Dorothy Buffum Chandler

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Dorothy Buffum Chandler (born Dorothy Mae Buffum) was a Los Angeles cultural figure from 1901 to 1997.

She is perhaps best known for her advocacy for the performing arts.

Personal life

Dorothy Mae Buffum (nicknamed "Buff" or "Buff") was born in 1901 in La Fayette, Illinois, and with her family, they migrated to Long Beach, California in 1904. Charles Abel Buffum (later mayor 1921–1924) and her uncle, Edwin, opened the first of what would be the Buffums department store chain, which would be a 16-store chain.

It was during her time at Long Beach High School that two characteristics that would help determine Dorothy Buffum Chandler's future were first evident: she loved sports, particularly against members of the opposite sex, and she had a recurring feeling of time slipping away when things that needed to be done went wrong. She was a good sprinter in high school, and her focus was not so much on female students as escorts but rather as objects of competition. “I didn't take to boys much more than I did, but I didn't run against them and beat them,” she once said.

She attended Stanford University, where she met Norman Chandler, the eldest son of the family that had published the Los Angeles Times since 1883, was a significant social and political force in the area. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Camilla and Otis were born in 1922 and married in 1922. She had eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren at the time of her death in 1997.

Her husband became the editor of the Times in 1945, a position he held until his son, Otis, was appointed in 1960. Norman Chandler died in 1973. Dorothy Chandler was never remarried.

On Lorraine Blvd., Los Tiempos (the Times) was Norman and Buff's grand house. In Windsor Square, Los Angeles, where she lived until her death.

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Career

Chandler served with the Times or its parent company, the Times Mirror Company, from 1948 to 1976. She was a director of Times Mirror from 1955 to 1973, when she was dubbed director emeritus.

She established the Times Woman of the Year award, which was given to 243 women from 1950 to 1976.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Mrs. Chandler to his Committee on Education Beyond the High School in 1956, and President Lyndon B. Johnson named her to the United States in 1964. The Advisory Commission on Information.

Dorothy Chandler, the wife of the city's most influential newspaper, has been active in Los Angeles cultural circles.

During the 1950s, a financial crisis closed the Hollywood Bowl during its summer season. Chandler chaired a committee that arranged a sequence of fundraising concerts that were able to reopen it, and she later served as the president of the Southern California Symphony Association.

She began a long journey to create a Los Angeles performing arts center after this initial success. Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye, and Jack Benny performed at a benefit concert at the Ambassador Hotel in 1955, raising $400,000. This fundraiser began a nine-year journey with some $20 million in total cost; the remainder was paid through private bond sales.

Mrs. Chandler needed funds from both the long-established “old money” families of Pasadena, as well as “new money” sources on the city's Westside and Hollywood, many of whom were Jewish. "Jews were not a part of this neighborhood's social life," the late attorney Paul Ziffren said.

She was on the cover of Time magazine's December 18, 1964 issue, which praised her fundraising efforts as "perhaps the most revealing display of virtuo money-raising and civic citizenship in the history of the United States." "Womanhood" refers to the womanhood.

On December 6, 1964, the Los Angeles Music Center for Performing Arts held its first performance. Zubin Mehta, Chandler's 24-year conductor, conducteds the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra. "We've given it bricks and mortar." We now must give it a soul," Mrs. Chandler said that evening.

The complex was completed in 1967 and featured three venues: the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, named in honor of Chandler, the Mark Taper Forum, and the Ahmanson Theatre. From 1964 to 2003, the Chandler Pavilion served as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The Walt Disney Concert Hall was in its fourth hall.

Mrs. Chandler, according to David Halberstam of "The Powers That Be," was a "woman before her time." A feminist in a pioneer nation. A presence is always more important than anything else."

Mayor Tom Bradley dubbed her "a giant in Los Angeles' cultural life." We'll all remember her when we visit the Music Center, knowing that without her vision and tenacious leadership, it would not have been built in our lifetime.

The Dorothy Chandler memorial concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on September 17, 2005, was held on September 17, 2005.

Chandler served as a member and chairwoman of the University of California's Building Committee from 1954 to 1968, during the university's most rapid expansion that occurred from five to nine campuses. She served as a trustee of Occidental College from 1952 to 1967.

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Awards

• 1971: the Herbert Hoover Medal for Distinguished Service, awarded by the Stanford University Alumni Assn.
• 1974: Humanitarian Award from Variety Clubs International
• 1982: UCLA Medal from the University of California, Los Angeles
• 1985: National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts