On This Day | Local Kid Earns Award
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GRAND FORKS, N. D. — Benjamin Braunberger of Minot, a senior engineering student at the University of North Dakota, has received the first Machine Design Award from the Industrial Press of New York City to be awarded at the University of North Dakota.
The award is given to a graduating senior at each of about 100 engineering colleges throughout the country who has done outstanding undergraduate work.
— April 19, 1962 | The Ward County Independent
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