We’re now roughly 24 hours away from the culmination of Chamber Day 2018 and we are sooooo close to $65,000!!! You guys continually amaze us.

We start this one with amazing dual Gold contributions from the Scuba.com family. The first is $1,000 in the name of Scuba.com and it’s always nice when you see this type of local support from a business that exists not only on-line, but also on a national level. But the second part of that is a donation from Melinda Herndon is her name (and that of the Herndon family) for another $1,000. We are very grateful for both of these.

We’re also grateful for a $1,000 donation from the Roddenberry Foundation, a longtime supporter of our Chamber at the Gold level. Space may have been “the final frontier” but diving (and the perils that go with it that our Chamber deals with) is a frontier also to be supported and explored.

We also need to correct a previous listing of a Silver donation which should have read as being from the Jeremy & Marlo Wolf Family Foundation. And we want to acknowledge a new Silver-level donation from John Cook.

It’s literally the home stretch but we can still use the help. There’s no such thing as “too much” support. If you’re waiting until the last minute, this would be that. Go to the direct donation link: https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/chamberday/payment.cfm and join this updated list of Chamber Challenge donors:

CHAMBER CHALLENGE 2018 - $64,716 total (Updated 5/1/2018 @ 8PM)
New donors are marked with an asterisk.

Diamond ($10,000 & up)
Ocean Institute

Platinum ($5,000-9,999)
Galileo Capri
In memory of Dr. Jeff Sipsey (Anonymous)
Mike Emmerman, Pat Stockhausen, & TJ
Antelope Valley Desert Divers

Gold ($1,000-4,999)
* Scuba.com
* Melinda Herndon
* The Roddenberry Foundation
Divers Alert Network
Maja Vrvilo
Andrew Pilmanis
South Orange County Dive Club
Hollywood Divers
Beach Cities Scuba
Pacific Wilderness
Billy Chambers
John Delaney

Silver ($500-999)
* Jeremy & Marlo Wolf Family Foundation
* John Cook
Norman & Marilyn Deatherage
Reef Seekers Dive Co.
Ocean Adventures Dive Co.
In memory of Patrick Smith (Gary & Deanne King)
Rex Uber
Craig & Leesa Walker Foundation

James Whipple
In memory of Patrick Smith (Channel Islands Dive Adventures)
Ethan Bush
Susy Horowitz
Angi & Ron Burkard
Phillips 66 / 76 match (Burkard)
Mike Couffer
Don Lake
In memory of Tom Wetzel (Karl Huggins)

Bronze ($100-499)
* In honor of Olly Harris (Susy Horowitz)
* Nancy Fisher
* In memory of Lee Somers (Jadine Moy)
* Rusty Luper
* In memory of Captain Timothy Burke (Captains Michael & Kimberly Lancaster)
* Jerome Kasper
* Layne Ballard
Scott Barnes
In memory of Captain Tim Burke (diver.net)
Sea Divers Dive Club (SeaDivers.org)
Dark-Thirty Divers
Gregory Honore’
Thomas Penn
Joe Takahashi
In memory of Captain Tom Binkley & Kevin Binkley (Cee Ray Dive buddies)
Jean Cassidy
Michael Madden
In memory of Charlie the dog (Marilyn Lawrence)
Skip Abelson
Jesse & Tracy Crane
Barnacle Busters LGBTQ Dive Club
Kevin Augarten
Laura & Robert Mosqueda
Mark Stab
OCUPS
David Rosario
In memory of Patrick Smith (Roger Carlson)
In memory of Captain Patrick Smith (Dale & Kim Sheckler)
In memory of David Witmer (Diane Witmer)
Jean-Yves Couleaud
Glenn Harrington
Raymond Kiel
Ron Coverston
Dan & Betty Orr
James Ruddick
PCH Scuba
Dana Rodda
In memory of Patrick Smith (Cindy Shaw)
Martha Somers
Louis Weisberg, M.D.
The Benavides Family
J Tregre
Laguna Sea Dwellers
Bill Holzer
Rachel Lance
Jing Yeo
Gary Sanders
Christopher Madsen
In honor of the AOP dive volunteers (Jeanne Sleeper)
In memory of Tim Burke (Susy Horowitz)
Tim Fitzhugh
GEICO match (Fitzhugh)
In memory of Max Von Klein (Fiona Macfarlane)
In honor of the Pacific Grove Hyperbaric Chamber (Margaret Donat)
Allison Vitsky & Andy Sallmon
Pfizer match (Vitsky & Sallmon)
In memory of Tom Wetzel (Kathy Kalohi)
Laurie Kasper
In memory of Tom Wetzel UICC 25 (Glenn & Kathryn Harrington)
Michael Faust
In memory of Tom Wetzel (Daniel Roberts)
Henry Gittler
Francesco Cameli
Stuart Berryhill
Scot & Karen Parker
Google match (Parker)
Roy Houston
Larry Thompson
Tina Branca

Other (less than $100)
Ric Aceves
Bonny Bentzin
Brock Dewey
Paul Weers
Debbie Rubin
______________________________________
Ken Kurtis
Chairman, Chamber Day/Eve 2018
& the entire Chamber Day 2018 Committee
www.chamberday.org
310/652-499