Miller, Dick
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Dick Miller, son of Charlie Miller, was Exeter City secretary in the mid-1960s until his death in a car crash in 1968.
The son of Charlie Miller who played nearly three hundred times for the club in the 1930s, Dick was a keen local basketball player who became involved in fundraising activities at St James' Park during 1964. Appointed to the secretary's position in February 1965, replacing Patricia Smith who had only been in post for a few months, he had a number of new ideas and even considered setting up an associated basketball club. With the Grecians newly arrived in Division Three, Dick was involved at a time of financial uncertainty that saw the club slip back to the fourth tier after two seasons.
Attending a Football League club secretaries' course at Lilleshall near Wolverhampton in June 1968 he was killed in a car crash on the A5 which also involved Graham Little, the Plymouth Argyle secretary. Dick Miller He was thirty-three.
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JIMTRUSCOTT
I met Dick in Fall 1958 when I was dating his sister ,Jeanette, whom I married in 1960. He roped me in to play for the Exeter team he had organized. In 1958-59 I played for the team together with Dick ,his brothers Michael and Brian, and a fellow called Dennis Wynn ( if I remember that name correctly).We won ALL of our games. Dick was truly a fine man whom I liked very much and admired. His passing was a severe blow to both Jeanette and myself. I also had the pleasure of enjoying friendship with Charlie Miller, with whom I downed a few pints at various Exeter pubs !