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This year’s Relay for Life will mark the first appearance for a group of employees from the Office of Residential Life, who are honoring a late colleague while recalling their own experiences with cancer.
Eighteen members of the ResLife staff are walking and fundraising as part of the “Too Inspired to be Tired” team, according to Duchesne Resident Director Katie Wostbrock, who is serving as team co-captain.
Over the semester break, the ResLife staff brainstormed about group activities that also would be philanthropic. Relay for Life was a natural choice, said Wostbrock, because everyone on the team has been affected by cancer in some way: Three members are survivors, and every other member has at least one relative who has battled cancer, explained Wostbrock, who lost two grandparents to the disease.
The ResLife participants also are remembering colleague Ellen Hominsky, who worked at BC for 35 years and died from leukemia in 2010. She was “beloved by everyone,” said Wostbrock.
So far, the “Too Inspired to be Tired” team has raised more than $500. They are continuing their fundraising efforts and are making plans for ways to raise money at the event itself.
“I’m really excited for Relay,” said Wostbrock, a graduate student in the Lynch School of Education. “It’s a great way to raise awareness, as well as money.”
Their team page can be found here.