Cynthia Navaretta, Who Promoted Female Artists, Is Dead at 97

Cynthia Greenberg was born on Jan. 31, 1923, in the Bronx. Her father, Morris, owned some of Manhattan’s first parking garages, and her mother, Sophia, was a homemaker. She studied at the University of Wisconsin and New York University before earning a bachelor’s degree at Columbia University in 1946 and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering there in 1948.