[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 56 (Tuesday, May 9, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S3689]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     IN RECOGNITION OF SAUL B. KATZ

 Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I rise today in recognition of 
Saul B. Katz; an outstanding member of the New York health care 
community.
  Mr. Katz has the distinction of serving as the first Chairman of the 
Board of Trustees of the North Shore--Long Island Jewish Health System. 
After serving in various leadership capacities within the health system 
for over a decade, Mr. Katz lead the development of a system that now 
includes 13 hospitals, 2 skilled nursing centers and numerous 
ambulatory programs which span across the New York Metropolitan area.
  As Co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Sterling 
Equities, Inc., a diversified investment and operating company, Mr. 
Katz was a member of the governing Board of the Community Hospital of 
Glen Cove, which became North Shore University Hospital at Glen Cove in 
1989. Mr. Katz served as the First Vice President of the Board of 
Trustees, as well as a member of the Finance, Planning, Development and 
Building committees.
  In addition, Mr. Katz serves as a Director, Trustee and Member of 
numerous trade and charitable organizations including the Jewish 
Association for Services for the Aging, the Brooklyn College Foundation 
and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.
  The Katz family is a close-knit one. Saul and his wife Iris have 
enjoyed 40 years of marriage and spend as much time as they can with 
their grown children and their spouses: Heather Katz Knopf and Dan 
Knopf, Natalie Katz D'Amore and Al D'Amore and David Katz. Iris and 
Saul recently celebrated the arrival of their first grandchild Carly 
Frances Knopf.
  The North Shore--Long Island Health System will certainly miss the 
exemplary leadership that Mr. Katz provided all these years and I 
applaud the significant improvements he has made to the state of health 
care in the New York Metropolitan area.
  Finally, I would like to congratulate Mr. Katz on his retirement from 
the Board and wish him and his family well in his golden years.

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