Ramón Humberto Dovalina (born July 13, 1943), is the retired fifth president of

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, a two-year institution with the main campus on the grounds of historic Fort McIntosh on the

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in his native Laredo in Webb County in

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. With service from July 5, 1995, until August 31, 2007, Dovalina left the position with two years remaining in his contract. Under Dovalina, the physical appearance of the college was upgraded, the

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endowment fund increased from $100,000 in 1995 to more than $1 million in 2007, the institution advanced a 10-year master plan for new technology, and a $50 million South Campus was opened. On September 28, 2007, Dovalina and his predecessor, Roger L. Worsley, were each named president emeritus during the sixtieth anniversary celebration of the founding of LCC, originally Laredo Junior College.

Uncle

One of Dovalina's uncles, Alfredo G. Dovalina (1915–2017), was awarded three

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s and other citations with the

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and played professional baseball for teams in both Texas and Mexico, including Lockhart, Fort Worth,

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, and

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. He was an inductee of the Laredo Latin American Hall Fame and the Rio Grande Valley Baseball Hall of Fame. For thirty-two years, Alfredo Dovalina was the Laredo fire marshal. Upon his death at the age of 101, he was the oldest living firefighter in Laredo.

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