Students at Holy Cross H.S., Flushing, united in an effort to raise funds and awareness of breast cancer through a campaign dubbed “Real Knights Wear Pink.”

This is the seventh consecutive year that Holy Cross students have rallied for the cause. The project is spearheaded by Cathy Kenny, junior class moderator and coordinator of the Science Research Program at the school, who is herself a breast cancer survivor.

“There is so much compassion and spirit in the young men of Holy Cross for this initiative,” she said. “Their passion in embracing a better understanding of this disease which can, at any time, affect their own loved ones, is evident all around the school.”

Posters created by students in her biology classes lined the corridors of the school with facts they researched about the disease including its causes, myths, symptoms and treatments.

“There are thousands of men affected by breast cancer,” Thomas Leuthner discovered.

He also pointed out that early detection is the best protection.

To raise funds for breast cancer research foundations, students purchased wristbands and black and pink T-shirts, designed by senior Joseph Mirro over a four-week period.

Observing the brisk sales to hundreds of his fellow Holy Cross brothers who would be wearing their shirts in a show of solidarity, Dimitri Lopez concluded that “wearing pink is definitely not a sign of weakness.”