Teachers donate to ‘Locks of Love’
Published: December 5, 2006
The group of women who left Salon Seven in Crest Hill with sleek bobs Monday night were intimately aware of the importance of hair to a girl.
They were teachers from Drauden Point Middle School in Plainfield who set aside their trepidation about drastically changing their looks to donate their long hair to Locks of Love, a not-for-profit organization that provides hair pieces for children — boys and girls — who have lost their hair to medical treatment or disease.
Lauren Bergen, a seventh-grade math teacher, recruited four other teachers and four students to join her in donating their hair.
Bergen said her mom’s battle with cancer, and subsequent hair loss, inspired her to donate her hair on her own two years ago.
This time, she got her coworkers and students involved.
The kids at school have been eagerly anticipating their teachers’ haircuts, said social studies teacher Jen Gruben, who cut off 10 inches of her curly, dark hair.
While the teachers had their hair cut Monday, Drauden Point eighth-grader Miranda Fraisl waited for her turn in the salon chair.
The teen will celebrate her 14th birthday today with a new haircut and a present of her long, light brown hair for another child.
“You don’t really think about (donating your hair) until somebody brings it up,” said Miranda’s mother, Lugene Fraisl. “We worry about having a bad hair day and these kids don’t have any. When she came home and said I want to do this, I was so proud of her.”
Others who cut their hair were teachers Cathy Derwin, Gina Cameron and Megan Cobb and students Stephanie Jackson, Spencer Lowry and Amanda Hill.
“It’s nice to be able to do something like this,” Derwin said. “With something as simple as hair. It makes a difference.”
Based in Florida, Locks of Love was created in 1998 and has provided hair for more than 2,000 children since.
Most of the hair donors are children, according to information on the organization’s Web site.
Hair must be at least 10 inches long to donate, preferably a foot long.
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