Girls surrender hair for Locks of Love
Published: May 14, 2008
Deepa Patel was “freaking out” in the last few minutes of her school day at Mason Middle School May 12.
“Oh my God, it’s going to be gone in a few minutes,” she said.
“It” would be Patel’s hair, and she was one of 13 girls at the school who resolved to donate eight, 10 or more inches of their cascading hair to Locks of Love and Beautiful Lengths, nonprofit groups dedicated to providing hairpieces to disadvantaged patients of cancer and other medical conditions resulting in long-term hair loss.
Monday’s “Cut for the Cause” was a culmination of a school year of hair growing.
Mason Middle’s CSI club - Christian Students Involved - started the year by asking girls at the school to grow their hair out until May to donate for the hairpieces, which can cost more than $1,000 and take eight ponytails of eight to 10 inches in length to make.
“So many people are affected by cancer,” said Rebecca Stewart, president of the student group. “It was really just something we wanted to do.”
Stylists from Intuition Salon in Mason donated their services for the haircuts, lining up the girls in the middle school’s cafeteria, placing their hair in elastic bands and snipping the hair.
“I feel really good,” Patel said afterwards, sporting a new bob. “The hair will grow back, and it’s for a good cause.”
Sisters Megan and Lauren Rose had not yet gotten their hair cut.
They both said they were nervous, but were resolute in going forward, because they were getting their hair cut in honor of Leo Johnson, a friend who died last year of cancer at age 13.
“We really wanted to do something for him,” Megan said.
Added Lauren: “I think he would be proud.”
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