Marion College (Virginia)
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Type | Junior College |
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Active | 1873–1967 |
Affiliation | Lutheran |
Location | , , 36°49′56″N 81°31′24″W / 36.8323382°N 81.5234481°W |
Colors | Purple and Gold[1] |
Marion College was a Lutheran junior women's college that operated in Marion, Virginia, from 1873 to 1967.[2][3]
Roanoke College, a sister Lutheran college, adopted Marion's alumnae and maintains their records. Marion's alumnae have a reunion every other year on the Roanoke campus. Roanoke's Marion Hall, constructed in 1968 as a women's residence hall, is named in honor of Marion College.
Notable alumnae
[edit]- Brenda Holsinger Schwarzkopf, wife of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Wilson, Goodridge (1948). A Brief History of Marion College. Bristol, TN: The King Printing Co. p. 55. OCLC 729369. Retrieved July 12, 2007.
- ^ "Marion College Life Imperiled Over Finances". Washington Post. Associated Press. March 26, 1967.
- ^ Thomas W. West: Marion College, 1873-1967, Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., Strasburg, Va., 1970, 298 pp.
- ^ "U.S. Army General to be Honored as 2006 Distinguished German-American of the Year". German-American Heritage Foundation of the USA. Archived from the original on June 10, 2007. Retrieved July 12, 2007.
Brenda Schwarzkopf (nee Holsinger) hails from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. She graduated from Marion College, a Lutheran girls' college in Virginia.
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- Defunct private universities and colleges in Virginia
- Lutheran universities and colleges in the United States
- Lutheranism in Virginia
- Educational institutions established in 1873
- Educational institutions disestablished in 1967
- 1967 disestablishments in Virginia
- Two-year colleges in the United States
- 1873 establishments in Virginia
- Virginia university stubs