{"id":72211,"date":"2017-05-17T10:49:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southwest-colorado-grads-to-be-honored-next-week\/"},"modified":"2017-05-17T16:49:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:49:57","slug":"southwest-colorado-grads-to-be-honored-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southwest-colorado-grads-to-be-honored-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Colorado grads to be honored next week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0b350bce-bf66-4a7b-9536-a1aa881b1209&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1023\" alt=\"The Montezuma-Cortez High School Class of 2017 has 145 members, and they will be honored in the school\u2019s commencement ceremony next week.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Montezuma-Cortez High School Class of 2017 has 145 members, and they will be honored in the school\u2019s commencement ceremony next week.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Kenneth Stepp\/Courtesy of M-CHS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Local graduates will celebrate a rite of passage with the following commencement ceremonies next week in Montezuma and Dolores counties.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Montezuma-Cortez High School\u2019s commencement ceremony will be May 25 at 6:30 p.m. at Panther Field. M-CHS English Teacher Joe Konik will be the guest speaker for the ceremony. Science teacher Eric Chandler and foreign languages teacher Sonja Copeland will read graduates\u2019 names.<\/em>The valedictorian and salutatorian for the class will be announced next week, according to M-CHS secretary Deb Ramsey. There are about 145 members of the M-CHS Class of 2017, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The M-CHS senior picnic is on Monday at 11:30 a.m. Senior awards night will be Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., and the baccalaureate program ceremony is Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Graduation practice will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday before the evening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Southwest Open School graduation ceremony is May 24 at 6:30 p.m. at the Montezuma County Annex building, 107 N. Chestnut.<\/em>The ceremony will last about three hours and will include parent participation, keynote speakers and a presentation from the Ute Mountain Ute tribe, SWOS Director Charlotte Wolf said.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Shinkle, from the Montezuma Inspire Coalition, will be the guest speaker for the event. Wolf said she anticipates a graduating class of more than 20 students this year.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Mancos High School\u2019s ceremony is Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Performance Center on the west side of the school\u2019s campus.<\/em>The keynote speaker will be Mancos Elementary Principal Cathy Epps. The valedictorian for the Mancos Class of 2017 is Brittney Peacock, and the salutatorian is Hannah Skinner.<\/p>\n<p>Peacock plans to attend Duke University to study something in the health care field. Skinner will attend the University of Wyoming to study psychology and wilderness therapy.<\/p>\n<p>There are 32 graduating seniors in the Mancos Class of 2017.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Dolores High School\u2019s graduation is May 27 at 10 a.m. in the main gym at the school. The keynote speaker is Dolores biology teacher Dave Hopcia.<\/em>The valedictorian is Bailey Boyd, and salutatorian is Abby Malarchick. Boyd plans to attend Colorado State University, and Malarchick plans to pursue cosmetology.<\/p>\n<p>There are 25 members of the Dolores Class of 2017, and they will be recognized prior to graduation in a senior awards ceremony, May 24 at 6:15 p.m. at the school gym.<\/p>\n<p>Dove Creek High School\u2019s graduation ceremony will be May 25 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools plan commencement ceremonies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,44,38,83,37,60,36],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-dolores-high-school","tag-mancos","tag-mancos-high-school","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72211","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=72211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72211"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}