Miles Keedy Hoffman ’66

Miles Keedy Hoffman ’66 passed away on June 23, 2023, in Black Mountain, North Carolina, from complications due to multiple myeloma, with which he was diagnosed in 2020. Born in Philadelphia, Miles graduated from Germantown Friends School. At Dartmouth he majored in government and participated in the Dartmouth Outing Club and played squash. In August 1965 Miles married Ruth Anne Cassel, whom he had known for years through the First United Methodist Church of Germantown. The couple were married for 58 years; he is survived by sons Gregory and Brian and grandchildren Amelia and Henry. After earning an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1968, Miles taught political science at Indiana University-South Bend. He went on to hold positions in catalog marketing at Heath Co. and Gander Mountain and in membership marketing at the American Medical Association and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in Chicago. His real enthusiasm lay in the study of government, especially the U.S. Constitution. After he and Ruth retired and moved to Givens Highland Farms in Black Mountain, Miles taught well-attended adult lifelong-learning courses on the Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court. He also served as president of the Residents Corp. at GHF. He is remembered as kind, caring, witty, and always welcoming.


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Alumni Books
New titles from Dartmouth writers (March/April 2025)
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New Bishop
Diocese elevates its first female leader, Julia E. Whitworth ’93.
Reconstruction Radical

Amid the turmoil of Post-Civil War America, Amos Akerman, Class of 1842, went toe to toe with the Ku Klux Klan.

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Kirsten Gillibrand ’88
A U.S. senator on 18 years in Washington, D.C.

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