Claire Crawford of Starkville created "Claire's Bears," a project to comfort children worldwide with cleft lips and palates by giving them teddy bears with a stitched lip. Her idea turned into a partnership with the "Cleft Palate Foundation," an organization to help provide support for children with the birth defect, and has raised more than $10,000 toward her efforts. Crawford was honored as an outstanding community woman by the President's Commission on the Status of Women at MSU.