{"id":347727,"date":"2021-07-12T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=347727"},"modified":"2021-07-12T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T20:00:16","slug":"nmcs-staff-senate-recognizes-three-outstanding-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmcs-staff-senate-recognizes-three-outstanding-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"NMC\u2019s Staff Senate recognizes three outstanding employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its efforts to recognize and acknowledge staff members\u2019 hard work and commitment to students, the Northern Marianas College\u2019s Staff Senate named three employees as \u201cStaff of the Quarter\u201d awardees.<\/p>\n<p>The three individuals are:<\/p>\n<p>Renedel Buno, Database administrator;<\/p>\n<p>Robbie Suzuki Jr., extension agent for the Family, Community, and Youth Development Program of NMC\u2019s Cooperative Research, Extension, and Education Services; and<\/p>\n<p>Raynard Travilla, interim director for Marketing and Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Each of them will receive a monetary prize and a reserved parking slot for the quarter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_347729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-347729\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-347729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Renedel-Buno-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-347729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buno<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Renedel Buno, Raynard Travilla, and Robert Suzuki Jr. for your enthusiasm, quiet strength, and devotion to the work of the college,\u201d said Geri Rodgers, NMC Staff Senate president.\u00a0 \u201cYou are greatly appreciated!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Staff Senate sponsored the Summer Coffee Connection to celebrate three staff members.\u00a0They were nominated and voted by their peers for the coveted title of Staff of the Quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very grateful to the Staff Senate and the PROA family for this recognition,\u201d Buno said. \u201cIt is an honor to be working alongside this community. Also, I want to thank my fellow team members at the Information Technology department and the Office of institutional Advancement\u2014my work would not be possible without their help and support.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_347728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-347728\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-347728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ray-Travilla-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-347728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travilla<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Travilla said that he is honored to receive the distinction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored and humbled to receive this recognition,\u201d Travilla said. \u201cI would like to thank NMC\u2019s Staff Senate and the staff members that voted. I would also like to thank and recognize the team that I work with on a daily basis at the Office of Institutional Advancement because they are just as deserving of this recognition as me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_347730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-347730\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-347730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Robbie-Suzuki-Jr-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-347730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzuki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Suzuki shared the same sentiments. \u201cI want to thank the NMC college community for voting me as staff of the quarter,\u201d Suzuki said. \u201cThis acknowledgement came as a shock to me. All the work that I have done and continue to do within my capacity is to help supply our community and youth members with the skills and opportunities to be self-sufficient and productive members of our society. I am very grateful and honored for this acknowledgment and for all the awesome leadership and mentorship from dean Patty Coleman, the program leaders at CREES, and [former interim NMC president] Frankie [Eliptico]. I look forward to continuing the work we do at NMC with the leadership of President Galvin Deleon Guerrero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NMC president Galvin Deleon Guerrero said congratulated the three \u201cfor earning the recognition from their peers and thank them for their service to our students and the campus community.\u201d <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its efforts to recognize and acknowledge staff members\u2019 hard work and commitment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":347801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-347727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347727","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}