LENORE
BRESLAUER, 80
Organized mothers into anti-war group
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2003
LOS ANGELES -- Lenore
Breslauer, a founding member of the anti-war citizen group Another
Mother for Peace during the Vietnam War, has died. She was 80.
Ms. Breslauer died of lung cancer
Friday at her home in West Hollywood.
Another Mother for Peace, a grass-roots
organization launched by a group of women in Los Angeles in 1967, grew to have
more than 450,000 people
on its mailing list, and its logo became an internationally recognized symbol
for peace: a sunflower bearing
the message, "War
is not healthy for children and other living things."
Another Mother for Peace ceased operation as a non-profit group in the mid-1980s.
Ms. Breslauer, a mother of two, served on its steering
committee and worked on its newsletter. She also made lobbying
trips to Washington with other group leaders.
"My mother had such grave concern for the world and for this
horrendous war," said her daughter Nancy Chuda.
"She also was the mother of a son and she wanted so desperately for my
brother not to have to serve in a war that was so terribly unjust and so
inhumane--as did
all these other mothers. Ironically, in my mother's life, she did lose her son,"
Chuda added.
That son, Jon Gould, died of complications from AIDS in 1993. He was a co-founder
of Project Angel Food,
which provides meals for patients with HIV
and AIDS.
Gould also had been the chef at Pasta
Etc., the former Beverly Hills restaurant that he and his mother opened
in the 1980s. The restaurant,
Chuda said, was the first to volunteer its kitchen
to Project Angel Food.
Born in New York's
Bronx borough, Ms. Breslauer graduated from Hunter
College in her hometown in 1942 and went to work as secretary for talent
agent William Morris.
After marrying David Gould, who managed Perry
Como, Helen Hayes and other entertainment
notables, she moved to Los Angeles.
Gould died in 1959, and Ms. Breslauer later married
and divorced Gerald Breslauer, an entertainment business manager.
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