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Rawley John Miller Jr. aka Arjay Miller
Born	(1916-04-04)April 4, 1916 Shelby, Nebraska
Died	2020
Nationality	American
Other names	RJ
Occupation(s)	Businessman, University Dean, Bank Official
Known for	One of Ford Company's Whiz Kids

Arjay Miller Scholars

The policy for acknowledging student grades at Stanford is one of non-disclosure whereby they do not release grades. Annual academic distinctions and awards do exist as in the case of students, graduating in the top ten percent of the class, who are designated Arjay Miller Scholars, named after former Dean Arjay Miller (1969–79).

from Whiz Kids (Ford)

• Arjay Miller, rose through finance and became Ford president in the mid 1960s. After being dismissed in favor of Bunkie Knudsen, an executive recruited from General Motors, he became the dean of the Stanford Business School.

from Ford World Headquarters

• Described as a "tall city in a park," the complex was master planned by William L. Pereira and Associates of Los Angeles, requiring multiple entry points to adequately serve the concentrated daily influx of cars. Located on 174 acres (70 ha) (originally 120 acres, 49 ha) previously belonging to Henry Ford's private estate, the grounds have since 1966 also been the site for the Arjay Miller Arboretum, featuring trees and shrubs native to Michigan.

from Urban Institute

The Urban Institute was established in 1968 by the Lyndon B. Johnson administration to study the nation’s urban problems and evaluate the Great Society initiatives embodied in more than 400 laws passed in the prior four years. Johnson hand-selected well-known economists and civic leaders to create the non-partisan, independent research organization. Their ranks included Kermit Gordon, McGeorge Bundy, Irwin Miller, Arjay Miller, Richard Neustadt, Cyrus Vance, and Robert McNamara. William Gorham, former Assistant Secretary for Health, Education and Welfare, was selected as its first president and served from 1968-2000.

from List of UCLA Anderson School of Management people

• includes notable graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with the UCLA Anderson School of Management such as Arjay R. Miller.

from Automotive Hall of Fame

• Member
• 1946. The Ford Motor Company...no profit in fifteen years...losing one million dollars per day. 30 yr old Henry Ford II was at the helm of Ford Motor Company. He received a telegram from 32-year old Charles B. "Tex" Thornton, a colonel of the Army Air Force. The telegram read: “Dear Mr. Ford. I represent a group of associates who have served under me at the office of statistical control, Army Air Force. We would like to discuss with you personally a matter of management importance and request an early meeting.”
• All or nothing proposal. Either the young Mr. Ford hire all ten members of the group, or he would get none. A day after the telegram was sent, the group was invited to Dearborn. In addition to Thornton, the group included Wilbur Andreson, Charles Bosworth, Robert McNamara ((June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009), eighth Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981), J. Edward Lundy (((hired by Ford in 1946 as financial planning manager, a leader in developing financial forecasting as a business management tool. He focused on recruiting, and developed a legion of executives. He was deputy to Arjay Miller... He became chief financial officer in 1967 and remained in the position until he retired in 1979. He remained a member of the board of directors, reportedly at Henry Ford II's request, until 1985))), Ben Mills, George Moore, Jack Reith, James Wright and Arjay Miller. This group of ten, “The Whiz Kids,” would provide Ford Motor Company with two presidents and six vice presidents. ...they became one of the most celebrated success stories in all of American business.
• The son of a Nebraska farmer, Arjay Miller’s name came from combining his father’s first and middle initials, R and J, for Rawley John. Graduated from UCLA in 1937 with highest honors. Three years at the University of California Berkeley as a graduate student and teaching fellow. Served as an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Joined the Army Air Force during World War II. Drafted as a Private and rose to Captain. Miller came to know Colonel Tex Thornton. His group was charged with keeping track of the logistics of air operations, from pilots and airplanes to bombs and training, all without the help of a computer. As the war wound down, he and a group of 10 officers under the leadership of Thornton decided to go as a group to some company that needed managerial help. Miller not interested when the group was looking at the Illinois Central Railroad, but its focus shifted to Ford and he gave up his plans to return to banking and a Ph.D. in San Francisco and went along.
• The ten "Whiz Kids" turned Ford into one of the most successful and profitable companies in the post-War period. Miller became president in 1963. He served on the Ford Board of Directors from 1962 until 1969 when he left to become Dean of the Stanford Business School. There, he established the Public Management Program that has trained thousands of public sector managers and also educated women and ethnic minority faculty members and increased its endowment from $6 million to $24 million.

from List of Alpha Kappa Psi members

• ΑΚΨ member

from Tax Policy Center Staff

Leonard Burman is the Robert C. Pozen Director of the Tax Policy Center. Co-Directors are William Gale, Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy at the Brookings Institution, and Eric Toder, Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute. Donald Marron, former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and former acting director of the Congressional Budget Office, was Director of TPC from 2010 to 2013. The Center's TaxVox blog is led by tax correspondent Howard Gleckman.

Wells Fargo Bank

• Arjay Miller, an active Wells Fargo board member for seventeen years, told us that the Wells Fargo team reminded him of the famed “Whiz Kids” recruited to Ford Motor Company in the late 1940s (of which Miller was a member, eventually becoming president of Ford).

Family

Married for 70 years to his late wife Frances. Six great-grandchildren. His home in Woodside. His collection of Native American art. He has a fondness for gardening. Miller celebrated his 100th birthday on March 4, 2016. Stanford Bio

• Shelby, Nebraska, where Rawley John Miller Jr was born on March 4, 1916. (He acquired ‘Arjay’ courtesy of his sister, who assigned him the name, a combination of his father’s initials, when he first entered school.) Forebearers emigrating from Germany and settled in the rich farmlands of the Midwest. Growing up on a farm taught him a respect for hard work, and farm values have stayed with him throughout. “A farmer is like a CEO,” he muses, reflecting on his own background.Stanford Bio
• "...... talks about the time Miller was a director at Wells Fargo Bank, and the bank was discussing the extensive group of international branches that they....." Stanford Bio