College of Charleston - Comet Yearbook (Charleston, SC)

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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.

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