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Page 4 December 2010 The Lance CAMPUS EXPERIENCES SAPC Relay for Life Team gets boost from the famous and fabulous A/ice V-Z Harrison Editor Oaober is Breast Cancer research and awareness month, and at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 1, Team SAPC joined 44 other teams in the 24-hour Relay for Life of Scotland County—an annual event to raise money for researching a cure. This was an incredibly inspira tional event to be a part of, but the inspiration was not limited to the event itself. Our team captain, Ren^e Portorsnok Jones ’85, wasted no time recruiting new members to the team. She set the original team fundraising goal at a modest $500. Although more money would be raised at the actual event, it was understood by the team that the more we could raise before the event, the better for the cause. So, from day one, the clock was ticking. I joined the team about two weeks before the actual event took place. I don't mind being competitive if it's for a good cause. Upon first joining, I expected to raise money the conven tional way by boosting campus morale of those around me, in hopes that they would join our team, and maybe con tribute a little money. But when I found out that the donations were mosdy being made via the Internet, it made things a little more interesting. I was no longer limited to the confines of the campus thanks to the limidess expanse of cyberspace. At this point, my imagi nation began to run wild, like a horse in the great wide-open. I could just picture random people fer and wide coming together for a good cause and support ing Team SAPC at the same time. While it's cool to have friends and fam ily support, I think it's even cooler when a random, unrelated person does a spontaneous act of kindness. After all, cancer is a cause that touches many rrrrm T7Tn-'..'»-t-yr"vrrr TT I , i lives. To begin with, I sent out e-mails to absolutely everybody in my online address book. Shortly after, a $50 dona tion was made by my good friend Helga Frendo-Rosso, who mainly resides in Canada. So already, team SAPC's influ ence had stretched across borders. It was so exciting! After that first success, I decided to take it even ftirther. I thought to myself, if out of all the peo ple I know, my one friend from far away is willing to donate to our cause, imag ine who else might. So, it was Facebook to the rescue. I posted on nearly every one's walls. I told some local people and some not-so-local people. I told some unlikely people and some likely people. I asked for a surprise, and I got it. It was the unlikely people who stunned me most this time. I mean famous unlikely people. First, St. Andrews alumni and award-winning poet Beth Copeland '73 made a dona tion. And the very next person to make a donation came from way over in California, and although many Americans may not have heard of her, she is famous in both the US and many other parts of the world for her singing in Persian, French, and occasionally in English - Persian pop star, Shahrzad Sepanlou. After that, I received a couple of donations from relatives and friends, and then the big one hit. A donation came in from another famous person, Persian pop star, Nooshafarin. [She has been one of my favorite Persian singers, since childhood, and she has sent me an autographed picture, and we've spoken on the phone, but I never thought she would actually accept my request for a donation.] She donated $100, and I was in shock. Next thing I know, I received a spontaneous donation from someone totally unexpected— a friend of American singer-songwriter Jill Sobule (of 1995’s "I Kissed a Girl" fame). His name is Rick Curly and he and his wife Vicki donated $50. The most beautiful (See Relay, Page 5)
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