As this year’s Legacy Award in the Contractor/Installer category, Ted S. Miller has been described as a total salesman. Always working to better the industry, he believed in doing the right thing. After a 10-year battle against Stage 4 colon cancer, Miller passed away in October 2012.
Starting Out
Miller’s 40-year career in the metal construction industry began as an award-winning sales engineer for Pittsburgh-based H.H. Robertson Co., working there from 1972-1979. It was there that he met and became friends with Dave Clapperton. As colleagues, Miller and Clapperton had the chance to work together on a number of projects, developing a chemistry together. “We found out that his strengths were often my weaknesses, and my strengths were his weaknesses,” Clapperton says, “and by blending the two, we were a stronger whole.”
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