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Digital rendering depicting the memorial site at Lummus Park.

Funding for the Capitman Memorial
has come from more than 50 government,
philanthropic and individual donors including:
The Knight Foundation,The Tianaderrah
Foundation, The Miami Beach Visitor &
Convention Authority, The Gloria & Emilio
Estefan Foundation, The Tony Goldman Family,
The Greenburg Traurig Foundation, The Galbut
Family Foundation, Mangos Tropical Café,
Charles Urstadt, The Greater Miami Convention
& Visitor Bureau, Neisen & Ana Kasdin, Ellen
Chesler & Matthew Mallow, Rose-Unger Family
Philantropic Fund, UIA Management LLC, Jane
Dee Gross, Saul Gross, Richard Hoberman,
Michael Kinerk and Dennis Wilhelm, The
Miami Foundation, Mitchell Scott Investment
Group, Inc., John Mowinckel, Scott Robins
Companies Inc., Mel Sclesser, Mark Soyka,
Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Bernard Zycovich, Denis
Russ, Landon K. Thorne, Ken Sadowsky, Kevin
Neuschatz, John Secor,Wendy Doherty, Lynn
Bernstein, Maria Beatriz Gutierrez, Marie
Hernandez, Deborah Morrison, Michael Sica,
Dona Zemo, Janet Aptaker, Elaine Ferguson
Designs, Robert Keiser, Paul Koffman, Linda
Kolko and George Neary, James and Laura
Quinian, Helene Gomez Diaz, Debra Quade,

Richard Milter, Kelly Reid, Christopher Thomas,
Linda Van Leer, Alexander Harrison, Bill Hahne,
Lori Bakkum, and the Tides hotel.
Special thanks to Memorial Design &
Construction Suppliers; ArquitectonicaGeo:
Laurinda Spear, Margarita Blanco, Jeremy
Calleros-Gauger; Independent Casting: Jeb
Wood; Overholt Construction: Craig Overholt,
Danny Jimenez; Exclusive Surfaces, Inc.:
Vicente and Martha Campillo; Akerman LLP
MDPL BBC Memorial Steering Committee:
Andrew Capitman, the Hon. Neisen Kasdin,
Michael Kinerk, Dennis Wilhelm, Beth Dunlop,
Michele Oka Doner,
Margaret Doyle,
Marie Hernandez,
Dona Zemo,
Bill Farkas

The bust was designed
by Barbara Capitman’s
mother, Myrtle
Bacharach Baer
in 1940.

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