THON 2011 Dancer Live Blog

Author: Russ Beck

Feb 17

Mon, 11:02

Just waking up from my second round of sleeping. Food and more sleep are in my future. Gonna close off the live blog now, sorry for the big break in updates, the iPod died and I didn’t get to recharge it until after #THON. Check back for a recap post! Thanks for reading!

Sun, 10:09

A clutch Subway Sub will hopefully be enough to break through the wall I had hit #THON

Sun, 6:12

Color Wars is meh #THON

Sun, 5:35

About to assemble the Shrine of the Silver Monkey, this is decades of practice about to be put to the test. #THON

Sun, 4:58

I will surely not miss the stank of the guy’s locker area #THON

Sun, 3:31

I’m amazed at the creativity of some of the @ISTTHON members in their dancer mail! Thanks guys! #THON

Sun, 2:39

Mail call time! Excited to see what everyone sent me #THON

Sun, 12:12

Leg massage FTW #THON

Sat, 11:34

Feeling good. Time to push through the night! #THON

Sat, 10:07

Preppin for this pep rally with my mom and sister #THON

Sat, 5:16

Get #THON trending! #FTK

Sat, 5:15

Get #THON trending! #FTK

Sat, 5:02

I just got iced (by water) bro #THON

Sat, 4:37

What is a FLEP? #Homecoming #THON

Sat, 4:35

No offense Pres. Spanier, but keep your day job. Dancing is not in your future #THON

Sat, 3:42

Baby powder on the bottom of feet = temporary heaven. #THON

Sat, 12:17

Graham Spanier is rocking it on stage #THON

Sat, 12:14

Feeling refreshed after a group shot with @ISTTHON! Thanks Dean Hall and Prof. Shemanski for stopping by! #THON

Sat, 11:33

Kelsey has an inhumane attachment to my football #THON

Sat, 10:08

The kids on the floor are obviously at a higher level of squirt gun usage than am I. #soaked #THON

Sat, 7:40

About to whack me some moralers #THON

Sat, 6:56

Full line change. New socks, shoes, boxers, shorts, and shirt. Feeling refreshed…well as refreshed as I could expect to! #THON

Sat, 6:10

4th time for Firework. @sdgarguilo thinks it’ll be played 11 times. #THON

Sat, 4:52

Just did Slides of Strength! Got some nice distance #THON

Sat, 3:54

Balls are so much fun! #THON

Sat, 3:33

Teeth are brushed, onto my third shirt. Time for a second wind? #THON

Sat, 1:23

Got half a box of girl scout cookies from the snack shack…might have eaten them all at once. #THON

Sat, 12:55

Losing my voice… #THON

Fri, 11:51

Mopping the floor is a lot like hurding cattle #THON

Fri, 11:33

No! I was one diamond away from going up on the stage! #THON

Fri, 11:23

Time for some musical diamonds #THON #teamred

Fri, 9:50

Standing next THE Graham Spanier #THON

Fri, 8:33

The smartest little kid in the world asked if he could borrow my squirt gun, took it, and proceeded to drench me with it. #THON

Fri, 7:32

I now sort of kind of know the #THON 2011 Line Dance.

Fri, 6:33

Learning the line dance. #THON

Fri, 6:14

Philly Pretzel Factory FTW! #THON

Fri, 6:00

Stand up! #THON

Fri, 5:26

4 Diamonds, 3 Pillars, 2gether without limits, Hope 1 day for a cure #THON

Fri, 5:24

National Anthem is over, laying down for a while #THON

Fri, 4:43

Wandering around the dance floor #THON

Fri, 4:30

My locker is back where the basketball team is supposed to practice…guess I’m part of the problem?

Fri, 3:48

Tons of free stuff for the dancers! Free #Chipotle burrito, thanks #THON!

Fri, 11:39

Lounging around all afternoon. Multi-Sports Complex at 3:30! #THON

Thu, 11:51

My iPod just gave me a notification that THON Weekend is soon!

Thu, 11:48

Made an edit to make the time look better.

Thu, 11:37

This is the final test for my THON 2011 Dancer Live Blog. Found at http://wp.me/pJEwe-4g

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    • IST THON, Welcome Back

    Author: Russ Beck

    Apr 26

    We have completed the first week as an organization for IST THON and the progress is really refreshing. I hope we don’t lose steam when classes end.

    But first, I’ll provide some background.

    After THON this year I was reflecting on how at a IST Student Government meeting Sophomore year, we talked about how we had lost our Dancers and needed to re-focus our THON initiative to start over. Approaching the end of my Junior year, I realized we had failed again as a college to raise any money for the cause.  The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences cracked the Top 10 in independent organizations, why can’t we do it too?

    Enter IST THON.  After talking with the Student Government, it was decided that we move forward with a new THON committee, with me as its Executive Chair.  After pouring over the THON website, I called for a “meeting of the minds” to talk through what we needed to do.  This brings us to Monday a week ago, where we elected a Vice-Executive Chair, a Canning Chair, a Fundraising Chair, an Inspiration Chair, a Website Chair, and an Alumni Relations Chair.  We also decided to get a Faculty Advisor, a website (coming soon!) and an email for FAQs (THON@ist.psu.edu) and set a goal for how much we could feasibly raise.

    $10,000

    So over the summer we will be preparing for action.  Designing a website, facebook fan page, logo, t shirts, a whiffle ball tournament, working with interested companies and the IST Alumni Society would be a good start I think.  We can’t fund raise until the fall semester is in full swing, which gives us time to prepare, to start from scratch essentially.  It looks like we have the people in place to do just that.

    The key to this committee isn’t succeeding this year, it is to set in place a base that future IST THON committees can draw from, improve upon, and ensure that IST doesn’t go dormant again.

    So start saving up readers! I will place a link for donations when it is created.  Until then, For the Kids!

    THON Mission Statement

    The mission of the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon is to conquer pediatric cancer by providing outstanding emotional & financial support to the children, families, researchers, and staff of the Four Diamonds Fund.

    www.THON.org

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