Darlington School: Private Boarding School in Georgia Darlington's Moss ('63) named national trustee chair of ACCIS
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Darlington’s Moss (’63) named national trustee chair of ACCIS

September 24, 2013 | 585 views

Sam Moss, dean of college guidance, has been named chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools (ACCIS). Moss officially took office on Sept. 19 at the ACCIC Annual Membership Meeting in Toronto, Canada.

ACCIS is a national professional organization whose member institutions must maintain membership in both the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). Darlington has been a member of ACCIS since 2010.

Moss has served as an ACCIS trustee for the past two years, along with his counterparts at the Harvard-Westlake School (Calif.), the Bishop's School (Calif.), the Gilman School (Md.), Sidwell Friends School (D.C.), the Hockaday School (Texas), Lake Forest Academy (Ill.), Pace Academy (Ga.) and the Westminster Schools (Ga.), as well as with fellow trustees from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and a former president of Emory University.

Moss's leadership in the college admissions profession has included serving as president of the Southern Association for College Admission Counseling (SACAC), which he now serves as the advisor to the Board of Directors; member both of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Board of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), the NACAC Admission Practices (Ethics) Committee, the National Merit Scholarship Selection Committee, The College Board Regional Council; and as chair of the Guidance and Admission Assembly of the College Board for the Southern region. Moss has served on the Admissions Advisory Boards for the University of Georgia, Auburn University, the University of Miami and Oglethorpe University.

Locally in the Rome community, Moss currently serves as chairman of the Board of Directors of the South Rome Redevelopment Corp. (SRRC) and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Rome Symphony Orchestra.

Moss is a 1963 graduate of Darlington, who in his 30 years on Darlington's faculty has served as associate headmaster, dean of studies, dean of college guidance, summer session principal and English teacher. He earned his B.A. at Sewanee: the University of the South (Tenn.) and his M.A. at Jacksonille University (Fla.), with additional study at Oxford University in England.