Senate Bill sb2078

    Florida Senate - 2001        (NP)                      SR 2078

    By Senator King





    41-1440A-01

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing and commemorating the

  3         lifetime accomplishments of Chris J. Kalfas.

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  5         WHEREAS, Chris J. Kalfas was born on August 31, 1929,

  6  in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, but soon thereafter moved with his

  7  family to Tallahassee, and

  8         WHEREAS, Chris Kalfas attended the Leon County public

  9  schools where he was a star member of the Leon High School

10  track and football teams, holding the record in the 100-yard

11  dash, and

12         WHEREAS, Chris Kalfas attended and graduated from The

13  Florida State University where he was lineman on Florida

14  State's first two football teams in 1947 and 1948, and

15         WHEREAS, Chris continued to be an enthusiastic FSU

16  supporter for the rest of his life, providing scores of young

17  people with loans and scholarships to attend his Alma Mater,

18  and becoming one of the first members and organizers of the

19  Golden Chiefs whose members individually contribute $10,000 or

20  more annually to the FSU football program, and

21         WHEREAS, After graduating from Florida State in 1951,

22  Chris Kalfas entered the family business, becoming the manager

23  of The Silver Slipper, which his father Jimmy had established

24  in 1938, and which he was to guide with great success through

25  good times and bad for nearly 50 years, and

26         WHEREAS, "Daddy Chris," as he came to be known to

27  governors, legislators, business leaders, lobbyists, and just

28  regular Tallahassee "folk" alike over the decades always

29  treated people as if they were one of his family, and

30         WHEREAS, "Daddy Chris," who was never judgmental, had a

31  gift for putting people at ease and a smile on their faces,

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  1  thereby creating a Cheers mentality among his loyal, long-time

  2  customers as well as the "walk-ins," and

  3         WHEREAS, The Slipper continued to grow from its

  4  original "digs" on South Monroe Street into a multi-faceted

  5  restaurant business located on its own street that was

  6  appropriately designated by the Mayor and the City Commission

  7  as Silver Slipper Lane, and

  8         WHEREAS, "Daddy Chris" was a Shriner and a member of

  9  numerous civic and professional organizations, including the

10  Florida Restaurant Association of which he was an organizing

11  member and the Governor's Council on Tourism, and

12         WHEREAS, Chris Kalfas was an ardent fisherman and

13  golfer whose chief passion his entire life was operating The

14  Slipper, a Tallahassee Institution that is regularly ranked

15  among Florida's top 200 restaurants and in 1997 was named one

16  of Florida's top 20 restaurants by Florida Trend magazine, and

17         WHEREAS, there has been established the Chris J. Kalfas

18  Memorial Scholarship Fund in the Department of Hospitality

19  Administration of the College of Business at The Florida State

20  University to evidence the life-long love and loyalty that

21  "Daddy Chris" gave to his Alma Mater, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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25         That the Florida Senate recognizes and commemorates the

26  lifetime accomplishments of Chris J. Kalfas.

27         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution

28  be presented to the family of Chris J. Kalfas as a tangible

29  token of the esteem held by the Florida Senate.

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