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Dr. William Au is a Class of 1972 Alumni and was instrumental in starting the Men's Soccer team at UNCG in 1971-1972. He was born in Hong Kong in 1946 and came to UNCG in 1969 to begin his college career. In this interview, Dr. Au discusses his family background, early education, and growing up in Hong Kong. He explains his reasons for coming to Greensboro, North Carolina to attend UNCG, his experiences here as a Chinese American, and his life as an undergraduate male at UNCG shortly after it had become coeducational. He contrasts the culture of his native Hong Kong and the US, and explains that it was one of his goals to come to America and learn its culture. Dr. Au discusses how the UNCG Men's Soccer team got its start from a group of guys who wanted to play soccer at UNCG for fun, into a formal club, and then into a varsity team for the 1971-1972 school year. Much of this was done through his work of promoting, leading, and scheduling matches with other local schools even before they were a formal team. Au also discusses the further successes of the soccer program after he left and how he has kept up with the program since. Dr. Au discusses his world wide career in Developmental Biology and cancer research, which has including working at universities in Texas, China, and Romania. Au concludes the interview by talking about what UNCG means to him and how he has stayed in contact with the school.