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One year ago: Elin Brekke Vanderlip

By Claire Noland
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Elin Brekke Vanderlip, a member of the Norwegian family that once owned most of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, died one year ago.

Vanderlip founded Friends of French Art, a Los Angeles group that raised money to restore cultural treasures across France.

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‘What we really do is shame the French into helping preserve their own patrimony,’ Vanderlip told The Times in 1996. ‘When they see what we can do wiht a little money, they invariably pick up the ball.’

She also help set aside land that became Nansen Field, a park in Rolling Hills Estates.

Read the complete obituary of Elin Brekke Vanderlip that appeared in The Times.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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