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This year’s Dance Marathon proved to be another success for
both the partnership of Zeta Tau Alpha and Alpha Tau Omega
along with the entire Penn State community. Thousands of
students joined together to raise over $5.2 million dollars
for children with cancer at Hershey Medical Center. For the
12th year in a row, Zeta and ATO were the top
money raisers with $293,591 raised through canning and
door-to-door pledging. For 46 hours straight, our
dancers stayed on their feet in the Bryce Jordan Center,
to symbolize the enduring strength children with cancer
must have every day. 2007 THON also marked its first
year to call the BJC home!! This bigger and better facility
allowed even more people to witness this year's amazing event.
Always our inspirations, our THON children Tucker Haas and
Robby Schweitzer hung out all weekend for the festivities
and a few water gun fights! We are happy to report that this
May; Robby will have reached the 2-year mark in remission.
After relapsing last fall, Tucker underwent more treatments
and went into remission in January! Although THON season is
only 5 months a year, we keep in close contact with our
amazing THON families year round. With THON 2008 being held
in the Bryce Jordan Center, next year looks to be a
fantastic Dance Marathon! |