East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Office of Residence life was the top fundraising team in this year\u2019s Greater Pocono 24-hour \u201cRelay for Life,\u201d which was hosted at ESU\u2019s Eiler-Martin Stadium Saturday, June 17 \u2013 Sunday, June 18.<\/p>\n
ESU\u2019s Office of Residence Life has had a staff team since the American Cancer Society\u2019s Relay for Life initiative began in Monroe County over 25 years ago. This year the team brought in $23,246. Bob Moses, director of residence life & housing, was the top fundraiser in the relay with $10,025 in donations. Kelly Weaber, residence director of Hawthorn Suites, was the second highest bringing in a total of $4,709.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will continue to relay until, hopefully, one day we will no longer need to\u2026until a cure for cancer is discovered,\u201d Moses said.<\/p>\n
According to <\/em>Lisa Hoey, senior community development manager for the American Cancer Society, this year\u2019s goal is $136,800. To date the event has raised $120,000. \u201cWe have several events that are coming up over the next few months and I am sure this community will exceed the goal.\u201d Money raised will support cancer research, along with cancer services that directly impact local cancer patients. \u201c<\/em>I am so proud of this team from ESU\u2019s Residence Life office, and all of the teams that participated,\u201d Hoey said. \u201cI feel so privileged to live and work in such a great community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Office of Residence life was the top fundraising team in this year\u2019s Greater Pocono 24-hour \u201cRelay for Life,\u201d which was hosted at ESU\u2019s Eiler-Martin Stadium Saturday, June 17 \u2013 Sunday, June 18.<\/p>\n ESU\u2019s Office of Residence Life has had a staff team since the American Cancer Society\u2019s Relay for Life initiative began in Monroe County over 25 years ago. This year the team brought in $23,246. Bob Moses, director of residence life & housing, was the top fundraiser in the relay with $10,025 in donations. Kelly Weaber, residence director of Hawthorn Suites, was the second highest bringing in a total of $4,709.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":15986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,42,87,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-res-life","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15988,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions\/15988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}