Even when they were kids, fishing and riding motorcycles and heading off after school to scurry up gophers âwith rifles slung over our shoulders,â Craig Moody knew his best buddy Jeff Miller could have charted any course he wanted.
âAll through high school, Jeff was the smartest kid I ever met in my life,â Moody said. âI had like three classes my senior year. I was done by 10 or 11 a.m. Jeff just stayed in school all day. He loved it. He was a great, smart kid.â
After graduating from Butte High School in 1982, when the mines hit hard times and jobs of any kind in Butte were hard to come by, the two went to Montana Tech. Millerâs father had been a miner so Jeff enrolled in mining engineering classes.