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Sarah Gibson Blanding
Sarah Gibson Blanding (November 22, 1898 – March 3, 1985) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as Vassar's sixth president (1946–1964) and its first female president. A strong public advocate, she worked hard to advance the professional, political, and academic place of women in the world and was a general proponent of expanded educational opportunity.
Biography.
Blanding was born on a farm in Kentucky in 1898. She attended the New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics, where
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