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In his 15-year tenure, Bruce L. Dennis led Packer through two successful strategic plans, expanded its academic and cocurricular programs, doubled its endowment, renovated three-quarters of its existing spaces, and expanded the campus beyond Joralemon Street for the first time in its 174-year history. The world beyond the “old grey ivied walls” took notice.
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