DIVE PRACTICUM – Dive student Karson Winslow hands a discarded garden hose to SCUBA instructor Haleigh Damron, standing on the dock, at Crescent Harbor this afternoon. The University of Alaska Southeast Sitka Campus Dive Team is clearing trash from the harbor floor under floats 5, 6 and 7 as part of their instruction. Fourteen student divers are taking part this year. This is the fifth year the dive team has volunteered to clean up Sitka harbors. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Tomorrow is February 22, which means (and this may be stating the obvious) that we will be exactly 27 weeks away from World Beard Day, held the first Saturday in September. Which also means that those with the capability should start growing now.
Or earlier, depending on desired length. In 2016, GQ magazine published research indicating that the average beard grows .016 inches per day – a figure they call the “ideal growth constant.”
But we don’t exist in an ideal world, and neither do our beards. GQ recognized this, and came up with a second figure that accounts for the fact that beard hairs grow not in straight lines, but squiggly ones. This figure, the “apparent growth constant,” is .011 inches per day.
You don’t need to be a mathematician to determine when you should start growing. All you need to do is take your Goal Beard Length in inches (GBL) and divide it by the apparent growth constant. That gives you the number of days it will take to grow a beard that long.
For example, let’s say you had a GBL of 12 inches. You’d plug 12/.011 into a calculator, and discover that growing a 12-inch beard from scratch would take an average of 1,090 days. To be ready for World Beard Day 2020, you would need to have stopped shaving on September 5, 2017. (Of course, certain unguents could speed things along – see a link to our favorites at the bottom of this article.)
But all this is quantitative data, and the Sentinel wanted qualitative data. In search of the human element, bearded Sentinel staff members asked bearded Sitkans a simple question: What does your beard mean to you?
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Norm Campbell
“Tons of people now wear little beards like this, and it’s sort of interesting to see who does and who doesn’t. I have no overriding reason for doing it, no justification for doing it, no sensible reason for doing it – and I can’t remember why I did it in the first place!”
Jesse Pepper
“I don’t know, rugged Alaskan? Keeps me warm in the winter? That’s the main one — it keeps me warm in the winter. It’s my face jacket.”
Joel Hanson
“It means having to shave less often. I used to have a much fuller beard, but then I shaved it off and my son didn’t recognize me, so I compromised. He was ten when I shaved it, now he’s 39. But every once in a while I let it go a little bit crazy.”
Charles Dean
“As odd as it sounds, for me it’s just a display of masculinity – there you have it.”
Jay Newman
“It’s fitting the hairstyle and fitting the whole feel of the personality – like, how you feel that day. Sometimes I feel like being nice and clean and shaven and having a haircut. But if I let the hair go like this, I want my face to match the hair. So I think that’s one of the main reasons I like to keep this beard a little bit long, until I get a haircut – then it’s all going to be shaved off.
Kayla Newman: “I’ve been with him 5 years, and I’ve never seen him baby-faced.”
Jay Newman: “I guess that’s another thing – it’s for the ladies too.”
Jim Hartman
“My wife would divorce me if she saw my face.”
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Photo caption: Sitka High students in the guitar music class gather in the hall before the school’s spring concert. The concert was dedicated to music instructor Brad Howey, who taught more than 1,000 Sitka High students from 1993 to 2004. From left are Kristina Bidwell, Rachel Ulrich, Mitch Rusk, Nicholas Mitchell, Eris Weis and Joey Metz.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1974
The Fair Deal Association of Sealaska shareholders selected Nelson Frank as their candidate for the Sealaska Board of Directors at the ANB Hall Thursday.