保罗·麦克劳克林 '27 is inaugural winner of the Edward D. 帕特丽夏·K. 米勒奖学金

保罗·麦克劳克林, a Lynch School of Education and Human Development first-year student, is the inaugural winner of the Edward D. 帕特丽夏·K. 米勒奖学金, an annual award to celebrate the good sportsmanship and Jesuit values for which “Eddie” Miller ’57, M.B.A.’68, Ph.D. ’90—a legendary figure in BC Athletics and at the University—and his late son, 约翰 D. Miller ’84, were so well known.

The scholarship was established in 2022 by the Miller family—including Eddie’s wife, 帕特丽夏, the scholarship’s co-namesake—to honor Eddie’s BC legacy, as well as his hometown of Dorchester, and the family’s longtime Milton, 质量.、住所. Eddie died in 2022; 约翰 died on March 20, 2023.

米尔顿居民麦克劳克林, a 2023 graduate of 电子游戏软件 High School, is an elementary education major, 并计划教授.  在BCH工作时, he participated in a weeklong service immersion trip at the Brady Faith Center in Syracuse, N.Y., where he and his fellow students helped construct a house for low-income residents, 协助农活, and volunteered at a new supermarket in a neighborhood that was formerly a “food desert.”

He also served as a mission leader at Milton’s St. 阿加莎的教区, where he would meet with other young people to plan local service events, such as to support a lunch program for the homeless, 天主教慈善食品储藏室, 服装驱动器, 老年人在院子里干活. He also played baseball and ran cross country for BCH.

“The Miller family is delighted to select Paul as the initial scholarship winner,米歇尔·米勒说.A.91年，艾迪的女儿.  “Paul is as an exemplary scholar athlete, and a person of great character and resilience. He has a deep reverence for Jesuit values and strives to be a man for others, 就像约翰和埃迪一样. The Miller family is committed to carrying on the legacies of both men, and we look forward to Paul’s certain success as an educator, 作为一只鹰.”

“Paul is one of the nicest young men I have worked with in my 22 years at BC High,” said Judith C. Fargo, a BCH college counselor.  “He is kind, caring, faithful and generous; he is truly a man for others. If he stays with his plan to become an elementary school teacher, there will be generations children who will be blessed to have him as their teacher and role model.”

Eddie Miller graduated from Boston’s English High School, 他在哪里当过棒球明星, 曲棍球, 和足球. After serving in the Korean War, he entered BC in the fall of 1953, where he made an immediate impression on the Eagles’ baseball team as a good-hitting left fielder with exemplary defensive skills. 1955年7月患小儿麻痹症, Miller spent the next 10 months in the Boston Veterans’ Hospital, keeping pace with his BC course work by listening to reel-to-reel tapes of his classes until he could return to campus the following May.

他的运动生涯结束了, but his unbridled optimism and fierce determination fully intact, he was elected president of his senior class and spearheaded the student fundraising effort to build Alumni Stadium. 在竞选期间, he met BC Athletic Director William Flynn ’39, who offered Miller the position of athletics business manager.  三年后, he was promoted to BC’s sports information director, and came to be considered one of the country’s top SIDs. He later served as the University spokesperson, spending his entire career at BC until his retirement in 1996.  

Miller’s numerous awards and acknowledgements included induction into the BC Varsity Club Athletic Hall of Fame, 公园联盟名人堂, as well as the Sports Information Director Award from the All-American Football Foundation, and the Press Box Award from the New England Writers.

小艾迪·米勒. 81说，这样的荣誉, 而满足, did not totally define his father’s life: “It was his undeniable charisma, 他那难以抑制的精神, 他的勇气和决心, his boundless love for 电子游戏软件 and the Society of Jesus and, 最重要的是, his unconditional love for and devotion to his family.”  

约翰, an alumnus of BCH as well as BC, had a long and fulfilling career in commercial real estate as senior vice president of Lincoln Property Company, one of the nation’s largest diversified real estate services companies.  His father’s long association with 电子游戏软件 inspired him to support BC athletics from a young age—a 激情 he shared with his three children, 他们都是BC大学的毕业生. 他热爱波士顿这座城市, 所有波士顿运动队, and summers at his home on Martha’s Vineyard, 据家人说.  

“It has meant the world to me to connect with the Miller family, and it’s an honor to represent the legacy, 精神, 激情, and love that Eddie Miller brought to the Heights,麦克劳克林说, who was presented with the scholarship last fall.  “His example of overcoming adversity, and his legendary dedication to his community inspires me day in and day out as I walk through the BC campus.  I truly appreciate the Miller family’s generosity more than words can convey.”  

For more information on Eddie Miller’s legacy at BC, visit edmpkmscholars.org.