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Squash, McCallie’s newest varsity sport, is the topic of the latest podcast in McCallie’s Stories from the Ridge podcast series.
News from the Ridge
Featured Stories
The top news from around campus and throughout the McCallie community!
![reunion alumni at the tailgate]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1634143754/mccallieorg/lar1nwoaiwcm3vwjpxc2/reunion2021.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1634143754/mccallieorg/lar1nwoaiwcm3vwjpxc2/reunion2021.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1634143754/mccallieorg/lar1nwoaiwcm3vwjpxc2/reunion2021.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1634143754/mccallieorg/lar1nwoaiwcm3vwjpxc2/reunion2021.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1634143754/mccallieorg/lar1nwoaiwcm3vwjpxc2/reunion2021.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1634143754/mccallieorg/lar1nwoaiwcm3vwjpxc2/reunion2021.jpg","width":2000}])
Over 500 alumni came home to the Ridge for several activities related to Reunion Weekend.
![National Merit Commended Students for 2022]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1632509770/mccallieorg/kw87enhhmcruzdjtxob8/CommendedStudentsresized.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1632509770/mccallieorg/kw87enhhmcruzdjtxob8/CommendedStudentsresized.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1632509770/mccallieorg/kw87enhhmcruzdjtxob8/CommendedStudentsresized.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1632509770/mccallieorg/kw87enhhmcruzdjtxob8/CommendedStudentsresized.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1632509770/mccallieorg/kw87enhhmcruzdjtxob8/CommendedStudentsresized.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1632509770/mccallieorg/kw87enhhmcruzdjtxob8/CommendedStudentsresized.jpg","width":1800}])
Fifteen McCallie School seniors were recognized as Commended Students in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program.
Campus News
![Jon Meacham '87 speaks at an event for Ed Johnson]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1632151877/mccallieorg/awivo6kgk8uahupmqnly/JonMeachamspeaksatEdJohnson.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1632151877/mccallieorg/awivo6kgk8uahupmqnly/JonMeachamspeaksatEdJohnson.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1632151877/mccallieorg/awivo6kgk8uahupmqnly/JonMeachamspeaksatEdJohnson.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1632151877/mccallieorg/awivo6kgk8uahupmqnly/JonMeachamspeaksatEdJohnson.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1632151877/mccallieorg/awivo6kgk8uahupmqnly/JonMeachamspeaksatEdJohnson.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1632151877/mccallieorg/awivo6kgk8uahupmqnly/JonMeachamspeaksatEdJohnson.jpg","width":2200}])
- Head of School
- Podcast
The unveiling of a memorial sculpture over the weekend of Sept. 17-19 to commemorate the tragic 1906 lynching of Ed Johnson was used as a teaching and healing opportunity for McCallie, which was one of the sponsors of the weekend activities.
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- Academics
- Upper School
Nine McCallie School seniors have been chosen as National Merit Semifinalists for 2022 by the National Merit Scholarship Program.
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- Podcast
The story of Ed Johnson, who was lynched on Chattanooga’s Walnut Street Bridge more than a century ago, is the topic of a riveting new Stories from the Ridge podcast.
![Billy Dunavant '50]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1631555993/mccallieorg/r0pahsy80wlbhjsuno5w/DunavantBilly.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1631555993/mccallieorg/r0pahsy80wlbhjsuno5w/DunavantBilly.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1631555993/mccallieorg/r0pahsy80wlbhjsuno5w/DunavantBilly.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1631555993/mccallieorg/r0pahsy80wlbhjsuno5w/DunavantBilly.jpg","width":883}])
- Alumni
William B. “Billy” Dunavant, McCallie Class of 1950, one of the South’s most respected and successful businessman and philanthropist, died Saturday, September 11.
![Stories from the Ridge logo]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1631134805/mccallieorg/ljv8zqci7eabv3gxfdwl/911thumbnail.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1631134805/mccallieorg/ljv8zqci7eabv3gxfdwl/911thumbnail.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1631134805/mccallieorg/ljv8zqci7eabv3gxfdwl/911thumbnail.png","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1631134805/mccallieorg/ljv8zqci7eabv3gxfdwl/911thumbnail.png","width":1080}])
- Academics
- Podcast
Four McCallie Advanced Placement U.S. History students join history teacher Dr. Duke Richey '86 in a newly released podcast to discuss their roles in an eight-year project to record remembrances of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center towers.