Mini-THON Coming to a Close
April 24, 2015
Southern Middle School will no longer be continuing its annual Mini-THON.
For seven years Southern Middle School has been raising money through the Mini Thon to give to kids with cancer. Since 2009, SMS has donated $122,791.77 to the Four Diamonds Fund, raising their highest total of $23,428.94 this year. Every year, minus this year, English teacher Laura McCusker was the Mini Thon coordinator.
“The Mini-THON was a tangible way that students at SMS could make a difference in their community,” said McCusker. “I will miss the individual efforts of so many students coming together for a cause.”
The Mini-THON not only helped the kids that the money was raised for, but it also helped the students that participated in it.
Sophomore Allison Reed participated in the Mini-THON in middle school and loved how she had an event to go to where she could hang out with her friends and make a difference for the kids at the same time.
“My most memorable moment was when they revealed the total amount of money we raised because it showed how much work everyone put in,” said Reed.
This year, however, English teacher Bill Terney took over running things. He was always in the background making sure things ran smoothly, but this year, he was front and center of it all, making him the right person to tell us why the Mini-THON’s last year was this year.
“You start to run out of people who can help with it, and it ends up with a smaller group of people having to take it on… it becomes more than just one or two people can manage,” said Terney.
Although the Mini-THON is over, the memory it left with the kids they helped will go on for a long time.
