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During his tenure as president, the college's enrollment and the size of its faculty nearly doubled and its endowment grew nine-fold. Spragens is also credited for the Fund for the Future Campaign, which raised about $34 million. Many of the buildings that stand at Centre today were constructed during his presidency, including the Regional Arts Center (renamed the Norton Center for the Arts), Grace Doherty Library, Young Hall, and a number of dormatories. During his lifetime he was also very active in the community of Danville and the Commonwealth , as well as in Civil Rights issues, Democatic Party politics, and the Presbyterian Church .

Spragens died February 11 , 2006 in Columbia, SC at age 88.


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