[2][3][4] The youngest of eight children, he adopted the name Arjay from his sister, who nicknamed him after the first and second initials of his father, Rawley John.
[5] He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a Bachelor of Science degree in banking and finance in 1937.
[2] After UCLA, he enrolled as a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley in an economics program, but did not complete a dissertation.
[2] At the rank of captain, Miller along with nine others from the Office of Statistical Control, famously called the Whiz Kids, sought opportunities to get hired on as a "package deal" to bring their logistics expertise to the public sector.
[1] Along with fellow Whiz Kid, Robert S. McNamara, Miller is remembered as helping Ford to add safety options to their automobiles in the mid-1950s.
[6][8] In 1968, Henry Ford II abruptly named Semon Knudsen as President and moved Miller to vice chairman, a role created for him.