STUART O. MILLER, ENS, USN
Stuart Miller '39
Lucky Bag
From the 1939 Lucky Bag:
STUART OXNARD MILLER
Seneca Falls, New York
Stew, Oxblood
With one exception Stew will probably be the same twenty years from now as he is today. Lacrosse sticks and bars, hops and good clothes, and swing music and Esquire will surely be as much a part of him then as they have been for the past four years. But his love of the nicer things in life doesn't mean that he hasn't a serious side. When one wants a job done, and done well, Stew is the one who does it. No more can be said of any man. And the exception? To find it one must go to the beach at Waikiki and look for a tall dark boy and a slim pretty girl who only have eyes for each other.
Lacrosse 4, 3, 2, 1, N*; All American 3; Basketball 4, 3; Track 4, 3, 2, 1; Battalion Football 4, 3, 2; 1 Stripe.
STUART OXNARD MILLER
Seneca Falls, New York
Stew, Oxblood
With one exception Stew will probably be the same twenty years from now as he is today. Lacrosse sticks and bars, hops and good clothes, and swing music and Esquire will surely be as much a part of him then as they have been for the past four years. But his love of the nicer things in life doesn't mean that he hasn't a serious side. When one wants a job done, and done well, Stew is the one who does it. No more can be said of any man. And the exception? To find it one must go to the beach at Waikiki and look for a tall dark boy and a slim pretty girl who only have eyes for each other.
Lacrosse 4, 3, 2, 1, N*; All American 3; Basketball 4, 3; Track 4, 3, 2, 1; Battalion Football 4, 3, 2; 1 Stripe.
Loss
Stuart was fatally injured diving from a dock in San Pedro, CA on August 17, 1939. (He "suffered a fractured neck.")
He was 6th Division Officer aboard USS California (BB 44).
Other Information
From researcher Kathy Franz:
Stuart graduated in 1934 from Mynderse Academy. Basketball (2, 3, 4); Football (3, 4); Track (3, 4); Junior Prom Committee, Chairman (3); President (3); Le Cercle Francais (2, 3); Myndersian Staff (4); Prize Speaking (4.) He won second place for boys in the annual speaking contest. He then took a postgraduate course at the academy.
He was nominated to the Naval Academy by Representative John Taber of the 36th District (R., NY.)
His father George was a dentist. Stuart’s oldest brother Cheston was killed in a train accident in 1919.
Stuart was survived by his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Miller, a brother, Bradford Miller, and a sister, Frances Miller. He is buried in New York.
Photographs
From his high school yearbook
From the Lucky Bag
"Stuart Miller was a First-Team All-America in 1938 and earned second-team honors in 1939." From the 2006 Naval Academy Lacrosse media guide.
Memorial Hall Error
There is no indication that Stuart’s loss was operational in nature; each mention of it in the local paper is of an "accident." He should not be included in Memorial Hall.
Stuart is one of 80 members of the Class of 1939 on Virtual Memorial Hall.
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