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Moss named to Admissions Board
May 10, 2006 1:37 PM
By Tannika King - Faculty
Dean of College Guidance Sam Moss (’63) has been named a special adviser to the Board of Directors of the Southern Association for College Admission Counseling (SACAC), the professional organization of 2,300 colleges, universities, and secondary schools in a nine-state Southern region. SACAC is the largest regional college admissions association in the nation.
Moss’ appointment was announced last week at the annual SACAC conference in St. Pete Beach, Fla., by SACAC President Phyllis Gill of Providence Day School in North Carolina. “We have asked Sam Moss to return to the Board as a special adviser to the Board of Directors – to be a kind of ‘Godfather’ to SACAC,” said Gill. “Sam has an incredible knowledge of SACAC’s policies, procedures and finances and an institutional memory of the organization that will serve the Board immeasurably. We are thrilled that Sam has agreed to accept this position which we are creating for him.”
A past-president of SACAC, Moss has served the organization in a number of capacities over the last 20 years, including chairman of the ethics committee and serving as delegate to the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC), which he also served as an Executive Board member. In addition, Moss has served as chairman of the Admissions and Guidance Assembly of the College Board and as a member of the College Board’s Regional Council, on the National Merit Scholarship Selection Committee, on the Admissions Advisory Committees at both the University of Georgia and at the University of Miami, and as a faculty member of summer professional institutes at Vanderbilt University, Emory University, Agnes Scott College, and Davidson College. In 2002, Moss was named the first recipient of SACAC’s Larry West Award for outstanding contributions to the admissions counseling profession and leadership within that profession.
At this year’s SACAC conference, Moss led two professional development presentations: one on “Current Trends and Future Issues in the Admissions Process” and a second session on merit scholarships. Joining Moss on the latter were Jessalyn Strauss of the Robertson Scholar’s Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Dr. Ann Neely, director of the Ingram’s Scholars Program at Vanderbilt University.
Following his graduation from Darlington in 1963, Moss received degrees from University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.) and Jacksonville University (Fla.), as well as doing additional study at Oxford University in England. He served at Episcopal High School in Jacksonville, Florida, as a teacher and administrator for 15 years before returning to Darlington in 1982.
Moss’ appointment was announced last week at the annual SACAC conference in St. Pete Beach, Fla., by SACAC President Phyllis Gill of Providence Day School in North Carolina. “We have asked Sam Moss to return to the Board as a special adviser to the Board of Directors – to be a kind of ‘Godfather’ to SACAC,” said Gill. “Sam has an incredible knowledge of SACAC’s policies, procedures and finances and an institutional memory of the organization that will serve the Board immeasurably. We are thrilled that Sam has agreed to accept this position which we are creating for him.”
A past-president of SACAC, Moss has served the organization in a number of capacities over the last 20 years, including chairman of the ethics committee and serving as delegate to the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC), which he also served as an Executive Board member. In addition, Moss has served as chairman of the Admissions and Guidance Assembly of the College Board and as a member of the College Board’s Regional Council, on the National Merit Scholarship Selection Committee, on the Admissions Advisory Committees at both the University of Georgia and at the University of Miami, and as a faculty member of summer professional institutes at Vanderbilt University, Emory University, Agnes Scott College, and Davidson College. In 2002, Moss was named the first recipient of SACAC’s Larry West Award for outstanding contributions to the admissions counseling profession and leadership within that profession.
At this year’s SACAC conference, Moss led two professional development presentations: one on “Current Trends and Future Issues in the Admissions Process” and a second session on merit scholarships. Joining Moss on the latter were Jessalyn Strauss of the Robertson Scholar’s Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Dr. Ann Neely, director of the Ingram’s Scholars Program at Vanderbilt University.
Following his graduation from Darlington in 1963, Moss received degrees from University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.) and Jacksonville University (Fla.), as well as doing additional study at Oxford University in England. He served at Episcopal High School in Jacksonville, Florida, as a teacher and administrator for 15 years before returning to Darlington in 1982.
