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NEW YORK -- In a ballroom packed with over 500 guests, many moved to tears, Frank Doroff, Bloomingdale's executive vice president and among the industry's most popular merchants, was honored with the Phoenix House Fashion Award, Monday night at The Plaza.
The crowd sat riveted, as Doroff got up to the podium and told how he and his family were forever touched by the scourge of drugs. It was in March 2000, when he received a call that his son Josh, a student at Trinity College, had died of drug-related causes. Very soon after, Doroff established the Josh Doroff Memorial Fund to support drug prevention and education programs at Phoenix House.
"I know first-hand the...