Monday, March 22, 2010
Additional Information on Relay for Life
I have excellent news everyone! Our team for Relay for Life has been created. Provided below are instructions to help guide you through the process of joining the team. Remember it is easiest to pay your $10 dollar fee on-line, but if you choose not to that is fine as well. I hope everyone is having a fun and safe spring break. If you have any questions please email me or feel free to call me.
2. Click on the "Sign Up" tab
3. A) If you have participated in the past, click "Login"
B) If you are a cancer survivor (or know someone who is that wants to register), click
on "Register as a Survivor" (no fee)
C) Anyone else, click on "Join a Team"
4. Assuming that most people will be clicking on "Join a Team", they must search for us
by entering our Team Name...PTK All the Way. Scroll down and click on the "Join"
link
5. At this point, there are numerous options for payment. most people wil select from the
4th through the 6th selections. [1. Team Member Registration (My Team Captain Will
Pay), 2. Team Member Registration (Pay Now), 3. Team Member Registration (Pay by
Cash or Check)]
Though they all seem to require participants to raise $100, I do not remember this
being a requirement in the past. $100 gets you a t-shirt, though. Participants must
scroll down a bit to answer about making additional donations, if applicable.
6. Participant must answer whether they are a new or returning participant
7. Fill out all personal information.
- Provided by Marcus Kibler (Vice President of Leadership)
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Linked to the Internet
Google spiders have located the Chaffey PTK (Phi Theta Kappa) blog. It took a few weeks but we got it!!! Congrats!!! Now you can google the blog and find it.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Relay for Life Flier 2010
About Relay for Life
Teams of people camp out at a local high school, park, or fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times during the event. Relays are 24 hours in length; representing the reality that cancer never sleeps.
Event Date
Saturday May 15th- Sunday May 16th
Location
Quakes Stadium
Event Schedule
Opening Ceremony: 10:00 am
Survivors Lap: 10:30 am
Luminaria Ceremony: 8:00 pm
Fight Back / Closing Ceremony: 7:00 am
Joining our team is straightforward. Simply search for the relay for Life website, click on “Join a team”, select PTK All The Way and fill out the required information. Every team member is required to pay an event fee of $10.00 but if you wish to donate in excess to this you are more than welcome to.
Liz Lemon is our Team captain!!! Yay!
Our goal as a team is to recruit 20 members and bestow a donation of $1,000.00
During the event we will be selling tickets for a raffle. We must decide as a group what we want to raffle off and the means of obtaining these prizes. (Whether we purchase them ourselves, have them donated to us, etc.)
We must also choose a cancer to support. PTK in the past has typically chosen Breast Cancer, but we are free to choose any cancer to sponsor. We also need to create our own motto.
Prior to the last bank night (May 11th) we should hold a fundraiser for last minute donations to achieve, or exceed our donation goal. It is up to us for ideas.
What is this Legendary Relay for Life?
Hmmm... Well, lets open up the history books shall we? AKA the Web Browser...
Relay For Life is a fun-filled overnight event designed to celebrate survivorship and raise money for research and programs of your American Cancer Society. During the event, teams of people gather at schools, fairgrounds, or parks and take turns walking or running laps. Each team tries to keep at least one team member on the track at all times.
More History...
In May 1985, Dr. Gordon Klatt, a colorectal surgeon from Tacoma, Washington, decided he wanted to raise money for the American Cancer Society in honor of his patients. For 24 hours, Dr. Klatt walked around the track at Baker Stadium at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Throughout the night, friends paid $25 to run or walk 30 minutes with him. He walked approximately 83 miles and raised $27,000 to fight cancer. Nearly 300 of Dr. Klatt's friends, family, and patients watched as he ran and walked the course. After this successful event, Dr. Klatt thought about how other people could partake in a similar 24-hour event in communities across the country. He recruited a small team of people and put on the first Relay For Life event in 1986. Since then, Relay has developed into an overnight event where people bring tents and sleep out around the tracks. People of all ages come out to bring the community together and reminisce about their loved ones who have died of cancer and honor those who have survived while raising money to fight for a cure. Now, almost 4 million people take part in Relay events in over 5,000 communities in the United States [6].
-Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay_For_Life
So what does this mean for us Phi Kappas?
There are defining moments in one's life that changes one's persona forever. Their very essence and being transforms into something greater than themselves. These moments are times when one places the greater part of society ahead of themselves. Doing acts in the name of "The Greater Good," allows one to realize that there is a better part of society out there that exists and allows one to foster an understanding of one's mission in life. We all look at the monotony of life, the fact that at times life seems to drag on for months. Minutes crawl on by at work and we lose track of the whole idea of living life and of enjoying the simplicities of life itself. These people, cancer victims, see life differently. Life is race against time, a war against disease upon which the best hope is the acquisition of more time. What Relay for Life does is purchase that extra time. Time to spend with loved ones, to cherish life to its fullest and to essentially come to terms with their own lives. We all have a calling in life... will this be yours?
-Patrick Guarte (Historian) 2009-2010
"You can settle for less in ordinary life,or do you feel like you were meant for something better, something special?"- Captain Christopher Pike in Star Trek (2009) to Captain James T. Kirk.
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