Local News in Brief : Publisher Campbell Elected to Head Cultural Foundation

Byron C. Campbell, president and publisher of the Daily News, Thursday was elected chairman of the board of the Cultural Foundation.

He succeedF. (Bert) Boeckmann II, who had been chairman since the foundation’s beginning in 1980. Boeckmann, owner of Galpin Motors, a Sepulveda automobile dealership, was elected chairman emeritus and chairman of the capital-gifts campaign committee.

Boeckmann has said he wants to devote his time primarily to raising money for the foundation’s plan to build arts complexes in Warner Center and the Sepulveda Basin.

The foundation is expected to begin a capital campaign later this year for the first phase of that plan, which would include construction of a performing arts pavilion in Warner Park. The foundation hopes to raise at least $70 million to build two theaters in Warner Park and a 2,500-seat concert hall beside lagoons in the Sepulveda Basin.

Campbell, who has been on the board since 1984, was named president and publisher of the Daily News in August, 1983. Although he is a 25-year veteran of the Tribune Co., which then owned the Van Nuys newspaper, Campbell is expected to remain with the company under its new owner, Jack Kent Cooke.

Campbell, 52, is a resident of Woodland Hills.

The foundation also elected Ross Hopkins, public affairs manager for Lockheed-California, as executive vice chairman; Robert Voit, president of the Voit Companies, first vice chairman; Jane Boeckmann, publisher of Valley Magazine, second vice chairman; Donald Schwarz of Morgan Stanley & Co., third vice chairman; George Moss, chairman of the Moss Group, secretary; Adrian Vandenberg, director of finance for P. L. Porder, treasurer, and Edward Landry, managing partner of Musick Peeler & Garrett, legal adviser.