Jeanette Bingham, the boys' aunt and a hairdresser, came by their Sewell home to shave their heads, as well as that of Jane's friend Tammy Galatti. When she was working on Seth, she kiddingly swept his long hair up into a mohawk.
"She was going to continue shaving, but we yelled, 'Mohawks for Mom!' " said Chris, 17, a junior. "Everybody laughed, but we decided mohawks were the way to go. People would stare at us rather than looking at Mom."
They decided to accent their look with black T-shirts imprinted with "Mohawks for Mom" in white with a green ribbon on the back - green representing Jane's type of cancer.
They also started searching for cancer charities.
A friend, Nick Giordano, a 16-year-old Clearview sophomore, got together a team for Relay for Life, an annual overnight walk-around-the-track cancer-awareness event at Clearview, and the boys and their friends are pointing toward that in June.
Meanwhile, mohawks are sprouting up in the Clearview halls. Giordano got his own mohawk in November, and two other friends, sophomore Sam Peterson, 15, and freshman Zack Doty, 15, got theirs recently.
"It's just a good thing," Nick said. "Everyone knows why we are doing it, and while we might get stares, it is usually people approving."
Principal Keith Brook said he didn't know what to make of the Bingham boys when they walked into school in September with their new look, but he was willing to wait and see.
"The boys are just unassuming young men, so I wondered what was going on," Brook said. "When I found out, we decided to do as much as we could to tell people."
