Mid-Michigan Muskies - who can tell me more about the group?

 

Yesterday, while sorting some CMU Athletics folders, I found this 1958 photograph in a folder labeled Swimming Miscellaneous. The caption glued to the photograph is: Mt. Pl. Michigan, Members of the Mid-Michigan Muskies, a skin-diving group composed of Central Michigan College students, take their skin-diving seriously. Here, some of the divers prepare to go under 7 inches of ice covering the Mount Pleasant Mill Pond. The group boasts 40 members, two of which are women. Last summer, the Muskies found a 200-foot schooner at Lake Charlevoix. United Press Telephoto. 1958 is written in ink on the label. 

A few things about this label. First it is interesting to me that both men and women were skin diving at the time. Secondly a press photographer took the photograph because CMU did not have staff photographers until the 1980s, so it is common to find photographs taken by family members, students, members of the public, or the press in CMU Athletics records. The unidentified schooner is likely the Keuka which sank in 1932, was 172 feet long, and remains a popular dive site, see https://3dshipwrecks.org/shipwreck-keuka/.  Bowling Green State University has an excellent online searchable database on vessels of the Great Lakes https://greatlakes.bgsu.edu/vessels if you want to learn more about Keuka or other vessels.

The same photograph was featured in the 1958 CMU Chippewa yearbook with the edited caption "The Mid-Michigan Muskies, a skin-diving group of Central students, prepare for a "January Morn" dip under seven inches of ice covering the Mt. Pleasant Mill Pond." 

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This is the only image of the Mid-Michigan Muskies in the box I was sorting. I also found one club notice in Central Michigan Life dated December 6, 1957 which reads as follows: The Mid-Michigan Muskies (skin-divers of this area) will meet on Thursday nights December 12 and 19 from 7:30 to9:30 at the college pool. Bring suits and towels. No equipment necessary, but you may bring it if you own some.

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Prior to this, I had no idea this group existed. If any of you know a Mid-Michigan Muskie please contact me at matyn1mj@cmich.edu. I'd like to know more about the group. I wonder if it only existed that one year, where else they dove and why, and what happened to these divers?