The Marion Miller Award was established to honour the memory of Marion Miller, a promising graduate student who worked with Dr. Jack Ellis at York University during the 1970s. Ms. Miller was actively involved in the Ontario Research Council on Leisure (ORCOL) and was a key organiser of the Second Canadian Congress on Leisure Research, held in Toronto in 1978. Tragically, she passed away shortly before the Congress. This award recognized the most outstanding student-authored paper in the field of leisure studies and commemorates her contributions to the field.