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Marion College, Virginia

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Type
  
Junior College

Affiliation
  
Lutheran

Active
  
1873–1967

Colors
  
Purple and Gold

Location
  
Marion, Virginia, United States

Marion College was a Lutheran junior women's college that operated in Marion, Virginia from 1873 to 1967.

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

  • Brenda Holsinger Schwarzkopf, wife of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
  • References

    Marion College, Virginia Wikipedia