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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.