Liberal Pgh Talk Host Lynn Cullen's Father Passed Away

[RamboLiberal]

From his obituary I can see how she got her liberal passion. Now how to explain her conservative brother Bill? My deepest sympathies to Lynn, her mother, sister Susan, brother Bill and the rest of the Miller family.

Miller, Norman: Norman Miller, 86, died peacefully Jan. 1, 2008. He was born in Green Bay, on March 11, 1921. Except for his time in college and service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Norman lived his entire life in Green Bay, a city he loved and helped shape. As the founder and President of Management Enterprises, which develops commercial properties, he engineered the building of the first Shopko store, as well as Beacon Center and numerous Bellin Health clinics and other facilities. Turning blueprints into bricks and mortar was his profession, but building bridges was his passion. Not bridges that span rivers, but bridges that span the differences between people. His entire life was dedicated to that often elusive end - building consensus, finding common ground. In a 2006, Press-Gazette interview he said, "I have a desire to bring people together in peace." That desire was already evident in 1940, when as a 20-year old sophomore at Northwestern University he traveled to Washington D.C. and audaciously talked his way into private meetings with U.S. Supreme Court Justices Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, seeking their support for a weeklong symposium on discrimination. In 1960, after Vince Lombardi complained to him that he was having difficulty recruiting black players because they couldn't find a place to live in Green Bay, Norman helped organize a volunteer commission which played a critical role in getting open housing legislation passed. Upon the death of his older brother, Louis, he established and endowed the Norman and Louis Miller Lecture Series at St. Norbert College for the sole purpose of "promoting unity and communication among different cultures and religions." In the last 14 years that series has brought luminaries like Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Weisel and Pulitzer Prize winning historians Arthur Scheslinger and David Halberstam to town. His desire to find solutions was so unrelenting that his wife of 64 wonderful years ruefully noted that he'd often lie awake at night worrying about how to solve the latest crisis in the Middle East. At his death, he was still working on that one.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=GPG010301

[beastofbourbon]

1. Another of the Greatest Generation...........

What a wonderful caring man he must have been , such a useful , unselfish life . My sincere sympathy to Ms. Cullen and her family .

[livetohike]

2. Extraordinary and explains Lynn's passion

My sympathy to Lynn and her family.

[MrMickeysMom]

3. Hearts with you, Lynn

Behind great media personalities are the stories of their parents. This was a great tribute.

My condolences... MMM