May 2, 2005: Headlines: COS - Armenia: Humor: Hair Removal: Omaha World-Herald: Andrew Ensz and his wife are going to Armenia with the Peace Corps next month. Short hair is mandatory.
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May 2, 2005: Headlines: COS - Armenia: Humor: Hair Removal: Omaha World-Herald: Andrew Ensz and his wife are going to Armenia with the Peace Corps next month. Short hair is mandatory.
Andrew Ensz and his wife are going to Armenia with the Peace Corps next month. Short hair is mandatory.
Andrew Ensz and his wife are going to Armenia with the Peace Corps next month. Short hair is mandatory.
Taffy does wonders as hair remover
May 2, 2005 - Omaha World-Herald
Caption: The photo above is for illustrative purposes only and is *not* Andrew Ensz.
The things kids will do for a piece of Laffy Taffy . . . .
Andrew Ensz told students at Westside Middle School that he would cut his hair at a school assembly if they raised $1,000 for the Nebraska AIDS Project.
Andrew's big, curly hair was famous at Westside, where he works as a technical aide. The kids knew him as Afro Guy. (And, occasionally, Sideshow Bob.)
The hair had to go. Andrew and his wife are going to Armenia with the Peace Corps next month. Short hair is mandatory.
Andrew wanted to get as much good out of this haircut as possible. If the kids at Westside came anywhere close to $1,000, he still would have rewarded them.
They didn't come close. In the spirit of Andrew's 'fro, Westside students went way over the top. The final tally was $1,700.
Much of that money was raised one day at lunch. Andrew offered candy to the table in each section of the cafeteria that donated the most money. Bidding wars ensued. "A couple of pieces of Laffy Taffy go a long way."
The 'fro finally fell Tuesday at a school assembly. Eight students got to wield scissors.
The results weren't pretty. Andrew had to have his wife cut his hair even shorter before he could go on with the school day.
"It was going to be a distraction . . . I looked like Bert from Bert and Ernie."
It's taken him a few days to feel like himself again. His head is cold, and he keeps feeling phantom hair fall in his face. The kids till tease him.
"Some kids say I look like Adam Sandler now."
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Story Source: Omaha World-Herald
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