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So, who is responsible for this crazy event anyway?

• Jed Yang - Mathematics
  - Recruitment, overall planning and administration, webmaster.
• Cecilia Yu - Environmental Science and Engineering
  - Funding.

Who started this event?

These guys initiated the Readathon in 2004:

• Parag D Bhayani - Mathematics/Economics
  - Public Relations, recruitment and overall planning and administration
• Nicholas A Rupprecht - Mathematics
  - Resident playwright and textual consultant - division of all parts
• Ryan C Witt - Computer Science
  - Webmaster, co-administrator, car driver and all-around cool guy

Nick, Parag and Ryan duing a recruitment drive

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following groups for graciously providing the much needed funds for texts, food and other expenses involved in making the readathon a success:

• Caltech Master of Student Houses - Professor Cathy Jurca
• The Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology
• The Caltech Graduate Student Council
• The Caltech Y

Our personal thanks to the following people for thier assistance and inspiration: James Karnesky, Daniel Poon, Bing Huo, Jenijoy La Belle, Shirley Marneus, Gavin Claypool, Andrea Kung, Linwood Tabata, Scott Robbins, and Bev Hastig. Last but not least, thanks so much to the readers who came to read.