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Sandra Kay Foster, a 1972 graduate of Longwood College, made the dean’s list for academic excellence during the spring semester.
She was one of 244 Longwood students, in an enrollment of 2,100 at the college, who achieved the distinction of earning an academic average of 3.5 (B plus) from a possible 4.0 during the second 16
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