Hall of Fame
Josephine “Jo” Vitrano Miller ’53 was inducted into the 15th Hall of Fame Class in 2005.
Vitrano lettered in basketball, field hockey and softball all four years that she was at the College. A standout field hockey player, she earned All-Baltimore Second Team honors as a sophomore and was named All-Baltimore First Team as a junior and senior. She was also an All-Southeast Second Team honoree as a junior and a First Team recipient as a senior. Those honors equate to Regional All-America honors today.
During Vitrano’s playing days, Notre Dame was competing against players from schools such as Maryland, Towson, Johns Hopkins, and Loyola. Vitrano was Notre Dame’s Most Outstanding Underclass Athlete of the Year as a freshman.
Vitrano was very active in the College’s Recreation Association and served as the general manager of the Recreation Association as a sophomore and president as a junior and senior.
She also was a member of the International Relations Club, the Catholic Student Mission Crusade, was the sports editor of Columns, and received mention in Who’s Who Among America’s College Students. A 1953 graduate with a history degree, she married Paul Miller and has four children and 14 grandchildren.
She is an active member of Immaculate Conception Church in Towson where she is a lector and Eucharistic Minister.
