September 8,1977
Asheville, N.C. 28804
Volumn III, Number 3
Granted Leave
HIGHSMITH ILL
Chancellor Highsmith
Soccer Season Begins!
Rudy Moorrees, UNC-Ashe.ille's new g.pt. 24; Belmont Abbey at 3:30 p.m.
soccer coach will have his hands full but wi„,hrop at 3:30 p.m. Oct.7;
his hopes high as the Bulldog Booter. yVofford at 3:30 p.m. Oct 12 and Pres
take on a 14-gan.e season, including two ^yterian at 3 p.m. Oct. 20.
Travel dates for Asheville Include a
night game with Western Carolina on
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Student
Elections
On Tuesday, September 13, from
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Student
Government Election^ will be held in
Vance Halt for dorm students. Several
senate seats are open as well as the
vice-presidency. There are two vacan
cies in each of the following: Senior
senator. Sophomore senator. Commu
ter senator, and Dorm senator. There
are also three Freshman seats open.
Students must be within six hours
of the class in which they vote. All
full-time students are strongly urged to
vote in this very important election.
tournaments.
Moorrees, named coach after Sam
Miliar resigned, served as assistant coach
under Millar last year and played varsity
soccer for UNC-A for three years.
UNC-A opens their season against
UNC-Charlotte. In the day's second con
test UNC-C will face UNC-Greensboro.
The consolation and championship games
will be played on Saturday.
The Bulldogs will travel to a second
tournament in Bristol, Tenn., on Friday,
Sept. 16, where they wil> fa«t Liberty
Baptist from Lynchburg, Va. in the op
ening round of the King Colleger Invit
ational. King College will be pitted
against Winthrop in the second game.
UNC-A will open their htrm'e s«atoi»
the following Wed., Sept. 21, when
Erskine's (S.C.) Flying Fleet will visit.
Game time is 3:30 p.m.
The Justice Sports Center's soccer
field will host Baptist College at 2 p.m.
Chancellor Highsmith has been
tentatively granted a 60*day leave of
absence with a possible thirty day
extension due to health reasons.
Dr. Friday, President of the UNO
system, approved the request pending
official approval by the Board of
Governors on Thursday. He assured
there would be no problems.
Dr. Highsmith became President ot
the school on August 15, 1962, when
UNC-A was referred to as Asheville-
Biltmore College. When the school
joined the UNC system, he was
appointed chancellor on July I, 1969.
A native of Texas, Dr. Highsmith cam
to Asheville from the position of Dear
of Faculty at Jacksonville University
in Florida.
Dr. Roy A. Riggs, Vice-chancellor
for Academic Affairs, will serve as
chancellor during the leave.
Dr. Friday left open the possibility
that he would come to Asheville to
personally assess the situation.
Hospitalized recently for three weeks^^
the Chancellor suffers from what has
been described as an "enzyme imbal
ance."
Editor's Note:
We wish Dr. Highsmith a speedy and .
total recovery. His dedication to the
continuing growth of this institution for
the past fifteen years is sometimes talcen
for granted. Anyone who has met the
man can never take for granted his warm
disposition and concern for the indivi
dual student.
Millar Steps Down
UNC-Asheville coach Sam Millar is
stepping down from the coaching ranks
after twenty years, the first fourteen
at Warren Wilson and the last six at
UNC-A.
Athletic Director Bob Hartman an
nounced Friday he was accepting Mil
lar's resignation with regret and promp
tly named a Millar product, Rudy
Moorrets, m ntw Oftaci of th« Bulldog
Booters.
Millar, who cited his health as the
major reason for giving up his coach
duties, continues as campus engineer
at UNC-A. His collegiate record at
both UNC-A and WWC is 132 wins,
52 losses and 12 ties.
Among the highlights of his car
reer have been three consecutive trips
to the National Junior College soccer
playoffs during the years when his
Warren Wilson teams were nationally
ranked. At UNC-A, his teams have
made the NAIA District Six playoffs
two of the past three years.
Millar said he plans to devote more of
his time officiating. As a member of the
National Collegiate Soccer Officials Ass
ociation, he will serve as area clinician
responsible for officials and officiating
in the Carolines and Tennessee. He will
also serve as rules interpreter.
A native of Ireland, Millar played
soccer actively for 25 years with such
teams as the Royal Air Force in both
England and the Far East. He began
officiating in 1950 and has been a coach
or official of both since that time.
Hartman said Millar brought the UNC-
•A programs up from nothing. " We are
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Ellen Grafing
Gene Jones
Darrell Parker
Eddy Thomas