{"id":46696,"date":"2021-05-20T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-and-dolores-schools-have-graduation-ceremonies-tonight\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:33:27","slug":"cortez-and-dolores-schools-have-graduation-ceremonies-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-and-dolores-schools-have-graduation-ceremonies-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez and Dolores schools have graduation ceremonies tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=40634fab-feea-4de7-9d7d-37ca25e06d83&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1123\" alt=\"Families and friends watch during the commencement Montezuma-Cortez High School Class of 2019. (The Journal file)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Families and friends watch during the commencement Montezuma-Cortez High School Class of 2019. (The Journal file)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 Montezuma-Cortez High School graduation will take place tonight at 6:30 p.m at Panther Stadium, behind the Cortez Middle School.<\/p>\n<p>Weather conditions are expected to be breezy and sunny. There will be 138 seniors graduating.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be broadcast live on the M-CHS <a id=\"link-ea7e47918d30ca2b0e8b20d4a1c290fe\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube Channel<\/a>. If there are problems with the channel, the live feed will move to the M-CHS <a id=\"link-8f823558be7d41d7cda02b385bb5cd12\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>. YouTube channel users must subscribe, which is free.<\/p>\n<p>Math teacher Shelley Curtis will be the guest speaker. The valedictorian is Robert Hebert and the salutatorian is Destiny John. Bothv will give speeches.<\/p>\n<p>Senior class officers President Grace Olsen and Vice President Robert Hebert will recognize the retirees of the school district.<\/p>\n<p>Dolores High School commencement is at 6 p.m. at the high school gym.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Lis Richard and teacher Brooke Elder will give speeches at the Dolores graduation ceremony. Valedictorian Nina Hufman and salutatorian Justin Brunner also will give speeches. A slide show will be presented about the Dolores Class of 2021, which includes 31 graduates.<\/p>\n<p>After the Dolores graduation, students are invited to Operation Graduation at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds beginning at 10 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seniors graduate at Panther Stadium; Dolores ceremony at the high school gym<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,155,28,36,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-education","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\/46696","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=46696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86987,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46696\/revisions\/86987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46696"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}