By Dance Marathon | Published October 26, 2010
OUT WHAT?? OUTREACH! Community Outreach has officially begun planning the logistics of our first Mini Marathon. Jefferson Middle School will be the first school to host a Mini Marathon for the 2010 – 2011 school year. We are very excited about what we have planned thus far. Jefferson’s Mini will be on Friday December 3rd [...]
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By Dance Marathon | Published October 07, 2010
This weekend was Homecoming weekend at Loras and Campus FUNdraising put on our first 50/50 raffle of the year. We stood outside of the football game and went through the stands raising money for the kids! Thanks to our dedicated committee we were able to raise $200! This is the most we’ve made off of [...]
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By Dance Marathon | Published October 07, 2010
So basically this year has already been extremely exciting!! On September 25th, we had our very first Family Event!! The event was designed for the families to meet the new E-board of 2011. Unfortunately, that Saturday it was rainy and cold.. but even so we had a couple families show up. Jacob was there, and [...]
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By Dance Marathon | Published September 30, 2010
Morale Captains have been hard at work and we are extremely proud of them! Our first big accomplishment of the year has been creating the song and dance moves for the mini-morale dance. We have also split the morale captains up into sub-committees including: participation and t-shirts, honorary morale captains, power hour, morale games, morale [...]
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By Dance Marathon | Published September 30, 2010
Has it been a while or what?! We apologize for the very long pause in on our blogs, but with summer and the beginning of school, you have that! So this blog is going to catch you up on my life as a DM-er over the summer and into the fall! Speaking of summer, myself [...]
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By Dance Marathon | Published May 04, 2010
Imagine being a 16 year old female. For some of us that wasn’t too long ago. I remember going to Friday night football games and homecoming. I remember being part of my high school’s volleyball and basketball team. I remember driving to practices at 6:00 am and having practices that lasted until 9:00 at night. [...]
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By Surya Pandey | Published April 20, 2010
Dance Marathon adviser says Loras is the first college with fewer than 2,000 students to raise more than $100,000.
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By Dance Marathon | Published April 09, 2010
I just looked at our blog and noticed no one has said anything in a while! …Well that’s about to change because Loras College Dance Marathon has been very busy and we’d love to share our successes! Our dancer registration deadline was at the end of March, and we ended up with 275 registered dancers. [...]
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By Dance Marathon | Published March 08, 2010
Tonight Carolyn Zens, Matt Romkey and I headed to Mercy Hospital to hang out with Christopher, one of our miracle children. The last few weeks Christopher has been in and out of the hospital, and thanks to his CarePage updates we thought he might be up for some Dance Marathon visitors. As we walked into [...]
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By Dance Marathon | Published March 03, 2010
This past Monday a group of five Loras College students involved in Dance Marathon got together and drove almost four hours, for one very special reason: THE KIDS! The group was given the opportunity to go to the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital for a playdate. And what exactly is a playdate? Well, playdates are great opportunities to visit, play, [...]
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