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groups: AIDS Peer Educators (in response to campus fears and uncertainty
about HIV/AIDS) and Shady Gators (skin cancer prevention). Emmerée took over
coordination of the eating disorders peer education group S.A.V.E. (Society’s
Attitudes and Values about Eating) from the Counseling Center. From 19911997, Rae Maren, Director of Nursing at the Student Health Care Center, directed
the Health Education Department. At the end of Maren’s tenure, Jane C ullen
assumed the role of Director of Nursing and Health Education.
In the mid-1990s, the Health Education Department added nutrition therapy
services to its mission. In 1996, Hannah Stahmer, a Registered Dietician, was hired
to provide free nutrition counseling to students and outreach and education
in the areas of nutrition and eating disorders. Janis Mena, also a Registered
Dietician, was hired in 1996 to join Stahmer in providing comprehensive nutrition
counseling, presentations and other outreach efforts.
In 1997, the Campus Alcohol and Drug Resource Center (CADRC) moved from
the Division of Student Affairs to the Health Education Department when
U.S. Department of Education Funds for the Improvement of Post-Secondary
Education (FIPSE) grant funding ended and its director, Assistant Dean of
Students Liz Broughton, transferred to the College of Education. Andy Miller, a
health educator, assumed the directorship of CADRC within the Health Education
Department and provided programming for alcohol and other drugs. In 1998,
Auth, Emmerée, Miller, and peer education students planned and implemented
the long-sustained “GatorWell” Health Hut Program utilizing peer educators to
disseminate information on key health issues at various locations throughout
campus. The first recruitment of student “wellness educators” to staff the Hut
was held at the end of Fall 1998 with training and campus programming and
outreach beginning in January 1999. Emmerée served as the first coordinator of
the Health Hut program, followed by Michael Schmoyer, a doctoral student who
worked briefly with the Health Education Department in 2000.
In January 2000, Emmerée left the department to pursue her doctoral degree
at UF, and two additional health educators were hired, Tavis Glassman (April
2000) and Tina Baker (August 2000). Baker was charged with the coordination
of the Health Hut Program following the departure of Schmoyer. Glassman was
hired to replace Miller (who left in 1999), whose position included overseeing
the Campus Alcohol & Drug Resource Center (CADRC). Shortly after Glassman

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