Matthew J. Miller ’62

Matt died May 29, 2025.

He came to us from Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J. He majored in philosophy, although he had a mechanically oriented mind. Matt roomed with Tom Corwin, Jim Robinson, and Jim Newman freshman year, joined Dial, and later lived in singles.

After graduation, he earned a master’s degree in philosophy at Tufts while his longterm girlfriend, Marjorie Cantor, finished her studies at Brandeis. Although he was admitted to the Ph.D. program at Penn, plans changed. Given that his new wife Marjorie was expecting a child, he “temporarily managed” the paint department for a family business in Brooklyn for 30 years.

Eventually, Marjorie earned a Ph.D. and became a prominent philosophy professor. The couple moved to Shanghai when she won a Fulbright. Matt became a self-taught computer network person after reading technical manuals. He set up three LANs for State Department offices in China, staying an extra year to complete the work.

After returning home, Matt built and managed a network for New York City’s Department of Consumer Affairs, joining Marjorie in Seoul on another Fulbright.

Matt is survived by Marjorie, and by daughters Lisa Hotung and Catherine Miller-Wilson.