{"id":40499,"date":"2022-05-20T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-celebrates-success-of-36-graduates\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:56:02","slug":"dolores-celebrates-success-of-36-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-celebrates-success-of-36-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores celebrates success of 36 graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=10e2d0b4-2f90-50f8-951c-0b9990820bac&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1220\" alt=\"Dolores High School graduates were all smiles during Thursday's ceremony. From left are salutatorian Shiloh Burger, Gabe Allred, Dan Vandever, Caleb Montoya and Jacob Presnell. (Photo courtesy Kylie Wagaman)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dolores High School graduates were all smiles during Thursday's ceremony. From left are salutatorian Shiloh Burger, Gabe Allred, Dan Vandever, Caleb Montoya and Jacob Presnell. (Photo courtesy Kylie Wagaman)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>An enthusiastic crowd sent 36 Dolores High School graduates into the wider world during a festive commencement Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Inspiring speeches were delivered by Superintendent Reece Blincoe, social studies teacher Michael Nielson, valedictorian Erin Brown, salutatorian Shiloh Burger and class President Olivia Cosner.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=435ab143-9d0e-51ed-a3bf-f57acfc0d989&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"667\" alt=\"Dolores High School class President Olivia Cosner gave a speech reminiscing about school days in Dolores.  (Photo courtesy Ryan Muff, 10th grade)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dolores High School class President Olivia Cosner gave a speech reminiscing about school days in Dolores.  (Photo courtesy Ryan Muff, 10th grade)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>\u201cThe gym was packed. I did not see an empty seat,\u201d said science teacher Pete Swingle. \u201cThe crowd was so enthusiastic as the graduates marched in and the band played \u201dPomp and Circumstance.\u201c The speeches were delivered with a lot of energy and were the best I\u2019ve heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blincoe praised the resiliency of the graduating students and their ability to bounce back from the disruptions of the pandemic the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Graduates are taking various paths, Swingle said, from ongoing education and the military, to trade jobs, science and art careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very proud of all of them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on Class of 2022 during packed ceremony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-40499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499","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=40499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84668,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions\/84668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=40499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}