Page 3 - Diamond News - May 2014

Page 3 Event Updates Saint Baldricks Formal This year is another successful year for our St. Baldrick’s This year for Formal we traveled east into South Carolina fundraising efforts. We raised over $11,000, this could not and explored the city of Charleston. We stayed right in the have been done without alumni donations. Alumni also heart of downtown. During the day we had groups explore supported us this year in our second annual alumni poker the city markets, look out into the bay from the battery, and tournament, the proceeds of which are going directly to St. enjoy some delicious seafood right off the coast. Later that Baldricks. In other philanthropy news, we held a bone night will cleaned ourselves up and headed to our formal marrow donor registration drive at Tech on March 26 and dinner held at the Southend Brewery and Smokehouse. th 27 from 10AM to 4PM. We succeeded in registering over There we enjoyed a lovely 3-course meal, gave out this th rd 80 individuals into the bone marrow registry! year’s awards, and even got to dance in our private 3 floor space. Special congratulations to Zach Slaney for winning Karaoke & Laser Tag Date Night DU of the Year, he has truly exemplified what it means to be a DU over his time here, especially this past year. Later this The past week has been super busy with both date night semester we hosted our second annual House Divided and karaoke. Date night was held at Laser Voyage, which is Party where we divide the upper hallways and have the laser tag and arcade venue outside of Atlanta. While there brothers split into two and throw two competing parties in were some questionable tactics used by some people to get each hallway. We look forward to tailgating football games to the top of the leader board, everyone had plenty of fun and hosting more events in the upcoming fall semester! running around and shooting each other, playing arcade games, and dodging through the laser maze. The second karaoke night was held last Saturday, and plenty of people were able to embarrass themselves by singing a number of Justin Timberlake, Brittney Spears, and Clay Aiken songs. However, regardless of the quality of the songs and the singing, everyone had fun either by laughing at the people on stage or having fun by singing their favorite songs. Tug This year, under coach Slaney, our tug team took first place after beating TKE in the finals. This marks the first year we have won Tug and it was due to the constant training and commitment from the team. Special thanks to coaches Zach Slaney and Nick Curran who developed the training program and kept up motivation throughout the year. We would like to thank the following Alumni for their continuous contribution to Saint Baldricks Jacob McLockin Ilya Khorosh Neil Desai Gregg Heins Nick White Keith Menezes Joey Weaver Blake Williford Rob Grant Nathaniel Muller