Pennies for Patients raises $425

Tyler Roberge, Rumbler Staffer
February 19, 2016

Pennies for Patients pennies ILWith Pennies for Patients officially over, the war between the grades has come to a halt. Following the event, the scores were as follows:

Freshmen: -6780 points
Sophomores: -5433 points
Juniors: -6632 points
Seniors: -5882 points

In a close race between the sophomore and senior classes, the sophomores managed to take the win. The war between the classes was staged in a way in so that any pennies collected gave a grade one point to their class while any other currency caused that grade to lose points so that one class would have the ability to sabotage the others.

Student Council members count the change from the Pennies for Patients battle during third period.
Photo by Izzy Lopez
Student Council members count the change from the Pennies for Patients battle during third period.

Student Council hosted the event which raised money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The school donated $425.83 in change during the two-week collection period.

During the collection, StuCo officers also found some interesting donations. They included:

  • A wheat penny from 1945
  • A Dutch coin “5 pfennig” 1984
  • Euro worth 5 cents, 2000
  • Euro worth 2 cents, 2004
  • Canadian coin worth 5 cents, 2000
  • Canadian coin worth 1 cent, 2007
  • A smashed penny from Fort Casper Museum in Casper, Wyoming
  • A plastic penny
  • A button