Trustees Honor Roll

Miller, William F. "Bill"

Nationality Writer (1935)
Inducted on November 27, 1999

William F. "Bill" Miller, columnist, reporter, and assistant editor of The Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, pounded Cleveland's nationality beat with zest and style over four decades beginning in 1961. Bill personally covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and has been the recipient of countless awards for service within and without Cleveland's seventy-odd ethnic communities. Throughout his career, Cleveland-Style Polkas and the American-Slovenian community have been staples on Bill's menu. A multilingual tenor, Bill belonged to Alt Bad Wildunger Maennerchor and Cleveland Maennerchor, German men's choirs on both sides of the Atlantic. And as Wolfgang Muller, Bill made Harry West's "If You Can't Do the Polka, Don't Mary My Daughter" a polka classic.