{"id":368918,"date":"2022-05-23T06:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T20:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=368918"},"modified":"2022-05-23T06:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T20:05:13","slug":"368918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/368918\/","title":{"rendered":"Chen and Ada lead SHSS Class of 2022 graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_368919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368919\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SSHS-pix-11.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-368919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Top Ten Class of 2022 Southern High School graduates, from right to left,\u00a0Jia Li Chen, Juan Isaiah Jose Deleon Guerrero Ada, Anna Pan, Diana Cao, Marie Ann Hembra, (Marianne Kate Kapileo, who wasn\u2019t present during the graduation), Journey Te\u2019i Mafnas, Alyssa Jean Alegre, Claire Elisa Barrozo, and Pauline Shane Viray. (Leigh Gases)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A total of 151 graduates were conferred their high school diplomas at Southern High School\u2019s campus last Thursday, with Jia Li Chen named the class valedictorian and Juan Isaiah Jose Deleon Guerrero Ada the salutatorian.<\/p>\n<p>For the awardees, the recipient of the Governor\u2019s Leadership Award and the Board of Education award was Chen. The Commissioner of Education Award went to Ada.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_368913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368913\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jia-Li-Chen-11-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-368913\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-368913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JIA LI CHEN<br \/>Valedictorian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The recipient of the Lieutenant Governor\u2019s Leadership Award was Alyssa Jean Alegre, who was also the eighth in the graduating class\u2019 Top 10.<\/p>\n<p>The recipient of the Principal\u2019s Award was Fran\u2019ko Antwan Pangelinan Deleon Guerrero.<\/p>\n<p>The Top Ten awardees from first to 10th were Chen, Ada, Anna Pan, Diana Cao, Marie Ann Hembra, Marianne Kate Kapileo (who wasn\u2019t present during the graduation), Journey Te\u2019i Mafnas, Alegre, Claire Elisa Barrozo, and Pauline Shane Viray.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_368914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368914\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Juan-Isaiah-Jose-Deleon-Guerrero-Ada-11-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-368914\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-368914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JUAN ISAIAH JOSE DELEON GUERRERO ADA<br \/>Salutatorian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Keynote speaker Donovan Tudela, who was the Class of 2022 adviser and has been with the graduating class since their freshman year in 2018, gave an emotional and heartfelt keynote speech, where he could be heard choking up while holding back tears.<\/p>\n<p>Education commissioner Dr. Alfred Ada finally did what he said he has always wanted to do, which was to chant \u201cManta, manta, manta!\u201d He received a thunderous \u201cRay!\u201d each time from the graduates, together with applause and cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 151 graduates were conferred their high school diplomas at Southern High School\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":368920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368918","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\/368918","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}