Dr. Bruce Miller
Professor and Servant Extraordinaire
A long time professor, leader, servant, and friend of our department, Dr. Bruce Miller passed away last spring.
He graduated from SDSU with a B.S. degree in 1947 (then it was SDSC). He began his teaching career here in 1958,
and retired in 1988 marking 30 years of dedicated service. Upon retirement, he maintained his contact with our
department by tutoring students in their physics classes. He helped our students in this way well into the fall
semester of 2006, marking over 18 more years of service. His cheerful and caring attitude lifted the spirits of
our department every time he was here. There was never any charge for the students, he only asked that they be
prompt for the appointments. Many students give him sole credit for their surviving physics and going on to be
successful in their academic careers. His passing marked an end to many years of service to us and to our students.
It is only fitting and proper that something be done to memorialize his dedication and unselfish service.
A Bruce Miller memorial fund is in the process of being established through the SDSU foundation. It is hoped that
sufficient funding can be received to establish a scholarship and/or some other type of permanent memorial to this
wonderful man. His years of dedicated service to our students would seem to make a scholarship a fitting way to do
this.
I will attempt to keep updates on the progress of the memorial fund available to interested persons on our departmental
web page at www.engineering.sdstate.edu/~physics/physics.htm.
One can go to this site directly, or through http://www3.sdstate.edu, the
University's home page.
If you have comments, questions, or suggestions concerning a Memorial for Dr. Bruce Miller, please do not hesitate
to contact me: (605) 688-5428, e-mail at Oren.Quist@sdstate.edu.
Click here to E-mail me---- Oren.Quist@sdstate.edu
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