DM says injured girls are “fine,” and DM total breaks record at $933,855
Dance Marathon 2008 raised $933,855, which tops last year’s record of $708,710.97. Proceeds will go towards the Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation and the Evanston Community Foundation.
Before they announced the total, the executive committee told the crowd that the two girls who collapsed earlier were “completely fine.”
“You guys, you know we had some unfortunate things happen tonight, but we’re going to keep on going because you worked too hard, and the two girls, that’s what they’d want us to do,” the crowd was told.
Delta Gamma and Zeta Beta Tau won first place in the large group tier by raising $120,002.78. They were followed by Sigma Phi Epsilon and Kappa Alpha Theta, which raised more than $34,000.
The top fundraising couple was Wade Askew and Meredith Cluess, both sophomores. By raising $2,700, they won a free STA trip for two to Europe.
I think Beta and Gamma Phi deserve a mention. They also broke 34,000 and were only topped by less than 300 dollars.. just saying.
Steven
March 9, 2008 at 11:33 pm