Relay Bake Sale Downtown

UGA Relay Exec Meeting 3/28

I went to the UGA Relay Exec Meeting on Wednesday, March 28, to check up on how the leaders of the organization are doing this year.  The focus was on office hours at their Tate Center office, participation in events for Greek Week and fundraising efforts against Virginia Tech, UGA’s main competition for the title of the No. 1 Collegiate Relay team in the country.

Heather Lear, Courtney Witt and Melissa Baxter lead the Relay for Life's executive members meeting. (Photo/Devin Webb, devinwebb2@gmail.com)

Heather Lear, Courtney Witt and Melissa Baxter lead the Relay for Life's executive members meeting. (Photo/Devin Webb, devinwebb2@gmail.com)

Carrie Deal seals envelopes used for Relay's letter writing fundraising campaign at the Relay for Life's executive members meeting. (Photo/Devin Webb, devinwebb2@gmail.com)

Carrie Deal seals envelopes used for Relay's letter writing fundraising campaign at the Relay for Life's executive members meeting. (Photo/Devin Webb, devinwebb2@gmail.com)

Kathleen Dailey, Co-Executive Director of Relay for Life, works with UGA's American Cancer Society liaison, Carrie, during the executive members meeting. (Photo/Devin Webb, devinwebb2@gmail.com)

 

 

Gamma Phi Beta Lights Up Milledge with Over 150 Luminaries

Gamma Phi Beta bought the most luminaries for the first event in Relay for Life's Greek Week at the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., on Sunday, March 25, 2012. Greek organizations placed all their luminaries on their lawns to show their support for the organization. (Photo/Devin Webb, devinwebb2@gmail.com)

Gamma Phi Beta bought over 150 luminaries, enough to line outline the sidewalk leading up to their house.

People write the name of the person for whom they bought the luminary in honor or memory of on the front of the bag. (Photo/Devin Webb, devinwebb2@gmail.com)

Over 150 luminaries line the sidewalk leading up to the Gamma Phi Beta sorority house. (Photo/Devin Webb, devinwebb2@gmail.com)

Greek Week

Schedule of events for Relay for Life’s Greek Week at the University of Georgia, another fundraising event for Greek organizations that lasts throughout the last week in March.

Fundraising Challenges

Relay for Life at the University of Georgia presents several different types of fundraising challenges to inspire teams to raise more money.  Nearly every Greek organization has a Relay for Life team, and so Relay has a fundraising challenge specific to Greek teams.  They also have a non-Greek fundraising challenge.

DTF: Are You Down to Fight?

UGA’s Relay for Life has a brand new tank top available to purchase. They got the idea for the shirt from Georgetown University’s Relay team.

It doesn’t matter who thought of the idea first, as long as they’re all fighting the same battle: the fight against cancer.

Are you down?

Profile: Kathleen Dailey

Kathleen Dailey, Executive Director of Relay for Life, speaks at the spring Relay Rally.

The greatest thing about Relay for Life is the people.  People like Kathleen Dailey.

Kathleen is one of my sorority sisters and, on top of that, she’s one of my best friends.

Seeing her work so hard for such a great cause leaves me speechless.

I hardly ever see her because she’s so busy.

Not only is she the executive director of one of the largest on-campus organizations at the University of Georgia, but she’s also an English and Women Studies double major who coaches youth basketball and volleyball at the Oconee County Recreation Center.

She devotes her time and energy to other people on a daily basis.

And she is just one part of what makes Relay for Life so great.

I can’t wait to list the other 1,000 things that make it such an amazing organization in future posts.