ERHS Alumni Association Golf Tournament

The East Ridge High School Alumni and Supporters Association is looking for volunteers and teams for its upcoming fundraising golf tournament.

The tournament – a four-man select-shot event – is scheduled for Friday, August 3 at beautiful Brown Acres Golf Course. Information about registration and cost will be available in the near future, officials with the organization said.

Jane Richards Sharp, a principal in the alumni association, said organizational meetings will be held on Mondays leading up to the tournament. Sharp is urging everyone to join the alumni association in this continued effort to raise money for the new field house at Raymond James Stadium. The first meeting will be held on June 18 at the East Ridge High School library. Meeting time is 6 p.m.

For further information or inquiries, call Sharp at 423-227-4903.

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.