Senate Bill 2794

    Florida Senate - 2000        (NP)                      SR 2794

    By Senator Hargrett





    21-2143B-00

  1                    Senate Resolution No.     

  2         A resolution honoring Herbert D. Carrington,

  3         Sr., the longtime host of the Tampa Yacht Club,

  4         who will celebrate his 102nd birthday this

  5         year.

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  7         WHEREAS, Herbert D. Carrington, Sr., is known for

  8  kindness and diligence that have endeared him to generations

  9  of pioneer Tampa families while working at the Tampa Yacht

10  Club, and

11         WHEREAS, Mr. Carrington counts car dealer Jim Ferman

12  and baseball team owner George Steinbrenner among his many

13  friends who honored him at his 100th birthday party at the

14  yacht club 2 years ago, and

15         WHEREAS, Herbert lost his father to a heart attack and

16  his mother to typhoid fever when he was 13 years old, and, at

17  age 14, set out on his own to pick cotton, do odd jobs, and

18  work for the Railway Express, and

19         WHEREAS, he found his way to Tampa in the 1920s, helped

20  build the Gandy Bridge, and worked as a chauffeur and butler

21  for the Washington and Dupree families, before joining the

22  yacht club staff in the early 1940s, and

23         WHEREAS, he married Mae Alice Warren in 1936 and

24  started a family that includes sons Herbert, Jr., who teaches

25  at Haven Poe Runaway Center, and Roland, who is assistant

26  director of human resources at the University of South

27  Florida, and stepdaughter Martha Cabrera and stepson Marion,

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29         WHEREAS, Mr. Carrington's grandchildren include Warren,

30  coach and teacher at Dixie Hollins High School in St.

31  Petersburg; U.S. Army Captain Cedric, assigned to a Brigadier

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    Florida Senate - 2000        (NP)                      SR 2794
    21-2143B-00




  1  General at Fort Meade; Herbert III, who works in retail;

  2  Lucreta, compensation manager for W.H. Smith International;

  3  educators Sandra, Harcourt, Theron, and Yolanda; and Jennifer,

  4  a criminal justice worker in Dade County, and

  5         WHEREAS, Mr. Carrington still shows up for special

  6  occasions at the yacht club, putting on his tuxedo and

  7  greeting members at the door, and

  8         WHEREAS, Mr. Carrington has purchased all his cars, at

  9  least 15, from one of Jim Ferman's dealerships and is proud to

10  hold the distinctive title of "Ferman's oldest customer," NOW,

11  THEREFORE,

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13  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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15         That the Florida Senate honors the life of Herbert D.

16  Carrington, Sr., who will celebrate his 102nd birthday in the

17  year 2000.

18         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

19  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Herbert

20  D. Carrington, Sr., as a tangible token of the sentiments and

21  good wishes of the Florida Senate.

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