Hi-Line Living: Graduates celebrate Northern

Victor Gone smiled as he stood outside the Armory Gymnasium at Montana State University-Northern in his graduation gown, surrounded by his fellow graduates and their families.

May 5 was a day he had been working toward for awhile.

"It was one I never thought I would get to," he said.

Gone, like hundreds of others, had walked into the gymnasium and emerged hours later as a graduate.

Gone said he never dreamed of getting a Bachelors of Science in biology until 2014 when he graduated with an associate degree from Aaniiih Nakoda College.

"I went to school and I liked it so much, I figured I would...