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...troika of female leadership. The other two members do not hold public office and hardly need to. One is the region's foremost publisher, Helen Copley, 67, the stately owner of the San Diego Union and Tribune and a chain of 40 other papers. The other is philanthropist Joan Kroc, 61, the vivacious majority stockholder in McDonald's and owner of the San Diego Padres...
...largest city. They set the tone of its breezy conservatism. They generate much of its impulse for urban face lifting and instant culture. They influence, and in fact make, many of the city's major civic decisions. "Every day I get up and thank God that we have Mrs. Kroc and Mrs. Copley in San Diego," the mayor says extravagantly. "They go not just the extra mile, but the extra 100 miles. What they do for this community -- and they don't have to -- goes beyond any mayor's wildest expectations of private-public partnership...
...teamwork can produce even more impressive civic results. When Kroc in 1988 decided to donate $18 million, to start a hospice for AIDS and other terminally ill patients, O'Connor enlisted Killea, then an assemblywoman, to sponsor the regulatory legislation needed from the state. Just when everything seemed to be in place, Republican Governor George Deukmejian vetoed the bill. The team closed ranks once more. Copley and her editor in chief, former Nixon aide Herb Klein, agreed to turn some Republican heat on the capital by dispatching a ringing letter to Deukmejian. The Governor was sufficiently impressed to reverse...
Another prominent O'Connor to Copley to Kroc triple play made possible San Diego's recent Soviet Arts Festival. The mayor first dreamed up the idea of a big 22-event festival with a flashy Faberge show couched among operas and ballets. But it took the money and clout of her two friends to surmount vehement opposition to it. Copley and Kroc covered half the festival's budgeted cost by anteing up $500,000 and $1 million respectively. Then Copley's opinion-making dailies swung behind it. To clinch the deal, Kroc kicked in with a $2.8 million Faberge...
...from Iowa who married her boss, James Copley, and at his death in 1973 hesitantly took over his press fiefdom. Surprisingly, for a reticent, private figure, she proved to be a hands-on publisher who expanded the Copley newspaper chain and quadrupled its worth to more than $800 million. Kroc, whose personal fortune is estimated at $950 million, was a music teacher and supper-club organist from Minnesota who married McDonald's founder Ray Kroc in 1969 and moved to San Diego with him in 1976 to run his newly acquired Padres. After Kroc's death in 1984, she turned...