[Oe List ...] Does Anyone Remember?

[Nancy Lanphear]

Dear Beret,

I have missed connecting with you so this message was a good reminder of
our earlier connections.  And, speaking of knees!  How are you doing?  I
had one in 2003 and it is still working well.

This holiday has been more tearful for me than last year.  I think the
numbness of Fred's death has lifted - and that's good!  Tears still come
easily and without any thought.  I guess tears don't come from the mind?

Take care,

Love,

Nancy



2012/1/3 Beret Griffith <beretgriffith at charter.net>

> 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.****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> _______________________________________________
> OE mailing list
> OE at wedgeblade.net
> http://wedgeblade.net/mailman/listinfo/oe_wedgeblade.net
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://wedgeblade.net/pipermail/oe_wedgeblade.net/attachments/20120103/f3a39b63/attachment.html>