Twenty-four students who donated their hair to Locks of Love are, front from left, Katie Dubielak, Rachel Wolf, Elena Ruiz-Krause, Abby Bond, Emily Fawcett and Julia Quiroga. Middle, from left, Abby Lambert, Dana Killam, Audrey Lucius, Nina Farrar, Sarah Pawlaczyk, Gabby Trajanowski, Emma Miller, Sam Zoepke, Kelly Baas and Kristen Forche. Back, from left, Megan Leidy, Nicole Seambos, Kayla Jablonski, Kelsey Greenoe, Alana Sullivan, Kelly Showmaker, Nicole Fernandez and Katie Kaser.

Stylists from Camelot Salon in Holland donated their time and talent to chop the students’ locks to help children who suffer from a long-term medical loss of hair. Camelot Salon has been involved with this project at SUA since 2005.

Dianne Babiuch, owner of Camelot Salon, was inspired to establish this partnership by her daughter, Jessica, an SUA graduate.

“My daughter started the whole idea,” says Ms. Babiuch. “When Locks of Love was mentioned as an idea to do for Lenten service projects, she immediately said, ‘My mom can do that!’ So we started with her class in ’05 and have been doing it every year since.”