Edgar Miller, in a career that has spanned half a century, has been a reporter, a copy editor, a foreign correspondent, a press secretary for a U.S. senator, a wire service bureau chief and executive, a newspaper editor, a magazine editor, and an educator. He started a twice-monthly newspaper from scratch and has redesigned four others and created the prototype for a national Spanish-language newspaper. He has written for every medium: print, radio, television, film, and the Internet. He has designed and produced numerous newsletters, including a daily faxed newsletter on Latin America when he lived in the Washington, D.C., area. He won critical acclaim as the translator of two Brazilian novels from Portuguese to English for the prestigious New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf. He also served in the military as a Slovene language specialist and intelligence analyst. He now lives with his Brazilian-born wife of 47 years in the Sequoyah Hills section of Knoxville, Tennessee. He continues to teach part-time in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communications. To learn more about Ed's family, see the family newsletter for 2005 and 2006.
 

               John Miller’s skill as a manager, entrepreneur and marketer has been honed by many years of experience in small business. For several years, John successfully operated white water rafting businesses on the Ocoee River in Southeast Tennessee. In that role, he developed a highly successful system for training guides and oversaw the complicated business of organizing multiple daily trips, keeping track of reservations, setting up a marketing plan to attract new customers. Today, John is the business manager of his wife’s successful architectural rendering company, Christopher Illustrations. Additionally, he is a partner in several other enterprises in Maryville, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife and two sons.