Vito Fossella: “on November 15th, 2005, America lost one of its greatest entrepreneurs, the great Preston Robert ``Bob'' Tisch, the…”

“on November 15th, 2005, America lost one of its greatest entrepreneurs, the great Preston Robert ``Bob'' Tisch, the former Postmaster General and owner of the New York Giants Football Club. Bob Tisch grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, to middle-class parents who had emigrated from Russia. He had a vision that anyone could succeed in life if they worked hard enough to achieve it. He once mentioned that ``perseverance is at the heart of meeting any challenge.'' This is a motto he would live by for the rest of his life. In 1943 Bob Tisch joined the U.S. Army and fought in World War II. Shortly after he left the military, he earned his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Michigan in 1948. That same year he began what he would later become famous for: he joined his family hotel business at the Laurel-in-the-Pines in Lakewood, New Jersey. Later in life he would move on to gain total control of the Loews Theater Corporation and in 1962, would build the Summit Hotel in Bal Harbour, Florida. At over 50 stories, it was the world's tallest hotel at the time. Throughout his life he would find success in all that he did. This would continue into the later years of his life. At the age of 60, President Ronald Reagan appointed him the United States Postmaster General, a post he would hold for two years. And finally in 1991, he purchased a 50 percent share of the New York Giants Football Club, an ownership he would happily share with the late Wellington Mara.…”