[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 81 (Thursday, June 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 23, 1994]
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                     A TRIBUTE TO PHILLIP STOLLMAN

  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, 
will begin its 40th academic year in October of this year. At the same 
time, Phillip Stollman, one of the founders of the university, will be 
entering his 90th year. This will be a time of great celebration, as 
the Detroit Friends of Bar-Ilan University gather to honor this 
exceptional man.
  Phil Stollman was approached in 1950 to discuss the establishment of 
a university in Israel that would combine religious studies with 
secular education, where science and religion would be taught together. 
By 1952, enough funds had been raised privately to begin construction, 
and in 1954 the university opened with 70 students. This was a 
remarkable achievement involving the participation of the entire 
Stollman family. Phil dreamed of a student enrollment that would 
eventually reach 1,000; today 17,000 students participate in all levels 
of study and research at Bar-Ilan.
  It is not difficult to praise this man--but it is difficult to get 
him to accept this praise. He is a modest person who has quietly, but 
effectively, worked in countless charitable and communal organizations 
in Detroit, throughout the United States, and indeed, around the world.
  Phil's closest friends and partners in all endeavors were his late 
brother and his sister-in-law, Max and Frieda Stollman. All three 
received honorary doctorates from Bar-Ilan, and Phil was the longtime 
chairman of Bar-Ilan's Global Board of Trustees and is now its honorary 
chairman for life. In Detroit, the names Stollman and Bar-Ilan 
University are synonymous.
  Mr. President, I wish to congratulate Phil Stollman and simply note 
that the greatest tribute to the fulfillment of his dreams is the 
continuation of involvement with Bar-Ilan University by a second 
generation of Stollmans.

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