Baylor School honored 11 individuals at the annual Alumni Awards Banquet during Alumni Weekend festivities.
J. Bart Miller was presented with the school’s Distinguished Alumni Award.
Other honorees were:
* Sports Hall of Fame inductees: Andrea Shipley Dobbins, David Hannah and Kurt Keene.
* Dedicated Faculty Service Award recipients: Ken Brewster, the late Joe Gawrys (award accepted by Sue Gawrys), Barry Hall, the late Phil Hibdon (accepted by Sandy Hibdon Niehoff), Dr. John Miller and the late Ron Stewart (accepted by Lorraine Stewart.
* Distinguished Service Award winner: Mary Kilbride.
Ringgold band grand champs
Ringgold High School’s band was named Grand Champions at the Georgia Marble Invitational Music Festival.
Additionally, the color guard, drum majors, drum line and full band all received superior ratings.
The Tiger Band also competed in the Valhalla Classic Marching Band Competition in Newnan, Ga.
The color guard, percussion and full band won first in their divisions, and the band placed second overall.
Rock City awards scholarship
See Rock City Inc. recently named Andrew Lubben the second recipient of its Martha Bell Miller Scholarship.
The scholarship is named in honor of Martha Bell Miller, who has held the role of Mother Goose at Rock City Gardens for many years.
Lubben has been a Rock City employee since May 2008. He is a student at Birmingham Southern College. He works at Pasha’s Coffee Shop in St. Elmo.
“Andrew is a valued partner of See Rock City Inc.,” said Jeff Raabe, director of operations. “We are so happy to be able to award this scholarship to him as a way to be part of his future goal of earning a degree in German.”
Chattanoogans in Grote Scholars
Chattanooga residents Chris Ooten, Robert Eddie Dunn, Kenneth Golden, Vijay Patel and Hitesh Vashi have been selected for the Grote Chemistry Scholarship Program at UTC.
Grote Chemistry Scholarships are named in honor of Dr. Irvine W. Grote, who served as head of the Department of Chemistry from 1941 to 1964.