{"id":163,"date":"2010-09-01T09:28:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T13:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/about\/news\/?p=163"},"modified":"2010-09-01T09:28:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T13:28:53","slug":"shakespeare-marathon-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/shakespeare-marathon-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Marathon 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- RSPEAK_STOP --> <a href='http:\/\/wr.readspeaker.com\/webreader\/webreader.php?cid=&amp;t=wordpress&amp;url=https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/shakespeare-marathon-1984\/&amp;title=Shakespeare Marathon 1984' onclick='readpage(this.href, 163); return false;'> <img src='http:\/\/graphics.readspeaker.com\/images\/wr\/listen_.gif' style='border-style: none;' alt=''><\/a><div id='WR_163'><\/div> <!-- RSPEAK_START --> <p style=\"text-align: left\">In the spring of 1984, English Professor Paul Rathburn organized a Shakespeare Reading Marathon to raise money for Adam Milani, a St. Joseph High School student who was seriously injured in a hockey game the previous December.\u00a0 April 25-29, 1984, on the Fieldhouse Mall, students, staff, and faculty continuously read Shakespeare for 100 hours.\u00a0 Among the campus celebrities who participated were Football Coach Gerry Faust (pictured), Men&#8217;s Basketball Coach Digger Phelps, Professor Emil T. Hofman, and the Glee Club.\u00a0 For their efforts, they raised over $5000 for the Milani Fund and earned a Guinness World Record for continuous reading of Shakespeare.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166 alignleft\" title=\"GPHR-20-13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/about\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GPHR-20-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/files\/2010\/09\/GPHR-20-13.jpg 432w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/files\/2010\/09\/GPHR-20-13-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 85vw, 432px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sources:\u00a0 <em>The Observer, <\/em>April 26 and May 2, 1984<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/cgi-bin\/display.pl?DIS087.HTM+70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UDIS 208\/25<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/cgi-bin\/display.pl?DIS087.HTM+70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/cgi-bin\/display.pl?PHR253.HTM+19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GPHR 20\/13<\/a><\/p>\n <!-- RSPEAK_STOP -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- RSPEAK_STOP --> <a href='http:\/\/wr.readspeaker.com\/webreader\/webreader.php?cid=&amp;t=wordpress&amp;url=https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/shakespeare-marathon-1984\/&amp;title=Shakespeare Marathon 1984' onclick='readpage(this.href, 163); return false;'> <img src='http:\/\/graphics.readspeaker.com\/images\/wr\/listen_.gif' style='border-style: none;' alt=''><\/a><div id='WR_163'><\/div> <!-- RSPEAK_START --> <p>In the spring of 1984, English Professor Paul Rathburn organized a Shakespeare Reading Marathon to raise money for Adam Milani, a St. Joseph High School student who was seriously injured in a hockey game the previous December.\u00a0 April 25-29, 1984, on the Fieldhouse Mall, students, staff, and faculty continuously read Shakespeare for 100 hours.\u00a0 Among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/shakespeare-marathon-1984\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shakespeare Marathon 1984&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <!-- RSPEAK_STOP -->","protected":false},"author":4370,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,32,69,74],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nd-history","tag-academics","tag-events","tag-shakespeare-marathon","tag-student-life"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 02:25:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}