Valley Child Guidance Clinic Will Honor Couple

Those do-ers, Madeleine and Edward Landry, will be saluted for their super efforts May 1 when directors of the San Fernando Valley Child Guidance Clinic host their eighth Annual Humanitarian Award dinner dance in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton-Universal.

Landry, now a prominent attorney, was a high school student in New Orleans when he received his first commendations for his volunteer spirit. About the same time, Madeleine was in Chicago heading Christmas basket drives and collecting food and clothing for the needy.

Together, and separately, they’ve continued to enrich lives, including those associated with the clinic, a center of hope for emotionally troubled youngsters and their parents, as well.

The clinic’s philosophy: “Early intervention prevents more serious disturbances later in life.”

Madeleine Landry’s philosophy, bundled up in her petite frame: “If every human being simply cared for one another, no one would be in need.”

Mary R. Galbraith is dinner chairman. Kaye Kiddoo heads the honorary dinner committee including Bert and Jane Boeckmann, Mayor Tom Bradley, Walter and Gracie Lantz, Jo and Harry Usher, Ellie and Tom Wertheimer and the Joseph Coulombes.

Architect Arnold Savrann’s sketch appears on the invitation for the reception and luncheon unveiling of the scale model and architectural plans for the new Fowler Museum of Cultural History building at UCLA.

Savrann will attend the historic Sunday event, and so will Fowler family members, businessmen and art collectors Francis E. Fowler III and Philip F. Fowler, whose generosity is making the structure possible.

Others expected include Executive Vice Chancellor and Mrs. William Schaefer, Vice Chancellor and Mrs. Elwin V. Svenson, College of Fine Arts Dean Robert Gray, Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Orbach (he is provost of the College of Letters and Science) and Mrs. Charles Speroni, widow of the former dean of fine arts. Of course, Christopher Donnan, museum director, and Mrs. Donnan will be there.

Won’t-miss-it acceptances have come from Mmes. Sidney F. Brody, B. E. Bensinger, the Lazare F. Bernhards, Jay and Deborah Last, Howard and Caroline West, John and Judy Riley, Richard and Patricia Anawalt, the Gerald Oppenheimers, Mrs. W. Thomas Davis and Mrs. James Rogers.

William J. Brennan Jr., associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will receive the National Bill of Rights in Action Award on May 13 at the Constitutional Rights Foundation annual spring dinner in the International Room of the Beverly Hilton.

Founding member Lloyd M. Smith will be presented a special award for his commitment to youth.

Dickinson C. Ross heads the dinner committee, bolstered by Raymond C. Fisher, foundation president. Tables costing $2,000 (for 10) should result in a pretty penny for CRF’s programs, such as the state mock trial competition, Business Issues in the Classroom and youth leadership action education, which fuses attorneys, judges, business and community leaders with youth.

The Angeles Girl Scout Council will blow out candles at its 20th birthday (and 20 years of service to girls) Thursday at a dinner at the Westin Bonaventure in the San Francisco Ballroom.

And, the Thacher School in Ojai turns 100 in 1989. The fanfare is rustling. Getting a four-year head start, board president Kenneth Rhodes announced a $16-million Centennial Campaign last week and Stanford President Dr. Donald Kennedy came down to be keynote speaker at a convocation banquet.

Norman B. Livermore, director of natural resources when Ronald Reagan was governor, recalled being a Thacher student. The Rev. Charles H. Clark, rector of St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H., spoke at the chapel service, and prominent Southern Californians on hand included Betty Adams, Frances Brody, Liz and Jim Greene, Bob Hastings, Reese Milner, Betty Rhodes, Virginia and George Wheaton, Peggy and Kellam deForest, Drs. Betsy and Newlin Hastings, Maxine and Tom Ridgeway and Ted Bucklin.

The secret’s out: Mrs. William French Smith, back in Los Angeles after her active tenure in Washington while her husband was U.S. attorney general, has been chosen to receive the Mannequins of the Assistance League of Southern California Golden Eve award at Afternoon With Eve on April 25.

The event at Donna Powell’s Beverly Hills estate salutes outstanding and fashionable philanthropic leaders.

Mrs. Frank P. Field headed the selection panel of 10, with input from Los Angeles organizations. Four will receive the coveted Eves. They are Mmes. Robert Anderson (Diane), Gary Collins (Mary Ann Mobley), Arthur Linkletter (Lois) and Glen McDaniel (Marilyn).

Mannequin chairman Sally Forbes will be in the forefront at the tea. So will president Mrs. Charles W. Kroener, tea chairman Mrs. James Edward Moss and Mrs. Coleman Edwards.

Temporary track is being laid for the Trolley Party stirring up interest for the Pasadena Marketplace ground breaking Thursday evening. A trio of charities--Five Acres (the Boys & Girls Aid Society), Pasadena Heritage and Pasadena Symphony associations--benefit from the gala, and more than 2,000 paying guests are anticipated.

The trolleys, which were purchased in Lisbon, eventually will circle the marketplace being developed by John Wilson, Bob Morris and Al Ehringert.

The Ragin’ Cajun Food Festival fund-raiser will feature spiced tax-deductible Louisiana hot links for starters, and also offer clues to what’s coming: an Irvine Ranch Farmers Market, wine cellars, six UA theaters, a food hall, two gourmet restaurants, half a dozen bistros and cafes and the 150-room Pasadena Hotel, plus 75 retail stores, cobbled together with walks, sky bridges and a three-car street railroad that goes round and round, morning, noon and night.

The National Assistance League’s balance sheet rates an A-plus, and because it’s celebrating its 50th anniversary, print it in gold. Founded in 1935 by Mrs. Hancock Banning and Mrs. Ada Edwards Laughlin, the nonprofit group last year provided 343 separate services aiding 266,000 people and has raised more than $5 million through its chapters.

According to Mrs. James R. Uhler, “It took 1,498,465 member hours to perform this feat and, at a modest $5 per hour, the monetary gift chapters have collectively given back to society is $12.5 million.”

Members, headed by Mrs. O. Warren Hilgren, NAL president, and Mrs. Miles W. Newby Jr., chairman of the committee of past NAL presidents, greeted guests at a Sunday reception at league headquarters in Hollywood. The supreme celebration comes in October at a convention in Houston.

Roger Rodzen, popular associate vice president at California State University, Los Angeles, and former student union director, will be roasted at the Fountain Club’s induction of charter members Saturday at the university union.

The fountain, on the union’s first floor, is a popular watering spot for students. Membership is limited to 1,560, the number of tiles in the fountain. Pretty exclusive.

And the Cal State L.A. Alumni Assn. launches its first Alumni Auction, black-tie optional, April 26 at Pasadena’s Castle Green. Constructed in 1898, it was in its heyday a fashionable winter spa for Easterners.

Recently, the historic spot reopened its opulent ballroom. Highlighting the event will be the raffle of a weeklong trip to London for two.

James Stofan, alumni director, notes Mike Antonovich, Billie Jean King, George Cotliar, Diane Watson and Sherman Block are “but a few” in the galaxy of alum stars.

Tickets are $50 for the reception hosted by the Los Angeles Women’s Conference on National Security on April 25 at Peggy Levie’s Beverly Hills home.

The event fetes Paul C. Warnke, chairman of the Committee for National Security in Washington.

Purpose is to raise funds to finance the organization’s Conference on National Security on April 26-27 at UCLA’s Ackerman Union, according to conference director Alison Grabell.

Conference co-chairmen are Dolores Beilenson and Yvonne Burke.

The idea works beautifully after 16 years. Someone hosts a “Dinner for Twelve Strangers,” and new friendships are born.

Sunday evening about 500 UCLA alumni, students, faculty and staff will get together as strangers in nearly 40 Los Angeles homes. It’s the second round this year for Gold Shield and Prytanean, two UCLA honorary women’s organizations attempting to bridge generational and communications gaps among diverse campus groups. Some of the parties will be elegant; others will feature do-your-own tostados. All sincere.

At least half the guests will be UCLA students who are invited to attend through ads in the Daily Bruin.

Gold Shield’s Ann Berkovitz and Prytanean’s Carolyn Zucker do the matching.

“In the Mood” promises to be a dancing, swinging evening for the Women’s Council of Verdugo Hills Hospital on Saturday at the Bonaventure. Funds go to the hospital’s community health education center.