While Guinness says the world record for continuous see-sawing is 75 hours and 10 minutes, members of William Woods' Delta Gamma Fraternity planned to go 24 hours on the Callaway County Courthouse square.
"We are raising money for the Sight foundation and we are see-sawing for 24 hours," member Emily Tichy said.
However, members of the local womens' chapter have sponsored this See-Saw for Sight event since the 1980s, according to Clare Browning, vice president for Delta Gamma's foundation.
"This is our philanthropy for Service for Sight," she said Thursday morning as the event kicked off. "It is our thing; we've built schools with it."
The international sorority put the gift of sight as its highest priority. To that end, members have established four schools for children who are blind or visually impaired so they can learn specialized skills.
"Our chapter is the one who originated this event," Browning said. "So we're out here 8 a.m. to 8 a.m. (Friday)."
Delta Gamma students also had a bake sale, and others were setting up music to accompany the event.
"We'll be jamming out," Browning said.
The chapter at William Woods has 38 members, all of whom were to take turns on the apparatus throughout the day and overnight hours.
