ERHS Alumni Meeting Oct. 5

The newly-formed East Ridge High School Alumni Association will meet for the third time, this Monday, Oct. 5.

The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the ERHS Library.

Last week, according to updates on social media from organizers, the nascent group elected Bobby Hudgens (Class of ’74) as its president. Candace Bell (Class of ’82) was named secretary.

The group is in the process of establishing non-profit status for fundraising purposes. Going forward, the ERHS Alumni Association will meet the first Monday of each month at the library.

The impetus to form the group was the city’s condemning the home stands of Raymond James Stadium, which was built more than 50 years ago. The group wants to help, in some fashion, with efforts to rebuild the stadium.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.