Trenton, New Jersey
Ian T. MacMillan PRINCETON - Ian Travis MacMillan, 67, of Kailua, HI, passed away December 18, 2008, at the University Medical Center at Princeton after a valiant battle with pancreatic cancer. Mr. MacMillan was born in Teaneck, NJ. Ian was preceded in death by his wife, Susan Bates MacMillan, on...
Read MoreIan and Susan and I were friends at Oneonta and all went to the University of Iowa. Sometimes we lived upstairs - downstairs from one another and sometimes we shared the same digs and our resources, very often meager resources.
Charlotte Diffendale
February 09, 2025 | Friend
Professor MacMillan was an exceptional teacher. I was fortunate to be able to take his fiction writing course in 1998 at the University of Hawaii. He had a knack for finding what was good in novice writers' works without overemphasizing the negative, probably fully knowing many more drafts would be forthcoming. His writing was very compelling and entertaining; I recall one of his short stories about those interminable haunting termites. God bless Ian MacMillan.
Thom Burns
February 01, 2023 | School
