A House? Car? Paying your way through college? An investment, perhaps?
How about pediatric cancer? This past weekend, Penn State held its annual 46 hour dance marathon, commonly referred to as THON. The dance marathon is the culmination of a year long fund raising effort by students, with the proceeds going to the Four Diamonds Fund.
The Four Diamonds Fund is an organization that helps families of, and patients of pediatric cancer at the Hershey Medical Center, in central Pennsylvania. The Fund provides emotional support, as well as substantial financial support covering the bills that insurance won’t. In effect, the families never see a bill. How great is that?
The total from this year’s THON season was the largest yet: $7,838,054.36. Wow. I have never been prouder to be a Penn Stater.
