unc-dm january 2012 newsletter

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[GrantRant]

[Mission365]a year-round effort

[HospitalInspiration]for UNC-DM Dedication

unC-dMs IMpaCt

a hero who Made hIs MIssIon possIble

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[ZeroedIn]where are they now?

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Mary Grace Hicks, former Community

Events chair, has used skills gained

from UNC-DM in Italy and D.C.

Visit uncdm.wordpress.com to learn how.

UNC-DMs Morale committee and Overall

committee get crafty in a social withkid co-captains.

UNC-DM provides lunch to parents

of children in the Newborn Critical

Care Center.

UNC-DM Committee Member Dana Royaldraws inspiration from the plight

of a teacher back home.

Theodore Roosevelt

26th

President of the United States

Believe you can and youre halfway there.

Monthly Social: A WinterWonderland Kids were able maketheir own snowakes, play pinthe nose on the snowman andparticipate in other wintry games.

Healthy Steps: We volunteeredin the waiting room until schoolreleased for break and we had ourrst wave of dancers to volunteer.

BEN & JERRYS GRAND

RE-OPENINGJANUARY 11Come to Ben & Jerrys on Franklinfor its grand re-opening as a Ben

& Jerrys and Auntie Annes Pretzels.Get free cones and pretzels anddonate to UNC-DM.

BEN & JERRYS FRANKLIN ST

MORALER/VOLUNTEER

RECRUITMENT WEEKJANUARY 16-20

Sign up to morale for six hours

or volunteer for three hoursat the Marathon.

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UNC Dance Marathon

Benet Reception is an annualevent that aims to connectUNC-DM and the community.

The 10th annual BenetReception will be held Friday,Jan. 20.

The reception offerscommunity members a chanceto learn about, celebrate

and contribute to UNC-DMsefforts.At the reception, guests are

treated to light hors doeuvres,drinks and desserts. They alsoparticipate in both silent andlive auctions, bidding on itemsthat range from jewelry to abasketball autographed by theUNC mens basketball team to

Late Night with Jimmy Fallontickets. There will be speakersat the event including parentsof patients of N.C. ChildrensHospital.

At last years reception,John and Jessica Hill spokeabout their experience havingchildren in the hospital, givingcommunity members insight

into the impact that UNC-DMhas on families.

Dr. Julie Byerley also spoke

and emphasized the hard workthat is put into various aspectsof UNC-DM. Dr. Byerley,a huge supporter of UNC-DM,is on the Host Committee forthe 2012 reception.

UNC-DMs Community Eventscommittee has been workingto make this years receptionbetter than ever before.

According to CommunityEvents Chair Megan Warren,

the committee has been

working to bring in new andexciting items for the silentand live auctions. This yearsreception is taking place in theGreat Room at Top of the HillRestaurant for the rst time.

Members of UNC-DMsOverall Committee are lookingforward to this years receptionand sharing the mission of

UNC-DM with the community.The Benet Reception

UNC-DMs Benet Reception to link community to causeBY JORDAN SUTTON

will bring together many

community members, includingbusiness owners, doctors andfamilies connected to thehospital and university ofcials.

It is really amazing to seeso many different peoplegathered together in celebrationof what has been accomplishedand in hopes of what can andwill be achieved for the kids,

Warren said.

PHOTO UNC-DM PUBLICITY | Auctioneer Benjamin Farrell rom Custom Beneft Auctionsled the live auction at the 2011 UNC-DM Beneft Recption. Farrell will be at the 2012reception as well.

PHOTO UNC-DM PUBLICITY | Dr. Julie Byerleyspeaks to guests at the 2011 UNC-DMBeneft Reception.


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Alyssa is resilient, a ghter and

will win this battle, Royal said.UNC-DM recognizes the need toput a face to the cause that drivespeople like Royal to become moreinvolved with UNC-DM.

Each UNC-DM dancer teamis assigned a kid co-captain,an idea that Royal stronglysupports.

Knowing someone in the

hospital puts everything inperspective. It really makes itmuch more personal and drives you

to participate more, Royal said.

Royal rst decided to joina committee after dancingin the 2011 marathon andrealized she wanted to bemore connected to the cause.

After being a dancer, I wantedto see how UNC-DM actuallyworked. For example, I didntrealize that all committeesare given the chance to be

involved in the hospital.Being on a committee createsa community within the

organization, Royal said.

Royal said being on acommittee was an incredibledecision that has changed theway she thinks about UNC-DM.

You may think you know allabout UNC-DM and the For theKids fund. But there are somany other aspects to UNC-DMand its grants that youprobably do not know about,

Royal said.

operationDEDICATION:Roots at homeBY EMILY TRACYBy her junior year, Dana Royal

was already actively involvedwith N.C. Childrens Hospital.She was a Dancer in UNC DanceMarathon her sophomoreyear,a Fundraising Projectscommittee member herjunior year and a volunteerin the intensive-care unitthrough the UNC HospitalVolunteer Services program.

However, this year a specialpatient in the hospital touchedher close to home.

In late September, Royalshigh school gym teachers two-year-old daughter Alyssa wasdiagnosed with leukemia.

I am from a small high school

in a close-knit community, soAlyssa being in the hospitalreally hit close to home, saidRoyal, a Roseboro native.

Royal visited the familyshortly after her motherinformed her that Alyssa wasin the hospital during theearly stages of leukemia.Today, Alyssa is doing better

after entering remissionin November. Her weekly visitshave become much less frequent.

PHOTO COURTESY OF DANA ROYALDana Royal dances in 2011 UNCDance Marathon her sophomoreyear, which inspired her to joina UNC-DM committee.


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Though it may be unseen,there is a group of people whoare vital to the success of UNCDance Marathon.

Its members may blend

into the background and thecrowds during the marathon.Their hard work and dedicationraises more money for thekids; keeps dancers fed andmotivated; and ensures thatevery aspect of the marathonruns smoothly.

They are moralers andvolunteers.

Carolann Belk, a recentgraduate, ended her UNC-DMexperience as a moraler.

Belk joined UNC-DM asa member of the Publicitycommittee her Junior year.

What sparked me to beinvolved in UNC-DM was myroommate of four years, Cathy

McCormick, who was alwaysvery involved, and was a sub-chair our sophomore year

and a committee chair byour senior year. I had wantedto get involved in some wayafter her sub-chair experience,and the Publicity committee

sounded like a great t to myinterests.

Belk found that she didnthave the time in her senioryear to be on a committeeand decided that moraling wasmore her speed.

I had remembered howmuch fun moraling lookedwhen I danced the previousyear. It was not quite asstrenuous as dancing, but I stillfelt like I was contributing toUNC-DM and got to wear a funcostume.

Moralers have to raise $60 fortheir rst shift of six hours and$30 for every additional shift.Volunteers, who work more

closely with the Operationscommittee running themarathon, must raise $20 for

their rst three-hour shift and$10 for each additional shift.

Belk was assigned the 12a.m. to 6 a.m. shift, or to herexcitement the Harry Pottershift that she attended asDobby, the house elf.

My shift felt difcult eventhough I knew it was not nearlyas bad as what the dancers hadto do since it was the middleof the night. I tried to stayenergetic and lively though forthe dancers because I knew

they needed that at that hourespecially, Belk said.

My favorite experience

while I was moraling was thesunrise walk around KenanStadium. I had really enjoyedthat the previous year also,and it's fun to get out of thegym and see something thatmost of us college studentsrarely get to see a sunrise.

As Moraler and VolunteerRecruitment Week (MVRW)approaches, remember thereis more than one way to be apart of the marathon.

unC-dM Moraler

BY JEFFREY SULLIVAN

PHOTO JEFFREY SULLIVAN | Dressed as Dobby, or her Harry Potterthemed shit,Carolann Belk moraled rom 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. at the marathon last year. She takesa pause rom the rave to pose or the camera.


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Morale, OC get crafty with kid co-captains at the Scrap ExchangeBY EMILY EVANS

Old CDs, magazines, toilet paper tubes,

rope and even magazines gained new lifeat the kid co-captain social at the DurhamScrap Exchange Dec. 3.

Members of the UNC Dance MarathonOverall Committee (OC), and the Moralecommittee, which won the opportunityto participate in the social due to highattendance at UNC-DM events throughoutthe fall semester, worked on crafts andspent some time with the kid co-captains

and their families.The Scrap Exchange is a non-prot

organization that takes leftover materialsfrom businesses and families and resellsthem, said Entertainment Chair DianeMorris. The warehouse, convenientlyenough, also has a party space with tablesand chairs and 40 barrels of stuff (therewere old CDs...even oppy drives), yarn,bottle caps, old lm reels, Styrofoamblocks, etc, she said. It was crazy.

Attendees of the social had free reignover items to make crafts and play games,said Morale committee sub-chair HannahSacco. We were in a craft area thathad barrels of all sorts of materialsthat you could make things out of. Theyhad toilet paper rolls, felt, beads, key-board keys, CDs, rolls of lm, markers.

Adds Morale committee member RachelBrown, There was no glue or nails oranything except tape to connect them

The social was a great opportunity for

these UNC-DM committee members to getto know the kids and parents connectedwith the marathon a little better.

I really think it has been my favoritesocial yet. We got to bond with the kid co-captains, their siblings and their parents,Sacco said.

Brown agreed. My favorite part wasdenitely getting to meet the kids.

Morris said she enjoyed working with kid

co-captain Jack Shapiro, and was inspiredby his creativity. Jack, who really loveshockey, made a hockey helmet out ofBurger King crowns and also a hockeystick and puck out of other materials thatwere there.

Riddell recounted more favoritememories from the social. The twins,Rachel and Abigail Ward (kid co-captains)created a car that actually rolled for arubber duck and spy gear binoculars. AnnaVolz and Jo Saberniak made a car, too,with little people made of wine corks.

One of the cutest things was whenbaby Jake Ellis, who wants to grow upto be a Carolina football player and waswearing his t-shirt and football helmet,was playing with some of the moralerswith his football and after he made a

touchdown someone started singing thealma mater, Riddell said.He had the biggest smile on his face.

with so we really had to be creative.The Morale committee was thrilled to

win the opportunity to participate in thesocial.

All of Morale loves to get the chanceto hang out with the OC and of course we

love to get to know our kid co-captains,Brown said.

Morale committee Chair Maggie Riddellagreed. It was really exciting when Ifound out Morale had won the competitionbecause we had been neck and neckwith Campus Fundraising committee allsemesterI was really excited to be ableto share this opportunity of a social with

our kid co-captains with Morale sincetheyll be looking forward to the marathonas team leaders together.

PHOTO EMILY EVANS | Morale committee members AnnaVolz and Jo Saberniak work on a moveable car at theDurham Scrap Exchange kid co-captain social.


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Visit our blog www.uncdm.wordpress.com for to ndout what Mary has donesince graduation.

John was born at 27 weeks gestationOct. 19, 2011. He was immediatelytransferred to N.C. Childrens HospitalsNewborn Critical Care Center.

His family resides in Cameron, N.C., buthis mother stays at the Ronald McDonald

house in order to easily visit John in theNICU, but Johns father stays in Cameronduring the week to take care of Johnssiblings.

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Learn everything you need toknow about the 2012 marathon

If you have any questions, comments,

concerns, please contact 2012 PublicityChairOlivia Barrow at

[email protected].

One out of every ten babies bornin the U.S. is admitted to a newbornintensive care unit (NICU) to treatbirthing complications or to foster babiesborn prematurely. The support of familymembers and hospital staff helps theseparents immensely during these times.

In September 2007, the March of Dimeschoose the N.C. Childrens Hospital

as the rst in the state to implementits NICU Family Support Program afamily-centered program that providesinformation and comfort to families whiletheir children are in the NICU.

The Family Support Programs hostsseveral weekly events, such as ParentEducation Hour and Parents Night Out,sponsored by UNC Dance Marathon.

UNC-DM is now, also, funding the

Newborn Critical Care Centers ParentSupport Lunch.

Lunch is provided every Friday, from12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in the N.C. ChildrensHospital.

Please visit our blogto read more aboutthe NCCC Parent Support Lunch and howit helps the children and families of theN.C. Childrens Hospital.

GRANT RANTNCCC PARENT LUNCHES |BY JEFFREY SULLIVAN

Johns father is active duty Army andhas returned to work. Due to the cost of

gas and parking, it had been difcult forJohns father and siblings to visit John onthe weekends.

Shortly after his son was admitted tothe NICU, Johns father called his wife intears, worried that his monthly incomewould not be sufcient enough to providegas, parking, food and other necessitiesfor his family. Have faith everything

will work out, his wife told him.Since then, UNC-DM has provided Johnsfamily with weekly gas cards, allowingJohns father and his siblings to visit.
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