HR 9121

1	House Resolution
2	A resolution honoring Norman Braman for his philanthropy
3	on behalf of the people of the State of Florida.
4
5	WHEREAS, Norman Braman was born August 22, 1932, in West
6	Chester, Pennsylvania, the son of immigrants from Romania and
7	Eastern Poland, and
8	WHEREAS, Norman Braman attended the University of Virginia
9	on a basketball scholarship, sustained a career-ending injury
10	during his first year, and returned to Philadelphia, where he
11	graduated from Temple University in 1955 with a bachelor's
12	degree in marketing, and
13	WHEREAS, following graduation, Norman Braman entered into a
14	small business with his father-in-law, working days and nights,
15	until 1969 when, wanting to spend more time with his wife and
16	two daughters, he sold his interest in the family business and
17	moved his family to the Miami area, settling in a vibrant Jewish
18	community, and
19	WHEREAS, by 1975 Norman Braman owned Cadillac dealerships
20	in Tampa and Miami and continued to succeed with each new
21	business enterprise, becoming owner of the Philadelphia Eagles
22	professional football team from 1985-1994, and
23	WHEREAS, Norman Braman is currently the Chief Executive
24	Officer of Braman Management Association, which operates
25	numerous car dealerships in Florida and Colorado, and
26	WHEREAS, Norman Braman is one of the original founders, and
27	for 20 years served as president of the Board of Trustees of,
28	the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial and was appointed by
29	President Ronald Reagan in 1983 to serve on the United States
30	Holocaust Memorial Council, and
31	WHEREAS, Norman Braman has served as President of the
32	Greater Miami Jewish Federation, which funds a network of more
33	than 35 local agencies and programs to help meet the needs of
34	the local Jewish community, and
35	WHEREAS, Norman Braman is a member of the University of
36	Miami Board of Trustees and also serves on its Executive
37	Committee, and
38	WHEREAS, in 1995 Norman Braman and his family established
39	the Braman Family Foundation and in 2002 made a substantial gift
40	to the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami to
41	establish the Braman Family Breast Cancer Institute, which
42	conducts innovative research into the causes and means of
43	prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of breast cancer, and
44	WHEREAS, Norman Braman was recently instrumental in
45	securing an $80 million grant from the Office of Tourism, Trade,
46	and Economic Development to the Miami Institute of Human
47	Genomics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine,
48	and
49	WHEREAS, the Miami Institute of Human Genomics, established
50	in January 2007, is home to the world's top geneticists, who
51	conduct leading-edge work in indentifying genetic variants that
52	underlie common human diseases, and
53	WHEREAS, Norman Braman, over many years, has shown himself
54	to be a committed philanthropist, donating to causes such as the
55	I Have a Dream Foundation, the Israel Emergency Fund, the United
56	Way of Miami-Dade, and the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, NOW,
57	THEREFORE,
58
59	Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
60	Florida:
61
62	That the House of Representatives offers sincere thanks to
63	Norman Braman for his dedicated, unwavering, and continuing
64	philanthropic activities, which have made a real difference in
65	the lives of countless Floridians.
66	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be
67	presented to Norman Braman as a tangible token of the sentiments
68	expressed herein.

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