Kudos to the Shelton High School community for their efforts to raise money for the annual “Valley Goes Pink,” an effort to raise money to combat breast cancer.
Check out the video from WTNH.
It was filmed Friday morning, when admins and some students at the high school dyed their hair pink after students met a fundraising challenge.
Nice job, Shelton.
Initial press release announcing the event follows:
Shelton High School Headmaster Beth Smith will dye her hair pink Friday morning after students raised thousands of dollars to support breast cancer research.
For the past three years, Shelton High School students, teachers, and parents have collaborated to raise support for the Hewitt Center as part of The Valley Goes Pink, a community-wide awareness-building and fundraising effort to help prevent breast cancer.
Cheerleaders have collected donations in the stands at football games, and the soccer and volleyball teams have donned pink attire and solicited donations at special fundraising events and meets. Students have sold pink merchandise and auctioned gift baskets.
And every year, the entire school is invited to wear their best pink outfits to raise awareness for the cause. To date, the students’ efforts have totaled over $3,000 to help build the Hewitt Center for Breast Wellness in 2011 and to support its patients.
Smith
“The students have been selling bracelets and pink T‑shirts this month to raise money for the cause. One of our student leaders had offered raise the stakes for the effort by offering to dye his hair pink if the school raised $250, but at the last minute he had a change of heart. So, I decided it was time for me to step in,” Smith said.
Smith used Twitter to announce the challenge Tuesday: “Pink out the SHS headmaster,” she wrote. “If SHS STUCO (student council) and NHS (National Honor Society) raise $1000 for Griffin Hosp. Cancer Center by Friday my hair will be “pinked” for the day.”
About 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Smith tweeted the results.
“We did it! SHS raised $1000.75 to date for Valley Goes Pink,” Smith announced. “I will be ‘pinked’ tomorrow.”
She won’t be the only one — Smith said Friday via email that she’ll be joined by school seniors Mike Ortoli and Jason Thompson, who pledged to go pink if the school raised $1,500. At $2,000, the school’s housemasters also became part of the pledge. Athletic Director John Niski was roped in at the $3,000-mark.
Smith will now find herself in the lobby of Shelton High School at 7:45 a.m. Friday, wearing a smock and waiting for a group of students to transform her from a brunette to … a rock star!
Smith also commented that the school’s Friday night football game against Fairfield Prep will be broadcast on CPTV, and she is committed to showing off her pink locks at the game.
