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Late LCCC professor, one of school’s first, leaves $1 million gift to students
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
A late Lehigh Carbon Community College professor and pioneer in the school’s technology department has left a $1 million gift behind to provide scholarships for students studying technology.
Clifford F. Miller of South Whitehall Township was one of the initial professors hired to teach mechanical technology at the North Whitehall college in 1968. He retired in May 1987 and was named professor emeritus in 1999 before dying in April 2020 at age 94.
In recognition of his $1 million donation in scholarship funding, the college plans to rename the Student Services Center at the Schnecksville campus as the “Clifford Miller Student Services Center” sometime in 2021.
My previous two columns were devoted to accounts of the impact of the great Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918âwhich extended through 1919 and the first four months of 1920âin Lake Geneva. While researching how the great Spanish Flu Epidemic impacted Lake Geneva, I read issues of the two Lake Geneva newspapers, the
Lake Geneva Herald and the
Lake Geneva News, which merged in April 1919 following the death of the
Heraldâs editor, John E. Nethercut, and the issues of the newly merged newspaper, also called the
Lake Geneva News, from April 1919 to April 1920.
As I noted in my two previous columns, accounts of the Spanish Flu in Lake Geneva competed for space in the Lake Geneva newspapers with articles about World War I. During 1918, prior to the end of World War I on November 11, 1918 (âArmistice Dayâ), many of the war-related newspaper articles were about or by Lake Geneva soldiers serving in France. In 1919, the
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