Sporting the Mission: Remission T-shirts
Students from Girls Preparatory School and McCallie School united for the third annual Mission: Remission on Wednesday and walked a 2.5 mile loop through downtown Chattanooga to raise money for research to find cures for cancer. GPS girls gathered on the lower field after morning classes and welcomed McCallie boys transported to GPS for the event.
Seniors carried the official Army-green “fighting cancer together” banner as they led a figurative “Army of One” on the walk. Over 1,500 representatives from both schools – students and faculty – walked in distinctive blue Mission: Remission T-shirts. Mackenzie Hobbs, president of GPS’s Partnership in Community, and James Westbrooks, president of the McCallie Student Council, announced that the sale of the shirts had already met the $20,000 goal.
After the walk across the Walnut Street pedestrian bridge and then down the Riverwalk to the Tennessee Aquarium, the students headed back on the same path for a festival of music, food, games and competitions at GPS. A few faculty and administrators volunteered to have whipped cream pies thrown at their faces, all to raise funds for cancer research.
Local business sponsors included Mike and Debbie Brown, in memory of Julie Feagans; Chattanooga Children’s Clinic, Clyde’s on Main, Engineered Floors LLC, McKee, Platinum Financial Funding, Sawrie Orthodontics, Sophie’s, State Farm - David Sharpe, Taco Mamacita, and Urban Stack.
Organizations that Mission Remission has given to in the past include the Mary Ellen Locher Foundation, Emily’s Power for a Cure, the Christian Bryant Foundation, and the JoeDance Foundation. A student leadership committee from both schools helps to determine where the funds are allocated.
Carrying the banner