{"id":35929,"date":"2015-06-23T17:35:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T03:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=35929"},"modified":"2021-08-13T15:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T01:28:22","slug":"first-uh-maui-college-chancellors-legacy-scholarship-awardees-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/23\/first-uh-maui-college-chancellors-legacy-scholarship-awardees-named\/","title":{"rendered":"First <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College Chancellor&#8217;s Legacy Scholarship awardees named"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_35933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35933\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/maui-ahnee-texeria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/maui-ahnee-texeria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/maui-ahnee-texeria.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/maui-ahnee-texeria-260x173.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College students Malia Ah Nee and Jerome Texeria receive the first ever awarded Chancellor&#8217;s Legacy Scholarship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Maui College<\/a> announced the first awardees of the Chancellor&#8217;s Legacy Scholarship&#8212;<strong>Jerome Texeria<\/strong> and <strong>Malia Ah Nee<\/strong>. Both <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College students received $5,000 scholarships funded through an endowment that honors the legacy of <strong>Clyde Sakamoto<\/strong>, who retired as chancellor after serving the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> System for 41 years.<\/p>\n<h2>Jerome Texeria<\/h2>\n<p>Texeria was born and raised in Maui, and graduated from Maui High School in 1997. He is currently pursuing his bachelor of applied science degree in <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/abit\/\">applied business and information technology<\/a> and is expecting to graduate in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#8217;m so appreciative&#8212;this scholarship will really help me reach my academic goals,&rdquo; said Texeria, who also worked with Sakamoto as a student assistant. &ldquo;I feel honored to be one of the first to receive this award. I love <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College, and the support I&#8217;ve received here has been huge.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Malia Ah Nee<\/h2>\n<p>Ah Nee is also pursuing her degree in applied business and information technology. &ldquo;Receiving the award meant a lot to me, especially because it was the Chancellor&#8217;s Legacy Scholarship,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At first I was a bit in shock, amazed, and grateful all at the same time. After the award ceremony I took a moment to truly reflect on my hard work and how it shaped me to be the person I am today. I will continue to be diligent and strive toward success in all aspects of my life. I would like to thank everyone who donated to this scholarship fund.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Get involved<\/h2>\n<p>To make a contribution to <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College contact the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Foundation at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College by phone at (808) 984-3471 or by <a href=\"mailto:Cordy.MacLaughlin@uhfoundation.org\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <em>A <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College news release<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College students Jerome Texeria and Malia Ah Nee receive first ever awarded Chancellor&#8217;s Legacy Scholarships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[572,660,71,319,60],"class_list":["post-35929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-scholarship","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-foundation","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35929"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146401,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35929\/revisions\/146401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}