Article: Cedar Crest College's president, Dorothy Gulbenkian Blaney, dies: Champion of women's education recruited students from abroad.

Byline: Melanie Hughes and Genevieve Marshall

Jul. 11--Dorothy Gulbenkian Blaney, who for 17 years as president of Cedar Crest College championed the cause of elevating the education of women to the same rigorous academic achievement once reserved only for men, died about 5 p.m. Monday in her home on campus, a college spokesman said. She was 65. Blaney, who took over the Allentown women's college in 1989 when it was struggling and gave it new stature and renewed vigor, had been battling cervical cancer for two years.

Michael Traupman, director of college relations, and Blaney's husband, Joseph, said the family and college will issue a statement ...

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