WMEX (was AM stereo WLYN)

Garrett Wollman wollman@csail.mit.edu
Sun May 28 22:12:38 EDT 2006


<<On Sun, 28 May 2006 18:24:47 -0400, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> said:

>> [Glenn Spatola:]
>> Also, I think that he signed his letter: "Mel Miller, Program Director."

> That was my understanding too-- the name may have been ethnic many years 
> ago, but a lot of immigrants got their names shortened at Ellis 
> Island.

Most people in the U.S. named "Miller" were originally "Mueller" and
are of German descent.  Few people in England were named "Miller" as
English millers (in the time when family names were being fixed) were
generally regarded as dishonest.  German millers suffered no such
prejudice.

-GAWollman



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