McCallie Magazine -- Winter 2017

WINTER 2017

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BEFORE HE WAS

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CONTENTS

Before He Was Yo For more than 50 years, John “Yo” Strang was a friend to boys and an example of quiet spirituality. But before he came to the Ridge, Strang faced the challenge of survival as a POW during World War II.

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4 A Whirlwind of Learning

Upper School Director of Academic Affairs Chris Carpenter ’96 discusses plans for Tornado Term, a two-week intensive program that will allow boys to focus on developing new passions and learning in a non-traditional environment.

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5 Candlelight Shines On

For the 32nd year, McCallie celebrated the holiday season with the musical celebration Candlelight, featuring singers and musicians from McCallie and GPS.

14 Big Blue Victory

McCallie’s football team finished 2016 with another strong campaign, including a dominant 42-7 win over Baylor.

16 Reunion Weekend

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Generations of McCallie alumni came back to campus this fall for Reunion Weekend. The classes of 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011 gathered to renew friendships and share memories.

19 Ambassador Young Inspires

The 2016-17 school year began with a visit from former Atlanta Mayor and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, who urged students to make positive change in the world.

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21 Leading in Education

Hardy Farrow ’09 was recently recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the top 30 Under 30 in the field of education.

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22 Births/Weddings/News

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Read the latest updates from your classmates.

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FIRST PERSON

Chris Carpenter ’96 is the Upper School Director of Academic Affairs. He serves as the coordinator for Tornado Term. Chris teaches in the History Department and is the dorm head for Founders Dorm.

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Immersing boys in new experiences Last fall, I posed a question to the McCallie Board of Trustees: if you could take two weeks to immerse yourself in a brand new experience, what would you do? Would you spend two weeks doing community service somewhere in Chattanooga?

Would you pick up a new musical or athletic hobby? Would you dive into an academic interest or maybe learn to do something you’ve never tried before?

This February, our upper school students will do all of these things as part of the first ever Tornado Term.

Our faculty are offering over 40 unique courses that cover everything from Digital Storytelling to Yoga Meditation to Guitar Making to the Physics of Radio. There are courses designed to be physically challenging while others are more traditionally academic in nature. All will feature a combination of experiential learning, off-campus travel, and student-led presentations.

Many universities feature “minimesters” or “Jan Terms” that allow students to take single course offerings, many of which are nontraditional in subject matter and design. In fact, the popularity of these courses turned many of them into semester long options.

High schools similar to McCallie in cities like Atlanta, Houston, and Philadelphia have begun offering mini-mester programs.

What I personally love most about Tornado Term is how many doors it opens for us. We can explore nontraditional subjects with out-ofthe-box assessments and activities.

Our teachers are working as teams — most of them include partners from different departments. They are revealing new sides of their personalities and modeling the ideals we espouse to our students - love of learning, trying new things, and daring to fail. We are getting offcampus without missing multiple classes. We are taking advantage of the resources at McCallie, in

Chattanooga, and in our surrounding areas. We are learning together as a community for the joy of learning.

It might seem out of the ordinary for a college-preparatory school to take two weeks away from traditional classes, but being ordinary has never been what makes McCallie special. As a faculty, we recently reminisced about our greatest learning experiences. Many of us recalled a special teacher who helped us connect with a challenging subject, but many of us also thought back to an experience outside of the traditional classroom that had the greatest impact on us.

One final aspect of Tornado Term I find exciting is the ability our guys have to fail. My time working with entrepreneurs has convinced me that failure is essential to growth.

We know from studying the power of mindsets that those who look to be challenged are the ones who excel while those scared to fail tend to plateau and even regress in their development. With Tornado Term, students can take the type of risks that lead to growth and resilience without worrying about long-term consequences of failure on their academic records.

I do not expect the 2017 version of Tornado Term to be seamless. I will be disappointed if it is; it would mean we played it too safe. We need to be willing to model the types of experiences we want our students to have in this program. I hope and expect our students and faculty will seize this opportunity and take it to places beyond my expectations.

Moving forward, the next few years will see improvements as we learn lessons from our mistakes and come up with new ideas. There will never, however, be anything like this first year of Tornado Term with its excitement, its unknowns, and its possibilities. What it surely will be is a whirlwind of accomplishments, achievements, and activities.

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The 32nd Anniversary Performance In early December, McCallie and Girls Preparatory School students came together to celebrate the holiday season in Candlelight, a musical celebration of Christmas that has become a beloved tradition at McCallie.

For the 32nd year, the music department turned the Chapel into a winter wonderland with songs of praise from the Candlelight Chorus, orchestra, guitar ensemble, and handbells.

Candlelight combines the best of McCallie’s musical talent with the best from our friends at GPS for an inspirational night for both school communities.

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TAIS comes to the Ridge Approximately 1,400 educators and administrators from across Tennessee visited campus in early November for the 2016 Tennessee Association of Independent Schools Biennial Conference. The conference brought together some of the top independent school leaders for two days to share best practices and learn new strategies for keeping independent schools vibrant and innovative for the future.

The conference featured a keynote address by educational expert and author Rick Wormeli and three TED Talks by national educational leaders Tom Hoerr, Ross Wehner and Andy Van Schaack.

Educators were able to choose from 260 instructional sessions by 315 presenters — including many by McCallie faculty — on topics of interest in all areas of independent schools allowing educators to share ideas and learn new strategies for independent school education in the 21st Century. g

MISSION: REMISSION 2016 On a warm fall afternoon, students from McCallie and Girls Preparatory School came together to take a stand in the fight against cancer in the fifth Mission: Remission fundraising walk to fund research and treatment to fight the deadly disease.

The 2.5-mile walk, held Oct. 19, took more than 1,500 students and faculty from both schools along the North Shore, the Walnut Street pedestrian bridge and on the Tennessee Riverwalk beginning and ending on the GPS campus. This was the fifth Mission: Remission walk held by McCallie and GPS students.

Before the walk Mimi Vance, president of GPS’s Partnership in Community, along with Iman Ali and Walt Buzzini, presidents of the GPS and McCallie student councils, announced the fundraising totals and thanked the students from both schools. This year’s event was a huge success from start to finish and the students raised more than $23,000 to fund cancer research. g W IN T ER 2017 |

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BEFORE HE WAS

By Dr. Duke Richey ’86

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Before he became the man we knew by a two-letter, simple nickname; before the clever answer of “Edison, T, sir”; before the legendary tennis teams; before the quiz question we all knew about Saul’s leap of faith on the road to Damascus; and yes, before the pockets full of candy, there had been the war.

Before he became a teacher, a coach, a friend, and a consoler and comforter — a witness — for more than a halfcentury of rambunctious McCallie boys; before all of this, in late 1949, when John Strang was just a young man of thirty embarking on his long career on the Ridge, there had been another life.

Partly, it had been a life of privilege — a top-notch education, a summer home, nice clubs, fraternity parties, and much taken for granted. Then came the war, and he found himself in the middle of a worst-case scenario: captured during the toughest of battles in the most dire conditions, he received a wake-up call.

And it was there that the man we knew began to emerge.

It was there, in the hills of Belgium, trudging through the snow among the defeated, that he took his first steps toward the seminary on the mountain at Sewanee, and toward a life

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on the hillside campus where we came to revere him.

It was there, on a cattle car rattling across Germany on Christmas Day, 1944, that he started to become “Yo.” CHILDHOOD and YOUTH

There are numerous stories about John Strang that suggest some version of the following narrative: hellraiser, scarred by war, commits himself to God, changes lives for many years to come.

According to Strang family legend, the folks out on Walden’s Ridge, around Summertown and the Little Brown Church that the family helped build, recalled that John was not allowed in their homes, or even on their lawns. Some had signs in their yards that read “John Strang Stay Out.” Hardwick Caldwell ’40 told his son, Hacker ’66, that John once ran over him with a bicycle, then circled back around again and ran over him once more just to make sure that he squared the tires over Hardwick’s face. Bates Bryan, the father-in-law of John McCall ’61,

remembered that at Bright School, he ran from John Strang because he was the school bully.

John himself told people that, like his hero, the Apostle Paul, he had been a sinner in need of grace, but other evidence suggests that he had a good side. In his senior yearbook at Baylor, John was described as someone “who never made a fuss or flurry of anything, and who went quietly about getting the job done.”

He was a young man at one time, so yes, he was certain to find mischief on occasion, and perhaps more than occasionally at the Alpha Tau Omega house at the University of Virginia, or when he visited his brothers at Sewanee or Washington and Lee. Once in the late 1930s, John attended summer school at the University of Chattanooga — whether it was required or on his own free

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will we may never know — but he did make the Dean’s List at least twice in Charlottesville, and he accomplished this feat as a busy varsity athlete.

It is unclear why he took a fifth year at UVa, but in his final fraternity photograph, John was described as a law student. It is a plausible theory that his plan post-college, at least in his final year — 1940 and into 1941 — may very well have been to eventually follow in his father Bartow’s footsteps and become an attorney.

ENLISTMENT AND WAR John came back to Chattanooga after his last semester at UVa in the spring of 1941 and likely went to work for his uncle, John Sharp, at the Moccasin Bushing Company, a manufacturer of brass fittings and other castings. On his enlistment application, his occupation was listed as “metal products industry.”

He was not there long, as he enlisted in the U.S. Army by the end of June. After Hitler’s invasion of Russia on June 22, many Americans finally came to the conclusion that Hitler must be stopped. Between the end of 1940 and Pearl Harbor at the end of 1941, American military personnel more than quadrupled as hundreds of thousands joined.

If Hitler’s invasion prompted Strang to enlist, then stopping Hitler was likely a political and moral issue for him. If this was part of what he was thinking, he was ahead of the rest of the country in getting there, as many

people said that the invasion actually proved that this was a war to stay out of because it was a war between totalitarian states.

Regardless, by going down to Fort Oglethorpe and enlisting one week after the invasion on June 30, one thing John would have gained by enlistment versus waiting for conscription was this: significantly more control about where he ended up and how he was trained. And when we consider what John ended up doing in the war for his job, his enlistment suggests a number of things about him at age 22, including that he may not have been very keen on the idea of killing.

John was trained as a medic, then became a medical clerk for the field hospital used by the 393rd Regiment of the 99th Division. After basic training at Fort Benning, Ga., he trained at Camp Van Dorn, Miss., then at Fort Maxey, Texas. He eventually became a sergeant in Company G, 3rd Battalion.

In World War II, at least 25,000 medics were in a medical branch because they were conscientious objectors of one sort or another. We usually think of a conscientious objector as a person of a particular faith, perhaps a Mennonite, a Quaker, or a Seventh-day Adventist such as Desmond Doss, the medic hero whose story is told in the recent film Hacksaw Ridge. But technically, a conscientious objector was anyone who claimed that for a religious reason or reason of conscience they must reject violence.

They were men who so vehemently refused to kill that they

“The epitome of a gentleman. He treated everyone kindly and with a smile, even if he didn't like you.

Not only did he make everyone around him feel special and unique, he also had a sense of humor that to this day I still remember.”

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— Eric Voges ’81

John Strang trained as a medic at Camp Van Dorn, Miss., as part of the U.S. Army’s 99th Division.

did not even carry a firearm on the front lines. In fact, the Red Cross Geneva Convention of 1929 stated that it would be a war crime to harm a medic because they were unarmed.

Many conscientious objectors became missionaries after the war. They went to seminary and became preachers and priests. The fact that John Strang was a medic strongly suggests that he wanted to be a medic.

It does not mean that he was a conscientious objector — in fact, he was trained to shoot a rifle — but his role as a medic does suggest that he was not inclined to kill.

To be clear, no one was a medic because they were a coward. In fact, it was the worst job possible if survival was the main objective. Volunteers for the medics were difficult to find, because they were in the front, where people get blown to pieces while unarmed. The only plausible explanations for someone wanting to be a medic were that they were interested in medicine, they were interested in not killing, or both. The popular historian Stephen Ambrose, in his book Citizen Soldiers, said this about the men like Strang at the Battle of the Bulge: “The medics varied as much in motivation as in size and shape, but a common theme was a refusal to kill along with a desire to serve.”

Strang’s 99th Division arrived in France months after D-Day and would become known as the “Battle Babies” because they were still green by late 1944. At the Battle of the Bulge, a disaster for the U.S. Army, they got the test of a lifetime.

After Normandy and the advancement of the American and Allied military machine across Europe in the summer and fall of 1944, the Allies grew complacent. Every historian who has looked at this has come to the same conclusion: the U.S. got caught napping. For at least several weeks from midDecember 1944, until about the first week of January 1945, Hitler and the Germans tasted their final morsels of success.

Peter Caddick-Adams, author of one of the more

Several letters between John Strang and his parents (above) have been preserved by the Strang family. After the war, Strang graduated from seminary at the University of the South (below).

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recent studies of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, says that the Americans were not in a defensive mindset, so they had no solid defense or reconnaissance (limited in part because of terrible weather). If one had to pick the absolute worst place to be at the Battle of the Bulge when it started on Dec. 16, it was probably exactly where John Strang was situated with the 393rd Regiment. To be clear, even if advancing tanks and machine guns were not a factor, this part of Europe in the winter is often brutal, and December 1944 saw the worst winter in half a century.

The entire 99th Division stretched along a roughly 12-mile front. Communication was spotty, it was brutally cold, and there was lots of snow. Most of what the medics like John dealt with was trench foot, because American boots (and the uniform, in general) were inadequate for this weather. When the infantry built their foxholes into the hard, frozen ground, they were living in cold water and mud. Despite much care, many men lost parts of their toes to frostbite.

The Germans launched their attack on Dec. 16. The official battle report, written by Maj. Milton Cole, chief surgeon and leader of the 393rd medical unit, tells of the field hospital for John Strang’s battalion being captured on Dec. 17. Once the unit was told to evacuate, “The Surgeon requested that his detachment be allowed to stay with and care for the wounded. When last seen that day the station was being overrun by the enemy and was operating under a Geneva Flag (aka a Red Cross flag) and a White Flag.”

“Yo was like the proverbial wise owl or Yoda from ‘Star Wars.’ Always offering a bit of laughter and candy to make one's day better — a picture of kindness and a gentle spirit.”

— Former Middle School Head Lynn Goss John Strang (driving) and several of his cousins and friends in the backwoods near the Strang summer home on Walden’s Ridge.

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John Strang, right, poses with brothers Thornton Strang, left, and Jim Strang before heading overseas during World War II.

Fifty-three years later, in 1998, John told McCallie alumnus B.B. Branton ’69 that he was captured when his Battalion Aid Station was surrounded on Dec. 17.

Later, he told Hugh Brown ’86 that he was captured by Germans who spoke perfect English and wore American uniforms. John was later awarded two bronze stars for heroism. Although the records no longer exist (because they were lost in a 1973 fire at the St. Louis National Personnel Records Center), we might assume that the medals had to do with his unit refusing to abandon their patients.

Once captured, John and hundreds of other Americans more than likely walked to just outside of Bonn, Germany, about 55 miles from the point of capture. They had almost nothing to eat, it was the coldest winter in nearly fifty years, and the Germans shot anyone who was out of line. One prisoner of war told of how a man said, upon being asked to move some flak guns for the Germans, “That’s against the Geneva Convention.”

When an officer pulled a gun and shot the man in the head, the POW said that was the moment he learned to forget the Geneva Convention.

As John suggested years later, these first days marked the moment where he learned of God’s grace in his own life. Just as he would tell all of us when he taught about Paul’s conversion experience in Syria, on the road to Damascus, John Strang had a conversion experience, too.

His happened on the road from Belgium to Germany.

This is a story that he told many people: that it was on this road where he committed his life to serving God: “God, deliver me from this, and I will commit my life to you.”

Outside of Bonn, the Americans did their paperwork for the Red Cross, then were questioned. Years later, John told his nephew, Thorny Strang ’69, that the Germans interviewing him knew everything about him. They knew that he had three brothers — two in the Navy, one in the Air Corps — and that his mother worked with the Red Cross in Chattanooga. This was typical of the stories POWs told of their interrogations.

The Germans, who clearly had spies in America

sending back detailed information that they culled from newspapers and other sources, wanted to know who was who and what was what. How did they get this information so quickly? They were organized. They knew that they had captured the 3rd Battalion medical unit of the 393rd Regiment, 99th Division, and they had a roster for that Division, with files on people. Why? Because they knew that they might end up with someone really valuable and information on that person and their family might be useful.

From Bonn, where they were issued the equivalent of several slices of bread and a few ounces of cheese, the only food they had received in days, they were, as John told Branton later, “stacked like cord wood into a boxcar.”

The boxcar was locked, and there they remained for seven days, as the train slowly lumbered to Nuremberg, in roughly the geographic center of Germany.

As one man on the same route as John put it, from capture “I went eleven days with almost nothing to eat, very little sleep, and watching those around me get sick.” They could not relieve themselves outside of the boxcar, where they spent Christmas wallowing in filth and despair.

Their ultimate destination was Stalag 13-D, one of the worst places to be in the German POW system. Built on the old Nazi rally grounds, a favorite target of the Allies, Nuremberg was an unmarked camp near manufacturing sites where the prisoners worked. Many men told later of Americans who were strafed and killed by friendly fire.

John was at Stalag 13-D for several months. The only glimpses into his life, specifically, during these months are a handful of letters that have survived between him and his parents. Two were from John and three were from his father to John, and all three were sent in March or April, 1945.

In one letter, we learn that on Jan. 10, 1945, Bartow and Alice Strang were visiting their eldest son, Sam, who was in the Navy and stationed in California. While there, they received a telegram informing them that John was missing in action as of Dec. 17 in Belgium. Needless to say, it was a panic-stricken moment that lingered for two months.

On March 1, they received word that John was alive and a POW. “You cannot know,” Bartow Strang wrote John, “what a joy and relief this brought to us, and throughout the city generally there has been such an expression of felicitation to your mother and me.”

Ten days later they received a postcard from John, dated Feb. 5, 1945. His father wrote back immediately and told John that he had just showed John’s card to Hardwick and Bob Caldwell ’41, both of whom (home for ten days of leave from their own military service) were delighted.

After several months at Stalag 13-D, John was moved to Stalag 13-C, outside of Hammelburg. It was from there, on March 10, 1945, that he wrote home again to his parents.

John said in these letters that his current camp was a bit better, that they had received some Red Cross boxes, and that he was getting along well. What else was he going to say to his mother?

The records gathered at the end of the war by the War Crimes Commission are some of the only pieces of information we have about the conditions at Hammelburg, and they paint a substantially darker picture than the one John shared with his mother. There was no food and no heat, so the men slept huddled next to each other to stay warm. There were open, filthy latrines and no showers. John slept on the floor in a mule stable. The caloric intake was nil — at best some watery broth and a slice of bread per day. On top of all of this, the men had to report to roll call twice a day, where they were often forced to stand for hours at each call.

When he was captured on Dec. 17, John Strang weighed about 160 pounds. By April 1, he weighed 80 pounds. In less than four months, he lost half of his body weight, but he had a will to survive. In one letter, his father told him that he was sending cigarettes and that he hoped he got them. Cigarettes were like money, and many men who survived talked of getting cigarettes from the Red Cross boxes and trading them for extra food to the guards, or to the men who were so addicted to tobacco that they traded their vitamin C tablets for nicotine.

As the Allies advanced, the Germans kept moving their prisoners, and John Strang was forced to move again. This time, his captors forced him to walk back toward Mooseberg, a fifteen-day journey. Many men died on the side of the road, either from loss of strength, or because they were too slow and were, therefore, shot.

John was liberated at Stalag 7-A in late April. Shortly after liberation, he remained in the camp. By May 20, the Chattanooga Times reported in a cover story that the Strangs had received a letter from John. He informed them that he had traded some cigarettes for a haircut.

John Strang was coming home.

Now began the long recovery.

THE MOUNTAIN AND THE RIDGE One of the things that we all knew about John Strang’s war experience was that it resulted in circulation and bodily thermostat issues. There was the long overcoat, the sweaters in summer. Then he would get hot when it did not seem so hot. This is very common for people who experience severe weight loss and live at the same time in cold temperatures.

John told Thorny that when he returned stateside, he was taken to a military hospital in Florida, where he was loaded up on carbohydrates. Interestingly,

Dr. Duke Richey ’86 holds the Howard S. Baker Chair of American History at McCallie School. Dr. Richey spent countless hours researching John Strang’s war years, piecing together the events during that difficult time that helped create the man so many of us would know as Yo. Dr. Richey presented his research in a presentation during Reunion Weekend 2016, and this story was condensed from that talk.

To view the entire presentation on John “Yo” Strang’s war years, a video of Dr. Richey’s presentation is available on the McCallie YouTube channel at youtube.com/mccallieschool.

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After recovering from his POW experience, John Strang (at right) won the Chattanooga City Tennis Championship in 1946, and he went on to coach hundreds of McCallie tennis players over the decades.

during the war, 200 conscientious objectors volunteered to be starved at the University of Minnesota so that nutritionists there might understand the physiology of a body like the one that John lived in by the Spring of 1945.

The conclusion of the Minnesota study was that carbs and exercise that built muscle were the key.

But for his discharge from military service on Nov. 9, John Strang is largely absent from the historical record between May 1945, and one year later in the summer of 1946. We might safely assume that from the time he got back to the states in May or June, he convalesced for weeks, perhaps months, then went home for good.

In the months between his discharge and the summer of 1946, he may or may not have worked. He might have clerked for his father at the law firm, or perhaps he went back to work for his uncle at Moccasin Bushing. He almost certainly volunteered at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. And it is not hard to imagine regular walks from his parent’s Lindsay Street home to the clay courts at the Manker Patten Tennis Club.

One year after being released from the service a skeleton of his former self, John’s game was in great form.

In the summer of 1946, he won the City singles tennis title. By September, he was again a student, this time at seminary in Sewanee.

While at the University of the South, he teamed with John Guerry to play more collegiate tennis and to serve on the Honor Council. Guerry recalled that Strang never said anything about his war experiences.

“John was just a great man,” said Guerry. “He was quiet, but tough as nails, and a fierce competitor.”

While at Sewanee, John also served as lay clergy at St. Mark’s Mission, an African-American congregation.

He finished his three-year course of study in the spring of 1949, then went to work as a deacon at Thankful

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“He loved God, he loved teaching the Bible, he loved coaching tennis, he loved mentoring young men.

Yo Strang loved McCallie School.

Yo Strang epitomized the spirit of McCallie School.” — Jeff Clark ’91 Memorial Episcopal Church in St. Elmo.

When Professor Spencer J. McCallie died in October, 1949, John was hired as the 7th-grade Bible teacher to replace him. By 1957, he was known as “Yo Yo,” which would soon, of course, be shortened to “Yo.” By that seventh year on the faculty, when the students dedicated the Pennant to him, it was clear that he was loved.

In December 1963, when he had been on the McCallie faculty for 13 years, Yo wrote down a quotation that neatly sums up his life more than fifty years later. It is a line that also serves as a reminder that what we do here at McCallie each day and as alums out in the world helps to shape the communities we want to inhabit.

The quotation was this: “Faith is never so beautiful or obvious as when it has on its working clothes.”

I did not set out with this article to have any grand take home point, but one emerged anyway, and it is this: Perhaps he learned it as an acolyte at age 13 or 14, clothed in the vestments of the Episcopal church. Perhaps, he learned it as a medic or medic’s clerk, dressed in army green, when standing his ground to protect wounded men as a German Panzer brigade surrounded them. Perhaps he learned it on his own road to salvation as a prisoner in the war to end all wars.

Regardless of where he learned it, we all know that Yo’s faith was most beautiful and obvious when he had on his baggy coat, wide tie, goofy hat, or tennis shorts. Those were his working clothes. g

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Andrew Young

Challenging us to lead

Former Atlanta Mayor and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young challenged McCallie students to embrace the challenges they face today and will face in the future.

“Where there are differences and people can be respectful of each other and try to resolve those differences, we can have peace on earth.”

McCallie welcomed a civil rights icon to campus shortly after the beginning of the 2016-17 school year, as Andrew Young — former congressman, Atlanta mayor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations — visited the Ridge to speak to the Upper School student body and later spent time speaking with students in smaller settings.

Ambassador Young was introduced in Chapel by senior Tahir Murray, a boarding student from the Atlanta area.

In his remarks at Chapel, Ambassador Young told students that with the vast changes in technology making the world more connected, they would have the opportunity to work with people of all races and backgrounds. These opportunities offer the promise to make the world a better place, Ambassador Young said, if the next generation of leaders is ready to address poverty and inequality.

“By and large where there are differences and people can be respectful of each other and try to resolve those differences, we can have peace on earth goodwill toward men, women and children,” Ambassador Young said. “You don’t have to be afraid of the world because the world is created by people just like you. If they could create a world like this, you can figure out how to run it together and to run it peacefully and prosperously.”

Ambassador Young is a graduate of Howard University and Hartford Theological Seminary, and he was active in the early years of the civil rights movement organizing voter-registration drives and working closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Ambassador Young was a key strategist and negotiator during civil rights campaigns that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. g W IN T ER 2017 |

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Mayfield ’97 brings marketing savvy to the Ridge

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Jay Mayfield ’97 has returned to McCallie to help boost the school’s marketing efforts and maintain a strong internal and external communications operation.

Mr. Mayfield began in November as the Director of Communications and Marketing after several years working in the Washington, D.C., area. He will oversee McCallie’s efforts to reach out to the public across the full array of communications channels to help increase awareness and understanding of the school’s important work.

“Jay brings a wealth of knowledge to McCallie, and he understands the culture that makes us so special,” said Headmaster Lee Burns ’87.

“I am confident that he can help us find new and innovative ways to share our story both within our community and to a broader audience who may not be as familiar with the McCallie story.”

Mr. Mayfield most recently served as Senior Public Affairs Specialist at the Federal Trade Commission.

In that role he led the FTC’s communications efforts in the areas of privacy, identity theft, data security, and financial technology.

He has also worked in public affairs for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and has experience in educational communications as lead science writer at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and heading the public relations office for Georgia Northwestern Technical College.

Mr. Mayfield and his family — wife, Leigh, and daughter Lauren — are excited about returning to his hometown and working to tell the many stories of life on the Ridge.

“McCallie is an exceptional place, and the chance to come back to my alma mater and share its stories with the world is a dream come true,” he said. “This is an exciting time in McCallie’s history, as we are preparing men for success in a world that is in a massive state of change.

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Jay Mayfield ’97 has spent the past several years working in communications in Washington, D.C., and he returns to McCallie as the new Director of Communications and Marketing.

talented team of communicators. McCallie has amazing stories to tell, and I’m humbled by the opportunity to help tell them. I couldn’t be more excited to come home to Chattanooga and to the Ridge.”

Mr. Mayfield earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from George Washington University, and he has a master’s degree in public relations from the Grady College at the University of Georgia.

Jim Tanner ’86, who served as Interim Director of Communications since June, was named Deputy Director of Communications and Marketing, and he will work with Mr. Mayfield and Assistant Director of Communications and Marketing Kristin Youngblood and School Videographer Brandan Roberts to develop strong internal and external communications strategies to position McCallie for success for years to come. g

Dr. Pepper TEN Classic returns February 3-4 For the second consecutive year, McCallie School will be the focus of the prep basketball world as the host team of the McCallie Dr Pepper TEN Classic scheduled for Feb. 3-4, 2017 at the Sports and Activities Center on the McCallie campus.

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After representing the United States in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in the 10-kilometer Open Water Swim, Sean Ryan ’10 (center) returned to his alma mater to visit with McCallie swim coach Stan Corcoran and share his experiences with several current Blue Tornado swimmers.

Sean Ryan ’10, a U.S. Olympian who recently returned from the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, stopped by campus Sept. 6.

Ryan spent nearly two hours in the dining hall visiting with both Middle and Upper School students. He shared his Olympic experiences with interested supporters, students and school staffers.

Ryan competed in the Men’s 10k Open Water Swim on Aug. 16. He placed 14th overall, finishing in a time of 1:53.15.5.

McCallie swimming coach Stan Corcoran and current swim team members were able to spend time asking Ryan about his Olympic experience.

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is the inclusion of La Lumiere School from La Porte, Ind. The Lakers are ranked as preseason No. 1 in the nation in both the USA Today Super 25 and MaxPreps Independent Top 10. Rounding out the field for this outstanding event will be McCallie, Chattanooga’s Hamilton Heights Christian Academy and Christ School of Asheville, N.C. In 2016, La Lumiere advanced to the championship game of the DICK’S Sporting Goods High School Nationals before falling to Oak Hill Academy, which participated in the inaugural Dr Pepper TEN Classic last spring.

Hamilton Heights, coached by former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga player Zach Farrell, has two players on its roster in the ESPN Top 100, and Christ School has been a consistently strong program in the competitive North Carolina prep scene, winning NCISAA state championships in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Hardy Farrow ‘09 is making a difference in the lives of children in Memphis and his work is earning national recognition.

As the Executive Director of Let’s Innovate through Education, Mr. Farrow is helping Memphis-area minority and lowincome students identify areas where their skills can improve their city.

Mr. Farrow’s contributions recently earned him the distinction of being named one of the top 30 Under 30 in education by Forbes Magazine.

At LITE, Farrow and his team works with teachers and local professionals to create a business plan, including operations, management, budgeting and sales.

LITE is working: 100 percent of students in the program have graduated high school, and over 95 percent are on track to graduate college within four years, averaging $260,000 in merit scholarships. g The 2017 Dr Pepper TEN Classic will kick off with the Mountain View Auto Group Luncheon featuring former Michigan basketball player Austin Hatch, who will share his inspirational story of survival and perseverance as the featured speaker.

Hatch survived two plane crashes before graduating from high school — one in 2003 that killed his mother and siblings and a 2011 crash that claimed the lives of his father and stepmother. The second crash left the high school basketball star in a coma with a serious head injury. Though he’d committed to play basketball at Michigan, Hatch had to relearn how to walk and play basketball as he recovered. His story was featured on ESPN during a segment of the sports documentary show “E:60.”

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BIRTHSWEDDINGS

CLASS Upcoming Alumni Events March 10 | 6th Grade Grandparents Day March 16 | Chattanooga Alumni Lunch April 7 | 9th Grade Grandparents Day May 9 | Duck Day Golf Tournament October 12-14 | Reunion Weekend (Classes of 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012) October 26-28 | Golden M Homecoming and Reunion Weekend (Classes of 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967)

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John S. Pregulman ’76 married Amy Israel on September 4, 2016.

Bryan Wyker ’98 and Marshall had a son, Arthur Townsend Wyker II, and daughter, Belle Wyker, on February 10, 2016. g Joseph K. Wilcher ’98 and Jody had a son, Hayden David, on June 24, 2016. g John Bell ’98 and Natalie, had son, Henry Jackson Bell, on August 29, 2016. g Daniel Norton ’99 and Amber had a son, Lowe McCall Norton, on August 2, 2016. g Chandlee Caldwell ’99 and Floss had a son, Silas Emerson Caldwell, on September 28, 2016. g Jon Ricketts ’99 and Julie had a son, Jack Hampton Ricketts, on October 28, 2016.

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Penn Garvich ’01 and Marissa had a girl, Emma Grace Garvich, on August 25, 2016. g Pete Fox ’01 and Heather had a son, Pete Anthony Fox III, on September 6, 2016. g Mark Wyatt ’01 and Lindsay had a son, Knox Elliott Wyatt, on November 13, 2015. g Haddon Kirk ’02 and Jill had a son, Rory Fox Kirk, on October 4, 2016. g Alexander C. Thorn ’03 married Mr. Haven Kaplan on August 27, 2016. g Jack Silberman ’03 and Shannon had a son, Sullivan “Sully” Ray Silberman, on October 26, 2016. g Nelson D. Rodes IV ’04 married Mary Jane Saunier on November 14, 2015. g Justin Blair ’04 and Amanda had a girl, Lillian Elizabeth Blair, on October 8, 2016. g R. Remington “Rem” Cooper ’06 married Kendal Owens on June 24, 2016. g Tad C. Foster ’08 (formerly Thomas W. Tarleton, Jr.) married Shaylinne Zimmerman on January 16, 2016. g Joshua M. Goldberg ’08 married Alex Beecher (GPS ’10) on September 3, 2016. g Tyler Petty ’10 married Sheila Salopek on September 17, 2016. g Tanner Ball ’11 married Erin Wentworth on March 26, 2016. g J. Conner Brown ’11 married Lauren Grace Jackson (GPS ’12) on September 3, 2016.

Lillian Elizabeth Blair, born October 8, 2016, to Justin Blair ’04 and Amanda.

When Jonathan Bosshardt ’10 married Mary Allayne Gillis on August 26, 2016, five of his eight groomsmen were McCallie grads. The groomsmen are, from left, Scotty Webb ’11, Hudson Magee ’10, Nathan Bosshardt ’07, Robby Bosshardt, David Bosshardt, Jacob Warren, Jay Brooks Jr. ’10 and Dillon McGregor ’10.

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Dr. Doug Sullivan-Gonzalez ’75 (left) recently had lunch in Columbus, Miss., with his 10th-grade McCallie English teacher, George Hazard ’64. Dr. Sullivan-Gonzalez is Dean of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College at the University of Mississippi. Mr. Hazard taught at McCallie from 1968 to 1981.

Boyd Jackson ’09, Ryan Schumacher ’11 and Gil Walton ’12 gathered for a meal recently near the campus of Stanford University. Gil is a second-year law student, Boyd is a firstyear law student and Ryan graduated in 2015 and has worked as Stanford Sierra Camp’s staff director for the last year.

Knox Elliott Wyatt was born on November 13, 2015 to Lindsay and Mark Wyatt ’01. He joins big brothers Mark Andrew “Drew” Wyatt, II and Alexander Wade “Alex” Wyatt.

A group of guys from the Class of 1987 gathered recently at Barnsley Gardens. From left, Rick Collett, Michael Mathis, Rob Noble, Gary Welch and Lentz Reynolds.

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Adam Caine ’89 was named the head football coach at Sequatchie County High School and his team had a perfect season 10-0. This marks coach Caine’s first stint as a head coach. Coach Caine comes to Dunlap, Tenn., after coaching last season at Hewitt-Trussville High in Trussville, Ala., east of Birmingham where he served as defensive coordinator.

Prior to that he spent three years at the football powerhouse Shiloh Christian School in Springdale, Ark., where he was a defensive assistant coach and served as assistant head coach and defensive coordinator for one season before moving to Hewitt-Trussville. Coach Caine and his wife, Katy, have three children Riley, Walter and Addison.

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Bill Gentry ’96 has published a new book: Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For: A Guide for New Leaders published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers with CCL. The book offers actionable, practical, and evidence-based advice and examples from his own newest and latest research of new leaders from around the world; from training new leaders; and his own failures and triumphs in leadership. g Michael Herbert ’96 has been named among the Worchester Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” rising stars in the Worchester area.

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Andrew Hollaway ’01 moved to California in January 2016, for a new client project at Apple, Inc. g Joshua Barnett ’01 is in an Ophthalmology residency at Vanderbilt Medical Center. g Drew Haskins ’04 was selected by The National Trial Lawyers organization as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” plaintiff attorneys in the State of Alabama in 2015.

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Justin Teal ’10 graduated UConn in three years with the help of 30 McCallie AP class credits. He majored in Actuarial Science & Mathematics, and completed an internship at The Hartford in Connecticut. He now lives in Boston working as an actuary at Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. g Matthew Harmon Jones ’13 graduated from Rhodes College on May 14, 2016. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in Commerce and Business. He began Rhodes’ Masters in Accounting program in the fall. Matthew is the son of Fort ’70, and the brother of Warwick ’10. g Edward Ellis IV ’16 is a student at Columbia University, New York, majoring in Economics and Jazz.

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Tanner Ball ’11 married Erin Wentworth in Winchester, Ky., on March 26, 2016. Pictured above with McCallie friends, from left: Logan Yerbey ’11, Wells Parker ’11, Jesse Lee ’11, Cody Pritchett ’10, Erin and Tanner Ball ’11, Scott Head ’11, and Walker Fitzgerald ’12

When Nelson D. Rodes IV ’04 married Mary Jane on Nov. 14, 2015, in Lexington, Ky., several McCallie alumni were among the guests. From left are John Templeton ’04, Charlie Rodes ’78, Will Rodes ’07, Nelson Rodes Jr. ’50, Neil Rick ’04, Mary Jane and Nelson, Steele Medaris ’02, Charles Rodes ’49, John Rodes ’76, Stan Bouckaert ’04, and John Gavigan ’04.

McCallie alumni joined in the festivities at the wedding of Conner Brown ’11 and Lauren Jackson (GPS ’12) on Sept. 3, 2016. Top row (from left): Chris Moore ’77, Burton Brown ’52, Beau Belcher ’11, Fox Johnston ’12, Will Wilson ’11, Chad Lee ’08, Connor McElheney ’11, Miles McDonald ’09, Wes Young ’11, Sam Lynch ’03. Middle row (from left): Carrington Montague ’68, Andrew Gross ’11, Pearson Brown ’14, Will Faulkner ’11, Philip Higgins ’11, Thomas Brown ’07, Conner Brown ’11, Sam Campbell V ’11, Sam Campbell IV ’77. Bottom row kneeling (from left): Chase Martino ’11, Jarrod Coleman ’11, and Taylor Silberman ’11.

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In Memoriam Thomas Jackson “Jack” Brown ’41 of Dalton, Ga., died Oct. 10, 2016. At McCallie, he was the captain and adjutant of the school battalion, and he lettered in basketball, football and track.

After graduation he completed a shipbuilding apprenticeship program in Newport News, Va. and then studied engineering at The University of Tennessee. During World War II, Jack enlisted in the Army Corps of Engineers at Ft. Belvoir, Va. Later he served in the Philippines with the Army Corps of Engineers. Immediately following the war, Jack began his sales career in the textile industry with Peerless Woolen Mills. The majority of his work career was spent with the Ludlow Corporation as head of the textile sales division in Dalton, Ga. He was a founding member of the Fellowship Bible Church of Dalton in the early 1970s. He later attended Grace Presbyterian Church in Dalton, Ga. He was one of the original five founders of the Moccasin Bend Golf Club in 1965 and a longtime member of The Dalton Golf and Country Club. He was preceded in death by his parents, sisters, brothers, Edward Emerson Brown Jr., Robert Kingsley Brown and Allan Gregory Brown. He is survived by his loving wife of 65 years, Caroline Humphreys Brown; and, along with nephews Wes ’74 and Jefferson ’77; daughter, Caroline Brown Hudson; sons, Thomas J. Brown Jr., Harold H. Brown and David R. Brown; brothers, Wesley Gregory Brown ’47, and Lewis Arnold Brown ’49; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Walter DeLaney Way Jr. ’46 of Orlando, Fla., died Nov. 29, 2016. He was enrolled at Washington and Lee University in Virginia until his junior year when he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. He served his country during the Korean conflict as a radar observer in the 317th Fighter Squadron.

After nine months in Korea, his squadron was transferred to Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod where he would end his duty in 1955. It was on the Cape that he met and married Phyllis Lanning. As a member of First Presbyterian Church, he was an adult Sunday School teacher and was honored to serve as Elder as well as Deacon. He involved himself with coaching Little League and umpiring for the Kiwanis Club. He created a home repairs group, “Elders helping Olders” contacting retired church members who were in need. He served as president of the museum and happily volunteered to spearhead the John Young Day Parade and activities for Orlando’s very own astronaut. He is survived by his wife Phyllis “Fi”, daughter Wendy, sons Will, Doug and Frank. His grandchildren include Aubrey Way, Allison Bunnell, Kelsey Way, DeLaney Way, Connor Way and two greatgrandchildren Jubilee Way and Irene Noelle Way.

Norman Ferguson Smith ’49 of Chattanooga died Aug. 27, 2016. He attended Georgia Institute of Technology on an NROTC scholarship where he graduated in 1953 with a B.S. in Architecture.

He was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy. He completed flight training in Pensacola, Fla., and Kansas, and then was stationed in Jacksonville, Fla., as a pilot in a P2V Squadron. After his service, he returned to Chattanooga, where he worked at Combustion Engineering, then moved to Newnan, Ga., where he worked at R.D. Cole Manufacturing as vice president and chief engineer. He worked at Babcock & Wilcox as project manager and then was promoted to manager of Project Management at Babcock & Wilcox in the Contract Research Division. He was in many church choirs and was the minister of music in Newnan, Ga., and Canton, Ohio. He sang in the Akron Symphony Chorus and the Chattanooga Choral Arts Society.

He is survived by his wife, Ann Smith, his son, Norman F. Smith ‘74, his older brother, thirteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

John McDonald ’50 died on Sept. 23, 2016.

John attended Culver Military Academy, Georgia Institute of Technology and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He started his career with Douglas L. Elliman & Co., the real estate concern in New York. John continued his career in Investment Consulting in Atlanta, Ga. Most recently, John was an independent investment banker in Atlanta after retiring as a partner in the Bock, Benjamin Company, a former investment bank in Atlanta. He was a supporter of the Atlanta chapter of the “I Have A Dream” Foundation, Boys and Girls Club, Year Up Atlanta, Peachtree Presbyterian Church, and many other charitable organizations. He is survived by his wife, Maria Cabrera McDonald; brother, John “Jack” McDonald; sister, Dorcas Anne McDonald; three children, Anne Arden McDonald, David Hutcheson McDonald and Julie McDonald Lewis; and four grandchildren.

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Hunter Seaborn Bell Jr. ’51 of Atlanta, Ga., died Aug. 22, 2016. While he was at McCallie, he played varsity tennis, soccer and baseball and all three of those teams were Mid-South champions.

He graduated from Auburn University where he was a member of the varsity tennis team and a Phi Delta Theta — ­ plus the naval ROTC program. After graduation he was sent to the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla., for his two years of active duty. Because of a mix-up in his orders he had no assignment upon his arrival. The commander decided to put Hunter’s athletic talent to good use: Hunter was assigned to be “assistant special duty officer” in charge of tennis, golf, boxing and swimming for the base. He qualified for the All-Navy tennis finals in Newport, R.I. For most of his career, Hunter was a manufacturer’s representative in the soft drink industry. Hunter was predeceased by his parents, Monica Ripley Bell and Hunter Seaborn Bell, Sr. and his brother, Reginald Ripley Bell. He is survived by his wife, Llewellyn White Bell, son Hunter Seaborn Bell, III and Moreland Binford Bell and two grandsons, Moreland Conway Bell and Hunter Davis Bell.

Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr. ’51 died Aug. 29, 2016. He graduated from The University of Chattanooga and The Nashville School of Law. He was led to the Lord through ministry of Rev. Rocky Young and was a member of The First Presbyterian Church. He was preceded in death by his mother and his father. He is survived by his wife, Mary Nelson Coleman, his two daughters: Laura Coleman Bible and son-in-law, William Thomas Bible Jr. ’77, and Donna Nelson Coleman and grandchildren.

Retired science teacher Larry W. Anderson died Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, in a local health care facility. He was a retired science teacher at Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe High School for 32 years before spending the final 12 years of his teaching career as science teacher at McCallie. He was a Deacon at Ringgold First Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Cathy Anderson, of Ringgold, Ga.; a son, Larry W. (Katie) Anderson Jr., of Kingsport, Tenn.; a brother, Wayne McHarge, of New Orleans; two sisters, Alta (David) Hook, of Chattanooga, and Dee Manning, of Ringgold; and two grandchildren, Alicia and Silas Anderson.

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In Memoriam Ralph S. Paden ’51 died Oct. 23, 2016. He earned a degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech before returning to Chattanooga to work for the family’s foundry business. After the sale of the family business, he received his MBA from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and began a 20-year career at Provident Life & Accident. Following retirement, Ralph was member of the NASD Board of Arbitrators for 15 years. Ralph was a Kiwanian and involved in many community organizations. He spent many years on the Board of Bethel Bible Village, serving as chairman before stepping aside to chair the Investment Committee for over 20 years. He was a lifelong member of Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church, where he served as elder for 40 years, before being named Elder Emeritus. He also served as a trustee of the Christian Educational Charitable Trust. He is survived by Dottie, his devoted wife of 33 years; sons, Rick (Connie) Bohner ’78 and Alex (Mandy) Bohner ’87; daughter, Debbie Bohner (Carter) Young; grandchildren, David (Rachel), Aimee, Rebekah and Hannah Bohner, Wes ’11, Campbell ’13 and Jack ’20 Young, Louisa and Frances Bohner. He also is survived by nephews Carter, Tom and Rob Paden ’82; and niece, Dean Paden North, and their families.

Harry Thomas Burn Jr. ’55, of Athens, Ga., died Sept. 1, 2016. He was a graduate of the Harvard College and the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville. As a young man, he served as a page for the Tennessee State Senate during his father’s tenure in the legislature. He was an editorial associate of the Andrew Johnson papers, published by the University of Tennessee Press. He retired from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). An avid supporter of the local community and knowledgeable historian, he had served on the McMinn County Living Heritage Museum, board of directors, and supported numerous other local causes. He was of the Episcopal faith. He is survived by several cousins and special friends.

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David Earl Caywood ’55 died Sept. 7, 2016.

He attended Vanderbilt University where he majored in business and finance and was the president of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He went on to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School. After school, he moved to Memphis and joined the firm of Burch, Porter & Johnson. He was part of a team of lawyers led by his then-father-inlaw Lucius Burch who represented Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the Sanitation Strike. Later that year, Caywood received the Newspaper Guild’s “Citizen of the Year” award for his contributions to attempting to settle the strike and calm the city in the wake of King’s assassination. Later, he founded his own law firm and continued as a trial lawyer, focusing on family law. The University of Memphis Law School honored him with the “Pillar of Excellence” Award, and he became president of the Leo Bearman Inn of Court.

Caywood was a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church, where he served on the Vestry and was a chalice bearer. He was also a member of the University Club. Caywood is preceded in death by his step-son David F. Shy and is survived by Ginger, his wife of 47 years, his sons David Earl Caywood Jr. ’79 and Lucius, and stepson Robert Shy. He leaves one granddaughter, and two step-granddaughters. He also leaves a brother, John B. Caywood ’60, and various nieces and nephews.

Dr. Charles Hunter Von Canon ’56 died Oct. 1, 2016. At McCallie, he served as the First Lieutenant of Company F, Company Executive and was a Cum Laude graduate. While at Vanderbilt University, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He then headed to the University of Tennessee Medical School in Memphis. He did his Internship at John Gaston Hospital in Memphis, and his residency at Tulane University and Duke University. He then took over his father’s pediatric practice, but that was interrupted when he was drafted into service in the U.S. Army, as a Captain in the 190th Medical Detail (MILPHAP). He spent one year at Reynolds Army Hospital in Fort Sill, Okla. He was then deployed to Vietnam where he worked as a liaison in a program that provided medical assistance and aid to Vietnamese civilians. He was awarded many medals and honors while serving including the Bronze Star.

After his service, he returned to private pediatric practice at Children’s Diagnostic Center. After a second retirement, he took over the Pizza Pub at the foot of Lookout Mountain with his wife.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his younger brother, and the mother of his three older children, Delores Hartman Von Canon.

He is survived by his wife of 22 years Jennifer Layne Von Canon; his five children and his stepdaughter; three sisters; eight grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.

John Cole Hatcher ’56 of Charlotte, N.C., died Nov. 14, 2016. He attended Davidson College and graduated from North Carolina State University with an Industrial Engineering Degree. He treasured every single adventure with his fishing buddies, cherished his personal and professional families and truly appreciated each tenant and vendor. His legacy lives in the wisdom and wit he shared with all who came to him for advice. He was preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Anne Suber Hatcher. He is survived by his daughter, Anne-Scott Hatcher; his grandchildren, Grace Anne Fabyan and Cole Salem Fabyan and their father, Barry Fabyan; and a few first cousins.

Shannon Perry “Pete” Warrenfells III ’60 of Rossville, Ga., died Sept. 11, 2016. Pete was born and raised in Chattanooga. He was of the Baptist faith, a U.S. Air Force veteran, and retired as a truck driver. He was preceded in death by his parents, Edna and S.P. Warrenfells ’32, Jr.; and a brother, Jim Warrenfells ’65. He is survived his son, Jeff Warrenfells; daughter, Angel (Rex) Mashburn; grandchildren, Logan Warrenfells, Michele Mashburn and Jeremy Mashburn; and longtime girlfriend, Wanda Higdon and her family.

James Victor “Jim” Grainger ’60 died Nov. 19, 2016. He graduated from MTSU with a degree in industrial management. He served in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1969 which included a period with the 3rd Army soldier show and a tour in Berlin, Germany. He formed and ran a successful business, Custom Fretted Instruments and Repair in Sparta, Tenn., for thirty years. With the help of two longtime employees, Steve Moore and Joyce Carroll, the business became known throughout the United States and elsewhere for the highest quality repair and pearl inlay work to musical instruments such as guitars, banjos, mandolins, etc. He played banjo with the group Hickory Wind for many years as they entertained at Fall Creek Falls in the summers. He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Rebecca, his son Doug (Abby) Grainger, two grandchildren, James and Sam, his brother Dr. Chris Grainger (Patti), his mother Juanita Grainger, and a niece and nephew and several cousins.

Obituaries are included in McCallie Magazine by class year in chronological order by date of death. Those not included in this issue will appear in the next. 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. Stay informed of such things. Make sure the Alumni Office has your updated email address.

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Edwin Spivey Gault ’64, of Paducah, Ky., died Oct. 30, 2016. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Vanderbilt University and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Mississippi.

He was the Articles Editor of the Mississippi Law Journal in 1971-72. He practiced law in Greenville, Miss., for almost 20 years before relocating to Paducah in 1990. He then joined the Paducah law firm of Whitlow, Roberts, Houston & Straub, PLLC. He was named a Kentucky Super Lawyer by his peers in 2007 and held the distinction until his death.

Gault received the AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Gault was admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 1972 and the Kentucky Bar in 1990. Gault was admitted to the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Tenth Circuits of the United States Court of Appeals. He was also admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. He was well known as the cofounder and organizer of the annual Paducah River Industry Crawfish Boil. He was instrumental in bringing the Signa family restaurant, Doe’s, to Paducah. He was preceded in death by his parents; and brother, Clyde V. Gault, Jr. ’60 He is survived by his wife, Carol Gault; along with two sons, Edwin Spivey Gault, Jr. ’87; and William Lowe Gault; and four grandchildren, Edwin Spivey Gault III, Dorothy Vaughn Gault, Caroline Keithler Gault and Noah Wright Gault. He is also survived by his sister, Maggi Saucier.

Samuel David Turner ’64, of Flintstone, Ga., died November 10, 2016. Sam graduated from University of Chattanooga. He spent his life as a businessman and entrepreneur. He worked at the Retail division of the American National Bank in Chattanooga before moving on to become President and CEO of the Favorite Market/ ComPac Convenience stores in Dalton, Ga., from 1981 until 2010. In 2013, Sam co-founded Enzo’s market in downtown Chattanooga. He later went on to consult with several local entrepreneurs in Chattanooga including Rapid RMS and Co.Lab. Sam served on several professional boards during his tenure at Favorite Markets/ComPac stores. He was Chairman of the Board for the National Association of Convenience Store Owners (NACS), as well as a past chairman of the Georgia Association of Convenience Store Owners and was inducted into the Food Industry Hall of Fame. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Hunter Museum of American Art, Arts Build, and Association of Visual Arts. He also volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and the Chattanooga Iron Man and was a member of the Chattanooga Rotary. Sam is preceded in death by his wife, Verina S. Baxter, as well as his parents, Marceille Almon Turner and Samuel F.D. Turner. He is survived by his children, Wendy Turner (Chris Loga) Marietta, Ga., Samuel P. Turner, Sacramento, Calif., and Eadress Baxter.

Nolan Davis Helms ’67 of Signal Mountain, Tenn., died Dec. 4, 2016. At McCallie, Davis was on the cross country and track teams, Captain of Company C, and a member of FCA and TEPS. In 1971 he received a business degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.

He was vice president of Hartford Carpets in Chattanooga, the General Manager of Modern Carpets in Poteau, Okla., and was an insurance broker. He was a member of the Mountain City Club and the Signal Mountain Lions Club.

Davis was a member of Wayside Presbyterian Church, where he had served as a Deacon. He was preceded in death by his parents. Davis is survived by his wife Mary McCoy Helms; son Nolan Davis Helms, III (Catherine); son Douglas Carden Helms (Shelley); and stepdaughter Elizabeth Ladner Denson (Noah). He is also survived by three brothers Don (Sandye) of Chattanooga, Rob (Marilyn) of Raleigh, N.C., and Guy (Kathy) of Worland, Wyo. He leaves behind five grandchildren: Duncan, Sydney and Ellie Helms; and Everett and Natalie Denson.

Dr. Arthur Palfrey Bode ’71 of Greenville, N.C., died Nov. 11, 2016. Arthur was a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He dedicated his life to medical research. He is survived by his three loving sons, Christopher (Amy), Scott and Joshua; his devoted fiancee, Irene; brother, Mark ’69; and grandchildren, Emily and John.

Edgar Bridges Horn Jr. ’71 died Sept. 4, 2016.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Georgia in 1977, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He received a Juris Doctor degree from The University of Georgia School of Law. He was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia that year and practiced in Atlanta. He was the captain of the University of Georgia Rugby Football Club that won the Southeastern Conference Championship in 1978 and the First Annual St. Patrick’s Tournament in Savannah in 1979.

He also captained the Atlanta Old White Rugby Football Club to the Georgia Cup Championship in 1983. Eddie was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by a daughter, Aurie Ashton Barnes (Morgan), of Durham, N.C.; a son, Edgar Bridges Horn III, of Louisville, Ky.; and a sister, Sheila Horn Kiggins (Chris), of Columbus, Ga.

Sam Venable ’75, of Chattanooga died Oct. 21, 2016. He earned a B.S. in business administration from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1980, where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He completed graduate work related to his actuarial training at Georgia State University, and became an Associate of the Society of Actuaries in 1982 upon completing the requisite certification exams. He worked in the healthcare industry throughout his career, most recently as business analyst manager at Cigna Healthcare. A longtime member of First Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Sam served as a deacon and in a number of other capacities for decades.

He worked at Camp Vesper Point in his youth and served on the Camp Committee at First Presbyterian Church for many years. He is survived by his wife Margaret Browder Venable, his mother Mary Ruth Venable, his son Nicholas Browder Venable ’08, and his daughter Maggie Venable ; brothers, Bob Venable Jr., Trenton, GA and Dan Venable ’79, Leipers Fork, Tenn.; sister, Ruth Venable Ingram, Madison, Ala.; and many nieces and nephews.

Stephen Martin Wright ’82 of Washington, D.C., died unexpectedly, Aug. 19, 2016. Stephen was born in Chattanooga and was a graduate of Georgetown University. He began a career of work in government affairs by serving as a legislative assistant to Congresswoman Marilyn Lloyd for more than 10 years. He then went on to work as a lobbyist for the country of Togo followed by service as a congressional aide to a Pennsylvania Congressman. Upon being designated a Rotary Scholar, he broadened his background in government by attending the University of Ivory Coast. After his return, he entered the Yale School of Management and was granted an MBA degree. His worked for the New York City Economic Development Corporation for over 11 years, after which Stephen returned to Washington and worked in Real Estate. He was preceded in death by his mother, Peggy Espy Wright. He is survived by his father, John L. Wright, Jr. ’51; brother, Dr. Jack Wright, III ’81; an aunt, three nephews, three nieces, several cousins and numerous extended family members and friends.

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The Tornado Winds kicked off 2017 in style by participating in the New Year’s Day Parade and Festival in London, England. The boys were able to see the sights and perform for an international audience while ringing in the new year.

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