The Morris Miller Memorial Garden, one of the specialty gardens of CC, was created in memory of Morris Miller Jr. ’70 after he passed away in April 1990. The garden was established through gifts made by family and more than 45 alumni and friends, including members of the Class of 1970 and the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. It includes a memorial plaque with a quote from Cicero: “Friends, though absent, are still present.”

Located adjacent to the Dern House, headquarters of the interdisciplinary Southwest Studies Program, the Morris Miller Memorial Garden was identified as the Southwest Studies Native Plants Garden on the CC website and in a story in the August 2015 issue of the Bulletin. Several alumni, many who were at the garden’s dedication on Oct. 5, 1991, during Homecoming, wrote to point out the correct name of the garden, and the CC website has been updated to reflect that.

“Morris was a unique and loved spirit in a group of otherwise earnest, driving over-achievers,” writes Ken Stevens ’70. “He was an aesthete before most of us knew what that was. He encouraged us not to take ourselves, or life, for that matter, too seriously.”