Kris To Perform at Seton All-Girl High School...if they can raise $5,000 by Thursday
Seton set for Kris Allen concert
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How many high school girls would it take to raise $5,000 in less than a week to bring "American Idol" winner Kris Allen to their school?
Exactly 540, the enrollment at Seton High School.
The students - who had been asked Wednesday to raise funds for breast cancer research - were told Monday that Allen would visit the Price Hill school at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, if donations reached $5,000 by that day.
"They were stunned. There were five seconds of silence, and then the girls just erupted," says Kathy Allen Ciarla, Seton public relations co-coordinator.
Allen will perform several songs and talk at an assembly, she says.
Seeing rock stars at the all-girls Price Hill school - and raising money - has become common in recent years.
'N Sync, Ashlee Simpson, Natasha Bedingfield and 2008 "American Idol" runner-up David Archuleta have visited Seton. Last November, 150 Seton seniors and 30 chaperones won the Bedingfield concert - and an all-expenses paid three-day trip to Disney World - in a "High School Musical 3" spirit contest sponsored by Disney.
Archuleta sang at Seton a year ago when the girls won a WKRQ-FM (101.9) contest by collecting more than $3,000 in pennies in a week for breast cancer research.
So this year, Q102 managers decided to skip a competition by area high schools, and just ask Seton administrators to have students raise $5,000 in a week.
"We upped the ante a bit this year, but we feel confident that they'll make it," says Ciarla, a 1987 Seton graduate.
Students had raised $2,400 by the end of classes Monday. They plan to solicit donations at the senior night volleyball game tonight, and raffle off tickets to Allen's Q102 Bosom Ball concert 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Madison Theater, 730 Madison Ave., Covington.
Donations are being accepted at the school, 3901 Glenway Ave., or by phone, 513-471-2600, Ciarla says.
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