Thursday, March 16, 2000
Principal parts with his hair
Basketball team makes the cut
BY JANE PRENDERGAST
The Cincinnati Enquirer
NEWPORT — The principal started this whole thing himself. He offered to get a public haircut if the Newport Central Catholic boys basketball team brought home the 9th Region championship.
They did, so he did.
Carl Foster parted with his hair at a school assembly Wednesday morning. He thought a barber would do the honors, but no — the players took turns and even handed the clippers over to a couple of cheerleaders. They had no intention of leaving any hair behind.
“He only agreed to a cut,” said the principal's wife, Mary Jo. “I think the kids had other plans.”
She was his girlfriend back in '63 when his hair was just as buzzed. He was playing basketball then. He held the school scoring record until 1992.
But Wednesday, he just wanted to send the players off to their next game, later in the day, with fresh inspiration. So he sat in the middle of the gym, draped in a purple smock and with music blaring, as the players took a lot off.
The hair will grow back in plenty of time for the end of the school year, when he retires after more than 20 years at his alma mater.
The shaving did not, unfortunately, guarantee another win.
The Thoroughbreds lost to Louisville Male 61-41 — with their newly bald principal watching.
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