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Article: JASON'S FIGHT PULLS CLASSMATES TOGETHER ``THEY HAVE FOUND A PART OF THEMSELVES THEY ARE HAPPY TO SEE, THE PART THAT IS GIVING.''.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 18, 1996
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Byline: LORRAINE EATON, STAFF WRITER
VIRGINIA BEACH -- While Jason DeGutis battles the effects of chemotherapy, over at First Colonial High the jocks, the brains, the nerds, the band, the student council, the honor society, the grungers, the preps, the punks, the skaters, the surfers and the heads have united.
It started out as just a thing the senior class wanted to do.
But then it started to grow.
His guidance counselor, Marcia Gutnick, had approached the senior class sponsors, Dell Young and Lee Land, about raising money for Jason's treatment. They described Jason's situation to the seniors - very sick with no health insurance.
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