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Title
Councilwoman Rosalind Wyman and Anna Maria Alberghetti
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1962
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
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Rosalind (Roz) Wiener Wyman (b. 1930-) was the youngest person (and only the second woman) ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council and one of the youngest elected officials of a major U.S. city, as well as the first Jewish Council member in 53 years. Wyman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1948 and attended the University of Southern California where she received a B.S. in Public Administration in 1952. She became politically active in college, launched her successful campaign for the City Council seat and was elected in 1953 when she was just 22. During her first Council term in 1954 she married attorney Eugene Wyman, a graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Law School - a fellow Democratic activist, who founded a large entertainment law firm in Los Angeles. While on the city council, Rosalind Wyman was the first female acting mayor, and she played a pivotal role in bringing the Dodgers baseball team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1957. Unfortunately, controversies over that arrangement contributed to Wyman's defeat for a fourth term in 1965. After leaving office, and in the sad aftermath of her husband's unexpected death in 1973, Wyman continued her involvement in political and public affairs, her influence extending beyond California to the national Democratic Party. During the 1974 congressional campaigns, she became the first woman to head a major party's fund-raising efforts. She served as Convention Chair and chief executive officer of the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, the first woman of either major Party to wield the gavel at a presidential nominating convention. Wyman has been a delegate to every Democratic National Convention since 1952 (except one), last attending the historic 2008 Convention which nominated Barack Obama. Wyman's national appointments include the UNESCO Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has been a leader of the Los Angeles Jewish community, has received many Jewish community awards, chaired fund-raising events, and served on the board of American Friends of the Hebrew University. Wyman has also been a board member of many arts, social services, educational and health organizations, and has received numerous awards, locally and nationally.
Lovely Anna Maria Alberghetti (left) is shown with Councilwoman Rosalind Wyman as the star of the Broadway hit show "Carnival" was cited (yesterday --- or earlier this week) by the Los Angeles City Council in their chambers with a resolution naming Monday, June 18 Anna Maria Alberghetti Day. Ceremony also honored the performer who is appearing in her show at the Philharmonic Auditorium for the first time in her home town by also designating the day Naturalized Citizen's Achievement Day. Photograph dated June 30, 1962.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00092890
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 13552
CARL0005005933
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28578
Subject
Wyman, Rosalind Wiener
Alberghetti, Anna Maria
Los Angeles (Calif.).--City Council
Women city council members--California--Los Angeles
City council members--California--Los Angeles
Award presentations--California--Los Angeles
Awards--California--Los Angeles
Singers--Italy
Actresses--Italy
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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