{"id":358897,"date":"2022-01-04T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=358897"},"modified":"2022-01-04T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:00:10","slug":"legislature-honors-uog-endowment-foundation-and-scholarship-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/legislature-honors-uog-endowment-foundation-and-scholarship-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislature honors UOG Endowment Foundation and scholarship donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_358898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358898\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/UOG-Endowment-pix-11.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-358898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Katrina Perez, executive director, University of Guam Endowment Foundation; scholarship founders Dr. James and Young Hee Ji; scholarship founder Gerry Perez; Wilfred Leon Guerrero, UOGEF chairman and UOG president emeritus; and Sen. Amanda L. Shelton of the 36th Guam Legislature.\u00a0(UOG Endowment Foundation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In connection with National Scholarship Month last November, the University of Guam Endowment Foundation and several of the foundation\u2019s most generous and longest-term scholarship donors were recognized by the Guam Legislature last Dec. 14.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Amanda L. Shelton presented a legislative resolution to the UOG Endowment Foundation and certificates of recognition to endowed scholarship founders, including the late Dr. Charles Parent; Gerry Perez; James and Young Hee Ji; Frederick J. Horecky; the University of Guam\u2019s Society of Emeritus Professors and Retired Scholars; and IT&amp;E Overseas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since January 2000, the UOGEF has awarded $559,890 in scholarships to UOG students and continues to raise funds through campaigns year-round.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how to donate to these scholarships or other endeavors that support UOG students and programs, contact the University of Guam Endowment Foundation at (671) 735-2957 or\u00a0info@uogendowment.org, or visit\u00a0https:\/\/give.uog.edu. <strong>(UOG)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In connection with National Scholarship Month last November, the University of Guam Endowment Foundation and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":358899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358897","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=358897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}