UNC-DM Newsletter October 2011

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The mission of UNC Dance Marathon is to unite the University, community and state in fostering emotionaland nancial support that improves the quality of life for the patients, families and staff of N.C. Children's Hospital.

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FESTIFALL |

OCTOBER 2 — 12-6 PM Look for UNC-DM at Festifall. Downtown Chapel Hill, West Franklin St.

CrAIg WooLArd BAnd |OCTOBER 6 — 11 PM - 2 AM Listen to music and have some funwith UNC-DM and CWB. Pantana Bobs.

• We hosted our rst hospital social,featuring an outer space theme. Kidsparticipated in a moon rock hunt,decorated their own glow-in-the-dark

stars and made spaceships and planets.

• Committee members helped servehot meals to families every Tuesday

during Parents’ Night Out, which is

funded by our organization.

• As part of the Healthy Steps pro-

gram, we read and played games withkids in the General Pediatric Clinic

waiting room from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. everyMonday, Wednesday and Friday.

• We volunteered in the hospital’sPediatric Playroom, where we playedvideo games, climbed the jungle gym

and drew pictures with the kids.

@esli14 Liz Goslin

Whenever I’m stressing

about school, I read the #FTK story on my bulletin board…

puts things into perspective @UnCdM

19 Septembe, 2011

Read our blog post to nd out ho

experiences ith our organization have

inuenced graduates in their current

jobs. Check out page II o the Nesletter

or to-time Overall Committee member

Kate Gilliam’s memory o UNC-DM.

[GrantRant]Learn the ins and outs o one o the nine

ne grants that e have made possible

or N.C. Children’s Hospital. This month

e eature the palliative care unit,

hich provides counseling and treatment or seriously ill children and their amilies.

Meet a UNC student ho has been impactedby N.C. Children’s Hospital. This month,

read about Emily Horton and her connection

to N.C. Children’s Hospital.

Learn about many o the events e put on throughout the year. In this issue,

UNC-DM gets a little seet and a little

messy as committees compete in the rst

Vermonster o the year. [Mission365]a year-round effort

[HospitalInspiration]for UNC-DM Dedication

— Tommy Lasorda, former Major League Baseball player since1954, the longest non-continuous tenure anyone has had withthe Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers

“Never send an adult

to do a kid's job.”

Tweet the movie this Quotation

is from and we’ll take your

suggestion for the next spy movie

Quotation we use!

"The difference between the impossible

and the possible lies in a man's determination."

[ZeroedIn]Where are they noW

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Page II

Page III & IV

unC-dM’s IMPaCt



Your Mission Should You Choose to Accept itWelcome UNC-DM family, to our first themed

newsletter of the year.We’re glad you’re here. We hope you will consider this five-paged, freshly created, spy-themed

information source as your inside-man, or “secret-

agent,” if you will, for all things UNC-DM. For those

of you who have yet to connect the dots, the theme

of the 2012 UNC Dance Marathon is Mission: Possible.Many people who could not attend the annualtheme reveal at Player’s Dance Club found out

our theme via UNC-DM’s Twitter @UNCDM.Double-Oh-Seven inspired, our theme implies

our readiness to tackle the challenge of improving

the lives of patients and families of N.C. Children’s Hospital, as stated in our organization’s mission,which you can view on page one underneath our logo. Some of the pieces you will see monthly thatmake up the puzzle of this newsletter include:

1. “Hspital ispiati f UnC-dM eicati,”

where you will meet a UNC student who has either

been directly impacted by N.C. Children’s Hospitalor knows somebody who has been. (Page III)

2. “Zee i: Whee ae they w?” where you

will encounter a link to our rst-of-the-month blog post

in the newsletter. Read about the ways in whichexperiences with our organization have inuencedgraduates in their current jobs. (Page IV)

3. “Isie Scp datba: Behi the sceesF the Kis,” where you will enter the life

of someone who plays a crucial role in one of the

many aspects of our organization. There are a plethora

of options – which role will the dart land on thismonth? (Page II)

4. “gat rat,” where you will learn the ins

and outs of one of the nine new grants that we

have made possible for N.C. Children’s Hospital.

(Page II)Be sure to look for these stories, and many more,

each month.

As part of Publicity committee, we are working

hard to make sure this newsletter is engagingto you and all other members of the UNC-DM

family, that is, a community of people who arebrought together through their interactions,

dedication, love and heart for the patientsand families at N.C. Children’s Hospital. Helpus spread awareness of our mission by passingthe newsletter on to others who would enjoy

scrolling through its pages.We are open to all suggestions from readers

like you. If you have a story idea, a comment, acritique, a criticism or know someone who wants

to receive the newsletter, simply let us know.

We are here to inform you. Just mention @UNCDM on Twitter, send an email to Kaylee Baker([email protected]) or come visit us on UNC’scampus in suite 3508D in the Student Union.

A million thanks for reading. We’re thrilled

to dive into this year with you and make it possiblefor the patients and families.

For the Kids,

oLIvIA BArroWpublicity chair2012 unc-dm

2012 UNC-DM Theme Reveal

photo by carolyn stotts | Dancers at Player's Dance Club anxiously waitfor the Overall Committee to hold up the last sign, announcing thetheme of the 2012 UNC Dance Marathon: Missi Pssible.

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GRANT RANT

When Leisa and Jim Greathouse discoveredtheir son Samuel had a rare blood disease known

as Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH), they were

determined to ght the disease as a family. Samuel underwent “salvage” treatment and learned his LCH

was inactive. However, Samuel had a relapse

and needed a bone marrow transplant.Shortly before Samuel was to receive his transplant,

his bilirubin (a pigment formed in the liver) rose,disqualifying him from receiving the transplant.

Leisa and Jim hoped Samuel’s bilirubin wouldlower, but also wanted to spend as much time at home

as possible. At the time, a Pediatric PalliativeCare Program was unavailable in the hospital, so they

decided to go home where two-year-old Samuelpassed away Sept. 17, 2007.

“[We] can’t help but wonder how improvedour quality of time would have been with a PalliativeCare team walking the journey with us,” Leisa

and Jim said.With UNC Dance Marathon’s nancial help, N.C.

Children’s Hospital’s Department of Pediatricscreated a Pediatric Palliative Care Program (PPC).

A committee of people interested in palliativecare for children formed several years ago at the

hospital. This committee’s hope was to create

a service where people from many backgroundswould come together to enhance quality of lifefor patients.

The program is made up of chaplains, therapists,nurses, physicians and psychologists who form

a clinical consultation service. Nurse practictionerDiane Yorke said the committee would work together

to provide information on goal setting, difcult conversations with patients and families, bereavement

services and pain management for dying children.Before UNC-DM was available to help, the hospital

did not have the financial support it needed

to create the program.In addition to helping with creation and training

the committee, UNC-DM provides part of Yorke’ssalary, along with the partial salary of Physicianand Program Co-Director and Medical Director

Elisabeth Potts Dellon and Psychology Fellow

Mary Beth Grimley. The program has a long-termgoal to expand with children’s hospice programsacross North Carolina.

The clinical consultation service, which will

consult with patients and families in the hospital,will open in January 2012. “The key thing at this

point is that the service wouldn’t be possible without UNC-DM,” Dellon said. “Pediatric PalliativeCare services are becoming a standard of care

for patients that have life threatening conditions.It is extremely important to the well-being

of the children.”The program reects UNC-DM’s mission to “improve

the quality of life for the patients and families of N.C. Children’s Hospital.”

“The goals of PPC include promoting hope

and healing, two things that UNC-DM also strives

to provide for these families,” said UNC-DMOverall Coordinator Gracie Beard.UNC-DM’s efforts give families the resources

they need to ensure quality of life for their children.“The Pediatric Palliative Care [Program]…

would have been a welcome resource in our situation.Whether it is two years or seventy-two years,

it is the quality of those years shared betweenparents and their child[ren] that truly matter,”Leisa and Jim said.

Pediatric Palliative care Program

Megan Turner

Every year during UNC Dance Marathon’s

Dancer Recruitment Week (DRW), students signup to take part in 24 hours that often changetheir lives.

Last year during DRW, the Morale committee

caught the attention

of Brian Min, a junior

psychology and women’s

studies double major.Min said he did not know

a lot about UNC-DM,

but did know it was

a great cause he wanted

to get involved with.“UNC-DM made me realize

that I can actually do something for others,”he said.

UNC-DM helps unite the UNC-CH campus and the event allows students to dance for

“one goal, one cause and one hope,” according

to Min. This connection was his favorite inspiration

during the marathon.When asked, “What does UNC-DM mean to you?”

Min said: “UNC-DM is what Carolina is all about. The students care about others and realize that

nothing matters if we don’t have a heart.”Min said the marathon taught him that “we

have the power to change the world.” Thanksto Min and many other dancers, the lives

of patients and families at N.C. Children’sHospital are being changed.

“UNC-DM is a collaboration of wonderfullywell-rounded UNC students, and it reectswho we are,” Min said.

Where dId the dart land

unC-dM danCer

2010 dancer Brian Min

Megan Turner



operation

I was on Community Events sophomore

year, junior year I was the Finance

sub-chair for the Business Management

committee, and this year I’m thegrants sub-chair for the Business

Management committee.

Q: What yu like best abut

bei a sub-chai?

A: Our Overall Committee members

do so much, and are just so devoted,

so it’s a really great way to take a step

up from just being on the committee, and really get to do actual work that

you see coming to fruition.

Q: What ca yu tell me abut

the Aytte family’s cectiwith UnC-dM?

A: Asheton had a hole in her heart,

and was born really premature… she was in the NICU for a really long

time. And her parents ... know that’s

really traumatic. So I think it really

touches them. They had to live through

it … anything you can do to make

that awful experience any better,they’re just really supportive of.

Q: What es Ashet thik abuthe le i UnC-dM? What es she

thik abut yu ilemet?A: Asheton and her whole family

Emily Horton, a senior from Raleigh

who has been involved with UNC-DMsince she was a rst-year, found

an extra connection to the cause

when she learned that the girl

she babysits three times each week,

Asheton Ayotte, was helped by N.C.

Children’s Hospital and UNC-DM

as a baby. The Ayotte family continues

to stay involved, and Asheton even

served as one of the 24 Kid Co-Captains

at last year’s marathon. Read below

to nd out how this inspires Horton,

now a sub-chair for the Business

Management committee, to keep

on dancing:

Q: Why i yu ecie t et ilewith UnC-dM?

A: I knew about it coming to Chapel Hill. I had some friends in high schoolwho had actually danced. I did lots of volunteering in high school. I used

to dance a lot, so I thought it sounded

like a great way to get involvedat Carolina, so I applied as a rst-year.It was awesome, because you get to meet a ton of people and do all sorts

of events around campus and around

Chapel Hill, and so I kind of fell in love with it, and I’ve done it everyyear since.

Q: What cmmittees hae yusee ?

A: When I was a rst-year, I was on the Campus Fundraising committee.

photo by emily evans | Asheton Ayotte takes a picture with her babysit, UNC Senior Emily Horton.

absolutely love all things UNC-DM.

She was so excited to get to be a Kid Co-Captain. She literally eatsit up. She loves to get involved

and meet all these older kids who

are interested in her -- she just thinks

it’s the coolest thing in the world.

Her dancer team, last year at the Marathon, all signed a big team

card for her, and it sat out on the

dining room table for forever. She just

loved it. She’d be like ‘Emily, did you

see my card?’ Then she has a UNC-DMwater bottle that she brings around,

even to her Bouncing Bulldogs jumprope team practice. I see her onWednesdays, and I have UNC-DMmeetings Wednesday nights. Andwhenever I tell her I’m going to UNC-DM,she’s like, “that’s so cool!” And her

family loves it too.

Q: Hw es it make yu feelt kw yu hae this exta

cecti t UnC-dM?

A: It’s really cool because whenwe started, we didn’t know Asheton

had any involvement in UNC-DM.

It denitely brings it home, tomake it a real story--that somebody

you know had to deal with this,

and beneted from things that you’ddone, and thinks I’m super coolbecause I know what UNC-DM is.

DEDICATIONq&a with emily horton | what unc-dm means to meEmily Evans

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COMMITTEE RECRUITMENT WEEK

Publicity sub-chairs Ashlyn Still and Renée Montpetit encourage UNC studentsto sign up to join a UNC-DM committee during its annual Committee RecruitmentWeek (CRW), this year held Sept. 6-9.

Q: What es UnC-dM mea t yu?

A: As a rst-year, I think one of my

favorite things was that I got to know

so much more about how the

University works as a whole.I loved that I got to meet so many

people, and I just really enjoyedbeing a part of the UNC-DM network

and community…it’s a very friendly

community. It’s cool as a rst-year—you don’t really know anybody,

and it’s incredible to meet all these

people who are so excited aboutbeing your friend. And then from there, I found more of my favorite things—

falling in love with the cause, throughAsheton, and getting to work

one of the Parents’ Night Out dinners,

and getting to go to the hospitaland getting to play… that’s cool.To get to talk to the kids’ parents,who are so appreciative to just get out of their rooms for a hot

meal one night…you don’t really

think that’s a big deal, but then

you go there, and they’re literally

living on hospital food. I just think

that UNC-DM is nice in that it’s righthere, on campus. It’s not like we write

a big check and then we send it away. We get to actually see it in action.

It creates such a community

for the campus—I mean, you don’tever talk to anyone on campus who doesn’t know what UNC-DM is.

[ W h e r e s a r e t h e

y n o w ]

This month, learn about the ways in which UNC-DM

has impacted two-time Overall Committee member Kate Gillam in her current post-Carolina experiences.

Visit uncdm.wordpress.com to view this story or click

the image to the left.




























A UNC-DM FLASHBACK

“There’s the one feeling when

you all learn together what the total

is, like look what we did, but it’s

even more incredible when you get

to share it with everyone else.”

-Kate gillam, on nding out andrevealing the grand total at the 2009

marathon. Gillam was UNC-DM’s2009 Alumni Relations chair and

2010 Publicity chair.Click here to read more about Kate.

OPERATIONVerMonster

Nine UNC Dance MarathonCommittee teams, 90 excited

UNC students and 180 scoops of ice-cream all came together

for a great cause at the first

Ben & Jerry’s Vermonster Challengeof the semester Sunday, Sept. 25.

The Morale committee swept awaythe competition with Publicitycommittee coming in second. Morale

committee member and senior Adrian

McLaurin celebrated a victory

and his 19th Vermonster Challenge.“My favorite part is draining

the bucket and holding it up afteryou win,” McLaurin said.

The Vermonster Challengeconsists of an unlimited number

of 10-person teams demolishing

a bucket containing 20 scoops of ice cream in ve different avors,as well as a medley of toppings suchas brownies, bananas and sprinkles.

The rst team to nish its bucketof ice cream wins the opportunityto compete in the nal VermonsterChallenge on stage during the

marathon February 17 and 18.The Vermonster Challenge is

sponsored by Ben & Jerry’s, a major UNC-DM partner, according to senior Michael Hieronymus, Operationscommittee chair.

“Vermonsters are not only funopportunities for us to get to know

other students on our committees,but they also are a great way we

can support Ben & Jerry’s.

Its partnership is crucial to UNC-DM

because it faithfully donates ice

cream to our events throughout

the year and regularly donates

to the Hospital and to the marathon,”

Hieronymus said.Operations sub-chair and senior

Katie Dight said a winning strategylies in choosing the right toppingsand ice cream avors.

“The best advice is choosingthings you do not have to chew

like whipped cream or sprinkles.

Also, go for sorbets and lighter

ice creams,” said Dight.The next Vermonster is Sunday,

Oct. 16. It only costs $3.50 to support N.C. Children’s Hospital and attemptto earn a chance to compete

at the marathon.“What could be better than

the opportunity to compete againstother committee teams in front

of a thousand of your closest friendsfor one epic prize: bragging rights?,”

Hieronymus said.

PHOTO: ASHLYN STILL | Deep into their Vermonster, this committees voracity was not enough

to overcome the Morale committee.

COMMITTEES KICK Off YEAR wITH ICE CREAM

Next Issue Learn About

• UNC-DM fact vs. fiction

• One o our Kid Co-Captains

• Students’ connection to N.C. Children’s Hospital

• The grant or the

Division o Genetics and

Metabolism

• And another UNC-DM

flashback

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If you have any questions,

comments, concerns, please

contact 2012 Publicity Chair

Olivia Barro at

[email protected].







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