[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 178 (Wednesday, December 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S8542]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                    REMEMBERING DOUGLAS SHORENSTEIN

 Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask my colleagues to join me in 
honoring the extraordinary life of Douglas Shorenstein, a loving 
husband, father, brother, passionate philanthropist, and pillar of the 
San Francisco community who passed away on November 24 after a long and 
courageous battle with cancer.
  A proud San Francisco native, Douglas Shorenstein was born on 
February 10, 1955. After graduating from the University of California, 
Berkeley and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 
Doug worked as a real estate attorney in New York before returning to 
his beloved hometown in 1983 to join his father's real estate 
investment and management firm, Shorenstein Properties. Doug became 
chairman and CEO in 1995 and over the years transformed his local 
development company into a major national real estate group. A true 
visionary, Doug had a keen ability to keep his thumb on the pulse of 
San Francisco's evolving market. Because of him, key neighborhoods of 
San Francisco have been revitalized, and the company once started by 
his father now owns iconic buildings in cities across America.
  Doug also dedicated his immense talents to supporting many important 
causes that were dear to his heart. He was a board member of the 
Environmental Defense Fund, a member of the University of California 
San Francisco Medical Center Executive Council, and on the boards of 
several educational institutions, including the Shorenstein Center on 
Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of 
Government, Vanderbilt University, and the Yale School of Management. 
He was also appointed to serve on the board of directors of the Federal 
Reserve Bank of San Francisco in 2007, becoming chairman of the board 
in 2011.
  San Francisco has lost a true civic leader, and Doug will be deeply 
missed by all of us fortunate enough to have known him. I send my 
deepest condolences to his wife, Lydia; his children, Brandon, Sandra, 
and Danielle; and his sister, Carol Shorenstein Hays.

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