Bob Miller died Dec. 22, 2003, after fighting various forms of cancer.
Bob prepared for Princeton at Montclair [N.J.] Academy and joined Court Club. His Princeton education was interrupted by service as an officer with the Navy Amphibious Forces in the Pacific. Before shipping out, he married Daphne Haynes.
He returned to receive a degree summa cum laude in English in 1947 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a master's from Princeton in 1949 and became an instructor in the English Dept. He received a PhD as a Wilson Fellow in 1954, then left Princeton to join the Dept. of English at Queens College in NYC. In 1977 he published Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds with Oxford U. Press, which is still in print.
His was an academically inclined family. Daphne received a law degree from Hofstra. Son Haynes graduated from Harvard, received a PhD in math from Princeton, and is a professor at MIT. Son Geoffrey '73 was editor of the law review at Columbia Law School, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and is a professor at NYU Law School.
Bob and Daphne were active in community affairs on Sanibel Island, Fla., until her death in 1996. Bob then married longtime friend Mary Plant, who survives him, along with Haynes and Geoffrey. The class expresses its sympathy to this distinguished family.
The Class of 1945