Alumni Association Meeting on Monday

The East Ridge Alumni and Supporters Association will meet on Monday, April 1 at Local Coffee on Ringgold Road.

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. and last one hour, officials with the organization said.

The alumni association was formed after the demolition of Raymond James Stadium in December 2015. It has raised more than $75,0000 since its inception in an effort to build ancillary facilities for the football stadium, which includes a field house, restroom and concession stands.

The alumni association has raised money in the past through an alumni golf tournament, The Pioneer Classic, membership dues to the organization, and the purchase of engraved bricks.

Anyone can join the East Ridge Alumni and Supporters Association and help support the non-profit’s causes.

For more information click on the link below.

http://eralumni.com/

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.