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Chapman InnovationsTHAT MAY CHANGE OUR WORLD
Publisher: James L. Doti
President
Executive Editor:Sheryl Bourgeois
Executive Vice President for
University Advancement
Managing Editor: Mary A. Platt
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The mission of Chapman Universityis to provide personalizededucation of distinction that leadsto inquiring, ethical and productivelives as global citizens.
The excitement ranneth over after the Panthers won the final game of the 2009 water polo season, so the women decided to make theirteam photo a gleeful action shot in the Julianne Argyros Fountain atAmbassador George L. Argyros ’59 Global Citizens Plaza. Pictured from left are Lisa Horn ’12, Stephanie Roy ’12, Adrienne Lebsack ’11,Sabrina Cook Chazen ’09, Briana O'Keefe ’12, Celia Huling ’11, Arielle Worthington ’12, Hannah Thomas ’11 and Daniella Beintema ’09. The photographer is teammate Sarah Lee ’12.
UP FRONT2 President’s Message:
A community of ideas
3 Reflections on FreedomWithout Walls
4 Letters
DEPARTMENTS24 Philanthropy News
26 Sports
44 In Memoriam
46 Faculty Bookshelf
48 Faculty News
CHAPMAN NOW7 State of the University: Projects
and promise
8 Another milestone in the School of Law’s rapid rise
9 Department of Theatre achievesnational accreditation
10 “Don’t give evil a second chance,”Wiesel tells students
14 Messages of urgency at BeyondCopenhagen conference
19 A crucible called Haiti tests a Chapman senior
20 An interdisciplinary team documentsAfrica’s contrasts
22 Fences role takes Baron Kelly on a journey of discovery
COVER STORIES: BIG IDEAS28 Exploring the many mysteries
of quantum reality
34 Going above the clouds for clues to the next quake
36 Breathing new life into virtual film worlds
38 Giving voice to hope out of unspeakable darkness
40 Unearthing the economic core of cooperation
42 Bringing out the best in medical marijuana
ALUMNI NEWS8 Disney movie is a breakthrough
for Hallock Beals
49 Thomas Robichaux finds delight in the details
50 Health is at the heart ofFulbright winner’s research
51 Class Notes
55 Friends We Will Miss
56 Panthers on the Prowl
C H A P M A N M A G A Z I N E2
Board of TrusteesOFFICERS
Donald E. SodaroChairman
Doy B. Henley Executive Vice Chairman
Paul Folino Vice Chairman
David A. Janes, Sr.Vice Chairman
Scott ChapmanSecretary
Zelma M. Allred Assistant Secretary
TRUSTEES
Wylie Aitken
The Honorable
George L. Argyros ’59
Dennis Assael
Donna Ford Attallah ’61
Raj S. Bhathal
Phillip H. Case
Arlene R. Craig
Jerome Cwiertnia
Kristina Dodge
H. Ross Escalette
Barry Goldfarb
David C. Henley
Roger C. Hobbs
William K. Hood
Mark Chapin Johnson ’05
Donald P. Kennedy
Joann Leatherby
Charles D. Martin
James V. Mazzo
Randall R. McCardle ’58
S. Paul Musco
David E.I. Pyott
Harry S. Rinker
James B. Roszak
The Honorable
Loretta L. Sanchez ’82Mohindar S. SandhuJames Ronald SechristAllen L. SessomsRonald M. SimonRonald E. SoderlingGlenn B. StearnsR. David Threshie
Emily Crean Vogler
Karen R. Wilkinson ’69
David Wilson
EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEESMarta Bhathal
H. Ben Bohren Jr.James G. BrownDon DeweyRobert D. Diaz ’97James L. DotiElaine ParkeKelsey C. Smith ’05Stanley D. Smith ’67Denny Williams
TRUSTEES EMERITIRichard Bertea Lynn A. BoothJ. Ben CrowellLeslie N. DuryeaRobert A. ElliottMarion KnottThomas J. LiggettJack B. Lindquist Gloria H. Peterson ’40Cecilia PresleyBarry RodgersRichard R. Schmid
Board of GovernorsOFFICERSMarta Bhathal
Chair
Judi Garfi-PartridgeExecutive Vice Chair
Gary W. Kalbach
Vice Chair
James Burra
Secretary
GOVERNORS
Marilyn Alexander
Kathleen A. Bronstein
Kim Burdick
Michael J. Carver
Kathleen Gardarian
Lula Halfacre
Lydia Wang Himes
Sue Kint
Scott A. Kisting
Dennis Kuhl
Steven M. Lavin ’88
Ken Lineberger ’87
Jean H. Macino
Thomas Malloy
Richard D. Marconi
Melinda Masson
Nicholas R. Reed
Jerrel T. Richards
Daniel J. Starck
Ralph L. Tomlinson Jr.
Douglas E. Willits ’72
GOVERNORS EMERITUSDonald A. BuschenfieldGary E. Liebl
EX-OFFICIO GOVERNORSSheryl A. BourgeoisJames L. Doti
President’s CabinetJulianne ArgyrosHeidi Cortese-ShermanLawrence K. DodgeOnnolee Elliott ’64Dale E. Fowler ’58Douglas K. FreemanRobert GrayFrank GreinkeLynette M. HaydeGavin HerbertGeneral William LyonHadi MakarechianAnthony MoisoMilan PanicLord Swarj PaulThe Honorable Ed RoyceSusan SamueliJoseph SchuchertRalph SternDavid StoneRoger O. Walther
James L. Doti
A Community of Ideas
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR.
Life and learning are actively pursued at Chapman. We strive to create an environment where the
big ideas are explored and tough questions asked; and where innovation, creativity and freedom of
expression are celebrated. Although we are a small university, we have always been willing and able
to take risks that will help us achieve our dreams. We believe in thinking big because the world was
never improved by small thinking.
Over the past decade, we’ve constructed and dedicated many new buildings that have expanded the borders of our campus.
Now our strategy involves filling those buildings with the world’s most renowned scholars. These scientists, researchers, artists and
leaders are not only excellent professors but also change-agents. With the infusion of intellect, this campus is electric with positive
energy! When I see Professors Yakir Aharonov and Jeff Tollaksen, whose work in quantum physics was featured in a cover story
in April’s Discover magazine, hold a spirited dialogue with a small group of students on a sunny afternoon at Attallah Piazza,
it’s how I imagine that life in the Academy during the days of Plato and Aristotle must have been.
And I can’t help but wonder how many breakthroughs and discoveries that affect our world will originate at Chapman.
Regards,
CHAPMAN president ’s message
through my involvement with Freedom
Without Walls, I have learned that it can
take many years to tear down barriers.
Even though I grew up all over the world
(including West Berlin in the 1970s) due to
my father’s work with Pan American World
Airways, and although I later returned to
West Berlin as an exchange student in 1988,
I still approached the Cold War with a sense
of naïveté. I simply was unable to grapple
with its complexities. That’s why, when
I first agreed to direct Chapman's bid to
educate the next generation about the wall,
I saw myself as a facilitator, not a participant.
I didn’t realize my role would include
telling my own tale.
After reading an account of Freedom
Without Walls in the Chapman Now
publication, Kay Wickett Ostensen, Ph.D.,
counselor at Thurston Middle School
in Laguna Beach and granddaughter of
When we started planning last
fall’s Chapman events marking
the 20th anniversary of the
fall of the Berlin Wall, I never could have
imagined the many ways the campaign
would strengthen historical and community
connections. Yes, the wall was built to keep
people apart, but at Chapman, it just keeps
bringing us together.
Local Freedom Without Walls efforts,
sponsored by the German Embassy, began
after a meeting my language students and
I had with retired Air Force Col. Gail
Halvorsen at a commemoration of the 60th
anniversary of the Berlin Airlift in 2008.
Col. Halvorsen signed a copy of his book
about his role in the airlift for Guy Fox,
who in 1999 donated the services of his
global shipping company to transport a
section of the wall for permanent display
at Chapman. When Mr. Fox wrote to
thank me for the book, he mentioned
that it had special significance for him
because his aunt, Ida Larkin, had served
as a Red Cross nurse during the aerial
campaign to provide food and other
supplies to blockaded West Berlin.
Col. Halvorsen is connected to my
own family history, too. My mother
became the first German to receive a
Care Package during the Berlin Airlift,
and my father worked with the colonel
at Berlin Tempelhof Airport in the 1970s.
What’s more, my mother became one of
the first postwar exchange students to the
United States two months after the airlift
had ended. The airlift is also the essential
part of a recently published biography
by Chapman history Professor Robert
Slayton, Ph.D. — Master of the Air:
William Tunner and the Success of Military
Airlift (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama
Press, 2010; see page 47).
People build walls out of fear, and
Chapman University founder Charles C.
Chapman, introduced me to one of her
students and his father, who had escaped
communist East Germany at age 13. In an
oral history project, the student, Oliver
Rothe, described how his father, Detlev, and
his friends often stumbled upon loaded
weapons and bombs in postwar Germany:
“It was the kind of childhood where making
a mistake could be fatal.”
How is it that 11-year-old Oliver could
honor his father's story, while it has taken me
a lifetime to tell my own? As Dr. Ostensen
says, it’s often traumatic to speak about
the unspeakable. Yet the silence has finally
been broken. My quest for answers to this
question took flight over spring break, as my
mother and I traveled to Washington, D.C.
to visit Earl Albers, who as a sergeant broke
the non-fraternization policy imposed on
American soldiers in Berlin after World War II
by teaching a group of German children
to play baseball. The commander of the
American Zone in Germany, Gen. Lucius
D. Clay, caught him in the act, and Albers
was sure he would be demoted. Instead, he
became the founding member of the German
Youth Activities organization, providing a
safe place for children like my mother to
escape the fresh memories of war and learn
about democracy. It was Gen. Clay who gave
my mother the Care Package during the
airlift two years later.
Without the Freedom Without Walls
campaign, I never would have felt
compelled to make these connections.
Without Chapman’s section of the wall,
the effort wouldn’t have had nearly the
same significance.
When Guy Fox transported that piece
of concrete to Chapman, he bridged
communities. The wall has become a
communications link, and as someone
who has been at Chapman only a short
time, it has helped me feel a greater sense
of belonging here.
It’s my hope that the conversation
surrounding this enduring symbol of the
Cold War will continue to connect generations
on our campus for years to come.
[Yes, the wall was built to keep people apart, but at Chapman, it just keeps bringing us together.[
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FROM A WALL TO A BRIDGEBy Karen Gallagher, Ph.D., Instructor of German, Chapman University
Karen Gallagher, Ph.D., and business leader Guy Fox, who transported a section of the Berlin Wall from Germany to Chapman in 1999,share a moment in Liberty Plaza on campus.
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Remembering Dr. Kakis
There are several individuals who have
inspired me as great mentors through the
years. Fredric Kakis is extremely high on
my list. I had the privilege to be one of his
students while attending Chapman College and
majoring in Chemistry. He was very strong in his
dedication to his teachings and to his students.
He worked to bring the best out in all his
students and to ensure that everyone in his sphere
of influence understood not only what was critical
to the understanding of chemistry but what was
needed to build relationships together as people and as friends.
He expected a lot from his students. If you paid attention
and studied hard, you did well in his class and you felt that you accomplished
something great. You worked hard and did well on his exams because you had
an internal desire to meet Dr. Kakis’ expectations of you.
I have been very successful in my chemical engineering field over the past
35 years, working in Africa, China, South America, Australia and the U.S. to
develop better application technology and product development. My success
is in great part due to Dr. Fredric Kakis and his belief that I would be
exceptional in whatever field I chose to follow.
My heart and thanks go out to someone who really cared for and inspired
those around him. I will surely miss his smile and kind manner, and I hope
that his legacy will live on in all who knew him.
ELIOT G. QUINN ’72, NIGERIA
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This mom-and-cub artwork is the latest panther sculpture at Chapman by the nationally renowned wildlife artistRosetta. The sculpture is named in honor of HarrietSandhu and her granddaughter, Shanna Brajevic, andis meant to represent the love of the students’families and the caring family feelingevident at Chapman’s new SandhuResidence and Conference Center.
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More Alumni News, PleaseThe magazine is gorgeous, but it would be nice
to have more alumni news — not just about
those shaking up the world but about those
of us who are the “glue” of daily life.
LORI J. (VILAMIL) CHRISTIAN ’86, HEMET
Neighborly AppreciationThe magazine is very worthwhile to me as
a neighbor. I appreciate knowing about events
available to the community, as well as sharing
in the pride of Chapman students’
accomplishments.
JAN CARMICHAEL, ORANGE
A ‘Thought-provoking’ FeatureI enjoy the magazine. The feature on the liberal
arts (fall 2009) was well done and thought-
provoking for this 1970 grad with a history/
poli sci major. Kudos to (Professor Emeritus)
Jim Miller, my favorite!
LARRY PACKETT ’70, ARLINGTON, VA.
ON THE COVER: From physics to film, economics to history, big ideas abound at Chapman.
To learn more about some high-profile projects making a substantial impact, turn to page 27.
Fredric Kakis, Ph.D.
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As the clouds of a February storm parted, Matt Miller, web managing editor in Chapman’s Office of Publications & Creative Services,captured this idyllic shot of Reeves, Roosevelt and Memorial halls. Turns out you don’t always have to travel far to go chasing rainbows.
Igraduated from Chapman in 2007, and
even though I have moved a few times
since, your magazine still finds me. I
don’t have a lot of time to read it, but the
fall edition caught my eye — a picture of
Shakespeare and the fight for liberal arts.
I finally had some time read that article, and
I have to say, I was a little disappointed.
The cover clearly depicts Shakespeare,
but there was no mention of those who
pursue theatre or even film. Does theatre
even count as a liberal art anymore, or is
it simply in a category all its own? From
all the liberal arts majors, I believe theatre
receives the most adverse reactions and
condescension. How do I know this?
Because I have my bachelor’s in theatre.
I was lucky because my parents
supported me; they were never able to
really pursue their passions, and so they
wanted me to be able to pursue mine. I had
a 3.9 GPA in high school and was accepted
to all the schools I applied to as a business
major. And what did I do? I decided I didn’t
want to spend four years of my life studying
business. I had been involved in
theatre all my life, and it made
me insanely happy, so why
would I want that to change?
foundation. I love my work in production
— everything from running lights or sound
to stage crew — and the people there are my
family. There aren’t words to describe my
relief when I go to work at night and run
the lights for a one-man Gershwin show.
I may never be rich in money, but I don’t
believe that to be a measure of success.
What will it take to save theatre? It will
take $1.5 million to keep our production
space functioning until 2014. How does
one convince the powers that be to donate
to what the populace thinks is a dying
cause, a waste of time? These are the
battles that my friends and fellow theatre
alumni face.
JANETTE SHUGART ‘07, ORANGE
Chapman was a great experience for
me, and the theatre program showed me
many things I don’t think I would have
gotten out of a business degree. Since
graduating, I have made my living mostly
in theatre, working at South Coast
Repertory, Musical Theatre West and
The Laguna Playhouse.
I have been at the Playhouse for three
years, and with the state of the economy,
we are budget-cutting left and right. We
can no longer afford to produce our shows.
Instead, much of our season will consist of
hosting productions — a “show in a can,”
if you will. Many shows will come with
their own crew, and our only responsibility
will be to put it up and take it down.
I suppose I write to you to express my
sadness that no one spoke up for theatre,
a dying art form, and why we should save
it. Laguna is my home. No matter how
badly things in my life are going, it is my
Whither Theatre?
“How does one convince the powers that be to donate to what the populace thinks is a dying cause,
a waste of time?”[ [
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Chapman University is a dynamic place bustling with the energy
and electricity of 6,000 talented students from 50 states and
60 countries who are taught by more than 600 renowned faculty
from around the world.
Inspiring and life-changing exchanges take place daily on our
campus, which is abundant with opportunity and exploration.
Some have even said that there’s a bit of magic here at Chapman.
We agree with that sentiment, but we also know that support from
parents, friends and alumni plays a big role.
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An artist’s drawing depicts the planned100,000-square-foot Science Center that will include preservation and renovation
of a historic fruit-packing house.
The planned 1,100-seat Center for the Arts on campus will provide a venuefor student performers as well as for professional productions.
Plans for the Millennial Studios addition to MarionKnott Studios include a backlot and new theatre.
Among the other highlights of President
Doti’s State of the University talk:
• Despite the challenging economy,
Chapman’s financial health is strong,
with the university projecting net assets
of $550 million at the end of 2010.
• Student selectivity and average SAT scores
continue to rise as Chapman maintains
occupancy in the top tier of academic rankings.
• One statistic in particular highlights “the
changing cosmopolitan nature of our
campus,” President Doti said. In fall 2000,
46 percent of Chapman freshmen were
from Orange County. By fall 2009, that
figure was 24 percent, with 40 percent
coming from out of state. In addition, more
students than ever are studying abroad.
There is “great progress” on four
transformative projects that fall
under the heading “A Path to National
Stature,” the president said.
• The university is close to bringing
plans to the city of Orange for the
Center for the Arts, which will include
an 1,100-seat, state-of-the-art theatre.
Mid-2012 is the target for
groundbreaking.
• Plans are also progressing for the
100,000-square-foot Science Center,
a hotbed of interdisciplinary research
scheduled to be built at the Palm
Avenue site of a historic fruit
packing house, which will be
preserved and renovated.
• Designs are in place for the
Millennial Studios addition to
Marion Knott Studios, which will
include a backlot and new theatre.
A filmmakers’ village, with housing
for Dodge College students, is also
in the works.
• Up first is the expansion of Argyros
Forum, which will grow by 25,000
square feet and include a new student
union. Plans call for construction
to begin in January 2011, with
completion in September 2012.
OUTLINING A FUTURE Full of Projects, Promise
Chapman University President
James L. Doti highlighted the
achievements of the past year but
perhaps more importantly gave
members of the university
community a glimpse into the
future during his annual State
of the University Address on
Feb. 26 in Memorial Hall.
Want more details? View President
Doti’s complete presentation at
www.chapman.edu/magazine
CHAPMAN now
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CHAPMAN now
Role in Disney’sLast Song aBreakthrough for Beals
Chapman alumnus Hallock “Skip”
Beals, B.F.A. theatre performance
’05, landed a major role in the
Disney film The Last Song, an adaptation
of the best-selling book by Nicholas Sparks.
Beals plays a volleyball star and
jealous boyfriend who causes trouble
for Ronnie (Miley Cyrus) and Will
(Liam Hemsworth) in the major motion
picture that premiered in March.
Beals said snagging the role in the
sun-drenched love story allowed him
to “quit my day jobs.”The Disney
movie wasreleased the same month asGodspeed, an indyfilm from RobertSaitzyk that alsofeatured Bealsand that playedthe tournamentcircuit, winningawards at theCineVegas film
festival. Godspeed, a thriller about atroubled gun-toting faith healer, filmed in Alaska in summer 2008, and The Last Song filmed in summer 2009 on the beaches of Georgia.
“It was an amazing time. I had
completely opposite summers,” says
Beals. “Both of them are summers
I will never forget.”
While budget, locale and fanfare
differed — Beals got a taste of the
paparazzi traveling with Cyrus — the
day-to-day work was not so different
between the two.
“At the end of the day, acting is
acting and I approach it no differently
than when I was doing plays at the
Waltmar,” he says.
Hallock Beals ’05
History Repeats
For the fourth year in a row, Chapman University history students took most of
the awards for their undergraduate research papers at the Southern California
Regional Phi Alpha Theta History Conference, held in April at Cal State Bakersfield.
Of the five undergraduate research papers chosen for honors at the conference,
four were written by Chapman seniors: Jonathan Cohen, Annie McCausland,
Andrew Paull and Nobchulee (Dawn) Maleenont.
The students were mentored in the senior seminar by Professor Robert Slayton,
Ph.D., Associate Professor Lee Estes, Ph.D., Associate Professor William Cumiford,
Ph.D., and adjunct faculty member Brenda Farrington.
Law School Sheds a Tier as Rapid Rise Continues
The upward momentum continues for the Chapman University School of Law,
which climbed into the second tier in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report
ranking of the nation’s top law schools, announced in April.
A spot among the top 100 ABA law schools in the United States (No. 93, to be
exact) reflects the law school’s second major jump in recent years, with Chapman
entering the third tier in 2008.
“This is an extraordinary achievement for our School of Law, moving up in
the rankings this quickly in just over 15 years since its founding,” said Chapman
President James L. Doti. “It is a tribute to the dedication and hard work of our past
deans, John Eastman and Parham Williams, and to our outstanding law faculty who
have always reflected such credit upon Chapman University.”
Eastman stepped down as dean in February to seek the Republican nomination
for California attorney general, although he remains on the Chapman law faculty. The
school is currently conducting a national search for a new dean. Scott Howe, a criminal
law expert and member of the Chapman law faculty, is serving as interim dean.
For Chapman’s rapid rise, Dean Howe cites an increase in bar pass rates, an influx
of top faculty members, exacting admissions standards, expanding clinical programs
and one of the lowest student-faculty ratios in the country.
Interim Dean Scott Howe, left, joins his predecessor, John Eastman, in celebrating the ChapmanSchool of Law’s climb into the second tier in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.
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Asurvey chronicled in the April
issue of OC Metro magazine
praises Chapman University
as one of the 10 most trusted brands in
Orange County. The top 10 organizations
were saluted at a “Trust Summit” April 19
in the Sandhu Conference Center
at Chapman.
The 10 most trustworthy OC brands:
Disneyland, Trader Joe’s, Chapman
University, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim,
Mother’s Market and Kitchen, Planned
Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino
Counties, In-N-Out Burger, Vizio,
California State University, Fullerton
and St. Joseph Hospital.
Chapman scored high for ability and
consistency as well as for “capacity to
achieve what they promise.” The findings
were announced after a six-month study
developed by the Values Institute at
DGWB, an independent think tank at
DGWB Advertising & Communications
of Santa Ana.
Chapman One of OC’s Most Trusted Brands
NATIONAL ACCREDITATION FOR THEATRE DEPARTMENT
The Chapman University Department of Theatre has achieved a key milestone — accreditation
from the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST). The announcement was made at NAST’s
yearly conference in Boston on March 26, as Chapman’s program was one of eight selected from
a pool of 30 applicants. The effort to earn accreditation was led by Nina LeNoir, chair of the
Department of Theatre, with help from the entire
theatre faculty. NAST is an association of about
162 schools of theatre, primarily at the
collegiate level. The Department of Theatre
is the third program in Chapman’s College
of Performing Arts to gain accreditation,
after the Conservatory of Music and
Department of Dance.
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Chapman Alumnia Big Hit in Top 40
Lauded for their talent, energy and
ingenuity, Chapman University alumni
make up fully 10 percent of those
selected to OC Metro’s 40 Under 40 list of
top young professionals in Orange County,
highlighted in the magazine’s May 2010 issue.
The four from Chapman selected for
their impact on the business community are
Gabriel E. Serrato-Buelna ’97, founder and
owner of the public relations firm Serrato+Co.;
Sinan Kanatsiz ’97, chairman and CEO
of the marketing firm KCOMM; John E.
Stratman Jr. ’97, director of public affairs for
Kaiser Permanente; and Matt Gahan, Class
of ’05, co-founder of 18 Stone Giant Media.
Besides being young and successful,
the four are praised for other shared traits,
including their passion for their work and
for their communities.
For instance, Kanatsiz serves on the
boards of Pretend City Children’s Museum
and the YMCA in Santa Ana as well as
serving as the YMCA’s national outreach
chairman for the California Youth and
Government Program.
“My parents taught me early on to
always give back,” he says in the OC Metro
article. “It really does make a difference.”
A link to the OC Metro feature is at
www.chapman.edu/magazine.
For the second year in a row, Chapman University has
taken top honors in the Southern California and
Southern Nevada district-level student competition
sponsored by the American Advertising Federation (AAF).
Repeating last year’s triumph, Chapman topped eight
university and college teams, including those from UCLA, USC,
UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton, during the competition held
at UC Irvine on April 23. Chapman advanced to compete at
the AAF National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC)
in Orlando, Fla. on June 10-11.
The NSAC is real-world experience that prepares advertising
students for careers in the ad industry and provides sponsoring
companies with integrated marketing campaigns.
View the Chapman team’s winning TV commercial at
www.chapman.edu/magazine.
Be yourself, speak out and “don’t give evil a second chance,” Holocaust survivor,
author and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel told an audience of Chapman and
Orange County high school students who turned out to hear the human-rights
leader on April 26 in Memorial Hall.
“Goodness has as much mysterious power as evil has,” Professor Wiesel said.
“It is possible for hope to become reality. It’s not easy. So what. Why should it be easy?”
Professor Wiesel’s visit to Chapman was part of a celebration of the 10th anniversary
of the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education and the 25th anniversary of Marilyn
Harran, Ph.D., the center’s director. A story on Dr. Harran and the Holocaust programs
at Chapman begins on page 38.
Professor Wiesel’s talk to the students and his address at a Sunday gala celebration
were laced with parables, gentle humor and stories. He said that by listening to his
story and those of others, audience members had become witnesses for the witnesses,
an acknowledgement to the shrinking generation of Holocaust survivors. Who is to
tell their stories when they are gone?
“You are,” he said. “He or she who listens to a witness becomes a witness.”
Professor Wiesel urged his audience to speak out and resist indifference to any
assault on human dignity.
Professor Wiesel first visited Chapman five years ago to help dedicate the Sala
and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library and to receive an honorary doctorate.
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“Goodness has as much mysterious power as evil has,” Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wieseltells students at Memorial Hall.
Chapman advertising students celebrate a victory that earned thema chance to compete for a national championship in Orlando, Fla.
WIESEL URGES HARD WORK‘for Hope to Become Reality’
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Oh, the stories and insights that have flowed at
Dodge College of Film and Media Arts during
the academic year just concluded. Among the
industry insiders sharing wisdom was comedy legend
Jerry Lewis, left, who spoke to students and others in the
Chapman community April 26 in Marion Knott Studios.
Also sharing his knowledge was actor-director Richard
Benjamin, above, this year’s artist-in-residence at Dodge
College. Benjamin screened several of his films, including
Catch-22 and Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and worked
directly with students.
Then on April 30, seven panelists talked about their
lives as television writers, directors and producers
during the 8th Annual Women in Focus Conference in
the Folino Theater. Featured were, from left, Kim Fleary
(Everybody Hates Chris, Home Improvement), Lesli Linka
Glatter (Weeds, Mad Men), Jessika Borsiczky (Flash Forward),
Lee Shallat Chemel (Gilmore Girls, Murphy Brown), Anne
Beatts (Saturday Night Live, A Different World), Felicia
Henderson (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Moesha) and
Danica Krislovich (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart).
The event was moderated by Nina Tassler, president
of CBS Television.
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Department of Art Moving to Wilkinson
The Department of Art is moving
to the Wilkinson College of
Humanities and Social Sciences —
“a natural fit,” said Wilkinson Dean
Patrick Quinn.
“There’s a leap of faith you have
to make,” Dean Quinn said after the
Faculty Senate voted unanimously in
April to move art from the College of
Performing Arts (CoPA) to Wilkinson,
effective June 1. “As far as I can see,
art belongs in Wilkinson.”
Ever since CoPA was launched in
2007, the fit of art with the college’s
other programs — Department of Theatre,
Department of Dance and Conservatory
of Music — was a subject of debate.
Many thought art had a more historical
and appropriate connection with the
humanities. Now that connection is
reflected by its incorporation into
Wilkinson College.
As the Graphic Arts program
transfers to Wilkinson, the BFA Studio
Art program will be suspended for a year.
However, classes in painting, drawing
and sculpting will still be available for
those pursuing a BA in art.
In addition, the Photography program
will move to the Dodge College of Film
and Media Arts.
Chapman Chancellor Daniele Struppa
said the current budget of the Department
of Art will transfer intact to Wilkinson.
Individual faculty members may change,
but the size of the faculty will remain
the same, he added.
Some other specifics of the plan
to transfer programs, faculty and
other resources still remain to be
worked out, but Dean Quinn expects
a smooth transition.
Seniors earning degrees in spring
2010 from the Department of Art were
set to graduate as planned from CoPA.
Bust Honors George Shultz
Abust of George P. Shultz was unveiled April 14 at Chapman, where the former
secretary of state also heard students deliver papers about his career as a
statesman during a special panel discussion.
The bust of Shultz was installed on the promenade near the Ambassador George L.
Argyros ’59 Global Citizens Plaza, about 20 yards from that of Ronald Reagan, the
president Shultz served. The bust was created in honor of the Donald Bren Distinguished
Chair in Business and Economics, which is held by Chapman President James L. Doti.
Bren and his wife, Brigitte, attended the unveiling and ceremony honoring Shultz,
as did Ginny and Peter Ueberroth, the benefactors of the bust.
Shultz, 90, served Presidents Reagan and Richard Nixon in three different cabinet
posts during his distinguished career. In addition, he was a professor of economics at
MIT and the University of Chicago, and currently is a distinguished fellow at Stanford
University’s Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank. In 1989, he was awarded
the Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian honor.
“As current and future generations of our students stroll through this promenade and
read on the pedestal of George Shultz’s bust the words he wrote on the final page of his
monumental book Turmoil and Triumph, I hope they will begin to understand not only
what led to the free world’s victory in the Cold War but what will lead to the preservation
and advancement of freedom in the future,” President Doti said at the ceremony.
The words: “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in
its defense.”
Attending the unveiling of the George P. Shultz bust at Chapman are, from left, Ginny and PeterUeberroth, Charlotte and George Shultz and Donald and Brigitte Bren.
Charlotte Shultz plants a kiss on the bust of herhusband as the former secretary of state looks on.
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‘NATURE DOES NOT NEGOTIATE’Varied voices project a message of urgency atChapman’s Beyond Copenhagen conference.
The speakers hailed from Korea, Great Britain, North Dakota and North Carolina and included world-renowned
scientists, lawyers, policy wonks, filmmakers and even a skateboarder. The topics ranged from law to water, from
film to shoe manufacturing. They fired up PowerPoints, showed movies and drank gallons of organic lemonade.
deferment of action will only jeopardize our
ability to prevent runaway climate change
and achieve the Millennium Development
Goals. As Secretary-General, I thank you for
your contribution to addressing this grave
challenge,” the statement read.
The conference succeeded in launching
an interdisciplinary conversation that went
beyond just the science of studying climate
change, said Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., dean
of Schmid College and vice chancellor for
special projects at Chapman.
“If it were just a science gathering, it
would be the usual suspects getting together,”
Dr. Kafatos said. “But that’s not really building
community and participation, which was
the main focus of our conference.”
Whether another large conference or a
series of smaller events is created for next year
remains to be seen, he said, adding, “We’re
definitely going to keep up the momentum.”
But participants in the international
Beyond Copenhagen Conference
organized by The Schmid College
of Science, in conjunction with the School
of Law, had a surprisingly common
message — it’s time to change how the
world talks about climate change.
Scientists pushed scientists to polish
their message skills.
“We need to make sure that the
information we generate is simple enough
and understandable enough and delivered in
a timely fashion for the users,” said Ghassem
Asrar, Ph.D., head of the World Climate
Research Programme, Geneva, Switzerland.
And time is of the essence, a message
noted by no less than the Hon. Ban Ki-moon,
secretary general of the United Nations, who
sent a statement to organizers of the three-
day April conference, praising their efforts.
“Nature does not negotiate. Any furtherSchmid College Dean Menas Kafatos,Ph.D., moderates a panel discussion.
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So as the headlines of the moment were
clouded with the volcanic news of nature’s
latest rumblings in Iceland, the Beyond
Copenhagen experts considered the future.
Here are a few of the highlights:
Geography and FateThe conference opened with a climate
— change primer delivered by Paul Chan,
Ph.D., chief operating officer, I.M. Systems
Group, Inc. It was a fact-packed and
whirlwind presentation explaining the
techniques and modeling systems used by
scientists to monitor carbon dioxide levels,
a process which began in earnest in 1958.
Dr. Chan also explained polar melt, ocean
acidification and rising heat cycles.
He also noted that by virtue of their
spot on the globe, some nations will adapt
less easily to climate change than others.
“The United States, Canada, Russia,
China — the big countries — they have
climate diversity, they have places to hide,”
Chan said. Then he opened a satellite
image of Vietnam.
“They have no place to hide. The entire
economy of Vietnam is on the coast and
70 percent (of that) is on the Mekong
Delta. They have no climate diversity.”
Engineering SolutionsIt’s tempting to look for one big answer,
or “hammer,” to pound out a solution to
climate change, said Jane Long, Ph.D.,
principal associate director at-large, Global
Security Principal Directorate, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory.Most likely, though, a mix of solutions
will be needed and geo-engineering must besupported, Dr. Long said. Long describedgeo-engineering techniques that aresuccessful at removing carbon from theenvironment, but others are needed, too.
“In the end, we have to ask: Are we building the capacity to build this geo-engineering? For example, we need to look for specific geo-energy strategiesthat will help with our water supply.”
Sole ManIn the 1980s, Pierre André Senizergues
competed as a pro skateboarder, but these days
it’s his entrepreneurial and environmental
wheels that always seem to be turning. The
founder and CEO of Orange County-based
action sports apparel maker Sole Technology
Inc. told a luncheon crowd April 22 he is
gaining on his goal of making his 500-
employee company carbon neutral by 2020.
He showed off a jacket made in part of
recycled music tapes, showed slides of furniture
constructed from old skateboards and talked
about the 1,600-plus solar panels at his offices
that leave him with a zero-sum electric bill.
But what about his manufacturing
partners in China?
Well, he’s now working with a clothing
manufacturer whose dye process uses air
instead of water, saving hundreds of
thousands of gallons a year.
“I expected resistance,” he said.
“But they seem to get it.”
William Sprigg, Ph.D., speaks on climatechange and health as moderator Dr. Larry Santora and panelists William K. Lau, Ph.D., Jill Whynot and Lewis Ziska, Ph.D., look on.
Sole Technology CEO Pierre André Senizerguesis working to make his company carbonneutral by 2020.
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Early on, there was a barbed message
for the environmental movement,
delivered by Joel Kotkin, journalist,
author and Presidential Fellow in Urban
Futures at Chapman. “The climate-change
bandwagon certainly is in trouble,” he said.
Kotkin didn’t dispute the science behind
the day’s climate-change warnings, but he
chided environmentalists for presenting a
message he sees as relentlessly negative.
“If you basically tell people that people
are bad, they probably are not going to like
it or like you very much. Plus, there has
been a tendency to exaggerate everything,
and that hasn’t helped.”
The other panelists tended to agree that
the battle for hearts and minds has swung
toward the climate-change skeptics. And
considering the political climate, that swing
might be difficult to reverse anytime soon.
Another point of agreement: the
economic downturn is hampering efforts
to enact environmental initiatives.
“The best research indicates that you
are not going to create green jobs without
a growing economy,” Kotkin said.
As an entrepreneur, Tom Campion has
a financial stake in a growing economy,
but his perspective is also informed by a
firm commitment to environmentalism.
Campion, chairman of the action-sports
apparel and equipment company Zumiez,
said that while the recession has adversely
affected his bottom line, so has climate
change. He noted that the financial pain
extends to public coffers as well.
In 2006, he said, his company
generated $150,000 less in New York state
sales tax compared with the previous year
because warmer temperatures meant less
It was billed as a
discussion, not a debate.
But given the diversity of
views represented, the
prospect for verbal fisticuffs
heightened interest in
the April 22 panel at
Chapman’s Beyond
Copenhagen conference.
So how come these guys
spent so much time
illuminating points
of agreement?
Joel Kotkin
CONTENTIOUS CLIMATE?Verbal fireworks fizzle, but panelists’ common ground remains unsteady.
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snow in the region and fewer people
buying snowboarding clothes and gear.
Campion argues for greater
environmental restrictions, especially
on the production of oil- and coal-based
energy — “The more oil we drill, the
warmer the planet gets.” It’s a position
many see as anti-growth, but he says the
business community deserves more credit
for its ability to adapt to changing realities.
“I sell fashions to teen-agers, so we’ve
had to learn to adjust to changes that
happen every few minutes,” he noted,
drawing laughs.
Kotkin (www.joelkotkin.com), author
of The Next Hundred Million: America in
2050 (Penguin Press, 2010), said that new
sources of energy such as wind and solar
can’t be counted on to pick up the slack
for cutting use of oil and coal. He said
nuclear power needs to be an increasingly
important part of the plan, at least for the
near future.
Agreed, said Berrien Moore, Ph.D.,
director emeritus of the Institute for
the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space
at the University of New Hampshire and
executive director of Climate Central
(www.climatecentral.org), a nonprofit,
nonpartisan think-tank that seeks to
provide objective and understandable
information about climate change and
potential solutions.
“I lived in France for five years, and
I don’t think I saw a diesel train engine
during that whole time,” he said. “They
were all electric, and that’s because of
nuclear power generation.”
Dr. Moore advocates for a suite of
technologies. He noted that in the North Sea,
wind power is being farmed successfully,
and in the desert Southwest “solar power
makes a lot of sense.”
Such an integrated approach is advocated
by Robert Bishop, who is leading efforts
to build an International Center for Earth
Simulation, seeking to use advanced
computer technology to find insights
into weather, environment and disaster
risk reduction.
“If we look at all the recent natural
disasters, what we find is a natural
connectedness,” he said. “Climate is just
the thin edge of the wedge.”
Building sophisticated models may
help foster a seamless approach to solving
global problems, “which is the way nature
works,” Bishop said.
“We’re at a point where we need to
integrate that which we have disintegrated.”
Also making a strong point was Edward
Wegman, Ph.D., The Bernard J. Dunn
Professor of Data Sciences and Applied
Statistics at George Mason University. Dr.
Wegman chronicled his statistical research,
indicating a “fundamental error in the
methodology” behind the famous “hockey
stick graph” — a tool climate-change
advocates have used to show a steep
upswing in temperatures in the 1990s.
For his role in the research debate,
Wegman has been labeled a climate-change
denier — a characterization he refutes.
But he does point to the hockey stick
and the “Climategate” e-mails that more
recently have come to light, fueling
skeptics’ belief that climate scientists
have manipulated data.
“Why is support (for climate change)
dragging? There has been an unwillingness
to admit mistakes were made,”
Dr. Wegman said.
Kotkin is more than willing to point
out PR and marketing mistakes made by
climate-change advocates trying to rally
support for their cause. He says those
supporting environmental restrictions are
predominantly the older and affluent telling
the young and poor they have to give up
their chance at economic opportunity.
“When you already have yours, it’s
much easier to tell others they can’t have
theirs,” he said.
By the time the Q&A portion of the
panel discussion wound down, audience
members were eager for any semblance
of promise for the future. Well, they were
told, though Congress is divided and
probably will be even more so after
November, incremental progress on
climate-change initiatives is still possible.
“That,” Bishop said, “is about the best
we can hope for.”
“The best research indicates that you are not going to create green jobs without a growing economy.”
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have been asked to contribute ideas that
will help shape the academy’s programs
and priorities, Dean Cardinal said. Attallah
has allowed CES to take a year to brainstorm
and research so the resulting academy best
meets the needs of students.
One of the first innovations: Instead of
hiring a permanent director, CES is looking
to recruit a visiting professor — “a national
or international expert in teacher education
who can assist the faculty in thinking
through what the academy can be and
who can suggest innovative ways to get
there,” Dean Cardinal said.
what Dean Cardinal calls premium programs.
Among them: an undergraduate program
in athletic training, credential programs in
school psychology and school counseling,
and graduate programs in communication
sciences and disorders.
“These premium programs now make up
two-thirds of what we do,” Dean Cardinal
said. “So we had to rethink, ‘Where does
our teacher ed program fit in?’”
The Attallah Academy allows CES “to
reaffirm that teacher education is the soul
of what we do,” he added. “It allows us
to rediscover our roots.”
There are some elements of the academy
that have been decided. It will exist within
the College of Educational Studies, Dean
Cardinal noted, and it will include “everything
we do in teacher education from now on,
from our three master’s programs in special
education, elementary education and
secondary education to our numerous
teaching credential programs, our community
literacy program and more.”
In recent years, CES has branched out
into high-profile specialty offerings —
Those roots stretch back to 1861,
when the university, then known as
Hesperian College, first began educating
teachers. The fun part is that after nearly
150 years, the process of preparing
educators just got more exciting, Dean
Cardinal said.
“In this field, it’s hard to find an
environment where you get to think big
and then act on your ideas,” he noted.
“The Attallah Academy allows teachers,
students and the community to do just that.”
The ideas are flowing, the excitement
growing, the anticipation building.
All this and the Donna Ford
Attallah Academy for Teaching and
Learning at Chapman University isn’t
even in full flower yet.
When it is fully up and running,
Chapman’s widely respected programs
preparing K-12 educators will take their
next step up in prominence and influence,
said Don Cardinal, dean of the College
of Educational Studies (CES).
“It’ll be our programs on steroids,”
Dean Cardinal added.
For now, the “what if’s” outstrip the
realities, but that’s enough to create quite
a buzz. Funny how a $3 million gift can
get people’s minds and motors running.
The academy will officially open this
fall, with a search already ongoing for
an academy director, who will be the
Donna Ford Attallah Professor of Teacher
Education — the result of a separate gift
from the alumna who is fueling all of
the excitement.
Donna Ford Attallah ’61 taught
kindergarten and first grade in Orange
County for 40 years, and says of herself
and her late husband, Fahmy Attallah,
Ph.D., “We always felt our education put
us where we were. We never had children,
so we wanted in some way to give back
to young people and to support their
quest for a fine education.
“Chapman gave me an excellent
foundation to go out into the teaching
profession and become very successful.
The university has been well known for its
excellent teacher programs for many years,
so when the opportunity came about for
me to support this new teaching academy,
I was very happy to do it.”
The happiness has spread to CES
faculty members, who are energized to
THE DREAM WITHIN REACHFor Chapman’s College of Educational Studies, the new Attallah Academy strengthens ‘the soul of what we do.’
The Attallah Academy “allows us to rediscover our roots,” says College of Educational Studies Dean DonCardinal, left, with Donna Ford Attallah ’61, Chancellor Daniele Struppa and President James L. Doti.
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in the newspaper, you figure that’s the worst
of the worst,” Sullivan said. “But when you
get there you see, the most extreme is
everywhere.”
People wandered the streets, seeking
medical aid or work. Troops with automatic
weapons struggled to keep order. Makeshift
tent cities sprang up daily, including on the
lawn of the presidential palace. On a single
hole of what had been a golf course, an
estimated 30,000 people set up camp.
Inside the gates of the medical compound
where Sullivan went to work, things changed
“from real chaos to controlled chaos,”
Sullivan said. Doctors and nurses scurried
from exam area to operating table as the entire
facility ran like one big emergency room.
Soon after he started as an assistant to
logistics officials, there were signs one of
his supervisors was experiencing traumatic
stress. “He would just look at you and
walk away,” Sullivan said.
It wasn’t long before the supervisor was
getting the help he needed and Sullivan was
taking on more responsibility. When six
patients and their beds needed to be moved
to a new ward, he figured a way to get it
done stat. When more patient space was
needed at an overburdened field clinic,
he helped negotiate with school officials
to use one of their classrooms.
He also found “incredible” professionals
with IMC and Doctors Without Borders
from whom to learn, including doctors and
logisticians who could take on a daylong
task and get it done in an hour.
“I think about it now, and it’s still hard
to comprehend,” Sullivan said. “I’ve definitely
developed a strong appreciation for the
medical profession.”
As he looks back on the entirety of his
experience, Sullivan says those days seem
pretty surreal. He had always hated hospitals,
but somehow with blood and suffering all
around, he found myriad ways to make a
difference. He had searched for his academic
niche, traversing from philosophy to PR to
business administration, but in Haiti, his
purpose seemed unmistakable.
“This is the first thing I’ve ever found that
really hit the spot,” he said. “It made me feel
like if I did this kind of work the rest of my life,
I’d be able to look back with great satisfaction.”
As Sullivan prepared for graduation from
Chapman, the native of Tualatin, Ore. was
taking some self-assured steps. He and nine
other Chapman students will travel to
Honduras on a microlending project, then
he will return to Haiti for a stint of up to
eight weeks doing logistics with IMC. He
has applied for a fellowship with Kiva, a
nonprofit seeking to alleviate poverty through
microlending, and for work with Doctors
Without Borders.
“The whole experience (in Haiti) makes
me realize that I’ve been given an advantage,”
Sullivan said. “I want to take my good fortune
and make something more of it. And not
necessarily for myself.”
It was the most physically exhausting,
emotionally testing and ultimately
rewarding experience of Logan
Sullivan’s young life, and it never would
have happened if the winter-break software
job he rushed to Arizona to begin hadn’t
gone belly-up during his drive.
The setback left Sullivan ’10, a business
major and student Ambassador at Chapman,
without a backup plan for January. He was
crashing on a friend’s couch in Scottsdale
when he saw alarming images on the
news — a major earthquake in Haiti had
turned whole neighborhoods into rubble,
leaving thousands dead or homeless in the
now-chaotic capital of Port-au-Prince.
Sullivan immediately started crafting a
plan to help those in need. “I just decided
it would be the perfect thing for me to do.”
He made hundreds of calls to aid
organizations, finally getting a yes from the
International Medical Corps, a nonprofit
providing health care training and relief.
Yes, if he paid his own way to Haiti, the
organization would find plenty of volunteer
work for him to do at its field clinics.
By Jan. 23, 11 days after the quake
had turned a nation upside down, Sullivan
was in the heart of Port-au-Prince, a bus
window providing close-up views of dazed
residents and widespread devastation.
“When you see the images on TV and
A Crucible Called HAITI
“It made me feel like if I did this kind of work the rest of my life, I’d be able to look back with great satisfaction.”
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Because their aim was to make a
promotional film for the NGOs, the professors
and students worked to discover the essence of
the organizations’ goals and actions by meeting
the people involved. In the city, they focused
on Asseja, a non-profit that rescues children
from the streets, teaches them basic literacy
skills and helps them develop a trade such
as sewing, cooking or mechanics. One of
the young men being helped, Ezechiel,
was training to be a restaurant cook and
invited the group over for a traditional
Cameroonian meal. Ezechiel worked
confidently as he prepared the meal,
no longer a shy, uncertain boy but one
transformed by pride in his newfound
skills. Animated with excitement, Ezechiel
told them about all the different foods
Aprevious film project had taken
a Chapman team to Cambodia,
but in June 2009 the focus was
on a West African nation that many of the
students traveling had difficulty pointing
out on a map. They realized, however, that
they had signed up for a unique study-
abroad experience. What they faced was a
feeling, an understanding that no classroom
— no matter how dynamic — could begin
to convey. It was an opportunity for exposure
to a new level of challenges, including a
basic struggle to understand people and to
be understood. The French spoken by the
Cameroonians is not quite French and the
English is not quite English — a colorful
mix that reflects the heritage of the
country and its colonial influence.
Africa’s many contrasts fill thelens and lives of a Chapmaninterdisciplinary team.
IMAGES OF CAMEROONHot, uneasy and filled with anticipation, 12 students and four professors from Chapman University
landed in Cameroon after almost 24 hours of travel. They waited for a ride into the heart of Yaoundé,
the capital, where they would begin a two-week journey, their mission set forth by an anonymous
donor to promote the interdisciplinary work of students from Dodge College of Film and Media Arts,
the Chapman School of Law and Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences. The goal: build
awareness and expand visibility for worthwhile non-governmental organizations (NGOs) through a
series of documentary films illuminating human rights.
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Story by Virginia Halverson
Photos by Joey Huddleston ’11, above
The second NGO the group investigated
was Glowa in Bamenda — rural, impoverished
and welcoming. Glowa works to help address
the trafficking and exploitation of children
in Cameroon, operating with only two paid
employees and several full-time volunteers.
During the group’s filming, one of the women
being helped discussed how she contracted
HIV from a man who had kidnapped her,
kept her prisoner in his house and sold her
for sex for several months. It was the first
time she had revealed the details of her
past to the staff at Glowa, and as they
listened, the Chapman team members
were moved by her story. The Glowa staff
members’ commitment to improve the lives
of their fellow Cameroonians for little or
no pay was just as moving.
Their sense of giving was contagious.
Some Chapman students left behind their
belongings: clothes, shoes, jackets —
items so easily procured back home but
worth so much more to the people in
Cameroon. One student gave her camera
to a man who delighted in viewing his
pictures on the screen. The students,
however, came away with something more
valuable: an enrichment of their lives, a
realization of what true poverty is and a
new understanding of the human capacity
for generosity.
Now back at Chapman, the group has
created a poignant and powerful film, Notre
Joie, Notre Vie (Our Joy, Our Life), with Dodge
College Professor Jeff Swimmer, the film’s
executive producer. As the group shares
its work — on PBS and as a submission
to film festivals around the country — the
participants are accomplishing their goal,
one viewer at a time.
And despite the distance of oceans and
time, they remain connected to a world so
contrasting with their own, one that has
helped redefine their perceptions and their
sense of humanity.
“Cameroon,” student Joey Huddleston ’11
wrote in his parting blog, “you have impacted
me in a way I will not soon forget.”they were eating and how they were
prepared. It was one of many compelling
and heartwarming experiences for the
Chapman team members.
Quickly it became clear that education
is a luxury in Cameroon, where secondary
school basically doesn’t exist. The group
also heard of young boys lost to village
raids that plunged them into child labor
under the empty promise of a better life.
But most striking was the group’s
observation of an extreme polarization in
Cameroon. Exploitation and corruption
were part of everyday life, but just as
common were examples of extreme giving
and selflessness.
‘This is Goodbye’From the final Cameroon blog entry of peace
studies and sociology student Joey Huddleston ’11:
Well, this is it, Cameroon. This isgoodbye. It could be a long time before Itaste your fried plantains or groove out tothe pulsating beats that rock your land andair. I must say, Cameroon, my friend, that I never expected to come to appreciate your art of life as much as I do. …There is nothing stiff about you. Everything ebbs and flows like a brook winding down one of your many forested hills. Everythinggracefully bends and curves, intersectswithout delay, and splits back off into anamazing dance that involves every part of you — people, land and nature. I hope I return to drink your flavors. …Yourpotholed roads will beckon me again. Yourorphaned children’s laughter will ride therhythmic winds to my distant ears, unableto be ignored, and I will come back.
PROJECT PARTICIPANTS
Team leader: Jeff Swimmer.
Other faculty members: Stephanie Takaragawa,Ph.D., Michael Kowalski, Jurg Walther.
Students: Roxana Amini (J.D. ’11), AndreaCapranico (M.A. ’11), Joey Huddleston ’11,Taylor O’Sullivan ’12, Carly Pandza ’10, Matthew Prouty ’10, Ruthie Rubietta ’10, Hannah Taylor ’10, Jacob Taylor ’12, Nicholas Wiesnet ’11, Breanna Wing ’11, Tasha Wiggins Hunter (M.A. ’10).
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Preparing to play a challenging role in Fences takes Professor Baron Kelly on a daily journey of discovery.
CHAPMAN now GABE PLAN By Dennis Arp
“It’s about finding thecompassion, the heart of Gabe,” says Dr. BaronKelly, with castmatesCharlie Robinson andJuanita Jennings.
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Soon will begin a period of meditation,
when he will shelve the real-world demands
of a day that started at 5 a.m. and has
included teaching an Advanced Acting
Techniques class at Chapman and holding
a production meeting with the head of
design for a play he’s preparing to direct.
He will begin to truly inhabit the role of
Gabe when he gets into costume — patched
pants, sweater vest and dusty fedora — and
grabs his trusty horn from the prop table
next to the stage.
“I find my character as I’m on my feet,
working through rehearsal,” Dr. Kelly says.
“It’s a journey I need to go on — to find
a note in the voice that will lead to the
physical life of the character.
“The one thing I don’t want to do is
play him as a buffoon. It’s about finding
the compassion, the heart of Gabe.”
Dr. Kelly says taking on such a
challenging role was made easier from the
start by an open and collaborative cast that
includes Charlie Robinson in the iconic role
of Troy, Gabe’s brother, and Juanita Jennings
as Rose, Troy’s wife.
“With August Wilson’s plays, there tends
to be a special bond,” Dr. Kelly notes.
When the evening’s performance begins,
Dr. Kelly isn’t onstage, and in fact his
character doesn’t appear until well into the
production. This gives him a chance to go
“old school” in his final preparations, he says.
In costume, with his horn at his side, he sits
in a nondescript chair at the edge of the stage,
dog-eared pages of his script in a manila
folder on his lap. There, he picks up on the
cadence as his castmates deliver their lines,
immersing himself in the rhythm of the play.
“Every audience is different,” he says.
“I can tell a lot by how soon they give
themselves permission to laugh.”
Once onstage, Dr. Kelly plugs into the
energy of his fellow actors and the audience.
“It’s like a circuit, from actor to audience
and back again. You feel that loop.”
Later, Dr. Kelly will describe the
evening’s audience as wonderfully
supportive. But the next night ends up
being even more memorable. Not only does
he enjoy a chance to dine with theatre-going
Chapman friends, including university
Trustee Joann Leatherby, but the final scene
of the play takes on a unique tenor.
At a climactic moment, the script calls
for Gabe to try to blow his horn to open the
gates of heaven for Troy. But on this night,
the interaction with the other actors takes
Dr. Kelly in a new direction, and the strain
of trying to hit the note knocks Gabe against
a gate, then to the ground.
As everyone stays in character, the other
actors rush to him to make sure he’s all
right. It’s a powerful, unplanned moment
Dr. Kelly later describes as “phenomenal.”
It’s also a moment not to be repeated.
“If something like that happens, it
happens,” he says. “To try and force it
again would be too planned, too stagey.”
On such a night, when something new
and exciting gets explored on stage, the
magic elevates audiences and cast members
alike, Dr. Kelly says. It will take lots of
classical music during the drive home and
perhaps even a classic movie on TV later for
the actor to decompress from the experience.
The best part for Dr. Kelly? Rising the
next morning, he says, and preparing to
take a new journey with Gabe all over again.
Backstage at South Coast Repertory
in Costa Mesa, more than three
hours before performance time, not
even the ghosts of Christmas Carols past
can stir the silence. And yet there exists an
energy as powerful and positive as any
standing ovation.
Baron Kelly soaks it up.
“I feel it,” says Kelly, Ph.D., a
Chapman professor of theatre who has
performed on stages all over the world.
“Even without people, there’s something
about being in a theatre. The atmosphere
helps me to center myself.”
It’s midweek during a February run
of the August Wilson classic Fences, in
which Dr. Kelly plays the pivotal role of
Gabe, a character who suffered a head
wound during World War II and now
thinks he is the archangel Gabriel. It’s
a demanding role that calls for stage
presence and physicality but in the wrong
hands can slip into caricature.
“Many of Wilson’s plays have a ‘crazy seer’
character, and it’s important to keep such
a role tethered to the story’s reality,” The
Orange County Register’s Paul Hodgins writes
in his review. “Kelly finds the right notes.”
On this afternoon, Dr. Kelly has just
finished a nap on a wooden cot and sits in
a spartan dressing room he will soon
share with several cast mates. But for now
he has the space to himself, save for a
visiting reporter and photographer who
have asked to see behind the curtain of
his preparation rituals.
Clad in sweatpants, hoodie and baseball
cap, a man who recently performed in
Macbeth at the Bargello in Florence, who
has completed two Fulbright fellowships,
who has been a visiting scholar at Harvard
and who is at work on a book for Focus
Publishing called The Act of Acting, talks
about getting ready to play a character
with the intellect of a child.
“It’s a journey I need to go on — to find a note in the voicethat will lead to the physical life of the character.”
DR. BARON KELLY [ [
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“It’s very important to have your wishesdocumented, especially if you have children,”says Jason Hernandez ’98, shown with wifeNicole (Lejuwaan) Hernandez ’98 anddaughters Charlotte and Georgia Ann.
Nicole learned about the many ways
philanthropy benefits Chapman students
while she worked as coordinator of the
university’s phone outreach program to
alumni, parents and friends.
During their undergraduate studies, the
two were involved in student government,
athletics and numerous volunteer projects.
They appreciate Chapman’s small, family-
like environment and remain close to
peers and professors.
Jason participates in a number of
alumni-related events in Tennessee and
annually joins his Pi Kappa Alpha brothers
for the 10k Mud Run at Camp Pendleton. He
is proud to note that all of his groomsmen
were fraternity brothers and most of Nicole’s
bridesmaids were her Alpha Phi sisters.
The Hernandezes are very active in their
communities. Jason is a board member
of a local orphanage in his hometown in
Tennessee, and Nicole raises funds for
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the leading
organization in the fight against breast
When Class of ’98 alumni
Jason and Nicole (Lejuwaan)
Hernandez married, they
developed a will as an essential component
of their family planning. Over the years,
their family has grown by two: Charlotte
and Georgia Ann.
“Wills are important to establish early
on,” Jason says. “It’s very important to have
your wishes documented, especially if you
have children.”
Through their will, the couple is
establishing an endowed scholarship fund.
Their gift has very special criteria, as it is
both need- and merit-based. They want
to support students who perform well
academically and love Chapman but may
not have the means to afford a private-
school education.
Nicole and Jason both value their
undergraduate experience highly and want
others to have the same opportunities. The
pair met at Chapman, and the university
remains a very heartfelt place for them.
cancer. The couple plan to instill the same
values in their two young daughters.
Jason’s advice to his fellow alumni
and others involved with Chapman?
“Understand the value of making an
estate plan, and when planning, try to keep
Chapman in mind so future generations can
benefit from a similar, meaningful experience.”
NEVER TOO YOUNG to Look Ahead
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MEMORIES OF SPEAKER SERIESMotivate Alumnus Marshutz Never underestimate the power of a luminary guest speaker.
For Scott Marshutz ’87, hearing author Tom Wolfe address a small but
vigorous bunch of Chapman journalism students back in 1985 was
an unforgettable moment.
“He walked on the campus and it was like the parting of the seas. It was
incredible to listen to him in Bertea Hall with about 500 people in there
and then seeing him come to class and talk to us directly,” says Marshutz.
Such memories stirred Marshutz to create a $25,000 endowment to help
revive the English Department’s Distinguished Writers Lecture Series. The
program hosted the Wolfe appearance and visits by other acclaimed authors,
playwrights, poets and journalists, including Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan,
Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Albee, Allen Ginsberg, Joseph Heller, Edmund White,
Sandra Tsing Loh, Donald Margulies and Sarah Ruhl.
Marshutz recalls that seeing and meeting such high-caliber writers was
a prestigious perk for students of Chapman College, as it was known then.
There were perhaps just 10 English majors with a journalism emphasis then,
he said.
“Chapman was a very small liberal arts college at the time, in the shadow
of USC, UCLA and even the Cal State system. But we had the luxury of
hearing and seeing these people,” he says.
Now a resident of Dana Point, the freelance journalist and real estate
investor hopes other alumni will add to the endowment and help rebuild
the speaker series tradition and further enhance the journalism program
now under the guidance of Susan Paterno, professor of English, Wilkinson
College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
“A liberal arts education, whether it’s writing fiction or non-fiction or
whatever, is still a very useful discipline to have,” he says.
For more information about the fund, contact Steven Harvath, director
of development for Wilkinson College, at 714-628-7369.
Journalist Scott Marshutz ’87, left, is shown with interview subject Mike Durant, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot who was shot down and taken prisoner in Somalia.Marshutz is helping to revive a Distinguished Writers Lecture Series at Chapman.
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While men’s basketball
technically isn’t a spring sport,
the team’s season continued
into the first week of March and had the
campus buzzing, even as the spring sports
season got underway.
The Panthers hosted a first-round
matchup against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
in the Hutton Sports Center, winning
58-47 before a packed house. Their season
ended a few days later with a second-round
loss at Whitworth University in Spokane,
Wash. Nevertheless, for the second
consecutive season, the men’s basketball
team finished with
a 24-3 record.
The success of
Chapman’s athletic
programs and its athletes
continued well into the
spring, highlighted by
strong seasons from the
baseball and women’s
tennis teams. After
making its fifth straight
trip to Appleton, Wis.
for the NCAA Division
III Championships in
2009, the baseball team
entered 2010 with some
uncertainty, having
graduated several key
contributors. Since Tom
Tereschuk took the helm
of Chapman’s baseball program in 2003, it
seems as if an All-American has graduated
each season, and Panthers’ fans are left
wondering who the next group of players
will be to step up and fill the void.
This year’s baseball team is on pace for
another playoff appearance having reached
as high as No. 2 in the D3baseball.com
top-25 national poll. Once again, a batch
of new faces and first-year starters has
played an important role in the team’s
success. Matt Luzar ’10 and Joe Lehman ’10
have produced consistently in the middle
of the lineup, along with freshman James
Parr. The three are batting a combined .371
on the season. Anchoring the Panthers’
pitching staff are Brian Rauh ’13 and Travis
McGee ’13, who have put together two of
the most impressive seasons for Chapman
pitchers in recent memory.
Two-time All-American Liz Lewis ’11
and the Chapman University women’s
tennis team have put together a strong
spring as well, reaching as high as a
No. 2 in the West Region rankings.
Lewis spent much of the season as
the top-ranked women’s singles player in
the region, at one point having won 24
matches in a row, a streak that dates to
2009. Her winning streak ended, however,
in the quarterfinals of the Ojai Valley
Tennis Tournament in April.
Doubles partners Kelley Fox ’11 and
Lewis also spent a good portion of the
season at the top of the regional rankings.
On the golf course, senior Van Pierce
capped off his career with six top-five
finishes in 2010, including wins against
Whitman College, La Sierra University
and in the Chapman Invitational.
A handful of school records were set in
the spring as well, with freshman women’s
water polo player Ani Marganian breaking
the single-season assist record. Also, freshman
Peyton Collins ’13 set a new school track
and field record in the 400-meter hurdles at
the UC San Diego Invitational. Her time of
1:08.07 beat by five-hundredths of a second
the previous record, set 14 years ago.
In addition, Chapman’s softball program
moved into a new home this spring, with
the facility getting rave reviews. The
Panthers’ new diamond at El Camino Real
Park, just west of campus, features batting
cages, covered dugouts and permanent
fencing. The program moved from Hart
Park, its home since 1983.
BASKETBALL TEAMEnjoys Dose of March MadnessBy Chris Watts, Sports Information Assistant
You can’t talk about the spring sports season without first mentioning the men’s basketball team
and its run into second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament. For 26 years, Chapman’s men’s
basketball teams had gone without a postseason appearance, last making it during the 1983–84 season.
CHAPMAN sport news
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Kyle Wood ’10 helped lead the Chapman men’sbasketball team to its secondstraight 24-3 season.
Aided by the 10-0 pitching of Brian Rauh ’13, the Panthers achieved a
30-9 regular-season record in baseball.
Track star Peyton Collins ’13 set a school record in the 400-meter hurdles.
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WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
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WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
REALITY
The research of Chapman Professors Jeff Tollaksenand Yakir Aharonov has proved to be of fundamentalimportance and has inspired wide participation fromacross the scientific community.
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To a scientist, making the cover ofDiscover magazine is something akin toa rock star making the cover of Rolling
Stone. And while Yakir Aharonov, Ph.D. andhis group, including Jeff Tollaksen, Ph.D. —both professors of physics in Chapman’sSchmid College of Science)— didn’t quite get their photos on the April 2010cover of Discover (they had to cede that to animage of Einstein, so they were OK with that),it’s still a terrific honor.
The cover story —“Beyond Einstein: Three Radical TheoriesChallenge His Ideas ofSpace and Time” — leads to the article “Back From the Future,”which is all about thework of Aharonov, Tollaksen and their team. Their work has resulted in all sorts of amazing discoveries about the nature of time and the universe.
THE ARROW OF TIMEDr. Aharonov is proving that in the
quantum world, the “normal” arrow of timethat flows from past to future actually worksjust as well from future to past.
Many additional discoveries have followedfrom the breakthroughs of Aharonov and hisgroup; everything from paradigm-shiftingpractical applications to what they like to call “the really big questions of existence.”
Tollaksen has organized multiple visits to Chapman by the members of Aharonov’sgroup who have been most influential indeveloping these theories. They includeAlonso Botero, Ph.D. (Universidad de losAndes), Aharon Casher, Ph.D. (Tel AvivUniversity), Sandu Popescu, Ph.D. (BristolUniversity), and Lev Vaidman, Ph.D. (Tel Aviv University).
For example, the Discover articleprovocatively asks “Could the laws of physics be pulling us inexorably toward ourprewritten fate?” — and leaves the questionmark hanging in the air. Aharonov and hisgroup, says Discover writer Zeeya Merali, are“looking into the notion that time might flowbackward, allowing the future to influencethe past. By extension, the universe mighthave a destiny that reaches back andconspires with the past to bring the present
into view. On a cosmicscale, this idea could helpexplain how life arose in theuniverse against tremendousodds. On a personal scale, it may make us questionwhether fate is pulling usinexorably forward andwhether we have free will.”
The article says thatbecause of its usefulness, the work of Aharonov and his group is gainingacceptance from many other physicists. The numberof derivative research papers
in mainstream journals (Nature, Science, etc.) is growing rapidly.
FUTURE SHOCKAnd if that doesn’t completely blow your
mind, how about this? A series of quantumexperiments seems to actually confirm thenotion that the future can influence resultsthat happened before those measurementswere even made. Aharonov and his group
By Mary Platt
Time flows
backward and the
future influences
the past? Welcome
to the mysterious
quantum world
of Yakir Aharonov
and Jeff Tollaksen.
CHECK
“Who knows when we shall meet again, if ever?
And time keeps flowing like a river to the sea.”
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the present if there is room to write theinfluence off as a mistake.”
This led to a whole new approach tophysics which Aharonov and his colleaguesfirst set forth in the early 1960s.
“Everybody knows that if your onlytool is a hammer, then you tend to treateverything as if it were a nail,” saysTollaksen. “The problem was that the‘hammer-type’ measurements usuallymade in the present moment are not the most useful in figuring out how thequantum world links the future with the present in subtle and significantways.” Aharonov and his team workedfor two decades on new types of gentle“weak measurements” which could seethese linkages — “akin to tappingsomething softly with your finger ratherthan smashing it with that hammer,”according to Tollaksen.
Their breakthroughs have proved to be of fundamental importance and haveinspired wide participation from across the scientific community: for example,they led to new types of (quantum)computers that can solve otherwiseunsolvable problems, new types of sensorsthat can measure physical phenomenapreviously thought to be unmeasureable.
These findings were the subject of aweek-long conference held at Chapman inFebruary 2010. About 50 physicists visitedfrom around the world, including facultymembers from MIT, Caltech and Princeton.The many practical applications of thesediscoveries allowed Tollaksen to win agrant from the Office for Naval Research to pay for the conference.
have made extraordinary theoreticalpredictions about the nature of quantumreality, some of which bring to mind theCheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland(“Well! I’ve often seen a cat without agrin,” thought Alice; “but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!”).
The novel effects they predicted havebeen verified in many independentexperiments (about 15 laboratories aroundthe world have done or are doing thesecutting-edge experiments). Recently, thesediscoveries have found their way to thecovers of other popular magazines such as Scientific American (Asian edition) andNew Scientist (“They said it couldn’t bedone — but now we can see inside thequantum world”). Even The Wall StreetJournal and The Economist have covered the time-bending aspect of these theoriesand experiments.
Dr. Tollaksen says that his collaborationwith Dr. Aharonov is continuously fruitfuland astonishing. “Aharonov was one of thefirst to take seriously the idea that if youwant to understand what is happening at any point in time, it’s not just the pastthat’s relevant — it’s also the future,” he told Discover.
DOES GOD PLAY DICE? Dr. Aharonov was — as Einstein had
been — puzzled by the fact that twoidentical radioactive atoms can behavecompletely differently; decaying, forinstance, at different intervals. Thisindeterminism led Einstein to famouslygrumble that “God doesn’t play dice withthe universe.” Aharonov, says Tollaksen,turned the question around. “Yakir asked,‘What does God gain by playing dice?’ andspeculated that nature gains somethingvery beautiful and exciting by playing dice — namely, “if a particle’s past doesn’tcontain enough information to determineits fate, then maybe its future does.”
But the kicker is that the “playing ofdice” is just the right amount so that thefuture could be relevant for the presentwithout violating causality or free will.Aharonov says. “The future can only affect
WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
“Their breakthroughs have led to computers that can solveotherwise unsolvable problems, and to sensors that can
measure phenomena previously thought unmeasureable.”
There are more strange, jaw-dropping
findings than can be covered here. How
often do you run into a theory — which
now seems provable — that could
change the way humans think about the
very movement of time?
In the future, the team planscollaborations with Chapman’s ViceChancellor for Special Projects, dean of the Schmid College and group leaderMenas Kafatos, Ph.D., and Arizona State’sPaul Davies, Ph.D. (last year’s Chapmancommencement speaker) involvingcosmological implications, and another with Chancellor Daniele Struppa involvinga new form of mathematics.
An exciting new addition toChapman’s Schmid College ofScience will be the proposed
International Center for Quantum Studies— another “quantum leap” forward for the university, California and the nation.
The man at the center of the Center will be Yakir Aharonov, Ph.D., one of thebest-known physicists in the world and co-discoverer of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect,who holds the James J. Farley Chair inNatural Philosophy at Chapman. Aharonovis the recipient of the prestigious WolfPrize, the Elliott Cresson Medal of theFranklin Institute and the Hewlitt-PackardEurophysics Prize. He was voted mostlikely to receive a Nobel Prize in thecoming years. Referees from the NationalScience Foundation declared him“equivalent on a world scale to what theJapanese would call a national treasure.”
The relevance of the work of Aharonovand his group is reflected by the group’sexponentially increasing rate of citations by the rest of the scientific community.Aharonov’s presence has also attracted to Chapman many prominent scientists.
The Aharonov group is well known for making progress on the “big questions”of existence — from the origins of theuniverse to the deep nature of reality and the mysteries of time.
With the Center, Chapman seeks to advance several spheres of physicsexcellence, blending pure and appliedquantum physics research of interest to theacademic, commercial and military sectors.
What’s more, the Center willcommunicate the relevance and importanceof quantum studies by initiating an“Aharonov Distinguished Lecture Series,”presenting internationally recognizedspeakers as well as other outreach efforts.
The Center’s research themes willinclude the nature of time, non-locality and many other subjects. Why is studyingtime so important? Sir Anthony Leggett,Nobel laureate, stated that Aharonov’stheories on time “generated an enormousamount of interest in the context of quantumcomputing and related areas. …It will have important applications in (sensors).”
And that’s precisely what happened: theAharonov-Albert-Vaidman (AAV) Effect hasresulted in a new paradigm for the design of precision signal-amplification sensors.
Renowned scientists who have come to Chapman include Paul Davies, Ph.D.(director of the Beyond Institute at ArizonaState University; Alonso Botero, Ph.D.(Universidad de los Andes, Colombia);Aharon Casher, Ph.D. (Tel Aviv Universityand co-author of the Aharonov-CasherEffect); Shmuel Nussinov, Ph.D. (Tel AvivUniversity), Sandu Popescu, Ph.D. (BristolUniversity); and Lev Vaidman, Ph.D., co-author of the AAV paper, the 20thanniversary of which was celebrated at a recent conference at Chapman.
Aharonov’s research has led to many
high-energy physics from UC Berkeley andactively conducts research in this field
The Center will also support experimentaland theoretical work being performed at a newChapman laboratory in Maryland that housesseveral other physicists connected withChapman: Armen Gulian, Ph.D.; MichaelSteiner, Ph.D.; Louis Sica, Ph.D. and others.The Maryland lab was created with almost$900,000 in grants from the Office of NavalResearch to Jeff Tollaksen, Ph.D. (principalinvestigator) and Gulian (lead researcher).Research applications include Internet connectivityand battleground awareness for soldiers.
In addition, the Center will foster relationswith other organizations worldwide, includingthe Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.Recently Aharonov and Popescu were offered
novel, surprising and often remarkablyuseful features of quantum mechanics.
Another research segment planned for the new Center will be field-theoretic/high-energy particle physics issues and thedramatic new physics being carried out at thenew Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.Interestingly, these issues overlap theinterests of Scott Chapman, grandson ofChapman University namesake Charles C.Chapman and secretary of Chapman’s Boardof Trustees. Scott Chapman has a Ph.D. in
Distinguished Research Chairs at Perimeteralong with a few other top physicists in theworld, including Stephen Hawking. Theyretain their permanent positions at their home institutions.
“This new Center at Chapman is urgentlycalled for,” says Tollaksen, who will serve as itsfirst director. “It is different in spirit, design andorganization from any other entity, and it willattract more theory-inclined graduate studentsto Chapman, inspired by the many events,lectures and projects being carried out here.”
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Renowned physicists Yakir Aharonov, Ph.D., right, and Paul Davies, Ph.D., are collaborating on projects at Chapman.
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If the notions proposed by Chapman Professors Yakir Aharonov and Jeff Tollaksen
intrigue you, you may want to pick up a book by Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., dean of
Chapman’s Schmid College of Science and vice chancellor for special projects,
and Robert Nadeau, Ph.D., science historian and professor of English at George
Mason University, called The Conscious Universe: Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality.
Kafatos and his colleagues are exploring deep questions of the nature of reality.
Having studied astrophysics, general relativity and quantum theory, Kafatos
was led to an integration of scientific views reminiscent of the approach of the
ancient philosophers.
According to Kafatos’ book, modern physics has opened up the issue of
consciousness through a number of seemingly paradoxical aspects of quantum
theory, placing many deep questions in scientific terms. In the past, these questions
were believed to be in the realm of philosophy.
The prospect has now emerged to explore the issue of our universe scientifically —
and perhaps, Kafatos says, even the possibility that our universe is conscious and
evolving at increasingly larger scales and times.
“Consciousness can no longer be fundamentally divorced from our understanding
of the way the universe works,” Kafatos says, insisting that these are not
philosophical issues anymore — that quantum theory has opened the door
to what had been pure speculation.
WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
Is the Universe Conscious?
In opening the door to the vast realm of consciousness,modern quantum theory has opened the door to
a profoundly new vision of the cosmos.[ [
Menas Kafatos, Ph.D.
“Stars, in your multitudes Scarce to be counted, filling the darkness
With order and light — You are the sentinels, silent and sure
Keeping watch in the night.” – “STARS,” LES MISERABLES
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‘Grounding of the Cosmos’Not that physics can prove the universe
is conscious: The possibility is there, but the
question may not be answerable in purely
scientific terms, Kafatos says. “Consciousness
may indeed be the grounding of the cosmos
and, hence, not subject to being separated
as the object of inquiry.”
The weird and wacky world of quantum
physics posed a threat to traditional physics.
In 1964, John Bell published his classic
no-go theorem in which he proposed that
no physical theory of local hidden variables
(a theory that conforms to ordinary views
of reality) can ever reproduce all of the
predictions of quantum mechanics.
In separated regions where no
information can be sent even at the
maximum speed of light, Bell thought
a measurement taken in one cannot
influence what occurs in the other.
Yet, in a strange way, the two parts of
a quantum system remain unified, even at
vast distances between sides of the universe.
Many quantum experiments and effects
illustrate non-locality. Bell’s theorem, Kafatos
says, posed the stark question of which
sort of reality exists: the classical notion
that physical reality is local, or the quantum
form of reality, which is non-local.
All the experiments indicate this startling
conclusion: Ordinary views of the world are
wrong (and one may consider the human
mind that creates them), and quantum
views of the world are right.
Time and RealityKafatos has pursued these notions
beyond the Conscious Universe work.
He believes the universe operates under
the guidance of deep underlying principles.
The most obvious and important is a
generalized principle of complementarity,
beyond the complementarity principle
encountered in quantum systems proposed
by physicist Niels Bohr. Kafatos, Chapman
Chancellor Daniele Struppa and their
co-workers have explored the possibility
that deep underlying principles, such as
a generalized complementarity, may be
fundamentally mathematical.
A profound prospect of this complementary
view of the universe is that ordinary concepts
of time may not be the whole picture.
Kafatos explored the possibility that
relationships linking all fundamental
constants of nature exist. These relationships
hold at all levels, he says, and from unity
there is evolution into diversity.
“As such, the arrow of time is introduced
in an observer-dependent universe as these
fundamental ‘constants’ change,” says
Kafatos. “Time does not exist independently
of conscious observers. This approach equals
an axiomatic approach that results in an
apparent expanding universe, yielding the
same successes as big-bang cosmology.”
In other words, time has no meaning
by itself. The universe appears to be
evolving as the number of particles
and ratios are varying. This is a new
complementary view of time, and in
Kafatos’ view, it’s as valid as the ordinary
concept of the “flow of time.”
Future ScienceKafatos and Nadeau seek to prove that
complementarity is an “emergent property or
dynamic in the life of the evolving universe”
and, most astonishing of all, to show that
non-locality “allows us to reasonably infer,
without being able to prove, that the universe
is a conscious system, with self-organizing
and self-regulating properties that result in
emergent order.”
Now add in this radical notion: Human
consciousness may “fold within itself”
the fundamental logical principle of the
conscious universe. The idea that the
universe is a seamlessly interconnected
whole, rationally ordered and consciously
evolving, Kafatos says, may open up the
way to a new dialogue between science and
religion, physics and metaphysics, that could
“function as the basis for a global human
ethos.” Central to this vision would be an
undivided wholeness, evolving out of itself
endless realms of reality — a living whole.
“In our new situation,” says Kafatos,
“science in no way argues against the
existence of God, or Being, and it can
profoundly augment the sense of the
cosmos as a single significant whole.”
Yet the mystery at the center of it all
remains. In opening the door to the vast
realm of consciousness, modern quantum
theory has opened the door to a new vision
of the cosmos, Kafatos says. It’s a vision in
which the observer, the observed and the
act of observation seem to be fundamental
and interlocked.
In subsequent papers with Sisir Roy
and Mihai Draganescu, Kafatos has explored
how these views arise from mathematical
descriptions of the quantum universe. Kafatos
and Draganescu, in their book Principle of
Integrative Science, put together how future
science may evolve.
“Implications for a new, radically different
view of the cosmos emerge,” says Kafatos, “as
well as a new science which will provide the
tools to study the wholeness of the universe.”
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A Chapman professor goes to great heights
to explore the frontiers of earthquake science.
Earthquake Myths
“Big earthquakes always happen
in the early morning.”
This myth may be so common because we want it to
be true. In fact, earthquakes occur all times of day.
“Beachfront property in Arizona.”
Chalk this one up to wishful thinking in Phoenix.
The motion of plates will not make California sink.
Western California is moving horizontally along the
San Andreas Fault and up around the Traverse Ranges.
“Head for the doorway.”
Good advice only if you live in an old, unreinforced
adobe house. In modern houses, you are safest under
a sturdy table away from exterior walls and windows.
“And the earth opened …”
A popular literary device, but gaping faults don’t
really exist. During a quake, the ground moves
across a fault, not away from it. If the ground
opened, there would be no friction. Without friction,
there can be no quake.
From Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country by
the Southern California Earthquake Center and the
U.S. Geological Survey
By Dennis Arp
Perhaps within the next decade, aninterdisciplinary hybrid of ground, seismic andsatellite measurements could allow for accurateforecasting of major seismic events, says Dr. Dimitar Ouzounov, associate professor of geophysics at Chapman University.
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changes in ion composition and electron
density before some earthquakes, Dr.
Ouzounov said. These changes sometimes
occur hours or even days before a major
seismic event.
“The problem is that there needs to
be more convincing evidence,” he said.
Each year on earth there are more than
140 quakes that measure more than 6 on the
Richter scale, Dr. Ouzounov noted. “We have
to chase each of them, which is a complex
task that takes international cooperation.”
Researchers have been compiling data
for 25 years in China and for more than
40 years in Russia. The key now is to
coordinate all that information, along
with what’s being collected in California,
Japan, Italy, Greece and elsewhere.
As increasingly sophisticated satellites
and accompanying technology go online,
the quality of the data should improve,
Dr. Ouzounov noted. There are hurdles
in coupling data from, say, the U.S. and
Japan because of regional differences in
weather and atmospheric conditions, but it’s
nothing that can’t be overcome, he added.
Dr. Ouzounov said a 1995 quote by
the famous seismologist Ari Ben-Menahem,
Ph.D. is still relevant: “Unless we launch
a concentrated interdisciplinary research
effort, we shall always be surprised by the
next major earthquake.”
“We started our interdisciplinary research
learning from the seismology experience,”
Dr. Ouzounov added.
The winning approach will likely be
the interdisciplinary one — a hybrid of
ground, seismic and satellite measurements,
he said. With that in place, a quake forecast
might be possible.
Of course, forecasting major quakes
will be counterproductive if all it does is
cause a panic.
“The social element of a weather forecast
is just as important as the science,” he said.
Ditto quake forecasting.
“The reason to do it is to save lives,” Dr.
Ouzounov said, “not to make things worse.”
Atmospheric and seismology charts compiled by Dr. Ouzounov and his colleaguesshow that a “thermal anomaly” was recorded in the days leading up to a magnitude-6.2 earthquake that hit L’Aquila, Italy on April 6, 2009.
he swag lamp sways eerily and the
walls creak ominously. The ground
rolls and nerves jangle. It seems like
a given that there’s no place like terra
unfirma to learn more about the wheres
and whys of earthquake science.
So then why does Chapman Professor
Dimitar Ouzounov have his head in the
upper atmosphere?
Actually, he’s researching a big idea: that
clues to the next big quake may be above
the clouds as well as on the ground and
inside faults. As methodology is refined
and the volume of data grows, there might
even come a day when the morning shows
give us an earthquake forecast alongside
the weather report.
“We are not there yet; it will take more
years — maybe in the next decade,” said
Ouzounov, Ph.D., associate professor of
geophysics and a member of the Center
of Excellence in Earth Observing at
Chapman’s Schmid College of Science.
“But the good news is it’s a growing field
and the science is maturing.”
News coverage this year of large,
sometimes-devastating earthquakes in
places like Haiti, Chile, Mexico and China
fuels interest in the possibility of reliably
forecasting major quakes.
As a geophysicist, Dr. Ouzounov
also investigates climate change, fire
detection and the earth’s electromagnetic
environment with satellite- and ground-
based observational data. However, for
10 years a key focus of his work has been
quake precursors, working with colleagues
at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in
Maryland and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in Pasadena.
Environmental satellites are helping
researchers compile data at elevations
of about 600 kilometers. At this layer of
the atmosphere, the degree of ionization
fluctuates daily, and researchers are seeing
More than a few in the scientific
community voice skepticism that research
into geophysical anomalies such as
electromagnetic signals will ever lead to
reliable quake forecasting. U.S. funding
of such research languished for years but
has picked up since 2004, Dr. Ouzounov
said, when a magnitude-9 quake off the
coast of Sumatra triggered a tsunami
that killed hundreds of thousands.
“This is still underfunded because
officials are basically not convinced it
is possible,” he added. “But there is lots
of research and success, especially in
China and in Europe.”
“The social element of a weather forecast is just as important as the science. The reason to do it is
to save lives, not to make things worse.”DR. DIMITAR OUZOUNOV
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Avatar launc
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heights. Cha
pman studen
ts are
preparing to
take it from
there.
WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
By Christo
pher Rynd
Professor Bill Kroyer
“Chapman has really prepared me so that I am confident going inthat I can do any type of work (the studios) require,” says BrianRamirez ’12, who founded the Chapman Digital Arts Club.
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Imagine a day when movies like Avatar areno longer advertised as “in 3-D” becausethat’s how all movies are made. That day
is near, says Greg Foster, president andchairman of filmed entertainment at IMAX.
Speaking in March at Chapman’s FolinoTheater as part of the DodgeCollege “Business of the Business”lecture series, Foster said IMAX isworking with nearly every studio to produce 3-D versions of theirfeature films.
“Everyone in the industry isthinking about 3-D,” he says. “There’s real momentum behind this technology.”
Now imagine a day when the top-grossing blockbuster 3-D movies aredirected and produced by graduates ofChapman University. This is the next bigidea taking flight at Chapman’s DodgeCollege of Film and Media Arts.
“We are building the greatest digital artsschool in America,” says Professor Bill Kroyer,animation pioneer and governor of theanimation branch of the Academy of MotionPicture Arts and Sciences. Kroyer was recruitedlast spring by Dodge College Dean BobBassett to lead Chapman’s digital arts program.
“We are doing it through our faculty, ourcurriculum, our students, our facility andthe relationships we form with the schoolsthat supply our talent and the studios andbusinesses that will absorb these studentswhen they graduate from Dodge College.”
Trained in classic hand-drawn animationat the Disney Studio, Kroyer was one of thefirst animators to make the leap to computeranimation as computer-image choreographeron Disney’s groundbreaking 1982 feature Tron.
“Landmark films like Avatar representthe tip of an iceberg of innovations andtechnologies that have been emerging into the industry for some time,” he says.“The digital arts — synthetic imagery, CG
animation, visual effects, pre-visualization,motion capture — are a huge growth area.”
Case in point: Autodesk’s Maya 3-DStereo Max, the state-of the-art software for3-D animation, 3D modeling, simulation,visual effects, rendering and compositing.
“New techniques, tricks and fasterways of doing things get invented
constantly,” says Professor JudyKriger, who teaches Maya at
Dodge College. “But it’s not about thetechnology really. You have to be an artistfirst — learn to visualize, learn to draw —then the software becomes your paintbrush.”
In fact, emphasizing core skills such as visualization, color theory, anatomyand mechanics of motion was Kroyer’sfirst digital-arts initiative at Chapman.
“The act of drawing is unsurpassed inmaking an artist think like an artist,” he says.
Maya gives filmmakers the ability tovisualize an entire film before productionbegins. Many studios customize thesoftware, creating software plug-ins thatcan calculate the positions of the cranes,cameras and lenses while the film is stillin the mock-up stage.
“In this industry, you have to keepwaxing your board or you’ll get pummeledby the next wave,” says Professor AdamRote, who’s been teaching annimation atDodge College since 2001.
One of Rote’s most popular coursesfeatures the motion capture (or mocap) stage at Dodge Marion Knott Studios. It’s a multi-camera studio where humanaction is captured and digitized, laying the foundation for character animation.
Rote and Kriger have students who internand graduates who work at Pixar, Dreamworksand Nickelodeon as well as at smaller visual-effects boutiques like The Mill, Rhythm &Hues and Blizzard Entertainment.
Both professors encourage collaborationso students teach each other and eventuallyhire each other. Visits to the major studiosallow students to see the pros in action.
“Chapman has really prepared me so that I am confident going in that I can doany type of work (the studios) require,” said animation student Brian Ramirez ’12.
Ramirez founded the Chapman DigitalArts Club, which provides peer-to-peer workshops and mentorshipoutside the classroom.
This strategy resonatesthroughout the many programs atDodge College. Professor Kroyeris working with Dave Master, a
high school animation instructor renowned for connecting students’ aspirations withprofessional opportunities.
“Mentorship is key,” says Rote. “I want mystudents to call me at 3 in the morning. I wantto help them get their first IMDB credits. Wehave to work together to stay in tune withHollywood and scale the great wall of progresswith technologies like 3-D stereoscopic.”
From small steps come giant leaps.“Double-click,” he says, “and we’re
over the wall.”
Shelf LifeNews flash: Hollywood digital artists collect some pretty
cool stuff. So we asked to see what’s on the walls and
shelves in the office of Adam Rote, Chapman digital-arts
professor and an animator on films such as Barnyard and
Cats & Dogs. Here’s some of what we found:
• An alien from the comedy Men in Black.
• A 3-D rendering of the Hal 9000 computer from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001.• A helmet worn by Robert Downey Jr. in Ironman (which pinches your ears when you put it on, BTW).
• A vial of blood from the set of the Showtime series Dexter.“If you go into the cubicle farm at a major animation studio, you’ll find
all this and more,” Professor Rote said. “I just need a bigger office.”
“We are building the greatest digital arts school in America.”
PROFESSOR BILL KROYER[ [
Professor Adam Rote
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NOT EVEN IN HER DREAMS DID
MARILYN HARRAN SEE THIS COMING.
• National awareness of Chapman as a center for Holocaust education.
• An extraordinary roster of survivorssharing their stories on campus.
• A Holocaust memorial library with an array of resources for research.
• A community outreach effort thatmight be the program’s biggest
idea of all.
“It would take a lot of chutzpah to say
I had that kind of vision,” Harran, Ph.D.,
said recently, as the Rodgers Center for
Holocaust History prepared to celebrate
its 10th anniversary. “What I envisioned
was being able to raise $200 to take my
students to the Museum of Tolerance
(in Los Angeles).”
A decade ago, Chapman had a record
of engagement with ethical issues but no
such record regarding the Holocaust. In
fact, there was very little engagement with
the Holocaust in all of Orange County,
which was home to one of the world’s
largest Holocaust-denial organizations.
“So to play a role in turning that
reputation around and having it happen
through the work of Chapman University
is really something for which all of us
can be proud.”
The “us” includes a host of donors
who have embraced the program at
Chapman, as has President James L. Doti,
who “when I came to him with one
idea and then another, invariably said,
‘Go for it,’” Dr. Harran said.
Then there are the members of the
1939 Club, one of the largest and most
active Holocaust survivor organizations
in the United States and “the heart and
soul of the program,” Dr. Harran added.
But the driver of the effort, the one
who has helped make it all happen, is
Dr. Harran herself, the Stern Chair in
Holocaust Education and the founding
director of the Rodgers Center.
Among her big ideas: What if the
program mentored not just Chapman
students but those at area middle and
high schools as well? What if efforts
connected them with the real-life stories
of survivors so they could grapple with
the meaning and lessons of the Holocaust?
For 11 years now, students have
been participating in the Holocaust Art
and Writing Contest, and in 2010, they
represented more than 105 schools
from throughout Southern California.
Participants listen to the testimonies of
survivors and witnesses and then use
what they learn as inspiration for their
own works of art.
As it says on the Rodgers Center web
page for the contest, “A young person
who meets a Holocaust survivor is forever
changed by that encounter. Yet each year
brings fewer such opportunities and gives
added urgency to preparing today’s young
Voicesof Memory and Meaning
WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
Hope, Shannon Finley, Marine View Middle School, Huntington Beach
By Dennis Arp
For 11 years now, the Holocaust Art and Writing Contest has been bringing
together survivors and students.
Turning a Blind Eye, Melinda Moen,Western High School, Anaheim
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people to become witnesses to the future.”
High school student Natalie Beisner
became such a witness when she wrote a
poem about Silvia Grohs-Martin, the last
surviving member of the Jewish Theatre
of Amsterdam. Beisner read her winning
poem at the annual contest award
ceremony in Memorial Hall and when
she finished was surprised to learn that
Grohs-Martin, then in her late-80s and
quite frail, had made the trip from
Los Angeles to attend the ceremony.
Grohs-Martin came forward and
Beisner rushed from the dais, the two
meeting at the front of the stage to share
an embrace as they burst into tears.
“It was one of the greatest moments
ever,” Dr. Harran recalled.
Not only did the student and the
survivor remain in touch, but Dr. Harran
developed a friendship with Grohs-Martin
and helped her live out her days without
having to give up the last measure of
her independence.
“It’s not just about vision and purpose,”
Dr. Harran said, “it’s about things you
never could have imagined being a part
of but that become some of the most
meaningful and important things of life.”
The meaningful moments and
milestones have helped the Rodgers
Center quickly carve out its own place in
Chapman history. Among the high points:
• Development of a minor in Holocaust
History, which has allowed students
from a range of disciplines to pursue
interesting academic journeys. For
instance, Liane Burns ’11 is mixing
passions for dance and history. “Dr.
Harran’s passion for her subject and
her commitment to her students are
why we love her,” Burns said. “It’s not
just a lecture, it’s her life.”
of Holocaust studies at Chapman, it’s
important not to think of the anniversary
as an end point, Dr. Harran said. She
describes the decade ahead as “the most
important we could possibly have.”
“We have to make the most of this
opportunity with the survivors, and we
have to think in directions about how
we will effectively teach the Holocaust
when they are gone.”
Who then will carry their witness
to the future?
At Chapman, the legion of voices
is growing.
• Establishment in 2005 of the Sala and
Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial
Library, where teachers and students
can gather to learn from survivors,
visual testimonies and printed
resources. In the main display area,
the library’s Themes of the Holocaust
exhibit features photographs and
artifacts donated or loaned by survivors.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel
spoke at the library’s dedication and
returned recently to help mark the
Rodgers Center’s 10th anniversary
(see story on page 10).
• Collaboration on the Indestructible
Spirit photography and memoir
project, in which 125 Chapman
students have worked with some
80 survivors. “Those students now
feel a personal responsibility for
remembering and passing these
stories,” Dr. Harran noted. “They
learn about extraordinary examples
of humanity, how people could learn
to trust and to live again.”
While the past 10 years have been
an extraordinary time in the history
2010 HOLOCAUST ART AND WRITING CONTESTHigh School, First Place, Poem
People
Listening blindly with deluded vengeance,
Until their consciences died in flames
Like the synagogue, burnt down, and left to ruin.
People
Purposefully
Plundering, burning, breaking.
As we shivered upstairs,
I wish I had known.
Murderers
Herding cattle into cars,
Until each was on its way
Like birds in a cage, kept every day, every day.
Mercilessly
Whipping, trampling, beating.
As I lay in the snow,
I wish I had known.
Animals
Erasing any dignity,
Until deprived of identity
Like flowers, dried out, and withered.
Animals
Analytically
Demoralizing, degrading, destroying.
As I was stamped with that number,
I wish I had known.
And I sit here today
Mourning, reliving, and wondering
How never again, happened, again.
By Porter Hahn, 10th grade,
J Serra Catholic High School, San Juan Capistrano,
from survivor testimony by Fred Diament
“It’s not just about vision and purpose, it’s about things you never could have imagined being a part of but that become some of the most meaningful and important things of life.”
DR. MARILYN HARRAN[ [
Chapman Professor Marilyn Harran, Ph.D., with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Eli Wiesel
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Bart Wilson is so delighted, he’s
chuckling. The video playing before
him caught two students in a moment
of economic cooperation. What could be
jollier for an experimental economist whose
passion is figuring out what makes humans
tick when it comes to economic behavior?
“Watch this. This is a good one,”
says Wilson, Ph.D., Donald P. Kennedy
Endowed Chair in Economics and Law
at Chapman University.
On the video are two cash-hungry
Chapman students parked in front of
two computers, each moving a computer
mouse, playing a simple matching game
with red circles and blue squares. They’re
struggling to find the pattern that causes
the machines to spit out $1 to each. They
try a few game rounds with different
combinations of circles and squares, and
the money machine barely sputters — a
single quarter here or there for one or the
other. Sometimes zilch for both.
They ponder a bit, then one student
says, “Let’s try this,” indicating that each
should play the red circle. The other follows
her companion’s lead.
Cha-ching! It’s the winning combo.
The pair continues to play the profitable
pattern until time is up and they leave the
Economic Science Institute lab, pockets
jingling with enough to treat pals to pizza.
On the surface it appears to be just a
novel game, but it’s a serious experiment
aimed at answering a big question —
how does cooperation happen? It’s exactly
the sort of problem the top scientists at
Chapman’s Economic Science Institute are
bent on solving. Wilson was among the
scholars recruited in 2007 to launch
Chapman’s ESI, where the laboratory
method of inquiry is used to test out
economic behavior and theories.
This particular project is supported by
a $170,000 National Science Foundation
grant and is part of a joint study with
Georgia State researchers, who put chimps,
capuchins and rhesus macaques to a
similar computer game test, but with
kibble treats instead of pocket change for
rewards. At his end of the project, Wilson
wants to discover how people find and
navigate the paths that lead to cooperation.
“Humans are the most cooperative
and collaborative species on the planet,”
he says.
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By Dawn Bonker
“Humans are the most cooperative and collaborative species on the planet”
DR. BART WILSON[ [
Upping the AnteAs students cash in on cooperation,
Dr. Bart Wilson gets answers to a
key economic question.
WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
By Dawn Bonker
A game with poker chips helps
Dr. Bart Wilson, below, learn
about economic behavior.
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and sits behind a cardboard partition. The
game is played manually with poker chips,
and Wilson “feeds” the quarters through
a slot in the cardboard, but the players still
see what the partner plays.
The set-up inhibits talking, and without
that component, the poker-chip duo
stumbles. They don’t experiment. One
player plods along, playing the blue poker
chip over and over, earning a measly
quarter for each play. The other player
keeps playing a red poker chip — at a
cost, since that play pays out zip. Perhaps
he hoped his partner would pick up
on the non-verbal clue, Wilson says,
but there’s no way to be sure.
Without the advantage of conversation,
they run out of time with barely enough
money to buy a latte.
“The one guy was never willing to risk
giving up the one quarter to explore other
possibilities,” Wilson says. “It reinforces the
social glue that’s connected to doing well.”
The riddle of cooperation is not a new
one. The game used in Wilson’s experiment
is actually an old game theory game called
Assurance, also known as “The Stag Hunt,”
and was originally described by Jean-Jacque
Rousseau. Two hunters may choose
between hunting solo and snaring a measly
hare each, or hunting in tandem and
together bagging the better prize — a stag.
Neither hunter knows which course the
other is choosing.
What is new is exploring the game in
a lab under controlled conditions without
all the baggage of the outside world’s
culture, rules, laws and market systems.
Wilson and his colleagues are still
compiling their results and mapping out
the papers they plan to write up on the
project this summer. But Wilson says he
is already struck by the importance of
language among the human game players.
“Without language, the discovery
problem is a tough problem for humans,”
he says.
It reminds him of the Disney movie
Ratatouille, a favorite of his — he quotes
the movie on his Chapman website, and
a parade of plastic characters given to him
by his nieces sits on a bookshelf in his office.
“Ratatouille has elements of trust in it,
but it’s also about being willing to open up
and discover something new. That’s a great
theme for a scientist.”
And it’s not a bad attitude for anyone
trying to discover the nuances of cooperation.
But how do they do it? The search for
the answer bears similarities to Wilson’s
other research examining how trust and
fairness play out in economic behavior.
However, this is the first time he’s
collaborated with researchers who study
comparable issues in non-human primates.
The researchers were curious to see how
deeply rooted cooperation is in primate
behavior, both human and non-human.
The secondary reason for the dual project
was to help scientists fine-tune the
experiment so it could be used cross-
culturally. Any time instructions are
translated, a certain amount of variation
in meaning goes with it. Wilson and his
colleagues wanted to craft a minimalist
experiment that could be used anywhere
in the world.
“Words carry meaning that can frame
the problem (culturally),” Wilson says.
So to winnow the experiment down to
its essence, the humans’ instructions were
sparse — scarcely more than “you will
sit at a computer and make decisions.”
Chimps and monkeys had no instructions
but were adapted to working with a
computer joy stick. How’d they all do?
Well, the chimps weren’t the champs.
But they weren’t bad, either.
“This is a little humbling. Human
primates were a little better than non-
human primates, but not spectacularly,”
Wilson says, with a smile.
At the same time, human success
soared when participants talked about the
game, as did the two women in the video
that so fascinated Wilson. That talking
business was an important ingredient
to cooperation, Wilson says.
“We don’t live in a world where all
of the possibilities for cooperation are
known. We have to find them,” he says.
No talking? Fewer payoffs. Wilson
shows another video
of two young men.
Unlike the first one,
Wilson stays in the
room with the subjects
“We don’t live in a world where all of the possibilities for cooperation are known. We have to find them.”
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An element of the study tests
chimps’ ability to cooperate. Games that inhibit talking tend to limit student success.
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More recently, California voters and
legislators have sought to grant the
seriously ill access to the medical benefits
of marijuana without necessarily understanding
the science behind the drug’s applications.
Now, however, we may be on the path to
clarity and to a new era of treatment, thanks
to a group of scientific sleuths that includes
Chapman Professor Keung-Hang (Susan)
Yang, Ph.D.
A study recently published by
Dr. Yang and five colleagues in the
prestigious Journal of Pharmacology
and Experimental Therapeutics provides
clues for the first time that a particular
chemical in marijuana is the source of its
effectiveness in treating
vomiting and nausea.
It’s hoped that by isolating this chemical,
called cannabidiol (CBD), and administering it
individually, patients will be able to enjoy the
medical benefits associated with marijuana
use without experiencing the adverse
psychological effects.
The research indicates that CBD potently
inhibits the activity of a neurotransmitter
receptor linked closely to the treatment of
vomiting, which is often experienced by
cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
and computational biology at Chapman, and
her colleagues continue to perform research
into CBD at several sites. There are still many
hurdles to clear and answers to provide before
the possibility of a new medication is considered.
However, the initial research paper piqued
the interest of the medical community enough
that in February it was top-ranked on the
infectious disease portal of the MDLinx web
site, which showcases the latest research to
healthcare professionals.
as well as those with a variety of other
conditions. Although marijuana was known
for centuries to have therapeutic actions
against vomiting, its use has so far been fairly
limited due to the undesirable psychological
actions of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC),
another chemical in the drug.
These actions include problems with
memory and learning, distorted perception,
trouble with thinking and problem solving,
and loss of motor coordination.
While the majority of these adverse
psychological actions are known to be
mediated by THC, the contribution of CBD
and cannabinol (CBN) to the overall actions
of marijuana have remained unknown.
Dr. Yang, director of international science
programs and professor of biological science
Shedding New Light on Medical Marijuana
WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
Sometimes it might seem as if the discovery of marijuana dates to the days
of those noted explorers Cheech and Chong, but medicinal use of the drug
actually has a history that goes back several thousands of years.
C H A P M A N M A G A Z I N E
2010 RANKINGS:
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT–
RESEARCH PAPERS IN ECONOMICS REPORT
COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
1 University of Chicago 2 Chapman University 3 University of California, Berkeley 4 University of California, San Diego 5 George Mason University
EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS
1 University of Chicago 2 University of California, San Diego 3 Chapman University4 Harvard University 5 New York University
YOU’RE KNOWN BY THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
The field of economics was rocked off its foundations when Vernon L.Smith, Ph.D. first conducted experiments on markets and consumer
behavior in a laboratory setting. The results of this cutting-edge research have spanned fields as diverse as finance, accounting, information systems, engineering, psychology, space travel, computer science, law, neuroscience and philosophy. For founding the revolutionary field of experimental economics, he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics.
In 2008, Professor Smith and his colleagues established the Economic ScienceInstitute at Chapman University. This interdisciplinary research effort of the Argyros School of Business and Economics and School of Lawdistinguishes Chapman University’s educational experience. By fostering anexciting and collaborative approach to teaching and research — and involving their studentsin the discovery of innovative business solutions — these Chapman scholars are breaking new ground.
T H E F U T U R E I S
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Counterclockwise from top left: John Dickhaut, Ph.D.; Bart Wilson, Ph.D.; Stephen Rassenti, Ph.D.; David Porter, Ph.D. and Vernon L. Smith, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith, Ph.D.
JOHN DICKHAUTJohn Dickhaut, Ph.D., a world-renowned researcher and a founding member
of Chapman’s Economic Science Institute, passed away April 9. He was 68.“John loved interacting with students and challenging them to think carefully and
deeply about the world around them,” Chancellor Daniele Struppa said in an e-mail to the university. “He was legendary in seminars for asking penetrating questions ofspeakers and not relenting until the question was answered clearly. Although John was passionate about research, he had a unique sense of humor that made it easy to be relaxed when discussing topics with him,”
Dr. Dickhaut, the Jerrold A. Glass Endowed Chair in Accounting and Economics,was acclaimed for his research into the role of information in economies, the laboratorystudy of preferences and trust. He was also one of the first researchers to use brainimaging to understand the nature of the choice process in the human neural system.
He explained his work in an interview for thespring 2008 issue of Chapman Magazine: “The otherthing we think we’re beginning to uncover is thatthe way the brain makes choices seems to bemimicked in how organizations build their normsand their rules. It’s an important frontier,” he said.
In a 2008 interview in The Orange CountyRegister, Dr. Dickhaut expressed hopes that thelaboratory work of experimental economics could be used to forestall future economic disasters.
“Because of the financial debacle I and SteveGjerstad, a visiting scholar at Chapman, have begunto ask under what conditions can we produce a financial crisis in the laboratory basedon the introduction of lending instruments (including derivatives). It is our belief thatby beginning to really go after such questions in the laboratory it might help us avoidadditional $700 billion experiments down the road,” Dickhaut said.
Prior to his arrival at Chapman, Dr. Dickhaut was the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Accounting at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, where he was a professor of accounting for more than 30 years.
LOUIS B. ROCKLANDA leader in the field of food science
and a longtime Chapman sports fan,
Louis B. Rockland, Ph.D., director emeritus
of the Food Science Research Center and
professor emeritus of Food Science and
Nutrition, died Nov. 1, 2009. He was 90.
Dr. Rockland was appointed in 1979
to establish the Food Science program at
Chapman after a long and distinguished
career with the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. He worked for 35 years —
in two different Department of Agriculture
laboratories in California — and held
several patents for his food research.
He served as chair of the Chapman
Department of Food Science from
1979-82 and director of the Food
Science Research Center from 1979-88.
Dr. Walt Clark, former faculty member
of Food Science and Nutrition at Chapman
and a friend of Dr. Rockland for more
than 50 years, described his colleague
as one of the brightest food scientists of
his day. Dr. Rockland was a Fellow of the
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), an
international scientific society for food
science and food technology professionals
and the accrediting body for food science
undergraduate programs. Active in the
organization, he held a number of officer
positions, including chair, in the Southern
California Section of IFT.
Fred Caporaso, Ph.D., professor
of food science at Chapman, worked
with Dr. Rockland and said he was
internationally recognized for his research
on dried beans and water activity.
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BARBARA STANSELLKnown for her vitality and enthusiasm,
Barbara Stansell, Ph.D., former Chapmanprofessor and director of the originalCommunication Science and Disorders Program, passed away April 18. She was 92.
Dean Emerita and Director of Fellowships andScholar Programs Barbara Mulch, Ph.D., recounts,“Barbara was an amazing teacher and mentor as well as being so committed to the program.Under her guidance, the program was very strong and produced outstanding graduates.”
Dr. Stansell was known for her strong personality, her many beloved sayings and her outstanding professional work ethic, says Chapman education Professor Judy K. Montgomery, Ph.D.
“Dr. Stansell was the most vital faculty member and director of the original CSDprogram at Chapman. She was a champion for the field,” Dr. Montgomery says.
CHAPMAN in memoriam
DOROTHY HURST MILLSA professor emeritus of Spanish at Chapman
known for her hospitality to students, Dorothy
Hurst Mills, Ph.D., passed away Dec. 1, 2009
in New Mexico, where she retired in 1990 to be
near her daughter. She was 81.
Dr. Hurst Mills, who received all of her degrees
from the University of Southern California, was
appointed to the Chapman faculty in 1965.
Dr. Hurst Mills held several administrative
appointments during her distinguished career at
Chapman and served as chair of the Department
of Languages for three years and as director of the Evening, Interterm and Summer
programs for two years during the 1970s.
She wrote two books, Survival Spanish and Spanish Vocabulary and Structure for the
Health Professional. In addition, she founded a publishing company, which published
several books written by Chapman Professor Paul Delp, Ph.D.
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RICHARD A.R. WATSONA founding member of the Communication
Studies program and an innovative teacher,
Richard A.R. Watson, Ph.D., died Jan. 21.
He was 73.
“Richard had a quirky personality which
charmed many of the students. His creative spirit
challenged them to think in new ways and see the
discipline through fresh eyes. Richard’s research
and teaching interests were truly interdisciplinary,”
Chancellor Daniele Struppa said in an e-mail to
the university community.
Dr. Watson taught a wide range of courses, from interdisciplinary topics such
as literature and science and literature and film to communication theory. After
receiving his doctorate from the University of Washington, Dr. Watson was
appointed to Chapman’s English Department in 1966. Inspired by the teaching of
Marshall McLuhan, whom he had met while completing his master’s degree at the
University of British Columbia, Dr. Watson worked with Richard Doetkott, Ph.D.,
to form the Communications Department in 1972. For the rest of his career,
Dr. Watson had a joint appointment in both English and communications.
Among his more recent scholarly interests was the juncture between semiotic
theory and Internet imaging, which he defined as “web poesis.” He developed
the website www.psychocountry.com, which uses animation and text to develop
a Mennipean satire exploring the communication process for academics and
students. He was also working on a book to complement the website, ProXemiotics:
A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human Culture and Speciation.
TED MORTENSONA botanist known for his sense
of humor, Ted Mortenson, Ph.D.,
professor emeritus, biological sciences,
passed away Jan. 15. He was 67.
Dr. Mortenson came to Chapman
in 1970 after earning his doctorate at
Claremont College and teaching junior
high and high school.
“He was the resident botanist in a
sea of faculty with specialties in bugs,
animals, birds and humans and he
would always have a rejoinder in
department meetings about the
superiority of plants,” Chancellor
Daniele Struppa said in an e-mail
to the university community.
Dr. Mortenson served as chair of
the Department of Biology in 1977-78,
1981-88 and 1991-93 and was a vocal
member of the Teacher Education
Committees of the 1970s and ’80s.
For 22 years (1975-97), he served
as marshal for the 50-year alumni
classes. He served on the Faculty
Personnel Committee, Faculty
Welfare Committee and other faculty
governance groups on campus.
His trademark was his willingness
to help others and his unwavering
enthusiasm. He retired in 2002.
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� The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050(Penguin Press)
By Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures
The suburbs will be different but strong, America will be more
diverse but competitive, and the hand-wringers who say American
progress is history will have to find a new fixation, Kotkin suggests
in this new book that Kirkus Reviews calls “A fascinating glimpse into a crystal ball,
rich in implications that are alternately disturbing and exhilarating.”
In stark contrast to the rest of the world’s advanced nations, the United States
is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to
400 million Americans by 2050. This projected rise in population is the strongest
indicator of our long-term economic strength, Kotkin believes, and will make the
United States more diverse and more competitive than any nation on earth.
Drawing on prodigious research, firsthand reportage and historical analysis,
The Next Hundred Million reveals how this unprecedented growth will take physical
shape and change the face of America. The majority of additional hundred million
Americans will find their homes in suburbia, though the suburbs of tomorrow will
not resemble the Levittowns of the 1950s or the sprawling exurbs of the late 20th
century. The suburbs of the 21st century will be less reliant on major cities for jobs
and other amenities and, as a result, more energy efficient, Kotkin predicts.
� An Illustrated and IlluminatedManuscript of the Gospel of Thomas (Letterata)
By Marvin Meyer, Ph.D., professor, Griset
Chair in Bible and Christian Studies
Dr. Meyer, with
watercolor artist and
calligrapher Carol
Nichols, has created
a limited-edition art
book that presents his
translation of The Gospel
of Thomas in the style
of illuminated sacred manuscripts.
The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas is one
of the Nag Hammadi texts rediscovered
in Egypt in 1945.
“I am particularly pleased that The
Gospel of Thomas is presented in this
illustrated edition,” said Dr. Meyer. “In
many ways it is in itself a work of literary
artistry, with sayings of Jesus given in a
nuanced and poetic style. It merits a
presentation as art — sacred art — and
in this volume The Gospel of Thomas is
published for the first time in an illustrated
and illuminated version. Here the sayings
of Jesus in The Gospel of Thomas may be
read as translated words and also
experienced as spiritual vision.”
� American Entrepreneur: The Fascinating Stories of the People Who Defined Business in the United States (AMACOM)
By Lynne Pierson Doti, Ph.D., David and Sandra Stone Professor
of Economics, George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics
Co-written with University of Dayton Professor Larry Schweikart,
this is a history of America told through profiles and stories of its pioneering
business people. The book blog First Friday Book Synopsis selected it as one
of the Top 10 business books of 2009.
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� Robert Graves: Translating Rome(Carcanet Press)
By Patrick Quinn, Ph.D., dean and professor, Wilkinson College of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English, general editor
This 20th installment in the planned 24-volume Collected
Works of Robert Graves represents a landmark in the ambitious
project, which has sometimes had to overcome calamity as well
as master Graves’ monumental body of work.
This collection began back in 1993 and has survived a number of obstacles
in its 17-year history. The proofs of two volumes were destroyed back in June
1996 when an IRA bomb destroyed part of the publisher’s office in Manchester,
England. Dean Quinn remembers the phone call the next day from the
publisher saying everyone in the office was fine, but the proofs had simply
evaporated by the force of the explosion.
“So, we started again from scratch and managed to publish both volumes
the following year. Then there was the introduction of a volume of two Graves
novels which was belatedly considered a bit too politicized to go to press,
and Carcanet Press determined that a new 10,000-word introduction had
to be written in a week’s time or the volume’s appearance would be delayed
by two years. Somehow the introduction got finished on time!”
� Master of the Air: WilliamTunner and the Success of Military Airlift (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press)
By Robert Slayton, Ph.D.,
Henry Salvatori Professor
of American Values and
Traditions, Wilkinson
College of Humanities
and Social Sciences,
Department of History
The work profiles Tunner, father of
the military airlift. An up-and-coming
Air Force general, in 1948 Tunner was
assigned to command the Berlin Airlift,
a pivotal event that forever changed
military transport.
Detailed in Dr. Slayton’s book is Tunner’s
historic mission of supplying a city with
everything it needed — from food to coal —
to survive the Soviet blockade during the
earliest days of the Cold War. The mission
was expected to fail but ended up being a
public-relations triumph for the West and
a pioneering use of military air transport.
Roger G. Miller, director of the U.S.
Air Force Contract History Program, praised
the book, saying, “Slayton provides the
first complete biography, and it has some
original insights, such as the connection
he explores between Tunner, the Berlin
Airlift and the Stalingrad airlift.”
� The Culture of Excess: How Americans Lost Self-Control and Why We Need to Redefine Success (ABC-CLIO)
By Jay Slosar, Ph.D., adjunct professor, Schmid College of Science,
Department of Psychology
Slosar diagnoses the psychological engines of an indulgent era
and offers his prescription for helping “Generation Me” become “Generation We.”
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CHAPMAN faculty news
Celebrating the Workof Dr. Ronald Scott
Colleagues, former students, friends and
well-wishers gathered in Argyros Forum
on May 11 to celebrate the career and
work of Ronald L. Scott, Ph.D., on the occasion
of his retirement as a psychology professor in
the Schmid College of Science.
President James L. Doti praised Dr. Scott
for his dedication and recited these words
from William Faulkner as tribute, saying one
is “immortal not because he alone among
creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but
because he has a soul, a spirit capable of
compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” The
words “describe Ron to a T,” President Doti said.
Dr. Scott, a leading researcher and expert in
psychological assessment with emphasis on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory (MMPI-2 and MMPI-A), psychology’s most frequently used test of
personality and psychopathology, retired after 31 years at Chapman.
Carolyn Vieira-Martinez, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, was a consultant
for Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins’ play Break the Whip, a colonial American
history set in 17th-century Virginia. The play was performed by the historic Actors’
Gang Theater in Culver City. Wilkinson College and Dodge College students also
attended the play’s opening and participated in post-performance discussions with
the director, cast and crew.
Vernon Smith, Ph.D., Nobel laureate and professor
of economics and law, received the “Annual Award for the
Contribution to the Proliferation of Liberal Thinking and the
Ideas of Liberty, Private Property, Competition and the Rule
of Law” on Feb. 26 from the Liberalni Institut in Prague in the
Czech Republic. He also gave the annual lecture, “Mortgage
Market Bubbles that Engulf Economies, 1997-2009; 1920-1932,”
was heard by more than 300 people at the Czech National Bank.
Mark Axelrod, Ph.D., professor of comparative literature and director of the
John Fowles Center for Creative Writing, has had one of his paintings, “Postage Due,”
selected to appear in the latest issue of the art magazine Area Zinc. “The work
combines graphic design and what used to be called concrete poetry or visual prose,”
Dr. Axelrod explains.
Joseph Runzo, Ph.D., professor of philosophy and religious studies, directed a
conference at Chapman called “The Ethics of War and Just Peace,” featuring a group of
international scholars who gathered April 28 to discuss how the old tenants of Just War
Theory might be remade for a new world. The conference is part of a five-year project
of the international non-profit Global Ethics and Religion Forum. Just War Theory
evolved in a medieval world ordered by monarchs, but today’s conflicts are driven as
much by insurgents and terrorists as nation states, he says. Dr. Runzo also directed a
four-day symposium in Melbourne, Australia on the ethics of war and peace with experts
in international relations, international law, ethics, political science and history.
Judas Event Caps Season of ‘A Night With…’
Marv Meyer, Ph.D., chair of Chapman’s
Religious Studies Department, took on
the role of one of the most complicated
characters in the Bible, Judas Iscariot,
then led a spirited discussion in the final
event in Wilkinson College’s “A Night
With…” series.
Meyer’s performance in Fish Interfaith
Center’s Wallace All Faiths Chapel
concluded the three-part series, which
also featured Robert Slayton, Ph.D.,
professor in history, portraying Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Richard Ruppel,
Ph.D., professor of English, depicting
author Joseph Conrad.
Audiences praised the first season
for the performance series, created by
Wilkinson to bring historic personalities
to life with reenactments by faculty
members who have done extensive
research on the characters portrayed.
A new series of “A Night With…”
events will launch in November, with
Angela Tumini, Ph.D., assistant professor
of languages, portraying Danish author
Karen Blixen (also known as Isak
Dinesen). Also on tap: Lynda Hall, Ph.D.,
assistant professor of English, as novelist
Jane Austen, and Richard Doetkott,
Ph.D., professor of communications
studies, as Abraham Lincoln.
President James L. Doti praised the dedication of Dr. Ronald L. Scott, who retired in May after 31 years at Chapman.
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Thomas Ainsworth Robichaux, J.D.
’99, loves detail work. The kind it
takes to hold together a legal system
when you’re the only city attorney in New
Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The kind
it takes to jump into politics, run and be
elected to the Orleans Parish School
Board just when the whole system
needs rebuilding.
And as if that weren’t enough,
Robichaux, one of the first openly gay
persons elected to public office in New
Orleans, persevered through the details
it takes to adopt a gay teen-ager.
Robichaux, 41, says the passion for
all he has undertaken comes naturally, but
the know-how he learned at Chapman’s
School of Law.
“It was a brand new school, and being
in the founding class, starting and setting
up all the traditions was very exciting to me.
I helped write the bylaws for Nexus, the law
journal, and helped edit the American Bar
Association study that got us accreditation.
My fingerprints are all over that school,
and I take pride in that,” he says.
Robichaux, now deputy city attorney
for New Orleans, says attending a fledgling
law school turned out to be ideal training
for the start-from-scratch projects he faced
in the post-Katrina years.
“Starting a program is a lot more work.
It’s a lot more attention to detail that we
had to learn (at Chapman),” he says.
The influence was huge, he says.
“I learned to be a writer and researcher.
And I learned — and I found this to be
true in government — that there’s a big
difference between starting a program and
taking control of a program that already
exists. We really are starting over here.
There has been a big push in every aspect
of government.”
It also takes energy and dedication,
both inherited from a family that considers
public service to be second nature, he says.
Family members in generations before
him have been local officials, mayors and
congress members.
“You’re supposed to go out and save
the world and make the world a better
place, if you can,” he says.
Robichaux is trying. He sits on the
board of Forum for Equality, a statewide
gay and lesbian civil-rights organization,
is a member of the Louisiana Democratic
Party State Central Committee, is running
for election to the state legislature in a
special election to fill an open seat and is
the proud father of Jonathan, 19. He also
maintains a solo private law practice.
And while gay rights are an important
issue to him, he says sexual orientation
has been an inconsequential factor in his
own career and political life.
“New Orleans is a rather liberal,
free-spirited town anyway. Most of my
friends are straight lawyers. We hang
out and go to happy hour. It never
has been an issue,” he says.
Next Robichaux says he would like
to write about the days immediately after
Katrina. And there is another detail to
which he still has to attend. It seems there’s
a certain university president who was
promised a special meal some time back.
“I still owe President Doti a gumbo.
I promised him.”
No doubt that’s a detail Robichaux
will not let slide.
Finding Delight in the DetailsBy Dawn Bonker
Weathering the Storm
If someday you find yourself in the Gulf of Mexico riding out a hurricane on
a cruise liner that’s tossing about like Gilligan’s little pleasure boat, hope that
Thomas Ainsworth Robichaux, J.D. `99, is aboard.
The New Orleans attorney knows just how to pack for that particular style
of sailing.
“Jack Daniels!” Robichaux says.
Robichaux, then assistant city attorney for New Orleans, spent three stomach-
churning days at sea when the city’s temporary post-Katrina offices — a Carnival
cruise ship — was forced to sail into the gulf to ride out Hurricane Rita.
Gut-wrenching as they were, those days were a break from the tremendous job
of sorting out the city’s legal issues in the months following the Katrina disaster.
Robichaux and his staff dealt non-stop with myriad legal issues, from whether a city
bulldozer could just plow through a house on the verge of collapse to whether the
mayor was authorized to declare Marshall Law. Tough days, but all spent in the
name of protecting his beloved city, Robichaux says.
“This city gets under your skin and stays there.”
Thomas Robichaux, J.D. ’99, says lessons he learned as a member of the founding class of the Chapman School of Law havehelped him tackle the many leadershipchallenges of post-Katrina New Orleans.
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resources available to them is the goal
of my research, and I hope to investigate
deeper into that need in this culture.”
The rural region of Nicaragua where
Linsell will be posted suffers from the
country’s highest rate of maternal
morbidity. The needs there are many
and “overwhelming,” Linsell says.
“There are too many to give priority
to one or the other.”
But women’s reproductive health education
is a good place for her to start, she says.
“I’m passionate about my work in
women's reproductive health because as
a woman I’m empathetic to the struggles
and sufferings of other women,” Linsell
says. “The beauty in being a woman is
finding solidarity with other women.”
Barbara Mulch, Ph.D., director of
Fellowships and Scholar Programs for
Chapman, says Linsell has a big job ahead, but
she predicts the Fulbright winner will excel.
“She’s an amazing student,” Dr. Mulch
says. “Lauryn is going to be changing
women’s lives. She’s already been doing that
and she’s going to be doing more. So I
couldn’t be more proud and delighted.”
Lauryn Linsell ’09, has been named
a Fulbright Award winner for the
2010–11 academic year, a grant
she’ll use to work on maternal health issues
in Nicaragua.
Maternal health problems captured both
Linsell’s heart and energy during a study-
abroad term she spent in Nicaragua to establish
a women’s project with Natural Doctors
International and more recently as director
of the Public Health Brigade in Honduras,
a program of the Global Medical Brigades.
“Between the machismo mindset and the
strong religious influence in these countries,
reproductive health is a controversial topic
and creates a stigma against women who
are proactive about their health,” says
Linsell, a biology major with a minor in
Spanish at Chapman. “Opening up more
conversations and alerting women to the
Maternal Health Is at the Heart of Fulbright Winner’s Research
Fulbright Award winner Lauryn Linsell ’09, right,poses with Danixa Amador, Linsell’s host motherduring her study-abroad term in Nicaragua.
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� The Rev. Dean Echols, BAreligion ’46, after retiring six times
from various positions in different
churches, has decided to stay
retired. Dean is involved in the
volunteer ministry in the Laguna
Woods Village First Christian
Church, where he served as the
minister of visitation. In his spare
time, Dean is an emeriti member of
the Chapman Alumni Association
Board of Directors and serves as
chaplain for the organization. He
organizes monthly music programs
for Schumacher Theatre in The
Covingtons, Aliso Viejo. Dean and
his wife, Mally, live in Aliso Viejo.
1950s
Robert Reid, BA philosophy ’59,and wife, Nancy, BA education’62, moved into a new home.
They reside in Redlands. Bob is a
member of the Chapman Alumni
Association Board of Directors.
1960s
Patricia (Wood) Elliott, BAeducation ’60 and MA education
’74, served as the arts and crafts
lecturer aboard the Royal
Caribbean cruise ship Explorer
of the Seas. Pat also presented the
arts and crafts program aboard the
Mariner of the Seas while cruising
the Mexican Rivera. Her husband,
Tom, BS economics and business
administration ’60, assisted her.
The couple live in Orange.
Collin Roe, BS chemistry ’62,
lives with his wife, Barbara, in
Big Bear. He has two sons, Mitch,
a software engineer in Palo Alto,
and Matt, a global information
specialist in San Diego. Collin and
Barbara have two grandchildren.
1970s
Gwen (Hiroto) Blankenship,BA biology ’70, and her husband,
Jim, welcomed their third
grandchild, Zane James Webster,
on Jan. 27, 2009. Jim and Gwen
live in Lake Forest.
Susan (Mills) Waldron, BAAmerican studies ’72, has a
pre-retirement job as concierge
of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in
San Francisco. She is also director
of technology for the Northern
California Concierge Association.
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position, she is looking for new
employment opportunities and
would love to network with any
Chapman graduates.
Carolyn Bahr, BAcommunications ’89, lives in
Burbank and is a music editor
for the entertainment industry. She
worked on the independent feature
film Bob’s New Suit and is working
on the ABC Wednesday night
comedy series The Middle.
Tessa Dick, BA communications
’82 and MA English ’91, has
published multiple literary works.
Her novel The Owl in Daylight
and memoir Philip K. Dick:
Remembering Firebright are available
through Amazon, Barnes & Noble
and other online booksellers.
Tessa does most of her writing
at her home in Crestline.
Gil Yurly, BA sociology ’82, is working with products and
technologies that have worldwide
patents in anti-aging, including
the “Galvanic Spa,” which combats
lines, wrinkles and cellulite. He
and his team have 28 consecutive
months of record sales. Gil resides
in Orange.
Susan had been a travel agent
and travel industry trainer and
has held several positions at
pioneering travel websites,
including Preview Travel and
Travelocity. She and her husband,
Dave, reside in North Beach.
1980s
Tiffany Ashley, BS businessadministration, economics and
finance ’88, lives in Indiana with
her two children, Jaclyn, 14,
and Tim, 12. After being
downsized from her previous
CHAPMAN alumni
George Waters, Class of ’83, was the lead in
Noel Coward’s witty British
farce Blithe Spirit, presented
at the Inland Valley Repertory
Theatre in Claremont.
For more information, visit
www.IVRT.org. George lives
in Pasadena.
Lili Bess, BA communications
’88, is still freelancing for a major
broadcast network as a live remote
graphics specialist. She spent
February in Canada working for
Olympic Broadcast Services, the
host broadcaster for the Vancouver
Olympics. While there, she
coordinated all the live graphics
at the Whistler Sliding Centre,
where the luge, skeleton and
bobsled competitions were held.
She also managed to fit in some
snowboarding. Lili resides in
Seal Beach.
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Karen Delaney, BS appliedmathematics, MA education ’97,
and Laurel Cherry are both public
education math teachers. They
launched Creative Instructions,
a Yorba Linda company that sells
educational tools Karen and Laurel
made for their classrooms. The
products have been well received
by the educational community.
For more information, visit
www.creativeinstruction.net.
� Frank Delgadillo, BA legalstudies ’96, owns Comune, a
clothing design company that was
named Small Business of the Year
by the Orange County Hispanic
Chamber on April 17, 2010. The
company is recognized for its
excellent community citizenship.
Frank is a member of the Chapman
Alumni Association Board of
Directors and resides in Orange.
� Robert Diaz, BS businessadministration ’97, and his wife,
Rebecca, welcomed their first child,
Stella Felice, on Jan. 11, 2010. Robert
is president of the Chapman Alumni
Association Board of Directors.
The family resides in Santa Ana.
1990s
George A. Allmon, BA socialscience ’96, is a Navy commander
serving as commanding officer at
Naval Aviation Technical Training
Unit (CNATTU), Lemoore. His
previous duty stations were seven
deployments on five different
aircraft carriers, including USS
Enterprise (CVN-65), Norfolk,
Va., USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70),
Norfolk, Va., and USS Abraham
Lincoln (CVN-72), Everett, Wash.
He also served at numerous shore
commands, including executive
officer of CNATTU Lemoore and
Naval Maintenance Training
Group, Naval Air Station North
Island, San Diego. His awards
include four Navy and Marine
Corps commendation medals
and five Navy and Marine Corps
achievement medals as well as
campaign and service medals.
Chris Baiocchi, BA English ’98,is the annual fund manager for
MIND Research Institute in
Santa Ana. MIND Research is
a non-profit organization that
enables students to reach their
academic potential with math
instructional software. Chris lives
with his wife and son in Rancho
Santa Margarita.
� Kevin Charlston, MPT
physical therapy ’97, and his wife,
Katie, had their first child, Cole
Alexander Charlston, on Aug. 19,
2009. Kevin is an outpatient
physical therapist for Providence
Medical Center in Portland, Ore.
Lori A. Harris, BA social scienceand government and economics
’93, was elected president of the
Class 18th Street Arts Center
board, a live-work community for
national and international artists
seeking to publish, perform, work
and/or exhibit in Los Angeles
County. Lori is a Los Angeles
County deputy public defender
and avid arts advocate.
2000s
Derick Alexander, BFA film
’09, won an award of merit on
Oct. 9, 2009 from The Accolade
Competition for his historic
period short film The Last Days of
Toussaint L’Ouverture. As an actor
and director, Derick (Dreamgirls,
Castaway, King of Queens) has been
recognized for his exceptional
achievement in craft and creativity.
In earning an Accolade, he joins
other high-profile winners of this
internationally respected award.
Derick lives in Costa Mesa.
Jaime O. Arroyo, BFA theatreand dance ’02, works in the
TV productions department for
Disneyland in Anaheim. He opened
North Orange County’s first division
of the World Adult Kickball
Association. He resides in Whittier.
Hallock Beals, BFA theatreperformance ’05, studied the
Meisner Technique at Playhouse
West. Hallock has earned
credits for True Blood and
Clint Eastwood’s Academy
Award-nominated Letters from
Iwo Jima. In 2007, he traveled to
Alaska to film Godspeed, which is
on the festival circuit. In spring
2010, he starred with Miley Cyrus
and Greg Kinnear in The Last Song
from Disney/Touchstone Pictures.
� Holly Fisher, BAcommunications ’04, married Sean
Lutkenhouse on Aug. 1, 2009.
Holly graduated from UCLA in
June 2009 with a master’s degree in
information science and works at
Ernst & Young in Los Angeles. Sean
is a national account manager for
Virgin’s newest airline, V Australia.
The couple live in Hermosa Beach.
CHAPMAN alumni
� Sara (Elizalde) Bourne, Class of 2000, and her husband, AaronBourne, BA political science ’97, were married at Rex Hill Vineyard on
Aug. 12, 2006 in Portland, Ore. They welcomed their first child, Eliana
Leah Bourne, on March 3, 2009. They live in Beaverton, Ore.
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Mike Brown, BA businessadministration and marketing ’06,
is co-founder of ModBargains.com
and was featured in the textbook
American Entrepreneur. He was
the 2006 first-place winner of
the Global Student Entrepreneur
Award presented by the Collegiate
Entrepreneurs’ Organization.
Mike resides in La Habra.
Todd Croak-Falen, BFA film ’02,
has published his first novel,
Catch Up to Myself. He resides
in Los Angeles.
Kyle Dickinson, BFA film ’07,
received a job as the assistant to
Roland Emmerich, Peter Tolan
(Rescue Me) and former producing
partner Michael Wimer (10,000
B.C., The Day After Tomorrow, 2012,
The Patriot). The group formed
Fedora Entertainment. Kyle lives
in Los Angeles.
Jessica Grangier, BS businessadministration ’08, is a program
specialist for Big Brothers Big
Sisters of the Lower Eastern Shore
in Maryland. Her responsibilities
include developing and
maintaining mentorships in five
counties and interviewing those
who would like to volunteer.
Michael Hudson-Medina, BA art ’00, is the executive
director of Latino Arts LA,
a nonprofit organization that
works with local youth in
Downtown Los Angeles.
Jennifer Jessee, BA leadershipand organizational studies ’07, was
accepted into the strategic public
relations master’s program of
George Washington University
College of Professional Studies.
She is celebrating one year as the
program assistant in the Alumni
Relations office of Chapman
University. Jennifer remains active
in her sorority, Gamma Phi Beta,
as the new member adviser.
Jordan Kaye, public relations and advertising ’06, started a
lifestyle guide, City Confidant,
for Seattle, recommending
restaurants, entertainment,
shopping, culture, travel and
events. For more information,
visit www.cityconfidant.com.
Mindy King, BA history ’04, is working with seven-time
bestselling author Michael Levin
at Business Ghost, Inc. in Newport
Beach as writer, editor and business
manager. When she is not planning
her next archaeological excavation
or riding her bicycle on muddy
hillsides, Mindy continues to
volunteer with the Orangewood
Children’s Foundation, Olive
Crest, and the Chapman Alumni
Association. She would like
to thank professors WilliamCumiford, BA history ’63, Lee Estes and Robert Slayton for
their inspiration and support. In
summer 2010, she plans to scale
pyramids in Belize. When not
traveling, Mindy lives in Santa Ana.
Scott L. Levitt, JD ’03, LLM ’10,
is a candidate for lieutenant governor
of California. His campaign will
include speaking engagements
as he gathers support from the
community. The official campaign
website is www.LevittforLG.com.
Contributions and volunteers are
greatly appreciated. Scott lives
with his wife in Ontario.
Katie Meath, BFA film and
television ’09, works at MTV,
where she is the executive assistant
to Steve Tseckares, senior vice
president of production and special
programming, and Tony Dibari,
senior vice president of
production. Previously, Katie was
assistant to Alexa Chung while the
MTV series It’s On with Alexa Chung
aired. Katie resides in Hawthorne.
Jessica Nettinga, BA psychology’05, married Patrick McHonett on
Dec. 19, 2009. Chapman alumni in
attendance were matron of honor
Caitlin (Rantschler) Wittenberger,BS business administration ’06,
Larissa Errichetto, BA psychology’06, Bethany Crouch, BFA filmand television ’04, Nadine Kunkel,BS business administration ’04,
Adrianna Gonzalez, BApsychology ’07, David May, BFA film and television ’05, and
Kyle Horst, BFA creative writing’06. The couple live in Phoenix.
� Juri Ko, BA peace studies ’08, after visiting Nagar, India, whilestudying abroad, started a foundation, Share Our Hearts, to benefit
school children in Nagar, India. She hosted an art show in Tokyo, where
she resides, to showcase her photographs of India and raise funds for the
foundation. Her art show raised more than $13,000. Juri traveled back to
India in November to donate the funds and 17,000 pencils to the village
where she lived and taught. She feels that pencils symbolize education
and knows the children she taught in India would love them. She is
writing a book to inform people about the issues the people of India face.
Jason Moore-Brown, BApolitical science ’00, and his
girlfriend, Sharon, are pleased to
announce the birth of their son,
William Jack. Jason is a member of
the Chapman Alumni Association
Board of Directors. The family
resides in Anaheim Hills.
Adrienne Kimble, BAcommunications and dance ’01,
earned her MBA from UC Irvine’s
Paul Merage School of Business in
2009. For the past six years, she
has worked for Lennar, a Fortune
500 home builder, as well as
Omnicom-owned Zimmerman
Advertising, the nation’s 14th-largest
advertising agency. She accepted a
position as the marketing director
for Santa Ana-based Veros Software.
She resides in Costa Mesa.
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CHAPMAN alumni
Shawn Potter, MBA business
administration ’07, is the new
general manager for Orascoptic
and Surgical Acuity, a division of
Kerr. He manages the Demetron
and SybronEndo electromechanical
products. He and his wife, Angie,
and their daughter, Helena, will
relocate to Wisconsin.
Sisters Carla Sancho, BA English’05, and Andrea Sancho, BApolitical science and economics ’08,
have started an Internet business
called WeddingCollectibles.com in
La Habra. The company, which
sells wedding cake toppers and
accessories, is striving to make
the brand name Bella Novia
well-known.
� Teren Shaffer, BM music
education and performance ’08,
married Chapman alumna
Brianna Peckham, BA music
therapy ’09, on July 12, 2009.
Chapman alumni in the wedding
party were best man Ryan Corry,BA political science and English
’08, Trent Huston, BS accounting’08, and Maya Kalinowski, BAmusic ’08. Teren is attending the
prestigious Cincinnati Conservatory
of Music’s conducting program,
while Brianna is completing her
music therapy internship at
MusicWorx, Inc. In summer 2010,
the couple will travel to Italy,
where Teren will participate in the
CCM opera program in Spoleto.
� Jenna (Nicoletti) Williams,BA public relations and advertising
’06, and her husband, Reagan
Williams, BS computer science
’06, welcomed their second child,
Porter Robert Williams, on Jan. 19,
2010. He joins big sister Emerson
Rose. Jenna is a member of the
Chapman Alumni Association
Board of Directors. The family
resides in Irvine.
Erika Wilson, BS businessadministration ’07, married BrianJanowiak, BS mathematics ’07,
on April 11, 2009 at Newcastle
Wedding Gardens in Newcastle.
Chapman alumni attending the
wedding included groomsman
Westly Zelle-Richards, Class of 2006, Jeffrey Harris, BAcommunications studies ’07,
Zach Bloomfield, BA economics
’07, Kelsea Ballantyne, BSbusiness administration ’07, DevinChang, BS business administration
’05, and Kellen Brenner, BSbusiness administration, BA history
’05. Erika is a sales and marketing
coordinator for Renaissance
Food Group LLC. Brian is a
civil engineer at Pacific Advanced
Civil Engineering. The couple
purchased their first home and
reside in Roseville.
Erik Wright, BA political science’08, and Evan Minogue, Class of 2008, as business partners
started a lifestyle bicycle store,
WheelHouse, in Santa Barbara.
� Jaime Tunila, BS businessadministration ’06, married
Robert Hobbs, Class of 2007, on Oct. 10, 2009, at Dove
Canyon Country Club in Rancho
Santa Margarita. Several Chapman
alumni participated in the
wedding, including ChristySouthern, BS businessadministration ’07, KathyFarmand, BS businessadministration ‘06, ChristineMcGowan, BS businessadministration ’09, and BrentTarquin, Class of 2007. Jaime
is a sales representative for the
Sciele Pharma, and Robert is
vice president for the RC Hobbs
Company. The couple reside
in Irvine.
Melissa Webster, BFAtheatre/dance ’01, graduated
in May 2009 with a special
education credential in deaf/
hard of hearing from California
Lutheran University, where she
was awarded Student Teacher
of the Year. Melissa earned
her master’s of science in the
education of the deaf from CLU
in May 2010. She teaches oral deaf
and hard-of-hearing kindergarten
students in the Los Angeles
Unified School District and
resides in Long Beach.
� Kali Waters, BA public relations and advertising ’07, and EthanCushing, MFA film production ’07, were married Oct. 25, 2009 at the
Linen Building in Boise, Idaho. Bridesmaids included Chapman alumnae
Molly Glynn, BA communications ’06 and Bonnie (Coil) Lewis, BAreligious studies ’07. Melissa (Luczak) Tomeoni, BA art ’04, served as the photographer. Other alumni in attendance included JoshuaTomeoni, BA legal studies and communications ’06, Kyle Horst, BAcreative writing ’06, Erin Deseure, BFA theatre performance ’08,
Nicole Provansal, BA economics ’07 and MBA business administration
’09, Jeff Werner, BFA graphic design ’07, and Bryan Nest, MFA film
production ’09. Kali is an account executive for Draftfcb, while Ethan
works as a development executive at Avatar Entertainment Group.
The couple reside in Los Angeles.
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Stacy Dolby, BA religion ’49, passed away on Dec. 15, 2009. Earlier
in the year, he and his wife, Shirley, celebrated their 57th wedding
anniversary. Stacy served as a minister for Disciples of Christ and
United Church of Christ, and he also worked in higher education.
When he retired from Northern Illinois University in 1989, the
university created the Dolby Award for the Enhancement of Diversity
in his honor. The award recognizes the student, faculty or staff member
from NIU most actively involved in enhancing diversity on campus.
Louise (Haven) Warriner, an alumna of the ’40s, passed away on
Jan. 18, 2009 at Apple Valley, due to vascular dementia. Louise was
a member of Beta Chi local sorority and Associated Students during
her time at Chapman.
Chuck Holloway, BS business administration ’52, passed away on
Dec. 31, 2009. He and his wife, Dorothy “Johnni” Whitley ’51,
lived in Sun City, Ariz., for the past 10 years. Chuck retired from Valley
National Bank (now Chase) as a branch manager, in 1990, after 23 years.
Ruth (Sande) St. John, BA political science ’42, passed away on
March 30, 2009. She had been a lifelong member of Theta Sigma
Gamma (Thetas) local sorority. Ruth was preceded in death by her
husband, Milton. The couple had resided in Glendale.
Art Raab, BA history ’50, passed away on Nov. 20, 2009 at the age
of 84. He married his Chapman sweetheart, Frances Martin Raab ’47,
and had been a high school teacher and community activist in Lodi.
Art remained lifelong friends with his college roommate, Eldred “Mac”
McCaughna, BA sociology ’49.
David C. Smith, Jr., BA education ’57, passed away on Dec. 13,
2009. Born Jan. 15, 1935 in Terre Haute, Indiana, his family moved
to Burbank, where he graduated from John Burroughs High School.
He received an athletic scholarship from Chapman and was inducted
into the university’s Athletic Hall of Fame in November 2002 for his
basketball talent. He earned his degree in teaching and he raised his
family in Orange. After 35 years with the Orange Unified School
District, David retired and moved to Utah. He traveled and sang in
his church choir. David moved back to California in September 2008.
He is preceded in death by his wife of 35 years, Georgette. Friends
are invited to share memories of David at www.legacy.com through
Dec. 20, 2010.
Elmer Frederick Cordray, ’51 of Hemet passed away Feb. 4, 2010
in Hemet. Elmer served in the Navy during World War II. In 1946,
he married Viola Luise Beu. While at Chapman, Elmer played baseball.
The couple moved to Covina in 1955. He worked as a teacher and
counselor with the Azusa Unified School District. The couple were
active at the Covina Methodist Church for 30 years. After retirement,
they moved to Hemet, where Elmer was a member of Hemet United
Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife.
Charles Dean “Chuck” Holloway, BS business administration
’52, passed away Dec. 31, 2009 at age 82. Chuck served in the
Marine Corps until 1948 and then attended Chapman College, where
he met Dorothy Whitley, BA religion ’51, whom he married in
1951. Chuck worked at Valley National Bank for 21 years and was
active in Kiwanis and his church. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy.
Roberta M. “Bert” Lacey, BA physical education ’59, passed away
on Dec. 24, 2009. After graduating from Chapman College, she
taught for a short time at Biola College in La Mirada. For the next
37 years, she worked for the Oxnard Union High School District.
Roberta distinguished herself as a teacher, coach and drill team
instructor, also working with the faculty senate to prepare teachers
for the future. Bert was honored three times as teacher of the year.
She was a member of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Oxnard,
where she sang in the choir and served on many committees.
Marianne Fraticelli, BA music ’59, passed away Nov. 25, 2009
after a long battle with cancer. Marianne was a member of Lafayette
Christian Church in Lafayette. Her granddaughter, Alicia Fraticelli
’10 attends Chapman University.
Margaret Feldman, BA sociology ’37, a community activist who
organized a walking history tour of southwest Washington, D.C. and
fought for neighborhood improvements for 20 years, died of heart
disease on Nov. 7, 2009, in Ithaca, N.Y., where she had lived since
2005. While at Chapman, she was the first woman to be elected
student body president. She received a master’s degree in social work
in 1939 from what is now Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland. Margaret married Harold Feldman in 1943 in Washington
and they moved to Ithaca, N.Y. She joined the Ithaca College faculty
and received a doctorate in educational psychology from Cornell
University in 1968. The couple moved to Washington, D.C.,
where Dr. Feldman was the lobbyist for the National Council
on Family Relations.
Mary (Asel) Mills-Fearn, MS human resources management and
development ’91, passed away on Feb. 9, 2010. Among her survivors
is daughter Lori (Mills) Horner, BFA graphic design ’95. Services
were held in Edmonton, Alberta.
Dolores Wolf, BA psychology ’50,
passed away on March 12, 2010.
The service was held at the Church
of Our Fathers, Cypress. She
was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dolores was an active member
of the Chapman University Town
& Gown Board of Directors.
FRIENDS WE WILL MISS
Niko Turko, BA publicrelations and advertising ’09,
and Sommer Hogan, BApublic relations and advertising
’09, are teaching English to
kindergarten students at the
International Phoenix School in
Jomtien, Thailand. They love
that working with Thai students
and families allows them to
experience the culture and
international workplace firsthand.
What’s more, they’ve had a
chance to travel throughout
Southeast Asia, including
Laos, Vietnam, Singapore,
Bali, China and Malaysia.
Adam Kalma, BFA theatre performance ’07, and Billy Otteman,communications BS business administration ’08, spent 2009 teaching English
in Seoul, South Korea. Adam taught middle school students, while Billy
taught elementary. However, it was the time spent outside of class, exploring
the country and culture, that were the most thrilling, challenging, rewarding
and life-changing, they say. Their year abroad included trips to China,
Thailand and elsewhere in Asia. Their motto: “Every day is a new adventure.”
David Ellis, BS business administration ’00, enjoyed a visit to the
historic ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru. He is retiring as vice president
and continuing as a member of the Chapman Alumni Association Board
of Directors. David, a Newport Beach resident, is a member of the tenant
advisory group at CB Richard Ellis Inc.
David Green, BA communications ’94; Karl Weaver, BFA film
and television, BA leadership and organizational studies ’05; JoshuaJackson, BA psychology ’05; and Jaime Arroyo, BFA theatre anddance ’02, had plenty to celebrate as they attended a friend’s wedding
in Ecuador. Jason Siddons, BFA communications ’94, later joined
them. The group of Adelpho fraternity brothers traveled on the
“Chivas,” an open-air party bus that tours the city streets of Ecuador.
PANTHERS on the Prowl
Looking for a spectacular, hand-made area
rug? Well, if the area in question is an
airplane hangar, then we have the perfect
rug for you. Actually, Youssef Hindi, MBA
’07, has the rug — he’s the marketing
manager at Samovar Carpets and Antiques
in Kuwait, which was recognized recently
by the Guinness Book of World Records for
creating the largest hand-woven carpet in the world. Unrolled, it covers
10,279.53 feet, which means it rivals in size the infield tarp at Angel
Stadium. What’s next for such a massive rug? We suggest a bid for
a new world record: Largest mass of humanity getting snug as a bug.
R E C O R D - S E T T I N G R U G
Tailgate andBaseball Game
June 27, 2010Fun, family outingat Angel Stadium
A Day at theRaces
August 2010Board a charter bus toDel Mar Racetrack
by the sea
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The Allred Aquatics Center looks like a jewel in the sky, thanks to the photographic artistry of Sarah Lee ’12. The film production major and water polo
player merged about 10 shots of the pool and surrounding buildings of the Lastinger Athletics Complex to create a 360-degree panorama. “Then with
some Photoshop magic and a polar coordinates filter, viola!” she says. Tres magnifique, we say.
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