{"id":22130,"date":"2025-05-23T16:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photos-hundreds-send-off-the-montezuma-cortez-class-of-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:12:02","slug":"photos-hundreds-send-off-the-montezuma-cortez-class-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photos-hundreds-send-off-the-montezuma-cortez-class-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Hundreds send off the Montezuma-Cortez Class of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=305f7b07-929c-5f2f-bd6b-33f079bd642f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1447\" alt=\"Students symbolically turn their tassels from the right to the left side of their caps. (Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Students symbolically turn their tassels from the right to the left side of their caps. (Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of family and friends piled into the bleachers at Panther Stadium to watch the graduating seniors receive their diplomas.<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS Principal Jennifer Boniface served as emcee, and told the gathered crowd that this ceremony was a testament to 12 years of hard work by this class. \u201cYour journey has not always been easy, but you have persevered and achieved this significant milestone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The warm evening event opened with music by the Red Sky Drummers, a \u201cPomp and Circumstance\u201d processional performed by the M-CHS Symphonic Winds, a presentation of colors by the VFW Post 5231 Color Guard, the national anthem sung by the M-CHS Choir, and a blessing given by Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Councilwoman Tawnie Knight.<\/p>\n<p><!-- gallery:dd0f5068-19c3-4164-9de8-4fdb3c65684a --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, family fill Panther Stadium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,21,574,28,36,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-commencement","tag-cortez","tag-graduation","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77587,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130\/revisions\/77587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22130"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}