Gordon Donald Miller ’54

Gordon Donald Miller ’54 died December 3, 2010, in Hudson, Florida. A native of New Rochelle, New York, Don matriculated with the class of 1954 from Manhasset High School in New York, where he had been active in the student congress, editor of the school paper and a football and lacrosse athlete. At Dartmouth he majored in English, was a brother of Gamma Delta Chi, edited the freshman Green Book and was a member of the Human Rights Society and the International Relations Club. He married Lori in 1955 while managing a resort in the White Mountains. In 1959 Don began what was to become a 41-year career as a teacher of English at the White Mountain School in Bethlehem, New Hampshire; Holland Hall in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and headmaster at the Valley School in Flint, Michigan, and the Pennington School in Pennington, New Jersey. During his academic career Don attained a master’s in English, then a Ph.D. in 1977. Stemming from a project with a Dartmouth professor during freshman year, Don developed and utilized the concept of “visual thinking” and its impact on the learning process. His writings on the subject have drawn considerable interest from the academic community. He and Lori retired to Hudson in 2002.