Jahan Tabatabaie, a Penn State Scranton Advisory Board member and campus alumnus, shows off his 1998 THON shirt and dancer number. As our 2020 dancers prepare for the big event this weekend, Tabatabaie knows what they are about to experience and remembers what it was like when he danced "for the kids".
Julie Bialkowski saved a copy of the commemorative 25th Anniversary THON yearbook she and other students worked on back in 1999, when they helped organize the marketing and PR for THON. She also danced that year, and looks back at it as a life-changing moment.
The 1998 THON program booklet cover that Jahan Tabatabaie has kept all these years as a memento of his THON experience.
Penn State Scranton Enrollment Specialist Julie Bialkowski, at right, poses with a friend during THON 1999, the 25th anniversary of THON, when she was a student at Penn State, University Park, and danced for 48 hours straight to help raise money for children battling cancer.