IN-PERSON MEMBERSHIP MEETING

Visitor’s Center Auditorium

4730 Crystal Springs Dr

Los Angeles, CA 90027

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Monday, Sep 14, 2026

9:15 A.M. - 12:45 P.M.

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History of Griffith Park

Friends of Griffith Park
Marian Dodge

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AMarian Dodge must have picked up the bug for community activism when she got her BA from UC Berkeley in political science. After earning a Master's Degree in English, she joined the Peace Corps where she taught English in West Africa.
She worked with the Los Angeles City Department of Recreation and Parks to develop a best practices fire recovery plan after the Griffith Park fire in 2007.
Marian is a founding director of Friends of Griffith Park, which advocates for and protects the park. She enjoyed being a hostess for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Marian was Assemblymember Mike Feuer’s Woman of the Year in 2012, Senator Anthony Portantino’s Woman of the Year in 2021, and received Assemblymember Rick Zbur’s Community
Excellence Award for Environmental Protection in 2024. Marian will talk about the history of Griffith Park.

Friends of Griffith Park