By Anna Gibbs
Though the holiday season has passed, the Ohio University Women’s Club is still feeling the kindhearted spirit.
Alumni and friends are welcome to join the OU Women’s Club, a club for women who are new, established or retired faculty/administrators, or wives/domestic partners of OU faculty/administrators and Board of Trustees, in making earrings to donate to Ears to You. Ears to You is an organization that donates handmade earrings to women undergoing chemotherapy. It began at the Cleveland Clinic and later became a national philanthropy.
“Did I expect it to go national? I guess in the beginning I was hoping that I could find enough earrings through donations to be able to support the Cleveland Clinic,” said Ruth Crane, the founder of Ears to You and a cancer survivor in an email. “I quickly realized that yes, we could find support and that we could slowly expand to more hospitals and cancer centers as our supply of earrings grew and our base of support expanded.”