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Scholarships
The Christopher Miner Scholarship
The Christopher Miner Scholarship established in 1966 by the Honorable Robert D. Miner, Class of 1934, in memory of his son Christopher, Class of 1964.
Born to Robert “Bob” and Antoinette Miner, Christopher “Kit” Miner, Class of 1964, was a member of Sigma Phi fraternity. He attended Hamilton alongside his older brother Robert, Jr., Class of 1963. Kit was tragically killed in an automobile accident in 1962 and was buried in the College cemetery. Bob Miner established this scholarship in memory of his son.
A longtime U.S. diplomat and public servant, Bob Miner was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and played tennis, football, and hockey at Hamilton, graduating in 1934with an A.B. in history. He earned his master’s degree from Yale in 1942. Bob taught at universities in Greece and Turkey, and served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945. He began a career with the Foreign Service in 1947. From then until his retirement in 1971, he was stationed around the world, including Athens, London, Paris, and Istanbul. He was appointed by President Kennedy as the first U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, and later served as Ambassador to Sierra Leone. After all his years abroad, he described the College campus as “the one place in the States for which I was homesick.” Bob died in 1990. His son, Robert Miner, Jr., was Hamilton Class of 1963, and his grandson, Isaac Handley-Miner, is a member of the Class of 2014.
June 2014
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