THON 2009

This year, the students at Pennsylvania State Universeity raised a record amount, $7,838,054.36, to donate to The Four Diamonds Fund. The fund uses the raised money to help children with cancer by providing treatment and facilities. We broke the previous years record amount by almost a millon doallrs!

THON is the abreviation for Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, a year long fundrsaiser which culminates in a 46 hour dance marathon held every Febraury. Since 1977 we have raised nearly $70 Million for The Four Diamonds Fund and Penn State Children's Hospital.

Of this year's total, Pi Lambda Phi Omega Gamma, raised $50,138.96. This total was raised in joint effort with Omega Phi Alpha sorority and was a result of the tremendous effort put in by both organizations. Our efforts included taking time off from school on certain weekends and going on canning trips to raise money. If you wish to learn more about THON please visit www.thon.org

Congratulations to our dancers in THON: Richard Wolf and Kory Booz.

L to R: Chris Carbutt, Colin Brown, Ryan Gehringer


THON 2009 Total, For The Kids!

In the last hour, the Bryce Jordan Center was packed!