{"id":253765,"date":"2017-06-05T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=253765"},"modified":"2017-06-05T06:06:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:06:14","slug":"eucon-valedictorian-aims-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/eucon-valedictorian-aims-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Eucon valedictorian aims to be doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-253765 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\/eucon-valedictorian-aims-doctor\/lenard-marcial\/'>Lenard-Marcial<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-253767'>\n\t\t\t\tLENARD MARCIA\nPresident\u2019s Award\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\/eucon-valedictorian-aims-doctor\/betty-zhang\/'>Betty-Zhang<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-253769'>\n\t\t\t\tBETTY ZHANG\nDean\u2019s Award\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\/eucon-valedictorian-aims-doctor\/obadiah-chang\/'>Obadiah-Chang<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-253766'>\n\t\t\t\tOBADIAH CHANG\nPrincipal\u2019s Award\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\/eucon-valedictorian-aims-doctor\/eucon-pix-5\/'>Eucon-pix<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-253768'>\n\t\t\t\tEucon University\u2019s Class of 201. (Erwin Encinares)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Eucon University\u2019s high school graduation last Friday saw 10 students of the Class of 2017 moving on to pursue higher education.<\/p>\n<p>Lenard Marcial, who led the class as the recipient of the president\u2019s award, which is Eucon\u2019s equivalent of a valedictorian, said he wants to be a missionary doctor one day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI plan to take a couple of classes here in Eucon to further my spiritual excellence before going on to the U.S. to pursue pre-medicine and hopefully become a missionary doctor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Marcial plans to take his first semester in Eucon before visiting relatives in the Philippines and finally attending classes at Pensacola Christian College in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Following Marcial in ranking was Betty Zhang. Zhang, recipient of the dean\u2019s award, which is Eucon\u2019s equivalent of a salutatorian, plans to finish a business degree from Arkansas\u2019 Ouachita Baptist University. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an excellent business school, so I decided to go there,\u201d said Zhang.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang wishes to get a master\u2019s degree but she is still undecided as to where she plans to get it.<\/p>\n<p>At Eucon, a third award known as the principal\u2019s award goes to the most improved student. Recipient Obadiah Chang has no particular choice on where he wants to go to college.<\/p>\n<p>Chang said he wished to become a missionary and plans to achieve it by taking up a Bible major at Florida\u2019s Pensacola Christian College.<\/p>\n<p>Chang is also interested in Eucon\u2019s master\u2019s degree in theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eucon University\u2019s high school graduation last Friday saw 10 students of the Class of 2017&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":253766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[56,17085,17086,17087],"class_list":["post-253765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","tag-business-3","tag-eucon-university","tag-lenard-marcial","tag-pensacola-christian-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253765","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=253765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}