Miller Schlager Gaffney ’33

Miller S. Gaffney died May 18, 1999, in Binghamton, N.Y., following a stroke.

Miller prepared at Hill. At Princeton, he majored in economics, played freshman golf, coxed the rowing eights, joined Charter, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the Army ROTC program upon graduation.

He joined the investment banking firm of Dick & Merrill Smith in NYC as a bond trader, married Brewster Smith '33's sister, Adelaide, in 1936, and rejoined the Army as a captain of field artillery in 1940. He served under George Stillwell in China, became a colonel in 1946, and then returned to Binghamton to resume a career in banking with the First Natl. He was designated commandant of the 146th USAR schools and remained active in the Army Reserve until 1961.

He retired in 1975 as e.v.p. of the Lincoln First Bank, which acquired First City and is now the Chase. His devotion and service to his community is reflected in his many board memberships and directorships. For many years he was senior warden of Unity Memorial Church.

His first wife, Adelaide, who died in 1974, was the mother of his three sons, David M., Philip W. '65, and James T. '69. The class offers its sympathies to them and to his widow, Mary, and nine grandchildren.

The Class of 1933