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Former ECC president Paul Heath dies at 78

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Elgin Community College's "builder president" died Dec. 27 at age 78, about two decades after launching a $48 million expansion of the Spartan Drive campus. Paul Heath, ECC's fifth president, served from 1987 to 1994 and oversaw one of the greatest periods of growth and expansion at the college since the 1960s.