Welcome Team Captains The American Caner society is

Welcome Team Captains!!!! “The American Caner society is the nationwide communitybased voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service. ”

Relay For Life 2008 Theme: : The Olympics! You can use this theme to help guide you in camp site decorations, team shirts, and fundraisers! Pick a country, an event, whatever you want– just get creative!

Top Fundraisers! And yes- prizes 1. Allie Mc. Morrow: Alpha Epsilon Phi 2. Ryan Lavich 3. Andrew Conway: Kevin’s Crew

Teams with more than 10 members: : Alpha Epsilon Phi 2 Alpha Epsilon Pi Alpha Phi D-love Det 055 DTFC Dykstra 5 Fighters Gamma Phi Beta Hedrick 3 North Hedrick 6 S Hedrick 7 N Kappa Delta Kappa Psi Epsilon and Theta Delta Beta Pali Roots and Shoots Phi Gamma Nu Sigma Chi Summit 4 team big booty! Theta Xi Zeta Phi Rho Nicely done, and Congratulations! If you’re closing in on 20 members, you may want to consider starting a second team! It increases the fundraising competition factor!

On-Site Activity Options: : The icing on the cake • You can host a fundraiser to both raise a little extra money and to contribute to a fun atmosphere- bonus points if it’s related to advocacy hours Some Ideas: food (shaved ice, barbeque, baked goods, beverages [make it pink and it’s breast cancer themed!]), crafts (sell a bead for each lap [fitness], have a picture frame painting stand, remembrance ribbons [survivor], decorate shoe laces [fitness]), raffles, massages, sunscreen [skin cancer]-- you can choose nearly anything! • Or you can opt to run an activity themed to the advocacy hours! Some Ideas: Pop the polyp balloon stomp or water balloon fight [Colon cancer], Sports tournaments [Fitness], Jazzercise-Jane Fonda style! [Fitness], Sunscreen rubbing contest [Skin Cancer], Fruit eating contest [Nutrition], Saltine whistling contest [Lung Cancer], Sign people up for ACS CAN [Advocacy], Three legged race [Fitness], Race around the track breathing only through a straw [Tobacco/Lung Cancer], Stomp out cigarettes DDR tournament [Tobacco/Lung Cancer], Tour de France tricycle race [Prostate cancer], Letter writing campaign to support the oncology patients at the UCLA Medical Center [Survivor], Bobbing for apples [Breast Cancer], Hula Hoop Contest [Fitness], Midnight starbathing [Skin Cancer], Sunscreen art [Skin Cancer]

Survivorship • Each team should work on creating a survivor basket. It doesn’t have to be super huge- we just want to be able to give each survivor something at the end of the survivor lap and opening ceremonies. It’s super easy too- just ask each person on your team to donate an item/a pair of people to donate an item if you have a larger team! • Some ideas include but certainly aren’t limited to!: • Spa : lotions, soaps, all that yummy smelling stuff from Bath and Body, fluffy towels, face mask gunk, candles, the works • Chocolate: it’s pretty self explanatory, and there’s a fudge shop across from Diddy. • Movie Night in a Box: Include something like movie vouchers, a recent release, or a gift card to Best Buy to let them pick out a movie of their own. Throw in a few bags of microwave popcorn, some Red Vines, a couple cans of soda, whatever you think is necessary to complete the movie experience. Make the “basket” a popcorn bowl for brownie points • Book: a gift card to Barnes and Noble/Borders/Amazon. com, throw in any applicable Dr. Seuss or Shel Silverstein for a trip back to their childhood, • Gardening: seeds, those little garden utensils, a decorated plastic pot, watering can, bamboo for luck, a foam knee pad • Beach: Just make sure you put in a bottle of sunscreen!!! Beach towel, visor, silly magazine to flip through, bottled water, all wrapped up in a plastic beach pail • Sports: We are the home of the Bruin Basketball team. Enough said? • Cookies: How many different cookie recipes do you know? • Coffee: A mug, a Starbucks/Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf gift certificate, flavored cream or sweetener, some coffee beans. And hot chocolate or tea for when they’re already on caffeine overload! http: //www. homemade-gift-basket-ideas. com/gift-basket- Visit this website for more: themes. html

Advocacy • Help fund the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) • Phillip Morris has dropped future tobacco research here at UCLA! We’re no longer stuck doing their dirty work once the initial grant is up!

Luminaria • Bags are lit at night to guide the way during the remembrance laps, and you can personalize, decorate, and keep them as a Relay memento • Bags will be for sale at the event for $5, but can also be prepurchased via flyers • Different bags are available to remember pets who have battled cancer as well • For the ceremony slide show please email rbeckman@ucla. edu with your (and your teammates!) answer to the question: “Why do you Relay? ” • This can be a picture, special memory, a reason why you relay, or any combination of the three!

Team Captain Fund Folders

As a reminder • We need to order shirts at the end of THIS WEEK! Get your team members signed up so they can have an event shirt • Fundraise, fundraise! Last year we raised over $130, 000– this year our goal is $150, 000. UC Davis is always the top CA event, and we’d like to dethrone them. We currently have $11, 239. 77 raised, and 45 more days to reach our goal! To put it all in perspective: There are (currently) 105 teams. If each team has 15 members, that’s 1, 575 participants… and if each of them raises the suggested $100, we’ll surpass our goal, with $157, 500– that’s entirely doable!

Contact Information and Important Dates: : Allie: amcmorrow@ucla. edu Team Captain Meetings Marymount, Clubs, and Student will be held at 8: 00 pm in Government Teams Kinsey 1240 B. • April 2 nd • April 15 th—Bank Night (mandatory!) • April 19 th/20 th— RELAY FOR LIFE! Erin: eosmak@gmail. com Dorm Teams Felicia: fvanstolk@ucla. edu Community, Religious Affiliations, and Athletics Teams Stasi: stasibaranoff@gmail. com Greek Teams