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SEARCHPivot Point and Beauty Changes Lives are partnering to offer the Leo Passage Endowment Fund to benefit competition, scholarships and lifelong learning for students and professionals.
Pivot Point International, Inc. and Beauty Changes Lives announced at PBA Beauty Week in Las Vegas that they are partnering to offer the Leo Passage Endowment Fund to benefit competition, scholarships and lifelong learning for students and professionals.
The Passage family has established the $1 million fund in remembrance of Pivot Point founder Leo Passage, who passed away in 2011.
"When I saw what P&G did to honor Vidal Sassoon [P&G donated $1 million+ for advanced education], and what [CND founder] Jan Arnold did to honor the Vietnamese nail movement, my mother and I knew it would be a great way to honor my father's legacy through endowment to Beauty Changes Lives in his name," says Robert Passage, Pivot Point chairman and CEO and son to the late Leo Passage. "My father believed wholeheartedly in providing hair, beauty and wellness professionals a thorough and complete education in their craft, as well as how to be successful."
The fund will support competition entries, scholarships and lifelong learning so that students and professionals alike can continue their journeys in education.
Leo Passage discovered his passion for hair design at an early age while watching his father run a hair salon in Belgium. He founded Pivot Point in Chicago in 1962 with five students and one classroom. He is credited with changing the concepts behind cosmetology education and shattering the myth that successful designers must be born with an artistic ability. Today, there are schools and advanced centers in 74 countries teaching the "Designer's Approach" to Cosmetology.
During his career, Passage won nearly 100 competitions and was a tremendous advocate for competition. In 1961, he captured the titles of World Supreme Champion and Hairdresser of the Year at the International Beauty Show in New York City. Passage’s passion for competing lives on through his international Pivot Point Academies and member schools.
"Competition in general has waned a bit in the United States, but it's alive and well in many other countries, I'd like to see the U.S. get more involved," Robert Passage says. "Competition allowed my father to not only express his creativity, but allowed him to work on discipline and hard work that helped him later in life create and grow his business. I've seen so many successful people get their start in the competition arena by learning those skill sets."
Additionally, Beauty Changes Lives President Lynelle Lynch announced that the 2015 Legacy Award event will be held in honor of Leo Passage on Sat., March 21, 2015 in Chicago during America's Beauty Show.
"Leo Passage was more than an esteemed icon–he was a true visionary," Lynch says. "His generosity and passion for professional excellence, competitions and lifelong learning will live on and provide opportunities for a new generation of hair, beauty and wellness visionaries."
For more information, visit beautychangeslives.org.
When Pivot Point International founder Leo Passage died in 2011, his wife Lenie and son Robert knew they wanted to honor his legacy.
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