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Saint Baldrick’s event raises over $6,000 for childhood cancer research

Kayleigh Stevens
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This past Friday, November 20, HT
held the Saint Baldrick’s head—shaving event
in The Bog. Saint Baldrick’s is an organization
founded in 1999 that is devoted to raising
money for childhood cancer research. Since its
foundation, it has raised millions and millions
of dollars by having groups get together and
volunteer to shave their heads. This event has
been a tradition at IIT for many years, but this
year was a little different.

Usually, HT holds the St. Baldrick’s
fundraiser and shaving in the spring. However,
this year, the organizers decided to hold it in
the fall so as to be able to focus more on their

spring event, Relay for Life. Also, there is a
national competition between colleges to see
which institution can raise the most amount
of money. This year, with the event held in the
fall, HT was able to rank 8th in the country,
with a grand total of $6,703.20 raised.

Nine brave souls volunteered their
heads to be shaved and tried to raise money
from friends and family. There were four ladies
and five men getting their heads shaved. The
shavees were Carly llg, Holly Seiler, Isabelle
Romero, Christian Jones, Subarno Saha,
Dan Kosmas, Eric Schuette, Tyler and Noah
Grudowski. All nine of these participants tried
to raise money for the cause, and the highest
amount raised was by Carly llg, who, at the

time of writing, had $1,920 raised. The four
girls were all sisters in the Kappa Phi Delta
sorority, and the group raised the most amount
of money out of them all, getting around
$5,000 all together.

Many of these participants had taken
part in St. Baldrick’s shave prior, including the
highest fundraiser, llg, who shaved her head
once before. Both Noah and Tyler Grudowski

have shaved their heads five times in support of

childhood cancer. Also, the barber, performing
all of the shaving and cutting of hair, was
Cheryl Sikora, from Woodridge, Illinois, who
has participated in this event twice.

The organizer of this event, Anna
Chorazyczewski, was very pleased with the

turn out of this event. She mentioned that
even though the amount of money raised this
semester was less than previous years’, the
average amount of money raised per person
significantly rose. Next year, she hopes to get
more involvement by inviting alumni to the

event and hopes to continue this tradition.

Along with the head—shaving, there
were raffles that took place to raise even more

money for the cause. There were ten prizes

in total, including gift cards to Bridgeport

Coffee, Forever Yogurt, and Freddie’s.

There

was a D] keeping the event upbeat and happy,
D] Groovy OD. Overall, the event was a great
night and raised money for a worthy cause

through the participation of HT students.

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