Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael S. Dukakis and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci will visit the Palmer-Dixon Tennis Courts this afternoon to kickoff the Currier House 12-Hour Dance Marathon, the culmination of a six-month planning effort to raise money for a North Cambridge housing project...
More than 200 hearty dancers have signed up to participate in Harvard's first House sponsored marathon. The pledges that dancers will collect for their efforts will go to the Jefferson Park Housing Project...
Alan Khazei '83, Currier House Committee chairman, said the idea of the marathon grew from interest in the House to find a public service project in Cambridge. "We hoped that the idea of a dance marathon would entice people" to learn about the need for public service...
...wanted to have a dance marathon both to raise money and to raise public awareness," Khazei said. "We wanted to show that Harvard can make the difference on a House-based effort," he added...
While the idea for the marathon came up nearly one year ago, intensive planning for the half-day event did not begin until last fall when the marathon committee split into two groups one to find a community project and another to organize the marathon...