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Arjay Miller named as Stanford’s alumnus of yearArjay Miller, dean of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, has been named recipient of the Business School's Ernest C. Arbuckle award as “alumnus of the year.Miller, 59, will receive the a-ward during the dinner .gathering of the School's alumnus of the of the School's alumni at Hickey's Hyatt House in Palo Alto, Saturday, October 25.•Miller is not a graduate of the School but was given honorary alumnus status by the School's alumni association in 1972.Since he became dean the Business School has launched a new program to train managers for public as well as business organ-ARJAY MILLERizations and has been rated as the nation's leading business school for academic quality in a nationwide poll of business school deans.Miller came to Stanford in 1969 after a twenty-three year career with Ford Motor Company. A member of the whiz kids group Henry Ford II hired out of the Pentagon following World War II, Miller rose through a succession of financial positions to become president of Ford in 1963. He was president until 1968 when he was named vice-chairman of , Ford's board of directors.Along with his extensive business experience, he has long been active on public and semipublic committees and Commissions including the Urban Institute, of which he was founding chairman; the board of trustees of the Brookings Institution, Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, and International Executive Service Corps; and is a member of the board and of the senior executive council of the Conference Board.Bom on a farm in Shelby, Nebraska, Miller graduated with highest honors from UCLA in 1937 and then spent three years hi graduate studies in finance *t University of California-Berk-eley. He worked as an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco for two years before entering the U.S. Army Air Force in 1943.
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Shelby Sun
Shelby, Nebraska, US
Thu, Oct 30, 1975
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