SAUGUS Congratulations Saugus High School Class of 2022! Congratulations Saugus High School Class of 2022! Vol. 25, No. 23 -FREE- www.advocatenews.net Published Every Friday SALUTING SAUGUS HIGH 2022 GRADUATES 781-233-4446 Friday, June 10, 2022 A 5,500-Plus Mile Odyssey A Saugus couple emigrated from Cameroon more than 17 years ago, seeking higher education for their daughter By Mark E. Vogler I t’s more than 5,500 miles as the crow fl ies from Saugus to Cameroon, a country in west-central Africa. But that’s how far Jean-Martin and Linda Kembo were willing to immigrate to realize hopes that their daughter, Crystal Fosung Kembo — who was 10 months old when they left Cameroon — would one day go to college. The Kembos fi rst settled in ON TOP OF THEIR WORLD: Lindsey Rose McGovern, this year’s Salutatorian — an honor bestowed upon the second-top-ranked student in the Saugus High School Class of 2022 — relaxes with Class Valedictorian Jason Patrick Ciampa, the student with the best scholastic score, just minutes before last Friday (June 3) night’s 151st Commencement Exercises at Christie Serino Jr. Memorial Stadium. Please inside for more photos, speeches by Lindsey and Jason and complete coverage on the graduation, including “The Sounds of Saugus” and “The Advocate Asks” interview with Honors Graduate Crystal Fosung Kembo. (Saugus Advocate photo by Mark E. Vogler). ~ Home of the Week ~ SAUGUS.....Elegant, Custom CE Col boasting 10+ rms, 4 bedrms, 3 1/2 baths, gorgeous, gourmet kit w/custom quartz counters & center island, top-of-the-line Wolfe 6 burner gas stove w/griddle molding throughout, incredible master suite w/”walk-around” walkin closet & NEW bath w/oversized, custom shower & double sink rig y View hew the interior of fthis home ght on yo smartphhone. g our ASNGELO’ FULL SERVICE Regular Unleaded $4.899 Mid Unleaded $4.999 Super $5.549 Diesel Fuel $5.699 44 Years of Excellence!! 1978-2022 KERO $8.99 DEF $4.75 9 Diesel $5.149 9 HEATING OIL 24-Hour Burner Service Call for Current Price! DEF Available by Pump! Open an account and order online at: www.angelosoil.com (781) 231-3500 (781) 231-3003 367 LINCOLN A A Hours: Mon. - Tues. 6AM - 6PM / Thurs. & Fri. 6AM - 7PM / Sat. 7AM - 5PM / Sun. 9AM-1PM Malden. And then in 2004, when Crystal was four, they decided they wanted to buy a home. They found an oldstyle 1904 vintage home on Newhall Street in Saugus in 2007, bought the house and moved here to pave the way for Crystal’s pursuit of public education in Saugus. But that part of Crystal’s journey offi cially ended last Friday night (June 3) when she walked off the graduation stage at Christie Serino Jr. Memorial Stadium, as a Graduate Honors Student, carrying a diploma while wearing a mortarboard with facsimile of the Cameroon fl ag attached to the top. The next leg of her education odyssey begins in the fall, when Crystal goes to Brown University to study International and Public Aff airs. She is one of Saugus’s 63 fi rst generation college students of 132 who are college-bound this year. (See inside for this week’s “The Advocate Asks” interview with Crystal.) “This means they are the fi rst in their immediate family to attend college,” Saugus Public Schools Superintendent Erin McMahon said in her speech at Saugus High’s 151st Commencement Exercises — the fi rst one hosted at the new Christie Serino ODYSSEY | SEE PAGE 2 Prices subject to change Ask about our Heating Oil Conditioner! FLEET
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