[Oe List ...] Does Anyone Remember?

[Beret Griffith]

While at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis in late October for
knee replacement, I met Cynthia Miller, an acupuncturist from the Penny
George Institute for Health and Healing. In talking about spirituality and
alternative healing, EI came up. Cynthia sojourned at the Cleveland House,
went to the Academy and remembers Brian Stanfield and Robert Shropshire. Her
father was Bob Miller, Assistant to the President of Union Theological
Seminary. I found the article below on Bob Miller. It was a fun connection.
What does anyone remember about Cynthia? 

 

Robert Irving Miller '46

Robert Irving Miller '46, a Presbyterian minister and retired nursing home
director, was born on October 29, 1921, in Buffalo, NY. His parents were
Edward J. Miller, Jr., a sales representative, and the former Agnes
Elizabeth Elliott. "Bob" Miller grew up in the Buffalo area and was
graduated in 1939 from Kenmore High School. He enrolled at Hamilton in the
fall of 1942, but left after a semester to go on active duty with the U.S.
Army. He served with the 10th Mountain Division in Italy and earned the
Bronze Star along with two battle stars. Released from the Army as a staff
sergeant following World War II's end in 1945, he returned to the Hill in
the spring of 1946. A member of ELS, he again withdrew after a semester and
transferred to the University of Buffalo, where he acquired his B.A. degree,
majoring in sociology, in 1948.

 

Bob Miller went on to Union Theological Seminary and obtained a B.D. in
1951. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church that year, he did education and
youth work for eight years as associate pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church in Englewood, NJ (1951-55) and minister to youth at Winnetka
Congregational Church in Winnetka, IL (1955-59). Thereafter he returned to
Union Theological Seminary in New York City as assistant to the president
and director of alumni affairs. He continued in that post, engaged in alumni
and developmental work, until 1975.

 

While residing in Englewood, NJ, the Rev. Robert I. Miller served a two-year
term (1967-69) as mayor of that city for the munificent salary of $100 a
year. He was elected as a Democrat by a majority of 93 votes. When he ran
for reelection on his record, as he later wryly commented, he lost. After
leaving Union, he moved to Cleveland, OH, where he became associate pastor
for mission and education at the Fairmont Presbyterian Church (1975-77) and
director of congregational enablement for the Greater Cleveland Interchurch
Council (1978-79). Appointed executive director of the Eliza Bryant Center,
a nursing home in Cleveland, in 1979, he retired from that position in 1986.
That year, he joined the Cleveland affiliate of Habitat for Humanity, on
whose international board he would serve, along with the former president,
Jimmy Carter, for 11 years.

 

In 1992, Bob Miller relocated to a retirement community in Duarte, CA, near
Pasadena, where he continued his lifelong activities on behalf of causes
promoting social and economic justice, even participating as a picketer in a
union workers' strike at the University of Southern California. Among his
many organizational involvements were memberships on the board of the
Community Nonviolence Rescue Center and Clergy and Laity United for Social
Justice (CLUE). A faithful Hamilton alumnus despite his brief sojourn on the
Hill, he gave the sermon at the Service of Remembrance on Reunion Weekend in
1996.

 

The Rev. Robert I. Miller was still residing in Duarte when he died on March
27, 2009, as verified by Social Security records. Presumed survivors include
his wife, the former Barbara Ann Thompson, whom he had married in 1945, and
three children, Deborah, Eric, and Cynthia. His older son, Christopher,
predeceased him in 1974.

 

 

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