ERHS Alumni to Meet

The East Ridge High School Alumni Association will hold its monthly meeting on Monday evening, Nov. 2, officials said.

The group, which began forming only a couple of months ago, will meet in the East Ridge High School library at 7 p.m.

Candace Bell, an official with the group, said the meeting will provide alumni with updates and details on future planning for the group. “We’ve made great progress since our last meeting and have lots of news.”

To learn more about the alumni association, visit them on their Facebook page.

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.