National Medal of Honor Heritage Center Hosts Volunteer Recruit Meeting

The public is invited to learn about and sign up for volunteer opportunities with the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center as they prepare to open in 2020.

Volunteer opportunities: Docent, greeter, gallery assistant, living history presenter, event host, education assistant, exhibit assistant, tradesman, outreach program instructor, collection assistant, administrative assistant.

The 19,000-square-foot facility will feature 20 Medal of Honor recipients and share their dramatic stories through a series of immersive and engaging exhibits. An important feature of the new Heritage Center is a large classroom where visitors can learn to effect positive change in their lives and their communities through exploring and embracing the relevance of the Medal of Honor.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 8th from 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. For more information and to RSVP, contact: [email protected]

To learn more about the Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, please visit www.mohm.org

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.