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'Heart, spirit, soul' of SCCC dies at 94

Albert Ammerman, the founding president of Suffolk County Community College who built the two-year school from the ground up and led what became a three-campus "people's college" for 22 years, has died. He was 94.

The former administrator retired in 1983 but maintained a connection to the school, often showing up at graduations. He died Wednesday at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port...

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