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various prestigious committees. Millett served as the 16th president of Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio, from 1953 to 1964. He managed a vast expansion of the physical campus and a doubling of student enrollment. He also oversaw significant progress in the academic quality and national reputation of the university. He was a champion of the
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Millett retired from public service in Ohio in 1972 and joined the executive leadership team at the
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Columbia University, rising to the rank of tenured full professor. He returned to active duty in the Army in 1947 to study logistical management of the German Army during the war. He also served on the staff of the first Hoover Commission and
146:, of parents who had come from small towns in southwestern Indiana. He was the first of two children, the only son, born to Grover Allan Millett (1884–1953)and Helen Elizabeth (Welch) Millett (1886–1968). His father had been a successful businessman in the 1920s, but went bust in the
178:, whom he had dated at DePauw and who was earning her degree in the School of Journalism at Columbia. He received his PhD in January 1938 at the age of 25 and spent one year as postdoctoral student at the
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Phi Delta Theta national organization. Millett was a trustee of the
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