Mortimer Fleishhacker Jr

Mortimer Fleishhacker Jr. was a civic leader interested in many causes including public television (KQED), the Asia Foundation, SPUR, International House in Berkeley, the World Affairs Council and many others. He also served on the San Francisco Library Commission and Planning Commission. In 1966, he became interested in The American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) which was looking for a new home. Fleishhacker, with Cyril Magnin and Melvin Swig, brought A.C.T. to San Francisco and set the company up in the Geary Theater. In 1970, the Foundation’s building was sold and the money ($1,250,000) was turned over to an investment management firm, Dodge & Cox. Morris Cox had been a tenant in a building owned by Mortimer Fleishhacker. In 1976, Mortimer Fleishhacker Jr. died and his sister Eleanor Sloss became Board President. In 1978 she died and Mortimer Jr.’s daughter, Delia Ehrlich, became Board President.