Award honors Franci Golman Rudolph's commitment to helping others

Franci Golman Rudolph has been helping others since she was 14. Now 58, she is being honored for her charitable efforts. “I’m just a person willing to do the work,” she says.

Award honors Franci Golman Rudolph's commitment to helping others
By Elisabeth Dyer, Times staff writer In print: Friday, September 26, 2008

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“How many hours do you have?" asked Franci Golman Rudolph. She is sitting at her kitchen table, clearly preferring the limelight to be on her philanthropic works rather than herself. She tells a story of a stuttering child who gained the confidence to speak through a scholarship to the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Her passion is evident.

Then there's the stroke team at St. Joseph's Hospital, working with new technology that can bust a clot and reverse stroke damage.

Rudolph, 58, plays her part in these efforts and many more, serving on boards at local hospitals, museums, art programs and schools.

"We say so much more by what we do than by what we say," Rudolph said.

She likes quotes. She recites one by Robert Frost.

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Rudolph is the type to roll up her sleeves and do the work.

"Who in this community and beyond has she not touched?" asked her sister, Gail Golman Holtzman.

They told her about the Human Relations Award, given nationally and locally, that they wanted to present. This, they told her, was the first year it would be given in Tampa. They showed her a long list of past national recipients including Jimmy Carter, Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood.
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