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Dr. George Tyler Miller, 85, former president of James Madison University, died July 24 at Westminister Canterbury in Lynchburg.
Dr. Miller was president of JMU, then known as Madison College, 1949-71.
In presenting Greater Madison Inc.’s educator of the year award to him in 1974, JMU President Ronald Carrier said that under Dr. Miller’s guidance the college grew “from a small girls’ school to a multi-purpose” institution.
During the 21 years that Dr. Miller headed the school, Madison grew from 1,000 to 4,300 students and began admitting men.
Twenty-one major buildings were constructed and 240 acres were added to the campus. That land is now the site of Godwin Hall and many of JMU’s major facilities.
In 1954, Madison was authorized to offer master’s degrees, and 16 master’s programs had been started by the time Dr. Miller retired as only the third president in the school’s history.
Dr. Miller died one day short of his 86th birthday. He was born at Washington in Rappahannock County July 25, 1902, and was the son of the late John J. and Evelyn Tyler Miller.
He graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1923 and did graduate study at the University of Virginia. In 1955, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of law' by Bridgewater College.
After graduating from VMI, Dr. Miller returned to his native Rappahannock County for two years as a teacher and high school principal.
He spent a year in the real estate business in Florida and two years as an insurance salesman and farmer in Rappahannock County before returning to education as superintendent of the Rappahannock and Warren County school system.
A year later, he became superintendent of Charlottesville schools, and the following year was named
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