Senate Bill sb3176

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 3176

    By Senator Klein





    30-2596-04

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution in memory of Ruth Rales.

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  4         WHEREAS, Ruth Rales, whose passionate devotion to

  5  family led her to espouse the cause of all families through

  6  her gift to Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service, passed away on

  7  Sunday, March 28, 2004, and

  8         WHEREAS, Mrs. Rales left her name and the benefit of

  9  her philanthropy to an agency that for the past 25 years has

10  offered to residents of South Palm Beach County a wide variety

11  of vital human services, and

12         WHEREAS, in 1990, Ruth and Norman Rales made a

13  significant contribution that allowed the construction of the

14  20,000-square-foot building that houses Ruth Rales Jewish

15  Family Service of South Palm Beach County (RRJFS), and

16         WHEREAS, Ruth Rales was born into a Russian-American

17  family of modest means in Pittsburgh, and met her future

18  husband, Norman Rales, through her family's dry-cleaning

19  business in Miami, and

20         WHEREAS, the Rales family moved to Pittsburgh and then

21  Washington D.C., where Norman, who grew up in an orphanage in

22  New York City, built a home-improvement business and assembled

23  a fortune, and

24         WHEREAS, Ruth and Norman Rales began coming to Florida

25  in the 1970s, initially staying in Boca Raton, where they

26  became part of the community, and they continued to divide

27  their time for years between Potomac, Maryland, and Florida,

28  moving into a residence in Hillsboro Beach in 1996, and

29         WHEREAS, Ruth Rales' concern for struggling families

30  continued throughout her life, and she remained involved in

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 3176
    30-2596-04




 1  the work of RRJFS and was honored along with her husband in

 2  1999 at RRJFS Annual Friends of the Family Tribute Dinner, and

 3         WHEREAS, Ruth Rales' life is celebrated by those who

 4  knew and admired her and the many individuals she helped, as

 5  well as by her husband of 55 years and their four children and

 6  seven grandchildren, and

 7         WHEREAS, the Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service now

 8  serves approximately 15,000 clients a year, offering to people

 9  of all ages and backgrounds mental health and support programs

10  for individuals and families, senior services, case management

11  services, financial assistance, and community outreach, NOW,

12  THEREFORE,

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

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16         That the Senate marks with mourning the passing of Ruth

17  Rales and expresses its grateful recognition of her gifts of

18  unsurpassed generosity to many thousands of residents of this

19  state.

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

21  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Norman

22  Rales and his family as a token of the esteem of the Florida

23  Senate.

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