GRAND FORKS — Kendall Baker, former president of the University of North Dakota from 1992 to 1999, died on Thursday, Nov. 27, in Windsor, Colorado.

Baker served at UND through the Flood of 1997 and worked with the city of Grand Forks and other partners to coordinate evacuations, emergency housing and relocation of the Emergency Operations Center, a news release from the university said.

“We talk about our years at UND all the time, and we talk about the flood for days,” Kendall Baker said in a 2016 Grand Forks Herald story. “There is no question in the world about the strength of our relationship to North Dakota, to Grand Forks and UND. If you watch me on the couch when the hockey team or football team plays, it’s pretty clear we’re strong supporters of the university and its academic pr

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