Community Relations Board and helped organize the Dade County Bar Association. Myers received numerous awards in Miami’s Jewish and secular communities. In September of 1992, he was recognized by The Miami Herald with the Spirit of Excellence Award. He received the Silver Brotherhood Medallion Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Nationally, he was recognized for distinguished service to American Jewry by Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity and honored as the fraternity’s “Man of the Year” in 1943. Phi Epsilon Pi recognized him in 1949 for “the richest contribution to essential Jewish life in America.” “My father’s love of family was his deepest and most abiding love, which spilled over to the community – making the community his family,” said his daughter Judy. “We learned about community service just by his deeds and actions. He never told us what to do.”
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