Photo by Nicholas Payne
On March 23, 2013 ten Peter Mayer employees shaved their heads to help fight childhood cancer. Led by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, an organization committed to finding a cure for childhood cancer, the annual shave-off helps raise funds for cancer research.
This year, the event was held in Mid-City at Finn McCool’s Irish Pub, and 19 teams from New Orleans participated. For the first time in the history of Peter Mayer, a female employee volunteered to shave her head.
Standing in solidarity with the thousands of children who lose their hair each year while battling cancer, April Hirsch helped the Peter Mayer team collectively raise $17,630. This placed Peter Mayer’s Bald Beauties as the highest grossing team of the entire New Orleans event.
A picture of the Peter Mayer team before the event:
Photo by Nicholas Payne
And after the shave-off:
Photo by Nicholas Payne
A huge thank you to April Hirsch and all the employees who participated: Josh Mayer, Joel Mooy, Richard Landry, Jeremy Corbett, Ryan Page, Colin Secor, George Morse, Jeremy Dolan and Creighton Chamberlain.
We were so inspired by April’s commitment to fighting cancer that we are helping her raise $3,100 to continue to help further childhood cancer research.
Each day this month, April will try on different head adornments to celebrate her baldness. On April 2, a fuzzy Santa wig crawled onto her head. On Friday, she donned elf garb. Whoever said moustaches were just for faces? Not April.
As April tries on different bald-dos, we ask others to support her by donating to St. Baldrick’s. April’s goal is to raise $100 a day during the #31DaysofApril – $3,100 total by the end of the month.
During our #31DaysOfApril fundraising drive, we’re well aware that there are only 30 days in April. And, just as April went the extra mile and sacrificed years worth of hair growth to make Peter Mayer’s team the highest grossing team of the event, we ask that you help us go one extra day to raise just $100 more to help.
On that final day, April 31, 2013 (conventionally known as May 1, 2013), her bald-do will indeed be the most spectacular.
Join us!
Donate on behalf of April now on her St. Baldrick’s page.
Visit Peter Mayer’s Twitter page to see each and every lovely bald-do.