The Blend promotes “Project Happiness” at PJC
Published or Revised November 12, 2012
PJC’s The Blend members made tie-dye shirts to wear on the Homecoming float as part of Project Happiness. Shown from left are PJC students Cedric McCullough, Hillary Pearce, Emily McDaniel, David Malicoat and Dominique Jamin.
The Paris Junior College student club The Blend has worked all semester on Project Happiness. The campaign is designed to "activate happiness in your community," according to club sponsor and PJC Spanish instructor Kelli Ebel.
As part of the campaign, club members placed signs around campus, hoping to inspire fellow students. The notes are mostly placed on benches where students will notice them between classes.
Another part of the project was The Blend's PJC Homecoming Parade entry.
"The idea of the float was that we are all unique puzzle pieces and when you put the pieces together, they spelled 'Humankind,'" said Ebel. "When one club member pointed out that Humankind does not have a history of being very kind, we created the pieces of the puzzle to give the message 'Human (be) Kind.'"
Students created their own t-shirts by tie-dyeing them on a pretty day prior to the parade, and wore them on the float. They threw out multi-colored candy attached to small strips of paper with different words such as compassion, joy, hope, kindness and generosity. On the back of each strip was the message "Open Your Mind and Mix It Up!"
