Six McCallie School students have helped Hospice of Chattanooga launch a new volunteer program.
The six are the first teenage group to complete 20 hours of training and volunteer with Hospice of Chattanooga through its school program.
Hospice visitors provide comfort and support to terminally ill patients and their families. The McCallie teens visit residents of NHC Healthcare-Parkwood.
The six McCallie volunteers include two freshmen day students, Adam Connell and Ralston Hartness. The other four are boarding students: freshmen Daniel Condrey of Birmingham, Ala., and Kyle Loechel of Indianapolis; sophomore Jackson Houston of Nashville and junior Xiangjiu Wang of China.
These aren’t boarding students with time on their hands, looking for something to do. The guys play football, baseball, wrestle, row, are musicians, student senators and members of campus organizations.