Bandy, Baker selected for Founders awards

Havre businessman Tom Baker and Northern Montana College's first football coach, the late-George Bandy, will receive the Montana State University-Northern's Founders Award at the annual dinner May 6.

Jim Bennett, executive director of the Montana State University-Northern Foundation, said the committee that makes the choices for the award praised the two for their contributions to Northern over the years. It was felt that honoring these two is long overdue, Bennett said.

Baker, a Havre native and graduate of St. Jude Thaddeus School and Havre Central High School, is a Northern graduate....