{"id":4664,"date":"2012-04-11T07:37:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T12:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:16:00","slug":"the-color-green-has-a-new-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=4664","title":{"rendered":"The Color Green Has a New Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The vibrant green posters with details on the Eric Day Benefit could be found all around the school. Photo By: Michaela Moreno<\/p><\/div>\n

By Michaela Moreno<\/em><\/p>\n

On March 17 2012, Plymouth High School\u2019s field hosted a 5k run and a one mile walk as a benefit for Eric Day, a graduate of PHS, who has been battling with a brain tumor.
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\nDuring the week of St. Patrick\u2019s Day, student volunteers sold t-shirts for the Eric Day Benefit. Students and faculty alike, wore the shirts they had bought on the Friday prior to the big event.<\/p>\n

Senior Jason Pickell said \u201cthat Mrs. Flynn and Mrs. Scheetz, along with Eric’s mother, Mrs. Day, collaborated and thought of the idea [for the fundraiser].\u201d \u00a0That idea soon spread from the school to the entire community. According to the junior representative of pep club, Andria Shook, \u201caround 500 people signed up for the run previous to the morning of the [actual event on March 17th].\u201d That is not including the people who signed up that day.<\/p>\n

Word of the benefit spread through the school population many ways. One of junior Justina Hite\u2019s friends told her about the benefit. She joined the dash because she knows Eric Day personally and has good memories of her freshman year when Day was just a senior. \u201cHe\u2019s a really great guy and I just wanted to support him,\u201d said Hite. Junior Bellinda Bottorff learned about the benefit through the St. Michael\u2019s Youth Group. Bottorff, like Hite, joined the dash because she also got to know him personally. \u201cEric Day and I, along with Kory Hinz, managed the girls basketball team when I was a freshman,\u201d explained Bottorff. Other students, like freshman Allie Wright, who heard about the benefit through student council, joined the dash because it was for a good cause. A common way that other students learned about the benefit, was by the bright green flyers all around the school that included details about when and where the Eric Day Benefit would take place.<\/p>\n

Many of Plymouth High School\u2019s organizations\/clubs were involved with the benefit. Junior Marissa German knows for a fact that pep club and the student council were involved because she is a member of both organizations. \u201cThere were probably many other clubs that had to do it too,\u201d said German.<\/p>\n

There were many ways to get involved with the benefit besides being in the actual dash or a club that helped put it together. Wright, for example, went to the benefit with other members of the track team to support since they were not allowed to participate. Besides supporting, they also helped set up. Sophomore Daniel Flynn, on the other hand, \u201cworked a water stop route with [his] friends and cousins.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many students involved were not sure why St. Patrick\u2019s Day was chosen as the date of the benefit. Shook, on the other hand, has an idea of why that specific day was chosen. \u201cIt was the week after his treatments were done and since \u2018day\u2019 was in it,\u201d Shook said.
\nThere were many aspects of the benefit that participators enjoyed. \u201cMy favorite part of the event was being able to reminisce with some people that I haven’t seen for awhile and just seeing everyone get together for a good cause,\u201d said Hite. Besides being with friends, one of Bottorff\u2019s favorite parts of the benefit was the pulled pork burgers. She found them to be wonderful, not that she did not also enjoy working towards a good cause. Wright\u2019s favorite part of the benefit was \u201cseeing how many people came to help Eric Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students have gained many things through their experiences with the Eric Day Benefit. Hite, for example, said, \u201cIt made me very thankful for all of the friends I have and the courage that Eric has while he is going through this hard time.\u201d Through her experience, Bottorff \u201crealized that people can really make an impact on something so small or so big. We just have to set our mind to it and we can achieve just about anything.\u201d Flynn\u2019s experience was a little different. He learned the \u201cability to dance to \u2018totally 80’s weekend\u2019 while people [were] running by [him].\u201d<\/p>\n

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Receptionist and bookkeeper, Lisa Huff, was one of the many sporting an Eric Day t-shirt. Photo By: Michaela Moreno<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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