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® I IIVI^A Monthly News University of North Carolina at Asheville
V/ 1^ V^/\ Volume 2, Number 4, April 14, 1980
Forest Research Laboratory
Will Rise Soon From UNC-A Soil
Digging The Dirt
Chancellor Highsmith (center) bent low to take a good dig at a patch of
muddy roadside for the official groundbreaking of the new Southeastern Forest
Experiment Station on Campus. Leaning into the other shovel were former
Congressman Roy Taylor (left) and Station Director Dr. Eldon Ross. Adding a
final ceremonial touch to the Congressional assistance they had already
successfully negotiated were (right) 11th District Rep. Lamar Gudger and Sen.
Jesse Helms.
Jazz Fantasy Hot To Play
For Music Fans At UNC-A
With a flourish of congratulatory
speeches, ground was officially
"broken" March 29 for a new head
quarters laboratory for the
Southeastern Forest Experiment Sta
tion on the UNC-Asheville campus.
The building, an imaginative
A-sha|)ed structure that will cost a total
$3.5 million, will crown a low hill
south of W.T. Weaver Boulevard, op
posite the University Botanical
Cardens.
When completed in a year and a
half, it will house scientists and staff
who conduct forest research for North
and South Carolina, Virginia, Ceorgia
and Florida. The station is operated by
the U.S. Forest Service. It was
established in Asheville in 1921 and
has never had a facility for its exclusive
use in the 59 years since then.
The Station's placement on the
UNC-A campus is meant to foster an
exchange of scientific and scholarly
research and teaching between the
government facility and the university.
Chancellor Highsmith hailed it as "a
relationship we know will be very im
portant to the people we serve."
He expressed the university's thanks
to former Congressman Roy A. Taylor
of Black Mountain for his work in in
troducing the bill in Congress, to Con
gressman Lamar Gudger for carrying it
to completion in the House, and to
Senator Jesse Helms for providing
crucial support in the Senate. All three
legislators were present for the occa
sion at the entrance to the gardens.
So were Lester Roark, staff director
for Senator Robert Morgan, Dr. J.B.
Hilmon, associate deputy chief of the
National Forest System, Dr. Eldon
Ross, director of the Experiment Sta
tion, Asheville Mayor Roy Trantham
and local members of the General
Assembly.
UNC President William Friday was
prevented from reaching Asheville by
airplane trouble in Raleigh. Senator
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The Howard Hanger Jazz Fantasy is
ready to play for - and jam with - the
music lovers at its newly-acquired
alma mater, UNC-Asheville.
A three-day workshop, featuring a
lecture-demonstration the first night, a
join-in jam session the second and a
full-blown concert the third, will begin
on April 29 to celebrate the Fantasy's
new artistic affiliation with the univer
sity.
The Fantasy is an Asheville-based,
world-traveling troupe of six per
formers, including a dancer.
The troupe started as the Howard
Hanger Trio and grew to its present six
members as the programs took on
more variety.
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