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Triple J offers perpetual scholarship
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Posted on Aug 01 2019
Robert “Bob” Jones, founder of Triple J Enterprises, announces the first perpetual Triple J scholarship to the recipient of the Robert H. Jones Award during the Northern Marianas Trades Institute fundraising gala last Friday. (Kimberly A. Bautista)
Triple J Enterprises will start offering a perpetual scholarship to the Northern Marianas Trades Institute culinary arts student who is chosen to receive the Robert H. Jones Award.
During the fourth annual NMTI fundraising gala last Friday, Robert H. Jones, founder and chairman of the Triple J Enterprises, announced that he will start offering a perpetual scholarship of $1,000 to whoever receives the award that’s been named after him.
In a short interview with Jones, he said the perpetual scholarship would give students in the culinary program the incentive to vie for the award.
Jones also hopes that the scholarship will encourage students to pursue higher education after NMTI.
“What we planned to do is give students more incentives to work hard and get that culinary award each year because giving them the award is one thing but encouraging them to go further to improve their education and even go to college, to look for opportunities to improve and extend their education, that’s the reason we gave $1,000,” he said.
The recipient of the Robert H. Jones Award and the first recipient of the scholarship is Ken Tanzawa.
NMTI CEO Agnes McPhetres said the announcement of the award is a great example of how the private sector and the educational system works hand in hand in the CNMI to provide the best education that will later be reflected in the workforce.
In an interview with Ross Manglona, NMTI director for Continuing Education, he said NMTI is excited because they didn’t exopect Triple J to give out the perpetual scholarship.
Manglona explained that the process of picking the winner of the award is simple and lies solely with the instructor of the program.
The instructors decide who their best students are and most of them are already in the workforce. For instance, Tanzawa is already in the workforce “so in order for you to qualify, you need to be in the workforce. That’s one of the basic requirements,” he said.
The Robert H. Jones Award was created to honor Jones.
