov. Ralph DLG Torres delivers his keynote address to the Kagman High School\u2019s Class 2017 during their graduating ceremony yesterday at the American Memorial Park amphitheater. ( Photos by Erwin Encinares)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/khs-last-class-90s-graduate\/khs-pix-1-4\/'>KHS-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-253076'>\n\t\t\t\tKycel P. Butters, Valedictorian\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The 102 senior graduates of Kagman High School, which is also the school\u2019s last class of the 1990s, graduated yesterday at the American Memorial Park amphitheater. <\/p>\n<p>Class of 2017\u2019s valedictorian and Million Dollar Scholar Kycel P. Butters is headed to Virginia\u2019s Hollins University under a full scholarship majoring in psychology.<\/p>\n<p>Butters mentioned that finishing school and obtaining a degree is at the top of her priorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am just really happy because I have been working really hard since elementary. This is the only thing I would like to do for my parents,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI plan to come back [to Saipan] after college for sure, I am just not sure when yet,\u201d said Butters when asked about returning to the CNMI after college.<\/p>\n<p>Butters was also accepted in the University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado State University, Rocky Mountain College in Montana, and George Mason University in Virginia. She also received English, mathematics, science, Japanese, and physical education departmental content area awards as well as the outstanding female graduate award.<\/p>\n<p>KHS class of 2017 salutatorian Iramhel N. Talon would be attending the Northern Marianas College this coming semester.<\/p>\n<p>Talon said she plans to pursue a degree majoring in education, specifically in rehabilitation and human services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like helping and guiding people,\u201d said Talon when asked why she wished to pursue such a degree.<\/p>\n<p>Talon added that she wishes to return to KHS as a counselor before thinking of possibly pursuing a doctorate in the future. <\/p>\n<p>Besides being announced as Class of 2017\u2019s salutatorian, Talon received the social studies and Japanese departmental content area awards as well.<\/p>\n<p>Also honored during the graduation was Alfred N. Ngalongalo who received the Marine Corps\u2019 scholastic excellence award and the Mayor of Saipan Community Service Award. Brittney Hamilton was also a recipient of the Marine Corps\u2019 scholastic excellence award as well.<\/p>\n<p>KHS calls the 2017 graduates last of 1990s since from here on out those graduating from the school are born in the year 2000 and up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 102 senior graduates of Kagman High School, which is also the school\u2019s last class&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":253074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[37,16942,968,1229],"class_list":["post-253073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","tag-education-2","tag-hollins-university","tag-khs","tag-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253073","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=253073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}