Jo
Ann S. Miller, 1929-1987
Jo Ann S. Miller
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Schiff in Cincinnati, Ohio on January
20, 1929. She attended public schools in Cincinnati; Lebanon, Pennsylvania;
and Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and the Deaconess Hospital School of
Nursing in Cincinnati, graduating in 1951 and receiving her R.N. that
year. Jo Ann began the practice of nursing in Lafayette, Indiana where
she lived with her parents.
In 1952 she married
Irwin Miller (Alfred ’50). She continued the practice of nursing in
New York City and in Huntsville, Alabama where Irwin was stationed
during his military service. She left nursing in 1955 to raise her
family. Dianne (Alfred School of Nursing, ’77) was born in April of
1955, David in December 1956, and Paul (Alfred, College of Ceramics,
Division of Fine Arts, ’83) in January 1959. She returned to the practice
of nursing in Lexington, Massachusetts in the seventies.
In August of 1986
Jo Ann moved to Alfred with Irwin upon his return to the University
to teach in the Department of Mathematics. She was active in the Alfred
Women’s Club and in University activities, becoming a loyal adopted
alumna of the Alma Mater of her husband and her children. Her sudden
passing January 9, 1987 left a void in the lives of her family and
in the Alfred community that can only partially be filled by this
memorial.
Jo Ann S. Miller
loved nursing and she was especially devoted to the direct care of
hospital patients. Her life epitomized the highest ideals of the nursing
profession, not only in the caring way that she practiced her profession,
but also in the nurturing love and support she gave her family and
in her remarkable sympathy for all creatures in need.
This Year's
Lecture
The Relationship
of Smoking in Films to Teenage Smoking. Madeline Dalton, PhD,
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover,
NH. Dr. Dalton earned her undergraduate degree from Alfred University
(BA in Biology, '86.)
Past
Lectures:
2003 - Compassion's
Limits in Medicine. Ralph Crawshaw, MD., Professor of
Psychiatry and Professor of Public Health emeriti, Oregon Health Sciences
University, Portland, OR.
2002 -
Ethical Issues of Assisted Reproductive Technologies.
Dr. Adrienne Asch, Henry R. Luce Professor in biology, Ethics and
the Politics of Human Reproduction, Wellesley College, Wellesley College,
MA
2001 - Genetics:
New Medicine/New People! Dr. Arthur Zucker, Assoc. Professor
of Philosophy and Director, Institute for Applied and Professional
Ethics, Ohio University, Athens, OH.
2000 -
Ethical Issues in Stem Cell Research and Therapeutic Cloning.
Dr. Ronald M. Green, Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human
Values, and Director of the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College,
Hanover, NH.
1999 - Ethical
Challenges in Organ Transplantation. Dr. George Agich,
F.J. O'Neill Chair in Clinical Bioethics and Chairman of the Department
of Bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
1998 - When
Medicine and Religion Come Into Conflict. Dr. David
Smith, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Poynter
Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN.
1997 - Animals,
Science and Ethics. Dr. David Robertshaw, Associate
Dean, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY.
1996 - Emerging
Problems in Health Care: Why They are Important and What to Do.
Dr. Samuel Gorovitz, Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY
1995 - Ethics
of Clinical Cancer Trials: Patients or Guinea Pigs?
Dr. Derrick Raghavan, M.D., Ph.D., Chief of Solid Tumor Research Division
of Medicine, Roswell Park Memorial Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY.
1994 - Advances
in Human Genetic Therapy: Medical Possibilities and Ethical Problems.
Dr. Jeffrey Spike, Division of Medical Humanities, University of Rochester
School of Medicine, Rochester, NY.
1993 - Death,
Dignity and Individualized Decision Making. Dr. Timothy
Quill, Associate Chief of Medicine, Genesee Hospital & the University
of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
1992 - In
Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer. Dr. Robert
Howe, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility Associates, Hartford,
CT.
