South Dakota student helps promote beef at Harvard

Jager Robinson
May 6, 2019
May 6, 2019 Updated May 6, 2019

Bridger Gordon of Whitewood, S.D., is working toward a degree in economics at Harvard University and was recently awarded a scholarship from Beef Bucks.
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The Beef Bucks organization is making sure rural South Dakota is well represented in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after a recent scholarship was awarded to Bridger Gordon.

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