Family creates Scot Strauser Memorial Scholarship

Press release

The MSU-Northern Foundation has announced that the family of the late Scot Strauser has created a new scholarship in his memory.

Strauser, a lifelong resident of the Havre area, died in March. The new scholarship will go to support Montana State University-Northern students who are part of the Rodeo Club.

Rylee Strauser, a 2006 Northern alum and niece of Strauser, contacted the Foundation about setting up the scholarship. She, along with Scot's son, Sandy Strauser, felt that supporting a student participating in rodeo would be the best way to honor his memory.

The Strausers were...