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Ray Jerrel’s bolo tie worn in this image has an


interesting history and great significance to him and others in the loop. At the center is a twenty dollar gold piece.


According to BenHavdahl, MCM’s second executive director in 1970 who served for twenty years, the tradition was started in the late ’60s and patterned after Montana’s thenGovernor Babcock who had served as MCM’s Chairman.Gov. Babcock was known for giving bolos as awards to various people when he wasGovernor. Leonard Eckel, MCM’s first executive director who


served for twenty-five years, liked the idea so much that he decided to follow suit. Thus it has continued as an honored tradition. Each year the outgoing MCM chairman is


presented with his own twenty dollar gold piece bolo tie complete with his name and the year(s) served as chairman engraved in the surrounding setting. By the way, when Ben started with MCM in the ’70s that twenty dollar gold piece actually cost $325.


PHOTOGRAPHY BY TOMBURTCHAELL 8 ROADWISE | ISSUE 3, 2013 | www.mttrucking.org


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