Looking back five: Fighting Irish fight childhood cancer

Five years ago this week, students in Notre Dame's lower and middle schools help out in the fight against childhood cancer. On April 19, 2013, Notre Dame published the following account of that fight.​

St. Baldrick’s head-shaving events, which began as a challenge between businessmen, have grown from one event in 2000 to more than 1,000 per year around the world, raising critical funds for childhood cancer research. Events take place in pubs, restaurants, schools, churches, parks, malls, military bases, firehouses and any other place you can imagine.

For Notre Dame, a number of students (and parents) from the lower and middle divisions demonstrated their focus on Christian and community service and raised more than $20,000 after getting their heads shaved to raise money for cancer research. The participation by Notre Dame students was organized and chaired by lower-division parent Dan Bendtsen. In 2012, a group of students from the lower division also shaved their heads and raised a substantial amount of money for St. Baldrick's.

The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives. St. Baldrick’s coordinates worldwide signature head-shaving events where volunteers get bald to stand in solidarity with kids with cancer and raise money to support life-saving childhood cancer research. Since 2000, more than 230,000 shavees, including 22,000 women, have shaved their heads at more than 6,000 St. Baldrick’s events worldwide. http://www.stbaldricks.org/.


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Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy is a private, Catholic, independent, coeducational day school located in Oakland County. Notre Dame's upper school enrolls students in grades nine through twelve and has been named one of the nation's best 50 Catholic high schools (Acton Institute) four times since 2005. Notre Dame's middle and lower schools enroll students in pre-kindergarten through grade eight. All three schools are International Baccalaureate "World Schools." NDPMA is conducted by the Marist Fathers and Brothers and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. For more on Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy, visit the school's home page at www.ndpma.org.



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