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...luminaria ceremony, which many participants said was their favorite part of the night, began with three speakers who recounted their personal experiences with cancer, continuing with a silent glowstick-lit lap around the track...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Relay For Life Participants Raise $88,000 for Cancer | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

...disingenuous innuendo to discourage people from donating to a worthwhile cause. We invite Caldwell to participate in Relay for Life next April so that she can cheer the dozens of cancer survivors that take the first lap of our Relay and so that she can join in the luminaria ceremony in which participants decorate glowing bags in memory of loved ones lost to cancer. Caldwell calls this “razzle dazzle” and needless “fun.” We call it a community of support and a celebration of hope...

Author: By Natasia A. Desilva, Joseph M. Hanzich, and David S. Rosenthal | Title: Donations To Cancer Society Support Worthy Efforts | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...bake sales, and asking for pledges. The teams also had to have at least one member of the team on the track for all twelve hours of the event. The participants jogged, walked, and ‘wheel-barrowed,’ around the track that was decorated with luminaria bags spelling out the word “Hope” filled with glow sticks and adorned with dedications to and pictures of cancer patients that were lit up ceremonially at 9 pm. David S. Rosenthal, Oliver Professor of Hygiene and Director of Harvard University Health Services, as well...

Author: By Nadia A Gaber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Relay Race Helps Profs Fight Cancer | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

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