The Penn Stater Magazine

THON Tops $10 million

February 20, 2012 at 11:48 am Mary Murphy Leave a comment

Photo by Annemarie Mountz '84

Another year, another record.

This year’s THON raised $10,686,924.83 for the Four Diamonds Fund, topping last year’s record and breaking the $10 million mark for the first time.

Encouraging dancers in the final hours: Jay Paterno ’91, who took to the podium on Sunday afternoon.

“If you live to be 100 years old, what you’ve done here for the last two days, weeks, months…what you’ve done here will echo in eternity,” Paterno told the crowd. “When you want to know what Penn State is, and when you want to know what ‘We Are’ means, come to THON.”

For Penn State Live’s photos of THON weekend, click here. Or check out Onward State’s minute-by-minute coverage, with lots of videos and photos from THON, here. And in case you haven’t seen it already, here is the front page of today’s Daily Collegian.

Mary Murphy, associate editor

Entry filed under: Campus events, Penn State students, THON. Tags: Jay Paterno, THON 2012.