**My husband and I worked for Dr. Gutman for a couple of years. He was a bit unconventional, but a good boss nonetheless. We were both sorry to hear about his passing.***
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Mike was a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Past President and Vice President of the Florida Psychiatric Society. He started the Seminole County Mental Health Clinic in 1968 and was with the Orange County mental Health Services for 10 years, three of them as Chief Psychiatrist. He had been on the Board of Trustees of the Seminole Community College. He gave stimulating, education and entertaining speeches on psychiatry and politics to hundreds of civic, medical, and political organizations and he was interviewed by the Sentinel, and other periodicals countless times for articles on psychiatry. He appeared on TV and radio regularly to give his opinions on subjects dealing with serial murderers to Parent Power (his style of structuring the home for parents to discipline the children). He was also a published author of the books What's Wrong With Me Doc?, The Body is a Temple - Keep it Clean!, The Pain Patriots, A Fast Trip to Success, Peace of Mind and a Wonderful Life, and several medical and non-medical articles. There were lots of things he liked, including: hot peppers and Tabasco; ethnic food; bar hopping; vodka; caper cutting; sipping lemon water; ethnic food; garlic (of which he often smelled); beer; Jack Daniels; palm growing; driving in Donna's convertible; and going on beach vacations where he could play with the sand, sun, surf, snook and fishing, sea, seashells, suds, seafood, and shorts. He also lived fires in the fireplace, The Gators, The Canes, The Stingarees, tennis, baseball, The Dolphins, The Marlins, The Magic, Miami (where he grew up), war and spy pictures, Roget's Thesaurus and other vocabulary and sayings books, movies on television, classical music and country music, mixed chorus at Miami High School prepped him for always singing the national anthem at its every public playing; Christmas Carols and singing songs. He was proud of being a Captain in the Army and Veteran of Viet Nam and he proudly flew daily a lighted, all-weather American flag. He loved holiday family parties and reunions. He loved antiques and he could never throw things away owing to his obsessive-compulsive personality streak. At cocktail parties he loved to banter and joust with smart people, and fellow cynics. He loved to swim in his pool playing tag with his pool vac and ogling his palm jungle and the Purple Martin birds that flitted about the Martin House he erected. His favorite outfit was a pair of green army shorts, a mock turtle-neck shirt (now a MHS Reunion T-shirt), white wool athletic socks, K-Swiss tennis shoes, dink hat and no underwear (the outfit in which he'll be buried.) He loved his sister, Marcia, and would do anything for her if she needed him. He was close to his sister-in- law, Lynn, and his nieces and nephew - Cathy, Chevon, Nancy and Bobby. Mike had great personal friendships with so many people it would take a newspaper to list. Instead he'll just give them by alphabet: ABCDEFGHI JKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Mike was a privately shy person. He was one of the 10% of people with the Behavior Inhibition Gene, who have quirky ways. His included: not liking the telephone; taking things back to the store; walking across a crowded room; calling for reservations; and being criticized. If he were in his "on stage personality" mode where he was in control he was a laugh-'em-up, life-of-the-party guy. But, when not in control, his shy streak made him socially self conscious and made it impossible to say "No" to salespeople. His father, Robert (who he adored) and his son, Robert, had the shyness streak, as well as the gambling streak (as did his paternal uncles Charlie and Jules). Mike is going to miss his ten kids and they'll miss him. He had lots of fun with them: Reina, Elana, Robert, Marta, Andrew, Adam, Craig, Brent, Jeannette, Cheri; his "grans" who include Michelle, Amanda, Michael, David, Ben, Julia, John, William, Molly, Jon, Sara, Daniel, Christian, Noah, Sydney, Cecelia; and, his "great grans" Deaunte, Makayla, and Andre. It took three marriages for Mike to find the "love of his life." Donna is, was, and always will be his "best buddy and first friend." He'd give up his life for her and he'll Rest In Peace knowing she'll be next to him in the crypts at the Tower mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery. Happy he'll be that he'll have a Jewish Funeral and bagpipes will play Amazing Grace and his marker will say: NOT MY FAVORITE ART FORM -- A MASTER AT CONTEST LIVING and VERY GENEROUS. Funeral Services will be held on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 3 PM in the chapel of Woodlawn Funeral Home. Entombment to follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park with military honors. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 288073, Coral Gables, FL 33124 in memory of Dr. E. Michael Gutman. Woodlawn Funeral Home, 400 Woodlawn Cemetery Road, Gotha, FL 34737, 407.293.1361 To visit this Guest Book Online, go to www.MiamiHerald.com/obituaries.
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Mike was a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Past President and Vice President of the Florida Psychiatric Society. He started the Seminole County Mental Health Clinic in 1968 and was with the Orange County mental Health Services for 10 years, three of them as Chief Psychiatrist. He had been on the Board of Trustees of the Seminole Community College. He gave stimulating, education and entertaining speeches on psychiatry and politics to hundreds of civic, medical, and political organizations and he was interviewed by the Sentinel, and other periodicals countless times for articles on psychiatry. He appeared on TV and radio regularly to give his opinions on subjects dealing with serial murderers to Parent Power (his style of structuring the home for parents to discipline the children). He was also a published author of the books What's Wrong With Me Doc?, The Body is a Temple - Keep it Clean!, The Pain Patriots, A Fast Trip to Success, Peace of Mind and a Wonderful Life, and several medical and non-medical articles. There were lots of things he liked, including: hot peppers and Tabasco; ethnic food; bar hopping; vodka; caper cutting; sipping lemon water; ethnic food; garlic (of which he often smelled); beer; Jack Daniels; palm growing; driving in Donna's convertible; and going on beach vacations where he could play with the sand, sun, surf, snook and fishing, sea, seashells, suds, seafood, and shorts. He also lived fires in the fireplace, The Gators, The Canes, The Stingarees, tennis, baseball, The Dolphins, The Marlins, The Magic, Miami (where he grew up), war and spy pictures, Roget's Thesaurus and other vocabulary and sayings books, movies on television, classical music and country music, mixed chorus at Miami High School prepped him for always singing the national anthem at its every public playing; Christmas Carols and singing songs. He was proud of being a Captain in the Army and Veteran of Viet Nam and he proudly flew daily a lighted, all-weather American flag. He loved holiday family parties and reunions. He loved antiques and he could never throw things away owing to his obsessive-compulsive personality streak. At cocktail parties he loved to banter and joust with smart people, and fellow cynics. He loved to swim in his pool playing tag with his pool vac and ogling his palm jungle and the Purple Martin birds that flitted about the Martin House he erected. His favorite outfit was a pair of green army shorts, a mock turtle-neck shirt (now a MHS Reunion T-shirt), white wool athletic socks, K-Swiss tennis shoes, dink hat and no underwear (the outfit in which he'll be buried.) He loved his sister, Marcia, and would do anything for her if she needed him. He was close to his sister-in- law, Lynn, and his nieces and nephew - Cathy, Chevon, Nancy and Bobby. Mike had great personal friendships with so many people it would take a newspaper to list. Instead he'll just give them by alphabet: ABCDEFGHI JKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Mike was a privately shy person. He was one of the 10% of people with the Behavior Inhibition Gene, who have quirky ways. His included: not liking the telephone; taking things back to the store; walking across a crowded room; calling for reservations; and being criticized. If he were in his "on stage personality" mode where he was in control he was a laugh-'em-up, life-of-the-party guy. But, when not in control, his shy streak made him socially self conscious and made it impossible to say "No" to salespeople. His father, Robert (who he adored) and his son, Robert, had the shyness streak, as well as the gambling streak (as did his paternal uncles Charlie and Jules). Mike is going to miss his ten kids and they'll miss him. He had lots of fun with them: Reina, Elana, Robert, Marta, Andrew, Adam, Craig, Brent, Jeannette, Cheri; his "grans" who include Michelle, Amanda, Michael, David, Ben, Julia, John, William, Molly, Jon, Sara, Daniel, Christian, Noah, Sydney, Cecelia; and, his "great grans" Deaunte, Makayla, and Andre. It took three marriages for Mike to find the "love of his life." Donna is, was, and always will be his "best buddy and first friend." He'd give up his life for her and he'll Rest In Peace knowing she'll be next to him in the crypts at the Tower mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery. Happy he'll be that he'll have a Jewish Funeral and bagpipes will play Amazing Grace and his marker will say: NOT MY FAVORITE ART FORM -- A MASTER AT CONTEST LIVING and VERY GENEROUS. Funeral Services will be held on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 3 PM in the chapel of Woodlawn Funeral Home. Entombment to follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park with military honors. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 288073, Coral Gables, FL 33124 in memory of Dr. E. Michael Gutman. Woodlawn Funeral Home, 400 Woodlawn Cemetery Road, Gotha, FL 34737, 407.293.1361 To visit this Guest Book Online, go to www.MiamiHerald.com/obituaries.
**My husband and I worked for Dr. Gutman for a couple of years. He was a bit unconventional, but a good boss nonetheless. We were both sorry to hear about his passing.***
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Mike was a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Past President and Vice President of the Florida Psychiatric Society. He started the Seminole County Mental Health Clinic in 1968 and was with the Orange County mental Health Services for 10 years, three of them as Chief Psychiatrist. He had been on the Board of Trustees of the Seminole Community College. He gave stimulating, education and entertaining speeches on psychiatry and politics to hundreds of civic, medical, and political organizations and he was interviewed by the Sentinel, and other periodicals countless times for articles on psychiatry. He appeared on TV and radio regularly to give his opinions on subjects dealing with serial murderers to Parent Power (his style of structuring the home for parents to discipline the children). He was also a published author of the books What's Wrong With Me Doc?, The Body is a Temple - Keep it Clean!, The Pain Patriots, A Fast Trip to Success, Peace of Mind and a Wonderful Life, and several medical and non-medical articles. There were lots of things he liked, including: hot peppers and Tabasco; ethnic food; bar hopping; vodka; caper cutting; sipping lemon water; ethnic food; garlic (of which he often smelled); beer; Jack Daniels; palm growing; driving in Donna's convertible; and going on beach vacations where he could play with the sand, sun, surf, snook and fishing, sea, seashells, suds, seafood, and shorts. He also lived fires in the fireplace, The Gators, The Canes, The Stingarees, tennis, baseball, The Dolphins, The Marlins, The Magic, Miami (where he grew up), war and spy pictures, Roget's Thesaurus and other vocabulary and sayings books, movies on television, classical music and country music, mixed chorus at Miami High School prepped him for always singing the national anthem at its every public playing; Christmas Carols and singing songs. He was proud of being a Captain in the Army and Veteran of Viet Nam and he proudly flew daily a lighted, all-weather American flag. He loved holiday family parties and reunions. He loved antiques and he could never throw things away owing to his obsessive-compulsive personality streak. At cocktail parties he loved to banter and joust with smart people, and fellow cynics. He loved to swim in his pool playing tag with his pool vac and ogling his palm jungle and the Purple Martin birds that flitted about the Martin House he erected. His favorite outfit was a pair of green army shorts, a mock turtle-neck shirt (now a MHS Reunion T-shirt), white wool athletic socks, K-Swiss tennis shoes, dink hat and no underwear (the outfit in which he'll be buried.) He loved his sister, Marcia, and would do anything for her if she needed him. He was close to his sister-in- law, Lynn, and his nieces and nephew - Cathy, Chevon, Nancy and Bobby. Mike had great personal friendships with so many people it would take a newspaper to list. Instead he'll just give them by alphabet: ABCDEFGHI JKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Mike was a privately shy person. He was one of the 10% of people with the Behavior Inhibition Gene, who have quirky ways. His included: not liking the telephone; taking things back to the store; walking across a crowded room; calling for reservations; and being criticized. If he were in his "on stage personality" mode where he was in control he was a laugh-'em-up, life-of-the-party guy. But, when not in control, his shy streak made him socially self conscious and made it impossible to say "No" to salespeople. His father, Robert (who he adored) and his son, Robert, had the shyness streak, as well as the gambling streak (as did his paternal uncles Charlie and Jules). Mike is going to miss his ten kids and they'll miss him. He had lots of fun with them: Reina, Elana, Robert, Marta, Andrew, Adam, Craig, Brent, Jeannette, Cheri; his "grans" who include Michelle, Amanda, Michael, David, Ben, Julia, John, William, Molly, Jon, Sara, Daniel, Christian, Noah, Sydney, Cecelia; and, his "great grans" Deaunte, Makayla, and Andre. It took three marriages for Mike to find the "love of his life." Donna is, was, and always will be his "best buddy and first friend." He'd give up his life for her and he'll Rest In Peace knowing she'll be next to him in the crypts at the Tower mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery. Happy he'll be that he'll have a Jewish Funeral and bagpipes will play Amazing Grace and his marker will say: NOT MY FAVORITE ART FORM -- A MASTER AT CONTEST LIVING and VERY GENEROUS. Funeral Services will be held on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 3 PM in the chapel of Woodlawn Funeral Home. Entombment to follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park with military honors. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 288073, Coral Gables, FL 33124 in memory of Dr. E. Michael Gutman. Woodlawn Funeral Home, 400 Woodlawn Cemetery Road, Gotha, FL 34737, 407.293.1361 To visit this Guest Book Online, go to www.MiamiHerald.com/obituaries.
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Mike was a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Past President and Vice President of the Florida Psychiatric Society. He started the Seminole County Mental Health Clinic in 1968 and was with the Orange County mental Health Services for 10 years, three of them as Chief Psychiatrist. He had been on the Board of Trustees of the Seminole Community College. He gave stimulating, education and entertaining speeches on psychiatry and politics to hundreds of civic, medical, and political organizations and he was interviewed by the Sentinel, and other periodicals countless times for articles on psychiatry. He appeared on TV and radio regularly to give his opinions on subjects dealing with serial murderers to Parent Power (his style of structuring the home for parents to discipline the children). He was also a published author of the books What's Wrong With Me Doc?, The Body is a Temple - Keep it Clean!, The Pain Patriots, A Fast Trip to Success, Peace of Mind and a Wonderful Life, and several medical and non-medical articles. There were lots of things he liked, including: hot peppers and Tabasco; ethnic food; bar hopping; vodka; caper cutting; sipping lemon water; ethnic food; garlic (of which he often smelled); beer; Jack Daniels; palm growing; driving in Donna's convertible; and going on beach vacations where he could play with the sand, sun, surf, snook and fishing, sea, seashells, suds, seafood, and shorts. He also lived fires in the fireplace, The Gators, The Canes, The Stingarees, tennis, baseball, The Dolphins, The Marlins, The Magic, Miami (where he grew up), war and spy pictures, Roget's Thesaurus and other vocabulary and sayings books, movies on television, classical music and country music, mixed chorus at Miami High School prepped him for always singing the national anthem at its every public playing; Christmas Carols and singing songs. He was proud of being a Captain in the Army and Veteran of Viet Nam and he proudly flew daily a lighted, all-weather American flag. He loved holiday family parties and reunions. He loved antiques and he could never throw things away owing to his obsessive-compulsive personality streak. At cocktail parties he loved to banter and joust with smart people, and fellow cynics. He loved to swim in his pool playing tag with his pool vac and ogling his palm jungle and the Purple Martin birds that flitted about the Martin House he erected. His favorite outfit was a pair of green army shorts, a mock turtle-neck shirt (now a MHS Reunion T-shirt), white wool athletic socks, K-Swiss tennis shoes, dink hat and no underwear (the outfit in which he'll be buried.) He loved his sister, Marcia, and would do anything for her if she needed him. He was close to his sister-in- law, Lynn, and his nieces and nephew - Cathy, Chevon, Nancy and Bobby. Mike had great personal friendships with so many people it would take a newspaper to list. Instead he'll just give them by alphabet: ABCDEFGHI JKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Mike was a privately shy person. He was one of the 10% of people with the Behavior Inhibition Gene, who have quirky ways. His included: not liking the telephone; taking things back to the store; walking across a crowded room; calling for reservations; and being criticized. If he were in his "on stage personality" mode where he was in control he was a laugh-'em-up, life-of-the-party guy. But, when not in control, his shy streak made him socially self conscious and made it impossible to say "No" to salespeople. His father, Robert (who he adored) and his son, Robert, had the shyness streak, as well as the gambling streak (as did his paternal uncles Charlie and Jules). Mike is going to miss his ten kids and they'll miss him. He had lots of fun with them: Reina, Elana, Robert, Marta, Andrew, Adam, Craig, Brent, Jeannette, Cheri; his "grans" who include Michelle, Amanda, Michael, David, Ben, Julia, John, William, Molly, Jon, Sara, Daniel, Christian, Noah, Sydney, Cecelia; and, his "great grans" Deaunte, Makayla, and Andre. It took three marriages for Mike to find the "love of his life." Donna is, was, and always will be his "best buddy and first friend." He'd give up his life for her and he'll Rest In Peace knowing she'll be next to him in the crypts at the Tower mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery. Happy he'll be that he'll have a Jewish Funeral and bagpipes will play Amazing Grace and his marker will say: NOT MY FAVORITE ART FORM -- A MASTER AT CONTEST LIVING and VERY GENEROUS. Funeral Services will be held on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 3 PM in the chapel of Woodlawn Funeral Home. Entombment to follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park with military honors. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 288073, Coral Gables, FL 33124 in memory of Dr. E. Michael Gutman. Woodlawn Funeral Home, 400 Woodlawn Cemetery Road, Gotha, FL 34737, 407.293.1361 To visit this Guest Book Online, go to www.MiamiHerald.com/obituaries.
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