Longest human massage chain set Guinness World Record by Wash U. Senior Class

Longest human massage chain set Guinness World Record by Wash U. Senior Class in U.K

As if you need further proof that Wash U. graduates really can do anything they set their minds to, consider this:

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On Sunday the 2010 senior class accomplished its goal of breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest human massage chain. A total of 710 students — and some faculty — showed up inside the school’s Field House to participate in a three-minute, group shoulder massage.

The previous record was set in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2001 involving 617 people.

As senior class president Fernando Cutz told the Wash U. paper Student Life: “It will be very cool to pick up the Guinness Book of World Records and find our name in there as the Class of 2010.”

Longest Marriage – Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher

Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher are in the Guinness World Records book.

They have been married for more than 84 years.

Herbert (born June 10, 1905) and Zelmyra (born Dec. 10, 1907) were maried on May 13, 1924.

They watch TV together but she departs when the baseball game comes on. They both agree if they had to do it again, they wouldn’t change a thing.

Herbert and Zelmyra have five children, ten grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Besides family, God and the church have been ever-present in the Fishers’ lives. They have maintained memberships at separate houses of worship during their marriage.

Despite separate church memberships, their hearts stay connected.

Source: postchronicle

Longest Hug World Record – Faisal Mohyud-Din and Mohammed Azeem

Faisal Mohyud-Din and Mohammed Azeem, students at Salford University,   managed to hug one another for 24 hours and 17 minutes – setting the new world record for the Longest Hug.

Mr Mohyud-Din, a talented sprinter who is aiming to compete in the 2012 Olympics, said: “This was certainly a marathon rather than a sprint. “I needed all my reserves of stamina to get through it, but I’m over the moon to have broken the world record for the Longest Hug – hopefully the first of many.”

    They have raised money for the new Christie cancer unit in Oldham. The embrace is the charity logo of The Christie Hospital.

    The previous Guinness world record for Longest Hug was smashed by 16 minutes.

They finished their feat at Oldham Athletic’s Boundary Park stadium during the team’s game against Leyton Orient.

   Alicia Custis, head of communications at The Christie, added: “Massive congratulations to Faisal and Azeem for the new Longest Hug world record – they’ve done fantastically well and fought against sleep deprivation and muscle fatigue. “I know it was incredibly hard work and I’m hugely grateful to them for doing this for the Christie. This is a hug for all our cancer patients.”

   They were monitored throughout the challenge and had to stay awake at all times.

The Salford University students said they wanted to do it because everyone is at risk of suffering from the killer disease.   

The Christie Cancer Hospital is opening a new £17m radiotherapy centre in Oldham later this week.

Source: worldrecordsacademy