HALL OF FAME 1994 Richard G. Miller, Jr. was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago-based Elgin National Industries, Incorporated, and of Roberts & Schaefer Company until 1988 and continued to serve as Chairman until his retirement in 1993. He endowed Marshall University's College of Business with its first distinguished chair through a gift to the Marshall University Foundation. A 1942 graduate of Marshall, Miller worked at the International Nickel Company during his college career. After graduation, he was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy, and upon release in 1946 , he joined Roberts & Schaefer Company as a sales engineer. In March of 1953 he was transferred to Chicago, and in May 1963 he became president. When Roberts & Schaefer merged with Elgin National Watch Company, Miller was elected vice president and director, and in 1972 was elected president and chief executive officer of Elgin. He is chiefly responsible for introduction on a wide commercial scale of heavy medium cycloning of coal and ore in the United States. Miller is a director of the American Mining Congress and a member of American Institute of Mining Engineers and the Coal Mining Institute of West Virginia.