The McCallie School chapter of Cum Laude is the oldest such organization in the state of Tennessee and one of the older chapters in the South and the country. Cum Laude recognizes outstanding academic achievement and culls its members from the top 20 percent of the school's graduating class based on weighted grade point average.
Cum Laude's motto is Areté Diké Timé (Excellence, Justice, Honor). Founded in 1906, the Cum Laude Society is dedicated to honoring scholastic achievement in secondary schools. The founders of the society modeled Cum Laude after Phi Beta Kappa and in the years since its founding, Cum Laude has grown to 382 chapters, approximately two dozen of which are located in public schools and the rest in Independent schools.
Membership is predominantly in the United States, but chapters also are located in Canada, England, France, Spain, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
The members of Cum Laude from the McCallie Class of 2015 are:
Ariel Bong
David Bowman
Wesley Brown
Dylan Carmack
Michael Chirumbole
Turner Colocotronis
Addison Cornell
Christian Devlin
Brendan Gaffney
Austin Gilleland
Carter Harbin
Will Hopping
Spence Hutcheson
Michael Kim
Chris Kositzke
Nathaniel Lim
Patrick Littlejohn
Bohan Lu
Yi Lu
Weimer Macuri-Espinoza
Marshall Martin
Tyler Mastey
Grant McArtor
Hongrui Miao
JJ Moncus
Kashish Patel
Preston Rose
Beau Sahaj
Eric Shadle
Drew Shikoh
Connor Smith
Andrew Smith
James Westbrooks
Ben Worsham
Kon Yoo