Harry M. Roman, 89; Major Benefactor of Cedars-Sinai Hospital
Harry M. Roman, 89, major benefactor of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, died there Friday of complications of a stroke.
A native of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Roman worked for a time in Chicago and then established himself as a business broker in Los Angeles.
He sold his Harry Roman & Co., a private leveraged buy-out brokerage firm, to Shea, Paschall & Powell Inc., the U.S. corporate finance affiliate of Hambros Bank Ltd., London, in 1989.
Roman gave generously to Hebrew University, the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA and Stephen S. Wise Temple.
But, along with his wife of 63 years, Ruth Cohen Roman, he devoted most of his volunteer energy and financial gifts to Cedars-Sinai.
The couple headed fund-raising campaigns that amassed $10 million for improvements. Their own gifts helped renovate the Emergency Department, the Cardiology Department and Recovery Room.
In 1998, they endowed the Ruth and Harry Roman Chair in Neonatology.
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