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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Student of the Year Grand Finale – Guess who won?

March 9, 2016 by HughE Dillon

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS) celebrated their Student of the Year fundraising competition at the Grand Finale Celebration on Saturday, February 27, 2016  at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel. The night was a celebration of all the candidates’ collective fundraising efforts.

The event marked the end of a seven-week fundraising competition by local high school students.

 An amazing crowd of supporters came out to support the students and the organization

 Candy Rathsmill and Betsy Mulgrew
 Brittany Wells, Lilia Ferracci, Lucy Duke, Olivia Libonati, Amelia Korfmaunn, Savannah Waib, Hannah Gold and Sammi Topper
 Ellen Rubeson, Jayne Rodgers, Greg Seitter, Director of Marketing & Communications at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Melissa Read

 Participating students raised money through various fundraisers, including on the finale night via silent auction items

 Asia Crawford, Samantha Kaplan and Jennifer Sanville monitoring the donation boxes. I lifted a couple of them and they were impressively heavy.
  Sal Paone Jr. and Erin O’Hearn, 6ABC. Erin was the emcee of the evening.
 Margie Kasner and Scott Kasner

 Another great fundraiser effort on the night of the event is selling chocolate bars, wrapped in non descriptive green paper. Then at a specific time the wrapping is pulled off and the golden ticket is a $5,000 winner. The person who wins the golden ticket gets to pick a student and that student gets the “proceeds” $5,000, to add to their fundraising goals.
 JP Clark, Andrew Clark (Malvern Prep raised an impressive $68,000 to win this year’s top honor.)
, Ryan Clark, and Ryan Franks

 “Congratulations to all of our Student of the Year candidates.
Collectively these 10 candidates raised over $171,000 for our mission.
You’re all winner.”

Next up for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter Man & Woman of the Year fundraising campaign kicks off on March 29th and concludes on June 10th. We are still seeking candidates for this campaign. For more information, visit
www.mwoy.org/epa
 The 2016 Red & White Ball Mercedes-Benz raffle tickets are on sale now! Purchase a raffle ticket for $100 to have a chance to get behind the wheel of the all- new 2016 GLC (formerly GLK). The winner of the Mercedes-Benz raffle will be announced the night of The 2016 Red & White Ball*. Your local area Mercedes-Benz dealers have generously donated the vehicle, which means that The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS) will receive 100% of your tickets sales.