Ruth Galanter named Defender of the Trust
by Kay Ogden
Last December, the Mono Lake Committee honored
Ruth Galanter with its annual Defender of the Trust Award
over breakfast at the City Club in Los Angeles.
Councilwoman Galanter was recognized for her successful
efforts to protect Mono Lake, particularly as chair of
the City’s Commerce, Energy, and Natural Resources
Committee, which oversees the Department of Water and
Power. She has been a strong proponent of water
conservation, and shepherded a regulation requiring the
retrofit of all homes and apartments with low-flush
toilets prior to resale through the Council last July;
she also defended the regulation against a challenge this
January.
The award event was an impressive showing of Mono Lake Committee friends, representatives of community groups that distribute low-flush toilets, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials, officials from West and Central Basin Water Districts and the City of Los Angeles, and environmental groups in Los Angeles. Representatives of The Gas Company, Southern California Edison, and Lawry’s Restaurants—representing Living Lake sponsor Unilever—also attended. The striking glass and wood award itself is an annual contribution of Committee member Alexa Williams who owns Technical Glass in North Hollywood.
We give an enormous thank you to board member Tom Soto whose firm, PS Enterprises, underwrote the event, and to board co-chair Ed Manning, who flew down from Sacramento to be the early-morning Master of Ceremonies.
In 1993 the Mono Lake Committee began the tradition of honoring individuals who make extraordinary personal efforts to champion Mono Lake. Past award recipients include: Harold Gilliam, environmental writer for the San Francisco Examiner (1993); George Peyton, attorney and liaison with National Audubon Society (1994); Bruce Dodge, lead attorney for MLC on Mono Lake litigation (1995); and Martha Davis, Committee executive director from 1984-1996 (1997).
Return to Spring 1999 Newsletter
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