The funds raised go to scholarships, athletics, student funds.
Nearly 700 donors gave $271,000 to North Park as part of the university’s eighth annual Blue and Gold Day celebration in April.
During the festive outdoor event, students, staff, and faculty donned blue and gold tee-shirts and took to the greenspace in front of the Johnson Center. As part of the annual tradition, they formed into a large shape, this time the flag of the City of Chicago, and posed for a photo taken from the Johnson Center roof. Afterward, the entire community was invited to participate in a campus-wide 5K fun run.
Once the numbers were in, the classes of 1972 and 1993 were declared winners for highest class participation. For the first time this year, donors were invited to give specifically to their favorite athletic program, with men’s football leading the group with 105 individual donations, followed by women’s soccer with 63 and men’s basketball with 32. Women’s tennis, meanwhile, was recognized for best effort, outpacing their original goal by 150%, tallying 28 donations when they’d projected for 18.
Money raised on Blue and Gold Day goes toward the Student Care Fund, the North Park Scholarship Fund, and the Viking Club.
