11/21/2025
November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, and today is World Pancreatic Cancer Day. We use the color purple, featuring James and his daughter Ciara in our lacrosse pinnies last year with the Bub Strong sign he built, to help highlight and bring awareness to the disease that is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S., with only a five-year survival rate of 13 percent because of the difficulty in detection and screening of the disease in its early stages. One of the organizations we donate a portion of the Memorial Classic weekend's proceeds to is the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, dedicated to advancing scientific research, building community, sharing knowledge, and advocating for patients.
Besides being the color for pancreatic cancer awareness, purple was also Bub's favorite color, as it was the color of his high school, the Phoenixville Phantoms, as well as his Bucknell fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta. Every year, we try to have a different color and have rotated through orange and blue for the Bucknell University Bison, Bub's alma mater, and blue and gold for Kearsarge and the The Outing Club.