Off with Peter's mullet

Peter Cox, a Year 6 student at St Patrick’s School, had his beloved mullet shaved off on 9 December to raise funds for The World’s Greatest Shave. He raised more than $3700 for the Leukaemia Foundation - supported by a very generous Cooma community, family and friends. He had been thinking about doing the shave for a while, but after the Cox family learned this year that two of Peter’s uncles were diagnosed with different types of cancer, it motivated Peter to go through with the shave. Peter had not had a hair cut for three years, and believed this was a way to bring awareness and much needed funding to a great cause. Even though he is very attached to the mullet look, he said he can grow it back if he decides to. Peter’s friends, and even his teacher Ms Reneker, had been stirring him about his 80s-style ‘ugly mullet’, so it was a much-encouraged decision to give it the chop. Ms Reneker started the long-overdue hair cut by snipping off the lengthy locks and Peter’s mum, Ruth, finished it with a number two buzz cut. Peter grimaced when the scissors went through his mullet. “We are all very proud of him, he certainly loved his mullet,” Mrs Cox said. The event took place at the school campus last Tuesday in front of the primary school students, who all enjoyed the spectacle. “He will look very different when his head is shaved,” Ms Reneker said to the students. “It is a very big thing to do to shave off your hair, but Peter deserves another round of applause for all the money he has raised.” Assistant principal, Steve Joyce, said Peter typifies what St Patrick’s School is about. “Today, you have given a gift to others by raising money. You are helping people who are going through an awful time in their lives. I am very proud of you,” he said. “Doing something like this is showing ‘strength in gentleness’. The strength was losing his hair - that’s tough - the gentleness is giving the money raised to others, it is a gift.”

Off with Peter's mullet

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