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PALATINE, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago woman has left $50,000 to a scholarship fund at a Palatine high school honoring her son, who endured bullying when he attended 40 years ago.
The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1Ks7en5 ) that Jeanne Trout left the money to The John Trout Anti-Bullying Scholarship at Fremd High School when she died earlier this month at age 94. John Trout's classmates created the fund in preparation for their 40th reunion this year.
The scholarship goes to two students — one who has been bullied and one who was stood up to bullies.
John Trout died four years ago of a heart attack at age 53. Jeanne Trout became one of the school's first special-education teachers inspired by incessant bullying due to her son's voice impediment.
Two Fremd graduates this year received $5,000 scholarships.
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