Chandler, Dorothy Buffum, 1901-1997

Dorothy Buffum Chandler (also known as Buff) was born in Lafayette, IL, on May 19, 1901; her parents moved to Long Beach, CA, when she was one year old and her father opened a store, the forerunner of Buffum's department store chain. She attended Stanford and then married Norman Chandler, son of Los Angeles Times owner Harry Chandler, in 1922. Chandler worked for the Times corporation in several capacities notably as the director of Times Mirror. She was a supporter of the arts spearheaded the fundraising drive to establish the LA Music Center. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Chandler to the Committee on Education Beyond the High School and, in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson named her to the U.S. Advisory Commission on Information. She died July 6, 1997.