Help my son raise money for St. Jude

Heath · Post by **Heath** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:17 pm

My son, Alan, is participating in the St. Jude's Math-a-Thon this year. Alan would really appreciate your help in raising money for the Math-a-Thon. The money you contribute will help St. Jude help kids from all over the world who have cancer, AIDS, sickle cell and other catastrophic diseases. At St. Jude, no family ever pays for treatments not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay. Thanks to millions of people just like you, St. Jude is also able to pay for transportation for patients and their families and give them a place to live while they are at St Jude. Since opening in 1962, St. Jude has treated patients from all 50 states and more than 70 foreign countries. Your support of the Math-A-Thon makes you a part of our mission to find cures and save children.

You can help two different ways:

First, you can pledge to pay Alan a certain amount of money for each math problem he completes. Alan has the opportunity to complete up to 300 problems. You can pledge as little as 3 cents per problem - that adds up to only $9.00 - small amounts add up and every little bit helps St. Jude! Feel free to pledge as much or as little as you can. Please make all payments via check payable to St. Jude Children's Research Center - and remember donations are tax deductible.

Second, you can access Alan's Math-aThon page and donate via credit card by following these steps:

https://www.mathathonwired.org/Mathatho ... Reset=true

Click on Louisiana and then type in Alpine and click find. Alan's school is Alpine Christian School. Click on his school name, then "Sponsor Participant." Then type in Alan Fitts to access his own page!

Thank you for your help. Pledges will be collected when Alan completes his test booklet (around Nov.1st).

Thanks,
Heath and Amanda Fitts

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:25 am

I guessed he'd manage to do all 300 problems and donated accordingly.

Good luck to him!

Heath · Post by **Heath** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:01 am

He got the book at school Friday. He finished it Friday evening.

And thanks for the donation! If he raises $50, he gets to throw a pie in his principal's face.

And if he's the school's top seller (over $150) he gets an MP3 player. But, of course, he's more excited about thowing the pie.

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:47 am

He's almost half way to the MP3 player!

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:55 pm

$205.00

Good for you, Alan.

Heath · Post by **Heath** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:38 pm

$100 of that came from my bro-in-law which totally blew me away! Anyway, he's pretty happy with what he's pulled in so far!

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:01 pm

How did your son do Heath?

Heath · Post by **Heath** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:40 am

They had to turn everything in yesterday. We don't know how he fared yet. He pulled $260 total and was the only kid in the school that had any online donations. My hunch is he was the top money raiser in the school, but I don't know for sure. It's possible someone raised more but it was all offline.