Marion College was a

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, from 1873 to 1967.

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, 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

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