{"id":3947,"date":"2014-02-13T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2022-03-24T10:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:44:47","slug":"award-for-japanese-speech-a-k-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/award-for-japanese-speech-a-k-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Award for Japanese Speech a K First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/02\/apaneseEvent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3948 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/02\/apaneseEvent.jpg\" alt=\"Megan Davis and Katherine Ballew with Professor Sugimori\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Senior <strong>Megan Davis<\/strong> and first-year <strong>Katherine Ballew<\/strong> participated in the Michigan Japanese Speech Contest (held at Hinoki International School, Livonia, Mich.). The title of Megan\u2019s speech was &#8220;A Moment in Which I Made a new Realization About the World.&#8221; Katherine\u2019s speech, &#8220;Heading Toward a World Without Racism&#8221; was awarded an Honorary Mention. It was the first time a Kalamazoo College student has won award in the Japanese speech contest. The students attended the contest with <strong>Noriko Akimoto Sugimori<\/strong>, assistant professor of Japanese language. Pictured at left are (l-r): Megan, Katherine, and Professor Sugimori.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Megan Davis and first-year Katherine Ballew participated in the Michigan Japanese Speech Contest (held at Hinoki International School, Livonia, Mich.). The title of Megan\u2019s speech was &#8220;A Moment in Which I Made a new Realization About the World.&#8221; Katherine\u2019s speech, &#8220;Heading Toward a World Without Racism&#8221; was awarded an Honorary Mention. 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Japanese Speech Contest (held at Hinoki International School, Livonia, Mich.). The title of Megan\u2019s speech was &#8220;A Moment in Which I Made a new Realization About the World.&#8221; Katherine\u2019s speech, &#8220;Heading Toward a World Without Racism&#8221; was awarded an Honorary Mention. It was the first time a Kalamazoo College student has won award in the Japanese speech contest. The students attended the contest with <strong>Noriko Akimoto Sugimori<\/strong>, assistant professor of Japanese language. Pictured at left are (l-r): Megan, Katherine, and Professor Sugimori.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9602,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/9602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}