Apr 13, 2009
Spotswood Students Move to Create World Free of Multiple Sclerosis
On April 22, 2009 students of Spotswood High School will hold their annual Volleyball Game fundraiser to help find a cure for multiple sclerosis from 6-8pm in the gym at the Spotswood High. The school’s Octagon Club and History Club, with the assistance of the DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America)/FBLA(Future Business Leaders of America), the National Honor Society and Student Council, has raised more that $60,000 to fight MS over the past years.
Their inspiration is their faculty advisor Frank Yusko who has been living with multiple sclerosis since the mid-1980s. All the money the students raise will go toward MS research that will one day lead to a cure. Multiple sclerosis interrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body and stops people from moving. Every hour in the United States, someone is newly diagnosed with MS, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with more than twice as many women as men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. and 2.5 million worldwide.
Tax-deductible donations should be made out to the National MS Society. Donation forms are available from Frank Yusko, Spotswood High School, 105 Summerhill Road, Spotswood, NJ 08884 or call 732-723-2202. For more information about multiple sclerosis, or the Society and its services, contact the New Jersey Metro Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society call at 1-800-344-4867or log on to www.nationalMSsociety.org.njm