Scouting, Volume 68, Number 4, September 1980 Page: 47
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Ten years ago short,
chubby, scared Scout
Chris Miller was hop-
ping down a Virginia
hiking trail trying to shake
loose a determined copper-
head that had buried its fangs
deeply into his leather boot.
The snake broke free and slith-
ered off. Fortunately, those
teeth (kept today as a memen-
to) just grazed the Scout's skin
where the venom caused only
a little inflammation.
Soon tall, slim, confident,
newly-commissioned Second
Lieutenant Christopher D.
Miller will find himself aboard
the Queen Elizabeth II with 31
other outstanding collegians
from all across the United
States. He and his fellow
graduates are destined for two
years of advanced studies at
England's prestigious Oxford
University, an experience
made possible by winning
an equally prestigious
(Left) Chris explains tail as-
sembly to Colorado Springs
Cub Scouts Shawn Forshey
(left) and Tim Swenson.
Air Force cadets believe in
sound minds in sound bodies.
Chris Miller excelled in
fencing, racquetball.
Rhodes Scholarship.
In Cecil Rhodes's will, the
millionaire English diamond
merchant earmarked scholar-
ships for students who are "not
merely bookworms," who have
achieved "literary and scholas-
tic attainments," who bear a
"fondness for and success in
many outdoor sports," who
possess "qualities of manhood,
truth, courage, devotion to du-
ty, sympathy for and protec-
tion of the weak; kindliness,
unselfishness, and fellowship."
Had Rhodes tried even harder,
he couldn't possibly have writ-
ten a more precise description
of Christopher
D. Miller, U.S. f
Air Force
Academy
Class of 1980,
Kings Park
West, Va.,
Troop 1968
Eagle Scout,
Class of 1971.
Chris
Miller is one
of those
young people
who have
gone the
whole route in Scouting,
from Cub Scout blue, through
Boy Scout khaki, to Explorer
green. He's travelled full circle
from 1965 when he first
pledged to follow Akela, his
Cub Scout leader. His pack
was headquartered at the Air
Force Academy in Colorado
Springs, Colo., where his dad
served as an officer-instructor.
Eleven years later Chris re-
turned, this time as a cadet at
the academy.
As happens with tens of
thousands of service families,
the Millers have been faithful
customers of some of the na-
tion's best home movers. So
they have carved pinewood
derby race cars, hefted cas-
seroles to blue and gold ban-
quets, dried rain-dampened
sleeping bags in Tennessee,
California, Virginia, the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and the
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