Supporting Families. Saving Lives.
Shelton School Jumps to Save Lives!
Shelton School, Dallas, sponsored the 21st annual Brian Price Jump-a-thon on Feb. 12, 2020. About 500 students (preschool through 5th grade) and faculty members jumped rope in the schoolwide event to raise money for the Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes Foundation. The mission of SADS is to create awareness of this sudden and unexpected death in children and young adults.
This Shelton School event is named in memory of Brian Price, who died in 1998 at age 15. No one knew he had Long QT Syndrome. He and a friend had gone to a movie theater to watch Spice World. The friend with Brian thought he had fallen asleep at the beginning of the movie. When Brian did not respond to a nudge, the friend went for help. All efforts to revive him failed. After tests were done by the medical examiner, Brian’s parents were told that he was perfectly healthy and they did not know the reason their son had died. Brian was a gifted student, football captain, outstanding basketball and tournament chess player.
Brian was the son of Kathy Price Martin, former Shelton teacher, and grandson to former long-time Shelton School Lower School head Betty Glasheen. The jump-a-thon is organized each year by Betty and members of the Price family. Melissa Price is parent to Zoe Price, Shelton middle school 7th grader, sits on Shelton’s Student Council and helped raise funds through candy sales and jeans days contributions benefitting the SADS Foundation.