McDaniel College graduate Colin Miller of Fairfax Station commissioned second lieutenant

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Miller with family friend Lieutenant General (ret.) Otto Guenther

WESTMINSTER, MD (06/01/2011)(readMedia)-- Colin Miller of Fairfax Station, Va., is one of nine McDaniel graduating seniors commissioned May 21 as a U.S. Army officer. Members of the ROTC Green Terror Battalion, the second lieutenants gave their first salutes during the college's 91st ceremony, featuring keynote speaker Lieutenant General (ret.) Otto Guenther, class of 1963 and a member of the McDaniel College Board of Trustees.

Miller, son of Chuck and Mark Miller, received a four-year ROTC scholarship in 2007 to attend McDaniel College, where he earned a degree in Political Science and International Studies. In the summer of 2010 he traveled to Fort Lewis, Wash., to attend Warrior Forge. Miller branched into the Engineer Corps and will attend the Engineer Officer Basic Course at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., in July. He is assigned to the National Guard 244th Engineer Company in Cumberland, Md.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among 40 Colleges that Change Lives and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 60 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel's spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., is an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, the Amtrak station and Baltimore-Washington international airport.