Ray Gardner instructs his students in a forest technology class on the first day of class at Flathead Valley Community College in September 1967. (Inter Lake file photo)
April 1, 2017
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April 1, 2017 10:24 p.m.
'Visionary' civic leaders set the stage for FVCC
In 1967, three people sat around a table in the top floor of the Kalispell Public Library with a typewriter between them and a bullet-point plan to create a community college.