$57,000 raised in Gettysburg College’s first Relay for Life

By Marianne Florentino

Last Friday, April 13 th the Gettysburg College community joined forces to fight cancer in a Relay episode began on Friday 13 th 8:00pm and ended on

Saturday 14 th at 8:00am . The president and Relay committee of Colleges Against Cancer: Gettysburg chapter worked since the beginning of the Spring Semester to make Relay For Life in Gettysburg College an amazing event.

The preparations for the Relay on Friday 13th took hours. The members of Colleges Against Cancer worked together to set up Bream Gym and make it entertaining, fun, and as comfortable as possible.

At 8:00PM the doors to the gym opened and immediately the gym was packed of excited college students, families of students, community members and canc

er survivors. After the welcoming speech for the community’s cancer survivors, including one of our Gettysburg student students, people started to walk the tracks keeping the motto of the night in mind, “Cancer never sleeps, why should we?”

The attendants to the event enjoyed a variety of games like Dance Revolution, Lip Sync and hot dogs eating contests, performances from DTO, and an assortment of food provided by local markets.

This first Relay for Life in the Gettysburg Campus raised around $57,000, going beyond what was ex

pected. The money will be donated to The American Cancer Society to keep the research and find a way to destroy cancer.