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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Oregon Teens Campaign to Have Special Needs Student Elected Prom Queen



Toronto – An incredible gesture has become a memory one girl will never forget, after a group of students at an Oregon high school campaigned to have a friend with special needs elected Prom Queen.

Eighteen-year-old Katie Shipley suffers from a rare chromosome disorder, and has a form of dementia. Doctors said Shipley likely wouldn’t live to see her 18th birthday.

But in a few short weeks, Shipley will graduate from Southridge High School in Beaverton, Oregon and the touching campaign started when she admitted a simple dream to her friends.

“I wanted to be nominated [Prom Queen],” Shipley told KGW News in Portland, Oregon.

Not win, just be nominated. And so, behind her back, Katie’s friends and classmates began campaigning to make it happen.

“We kind of just told the whole school and it just happened,” said Katie’s friend, Taylor Chapman.


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