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THE TAR HEEL
Thursday, July 2, 1970
McMillen Hits UNC
Gala 4th Planned
Parents Reconsider
After a week of tumultuous
dissension within the family,
the parents of All-American
high school basketballer Tom
McMillen apparently have
concurred with their son's
decision to enroll at Carolina.
In a reversal of their earlier,
vehement objections to their
son's choice, the McMillen
parents Tuesday declared, "We
are perfectly content with our
son's decision. We accept this
and look forward to Tom
having four great years at UNC.
We wish him well."
Last Wednesday the
18-year-old Mansfield Pa., ace
announced his intention to
attend UNC on a academic
scholarship. The next day,
however, his parents declared
in statements that they
disagreed with his choice.
In the words of McMillen's
mother, "We oppose North
Carolina, today, tomorrow,
next week, and next year."
Dr. J.J. McMillen said his
son would not attend UNC
"with our blessing."
More than 200 colleges and
universities had actively
recruited the 6-11 star. The
bidding had narrowed to a
half-dozen schools at the close
of the prep basketball season.
Dr. McMillen claimed that
"Reports have grossly
misinterpreted and exaggerated
our reaction to Tom's decision
to attend UNC." The Mansfield
dentist reported last week that
he and his wife had "valid
reasons" for opposing Carolina,
but they did not specify the
reasons."
Young McMillen, who
averaged 48 points per game in
leading Mansfield to the
Pennsylvania Class B cage
crown, has always favored
UNC as his first choice,
according to athletic officials
here.
However, his father
reportedly wanted Tom to
attend Maryland, where a
brother, Jay, played basketball
for three years. Mrs. McMillen
is said to have favored Virginia,
whose coach, Bill Gibson, is a
close friend of the McMillen
family.
Dr. McMillen acknowledged
that, "We had a minor
misunderstanding in our
family, but we have ironed out
the few difficulties we had and
the family now realizes that
North Carolina is the best place
for our son."
Because McMillen's parents
have refused to sign either a
grant-in-aid or. a letter of
intention to attend Carolina,
other institutions may still try
to dissuade Tom from
becoming a Tar Heel.
Basketball Coach Dean
Smith said Tuesday that he has
not and will not ask the
McMillen parents to sign grants
or letters of intent.
"If the boy isn't worried
about other schools pressuring
him, then I'm not," Smith said.
Fireworks, watermelon slicin' and fried
chicken eatin' will make this year's 18th annual
Fourth of July a truly old fashioned
celebration.
The festivities, sponsored annually by the
local chapter of the American Field Service
International, will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday in
Kenan Stadium.
Afternoon activities will include games such
as a pipe smoking contest, bingo and penny
pitching. Booths will be set up to sell cotton
candy, watermelons, soft drinks and other
summer day refreshments.
A fried chicken dinner with all the
trimmings will be served at 5:30 p.m., and a
fireworks display will begin at dark (around 9
p.m.).
Tickets for the dinner are on sale at
Ledbetter-Pickard's, Edkerd's Drug Store, The
Hub, and the Glen Lennox Pharmacy at $1.50
for adults and $1.25 for children.
Coach 's Clinic Stresses
Vaulting And Tumbling
By Frank Stewart
Staff Writer
Fred Sanders, UNC varsity
gymnastics coach, plans to use
his personal method of
conditioning "repetitions of
movements until I could do
them in his sleep" as the basis
for training in the first annual
gymnastics camp here July
20-25.
Sanders, presently rated
fifth among the world's
professional trampoline artists,
explained his conditioning as
repeated movements instead of
stunts, which has helped him in
his rating.
The camp, which Sanders is
directing, is a highly intensified
program of compulsory
exercises designed to introduce
boys and girls to gymnastics
and trampoline with heavy
emphasis placed on tumbling,
trampoline, and vaulting.
Each age group must pass a
compulsory routine 100 per
cent before they are able to
advance to a newer routine.
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Ever heard of the BPP
Rodents? What about the
Botany Bums?
They aren't major league
baseball teams, but you
wouldn't know that by the
way they take the field. These
softballers .along with fifteen
other organizations play every
Monday through. Thursday
afternoon behind Ehringhaus
dorm.
They are part of a summer
intramural program that
includes a golf tournament,
singles tennis competition and
a softball championship.
In this week's action, Jerry
Worsley of Victory Village
pitched a no-hitter against the
Chi-Delts. The English Bards
buried Public Health 11-4, and
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"This type of routine helps
reduce injuries and insures that
the kid has learned the
movements needed in the next
routine," he said.
Children of elementary age
will only work on tumbling,
trampoline, and vaulting, since
the staff feels these students
are too small to safely perform
stunts on the heavy apparatus.
Coupled with the camp will
be a two day National
Gymnastics Judges Qualifying
course. It is designed to certify
anyone passing the written and
practical exam to judge
competitions on a local,
regional, or national level.
Two internationally
certified judges will administer
the course and give the exams.
Overall the two programs
are to give the public an
introduction to gymnastics and
have them filter down to the
public schools, Sanders said.
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