{"id":392012,"date":"2023-05-19T06:06:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=392012"},"modified":"2023-05-19T06:06:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T20:06:54","slug":"nmc-hold-sands-of-time-ceremony-for-biz-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmc-hold-sands-of-time-ceremony-for-biz-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"NMC hold Sands of Time ceremony for biz graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_392023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392023\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NMC-pix1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-392023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NMC-pix1-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-392023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northern Marianas College School of Business holds its Sands of Time Ceremony for its Bachelor of Science in Business Management graduates last Wednesday night at the Saipan World Resort Taga Hall.<br \/>(LEIGH GASES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_392024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392024\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NMC-pix2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-392024 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NMC-pix2-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-392024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sands of Time Ceremony required each student to pour sand into a ceremonial vase, with each graduate being introduced with a word that best describes them and their journey.<br \/>(LEIGH GASES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Northern Marianas College School of Business held its\u00a0Sands of Time Ceremony for its Bachelor of Science in Business Management graduates last Wednesday night at the Saipan World Resort Taga Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony, which entailed each student pouring sand into a ceremonial vase and each graduate being introduced with a word that best describes them and their journey, was attended by the graduates\u2019 family and friends and NMC faculty and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The graduating students are Nadyne Dabu Achas, Jhairo Alon-Alon, Joan Marie Alvarico, Junelyn Carnaje, Xu Lucy Chen, Rachell Ann Cotin, Tania Sophia David, Jessy Dela Cruz, Maritoni Duarte, Yuri Fukushi, Kyle Merrill Garcia, Maene Iakopo, Dimitri Kaipat, Charleston Kim, Jim Lacsina, Rosalyn Ladra, Duncan Laxa, Frank Li, Junnan Li, Limeng Liu, Naureen Lozada, Nemerlyn Magat, Irvyn Malonzo, Yuta Mizuno, Lauren Montilla, Ranya Oh, Christine Pangelinan, Jenine Perena, Jelbert Quitugua, Tins Relevante, Ezekiel Rubio, Arni Salinas, Elijah San Jose, Shannan Sasamoto, Annaly Sebastian, Beah Sebio, Joseph Sion, Patcha Trakulchang, Vincent Tudela Jr., Julia Yasuda, Ni Yin, and Jing Zhao.<\/p>\n<p>The event\u2019s keynote speaker was Joe C. Guerrero, owner of Transcends, LLC.<\/p>\n<p>These 42 students will receive their Bachelor of Science degrees in Business Management today during NMC\u2019s 42nd Commencement Exercise at the Marianas High School gymnasium at 4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Northern Marianas College School of Business held its\u00a0Sands of Time Ceremony for its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":392023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-392012","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\/392012","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=392012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}