Graduation events set at Northern this weekend

Montana State University-Northern will hold its 68th graduation ceremony Saturday in the Armory Gymnasium.

This year’s commencement speaker will be U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. In March Zinke became the first Montanan to ever serve in a presidential cabinet when he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to his current post.

A native of Whitefish, Zinke is a retired Navy SEAL commander whose service has included tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. He served in the Montana Senate from 2009-2012, before he was elected to Montana’s only U.S. House seat in 2014 and re-elected last year.

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