PRINTER'S NO. 3405
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
795
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY BENNINGHOFF, BERNSTINE, BOBACK, BURNS, CONKLIN,
COX, SCHLEGEL CULVER, DeLUCA, EVERETT, GREINER, HAHN,
HENNESSEY, HICKERNELL, HILL-EVANS, JOZWIAK, M. K. KELLER,
KIM, KINSEY, KLUNK, KNOWLES, KORTZ, LONGIETTI, MACKENZIE,
MALAGARI, McNEILL, MEHAFFIE, MERSKI, MILLARD, MURT, NEILSON,
OBERLANDER, PICKETT, POLINCHOCK, RAVENSTAHL, READSHAW, RIGBY,
ROTHMAN, ROZZI, RYAN, SANKEY, SAYLOR, SCHEMEL, SCHLOSSBERG,
SCHMITT, SONNEY, THOMAS, TOEPEL, VITALI, YOUNGBLOOD,
McCLINTON AND O'MARA, MARCH 4, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MARCH 4, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Congratulating The Pennsylvania State University IFC/Panhellenic
Dance Marathon (THON) for raising more than $11 million for
the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children's
Hospital to help fight pediatric cancer.
WHEREAS, THON is the commonly referred-to name for The
Pennsylvania State University IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon,
the largest student-run philanthropy event in the world; and
WHEREAS, THON is a yearlong fundraising and awareness
campaign to fight pediatric cancer, sustained by more than
16,500 volunteers who donate more than 5 million hours of their
own time, that culminates in a 46-hour dance marathon in which
dancers are required to be continuously moving and not allowed
to sit or sleep; and
WHEREAS, In 1977, THON partnered with the Four Diamonds Fund
at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital and chose Four
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