Marion College was a Lutheran junior women's college that operated in Marion, Virginia, from 1873 to 1967.Thomas W. West: Marion College, 1873-1967, Shenandoah Publishing House Inc., Strasburg, Va., 1970, 298 pp.
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
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