New Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan was sworn into office Monday at a small ceremony on the steps of Dufur School, delivering inaugural remarks from the classroom she attended fourth grade in. KTVZ in Bend reports Fagan’s oath was administered on the steps of the school by Judge Janet Stauffer, a Dufur resident. Fagan, who was raised by a single father in Dufur and The Dalles, said in her remarks that she struggled early on both at home and in school, but her fourth grade teacher in Dufur saw her potential and invited her into his after-school chess club, and she eventually became the first girl in Oregon to win the state championship in her division. Fagan was joined at the ceremony by her two children, her fiancé, and her aunt.