FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PEARL RIVER, NEW YORK, RESIDENT WILLIAM MILLER INDUCTED INTO MANHATTAN COLLEGE’S ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – William Miller ’48, a resident of Pearl River, New York, and a Manhattan College alumnus, has been inducted into the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame. The 26th annual event, which is sponsored by the Manhattan College Alumni Society, was held Dec. 4, 2004, in Smith Auditorium at the college campus.

  Miller attended the College on a track scholarship but was forced to leave his academic and athletic career to serve the United States Army Air Corps. during World War II. When he returned to the College, Miller chose not to play sports but to express his love of it as a reporter. He became a sports columnist for The Quadrangle, the College’s student newspaper, and served as the campus correspondent for The New York Times. He also was the sports editor for the yearbook.

After he graduated from the College in 1948, Miller returned to campus two years later as the director of news where he handled public relations and sports coverage for the College. He created the first alumni publication, as well as an internal publication for faculty and staff.

Miller has freelanced for The Times, specializing in high school track and field, since he began writing for the paper as a student. He has received several awards for his outstanding work as a sports reporter, including the Jesse Abramson Memorial Award by the Penn Relays, the Catholic High Schools Athletic Association Award and the Manhattan College Alumni Spiked Shoe Club Award, among others.

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