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Dorothy Cimberg Finkelhor (February 22, 1902 – July 19, 1988) was an American academic, teacher, and speaker. She was the founder and first president of Point Park College in Pittsburgh.

Dorothy Cimberg was born in New York City’s Lower East Side, and her parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. She and her husband, Lawrence H. Finkelhor (aka L. Herbert Finkelhor), founded the Business Training College in downtown Pittsburgh in 1933. It eventually became Point Park University. Dr. Finkelhor, a native of New York City, was president of the college until 1971.

Death

Dorothy Finkelhor died on July 19, 1988, aged 86, at her home in Ocean Ridge, Florida. She was survived by her husband, three children and six grandchildren.

References

1. Marzell, Terry Lee (December 3, 2015). "Dorothy C. Finkelhor: The High School Dropout who Founded a University".
2. "Dorothy C. Finkelhor, College Founder, 86". The New York Times. July 20, 1988 – via NYTimes.com.

External links

• List of books written by the Finkelhors
• Pittsburgh and Beyond: The Experience of the Jewish Community

• 1902 births
• 1988 deaths
• 20th-century American educational theorists
• 20th-century American Jews
• Schoolteachers from Pennsylvania
• 20th-century American women educators
• Educators from New York City
• People from Ocean Ridge, Florida
• Point Park University people
• 20th-century American educators