Dr. Donnell Miller

by Eric J. Lindblom PhD

I first met Don Miller at Patton State Hospital where he was working with a group of very difficult patients. He did well. It seems no matter where he was, he did well. In this case it was in the use of Psychodrama, his forte. Actually Psychodrama was second. First of all Don Miller was a Methodist minister. That interest of his goes back as far as high school maybe further. Then, he was a very conservative adept campaigning against dancing at the high school in Elizabeth Pennsylvania.

As Don Miller got older he relaxed his conservative nature and became an alternative education professor. I met him then at Johnston College of The University of Redlands. He taught Psychodrama. Many students attended as Don Miller was very popular and an extraordinary professor as well.

Don Miller was highly respected and with good reason. He did well. Failure was not in his nature. He was extraordinary. For example, when in college he attended more than one at a time and got degrees from more than one college at the same time.

While attending college, he held a job and helped raise a growing family all at the same time. That was his nature: everything all at once. (He never had just one job but usually two or three all at the same time.)

That is the story of Don Miller, doing well at multiple endeavors all at the same time. (In the meantime it was obvious he thought nothing of it. Working like that was simply in his nature.) That was Don Miller.