FVCC 50th exhibit to open Tuesday

Snapshots into Flathead Valley Community College’s past will be on display in Kalispell starting next week.

An exhibit in honor of the community college’s 50th anniversary will open Tuesday at the Museum at Central School in Kalispell. The exhibit will showcase items and photographs spanning FVCC’s five decades.

An opening reception is scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m. Bill McClaren, one of the community college founders, will welcome attendees. The exhibit will remain on display at the museum until September.

Prior to moving to its current location in 1990, FVCC was scattered in several buildings throughout downtown Kalispell.

“We found space wherever we could,” McClaren said.

One of those spaces was the Museum at Central School.

In 1969, FVCC moved classrooms into the historic Central School. The building became a home for science labs, student services, the bookstore, Adult Basic Education, the media center and the student newspaper the Mnemosyne, according to the college.

The April 11 reception is free and open to the public and will include cookies and iced tea.

For more information, call the Foundation at FVCC at 406-756-3832 or visit www.fvcc.edu/50.