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e Beck? Beads
Continued from 1A Mount Olive
wasn’t long before he established a
fundraising venture to benefit Cure College senior
International’s outreach programs. Samantha Otellio,
“Beads for Baby Claire” was born. a fine arts major,
• cuts strips of col-
Fine arts major Samantha Otellio orful paper to
paused to wipe her paste-covered fin-
gers on her jeans, which were already make more beads.
dotted with dried bits of Elmer’s glue. The students bor-
She gently brushed aside the four rowed the idea
thick strands of hand-made beads from the Ugandan
already looped around her neck, the
resulting effort of hours of work. women who sell
The small tables in Laughinghouse paper beads to
Hall, loaded with pizza and old maga- help offset the
Photo submitted zines, were a world away from the cost of their chil-
cousins in hospital in Uganda, but the volun-
teers gathered around the tables dren’s health care.
were likewise busy making beads. The class plans to
Start with a long, triangular piece start selling the

s fun of colorful paper. Fold the flat end

over, creating a tunnel for the string.
Roll the strip until it reaches the
point, and glue it down.
beaded necklaces,
bracelets and ear-
rings on campus
around Nov. 1.
oad Miss Otellio, a senior, added her
bead to a growing pile, and reached
for the scissors to cut more strips of
paper from a colorful magazine.
Student athlete Mandy Hensley, 23,
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MICHAEL BETTS

bracelets, even earrings, and sell

my tent, I “I usually like ones that have a lot
last minute of color, a lot of designs in them,” she dropped by the bead-rolling session them on the Mount Olive College
riend Lisa’s said. “I like to layer them, put two on one night long after most other campus this fall. The prices are not
eveland, top of each other.” Mount Olive College students had determined yet, but will be inexpen-
When Miss Otellio signed up for the retired to their dorm rooms. Despite sive, with the hope that everyone can
cal hotels three-credit-hour “art with a cause” her busy schedule, the transfer stu- afford to buy one, Lean said.
olid and/or class, she wasn’t sure what to expect. dent eagerly jumped in to help. “It’s about changing people’s lives,
than I want- The class is dedicated to producing “The cause is just great, and we’re and changing people’s hearts and
art that is then sold, and the money kind of all getting together, getting minds. I want everyone to be
o Lisa’s given to a worthy organization. creative,” Miss Hensley said. involved,” he said.
e and pitched Beads for Baby Claire came as a And as an artist, she’s looking for- Dozens of students joined in making
ent in her complete surprise, but once her ward to seeing others wearing the the beads, and not all of them were
yard. It was friends heard about it, they changed group’s creations, and knowing that part of the class. Friends and room-
middle of the their minds about the class, Miss her work is going to help support mates were drafted into the project as
, and I didn’t Otellio said. children in need. news spread about what the art
to wake her “Everybody was like, ‘Have fun “I’m hoping that they’ll know their department is trying to accomplish.
y so I left a making birdhouses,’ but I was like, money goes to a good cause,” she said. The art students are close, like a
on their back you know what, for some reason I Although it is usually only women family, Lean said, and in a way, they
explaining still want to do it. Then the first day in Uganda who make the beads, adopted baby Claire as an honorary
I was. of class when he told us about the young men in the art program were member.
the morning, project, I think we all agreed every- getting their hands covered in ink •
asked her body’s heart just melted when he told and glue to fashion the paper Claire’s brief life ended in a crowded
ing photogra- us the story about it,” she said. “He baubles, too. hospital, but nearly 8,000 miles away,
to take a said, ‘OK, we start Tuesday,’ and “Real men roll beads,” Lean joked, as the Mount Olive College students are
ograph of me most all of us brought beads with us. he worked on making some of his own. making sure her memory fuels a
ng in my We said OK, we already rolled some. The students will string the brighter future for the children of
She wanted It just kind of really lit a fire under thousands of handmade beads in Uganda.
member her us to do it.” attractive patterns on necklaces, “Because it changed (Katherine’s)
y college life, the project Beads for Baby Claire
nd, who Mount Olive College art is changing others’ lives,” Lean said.
ped in her professor Larry Lean And for his own daughter, it’s a
night before looks over a slide show new beginning, too — and a very per-
of pictures of his sonal one, she said.
e, I passed daughter Katherine’s “It was such a defining moment in
ey, Neb., mission trip to Uganda. my life to realize this is what I want
nd, Cheryl, to fight for the rest of my life. To know
her address, He showed the
presentation to his “art that their project is going to help
ea where it something that meant so much to me
his was with a cause” students
is really, really rewarding,” she said.
o I inquired to explain the story “I feel like Uganda gave so much to
epartment. behind the Beads for me. People are like, wow, you went on
ved, I saw Baby Claire project. this trip, but my initial thought was,
the living Dozens of Mount Olive isn’t that what we’re called to do?
e front door College students are Like Mother Theresa said, give, and
nlocked so I creating beads in honor give until it hurts, and give some
he house. more. Uganda ended up giving more
st had a of Claire’s memory.
to me than I could imagine.”
Believe me,
choice words The Beads for Baby Claire project will begin selling handmade bead jewelry in November in the Lois K. Murphy Regional
entually she
e me, and we Center on the Mount Olive College Campus. Prices are still being determined for the necklaces, bracelets and earrings, and
led with donations beyond the cost of the items are accepted with all proceeds going to Cure International. For more information
about the project or buying the beads, contact professor Larry Lean at 658-7181.
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