Carlos Antonio Miller died suddenly last October 21 in the Lima, Peru, airport on his way to Cuba with his wife, Cecelia. Many of us remember him from our recent reunion. His good friend, and our adopted classmate, Dona Heller, provided the following summary of Tonio’s life:
Tonio came to Dartmouth from Montevideo, Uruguay, following in the footsteps of Mike Chu ’68, who had been his close friend at Montevideo’s British School. Tonio had an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and at Dartmouth he was a brilliant comparative literature major. He also was highly interested in the international political scene, particularly in Latin America. After graduating from Dartmouth, he returned to Uruguay to run his family’s import and ranching businesses. He and his wife, Cecilia, had/have a daughter, Kiki, who by now should be around 16.
The Tonio I knew was indeed sui generis—full of life and adventure, sometimes almost larger than life, with a great sense of humor and that infectious, booming laugh. He embraced life to the fullest—constantly exploring ideas, philosophies, and new places, and ever eager to share his observations with his friends. Though he loved to travel the world, he also delighted in spending time hanging out with his family at the Estancia (his family’s ranch), in town in Montevideo, and on the beach at Punta del Este. He was an extremely warm and gracious friend. Each week, he would get together for lunch with the same group of friends from his British School days because, as he put it, ‘Life is short, and there’s nothing like spending time with old friends.’
Tonio would make up humorous nicknames for all his friends, to whom he repeatedly issued sincere and earnest invitations to make the trek down to Uruguay to visit him on the ranch. My husband and I were planning to take him up on that this past year, but our Uruguayan mini-reunion plans came to an end with Tonio’s untimely death in October, 2010. (There’s always unfinished business, and carpe diem means just what it says.) I feel especially fortunate to have shared some very special time with Tonio at the last ’69 reunion and then shortly afterward, when he and Cecilia visited us here in LA. I do ascribe to the obvious principle that we feel the greatest sense of loss when it concerns those who have enriched our lives the most. And those who knew Tonio were well aware that he was a great enricher.”
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