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Milestones

The End of an Era

Dr. Mae McMillan: 1898-1985
ednesday, April 10 was a tragic law program as a Rhodes Scholar at strained. In 1931 Mae advertised as a
y y day for the Pine Crest communi­ Oxford. Within five weeks they were tutor, and two years later became
ty, for on this day Dr. Mae married. principal of a small tutoring school. Soon
McMillan, the school’s founder, passed Soon after their marriage the the school became large enough for the
away. McMillans moved to Rapid City where move to the Pine Crest Sanitarium, which
Born Mae Horn on May 9, 1898, on Albert (or “Mac”) secured a legal was renamed McMillan-Pine Crest
a farm near Corning, Iowa, Dr. McMillan position. However, married women were School. In 1959 the school became
spent most of her childhood in small not allowed to teach. When, shortly after, non-profit and in 1965 moved to the
cabins and a sod house in South Dakota. Mac became a city judge, the couple present 62nd Street location, where it has
Always an outstanding student, Dr. bought a small home and had their first continued to expand and flourish.
McMillan graduated from high school and two children, Stephen and Patricia. Throughout her life Dr. McMillan
then from Yankton College in three years. In 1925 old family friends loaned the was a model to students and faculty with
Then she returned to her home town, McMillans money to move to Fort her courage, strength, and opposition to
where she taught French, Latin, and Lauderdale and escape the harsh South life-threatening substances, such as
Algebra, and coached the high school Dakota winters. Here Dr. Mae assisted cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol. Her long,
plays and debate team. overworked teachers with classes while fulfilled life serves as an example for us
After earning enough money to afford Mac studied for the Florida Bar; in 1926 to follow to better ourselves in the pursuit
a year of graduate school, Miss Horn met, they bought their first Florida home. of excellence.
in the fall of 1922, Albert McMillan, a The twins, Bill and George, were born
young attorney who had just completed a in 1929, and the family was financially

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