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Cunanan nominated for teacher plum
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Posted on Jan 02 2006
Mount Carmel School teacher Julieta D. Cunanan has been nominated by her students for the most prestigious teacher award in the country: the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers®.
National Academic Affairs chair Parke H. Davis said in a letter to Cunanan in November that she was nominated and selected for the award because she made a big difference in the lives of many of her students and former students.
Davis said that only 5 percent of the nation’s teachers are honored in each edition of Who’s Who and less than 2 percent are included in more than one edition.
“Students are clearly sending you a message of how special you are,” said Davis.
“I am very surprised [but] at the same time honored,” said Cunanan when she learned of her nomination—a first for her. “This is the best holiday present for me.”
She said yesterday afternoon that she is elated by the honor when she received the plaque last month. “Cunanan is recognized and honored for her contributions made to the education of the nation’s youth,” says the plaque.
Cunanan, who has teaching in the CNMI for 27 years now, is up for retirement soon. She taught in CNMI public schools for 25 years and is now on her second year at MCS teaching English Literature and Composition and NMI History.
She also has been active in several community services that she said have been her mission in the CNMI. Among her contributions are participations in the Adopt-A-Beach Program, Ecology Day, CNMI Beautification Day, American Red Cross Walkathon, Trash-a-thon, volunteer work for the Homework Center, Catechism, and CHC volunteers, among many others.
She’s also involved in coordinating school activities, functions and its community service participation. She is the adviser and the force behind last year’s “1st MCS Mr. and Ms. Model of the Year”.
Cunanan is the better half of Wilson Cunanan and the mother of two children, Christopher and Christine.
