Northern will honor four

In its annual awards banquet the night before graduation, Montana State University-Northern will honor four of its graduates along with the 50-year reunion of the class of 1953.

The four graduates to be honored with the 2003 Founders' Excellence Awards at the banquet May 9 are Norm Gorder and Ken and Karen Myers of Havre, and John Kuhr of Kalispell.

Gorder, a 1939 graduate of Northern Montana College, now MSU-N, served in North Africa, India, Bangladesh and the Himalayan Mountains on the border of Nepal and Tibet as a medical technician in the U.S. military in World War II.

Gorder worked for H...