McCallie School

Contents

1 The McCallie School 1.1 Summary 1.2 Alumni 1.3 External Links

The McCallie School

Summary

McCallie School is an all-male college preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was founded in 1905 by Spencer Jarnagin McCallie and James Park McCallie, the two sons of Reverend T.H. McCallie, a Presbyterian minister. Their sister, Miss Grace McCallie, along with Miss Tommie Payne Duffy and Miss Eula Lea Jarnagin founded Girls Preparatory School, McCallie's all-female sister-school, a year later. The McCallie School receives day students in grades 6-12 and boarding students in grades 9-12. It now has an enrollment of nearly 900 students. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently called McCallie "one of the leading secondary institutions in the United States."

The school still retains a focus on spiritual life, although not an exclusively Christian one; students are required to attend a religious service weekly. It became a military school during WWI, common among private schools at that time. The military program ended in 1970.

The school's current headmaster is Kirk Walker (appointed in 1999), the first headmaster to be outside of the McCallie family.

Alumni

Famous alumni include:

• billionaire Ted Turner
• former Senator and White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker Jr.
• Ralph McGill , former Pulitzer-Prize winning editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell Jr.
• evangelist and Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson
• Zach Wamp, current member of House of Representatives from Tennessee
• Sonny Montgomery, former member of House of Representatives from Mississippi
• sportswriter and commentator Jay Zuckerman
• Ben Curtis (actor) Steven, "The Dell Dude"

External Links

Official McCallie Site

Official Girls Preparatory School Site