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Relay For Life Event Huge Success

Students and staff walk the track in Stone Recreation Center during the American Cancer Society Relay For Life event.
Saturday morning. Bleary-eyed Alma College students and staff have a huge fundraising hangover.

Taking over the Stone Recreation Center March 11-12, 28 teams stayed in the building for 24 hours to raise $22,000 for the American Cancer Society Relay for Life event. Student organizations, faculty and staff pitched tents, threw sleeping bags and blankets on the floor, sat in living room furniture and rested while waiting for their turn to put in mileage on the walking track.

Every lap around the track was a step closer to a cure for cancer. Working under AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer Juliann Schaffer's direction, event co-chairs Nicole Lowis '05 and Julie Bolitho '06 far exceeded expectations for the College's first foray into the cancer-fighting event.

Sarah DeYoung '07 of Kentwood and Marcus Hong '07 of Salt Lake City, UT. sell water in their makeshift tent.
"According to the Director of the Lansing American Cancer Society, Alma College is the first private college relay of the year in the Great Lakes Division and will be used as a model to recruit other private colleges in the state," Alma Service Learning Coordinator Anne Ritz said.

Ritz says donations will be accepted through the end of March and event T-shirts are still available for $8. To make a donation or purchase a T-shirt, contact Juliann Schaffer at (989) 463-7971.

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Posted: Thu, March 17th, 2005 at 11:31AM

 

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