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Saipan student shines at Arizona university
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Posted on May 19 2005
Former Marianas High School valedictorian Eung Sung Jang was awarded Outstanding International Ambassador for the Accounting Department of the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona.
Eung graduated from MHS in 1998 and took up an associate degree at the Northern Marianas College, where he graduated summa cum laude in May 2002. He was then accepted at the University of Arizona where he majored in Accounting.
University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management presented the Outstanding International Ambassador medal to Eung last Saturday during its commencement ceremony.
The award recognizes Eung for achieving straight A’s in all of his subjects at the university. Eung also said in an e-mail that the award was given to him for his outstanding contributions to the culture and diversity of the university.
Eung will join the accounting group Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International on Guam in September. Right now he is currently busy reviewing for the upcoming Certified Public Accountants licensure exam this summer.
Eung is the son of Korean distance runner and tennis player Chang Whan Jang and Bo Ok Shin. He also represented the CNMI and the North Pacific in the Pacific Oceania Junior Championship in 1997.
Eung was the 1998 CNMI Junior Tennis champion, and served as team captain of the North Pacific Junior Tennis team in 1997 during the junior circuit in Fiji, American Samoa, and Western Samoa.
“After high school, I [also] studied airplane mechanics and obtained my FAA Airframe & Powerplant license, but my friends sighed with relief when I decided to study accounting as mechanics was not exactly my forte,” said Eung.
