Heart-y Experience
Next Generation Physicians Get an Early Start in Cardiology
Life of a Senior Private Protector of the Deep Blue Helper in Haiti SPRING 2010
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A Wintry
Winterim A McCallie education is much more than classrooms and books. McCallie is about community, relationships and personal growth. It teaches confidence, encouragement, honor, integrity, leadership, participation, responsibility and tolerance. It is challenging, inspiring and goaloriented. All of these characteristics carry over into McCallie's Winterim program. Winterim gives boys an opportunity to learn outside the classroom setting, and ultimately, learn more about themselves. This year's offerings were highlighted by ski trips and a hiking excursion on the Appalachian Trail. With one of the Southeast's six snowfalls this winter dumping more than a dozen inches of snow in the nearby mountains during Winterim, the Trail hikers encountered the school's most challenging Winterim hiking trip to date. g
The McCallie School Mission The McCallie School's mission is to prepare its students for college and for life. The school is dedicated to the academic, physical, spiritual, and emotional growth of boys. It seeks to inspire and motivate them: »»to pursue excellence and take pride in one's work and achievements; »»to lead lives of personal honor; »»to be responsible in family and personal relationships; and »»to manifest concern for the welfare of others.
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Pioneer of the Deep Dr. Steve Ross '70 is going where no man has gone before – literally, studying deep-sea coral environments in unchartered territories.
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PERSON
4 McDonald Hall at a Decade
14 Helping Hand in Haiti
Senior Chayton Francis worked with expectant mothers in earthquakedamaged Haiti
Middle School Head Lynn Goss reflects on 10 years in McDonald Hall
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15 Heart-y Experience
News
5 Excelling in Engineering
Tripp Schlereth '06 is a member of Auburn University's automotive engineering team
Senior privates from the school's military days talk of success after McCallie
8 Chattanooga Alumni Luncheon
9 The Write Man for the Job
With the retirement of Dr. Pam Childers, Chet LeSourd '72 will take over as the Caldwell Chair of Composition
Three students are learning about cardiovascular care through an internship with the Chattanooga Heart Institute
16 Campus News
McCallie Magazine introduces the new Chairman of the Board, Hacker Caldwell '66
6 From Bull Ring to Board Room
Sen. Bill Brock '49 spoke to a large gathering of Chattanooga-area alumni
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20 Births/Weddings/News
Read the latest updates from your classmates
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23 It's a Small World
Alumni enlighten us on the strangest places they have encountered a former classmate or alumnus
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McDonald Hall at a Decade
Tornado on the Trail
Dear Editor:
Each year, I hike the Appalachian Trail with eight other McCallie graduates. On our trip this past November, we stopped at a hostel in Erwin, Tenn., after a long hike. While on the porch, I noticed a throughhiker loading his pack for a hike. When I asked him where he was from, he looked at me kind of funny. Through-hikers don’t typically converse with day-hikers, but he said he was from Chattanooga. Naturally I followed up with ‘Where did you go to school?’ Once again, he looked at me as if I had a disease but responded ‘McCallie.’ A big grin spread across my face as I said, “You’re not going to believe this, but I went to McCallie and am hiking with eight other McCallie graduates. We hike the Trail every year.” He left the through-hiker mode and quickly became part of our team. His name was Ryan Scott, a McCallie alum from 2004 and a fourtime state wrestling champion. He had been hiking for about eight months and was on his last week of the 2,100-mile trip. As we talked, it became apparent that he was out of money and food and was planning to get to the next shelter to rest. We took up a collection, loaded his backpack for the last six days and took him to a steak house for a real meal. Between bites, he kept us mesmerized with Trail stories, answering all the questions dayhikers have always wanted to ask a throughhiker. Today, Ryan is a full-fledged member of our yearly Appalachian Trail group. The whole experience totally hinged on his one-word answer … McCallie. g – Brad Cobb ’86
g (Standing above L-R) Grant Fletcher, Garrison Martin '84, Mitch Cobb '83, Ricky Park '83, Charlie Crichton, Billy Pritchard '81, Jamey Hurst and Brad Cobb '86. (Sitting L-R) Ryan Scott '04 and Allen Clark '81.
The McCallie Magazine welcomes your feedback and memories. Send your thoughts to news@mccallie.org
While it’s difficult to believe that the new Middle School building, McDonald Hall, has been around for 10 years, it’s easy to see that the building and staff have afforded our students with many opportunities that did not exist previously in Tate Hall. Because of limited space in Tate, students were often required to trek to the academic building to take some classes. In some cases, eighth-graders were mixed in with upper-school students without teachers’ knowledge, creating confusion for students, teachers and even parents. McDonald Hall’s spaciousness provides each grade level with its own area and its own faculty that understands the developmental needs of middle-school boys. Teachers are organized in grade-level teams that meet weekly to discuss students’ progress and struggles and to plan activities. They work with students in advisor groups called home bases, the goal of which is to increase student/teacher interaction so that closer relationships develop. Since the opening of McDonald Hall, there are more opportunities for students to participate in art and music classes. Previously, middle-school students were limited in the arts because faculty was shared between the upper and lower schools. Now, with our own art and music faculty, 80 percent of seventh- and eighth-graders are involved in nine art and music offerings. Having our own faculty allows us freedom to maintain our own schedule that can be flexible to meet the needs of each grade level team. As a result, grade levels can plan activities they feel are beneficial to their students. Recently, the seventh grade held Hispanic Day which involved students visiting Hispanic sites in the community. McDonald Hall allows us the opportunity to use different spaces, and the grade level teams could participate without disrupting other classrooms. I believe the biggest improvement McDonald Hall affords our students is the Lebovitz Resource Center or li-
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brary. In many ways, it is the focal point of the Middle School. Jenny Salladay, our librarian, encourages students and teachers to use library resources which include 14 computers and nearly 8,000 titles. The annual number of checked-out books increased from 1,839 in 2001 to an all-time high of 5,678 in 2008-09. One of our main goals is to prepare students for success in the Upper School. When sixth-graders arrive, they usually matriculate from 25 different schools. Teachers assess where students are academically and begin the process of teaching the skills needed for success. As they move through each grade, we expect them to become more independent learners
Lynn Goss has served as Head of the Middle School since 1996-97. His McCallie career began in 1986 as a U.S. history teacher, and he has also worked as a football and wrestling coach. He has overseen the transition to McDonald Hall which opened in 1999. First Person allows a teacher, administrator or student to present a unique perspective on life at McCallie.
equipped with the tools needed for future success. While the interaction between Middle and Upper School students and faculty has faded, we have become more intentional in easing the students’ transition to the Upper School and its campus and work more closely with the Upper School staff. At year’s end, we evaluate those advancing to the Upper School. Some may have struggled through Middle School, making us unsure how well they will fare. We devote a lot of time and energy to assisting the student in his quest to become successful, keep track of them and are excited when they walk across the stage at graduation four years later. g
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Nick Nichols '99
Cycling State Champ
Tripp Schlereth '06
Excelling in Engineering Competition Tripp Schlereth ’06 builds
Nick Nichols ’99 pulled off a trifecta in bicycle racing competitions this past summer, winning three state championships. Mr. Nichols (third from left), an Upper School English teacher at McCallie since 2007, claimed Tennessee Bicycle Racing Association state titles in road race and criterium and was runner-up in the time trial. By accumulating the most points among TBRA riders, he won the top prize as the best area rider in category 4. The highlight of his season, Mr. Nichols says, was the opportunity to ride with U.S. Road Champion George Hincapie. Mr. Hincapie (second from left) is a legend in the sport. He has competed in the Tour de France 14 times, rode as Lance Armstrong’s teammate in all seven of Mr. Armstrong’s Tour de France victories and is a five-time U.S. Olympian.
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vehicles as a member of Auburn University’s 2010 Baja SAE team. The Society of Automotive Engineers holds annual competitions for college student teams of engineers which design, build, test and race one-passenger vehicles in baja or formula racing styles. With a $10,000 budget provided by the sponsoring schools, the vehicles are built to reach speeds of up to 40 miles per hour with a 10hp Briggs and Stratton engine. Mr. Schlereth, a senior mechanical engineering major, is the suspension designer for Auburn’s Baja entry. Teams like Auburn’s which consistently place in the top 10 over 100 other teams are required to redesign and build a different vehicle every year. The three-day competitions consist
Tripp Schlereth '06 races a baja vehicle designed and built by Auburn University's Society of Automotive Engineers team.
of scores for overall design, cost and ergonomics, ratings on suspension and traction courses and a four-hour head-to-head endurance race on the final day. The SAE holds three competitions per year, and Mr. Schlereth’s teams will compete in South Carolina in April and in Washington State in May. g
Three new books by alumni have hit the shelves. Commercial photographer David Brenizer ’65 completed “Nantucket,” a 100-page book of over 85 photos shot on the island of Nantucket. The spectacular and colorful collection covers shots from a 30-year period. Some photos were taken with color transparency film, others in black and white and printed in black and white, sepia or tinted and painted. “Delta Jacks and Other Cards” is a lively look by J Whit Perry '59 into the lives of the Perry family and other Mississippi Delta characters. The author tells tales of Granddaddy Jack, Daddy Jack, Cousin Jack and himself, including personal discoveries as he traveled around the world at age 21. “Light Shining Through” is a new offering from Walter M. Jones ’60, a retired Presbyterian minister last serving in Alpharetta, Ga. Mr. Jones' book features a large collection of short stories and accounts which he describes as glimpses into the heart of ministry. The stories conclude with his take on what lessons the reader can glean from the passage. One reviewer writes that readers will smile and cry from the observations of Mr. Jones.
Jeff Galyon's Winery Borrows from Tradition Jeff Galyon ’67 has borrowed the name
of a McCallie tradition in naming his new venture. Mr. Galyon and his business partner, Linn Atchley-Slocum, both winemakers, have opened Blue Slip Winery in Knoxville, Tenn. The downtown winery is named after the blue permission slips McCallie students are required to have signed for out-of-town overnight trips. The name came to him, he says, because he associates their wines with the freedom he felt when obtaining a weekend pass to go home from McCallie. The winery uses locally-grown fruits and produces about 3,600 bottles per year of 11 different varieties. To learn more about Blue Slip or to place an order, visit www.blueslip.com. g
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From Bull Ring
To Board Room
For various reasons, some McCallie cadets remained at the rank of private, but found certain success in their chosen professions. On a fall day in 1964, Mack Binion ’65
and a few fellow McCallie students were smoking cigarettes in a dorm room in North Hutcheson Hall. There was a knock at the door, and in peeked Latin teacher W.O.E.A. Humphries. Mr. Binion reacted and flicked his cigarette toward the closet. It landed on the shoulder of his Eisenhower jacket and shortly, the unmistakable odor and smoke wafted through the air. Mr. Humphries said nothing except ‘good morning.’ Soon Mr. Binion found himself demoted to the rank of private, the lowest rank among McCallie’s military curriculum, and placed in disciplinary E Class. “It continued from there in terms of demerits,” Mr. Binion says. “The problem was I didn’t have the best of attitudes my senior year. I stayed in E Class forever, and I don’t think I ever got off campus again.” Mr. Binion never reached a higher rank at McCallie and graduated as a senior private. McCallie was a military school for 51 years until 1970, complete with platoons, drills, inspections and military regulations. Bill Choate ’69 also remained a private at McCallie. Once while cleaning their M-1 rifles, Mr. Choate and Buddy Horn ’69
took advantage of classmate Powell Trusler’s trip to the restroom. Mr. Trusler ’69 had been painstakingly detailing his M-1 before inspection. When he stepped away, the two privates stuck trash into the barrel of the rifle and down the receiver. “He came back to what he thought was a spit-shined M-1,” Mr. Choate says. “Sgt. (Robert) Martin examined it, looked down the barrel and went nuts. Sarge wore his
fanny out. The foul language was flying. It was a hoot.” Some privates worked as hard as anyone on their school work and the military requirements but just couldn’t make rank. For others, it became a game to see how many marks they could rack up. Whatever their reasons for remaining at the lowest rank, many privates went on to extremely successful careers in their chosen profes-
Charles Beach '64 (left) and Mack Binion '65 (right)
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sions. A sampling of senior privates includes government leaders (Sen. Howard Baker ’43), company presidents and CEOs (Clarence Bauknight ’54, William Belk ’67, Dan Blalock Jr. ’49, James Crawford ’44, Farhad Ghassemieh ’63, Ernest Koella III ’62 and John Rainey ’59) and former McCallie Trustees (Bill Choate '69, Steele Dewey III ’63 and Alan Dickson ’49). Charles Beach '64 was the son of a major general in the U.S. Army. He had a genuine interest in pursuing a career in the military but was never promoted past private at McCallie. “I was very interested at first in trying to succeed in the military,” Mr. Beach says. “I don’t think that at any time my peers or instructors thought I was leadership material. I think some of that has to do with maturity. Different people mature at different levels. I don’t think we did anything worse than the others; the difference is we got caught.” Mr. Beach graduated from the University of Kentucky, making the Dean’s List his first year. He served as mayor of his hometown of Beattyville, Ky., and is now president of Beattyville’s Family Bank. Steele Dewey '63 was sent to McCallie after his father passed away in 1961. He admits he felt woefully unprepared academically. His motivation, he says, focused on his studies and in making the wrestling team. “I don’t think I had much focus on the military,” says Mr. Dewey, who never made rank. “I did what I had to do to try to get through. My grades weren’t good enough to be an officer. What drove me through school was the fact that my dad died, and I wasn’t going to let my mother down. “I didn't get in trouble, and I played by the rules. My goals were to graduate and be a starter on the wrestling team. The military was secondary to me. It didn’t really bother me that I was a private both years.” Mischievous behavior was a sure way to collect marks. Alan Dickson ’49, former Chairman of the Ruddick Corporation and former Trustee, says most of his demerits came from what he called "cutting up." A regular in study hall, Mr. Dickson helped plot a prank that kept him on campus for a good portion of the school year. He and some accomplices arranged the desk of the study hall proctor so it would fall off a raised stage when one of the drawers was pushed in. Sure enough, the desk and its occupant flipped off the stage, crashing to the floor.
Mr. Wallace Purdy, not harmed but embarrassed, raced out of the room and jumped into his car. The boys ran after him and, while the car rolled backward, the driver’s door caught on a rock wall and was ripped off. “We were like a little cult,” Mr. Dickson says. “Once we got to be a senior, we made sure we weren’t going to get rank. We didn’t want to ruin our reputation. We didn’t do anything malicious. We thought it was fun until we had to serve the time.” Senior private Mark Bode ’69 says his unit’s shenanigans were so bad, his platoon was nicknamed “The Dirty Dozen.” There are tales of the Black Floor, a secret area in South Hutch. The Black Floor was so named because it was an attic-like area through the ceiling tiles and above the third floor that was unbeknownst to the administration. Some senior privates would sneak to this location for smoking sessions, poker games and other gatherings. Mr. Binion boasts of belonging to a senior private club. Part of the uniform was a big brass belt buckle that had to shine like the boys’ shoes at inspection. The club’s president, Mr. Binion says, was required to wear a tarnished buckle that had been beaten, scratched and scuffed in an obvious attempt to receive demerits. The punishment for marks was the Bull Ring, or a lap around the track for each negative mark. The label senior private was not a stigma for a struggling student. It did not necessarily translate to trouble-maker or anti-military. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Binion was commissioned as a first lieutenant from his college ROTC program and served in Air Defense Artillery. Mr. Dewey continued in the military at The Citadel and
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Bill Choate '69 (top), Steele Dewey III '63 (middle) Alan Dickson '49 (bottom) and Sgt. Robert Martin (left)
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Chattanooga Alumni Luncheon
Senator Bill Brock '69 speaks to more than 220 attendees
Bill Caulkins '49 (left) and Bill Dietzen '49 (right)
Above: Sen. Bill Brock '49 addresses attendees March 25 at the Chattanooga Alumni Luncheon. Below: Hilda and Ed Chapin '40
Right: Sen. Bill Brock '49 and his brother, Frank Brock '60, visit with Dr. Kirk Walker '69. Below: Twelve members of the Class of 1949 were on hand to support their classmate, Sen. Brock.
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The Write Man for the Job With the retirement of Dr. Pam Childers, longtime English teacher Chet LeSourd '72 will take over as the Caldwell Chair of Composition. Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Polish author
who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, once said, “The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend.” His meaning, if further examined, confirms that writing well is difficult for even the most celebrated authors. McCallie’s Caldwell Chair of Composition and the Caldwell Writing Center were both established in 1991 to focus expert resources in the areas of creative and technical writing. Dr. Pam Childers has held the Chair and run the center since they were instituted but will give way to longtime McCallie English teacher Chet LeSourd ’72 upon her retirement this summer. "Chet has a wealth of experience in guiding and encouraging boys in their writing," says Headmaster Kirk Walker '69. "He has the technical knowledge to advise our students and a strong personal connection with many of them." Mr. LeSourd has taught English at McCallie since 1977. He has served a number of roles at the school including English Department chairman, head of Maclellan Dormitory for 20 years and advisor to Keo-Kio, the school's senior leadership organization. He earned a master's in English from the Bread Loaf School of Middlebury College. “I’ve always believed that the most significant instruction a teacher can do is in a one-on-one setting,” Mr. LeSourd says. “So naturally, I was interested in moving to the Writing Center, which has that as one of its primary functions.” In the Writing Center, Dr. Childers established a headquarters for all things writing. Students benefit from her expertise as well as her extensive university-level and worldwide resources. They frequent the center to receive personalized feedback on
American literature classes, doesn’t plan on making any grand changes to the Writing Center and admits it will take at least a year for him and newly-appointed Writing Center assistant Erin Tocknell to determine the direction they will guide the center in the near future. “I am very impressed with so much that Pam has done,” Mr. LeSourd says. “She has really built something special. She has done a great job in terms of making boys’ visions greater. I want to continue her Fellows program and the vision she has in terms of larger audiences. I want to continue to expand what is going on here at McCallie in terms of writing across the curriculum with other departments and disciplines and keep trying to figure out ways to make that even more effective.” g
class assignments, college application and scholarship essays, obtain assistance on research papers, and gain knowledge from grammar exercises and many effective writing lessons. She also formed a student Writing Fellows Program and encouraged students to submit pieces to outside publications, magazines and journals. “Students are drawn to the Writing Center for several reasons,” says Chet LeSourd '72 Dr. Childers, who also directs McCallie’s Writing Across the Curriculum Program. “Some, often new boarders and ninth graders, find it a safe place to hang out and then begin using our services. Others are sent here by a teacher or come as a class and find that they can come back on their own and get feedback in the form of questions about their writing. “What has been successful about the Writing Center is that students of all academic FACULTY ENDOWED CHAIRS AT McCALLIE levels, abilities and inter»»Alumni Chair of Mathematics ests can come here to talk »»Howard H. Baker’43 Chair of American History about writing, thinking »»Caldwell Chair of English Composition and learning. It is a free »»Hardwick Caldwell Jr.’40 Chair of Christian Ethics service that complements »»Joseph Glenn Sherrill Chair of Bible their work in specific For information on how to endow an academic chair, please contact disciplines.” Curtis Baggett at 423.493.5626 or cbaggett@mccallie.org. Mr. LeSourd, who will continue to teach two AP
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Pioneer of the
Dr. Steve Ross '70
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“Space, the final frontier” was a popular
catch phrase from the title sequence of the 1960s television show “Star Trek.” Dr. Steve Ross ’70 is leading the exploration of a final frontier on our own planet. A research professor of marine science at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Dr. Ross is managing a team of American and international scientists on a four-year research program of deep-sea coral environments. The team’s mission, the McCallie graduate says, is to study and characterize deepsea coral habitats to try to understand the roles those habitats play in these unchartered territories. The coral banks are located and mapped for management and protection purposes. The areas of exploration are the deep waters off the coast of the southeastern United States and in the Gulf of Mexico, at depths usually between 1,000 and 3,000 feet. “A common opinion is that we know more about the backside of the moon than we do the deep ocean,” Dr. Ross says. “And that’s true. We are going to get a whole lot more out of exploring the deep ocean than we are from exploring the moon or Mars. Those studies will not generate any economic benefit anytime soon. Yet the deep sea, the biggest eco-system in the world, is right at our back door, and much of it is still a mystery.” Dr. Ross’ latest project, Discovre 2009, consisted of four cruises from August through early December. Three voyages focused on deep-sea coral in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina, and
the other studied reefs in the Gulf. During the five-month operation, the crew took photographic surveys, mapped marine environments, collected coral and reef inhabitants, investigated deep coral ecosystems in the Atlantic and explored the Gulf for new coral communities. Each cruise lasts two to three weeks, and much of that time is spent onshore. When the team is out to sea, the scientists rotate work shifts to collect data in 24-hour cycles.
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A full-day gives Dr. Ross, his team and his students plenty to study for several years. “The expense of the ship and the equipment is rather large,” says Dr. Christina Kellogg, a team member and an environmental microbiologist with the United States Geological Survey. “When we are out there, we are trying to get as much data and work time in as we possibly can. Steve divides us up into a day shift and a night shift.”
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PROTECTING CORAL Technology plays a principal function in the team’s research. The group utilizes seafloor mapping technology, remote-operated vehicles and human-occupied submersible capsules, as well as unmanned landers supplied with cameras and instruments which collect and measure deep-sea data along the reefs. The data is transmitted to a ship or to the onshore command center, similar to a satellite delivering information from space to Earth. Unlike shallow tropical reefs, knowledge of the deep-water reef regions has been scarce, until Dr. Ross’ studies began. Rare aquatic life forms, some of brilliant fluorescent colors, have been discovered around the far-reaching ocean-bottom coral; reefs teeming with a panorama of colorful species which have adapted to the dark environment. These reefs lie well beyond sunlight, and the coral is unable to use photosynthesis to produce its own food. Instead, it collects small food particles that float by. Coral at any depth can be damaged by humans and their machinery. Oil drilling and fish trawling are two of the possible culprits. Dr. Ross, the chief scientist on the cruises, is attempting to locate as many coral populations as he can to prevent them from being harmed.
These discoveries are reJohnson-Sea-Link submersible vessel on layed to government agendeck (above) and submerged (top right) cies responsible for introducing and enacting conservation and management measures to determine which reefs will be protected. The South of the swim team and was a dorm prefect Atlantic Fishery Management Council rehis senior year. John Pataky’s scuba class cently approved what will be the largest and the group’s trip to the Cayman Islands marine-protected area in U.S. continental provided him with his first up-close underwaters. water look at a coral reef. “Our research was instrumental in setWhile the diving class had a bearing on ting up that protected area,” Dr. Ross says. his professional career, Dr. Ross credits “It has had a direct payoff. We are trying to McCallie for the educational background understand the ecology of these reefs and that prepared him for earning degrees from their importance to the deep sea and to the Duke University, University of North Caroworld in general. lina and North Carolina State University. “We were interested in the coral beds “McCallie was very influential on me,” he located off North Carolina because of the says. “Academically, McCallie was very good potential for off-shore oil drilling. But I reand helped contribute to my getting into alized we didn’t have any biological inforDuke. It was a positive experience. I think mation on these reef systems, so our studthe school has actually gotten better since ies expanded from there to try to find and I’ve left, and I think it is an excellent place. map the reefs and try to understand their “John Pataky was one of the more influbiology.” ential people I encountered there. Spencer McCallie III and Michael Bailey, two of my INSPIRED BY McCALLIE English teachers, were two other important A scuba diving excursion on a McCalinfluences.” lie spring break trip to the Caribbean introduced a young Dr. Ross to the deep waSHARING KNOWLEDGE ter. As a two-year boarding student from A passion for marine science and an enWadesboro, N.C., Dr. Ross was a member thusiasm for learning and teaching are the
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“There is nothing more exciting than going somewhere nobody else has gone before, seeing things no one else has ever seen and trying to make sense out of it.” Dr. Steve Ross ’70 centerpieces of Dr. Ross’ projects. His findings are accessible to the public and shared with the educational community. He invites public school teachers to join the crew on cruises. He holds lectures and workshops for teachers who will educate their students about deep-sea life, he submits a daily cruise blog with incredible photos of deepwater inhabitants for several websites, and joins the team in responding to daily online questions from school groups. His educational outreach even stretches to motion pictures. Dr. Ross has produced two documentary-style films about his research, both of which have won national Telly Awards for film production. “Revealing the Deep” was funded by the South Atlantic Fisheries Council and “Beneath the Blue” by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Dr. Ross has been invited to join a European research team on a new cruise. The party plans to depart Bermuda at the end of May for 14 days on a Dutch ship to study off the coasts of North and South Carolina. “We are trying now to further explore our international component and trying to build projects that span the whole Atlantic,” he says. “We are looking at trying to get some of these studies duplicated over the whole Atlantic basin. That would be quite a large endeavor if that comes about.” Like pioneers of land and space before him, Dr. Ross is leading the way in the discovery and conservation of the mysteries of the deep. “This kind of research is frontier sort of research,” he says. “We use cutting-edge materials and sophisticated equipment. We are exploring a region that is very poorly known, so we are finding a lot of species of animals that are new to science. Almost every dive we make, we are discovering something new. “There is nothing more exciting than going somewhere nobody else has gone before, seeing things no one else has ever seen and trying to make sense out of it. That’s quite exciting and not many people get to do it.” g
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Chayton Francis
Helping Hand
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Senior Chayton Francis worked with expectant mothers during relief efforts in earthquake-damaged Haiti. McCallie students have been frequent
volunteers to the Gulf Coast region to help relief efforts from Hurricane Katrina, and Habitat for Humanity’s home-building is one of the most popular extracurricular activities for which students volunteer. The unwritten ritual of compassion at McCallie continued with the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, perhaps one of the worst tragedies to ever hit the Caribbean region. Senior Chayton Francis traveled to Portau-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 28, and for four days was one of the youngest volunteer relief workers in the devastated capital city. His father, Dr. Henry M. Francis Jr., is an obstetrician-gynecologist based in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, and was accompanying a small medical team to Port-au-Prince. “I was getting ready to take the SAT test when my dad called,” Chayton says. “He asked if I wanted to go to Haiti. I said ‘sure,’ but I don’t think he thought I was serious at first.” A 5 ½ hour flight from Atlanta to St. Thomas, V.I., followed by a shorter flight to the Haitian capital placed Chayton in a dev-
astated world far from the structured and secure lifestyle of the McCallie campus. The 17-year-old boarding student walked past the rubble of a once-proud city – demolished government buildings and homes, crumbled restaurants and schools. The native people he saw were in survival mode, wondering where they would get their next drink of water or next slice of bread. The others, the ones who did not survive the quake, were nearly invisible but very much present. “As we neared the epicenter, the smell of dead bodies was everywhere,” he says. “It was a nasty smell. It was difficult to see any of them unless you moved the bricks, rocks and dust. A lot of the bodies we came across were children. I only counted four adults among the dead that I saw.” Chayton worked with his father’s team in the Haiti Community Health Center, a medical facility that, during this week, had a line of more than 400 people waiting to receive medical help. He assisted his father as he delivered babies naturally or by Caesarian section, handing the doctor request-
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ed instruments and comforting expectant mothers in labor. He says he saw six or seven babies being born and nearly had to deliver one himself when his father was taking a much-deserved rest. “That was my first experience with babies being born,” he says. “I’ve never seen someone in that much pain.” A natural disaster tugs at the heart more so when one witnesses firsthand how it affects a victim of a similar age. One day, a young boy, also 17, kicked off a conversation with Chayton in the street. “His name was Wolf,” says Chayton, who still communicates with him via email and cell phone calls. “He didn’t know where his family was. He spoke good English and had an Americanized way about him. He said he wanted to come to America to be a rap star and wanted me to take him to the U.S.” While Chayton's McCallie education will serve as the cornerstone of his life upon his May graduation, his experiences in Haiti will be the backbone for so much more. “There is a connection to people that I haven’t had before,” he says. “Before I went to Haiti, I didn’t think about the country or the people there all that much. Once you’ve encountered the people, they leave their mark on you.” g
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DOING OUR SHARE McCallie students supported several Haiti relief organizations by:
»» Holding a Stop the Pain medicine drive »» Organizing student-sponsored fund-raisers »» Raising $6,000 through a T-shirt sale
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Heart-y Experience Three students are learning about cardiovascular care through an internship with the Chattanooga Heart Institute. David McCandless knows what he wants
to be when he grows up – a doctor. A McCallie junior, David is already getting a small taste of a possible future career. David works as an intern at the Chattanooga Heart Institute where he leads a small group of two other McCallie students as they help the Institute complete a clinical study. CHI is a diagnostic, treatment, research and rehabilitation center for cardiovascular care. The trio of David, sophomore Collin Smith and freshman Vann Lucas Turner has been working at the Institute since this past October. On a typical afternoon, the boys arrive and meet with Dr. Dave Wendt, a cardiologist who oversees the group’s research efforts. Dr. Wendt examines the records to be analyzed that day, pointing out areas that seem abnormal or troublesome. The students then sift through the records, attempting to find a correlation between two variables that serve as indicators of a patient’s heart condition. The two variables, BNP or b-type natriuretic peptide and impedance, both reflect the condition of the patient’s heart. The data they are mining through is collected through heart monitors or patient check-ups. “I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to go into the hospital and do the research we’re doing,” Collin says. “Dr. Wendt is a really nice guy, and he’s helping us through the steps to get the research wrapped up.” At the end of the study, the students will write a report on its results. “As a freshman, this research was a great hands-on experience for me,” Vann Lucas says. “The opportunity gave me a better understanding of the medical field, and I think our research could make a difference in saving lives.” The boys used to rotate shifts at the Institute several days per week, but as the project is winding down, they go in more sporadically, when needed by Dr. Wendt. This isn’t the first time that McCallie students have partnered with CHI. Upper
School biology teacher Laura Berglund has organized student internships with the Institute since 2003. Her husband, Dr. Robert Berglund, is a founding partner of CHI, and she wanted to get McCallie students involved in the work there. “I think the students benefit from seeing real-life questions that come up in the daily practice of medicine,” Mrs. Berglund says. “The hardest part is learning to ask questions that can be answered with good, obtainable data.” According to David, another challenging aspect of the job was learning how to properly handle patient data. Because of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), patient data can only be accessed in certain areas, and patient names cannot leave the space where the students are working. David also had the chance to be in the operating room to observe Dr. Wendt perform an operation. “I was surprised at the environment of the operating room,” David says. “It’s
not like what you see on television, where someone says, ‘Here, let me sponge your forehead.’ Everybody was very relaxed.” “The best part about working there is getting to know the hospital staff. They’re very interesting people; the kind of people I want to work with one day.” Once all of the data is collected and the report written, the students will begin working on a different project. The Chattanooga Heart Institute is pioneering a procedure involving electrical currents in the heart. So far, David says, the success rate is mixed, but the three of them will be comparing data from these procedures to try to determine how to make them successful. David says he will continue with the internship next year as a way of working towards his career goal. “I want to continue because I want to be a doctor,” he says. “I should be getting medical experience. I love being in the hospital environment and meeting healthcare professionals.” g
Collin Smith (left), David McCandless (middle) and Vann Lucas Turner (right)
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H acke r C ald w ell ' 6 6 N am e d Ne w Ch air m an o f t h e B o ar d Hacker Caldwell
’66 will continue a legacy this summer when he begins his responsibilities as Chairman of McCallie’s Board of Trustees. His father, L. Hardwick Caldwell Jr. ’40, also held that position, and his grandfather, L. Hardwick Caldwell, served on the board as well. Mr. Caldwell is president of TSWII Management Company which markets and manages a portfolio of alternative investment funds. He has served on many civic boards over the years and was recently chair of the Smithsonian Institute Board of Trustees. But he says McCallie’s Board is “close to his heart.” He first became a member in the early 1990s. Since then, he has served on the Investment and Finance Committees as well as the Search Commit-
tee at the time that Dr. Kirk Walker ’69 was appointed headmaster. “During those years, the campus was expanded, new buildings were constructed, and new programs were added,” Mr. Caldwell says of his earlier times on the board. “But through the changes, McCallie has always had a great faculty and staff and, in my view, a very strong and diverse Board of Trustees that works closely with the headmaster and his staff.” As the new Chairman, Mr. Caldwell is appreciative of the board’s efforts in the past and, in particular, the work of former chairs Hal Daughdrill ’73, Ed Michaels ’60 and current chair David Stonecipher ’59. The focus of his term as chair, he says, may be somewhat shaped by the current economic environment. But he nevertheless hopes to make progress on some of the unfinished goals in the board’s strategic plan. One of these goals is to increase the endowment support for faculty and student aid.
“Being sure there is adequate student aid is going to be one of the important issues,” Mr. Caldwell says. “And we need to provide additional faculty support. I think the staff is a lot better and the faculty is significantly stronger than when I was a student. “To me, McCallie is about relationships with teachers, coaches and staff. It is learning to get along on the playing field and the classrooms, making a transition from being a little kid into an adolescent ready to go off to college and continuing a growth pattern to becoming a man and a more useful person in society.” Other stated goals of the plan include the construction of new academic facilities as well as increasing the size of the boarding program to a number nearer to 50 percent of the Upper School instead of the current 40 percent. The recent additions of Pressly Hall and Burns Hall are part of the implementation of this plan. g
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McCallie School recently
National Merit Finalists (Front L-R) Pranav Singh, Tyler Richard, Wesley Melton (National Achievement Finalist) and Kristian Canler. (Back L-R) Justin Simerly, James Winford and Riggs Brown.
congratulated and recognized seven outstanding students for their achievement on the PSAT, with six named as National Merit Finalists and a seventh named a National Achievement Finalist. McCallie’s National Merit Finalists are: Riggs Brown of Columbia, S.C.; Kristian Canler of Chattanooga; Tyler Richard of Cimarron, Colo., Justin Simerly of Jasper, Tenn.; Pranav Singh of Dalton, Ga.; and James Winford of Lake Charles, La. National Merit Finalists are eligible for – and approximately half will receive – National Merit scholarships, which will be announced in April, May and July. More than 1.5 million students entered
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the 2010 National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The finalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors and are the highest scoring entrants in the country on the qualifying test. Additionally, Wesley Morton of McDonough, Ga., was named a National Achievement Finalist. The National Achievement Scholarship Program is an academic competition established in 1964 to provide recognition for outstanding African-American students. Six seniors were also honored this school year as National Merit Commended Scholars. The honorees included Winston Becker of Advance, N.C.; T.J. Kemp, Chattanooga; Tony LaDouce, Carlsbad, Calif.; Erich Lohrmann, Mooresville, N.C.; and Davis Mooney and Peter Morton, Lookout Mountain, Tenn. g
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FA CULT Y HONO R Senior Davis Mooney is the 2010 recipient of the Walker Casey Award. The award, named for Walker Casey ’47, is one of the most prestigious honors McCallie bestows to a student. Voted upon by the school’s faculty and fellow seniors, the award recognizes the senior who most profoundly exhibits the strong Christian beliefs and standards exemplified by Mr. Casey. Mr. Casey died from a brain tumor six weeks before graduating from McCallie but was inducted into Keo-Kio, the senior leadership organization, before his passing. Davis has been elected to the McCallie Senate each of his four years in the Upper School and is its current president. Academically, he will graduate this spring with seven honors and nine Advanced Placement credits. He is an AP Scholar with Distinction and has been listed on McCallie’s Honor Rolls every semester. He is also a member of the Cum Laude Society and Keo-Kio. He is an active member of the youth program at Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church and works on its leadership team.
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Two teachers and a staff member with more
than 70 years of combined service to McCallie will retire at the end of the school year. Longtime history teacher Dr. Richard "Doc" Swanson will retire after 33 years at McCallie, and Dr. Pamela Childers, the Caldwell Chair of Composition and director of the Caldwell Writing Center, retires after 20 years at the school. Over his career, Dr. Swanson has taught all high school grades in classes ranging from the history of England to Advanced Placement history classes. He served as department chair for a decade. After coaching several sports, Dr. Swanson organized and started the school's crew program in 1990, serving as its head coach until 2009. Under his tutelage, many graduates have matriculated to colleges with nationally-competitive rowing programs. The team has regularly made a name for itself in both national and international races. Dr. Childers was the first person to hold the endowed chair, established through
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a donation from the Caldwell family. She also served as leader of the school's Writing Across the Curriculum program and began a Writing Fellows program, a remarkable success that will continue in the coming years. Over her time, she has become a national speaker and writer on issues involving schools and writing centers. Staff member Nancy Coffey will also retire in June. Mrs. Coffey first came to McCallie in 1988 and served for more than a decade as administrative assistant to the Assistant Headmaster. In 1999 she became the faculty liaison. g
T O R NA D O WAT CH Jordan Price
g The wrestling team placed second at State and,
for the first time, all 14 wrestlers earned a medal. Junior T.J. Duncan, wrestling at 152 pounds, won his fourth straight individual championship, and sophomore Alex Ward won his first at 112. g The Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame
inducted Middle School Head Lynn Goss and science teacher Terry Evans at a ceremony in February, and Senior Sean Ryan was recognized as the organization's Male Athlete of the Year.
g Jordan Price became the first McCallie student
McCallie’s top debate team of Austen Smith (left) and John Arnold (right), both juniors, are the first McCallie students to qualify for the National Debate Tournament. John and Austen placed second March 6 at the National Forensic League’s National Qualifying State Tournament in Nashville with a 5-1 record in Public Forum. The top two teams from each state advance to the nationals, which will be held June 15-18 in Kansas City, Mo. The topic for debate at the state tournament was whether or not it is justified to use affirmative action to promote equal opportunity in the United States. The team of sophomores Daniel Caballero and Christian Talley was 4-2 in the tournament to finish in third place and will serve as an alternate for nationals. Also competing for McCallie included the teams of Vishnu Chander/Carter Ward and John Giltner/ Charlie Wedding.
to claim the TSSAA Mr. Basketball Award as the top player in Tennessee’s Division II Class AA. Jordan led the Tornado to the semifinals of the state tournament in March and a 19-6 record. He averaged a teambest 16.7 points per game with averages of 5.1 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 2.1 steals. g McCallie earned its third state bowling title this
season, defeating Donelson Christian Academy in the finals in Nashville after beating Battle Ground Academy in the semifinals. The undefeated Tornado bowled five 200 games in the last six-man set in the finals, led by Evan Speicher’s 208, to win the title. g The climbing team won the East Tennessee High
School Climbing League state title in February. Seventeen teams competed in five rounds in competition that began in October. Climbers scale a new route in each round and are scored by how high they make it up a route. A climber's score is the total of his scores on each route. The team score is the total of the best five climbers on the team in that round. Senior Jack Powell won the individual trophy.
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Mr. Goss was honored for his contributions to wrestling, leading East Ridge High School to state titles in 1966 and 1967 and claiming individual titles in both years. He went on to coach his alma mater to state championships in 1983 and 1984. Mr. Evans was honored for his football accomplishments as an All-City, All-State and All-America running back at City High School. He was also named Tri-State Back of the Year and went on to play on both sides of the ball at Tennessee Tech. Sean is one of the top swimmers in the country. He is one of the youngest males to ever qualify for the World Championships where he placed 11th in the 25k in 2009 in Rome, Italy. He has been a member of the USA Swimming National team for the past two years, qualified for Olympic Trials at age 15 and is a seven-time High School All-America. g Sean led McCallie to second place at the state
swim meet this season by swimming the best high school time to date in the 500 freestyle (4:21.14) and the second-fastest time in the U.S. in the 200 free. The 400-freestyle relay team placed second with an All-America time. Junior Tony Restaino was third in diving and one of four McCallie divers in the top seven. Sean was named Swimmer of the Year, and Stan Corcoran was named Coach of the Year.
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In this age of the social media explosion, McCallie invites you to stay connected with the school and share news with fellow alumni and offers many ways to do so. McCallie's web site, www. mccallie.org, recently underwent a facelift with a new front page that offers the visitor an index of information on nearly every facet of life on campus.
McCallie's public Facebook page is well over 1,300 fans as of April 2010. Thanks to all the parents, alums and students who have shown their support and interest. Our fan base includes some 400 fans in Chattanooga, 22 from New York City and four whose primary language is Pirate.
At LinkedIn, McCallie has established a formal "company" page, and alumni have helped create a McCallie Alumni network. The school's page can be found at www. linkedin.com/companies/mccallie-school. The alumni network can be searched from the main LinkedIn web page.
McCallie launched a Twitter account – mccallieschool – May 3 of this year. If you want to see links to news on your fellow alumni, news stories about crucial topics like boys and education, or the latest updates from the Ridge, subscribe to our Twitter feed and check it often. Much like the "Articles of Interest" section of the Parents and Alumni pages of our web site, if you ever see anything on the Internet that we should consider linking, contact the Communications Office at info@ mccallie.org and let us know. Also, for the Twitter-literate, be sure to include "#mccallieschool" once in awhile to make us a topic of positive conversation.
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A McCallie Communications Office production, BlueTube videos give viewers a unique look into school life at McCallie. McCallie was one of the first independent schools to produce and share newsreel-type videos on its own web site. These brief, entertaining yet informative videos can be viewed at mccallie.org as well as on YouTube (account name mccallieschool) and Facebook (facebook.com/ mccallieschool).
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In Memoriam Shepard Schwartz ’23 of Naples, Fla., died January 4, 2010. The businessman and community volunteer is survived by a daughter, two step-granddaughters and a step-great-granddaughter. Dick Paoliello ’32 of Columbia, S.C., died March 4, 2009. The decorated World War II Navy veteran and retired Records Officer for the state of Ohio is survived by two children, five grandchildren, one great-grandchild and a brother. Samuel Cothran ’34 of Aiken, S.C., died January 3, 2010. The newspaper editor and publisher, golfer and equestrian is survived by his wife Nona and three sons. Yates Faison ’34 of Charlotte, N.C., died December 3, 2009. The World War II Navy veteran, banker, and avid golfer is survived by three children including David Faison ’68, Yates Faison ’65 and three grandchildren. Stewart Smith ’35 of Chattanooga, died October 26, 2009. The World War II Army Medical Corps veteran and pediatrician is survived by his wife Cheryl, five children including Stewart Smith ’60 and David Smith ’67, five step-children, 12 grandchildren, eight step-grandchildren, four great grandchildren and a sister. John Newton ’40 of Shelby, N.C., died October 29, 2009. The decorated World War II veteran, founder of Ansley Inc., and former chairman of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees is survived by his wife Ansley, three children, two grandchildren and a brother. Wolle Jones ’41 of Flat Rock, Ala., died November 17, 2009. The World War II veteran, retired engineer, and avid gardener is survived by his wife Ann, four children, including Edward Jones ’70, and four grandchildren. David Hamilton ’45 of Christiansted, V.I., and Fuquay Varina, N.C., died Nov. 30, 2009. The World War II Coast Guard veteran, real estate manager and former member of the Virgin Islands Legislature is survived by two children, including David Hamilton Jr. ’73, five grandchildren and a sister.
Taylor Teague ’47 of Spruce Pine, N.C., died April 4, 2009. The Army veteran and retired accountant is survived by a son and two grandchildren. Colin Threlkeld ’47 of Germantown, Tenn., died February 14, 2010. The retired physician and former president of the Tennessee Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons is survived by his wife Martha, two sons, four grandchildren, a sister and a brother. Arthur Paty ’49 of Atlanta, Ga., died December 18, 2009. A veteran of the Korean Conflict, he worked as a securities broker. He is survived by his wife Katharine, one son, three daughters, three grandchildren and a sister. Carl Lambert ’50 of Naples, Fla., died December 19, 2009. The Air Force Major, artist, and musician is survived by three children and two grandsons. John Lukens ’50 of Nashville, Tenn., died January 12, 2010. The Army veteran and pediatric cancer specialist is survived by his wife Mary, two daughters, five grandchildren and two sisters. Julian McCamy ’50 of Atlanta, Ga., died November 18, 2009. The Army veteran, real estate manager, and businessman is survived by his wife Eleanor, four children, 15 grandchildren and a brother. Arch Roberts ’51 of Gainesville, Fla., died December 11, 2009. The financier, founder of Arch W. Roberts & Company, and part-time cattle-rancher is survived by his wife Bunny, six children and eight grandchildren. Robert Bridgman ’52 of Concord, N.C., died November 9, 2009. The retired Plant Manager of Kolortex is survived by two sons. William Darnell ’54 of Saint Petersburg, Fla., died October 16, 2009. The former banker is survived by two children and four grandchildren.
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John Donelson ’59 of Vienna, Va., died January 20, 2010. The research scientist, runner, classical music enthusiast and history buff is survived by his wife Janice, three children and four grandchildren. Paul Hoover ’60 of Little Rock, Ark., died December 19, 2009. The attorney, duck hunter, and gardener is survived by his wife Barbara, a daughter, two granddaughters and a sister. Ralph Buice ’60 of Mableton, Ga., died February 24, 2010. The chemist and educator is survived by his brother, Rick Buice ’65. David MacMillan ’64 of Vero Beach, Fla., died August 11, 2006. He is survived by two brothers. Paul McVey ’74 of Auburn, Ala., died on October 4, 2009. The former pharmacist is survived by his wife Becca, two daughters, two brothers and two sisters. Henry Stoloff ’74 of Hixson, Tenn., died February 13, 2010. The printer and real estate agent is survived by his wife Bonnie, two children and a sister. Evan Prigoff ’81 of Alpharetta, Ga., died November 3, 2009. He is survived by two children, brother Mark Prigoff ’74 and a sister. Joe Cusick ’83 of Acworth, Ga., died January 7, 2010. The salesman and sports car enthusiast is survived by his wife Jessica, his mother, his stepmother and three sisters. Joseph Restaino ’08 of Charlotte, N.C., died January 8, 2010. He attended the University of Pennsylvania. He is survived by his mother Diane, father Michael, brothers David ’11 and Tony ’11 and both sets of grandparents. The Alumni Office sends email announcements about confirmed deaths to all classmates whose email addresses are updated in our system as soon as the school is notified of them. To be sure you are informed of such things in a more timely fashion than through McCallie Magazine, make sure the Alumni Office has your updated email address.
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To Terry Smith ’75 and Geannie, a son, Benjamin Thomas, on December 8, 2009. To William Cleaveland ’81 and Lisa, a daughter, Lili Michele, on January 24, 2004. To Clay Taylor ’84 and Stewart, a son, Augustus Rooker, on October 19, 2009. To John Bealle ’85 and Andrea, a son, Daniel, on June 30, 2008. To Stephen Heinz ’85 and Missy, a son, William Price, on October 31, 2007. To Tom Cleaveland ’85 and Emily, a son, Clifton Walter, on March 18, 2009. To Bo Blackburn ’85 and Tracy Lynn, a son, Everett Richard, on April 11, 2008. To Louis Brody ’87 and Deana, twin daughters, Ava Lillianne and Abigail Scott, on January 22, 2009. To Rob Black ’87 and Jennifer, a son, Henry Whitaker, on December 12, 2008. To Jim Burns ’89 and Andrea, a daughter, Catherine, on August 27, 2007. To Jim Burns ’89 and Andrea, a daughter, Caroline, on August 12, 2009.
To Webster Bailey ’96 and Robin Ella, a son, Beau on June 23, 2009. To Ricky Pearce ’97 and Christy, a daughter, Addie Grace, on September 19, 2008. To Matt Rabil ’98 and Catherine, a son, Samuel Joseph, on October 1, 2009. To Kert Johnson ’98 and Jan, a daughter, Charlotte Ann, in August 2009. To Kevin Cheek ’98 and Stephanie, a daughter, AuBree Elaine, on September 5, 2007.
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Bill Frankum ’45 writes, “Still kicking at age 82! Everyone in our family is doing fine. Five children and seven grandkids.”
Robert Betz ’70 was selected as Chairman for the Salvation Army National Capital Area Command Advisory Board. He is President of Robert Betz Associates, an Arlington, Va., based consulting firm specializing in health policy issues.
Al Pennybacker ’49 was awarded the 2009 Faith and Freedom Award from the Interfaith Alliance of the Bluegrass in Lexington, Ky. Dave Davis ’55 writes, “Still practicing psychiatry in Atlanta. Recently had lunch with John David Hopkins '55 in Highlands, N.C., who was great. Also met with David Allan Floyd '55 in Nashville.”
Stephen Lebovitz ’79 was named Chief Executive Officer of CBL & Associates Properties. He will also retain his current role as president of the company. Val Bennett ’79 and his wife Rene adopted a three-year-old boy from China in October 2009.
Bev Head ’59 just completed a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean on his sailboat, following the Viking Route from Norway. His adventures can be read about on bphead.blogspot.com.
1980s Robert Pregulman ’80 and Bill Pritchard ’81 have started a Haiti Worker Relief Fund, through their business Stray Dog Designs. The company works to employ skilled artisans and create jobs that allow workers a fair, living wage.
1960s Walter Jones ’60 has written a book, "Light Shining Through." He has recently retired and moved back to his hometown of Dalton, Ga.
Savas Kyriakidis ’84 was promoted to Major in the 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne). Jim Kimball ’64 is building a new dental office at the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Riverfront Parkway in Chattanooga. Jimmy Ward ’65 is President of Ward and Associates Investment Advisors, and a volunteer fireman for Harris County, Ga. He has two grandsons at McCallie. Mills Gallivan ’69 was named “Best Lawyers’ 2010 Greenville Workers’ Compensation Lawyer of the Year.”
Fred Hollis ’32 is seen with several of the secondgrade students he works with for the SRA Reading Laboratory program. “I never envisioned myself loving this," Fred says. "This program has helped me understand why I did not fully appreciate the value of an education.” He adds that all of his students read above grade level.
Richard Hall ’85 is a woodworker and tree-planter in South Carolina where he lives with his wife Julie and two children. This summer will be his 25th year working as a river guide in West Virginia. Scott Lee ’86 is co-founder of the Oncourse Education Collaborative, a nonprofit educational organization for at-risk youth. Bill Bennett ’87 and his wife Kem have adopted three-year-old Hamilton from China. Hamilton was welcomed into the family in October.
1990s Jay Watts ’90 attended the 2009 Women's Lacrosse World Cup in Prague as a representative for United States Lacrosse at the Federation of International Lacrosse Meetings.
Oran Betz, seen in photo, is the son of Robert Betz ’70. “This has got to be the first picture of a member of the McCallie Class of 2020 with a camel," Robert says. "If it all works out, my son will graduate from McCallie 50 years after I did."
Alex Kent ’90 lives in Burlingame, Calif., with his wife and two children. He runs a commercial real estate brokerage and investment banking firm and races yachts in the bay and ocean.
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John Rule ’91 writes, “I am living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where I work for a cutting edge computer technology company and enjoy life with my wife of 10 years and our three children.” John David Pirtle ’94 is pursuing an MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he works in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory. Andrew Strang ’95 is a urologist in Augusta, Ga. He and his wife have two kids, ages two and five. Alexander Dunlap ’95 relocated to Charlotte, N.C., as part of the Merrill Lynch/Bank of America merger. Jud Laughter ’96 earned his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2009. He now works as an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee. Tony Lizarraga ’96 has moved to Franklin, Tenn., with his wife Katie and daughter Abby. He is employed as an internal medicine physician with the Frist Clinic at Centennial Medical Center. Svetang Desai ’97 moved to Durham, N.C., in July to start his Gastroenterology fellowship at Duke University. Charles Darr ’98 and his wife Miranna serve with the Peace Corps in Benin, West Africa. Miranna teaches English at a local school, and Charles works at a community health center.
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Upper School math teacher and varsity soccer coach Tony Meyers, left, and Ryan Lookabill ’94 in Hawaii, where Lookabill is stationed at Pearl Harbor.
Will Brinson ’99 is the editor-in-chief for Buster Sports and a writer for AOL and FanHouse. Earlier this year, he played basketball with and got dunked on by Lebron James of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. Kevin Songer ’99, an architect, has been working on MGM Mirage’s “CityCenter” project in Las Vegas, Nev. The Science Channel’s series "Build it Bigger" covered the project’s progress in an episode that was aired in November.
2000s Stephen Thomas ’00 received an Honorable Discharge from the Marines in March 2009. He plans to work on his Master in Spanish, focusing on Concrete Industry Management and Business Administration. Jason Finnell ’00 is the Director of Development for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Gordon, Murray and Whitfield Counties in Georgia. Josh Worthington ’00 graduated from the University of Tennessee Medical School in May 2009 and is in his first year of surgery residency at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga.
Woodson Whitehead ’00 will receive an MBA from the University of Virginia in May, and has accepted a job as an investment banker with Credit Suisse’s New York office beginning in July. He currently attends the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India, for the winter quarter. Austin Wyker ’01 passed the Texas Bar exam and is pursuing an LL.M. in Taxation at Georgetown University Law Center. Chris Bennett ’01 is working on his Doctor of Psychology degree with a specialization in Business Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. James Corne ’01 attends Penn State's Smeal College of Business. Dustin Manning ’02 is an attorney with Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP in Chattanooga. Philip Lawson ’03 is a second-year law student at the University of Louisville. Cole Savas ’03 graduated from Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal School as a Petty Officer Third Class. He will be stationed in Little Creek, Va., at Mobile Unit 12.
Joseph Wingfield ’94 with his sons and future McCallie boys, Wilder (age 18 months) and Teddy (age three), both sporting their McCallie gear.
Matthew Meadows ’03 moved to Charleston, S.C., where he works as a personal banker and small business specialist for Bank of America. Frank Bell ’04 co-owns Sweet Peppers Deli in Chattanooga, with his father, Mitchell Bell. Zach Cavitt ’05 graduated from Navy Officer Candidate School and has been commissioned as an Ensign to Pensacola, Fla., for flight training. Michael Procton ’05 is studying pre-law at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C. He performed at Carnegie Hall as a member of the Catawba Singers, and will perform at the Vatican and at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., this spring. Robert Baddour ’05 will graduate with a master's in architecture from Tulane University in May. Martin Davis ’06 was selected for a “Spirit of Construction” scholarship from the Department of Construction Science at the University of Cincinnati. Aaron Cook ’07 received the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence at Colgate University where he is currently studying philosophy and writing. He is also a resident advisor and assistant wrestling coach. Brandall Jones ’07 is studying at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in Los Angeles, Calif. Steven Hopkins ’07 recently recorded guitar and vocals for a Volvo internet ad. Jonathan Cao ’08 served as one of five drum majors in the 2009 Rose Parade Honor Band. The Rose Parade is part of the annual Tournament of Roses, a New Year’s celebration in Pasadena, Calif.
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Roll Call Where is the strangest place you have run into a former classmate or alum? During my first year of law school at Ole Miss, I found a business card tucked under the wiper blade on my car windshield one morning. A McCallie alum from the 1970s had seen my McCallie bumper sticker and left me his card with an email address and handwritten note that said “Alum from ’72 – would love to talk.” I emailed him, and we exchanged a few notes back and forth. He recounted glory days and asked about teachers that were still there when I was and ones that had moved on. It was great to see that something like a bumper sticker could create a bond strong enough to bring two total strangers together, even if only over a few short emails. –Anderson Ellis ’02
In 1991, Allan Davis ’96 and I took a trip with my father to Orlando as eighth-graders. On the trip, I decided to go bungee jumping, but Allan didn't want to. Now, 19 years later, I have started skydiving. While I was at the drop zone one Saturday, I saw someone who looked familiar. After a double-take, I realized it was Allan. He came down to conquer his fear, and he did it incredibly well. That was the last place I expected to run into a McCallie classmate.
fellow photographer and U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Howard Baker ’43. I hadn't seen him since we used to jockey for the best shot from the scrum on the sidelines of UT football games. –Jack Rose ’74
While working in downtown Charleston, S.C., I would pass a familiar face several times a month going to and from work. In 2002, I finally stopped him and said, “You look very familiar. Did you go to McCallie? I think you were one of my Sports Camp Counselors?” He had the same inquisitive look on his face and replied, “Yeah, I did. Are you Pierce Knight?” Not the answer I was looking for because it took me several years to escape my older brother’s shadow at McCallie, and here it was again. His name was Kevin Ritchey and he had a twin brother named Duke. Both Kevin and Duke were Sports Camp Counselors for my brother and me. Kevin and I have remained friends since that encounter. –Marc Knight ’94
I ran into Micky Callahan ’60 in 1969 in the dungeon of Helsingor Castle in Helsingor, Denmark.
–Josh Sattler ’96
–John Hill ’60
Over 25 years ago, I ran into David Sherrill ’80 in the dining facility at Fort Meade, Md. I had no idea that he had joined the Army. Not only was he just a year or two behind me at McCallie, but, growing up, we lived just down the street from each other.
I was seated randomly at The Chapel HillCarrboro Chamber's Annual Lunch. I sat beside and met for the first time a man from Wells-Fargo Advisors, Todd Rust. The person on the other side of me had recently moved here from Chattanooga. That's when Todd said he had a brother-in-law who had two sons attending McCallie. Naturally, I had to say I went to McCallie, and then asked Todd who his brother-in-law was. He said, "Byron Peters." And, I said, "That's amazing, I just got a call from Byron over the weekend asking me to help with the phonathon."
–Tony Hullender ’79
My wife and I were standing in line for a tour of the Ufizi in Florence, Italy, when I noticed that another person on the tour had a McCallie tag on their bag. Alums are everywhere! –John Fogarty ’73
I remember meeting Senator Howard Baker ’43 in Lima, Peru, in 1982 in the lobby of a hotel. I was walking through the lobby, and he was sitting at a table reading some documents. I was fresh out of college at the time, working abroad. I walked up and introduced myself to Senator Baker. He was very friendly, and we talked several minutes. It was as if we were back on campus. –Conrad Mehan ’77
In the spring of 1972, I was walking up the steps from a basement restaurant in Connaught Place in New Delhi, India, when I heard someone call my name. It turned out to be Pat Matthews ’66. At the time, I was on a post-MBA backpacking trip, and he was studying abroad on a fellowship, if my memory is correct. He was heading to the Himalayas to mountain climb and trek. I was bound for eastern India and Nepal. –Allan Little III ’65
–George McCall ’63
Four or five years ago, I was in Tokyo working on a photo shoot for AFLAC's annual report. AFLAC was opening a house where families of children with cancer could stay while their child was in the hospital. AFLAC had promised that a "foreign dignitary" would show up to help with the ceremony; however I never expected it to be
How about the chapel tent at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. There, in February 2004, I met Navy Captain Lee Henwood ’72 who I knew pretty well my senior year. –Maj. Charles S. Stribling Jr. ’71
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James W. Burns ’89
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Robert G. Card ’66
Joseph M. Haskins ’76
James P. McCallie ’56
Bradley B. Cobb ’86
Robert F. Huffaker, Jr. ’78
Conrad R. Mehan ’77
E. Robert Cotter III ’69
Graeme M. Keith ’74
R. Kincaid Mills ’88
W. Kirk Crawford ’77
Michael I. Lebovitz ’82
Joseph Edward Petty ’80
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Colin M. Provine ’88 tampa, florida
Marcus H. Rafiee ’80
Charlotte, North Carolina
Daniel B. Rather ’53 Atlanta, Georgia
Robert J. Walker ’58 Nashville, Tennessee