Central Minnesota’s fundraising walk for breast cancer research and programs is Oct. 15 at St. Cloud State’s Halenbeck Fieldhouse.
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The American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Central Minnesota has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for breast cancer research and programs. In 2015, local walkers and donors raised $96,000. View a photo-video from last year’s walk.
The walk is a celebration of survival and an expression of shared determination that this will be breast cancer’s last century. Since 1993, more than 12 million walkers across the United States have raised more than $750 million to help fight breast cancer through Making Strides events.
In 2015 alone, 1.4 million walkers across the country raised more than $60 million to help finish the fight against breast cancer.
The society’s 2015 breast cancer estimates: 231,840 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 40,290 deaths.
This year’s honorary survivor is Margaret Potter, daughter of the late President Earl H. Potter III. A data scientist in Minneapolis, Potter leads a fundraising team called Data Divas.
She will share her story Sept. 29 in the Alumni Room, Atwood Memorial Center, in conjunction with the “Pinked Out Picture” photo event. Learn more about “Margaret Potter: Cancer Conversations.”
SCSU Affiliated Teams
Data Divas (Margaret Potter)
Super Health Husky Stars (SHHS)
For Our Friends (Mary Pat Denne)
SCSU Pink Patrol (Teresa Heck)
The Pinkies (Hien Studniski)
Registration is 7 a.m. in the field house at Halenbeck Hall. Opening ceremony is 8:30 a.m. The three-mile, non-competitive walk begins at 9 a.m. Share your images using the #PinkWarriors and #MoreBirthdays hashtags.
Corie Beckermann ’98 ’02, director of Student Health Services, coordinates St. Cloud State’s sponsorship and management of the walk. Professor Teresa Heck’s HLTH 425 Community Health Event Planning students attend to myriad walk details.
Ashish Vaidya, interim president, is one of 10 ambassadors for the 2016 walk. Real Men Wear Pink is a group of community leaders who are showing their support and fundraising at least $2,500 each. Visit Vaidya’s page.
Nationally, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women. The chance of a woman having invasive breast cancer some time during her life is about one in eight.
