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Fifteen rising seniors were inducted into Keo-Kio, McCallie’s senior leadership organization.
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The top news from around campus and throughout the McCallie community!
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McCallie theater students will present Night of the Living Dead this Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the Black Box Theater.
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Fourteen McCallie student-athletes signed or committed this month to continue their academics and athletics at the colleges or universities of their choice.
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Years of hard work and perseverance paid off for several McCallie students at the annual Upper School Awards Day celebrations, with day student Daniel Jeong named Valedictorian for the Class of 2021 and day student Alex Williams winning the Grayson Medal as the top overall student of the senior class.
Campus News
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- Podcast
With McCallie’s Duck Day to be held soon, four school administrators recently sat in the Quadrangle and discussed the annual campus tradition, along with another tradition, the senior prank.
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- Academics
- Upper School
Duke Parker ‘23, a day student from Chattanooga, has published a children’s book and plans to donate the proceeds to Chambliss Center for Children where he has been a frequent volunteer for several years.
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- Podcast
How have boys – specifically McCallie boys – fared during the COVID pandemic and all the social and educational changes that have occurred over the past year?
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- Athletics
McCallie School today announced that Regball – a new sport that has taken Russia by storm and has now gone viral online in the United States – will become the school’s 16th sanctioned varsity sport.
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Bill Brock ’49, former U.S Senator, and Secretary of Labor and Chairman of the Republican Party, died Thursday, March 25, at his home in Florida.