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July 26, 1979 Westside Women Page 17

"The trials are very time consuming," she says. "It means you have to do a lot of the rest of your work at home.

"If you're going to do the job at all, you must work all the time."

The judge began her career teaching American government, English and social studies in junior and senior high school. But, after six years in Burbank and Los Angeles city schools, several attorneys persuaded her to try law school.

So, at the age of 28, she returned to the life of a student at UCLA.

"Only time will tell whether that encouragement was a proper thing," she smiles.

Being a young woman law student in the middle 1950s was not easy, she recalls.

"We were considered odd in those days. It was hard to get a job, hard to be accepted. I did feel pretty much alone."

She pointed out that today women are more easily accepted by the profession.

"Women practice law with men now the way men traditionally have practiced law with men," she explains. "They are able to do the same thing as adequately as men.

"I suspect this always has been true, but there weren't always as many women around."

She decided to apply for the job after 21 years with Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman & Kuchel, her first and only other job in the legal profession.

"As an attorney, I always was thinking about why judges do what they do," she recalls. "I wanted to see what it was like on the other side of the bench."

She admits she criticized judges while she was a lawyer, "but I wouldn't do it as much now."

One of the most striking characteristics of this year's recipient of UCLA's Professional Achievement Award is her dedication to work.

"What I do is work - as well as I can" she says. "I know it sounds mundane, and it's probably the most uninteresting thing I could say about myself. But I believe in it."

Her parents instilled the importance of work and doing something constructive in her at an early age.

"They believed you shouldn't waste time," she says.

So, when her mother opened a flower shop during her grammar school days, the future federal judge was right there to help out.

Her experiences in the shop were instrumental in developing her passion for her flower and vegetable garden.

She plans to raise flowers and vegetables after her retirement, but since she plans "to be a judge until I can't walk anymore," the judicial system is not apt to lose her to gardening very soon.

For the moment, she is vitally interested in her contribution to that system.

"Judges have a great many opportunities to effect change," she says. "Your cases involve large issues, and although you are reviewed by higher courts, your decisions plow new areas of the law."

She admits she finds this responsibility awesome, but she feels equal to the challenge.

"They don't put you on this court so you can avoid responsibility. It's not a calm and peaceful job, even if it looks that way.

"But the pressure you feel is your own, not someone else's. You generate it yourself."

Though her work follows her home at night and on weekends, she says she doesn't find it intrusive on her 18-year marriage to her second husband, attorney Morris Pfaelzer.

"He is very supportive," she says. "In fact, he wanted me to be a judge very much."

Because of the heavy demands the court makes on her time, she is having to cut down on things she enjoys, like travel.

"I have a tremendous number of interests, but I never will have time to develop them," Judge Pfaelzer says. "I wish I knew 10 languages. I wish I could read hundreds of books.

"And whatever else I wish I had time for, it's too late."

Leading Women in the Community

Presenting Some of the Area's Outstanding Business Women.

{image} LESLIE MOTTA
Leslie, who came to Calif. in 1959 from New Jersey, is the manager of Command Performance - a haircutting establishment which features the "precision haircut." Leslie has had her cosmetology license since she was eighteen and loves her work. She feels a good, precise, well-styled haircut is a must. At her salon hair is cut in harmony with the way it grows thus looks great far longer than the usual cut. Leslie and her staff also educate their patrons on what products are best and take the least time for their hair care. Leslie, who is a fine example of having made it "without a string of degrees," resides in Santa Monica and her hobbies are photography and roller skating.

COMMAND PERFORMANCE
3011 Wilshire Blvd.
Santa Monica
829-9963

{image} BEA DANIELS
Bea is one of the women we hear about but rarely see, the woman behind the famous man; in this case the famous man is dancer Danny Daniels and the lady is very much in evidence managing the highly successful dance school they opened in Jan. 1974 here in S.M. She also manages their dance company "Danny Daniels Dance America," and throughout her husband's show business career has always acted as the business manager and partner. They have traveled extensively throughout the U.S., Europe and Canada. The Daniels' have been married 32 years (Who says show business marriages don't last?), have three children and live here in S.M.

DANNY DANIELS DANCE STUDIO
310 Wilshire BLVD
Santa Monica
395-7331

{image} JOAN CRUMP
Originally from North Wales, Joan came to the U.S. in 1951 with her English husband Alan. They opened a smaller version of their now famous Tudor House in S.M. in 1962. Six years ago they moved to their present address and vastly expanded the store which houses an English Tea Room, gift shop, bakery and grocery department featuring English goods. Joan travels abroad often to buy for the store with great taste and ingenuity and continues to take a vital interest in the business. She's also very involved with British community projects and social events. The Crumps live in Pacific Palisades and have one son, David. 

TUDOR HOUSE
(British Center)
312 Wilshire Blvd.
Santa Monica 
451-4107

{image} MARY STEVENS
Mary Stevens, a Santa Monica resident since 1972, is quite active in organizations that help other people, such as the Community Cancer Control of Los Angeles (C.C.C.L.A). Mary recently began a new job which she feels is her most rewarding involvement ever. She is Director of Marketing for Lifesaver Industries, Inc., which manufactures a revolutionary automotive safety device called the Lifesaver. "I'm very happy to be in a position to help prevent accidents and save lives with this fantastic new product," says Mary. "I'm working very hard trying to spread the word that every person should have a Lifesaver in their car." Mary, a great believer in self-sufficiency, is an amateur mechanic and carpenter and is a gourmet cook.

LIFESAVER INDUSTRIES, INC.
6210 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
936-8296

{image} JUDY GLEASON
Judy came to Santa Monica 1½ years ago from Newport Beach to join American Office Products as a sales representative. American Office Products is a complete office supply house and Judy's job entails selling office furniture and supplies to large and small companies plus giving advice on pleasing color schemes, etc. "No purchase is too large or too small," says Judy, who furnishes complete offices or supplies just the right individual piece or supply. She plainly loves her job, feeling outside sales is a great way to meet the public and be of service to it. She is also an ambassador for the Chamber of Commerce. She has a 10-year-old daughter and her hobbies are tennis, horses and boating.

AMERICAN OFFICE PRODUCTS
501 Broadway
Santa Monica
393-2701

{image} BEA KORNGOLD
Bea Korngold, resident of Brentwood and owner of Be Anne's Boutique adjacent to Brentwood Country Mart, 26th and San Vicente Blvd. Her photography, fashion modeling and artist background influenced Bea seven years ago to open a boutique for distinctive women's fashions as a hobby. It succeeded as a unique fun-shopping and meeting place which attracts women from all creative fields. Bea and her staff aim to please and help the fashion conscious woman with individual service.

BE ANNE'S
13044½ San Vicente Blvd., 395-2714
Facing Brentwood Country Mart Parking Lot
at 26th and San Vicente

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