Game Day for St. Jude!

Hi everyone! Today our post is about a philanthropy event that we throw each fall called Tri Delta Game Day. I'm especially excited to share this with yall, as since The Delta Diaries was started only in January, Gameday has not yet been featured for everyone to read about. This post is written by our incredible philanthropy chair, Julia Morgan. I think Tri Delta can agree that none of these events would have been half as great without her and all of her hard work and dedication! This position in the past in Alpha Lambda has typically gone to a senior, so the fact that Julia has done such a phenomenal job is even more impressive as she is currently a junior. Thank you so much Julia for planning this entire event with the help of your assistant, sophomore Sydnee Lasky. Great job! Delta love, and I hope you all enjoy our post today. I know that each and every fundraising event we have for St. Jude is close to our hearts and I believe that shines through in this blog. 

Julia is pictured on the bottom far left cheering on the Gamecocks with her Tri Delta sisters

"After raising a record high $112,247 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital during the 2012 - 2013 school year, us Alpha Lamdba Tri Deltas could not wait to start fundraising again for the best hospital in the world this fall. 

Our first event this year, Game Day, was held on October 12, 2013 at Carolina Walk (located right next to Williams-Brice Stadium!). This was the third year that we have held it and it was the most successful one yet!

Game Day is a tailgate themed event. We invited all of our family, friends, and the community as a whole to come eat delicious food (catered by Doc’s BBQ), watch the Gamecocks whoop Arkansas, and support St. Jude. 

There was also a silent auction with baskets made by members of the sorority, parents, and donations from local stores in Columbia. (The Southern Tide basket was a major hit, with two groups of friends bidding back and forth at the end for it!)

Our local St. Jude family, The Pertiles, even were able to come to the event to share their son Evan’s story. Evan is a courageous young boy who reminds us why we are so lucky and privileged to have St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as our philanthropy!

If you were able to make it to this year’s event we hope you had so much fun! If not, don’t fret, we have a few more events coming up this year (a couple new ones that we are excited to debut!)."

-Julia Morgan