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    <Title>Center of Attention: Andre Gudger '99</Title>
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          <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/magazine/fall09/andregudger.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Read more in the Fall 2009 issue of <em>UMBC Magazine</em>…</a></p></div>
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    <Title>Center of Attention: Andre Gudger &#8217;99</Title>
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    <Title>Art History: Christina Ralls '07</Title>
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    <Title>Art History: Christina Ralls &#8217;07</Title>
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    <Title>Charmed City by John Strausbaugh '74</Title>
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