A memorial service for Yale economist John Perry Miller, former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 25, at Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. All are invited to attend.
A scholar, teacher and administrator, Mr. Miller was the Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor Emeritus in Economics. An expert on industrial organization and public policy, he helped advise President Harry S. Truman on how to improve the New England economy after World War II. During Dean Miller's tenure at the Graduate School 1961-69, he was one of the nation's leading spokesmen for graduate education. He helped establish a number of new programs at the University, including the joint M.D.-Ph.D. program, and played a key role in the founding of the School of Management SOM and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He died on Feb. 9 at age 85.
Several of Professor Miller's longtime Yale colleagues will speak at the memorial service. They include Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History; Georges May, Sterling Professor Emeritus of French; James Tobin, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics; Paul W. MacAvoy, the Williams Brothers Professor of Management and former dean of SOM; and Howard Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History and former Yale president. Also speaking at the service will be Mr. Miller's son, Dr. Perry Miller, professor of anesthesiology at Yale and director of the Center for Medical Informatics, and his daughter, Anne Finicane of Brimfield, Massachusetts. A reception at the Graduate Club will follow the service.