# Annual South High Marathon Dance-38th Year

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 26, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-south-high-marathon-dance-38th-year/716007 "2015-03-26T03:21:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-south-high-marathon-dance-38th-year/716007/1 "2015-03-26T03:21:42Z")

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For the 38th year, the students of South Glens Falls, NY (my old high school), worked their butts off for months, and danced through exhaustion for 28 hours, to raise money for charity. The whole town supports the effort with everything they have. Bottles are collected, bakes sales are held, restaurant owners donate dinners for raffles, businesses donate goods for auctions, and on and on. It’s incredible, really.

In 2013 they raised $489,716, and in 2014 they raised $583,015. This year they raised an incredible $621,680! The total raised over the past 38 years-----$4.82 million dollars!

The students themselves always choose the causes, and this year they have chosen 45 needy recipients. Over the past 38 years, 366 causes have benefitted from the marathon dance.

I’m so incredibly proud of my hometown. By the way, the population of this town? Under 4,000 people.

[SHMD](http://shmd.org/)

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**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-south-high-marathon-dance-38th-year/716007/2 "2015-03-26T03:30:31Z")

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Just to be clear. This is not a donation request, since the dance is over.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-south-high-marathon-dance-38th-year/716007/3 "2015-03-26T04:08:52Z")

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Wow what a huge amount of money! Amazing!

Looks like they really have the format down pat, which I’m sure helps keep it rolling. And of course all of the enthusiastic students! 🙂