$9.56 Million for the Kids
February 20, 2011 at 10:19 pm Tina Hay 2 comments
Photo by Annemarie Mountz '84
This year’s edition of THON wrapped up late this afternoon in the Jordan Center with a stunning total of $9.56 million raised—blowing away last year’s total of $7.8 million (which we all thought was pretty astounding at the time). The money goes to the Four Diamonds Fund at the Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital.
You can see some photos from this year’s event at Penn State Live and at the Daily Collegian website, among others.
Huge congratulations are in order for the hundreds of Penn State students who work on THON all year long—you guys bring enormous credit to the University, and I don’t think anybody will be challenging THON’s status as the largest student-run philanthropy in the world anytime soon.
Tina Hay, editor
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