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By Meredith McCown
Brightening up campus with lights, holiday decor, and Christmas music, Holiday on the Quad hosted by the Corps of Cadets welcomed the community of College Station to join them in celebrating the holidays while benefiting the March of Dimes.
On Sunday night, the third annual Holiday on the Quad filled the center of campus with a variety of stations represented by half of the different outfits in the Corps, and each station’s proceeds will directly go towards the organization the March of Dimes. Members of the Corps, students and families were able to enjoy Kreuz Market BBQ, hot chocolate, cider, cupcakes and other fun holiday foods while supporting a cause simultaneously.
Sports management senior and Corps public relations officer Ryan Kreider explained the mission behind the March of Dimes, in which the Corps holds multiple events to fundraise for other than Holiday on the Quad.
“The March of Dimes helps fund research to combat prematurity here in America, and the Corps of Cadets is actually the largest student run fundraiser for the March of Dimes,” Kreider said. “So we take a lot of pride in that. We’ve got two events that we do in the fall- March of the 18th, which is a golf tournament that was in the end of October, and then we’ve got Holiday on the Quad that we do in the very beginning of December, so it was a quick turnaround from both events, but we made it happen.”
Furthermore, geography senior and sponsorship coordinator Megan Holly said David Gardner’s Jewelers sponsored the Holiday on the Quad event, along with many other sponsors as well.
“They give a pretty substantial amount of money every year to help us do this, and they also help with March of the Brazos, and all of the other fundraisers that we do for March of Dimes,” Holly said. “We had about six sponsors this year, and Kruez Market and David Gardner’s.”
Classics senior and member of N-1 Nick Hoelscher explained the background behind how the event originally began and how it is run.
“From what I understand, Holiday on the Quad was started a couple years ago as a way to raise money for March of Dimes,” Hoelscher said. “Each year we raise money for this and other means, and outfits are competing to get the most money for March of Dimes… the whole Corps puts it on, but the way it works is we put up the hot cider tent, and so any donations we get go towards our outfit’s pool, and all of that goes towards March of Dimes.”
Because of the chance of rain for the night, the live music was cancelled, although it would have been a great inclusion to the event, Kreider said.
“We had a full line-up of live entertainment scheduled and worked out. We partnered with MSC Town Hall… it would have been just a great added attraction to the event, but since the rain and everything, there’s just too much up in the air,” Kreider said. “We’ve got plenty of other things going on, but if we would have had live entertainment that would have just been the cherry on top.”
According to Kreider, Holiday on the Quad was mainly promoted by speaking to other campus organizations along with posting on a Facebook page of which received over 1,000 follows.
“We have a Facebook group, so we did a lot of posts to send those out to the community. We’ve got over 1,000 people who liked the page,” Kreider said. “We reached out to a bunch of student organizations… everyone out here is out here because they want to be.”
Industrial distributions junior Katherine Mavergeorge said that this being her second time to attend the event, she was thoroughly impressed by improvements of Holiday on the Quad this year.
“I came my freshman year and I think they really stepped it up since two years ago when I came,” Mavergeorge said. “There’s just a lot more lights and the new additions to the Corps look really good.”
University of Architecture studies junior and member of Squadron 6 Andrew Stanton said Holiday of the Quad is a way for the community to uphold a new perspective of the Corps.
“I’ve noticed the families that live in College Station and kids coming out and walking around looking at stuff,” Stanton said. “I think they have more of a view outside of march-in, people in uniform, and they see a different side of it… this is more of an interaction with the community.”
http://www.thebatt.com/news/christmas-takes-over-the-quad/article_08410876-ba9a-11e6-800b-b712e6d43ac5.html
Brightening up campus with lights, holiday decor, and Christmas music, Holiday on the Quad hosted by the Corps of Cadets welcomed the community of College Station to join them in celebrating the holidays while benefiting the March of Dimes.
On Sunday night, the third annual Holiday on the Quad filled the center of campus with a variety of stations represented by half of the different outfits in the Corps, and each station’s proceeds will directly go towards the organization the March of Dimes. Members of the Corps, students and families were able to enjoy Kreuz Market BBQ, hot chocolate, cider, cupcakes and other fun holiday foods while supporting a cause simultaneously.
Sports management senior and Corps public relations officer Ryan Kreider explained the mission behind the March of Dimes, in which the Corps holds multiple events to fundraise for other than Holiday on the Quad.
“The March of Dimes helps fund research to combat prematurity here in America, and the Corps of Cadets is actually the largest student run fundraiser for the March of Dimes,” Kreider said. “So we take a lot of pride in that. We’ve got two events that we do in the fall- March of the 18th, which is a golf tournament that was in the end of October, and then we’ve got Holiday on the Quad that we do in the very beginning of December, so it was a quick turnaround from both events, but we made it happen.”
Furthermore, geography senior and sponsorship coordinator Megan Holly said David Gardner’s Jewelers sponsored the Holiday on the Quad event, along with many other sponsors as well.
“They give a pretty substantial amount of money every year to help us do this, and they also help with March of the Brazos, and all of the other fundraisers that we do for March of Dimes,” Holly said. “We had about six sponsors this year, and Kruez Market and David Gardner’s.”
Classics senior and member of N-1 Nick Hoelscher explained the background behind how the event originally began and how it is run.
“From what I understand, Holiday on the Quad was started a couple years ago as a way to raise money for March of Dimes,” Hoelscher said. “Each year we raise money for this and other means, and outfits are competing to get the most money for March of Dimes… the whole Corps puts it on, but the way it works is we put up the hot cider tent, and so any donations we get go towards our outfit’s pool, and all of that goes towards March of Dimes.”
Because of the chance of rain for the night, the live music was cancelled, although it would have been a great inclusion to the event, Kreider said.
“We had a full line-up of live entertainment scheduled and worked out. We partnered with MSC Town Hall… it would have been just a great added attraction to the event, but since the rain and everything, there’s just too much up in the air,” Kreider said. “We’ve got plenty of other things going on, but if we would have had live entertainment that would have just been the cherry on top.”
According to Kreider, Holiday on the Quad was mainly promoted by speaking to other campus organizations along with posting on a Facebook page of which received over 1,000 follows.
“We have a Facebook group, so we did a lot of posts to send those out to the community. We’ve got over 1,000 people who liked the page,” Kreider said. “We reached out to a bunch of student organizations… everyone out here is out here because they want to be.”
Industrial distributions junior Katherine Mavergeorge said that this being her second time to attend the event, she was thoroughly impressed by improvements of Holiday on the Quad this year.
“I came my freshman year and I think they really stepped it up since two years ago when I came,” Mavergeorge said. “There’s just a lot more lights and the new additions to the Corps look really good.”
University of Architecture studies junior and member of Squadron 6 Andrew Stanton said Holiday of the Quad is a way for the community to uphold a new perspective of the Corps.
“I’ve noticed the families that live in College Station and kids coming out and walking around looking at stuff,” Stanton said. “I think they have more of a view outside of march-in, people in uniform, and they see a different side of it… this is more of an interaction with the community.”
http://www.thebatt.com/news/christmas-takes-over-the-quad/article_08410876-ba9a-11e6-800b-b712e6d43ac5.html