Group participates in their largest fundraiser of year

Up ‘til Dawn held their biggest event of the year, “Letter Sending,” from 8 p.m. to midnight Thursday.

Up ‘til Dawn is an on-campus organization that holds fund raisers for the benefit of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for pediatric cancer treatment. Last year, this event alone raised over $30 thousand. All students were allowed to attend this event to help raise money for St. Jude.

Many on campus groups attend this event to help out our school. Fraternities, sororities, the Campus Activities Board and many other groups attended. Individual students also participated.

The purpose of this event is for students to write a letter to people they know requesting them to donate money to St. Jude. Students were allowed to write as many letters as they wanted and were welcome to free refreshments.

Anyone could win door prizes including Warhawk gear, gift cards and other goodies.

Each year, Up ‘til Dawn likes to get student bands to perform at “Letter Sending.” This year the two bands to perform were Circa 93 and Blue Run Road.

This event was the chapter’s last event of the semester.

“This is always our biggest event of the year, and we always try to get all students involved with our fund raisers,” said Andres Granada, Up ‘til Dawn president. “This year we definitely had more people attend, and it was good to see more diverse groups of students come and participate.”

Tiage St. Romain, freshman pre-pharmacy major from DeRidder, said,”I saw flyers posted everywhere around the school, and it inspired me to help out because just a little money can go a long way to save someone’s life.”

Those interested in joining the Up ‘til Dawn chapter on campus can contact Andres Granada at [email protected]. They will continue with more fundraisers for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the spring.