Join Georgetown U's Relay For Life Fri Apr 11 - Cancer Never Sleeps So Relay Events Go All Night: 1,500 Expected!

The largest Relay For Life event of the season in the Washington, D.C., area will go overnight Friday April 11 until Saturday morning as more than 1,500 Georgetown University students and staff, as well as community residents, gatherat Harbin Sport Field to dedicate themselves to fighting cancer.    Because cancer never sleeps, Relay participants camp overnight, taking turns walking a track.  There will be a Survivors dinner, Survivors lap and a Luminaria ceremony after sunset. Participants circle a track surrounded by glowing Luminaria bearing the names of loved ones lost to cancer and those still fighting cancer. Luminaria may be purchased by anyone in the community. 

Entertainment and games help teams go all night, including a pushup challenge with GU’s ROTC chapter and Professor James Vreeland, assoc. prof. of International Relations.  Funds raised through Relay For Life support ACS’s mission to find cures, provide services for cancer patients and their families, and help finish the fight against cancer.  ACS is the largest non-governmental funder of cancer research in the nation.  There are more than 30 Relay For Life events in the D.C. area - ranging from N. Va to the Maryland Counties.  See www.relayforlife.org and choose one near you if you cannot attend the Georgetown U RFL.

WHEN: Fri, April 11, 2014, 3 p.m. – Sat, April 12, 3 a.m.

3 p.m.  Opening Ceremony (Harbin Multisport Field)

5:30 p.m. Survivor Reception; 7 p.m. GU President’s Invocation - Dr. John DeGioia; 9:30 p.m.  Luminaria Ceremony; 12 Midnight: Fight Back Ceremony

WHERE:  Georgetown University Harbin Multi-Sport Field, 37th & O Sts., NW Washington, D.C.

Dr. Gordy Klatt, a cancer physician in Takoma, Washington, created Relay For Life in 1985 by walking and running a track for 24 hours to raise funds to fight cancer.  Relay For Life has become a phenomenon and is the largest fundraising event in the U.S., taking place in more than 5,000 communities with approximately 4 million participants.  Relay for Life events “Celebrate, Remember, and Fight Back.”