By Gemma Q. Casas
Variety News Staff

A SENATE resolution has been pre-filed to honor a 29-year-old mother from Rota who became the first Truman Scholar from the CNMI and will get the chance to work as an intern in Washington, D.C.
Elvira Manglona, a former collection specialist at the Commonwealth Utilities Corp., will complete her graduate studies in public administration in May 2008 using the Truman Scholarship.
Sen. Paul A. Manglona, R-Rota, prefiled a resolution on March 28 expressing the Senate’s congratulations and acknowledgment to Manglona.
According to Senate Resolution 15-44, Elvira Manglona graduated from Rota High School in 1996. She earned her associate degree from Northern Marianas College’s Rota campus.
She then worked at CUC but later left to study on Guam.
In Dec. 2006, she got her bachelor of science degree in public administration from the University of Guam.
The senator said Manglona should be commended for getting the Truman scholarship, a national award established by Congress in honor of the late President Harry S. Truman.
President Gerald R. Ford, who signed the CNMI’s Covenant agreement with the United States, signed the law creating the Truman Scholarship which began in the 1977-78 academic year.
“Elvira Manglona is the seventh University of Guam student in the past eight years to receive the honor,” the resolution stated. “Now therefore, be it resolved by the Senate of the 15th Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature that the Senate hereby expresses its utmost admiration, commendation, congratulations and acknowledgment to Ms. Elvira Manglona for her exemplary accomplishments in her educational endeavors abroad and for bringing pride and recognition to the people of the commonwealth, most especially the people of Rota.”