[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 141 (Thursday, October 3, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S12326]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                DEDICATION OF SHIRLEY L. MILLER PAVILION

 Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, on October 5, 1996, the Children's 
Cancer Caring Center will dedicate the Shirley L. Miller Pavilion at 
the prestigious Cleveland Clinic of Broward County, FL. The pavilion 
will house facilities used by the Clinic to treat its hundreds of young 
outpatients. Mr. President, it is fitting that this pavilion 
memorialize the good name and extraordinary life of Shirley L. Miller 
of Miami, FL who passed away on September 24, 1996.
  Shirley L. Miller, along with her close friends, Lee Klein and Erma 
Podvin, have been deeply involved in providing medical care to children 
with cancer for 35 years. The Children's Cancer Caring Center, of which 
Shirley was a cofounder and vice president, provides totally free 
cancer treatment for hundreds of children from Florida and elsewhere. 
In addition to medical treatment, the caring center provides ancillary 
services--counseling, special events, and an overnight summer camp--to 
afflicted children and their families. Beyond donating thousands of 
volunteer hours, Shirley and her colleagues have raised tens of 
millions of dollars to support their efforts over the years.
  Mr. President, Shirley L. Miller represents what is great in America. 
Her dear friend and president of the caring center, Lee Klein, called 
her ``a beautiful gift to the thousands of children who confronted this 
disease and whose lives she touched.'' Shirley L. Miller was a great 
credit to her community and her family, including her husband of 46 
years, Irving, and her brother, Samuel Levine, and sister, Gloria 
Berger. Her children, Roger Miller, Sherri Gersten, Miki Goldstein, 
Renee Simmons, and Cary Caster, and her 13 grandchildren, have much to 
be proud of. She received numerous awards in recognition of her civic 
activities on behalf of Mount Sinai Medical Center, Hebrew Academy, the 
Greater Miami Jewish Federation, the Girl Scouts of America, the 
National Council of Jewish Women, Temple Beth Shalom of Miami Beach, 
and the Youth Orchestra of Florida. Her son, Roger, explained ``She was 
a woman who spent so many waking hours helping others less fortunate 
than she.''
  Mr. President, although the Shirley L. Miller Pavilion at the 
Cleveland Clinic in Broward County will serve to memorialize her name, 
the lifetime of unlimited caring Shirley L. Miller provided to 
thousands of children and their families will be our greatest monument 
to this extraordinary woman.

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