HR 9123

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, by 1975 Norman Braman owned automobile dealerships
14	in Tampa and Miami and continued to succeed with each new
15	business enterprise, becoming owner of the Philadelphia Eagles
16	professional football team from 1985-1994, and
17	WHEREAS, Norman Braman is currently the Chief Executive
18	Officer of Braman Management Association, which operates
19	numerous car dealerships in Florida and Colorado, and
20	WHEREAS, Norman Braman is one of the original founders, and
21	for 20 years served as president of the Board of Trustees of,
22	the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial and was appointed by
23	President Ronald Reagan in 1983 to serve on the United States
24	Holocaust Memorial Council, and
25	WHEREAS, Norman Braman has served as President of the
26	Greater Miami Jewish Federation, which funds a network of more
27	than 35 local agencies and programs to help meet the needs of
28	the local Jewish community, and
29	WHEREAS, Norman Braman is Vice Chair of the Board of
30	Trustees of the University of Miami, and
31	WHEREAS, in 1995 Norman Braman and his family established
32	the Braman Family Foundation and in 2002 made a substantial gift
33	to the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami to
34	establish the Braman Family Breast Cancer Institute, which
35	conducts innovative research into the causes and means of
36	prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of breast cancer, and
37	WHEREAS, Norman Braman was recently instrumental in
38	securing a grant from the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic
39	Development to fund the Miami Institute of Human Genomics at the
40	University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and
41	WHEREAS, the Miami Institute of Human Genomics, established
42	in January 2007, is home to the world's top geneticists, who
43	conduct leading-edge work in indentifying genetic variants that
44	underlie common human diseases, and
45	WHEREAS, Norman Braman was also instrumental in bringing
46	Art Basel, the world's largest and most prestigious art fair,
47	from Basel, Switzerland, to South Florida, and
48	WHEREAS, Norman Braman and his wife, Irma, have served as
49	Co-Chairs of Art Basel Miami Beach, since its inception in 2002,
50	which has brought considerable economic and cultural benefits to
51	the State of Florida and is now recognized as the premier art
52	fair in the United States, 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,
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59	Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
60	Florida:
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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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