Comments on: Sing Out http://www.drewmagazine.com/2009/09/markmiller/ Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:30:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Stephen Karakashian C’57 http://www.drewmagazine.com/2009/09/markmiller/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Stephen Karakashian C’57 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:05:20 +0000 http://www.drew.edu/admblog/magazine/?p=151#comment-200 The article about Mark Miller [“Sing Out,” Fall 2009] and his beautiful family struck a very responsive chord with me on two counts. While I was a student in the mid-1950s, my roommate and close friend, an African American, was shamelessly harassed by the dean of women every time he asked a white girl to accompany him to a college social function. He bore this torment with great dignity, though he refused to allow it to dictate his behavior. As it turned out, we each married and only years later discovered that we both were gay. That we could have been so deeply in the closet, even to each other, is testimony to yet another kind of oppression. It therefore gives me great personal satis­faction to know of the witness that Mark bears simply by being himself. The world has indeed changed and Drew along with it. Let us celebrate! The article about Mark Miller [“Sing Out,” Fall 2009] and his beautiful family struck a very responsive chord with me on two counts. While I was a student in the mid-1950s, my roommate and close friend, an African American, was shamelessly harassed by the dean of women every time he asked a white girl to accompany him to a college social function. He bore this torment with great dignity, though he refused to allow it to dictate his behavior.

As it turned out, we each married and only years later discovered that we both were gay. That we could have been so deeply in the closet, even to each other, is testimony to yet another kind of oppression. It therefore gives me great personal satis­faction to know of the witness that Mark bears simply by being himself. The world has indeed changed and Drew along with it. Let us celebrate!

]]> By: Nanette J. White http://www.drewmagazine.com/2009/09/markmiller/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Nanette J. White Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:27:31 +0000 http://www.drew.edu/admblog/magazine/?p=151#comment-9 Mark Miller has come a long way. We miss him at Marbel Church. I miss him. All blessings due to God for giving Mark Miller such a wonderful gift and the education to teach others. Peace my brother. Mark Miller has come a long way. We miss him at Marbel Church. I miss him. All blessings due to God for giving Mark Miller such a wonderful gift and the education to teach others. Peace my brother.

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