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Byline: Deb Gruver and Jon Schubin
Sep. 15--When pop machines started taking dollar bills, Northeast Magnet High School principal David Wessling replaced the roll of quarters he used to carry so he could give out change to his students. "They'd say, 'Mr. Wessling, do you have change for a five?' " his wife, Michelle, remembered Thursday. "He'd say, 'I bet you need more than that piece of information,' and make them say, 'May I have change for a five?' Then he'd say that they'd just changed the world for the better."
Mr. Wessling died Wednesday evening at his home in the 6900 block of West O'Neil, where police said his wife found him in the garage. He was 53. He had been the principal at Northeast since Aug. 1, district spokeswoman Susan Arensman said. Police characterized his death as an…