Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!! And since today’s official color is green, it’s the perfect day to tell you about the “green” we’ve added to the Challenge, as we squeak past $46,000!!!

This huge jump comes courtesy of longtime Challenge donor Glenn Suhd, who again this year has decided to support our Chamber with a fabulous Diamond-level donation of $10,000. Glenn considers himself just a “regular” diver who simply loves being underwater and understands the value of our Chamber should something go awry. Even more interesting is that Glenn rarely (if ever) dives SoCal waters anymore and does most of his submersion in tropical waters. But he knows that our Chamber needs to be there for other local divers as well as he knows that some of the techniques and treatments that are developed through our Chamber can be shared with other chambers around the world and in that way, might eventually benefit him as well.

So whether you do all of your diving here, some of your diving here, or none of it here, your Chamber still needs to be there for the local SoCal diving community. Chamber Day helps provide a significant percentage of the annual funding for our Chamber, and the Chamber Challenge provides a major portion of the final amount raised by the overall event.

So who’s next??? Who will push us over $50,000? It doesn’t have to happen with just one donation because, as much as we appreciate (and need) those $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 donations, all of those $100 and $500 ones really add up (and make up the majority of the Challenge donations). Here’s the direct link to the donation page to get your name added to our list: https://usc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_88ko1OUej3lAYbI

CHALLENGE 2024 - $46,025 total (as of 3/17/2024 @fa 1PM)
New donors are marked with an asterisk.

Diamond ($10,000-14,999)
* Glenn Suhd
Antelope Valley Desert Divers

Platinum ($5,000-9,999)
Mike Emmerman, Patricia Stockhausen, and TJ
In memory of Leslie Holtman, Ron Riddle, Greg Tashjian, & Paul Kanner (Dr. Susy Horowitz)
James Collins

Gold ($1,000-4,999)
Jeanne Sleeper
Pacific Wilderness
John Delaney

Silver ($500-999)
Roy Houston
CA Diving News / the Scuba Show
In memory of Tom Wetzel (Patti Wetzel)
Mark Chambers
Mark Stabb
In memory of Dr. Lee H. Somers (Karl Huggins)
Don Lake
Roger Carlson
Brad Crocker
Matt Levinson

Bronze ($100-499)
* Unes Nabipour
* In memory of Mars Brownsen (Anthony Bailey)
James Ruddick
Bob & Laura Mosqueda
Mike Couffer
Gina Boster
Susan Bangasser
Lukas Holsen
Henry Gittler & Lisette Lieberman
Cindy Shaw
In honor of Da boy, Daniel Wright
Gary Sterling
Mark Perlstein
In honor of David Pechman, M.D. (Brock Dewey)
Ken Nelson
In memory of Tom Wetzel (Tabby Stone & Linda Takvorian)
Sharon DePriester
Kevin Zagorski
Ellen Berman

Other (under $100)
Dan & Betty Orr
Lawrence Shack