College of Charleston - Comet Yearbook (Charleston, SC)

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96 Scuba Club The College of Charleston Scu- ba Club was formed for the pur- pose of promoting interest and en- couraging participation in skin and scuba diving for scientific and re- creational purposes, to bring club members into the awareness of the diving potential of surrounding areas, the jobs open to them in the field of diving and to advance safe- Scuba Club ty and appreciation of diving. Jeff Seel is president and Betsy Sikes is vice-president of the forty- five member club, which sponsors lectures, diving classes, and river diving expeditions. The steering committee is composed of Scott Poaps, Steve Wenzel, and Dan Davis, with Bill King serving as ad- visor. ee i oy thin feedings Ae tei cae

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O25 A aD we ROC A ETRDR Mm 98 Peer Mentors When you first set foot on campus during Orientation, you couldn’t figure it out — did the “P.M.” on their shirts stand for Prime Minister? Or were they just ‘‘night people’”’ and wanted every- one to know it? It didn’t take long to figure out that it stood for Peer Mentor and that the people wearing these shirts were the hub of a unique program that matched up incoming fresh- men with older and (hope- fully) wiser volunteer upper- classmen. M’s: Here To Help The program started in 1978, with a proposal by the SGA Academic Affairs committee. The plan was well received and imple- mented almost immediately with the first week-long ori- entation program. Many freshmen who went through the first PM orien- tation signed up to become PM’s the next year, and this has helped to keep the pro- gram ‘‘self-perpetuating,”’ according to Dr. Frank Van Aalst — director of the pro- gram. Steering Committee, Row 1: JoAnna Bertilacci, Anne Halford, Mi- chelle Batchelor, Thomas Pilgrim, Olivia Jennings. Row 2: Steve Ro- sebrock, Karla Foster, Blair Chambliss.