MCCALLIE CUM LAUDE 2011 members Brennan O’Boyle, from front left, Min Song; Brian Mu; Bobby Brouner; Blake Singer; J.T. Wu and Isaac Akers. Richard Guo, from back left, Russ Robinson; Sebastian Krupa; Oscar Hwang; Christian Talley; Zihao Geng; John Miller; Evan Watkins; Bharath Vendatesh; Brian Viscomi; Smith Collett; Tim Westbrooks; Will Fredebeil; Eliot Berz; Bruce Baldree; Alex Ahn; Mac Caldwell; Tripp Henderson; Daniel Caballero; Mike Zuppa and Collin Smith.
Students are elected to Cum Laude based on exceptional academic achievement alone, as measured by cumulative GPA. Only a student’s work at McCallie is considered, and a student must have been at McCallie for at least one full year.
McCallie has sponsored a Cum Laude Chapter since 1952, and it is the oldest of its kind in Tennessee.
Longtime Upper School English teacher Kemmer Anderson, the school’s poet laureate, spoke to the assembly about the importance of searching for truth in life. Following the talk, associate director of college guidance Jeff Kurtzman read aloud the names of the 30 inductees.
Cum Laude members from the Class of 2012 include Alex Ahn and Oscar Hwang of Seoul, Korea; Isaac Akers, Chapel Hill, N.C.; Smith Collett, Morganton, N.C.; Richard Guo, Beijing, China; Tripp Henderson, Charlotte, N.C.; John Miller, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Min Song, El Centro, Calif.; Xiangjiu Wang, Shenyang, China; and J.T. Wu, Duluth, Ga. Members from the Chattanooga area include Brennan O’Boyle from Dalton, Ga.; Daniel Caballero, Mac Caldwell, Russ Robinson and Brian Viscomi from Lookout Mountain; Eliot Berz, Will Fredebeil and Zihao Geng from Signal Mountain and Chattanooga residents Bruce Baldree, Bobby Brouner, Bryant Jenkins, Sebastian Krupa, Brian Mu, Blake Singer, Collin Smith, Christian Talley, Bharath Venkatesh, Evan Watkins, Tim Westbrooks and Mike Zuppa.
