Spring has sprung!!! But now we need to get you to spring and support you Chamber. We slowed down a bit last week but hopefully we can resume our momentum and pick up the pace.

The good news since we last updated is that we have welcomed a former contributor back into the fold. Laurie Powers is an inactive instructor and actually stopped diving almost 20 years ago. But she’s decided to get back into things and understands the value of having a Chamber handy. So she’s coming back to us in a big way with a Gold-level $1,000 contribution. (She says it’s the same as if she’d made a $50 donation each year for the last 20 years.) We’re happy to have her back and appreciate her support.

Another person who understands the value of our Chamber is Sean Eckley, who’s in at the Silver level with a $500 donation. Sean’s is a DSO (Dive Safety Officer) at the Aquarium of the Pacific specifically dealing with Aquarium dives and divers in the ocean and Sean definitely appreciates the fact that our Chamber will be there 24/7/366 should the need arise.

We’re closing in on $50,000 and hopefully on our way to a new record for the Challenge this year. We’ve got a little over five weeks to go but there are still a lot of you who contributed last year who we haven’t heard from . . . yet . . . this year. So how about it? Who’s next? Here’s the direct link to the donation page to get your name on our list: https://usc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_88ko1OUej3lAYbI

CHALLENGE 2024 - $48,075 total (as of 3/24/2024 @ 9AM)
New donors are in bold type and 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)
* Laurie Powers
Jeanne Sleeper
Pacific Wilderness
John Delaney

Silver ($500-999)
* Sean Eckley
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)
* Stuart Berryhill
* Jeff Lewis
* Michelle Leonard
* In honor of Bob & Tina Kennedy (Jack Scarrett)
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