JOAN W. MILLER MALS ’79

JOAN W. MILLER MALS ’79, who coordinated student programs for the Wesleyan Project to Increase Mastery in Math and Science for high school students and teachers, died Oct. 12, 2013. She was 80. After graduating from Oberlin College, she taught elementary school in Madison and Woodbridge, Conn., and then earned her MALS at Wesleyan. She learned to read ancient Greek and took pleasure in translating the New Testament. In addition to her work with PIMMS, she volunteered in recent years in the English as a Second Language program at the Middletown Adult Education center. She enjoyed spending summers on Lake Webb in Weld, Maine, and had a life-long love for playing Chopin, Bach, and Scott Joplin on the piano. Survivors include her husband, Richard A. Miller, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics at Wesleyan, Emeritus, three children, eight grandchildren, and her sister and brother.