A daughter of a CNMI government employee will be inducted this fall to the elite National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Vanessa R. Flores will be newest addition to this group of scholars, whose honorary board members include noted politicians and business executives.
“We are very, very proud of her. We know she can make it,” John T. Flores, her father, told Variety, Friday.
He is the office manager of the Office of the Governor’s Office and is married to Ladana R. Flores.
Vanessa Flores, 24, is an associate in arts magna cum laude of Northern Marianas College in 1998. She is now studying nutritional education at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.
She is a former student of San Vicente Elementary School, Hopwood Junior High School and Mt. Carmel High School.
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars provides the opportunity for students to be recognized for their accomplishments early in their college experience, said Steve Loflin, the society’s executive director.
The society is “a highly selective, national, non-profit honors organization.” Founded in 1994, it recognizes first and second year students who excel academically.
Its honorary board of regents is chaired by retired Gen. William J. Crowe, Jr., the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the former U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Among the honorary regents are former U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman, Washington University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, former Princetown University President Harold T. Shapiro, J.W. Marriott, Jr., chairman and CEO of Marriott International, Inc., Bob Woodward, assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, and Peter R. Kann, chairman and CEO of Dow Jones & Company, and publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
