Bloomsburg University - Obiter Yearbook (Bloomsburg, PA)

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1 A marathon for cancer . . . get dancers, sponsors, bands . . . tell them its for a good cause . . . 27 couples sign up . . . Friday and all the fun begins . . . hours go by . . . couples drop out one by one . . . Saturday and even more couples leave the dance floor . . . tired feet, tired bodies, tired minds . . . exhaustion is the key word . . . early morning hours . . . the crowd leaves . . . morale drops . . . Mark Mehler coaxes them on . . . Sunday and two couples are left . . . the battle for the record goes on . . . dancing, dancing, dancing . . . when will it end . . . Monday and another couple is down . . . Manny and Sherry are the only couple left ... go for the record . . . only 85 hours to beat the record . . . keep on dancing, dancing . . . plaving Frisbee, smiling for the T.V. cameras . . . anything to stay awake . . . collect money . . . 50C donation . . . pass a hat . . . give what you can ... an auction . . . Sherry ' s bra goes for over $200 ... all of Monday . . . through the night until Tuesday . . . people staying all night . . . clap along, sing along, dance along . . . hoarse, but still talking; Mehler is there . . . just keep them awake . . . thumbs up . . . Dance On . . . Tuesday morning crawls in . . . only a few more hours ... a few more minutes ... a few more seconds ... a tied record . . . going on ... a broken record . . . victory ... a sense of accomplishment . . . $7,000 earned ... 86 hours and 1 minute of dancing . . . they did it . . . we saw it ... it happened at Bloomsburg ... it happened at Bloomsburg? 11