Source: www.abqjournal.com - Monday, January 12, 2015
Conservative candidate Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic talks to the media outside a polling station in Zagreb, Croatia, Sunday, when she was elected president of Croatia. Grabar-Kitarovic graduated from Los Alamos High School as an exchange student in 1986. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) SANTA FE – A Los Alamos High School graduate has grown up to be president — of Croatia. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic graduated as a Hilltopper in 1986 after a year as an exchange student. On Sunday, she was elected as Croatia’s first female president. “This sets a new standard for our graduates,” said Los Alamos Public Schools Superintendent Eugene Schmidt. Grabar-Kitarovic, 46, described as a conservative populist by the Associated Press, defeated center-left incumbent Ivo Josipovic by a slim margin, with 50.54 percent of the vote. Schmidt sent a congratulatory email to Grabar-Kitarovic on Monday inviting her to visit Los Alamos whenever she’s back in the United States. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, the new Croatian president, in a yearbook picture from her days at Los Alamos High School. Los Alamos resident Dorothy Wilson, 89, was Grabar-Kitarovic’s advisor during the new president’s senior year and relayed her thoughts on her former student through superintendent Schmidt. Wilson “remembers her as very enthusiastic” and “as a student who wanted to learn as much as she could about our culture,” said Schmidt. The young Croatian student “liked to try all kinds of foods
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