David W. Miller ’89

Chronicle of Higher Education reporter David Miller was killed in a traffic accident on Jan. 6, 2002, returning from an assignment to his Maryland home. He was 35.

Words do but little to capture David's life and legacy. "Dave and I roomed together all four years at Princeton. The time we spent founding and editing the Princeton Sentinel was important to both of us and will be a lasting and treasured memory of Dave for me. His gifts as a journalist and as a man were as extraordinary as they were rare, and for all those who knew him, his loss leaves an agonizing void," said Rob Kelner. "He was one of the best I've encountered in 35 years here, and I will never forget him," said Prof. William Howarth of the English department.

A California native, Miller spent much of his childhood in Australia before he returned to the US to attend Princeton. The class extends deepest sympathies to Miller's family, including his wife, Colleen, their two boys, Jack and Jonah, his mother, Frances, and his siblings, Kirsten, John, and Dana. David's late father, John, was in the Class of 1958.

The Class of 1989