“On the twenty first of May 2005 the University of Texas at Dallas lost one of its larger than life students, a fraternity lost its biggest inspiration, a family lost the eldest brother of twelve and I lost my best friend. Bradley Steven Monks was twenty two when he lost his sixth battle with cancer. He battled the killer from his infancy, through a below-the-knee amputation and, later, a full hip amputation.”
- Cal Parsons, Founding Father of Texas Chi Chapter
The Rock the Campus for the Cure Charity Concert is an annual event at the University of Texas at Dallas where the biggest local artists are brought together for one fantastic show, and it's all for a good cause! All proceeds are donated to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) in an effort to further blood based cancer research.
The concert was started five years ago by the Texas Chi chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity to honor member Bradley Steven Monks, a good friend striken with lymphoma at age 9. His life-long struggle with cancer never brought him down, and we remember him now as one of the most inspirational friends we have ever known. When Bradley passed away we, his brothers in Sigma Alpha Epsilon started the concert as a means to honor his legacy and to hopefully help prevent other such tragedies.
In the short span of just four years, Texas Chi has seen RTCFTC vault off the drawing board to become our chapter’s shining achievement.
RTCFTC can proudly claim to be one of the largest and most popular events on the University of Texas at Dallas campus, which allows us to bring the very best local artists to one location for a fantastic show.
Our efforts have raised over $43,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), sold over 2,000 tickets to the shows, and pulled in 35 of the best bands in Dallas. And over the years we have put in over 2,000 volunteer hours to make the concert a reality!
It is for Brad that we hold this concert. It is for Brad that we pour hundreds of hours of work into this event so that we can help LLS do everything in their power to make sure that people no longer have to mourn as we do. And it is Brad’s life we celebrate as we perform this work and do our part to better our community and the world.
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