Eric Gruninger, senior, cut his hair and donated it to be made into custom children’s cancer wigs.

Three years ago, as a freshman, Gruninger lost his father to brain cancer. Three years later and after over two years of growing his hair out to an excess of 12 inches, Gruninger decided to do donate his hair to a cancer patient in memory of his father.

“I started growing it at the end of sophomore year,” Gruninger said. “I didn’t originally intend to do this, but it grew into this.”

Magda Szewczyk, owner of and hairstylist at studio M, the hair salon, cut Gruninger’s hair for the wig. Szewczyk lost her father to cancer as well.

“You did a good thing,” Carrie Gruninger, Eric Gruninger’s mother said to him in respect to the hair donation.

Gruninger intends to grow his hair long again and do the same thing in the future.