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Hey Everybody!

I’m sure you’ve all heard of Relay For Life. It’s the largest cancer-fighting movement in the world, and it happens annually at Yale.

Here’s how Relay works: students form teams and camp out overnight and take turns walking around a track lighted by hundreds of luminarias (fancy word for lantern) all bearing the names of loved ones who have faced a cancer diagnosis. The point is to raise money for the American Cancer Society, the second largest funder of cancer research after the federal government.

Please consider joining Saybrook 2012’s team. We want to raise a ton of money for cancer research, we want to raise more money than the other colleges, and we want to raise more money than SY 2011, which already has a pretty successful team. It’s like earning Hudak points that save lives. Everyone is expected to raise a minimum of $100, which is incredibly easy to do with the online tools you get when you sign up on Relay’s Web site.

If you’d like to join the team, please visit the attached page to sign up. I think this is a great way for us, an incredibly tight class to begin with, to work together and achieve something meaningful. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?fr_id=23230&pg=teamlist

Love,

Jeff