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President Miller ShurtleffAddress not availableEmail Not Available |
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| Served: 1972 - 1975 | |
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| Comments: Miller F. Shurtleff (1913- Nov. 17, 1994) was born and raised near Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1938 he joined the Department of Agriculture, in which he held a variety of clerical and administrative positions. In 1954 he transferred to the immediate office of the Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, where he served as an administrative assistant. In 1957 he became Benson’s Executive Assistant. In this position he managed the staff of Benson’s office and served as liaison with the cabinet secretariat at the White House. He also helped manage Benson’s correspondence, speaking engagements and foreign trips. In 1961, at the end of the Eisenhower administration, Shurtleff transferred to the National Science Foundation (NSF). From 1962 to 1967 he served as executive assistant to the Director of the Mohole Project, a geological research project to drill a hole through the crust of the earth into the mantle. Congress cancelled the project in 1967 and Shurtleff joined the NSF liaison staff in the U.S. Embassy in India, where he spent two years (1967-1969) helping channel U.S. aid to various Indian educational and scientific programs. Shurtleff retired from government service in 1970 but spent the next several years as a private contractor developing various personnel training programs for government agencies. These included a study of printing and reproduction services in the Treasury Department in 1971 and a study of management training in the Economic Research Service during 1976-1978. He was with Washington State University and the Dept. of Agriculture on a joint project on his last overseas assignment 1980 in Khartoum, Sudan. He is a past president of the Potomac Stake. He and his wife Alice Hawkins Shurtleff are parents of daughters Norene, Kathy, Krista, Janice, Alison and son Thom. They have 17 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. | |
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