When Ken Denning got a call a couple of weeks ago from MSU, it took him back many years to when he had graduated from Great Falls High School and started studying architecture at MSU in the fall of 1963.

Ken could go to MSU because he got a Presidential Academic Scholarship which paid his tuition to any school in Montana. He had to be in the top two percent of his class and maintain a 3.2 GPA in college.

Ken wrestled in high school so it seemed natural that MSU would want him to wrestle on the college team.

“There were lots of Great Falls kids on our team,” said Ken. “One year there...