Walter Ranger

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Walter Eugene Ranger was an American academic administrator who served as the president of Rhode Island College in Rhode Island and Johnson State College in Vermont. [1] Born in Wilton, Maine he graduated from Bates College (1879) in Lewiston before becoming the principal of Lennox High School in Massachusetts. [1]

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  1. 1 2 Oliver B. Clason; et al. (1915). General Catalogue of Officers and Graduates of Bates College Including Cobb Divinity School, 1863-1891. Bates College. p. 95.