Minot K. Milliken ’37

Native New Yorker, kilted textile expert, and multicorporate director, Minot Milliken died Nov. 14, 1998. He left his second wife Armene (Edith, his wife of 49 years, prominent in Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, died in 1991), sons Kim, Christy, and Sandy (Seth II '72 died in 1989), daughter Daphne, and nine grandchildren.

At St. George's Minot was business manager of the yearbook, manager of the swimming team, and into dramatics. At Princeton he majored in biology, was on the Daily Princetonian business board, and was a member of various societies and Cap and Gown.

Abandoning early plans to be a doctor, he absorbed a general business education for two years at J.P. Morgan before joining the family textile business of Deering Milliken (later Milliken & Co.), initially in the wool-buying office in Boston. Later he became v.p. (1948), treasurer, and director. He was director of at least six companies, a trustee of St. George's, and trustee and president of the Boys' Club of New York.

A dramatic episode in 1954 was the robbery of his NYC apartment and incarceration of Edith and their servants -- the robbers were caught four days later. In 1983 he said his golf was atrocious, but in 1960 he won at Pine Valley with Dean Hill. The family summer home was in Blue Hills, Maine.

The Class of 1937