RE LOG - Spring 2017

22 Ransom Everglades LOG SPRING 2017 Sue Miller’s children, Stuart Miller ’75, Leslie Miller Saointz ’77 and Jeffrey Miller ’79 , say their mother taught them about service from their earliest days, displaying a deep interest in education, healthcare, the arts and the underserved while exhibit- ing a seemingly limitless compassion. As a newlywed, Sue Miller followed her Harvard-educated husband Leonard Miller from her home state of Massachusetts to Miami, where he co-founded the Lennar Corp. Her children watched her volunteer with their school PTAs, put countless hours into the family’s synagogue, get involved with local charities and warmly welcome their school friends. They later witnessed her evolution from enthusiastic volunteer to impassioned community leader, one who led by example, persuaded many to join her efforts and inspired mil- lions of dollars in donations. Among the most significant: her family’s landmark $100-million gift to the University of Miami in 2004, which created the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. She also helped raise millions for the United Way of Miami- Dade, an organization in which she played an active role for four decades, eventually helping to found the organization’s Million Dollar Roundtable and Tocqueville Society. She encouraged her family’s substantial and consistent support for RE’s endowment, fellowships, capital improvements, the annual fund and more, and was actively involved in the Council for Educational Change, Bass Museum of Art, New World Symphony and Funding Arts Network. Each of her children has followed in her footsteps: Stuart, now CEO of Lennar, helps direct the non-profit Lennar Foundation and has served as chairman of the University of Miami’s board of trustees and on the boards of the Alonzo Mourning Charities and Overtown Youth Center. Leslie chairs the board of Teach For America Miami-Dade; founded and runs Achieve Miami, a foundation that launches and manages a port- folio of organizations focused on educational equity; and worked with her mother in the United Way’s Women’s Leadership group. Jeffrey, co-founder along with RE alum Melissa Krinzman ’86 of a $100-million venture capital investment firm Krillion Ventures, served as chair of the board for Ransom Everglades and Breakthrough Miami (see story, page 4) and founded the Beacon College Prep charter school in Opa-locka. Leslie: When we all look at our lives, our commitment to our own service, our own communities, we so much in our own ways – and jointly – reflect what Mom instilled in us at an early age, back when she was involved with the PTA at North Beach Elementary and Temple Beth Sholom across the street. Our mom came from very, very simple means. My grandparents did not Service to the Community Stuart Miller ’75 Leslie Miller Saointz ’77 Sue Miller Jeffrey Miller ’79