NORWOOD PARK — Short hair, don't care.
Ninety-eight students at Resurrection College Prep High School braved a sharp pair of scissors to donate at least eight inches of hair to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths Program, which provides wigs for female cancer patients at no cost through the American Cancer Society, school officials said.
Science Department Chair Dawn Konow started the ResPunzel Project in 2009 to honor her mother, Dolores Pienta, a two-time cancer patient, and in memory of her sister-in-law Colleen Pienta, who died from ovarian cancer.
The goal of the ongoing annual project is to collect enough hair donations from Resurrection and the community to equal the length of two braids that could wrap around the entire academic area at the Norwood Park all-girls Catholic school, 7500 W. Talcott Ave.
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