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ANONYMOUS GIFT

One day in early March, a visitor arrived at Chad Dirkse’s office at Chattanooga Christian School on South Broad Street. “He was every emotional,” Mr. Dirkse remembers. “He said he had been watching our athletic teams for four years, just as an observer.” Inside an envelope, the man said, were two $500 checks – one each in the name of Chattanooga Christian School athletes Hannah Farlett, 18, and Chauncey Simmons, 17.