Badin students part with hair to raise money for cancer

Ashley Couch, of The Main Look in Hamilton, styles Katelyn Moss’ newly shortened hair during Badin High School’s “Good Hair Day” assembly Monday Feb. 1, 2010. Several students had their hair trimmed to donate to Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths program to kick off the school’s 36th annual Catholic Schools Week. Their hair will be used to make free wigs for women who have lost their hair to cancer.

Staff photo by Nick Daggy Ashley Couch, of The Main Look in Hamilton, styles Katelyn Moss’ newly shortened hair during Badin High School’s “Good Hair Day” assembly Monday Feb. 1, 2010. Several students had their hair trimmed to donate to Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths program to kick off the school’s 36th annual Catholic Schools Week. Their hair will be used to make free wigs for women who have lost their hair to cancer.

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By Richard O Jones, Staff Writer 9:59 PM Monday, February 1, 2010

HAMILTON — Badin High School senior and co-captain of the cheerleading squad Stacie Zeis hasn’t had her hair “seriously cut” since the second grade.

But on Monday, Feb. 1, she gave up eight inches of her dark locks to help raise money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

“My aunt has cancer, so I thought it would be a good cause,” Zeis said. “I’ve always worn my hair long, so this is a little out of the box.”

Zeis was among about a dozen Badin girls who paid $10 for the privilege to have stylists from Unique Designs in Fairfield and the Main Look in Hamilton — including alumnas Ashley Couch and Gillian Palmer — take scissors to their tresses in front of the entire school for hair donations to Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths program. Their hair will be used to make free wigs for women who have lost their hair to cancer.

Badin’s Good Hair Assembly followed a schoolwide Mass Monday morning to kick off Catholic Schools Week.

In order to give the Badin’s boys a chance to participate, the school temporarily suspended its no facial hair rule for three weeks so they could compete in a “Stashe-A-Thon,” with sophomore Grant Fields earning bragging rights for his superb goatee.

Badin also will celebrate Catholic Schools week with its annual blood drive, with a goal of 100 pints of blood from students 16 and older and administration, faculty and staff. It also will hold a Civil Rights program with Flonzie Brown Wright as the keynote speaker on Friday.

“We always look forward to the opportunity to celebrate our Catholic school identity,” Principal Frank Margello said. “Catholic school education means a lot to our students and they are proud to wear the uniform of a Badin High School student.”

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati is the 26th largest Catholic diocese in the country, with almost 500,000 Catholics, and has the eighth largest network of Catholic schools in terms of enrollment. The 19-county territory includes 218 parishes and 115 Catholic primary and secondary schools.

Contact this reporter at (513) 820-2188 or rjones@coxohio.com.

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