Elizabethtown College News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
1/15/08
Contact: Mary Dolheimer, director of marketing and media relations, 717-361-1587, dolheimerm@etown.edu
Elizabethtown College students to raise money for A-T Children’s Project
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – Elizabethtown College students will sing and dance to raise money for the A-T (Ataxia Telangiectasia) Children’s Project at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 1, in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. The annual benefit performance -- which will feature a cappella groups Melica and Phalanx, and dance ensemble Emotion -- is open to the public. Tickets are available for a $4 minimum donation. All proceeds will be donated to the A-T Children’s Project (www.atcp.org).
Ataxia-telangiectasia is a rare, childhood neurological disorder that causes degeneration in the part of the brain that controls motor movements and speech. Epidemiologists estimate the frequency of A-T as one in 40,000 births, although doctors believe that many children with A-T, particularly those who die at a young age, are never properly diagnosed. There is no cure for A-T and, currently, no way to slow the progression of the disease. Those with the disease usually die in their teens or early 20s.
Located in southeastern Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown offers its 1900 students more than 50 academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences and professional studies. Driven by its motto to “Educate for Service,” Elizabethtown centers learning in strong relationships, links classroom instruction with experiential learning, emphasizes international and cross-cultural perspectives and nurtures the capacity for lives of purpose.
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