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Fairmont State President Mirta Martin smiles as she watches community members applaud the decision to renew her contract in this 2019 photo.TWV FILE PHOTO
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. â Mirta Martin, president of Fairmont State University, was just named as one of three finalists for a presidential bid at Colorado Mesa University, according to a press release by CMU.
CMU said the presidential search has gone on over the last three months and has narrowed 64 applicants down to three, one of which is Martin.
CMU said in the release that Martin will join the other two candidates and engage the Universityâs various stakeholders through in-person campus visits during the week of April 26.
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PETER SONTAG
It seems to me that this country went seriously awry when voters elected a Democrat administration that rejects the fact that we’re a sovereign nation.
I’m an immigrant. Let me illustrate how immigration to the United States used to work:
¯ In the fall of 1964 I applied for an immigration visa at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, Austria. The absolutely necessary requirement of my application was that I had to have a sponsor and a letter with a job offer in the U.S., to prove that I would not be a burden to the U.S. taxpayers as part of my application.
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“I am where I am today because of God, my parents, the late Martha Hal, assistant principal at East High School and former Band Director at East High School and Tony Anderson, the Director of the Paragon Project at Fort Hayes,” said Goncalves, who currently studies music technology and performance at Jackson State University.
“Deshawn is an incredible talent with a wonderfully humble spirit,” said Dr. Tony Anderson, Assistant Principal at Fort HayesArts and Academic High School. “He is an old soul, and that musical knowledge coupled with his personality will serve him well.”
Meanwhile Grubbs, a sophomore at Fort Hayes, was born two and a half months premature and needed a ventilator to help his lungs develop. His mom knew he could sing when he belted out Hello by Adele at age 11.