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Trail of GoldLike 19th-century pioneers, students in Professor Steven Gjerstad’sUniversity Honors interterm class trekked the vast Badwater Basin ofDeath Valley in January. But rather than gold, they were digging foreconomic history, which they found during their primitive-camping,hiking and study experience. The course was created and led byGjerstad, Ph.D., an economist and Chapman presidential fellow, as wellas Eric Schniter, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research associate professor, andadjunct faculty member Joy A. Buchanan ’10 (MS ’11). The Gold Rush is fascinating to economists because it’s a condensed example of how an economy moves from subsistence to great wealth, Dr. Gjerstad said.“The Gold Rush set California on a different path than other places,” he added. For some students, the experience elicited more visceralreactions. “I could not imagine the feeling and the absolute soul-crushingdoubt (miners) felt rolling into this valley with a horse and wagon,” said Matthew Earle ’14.

Photo by Dr. Steven Gjerstad

On the CoverUsing a polar coordinates filter, multiple images and some Photoshopmagic, photographer Sarah Lee, Class of ’12, offers an imaginative viewof Memorial Hall and the other buildings of Chapman University’s historiccore. To go inside the creative process of other Chapman thinkers, turnto page 18.

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UP FRONT2 President’s Message

3 First Person: Who Shot Gabrielle Giffords?

CHAPMAN NOW5 Chapman in Partnership to Create School of

BioPharmacy

5 New Doctorate Launched in Computational Science

6 History Journal Captures National Award

6 Dancers Earn Fourth Straight Title

6 Bellwether Moment for MBA Students

6 Can-Do Victory for Film Team

7 Debut of eVillage Gives Entrepreneurs a Place to Grow Their Ideas

7 Center for the Arts Meets Funding Goal

8 Chapman Chatter

9 Seen and Heard

10 Miranda May End Up a Cop-Show Casualty

11 Ask the Experts: Will Pumped-Up Gas Prices Persist?

COVER STORIES18 Get Creative: Chapman Innovators Show How

to Foster Fresh Thinking

24 Making Magic Happen on the ‘Aha!’ Pathway

FEATURES14 Leader of Note: William Hall Looks Ahead

as He Celebrates 50 Years at Chapman

26 Mano en Mano: The College of Educational Studies Builds a Winning Partnership

32 The Godfather of Steampunk: Professor Jim Blaylock helpscreate a literary genre that becomes a worldwide phenomenon

ALUMNI NEWS40 ‘Chapman in the Blood’: Mary Belle (Taylor) Carter,

Class of ’51, Heads a Family of Panthers

41 Class Notes

44 Miss America Experience ‘a Dream’ for Noelle Freeman ’11

44 Daniel Bury ’11 Boldly Explores a New Frontier With Shatner Video

DEPARTMENTS12 Sports: Brian Rauh ’13 Has Major-League Aspirations

13 Lloyd Joins Dad in 500-Win Club

36 In Memoriam: Donald P. Kennedy, Thomas J. Liggett, RobertGray, Richard Doetkott, Katherine Darmer, Louise Booth

I N T H I S I S S U E

C H A P M A N M A G A Z I N E2

Board of Trustees

OFFICERS

Donald E. Sodaro

Chairman

Doy B. Henley

Executive Vice Chairman

David A. Janes, Sr.

Vice Chairman

David E.I. Pyott

Vice Chairman

Scott Chapman

Secretary

Zelma M. Allred

Assistant Secretary

TRUSTEES

Wylie A. Aitken

The Honorable

George L. Argyros ’59

Donna Ford Attallah ’61

Raj S. Bhathal

James P. Burra

Phillip H. Case

Irving W. Chase

Arlene R. Craig

Jerome W. Cwiertnia

Kristina Dodge

James W. Emmi

H. Ross Escalette

Paul Folino

Dale E. Fowler ’58

Barry Goldfarb

David C. Henley

Roger C. Hobbs

William K. Hood

Mark Chapin Johnson ’05

Jennifer L. Keller

Parker S. Kennedy

Joe E. Kiani

Joann Leatherby

Charles D. Martin

James V. Mazzo

Sebastian Paul Musco

Harry S. Rinker

James B. Roszak

The Honorable

Loretta Sanchez ’82

Mohindar S. Sandhu

James Ronald Sechrist

Allen L. Sessoms

Ronald M. Simon

Ronald E. Soderling

Glenn B. Stearns

R. David Threshie

Emily Crean Vogler

Karen R. Wilkinson ’69

David W. Wilson

EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEESJudi Garfi-PartridgeReverend H. Ben Bohren, Jr.Marcia CooleyReverend Don DeweyJames L. DotiKelsey C. Smith ’05 Reverend Stanley D. Smith ’67Reverend Felix VillanuevaReverend Denny Williams

TRUSTEES EMERITIRichard BerteaLynn Hirsch BoothJ. Ben CrowellLeslie N. DuryeaRobert A. ElliottMarion KnottJack B. LindquistRandall R. McCardle ’58 Cecilia PresleyBarry Rodgers Richard R. Schmid

Board of GovernorsOFFICERS

Judi Garfi-PartridgeChair

Melinda M. MassonExecutive Vice Chair

Thomas E. MalloyVice Chair

Douglas E. Willits ’72Secretary

GOVERNORSGeorge Adams, Jr.Marilyn AlexanderMargaret BaldwinMarta S. BhathalKathleen A. BronsteinKim B. BurdickMichael J. CarverEva ChenRico GarciaKathleen M. GardarianLula F. HalfacreSue KintScott A. KistingJohn L. KokulisDennis KuhlStephen M. Lavin ’88Jean H. Macino Richard D. MarconiBetty Mower PotalivoNicholas R. ReedJerrel T. RichardsDaniel J. Starck

GOVERNORS EMERITI

Donald A. Buschenfield

Gary E. Liebl

EX-OFFICIO GOVERNORSSheryl A. BourgeoisJames L. Doti

President’s CabinetNicolaos G. AlexopoulosJulianne ArgyrosJoyce BrandmanHeidi Cortese ShermanLawrence K. DodgeOnnolee B. Elliott (M.A.’64) Douglas K. FreemanFrank P. GreinkeLynette M. HaydeGavin S. HerbertGeneral William LyonHadi MakarechianAnthony R. MoisoThe Honorable Milan PanicLord Swraj PaulJames H. RandallThe Honorable Ed RoyceSusan SamueliJoseph Schuchert, Jr.Ralph SternDavid StoneRoger O. Walther

As We Explore, May We ‘Remain Children All Our Lives’

In The Creative Powers of a Free Civilization, which Dwight Lee and I included in our book The Market

Economy: A Reader, F. A. Hayek makes a powerful case that legislators risk inhibiting innovation when they

limit freedom of action. I mention it here because I think his theory of creativity — that only through

experiences that challenge existing conceptual frameworks can new knowledge come into being — is

particularly relevant to higher education and the pursuit of lifelong learning.

However difficult creativity is to quantify, one need only watch a child at play to recognize the inherent

thirst for knowledge that runs deep within us all. This creativity is nurtured through experiences that

challenge us to view the world in diverse ways. This is why I encourage all students to experiment with

many disciplines, even those outside of their comfort zones. Approaching education with a spirit of

adventure helps us to discover our passions in life and to become innovators in our chosen fields.

Opportunities for engaging the creative imagination abound at Chapman University — enhanced by

strong interdisciplinary partnerships between each of our seven schools and colleges. We will continue to

strengthen interdisciplinary education as an important component of our university’s unique vision and

identity. And I will continue to encourage all students to dream big, broaden their perspectives and have fun.

I am reminded of a favorite quote by Albert Einstein that graphic design major Chase Conching ’14

incorporated into his runner-up entry in this year’s Chapman University commemorative poster contest:

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children

all our lives.”

Regards,

James L. Doti

CHAPMAN president ’s message

Approaching

education with a

spirit of adventure

helps us to discover

our passions in life.

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Who Shot Gabrielle Giffords?

in themselves — in dubious taste but certainly not the motivatingreason why the paranoid schizophrenic Jared Loughner brought a gun to the Safeway with the intention of assassinating Gabrielle.

What they were, though, were symptoms of the larger causes of Tucson’s unease: a fragile economy, a fear of illegal immigrants, a toxic political culture that favors passion over reason, and thedisconnected neighborhoods of newcomers where loneliness festersand lack of concern for one’s neighbor becomes a habit. This is theenvironment in which the punitive and ridiculous law SB 1070 waspassed, requiring local police to demand the immigration papers ofanybody they stop who appears to fit a suspicious profile — such as a Latino who happened to dress down that day.

Loughner was suffering from a grave mental illness, but he wasnot living in a world made entirely of his own delusions. He couldstill hear and see what surrounded him, and those surroundingshelped him formulate a plot against a specific target: Gabrielle Giffords.The slime was directed at her personally, but it was only a convenientchannel for the fear that the American dream was lost and that acrisis was at hand.

Studies of schizophrenics have revealed that their hallucinationsare shaped and even governed by the culture that surrounds them.What Loughner saw of public life in Tucson was one of general fearand outrage, with one solitary woman, her face in constant mediaview in sinister cast, being branded as the responsible party for allthe misery.

Small windows were being cracked that year in Tucson.Permissions were being unwittingly given. Gabrielle’s office windowwas broken out by a pellet pistol in March after a series of angry“town hall” meetings on the healthcare bill. Gabrielle confessed to her husband that she feared somebody would bring a gun to a public event and shoot her.

Tucson was abruptly sobered by the bloodshed at the Safeway.Flowers and cards were showered on the lawn outside the hospitalwhere Gabrielle lay. The mourning over this chilling, pointless actbrought the city together in a way that would have been unfathomablein the ugly days of the 2010 congressional election. It was almost asif, deep down, we remembered we share a destiny with each other.And we all wondered quietly if we could have somehow done moreto prevent our civic air currents from massing into thunderclouds.

The question has long intrigued social scientists.The criminologists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling advanced the famous “broken windows”theory in 1982, postulating that the breaking of a single window in an abandoned building

encourages the rapid breaking of all the windows because a certaincosmic permission has been given for vandalism.

The question of how geography shapes the psyche is worthexamining a year after the Jan. 8, 2011, Safeway shootings in Tucson,Ariz. The months leading up to the attempted assassination of U.S.Rep. Gabrielle Giffords were unusually paranoid ones. I saw thetension up close, because Tucson is my hometown, and I workedon my friend Gabrielle’s campaign as a speechwriter, watching as her face was all over television and outdoor ads portraying her as the embodiment of a government that was wrecking the localeconomy. There was a feeling in Tucson that I did not recognize.

Much has been made of the website put up by Sarah Palin’spolitical action committee (with target markets over the districts of vulnerable Democrats, including Gabrielle’s) and the newspaperad for her opponent calling on his supporters to help him shoot an M-16 at a fundraiser. I think these gestures are unimportant

O COMMUNITIES UNDER STRESS CREATE THEIR OWN RANDOM BURSTS

OF VIOLENCE, IN THE SAME WAY THAT MOUNTAINTOPS CREATE THEIR

OWN THUNDERSTORMS OUT OF HIGH-FLOWING AIR CURRENTS?

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Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords withher husband, astronaut Mark Kelly.

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Tom Zoellner is an associate professor of English at Chapman University and the author of A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us

About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America. A version of this article originally appeared in the online magazine Zócalo Public Square.

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Student Pool Makes Splashy Debut

The Masson Family Beach Club was dedicated March 2, and it’s already hard to

remember how Chapman University students got along without it.

“We don’t need a thermometer to know how warm it is these days,” said Jerry Price,

Ph.D., vice chancellor and dean of students at Chapman. “We can tell by how many

students are in or around the pool. They’re ecstatic to have this resource to enjoy.”

The new pool and recreation space, located a beach ball’s throw from the student

residence halls, first opened for use in December. Coupled with the recent addition

of the Student Union in the renovated Argyros Forum, the Masson Family Beach Club

gives students a new space to relax or study between classes, to meet friends or make

new ones, and to generally enjoy the social component of the Chapman experience.

The Beach Club was made possible by a gift from the Masson Family Foundation.

“The popularity of this new facility underscores the value students place on

recreation, fitness and an active lifestyle,” Dean Price added.

‘A Great Mix of Stories’

I recently read the latest edition

(fall/winter 2011) of Chapman Magazine

and really enjoyed the articles. I thought

it had a great mix of stories from not only

Chapman, but from

the surrounding

community. As an

Orange resident and

Chapman graduate

(undergrad and

MBA), I just wanted

to say thanks for

producing such a

nice publication.

DAVID P. GILL ’07, (MBA ’11)ORANGE, CALIF.

‘So Many Memories’What a joy to get (the fall/winter

2011) issue of Chapman Magazine. The

pictures on pages 24 and 25 (of Don

Jarman ’50 and other classmates) brought

back so many memories. I roomed with

Doug Corpron ’50, plus sang with him

and Johnny Miller ’50 in a trio. I’m

so proud of Chapman in many ways.

Keep up the good work.

HARSH BROWN ‘50COLUMBIA, MO.

The FutureBright Ideas, Bold Vision

5S P R I N G 2 0 1 2

Chapman University’s Schmid

College of Science and Technology

has announced a new Ph.D.

program in computational science, making

Chapman one of the few universities in

the world to offer degree programs in this

cutting-edge field at the undergraduate,

master’s and doctoral levels.

Approved by the Western Association

of Schools and Colleges in early December,

the new program will be offered in fall

2012 and is accepting candidates now.

“This program will be known

nationally and internationally as a model

for science education and research,” said

Chapman Chancellor Daniele Struppa.

Computational science combines

methods and techniques from mathematics

and computer science with other science

disciplines to create new knowledge and

understanding. Computer modeling and

simulation — the tools of computational

scientists — have become recognized as

engines of economic growth and scientific

advancement. A Ph.D. in computational

science prepares students for employment

in academia, scientific research laboratories,

private industry and government agencies.

“The complexity of the

21st century cannot be

viewed through the lens

of a single discipline,”

said Michael Fahy, Ph.D.,

professor of mathematics

and computer science and

associate dean in the Schmid

College of Science and

Technology. “Our scientists

and researchers will be both

in the classroom with our freshmen and in

the laboratories with our graduate students.”

Chapman has been laying the

groundwork for establishing a niche

program in the sciences since 2006,

and an internationally known team of

physicists and computational scientists

was hired a year later. The MS degree

in computational science was introduced

in 2009.

Acollaboration between Chapman University and Keck Graduate Institute (KGI)

will launch a new School of BioPharmacy, to open in fall 2014, pending national

accreditation.

The jointly operated school will focus on preparing graduate pharmacists for professions

in biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry as well as for modern pharmacy practice.

“This is a remarkable opportunity,” said James L. Doti, Ph.D., president of Chapman

University. “It builds on KGI’s innovative professional master’s and postdoctoral programs

and close biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry ties, and takes advantage of Chapman’s

strengths in computational sciences and entrepreneurship.”

The new Chapman-KGI School of BioPharmacy, to be located at first on the KGI

campus in Claremont, Calif., will reorient the Doctor of Pharmacy degree toward crucial

developments in pharmacogenomics. The program will reflect rapidly developing changes

in the field, including the growth of personalized medicine, the delivery of biomolecules,

changes in drug and device development, and progress in clinical trials and team-based

operating environments.

The curriculum is planned to equip graduates to become licensed pharmacists with

sophisticated knowledge of the applied life sciences for modern health care practice,

and experience with therapeutics, therapy management, and regulatory affairs to shape

discovery in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

The school’s vision reflects the ways in which pharmacists are increasingly asked to

shoulder a primary role in matching drugs and therapies to a particular patient or strain

of illness, as well as translating their clinical expertise into drug discovery in industry.

“The Chapman-KGI School of BioPharmacy will embrace this change in the profession,”

said Sheldon Schuster, Ph.D., director and professor of biochemistry at Keck Graduate

Institute. “Current advances in genomics and the growing convergence of therapeutics,

diagnostics and medical devices are creating new opportunities for pharmacists in the

life-sciences industry and modern clinical practice. This new school will help prepare

highly qualified individuals to take advantage of those opportunities.”

The two universities have begun a national search for an entrepreneurial founding

dean with experience in pharmacy education and industry. The first classes for the

Chapman-KGI School of BioPharmacy will be held on the KGI campus in Claremont,

while Chapman pursues construction of a 120,000-square-foot Science Center in Orange.

The new Science Center will house Chapman’s portion of the School of BioPharmacy

and the university’s Schmid College of Science and Technology.

The Chapman-KGI School of BioPharmacy is expected to grow to a full enrollment

of 320 students.

Chapman in Partnership to Create School of BioPharmacy

CHAPMAN now

New Doctorate Launched in Computational Science

Michael Fahy, Ph.D.

CHAPMAN now

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History Journal Captures National Award

Voces Novae, Chapman University’s online history journal, haswon the prestigious 2011 Nash History Journal Prize for BestE-Journal from Phi Alpha Theta (PAT), the National History

Honors Society. This is the second time that the student-edited VocesNovae has won this national award.

The winning issues contained edited versions of a massive oral historyproject undertaken by Alpha Mu Gamma, Chapman’s PAT chapter, todocument the university’s rise to prominence over the past 20 years.The students interviewed key administrators, professors, and alumni.

After technical training from Pam Ezell ’81 and Dan Noah ’05 of Panther Productions and Jana Remy (MFA ’87), associate director of instructional technology, the students made the project their own, says Professor Lee Estes, Ph.D., faculty advisor to the journal.

“The result is a tribute to the students’ extraordinary efforts.They stepped up to the plate from the beginning and persevereduntil this large project was put to bed,” Dr. Estes said.

To see a video on the making of the oral history project, visit www.chapman.edu/magazine.

Bellwether Momentfor MBA Students

Ateam of MBA students from Chapman

University’s Argyros School of Business

and Economics won second place and a

$3,000 cash prize in the MBA Global Innovation

Challenge, the world’s largest and most established

business innovation competition.

As part of their award the students got to

ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Jan. 27. In addition, the corporate

sponsor for the Chapman team announced that it will implement the students’ innovation plan.

The Chapman team competed in the finals against teams from the University of Pennsylvania’s

Wharton School and Virginia Commonwealth University Brandcenter, which took first place.

The Chapman team of Doan Tran, Bryce Ricks, Kelsey Wuornos and Geoff Northup

advanced to the finals by winning first prize in its category, creating a product development

case for General Electric.

Can-Do Victory for Film Team

An ad for Campbell’s Soup earned five students from Chapman University’s Dodge

College of Film and Media Arts the grand prize in a national college competition.

The ad created by the Chapman students depicts a child going to extremes to get

a bowl of soup. The students bested a heavyweight field that included teams from UCLA,

Pepperdine, Los Angeles Film School and the New York Film Academy.

Earning the grand prize were Chapman film production students Sten Olson ’15 , Adolfo

Kahan ’14, Jonathan Amato ’15, Jordan Evans ’15 and Hannah McDonald ’15. A trip to the

South By Southwest Film Festival was

among the prizes. Each team member also

won a high-definition camera presented

by MOFILM President Andy Baker, who

called their spot “totally TV-ready.”

Dancers EarnFourth Straight Title

For the fourth year in a row, Chapman

University’s Dance Team won first

place at the USA Collegiate National

Championships held March 18–19 at the

Anaheim Convention Center, earning the

Divisions II & III Open Dance Championship.

The team was led by Alicia Okouchi-Guy,

assistant professor in the Department of

Dance, who called it “a special win.”

Team members are Christopher Babcock

’14, Katherine Barnum ’12, Nicole Broch ’12,

Christine Bulgozdi ’13, Joseph Chantry ’14,

Lindsay Cross ’12, Sasha dee Dayoan ’14,

Kristen Mabry ’15, Chelsea Rush ’15, Katie

Sellars ’14, Sarah Sheade ’12, Amanda

Sullivan ’15 and Katelin Wollner ’13.

Top row, from left: Kristen Mabry ’15, faculty adviserAlicia Okouchi-Guy, Christopher Babcock ’14, JosephChantry ’14 and Chelsea Rush ’15. Bottom row, fromleft: Amanda Sullivan ’15, Christine Bulgozdi ’13,Katelin Wollner ’13, Katherine Barnum ’12, SarahSheade ’12, Katie Sellars ’14, Sasha dee Dayoan ’14,Nicole Broch ’12 and Lindsay Cross ’12.

From left, Bryce Ricks, Kelsey Wuornos, Doan Tranand Geoff Northup.

Top row, from left: Sten Olson ’15, Adolfo Kahan’14, MOFILM President Andy Baker, JonathanAmato ‘15 and Jordan Evans ’15. Bottom row,from left: Adjunct Professor Frank Chindamo,Hannah McDonald ’15 and Adjunct ProfessorMarla Schultz.

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The planned $64 million Center for the Arts at Chapman

University has achieved full funding, President Jim Doti

announced Feb. 24 during his annual State of the University

Address. Groundbreaking on the center is planned for June.

Chapman achieved the funding goal by meeting an

anonymous $32 million matching grant — the largest gift in

the history of the university. The state-of-the-art theatre “will

enhance the Chapman experience on campus, build bridges

to the vibrant Orange County arts community and elevate the

College of Performing Arts to new heights and prominence,”

said William Hall, Ph.D., founding dean and artistic director

of the Center for the Arts.

The 1,050-seat center will accommodate full-scale

Broadway-style productions, ballets, symphonies and operas

as well as provide a new home for the annual student revue

American Celebration.

A $5 million gift from the Kay Family Foundation will

help make the center one of the most technologically advanced

in the nation, equipping it with streaming capabilities so

performances can be viewed around the globe.

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Chapman student Carl Waniek ’12 and Taryn Rose,CEO of ISHAPEIT Inc., are among those pursuing their entrepreneurial dreams at eVillage.

An artist’s rendering shows the Center for the Arts, which will featureacoustics by Yasuhisa Toyota, who has “tuned” more than 50 landmarkconcert halls worldwide.

A HOTHOUSE FOR START-UPSThe opening of eVillage gives entrepreneursa place to grow their ideas.

When business major Nicole

Rosanwo ’14 first walked

into Chapman University’s

eVillage, a cutting-edge nesting home for

entrepreneurial start-ups, she could see

the writing on the wall — literally.

The interior walls of the newly restored

vintage house that is home to eVillage are

coated in “Idea Paint” — write-on-wipe-off

wall paint that encourages brainstorm

scribbling, a canvas for idea-churning

entrepreneurs. Rosanwo, an undergraduate

in the Entrepreneurs in Residence program,

arrived to find that the business folks she

had been assigned to shadow had been

busy discussing and sketching out their

thoughts on the idea walls.

“It’s inspiring to see them working on

their own ideas. You could tell there was

a lot of buzz. You really just want to be

a part of it,” Rosanwo said in March,

during a festive luau-themed open house

to unveil the new South Glassell facility.

Although it functions within the

Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship

and Business Ethics in the Argyros School

of Business and Economics, eVillage is

partnered with a business accelerator called

K5Launch and TriTech, a small business

development center. Applicants accepted

into eVillage receive a variety of resources,

from seminars and workshops to on-site

mentoring and 24/7 access to facilities.

It’s a 12-week program aimed at preparing

participants for their moment of truth:

a pitch meeting with potential investors.

Budding entrepreneurs from the

community may apply for entry to eVillage,

but the companion student programs are

reserved for Chapman University students

with an interest in entrepreneurial studies,

projects or business start-up ideas of their own.

“My mission is for Chapman to be the place

where entrepreneurs, innovators and students

collaborate,” said Richard Sudek, Ph.D., assistant

professor and director of the Leatherby Center

for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics

and chairman emeritus, Tech Coast Angels.

“We hope that those who go through

eVillage and launch their companies come

back as mentors, so we create a thriving

entrepreneur ecosystem.”

Center for the Arts Meets Funding Goal

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Chatter

MOVING ON UP Anyone who’s had to pack up a

household’s worth of clothes and move

them to a new home knows what a

nightmare that can be. For Pat Cavins,

the household is the Costume Shop in

the Entertainment Technology Center

at Chapman University, and the packing

included more than 10,000 costumes

and about 3,000 pairs of shoes. Luckily,

the new Palm Avenue warehouse and

offices to which she and some of her

College of Performing Arts colleagues

moved in January offers lots more space

to design and build sets, dye and sew

fabric and, yes, store costumes. “The

move wasn’t traumatic at all,” said

Cavins, who loves the new digs. This is

the second such move since she started

at Chapman 12 years ago. “That first

one,” she said, “was our dress rehearsal.”

THE THREE TENORSLos Angeles Opera presented two special performances at the Cathedral of our

Lady of the Angels in March, and the event turned into a Chapman University

alumni reunion. Three graduates of Chapman’s Conservatory of Music performed

solos in The Festival Play of Daniel, conducted by James Conlon, the internationally

acclaimed music director of L.A. Opera who holds an honorary doctorate from

Chapman. Tenors Robert MacNeil ’93, Ashley Faatoalia ’06 and Ben Bliss ’09 were

featured in the production, with Bliss in the title role. One reviewer praised all

the soloists for “their considerable individual talents” and “exceptionally beautiful

voices.” And now let us add our voice: Bravo!

SLING BABYWhat would you do for a chance to get your ad team’s TV

commercial idea into the primest time of all — a slot during

the Super Bowl? If you’re Justin Folk ’00, you let the director

sling-shot your 15-month-old son toward a backyard jungle

gym so he can snatch a bag of Doritos from the hands of a

brat. That’s the concept that snagged Folk and his colleagues

the top spot on USA Today’s Super Bowl Ad Meter, and

with it a $1 million bonus prize from Doritos. Of course,

no amount of fame or fortune could entice Folk to endanger his son; the sling-shot part

was all done digitally. But that was really his baby, Jonah, earning laughs as the star of the

30-second spot. When the flying-baby idea was first floated, Folk’s reaction was, “You’re

out of your mind — but could it be my son?” As his co-workers on the project gathered

for a Super Bowl viewing party, Folk and his family opted for a quieter setting. “We just

kind of had a place for the kids to run around,” he said. No slings attached.

MILEY MANIAAll it took was a single blog post to a celebrity gossip site: Someone

claimed to have the inside scoop that Miley Cyrus was enrolling at

Chapman University. Faster than a Hannah Montana wardrobe change,

the news went viral — rocketing through the blogosphere, racing

through the Twitterverse, until less than two days later the “news” had

been viewed by more than 11 million distinct site visitors, according

to the Web-monitoring service Vocus. After two months, the item is

at 25 million views and counting — never mind that it is completely

untrue. Chalk it up to another Internet hoax and the sobering

lesson that you just can’t believe everything you read on the Web.

But then you knew that already.

From left, Ashley Faatoalia ’06, Ben Bliss ’09 and Robert MacNeil ’93 share a moment with L.A. Opera maestro James Conlon, who holds an honorary doctorate from Chapman.

“The events are very hard to write about. I make everything become fiction … to create a

distance that allows me to approach the subjectbecause it is so horrible and I am so involved in it.”

Alicia Kozameh, Argentine author and former political prisoner, on

why she expresses her experiences in fiction rather than biography.

She spoke at Leatherby Libraries as part of the Fowles Series.

“Particle physics largely isan attempt to understandnothing. Once we understandthe vacuum, the rest is kind of trivial.”David Gross, Ph.D., Nobel Prize-winning physicist,

speaking at the Sandhu Conference Center.

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“Of course there issome legal justificationfor the position Nixonwas taking. He wasdrawing on Lincoln and FDR.And to me, sadly, the Nixonianview might be even moreprominent in the aftermath of 9/11, where thingslike torture and our violation — blatant violation— of our international treaties have become thenorm rather than the exception.”

John Dean, former White House counsel to President Nixon, reacting

to a news clip of Nixon saying, “When the president does it that means it’s

not illegal.” Dean spoke during a January symposium at the School of Law

that marked the 40th anniversary of Watergate.

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“The charity work Iimposed on my athleteshelped eliminate some ofthe self-absorption. It helped

them to understandthemselves better ascommunity leaders.”Leigh Steinberg, sports superagent on

whom the film Jerry Maguire was based, speaking

to entrepreneurship students in Beckman Hall.

“Asa creativeartist,

the most important thing you can do is to transcend

your own fear and encouragecollaborators to do the same.”

Steven Bernstein, cinematographer on films

such as Monster, Underworld and Half Baked,

speaking to a Dodge College winter

interterm class on staging

and filming stunts.

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“You have the right to remain silent.”There was a time when those words resonated with just about

every American who owned a television set. “Next to the pledge of allegiance, the Miranda rights may be

the most familiar common litany of the baby-boomer generation,thanks to TV,” said an editorial in Broadcasting & Cable magazineafter a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2000 gave itsown nod to the influence of television.

The court ruled in the 2000case Dickerson v. United Statesthat defendants should continueto have Miranda rights at least in part because the warning weknow from dozens of cop showsis so thoroughly ingrained inAmerican culture.

But Chapman law professorRonald Steiner, Ph.D., wondered:Is the perception outdated? Domodern “police procedurals”make time for Miranda like theydid in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s?

So he launched a researchproject to find out. And whatbetter participants thanundergraduate students inChapman’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts?

“Part of their studyexperience is to look at thedevelopment of a genre overtime,” said Dr. Steiner, who inaddition to constitutional lawand criminal procedures classesteaches Freshman Foundationsand honors courses at Chapman.

He recruited Becky (Bauer)Sayers ’09 and Rohit Talwar ’07, both film production studentswho had taken his Foundations course Intro to Law.

“It’s always interesting to study how popular culture influencesthe law, and vice versa,” Sayers said.

Her charge was to consider cop shows that aired shortly afterthe original Miranda case in 1966 — Dragnet and Adam 12 beingthe two mainstays. Talwar took shows of more recent vintage,including Law & Order, CSI, Bones and The Shield.

As they watched episode after episode, they measured arrestsagainst Miranda rights recitations, and they took notes on whetherthe warning helped shape the story.

In all, they watched 173 episodes. “I think I was seeing Joe Friday in my sleep,” Sayers said.

But some interesting findings emerged. In Dragnet, which firstran in the ’50s but was revived 1967–70, “hardly an episode wentby without the warning being thrust into the ears and memory of viewers,” the participants say in their research paper.

By contrast, In Hill Street Blues’ debut season of 1981–82, there were 13 on-camera arrests with just one full Mirandarecitation. And since the Dickerson ruling in 2000, Miranda

warnings have been even lessprevalent, the researchers notein their paper, published in2011 by the Cleveland State Law Review.

For instance, CSI premieredin 2000 and in its first seasonaired 52 arrests, with only oneMiranda warning.

In the conclusion to theirpaper, Sayers, Talwar and Dr. Steiner ask: “If Mirandacontinues disappearing frompopular culture, how might a future Supreme Courtreevaluate the importance of Miranda and the holding of Dickerson?”

They conclude: “TheMiranda warning mightdisappear as easily as televisionshows that are canceled andquickly forgotten.”

Beyond the effects of theirlegal research, the studentparticipants say the projectitself influenced them. Sayersnow works as a licensingproducer at Seattle-based BigFish Games, where she oftentakes on issues of intellectual

property. Meanwhile, Talwar has earned a law degree from theUniversity of Arizona and is an associate at the Tucson firm Stubbs& Schubart.

As a postscript, Talwar recently had another Miranda moment.At a screening of the recently released comedy 21 Jump Street, henoted that a plot twist involves one of the young cop characterssaying he can’t remember the Miranda warning specifically becauseTV shows these days don’t include the whole recitation.

Later, when the character and a partner make an arrest, they’reable to recite the entire warning.

“That was quite a surprise,” Talwar said.Perhaps like so many recycled Hollywood concepts, Miranda

will get a chance to make a pop-culture comeback after all.

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Miranda May End Up a Cop-Show Casualty

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The ’60s cop show Dragnet, starring Jack Webb and Harry Morgan, helpedput the Miranda warning at the forefront of the pop-culture consciousness.

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When gas prices rise even slightly at the pump, U.S. consumers

feel it instantly in their wallets. So as per-gallon costs reached

all-time highs for March, the impact sent shock waves that

are likely to reverberate throughout the summer and right up to Election

Day in November.Why have prices jumped so sharply this year, and what are the

prospects for relief? We put the questions to James J. Coyle, Ph.D., director of global education at Chapman University. Dr. Coyle is an expert on issues of the Middle East and U.S. energy policy. His energy-related blog is at eurasianenergyanalysis.blogspot.com.

What factors are to blame for the recentprice hikes?

First, there’s the ever-increasing need for fuel by

China and secondarily by India. On top of that,

there’s been an increasing need for petroleum

products in Europe, which has experienced

one of the biggest cold snaps in history. These

factors push up demand, and when you

combine them with a decline in production

from Libya, Syria and even Iraq, prices go up.

What needs to happen for gas to become more affordable?

The usual answer is drill, baby, drill, but in

fact the domestic amount of recoverable oil

suitable for production as gasoline offers just

a short-term solution. We’re talking about

ANWR (the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)

in Alaska, off the coast of California and some

other places. That can provide relief for 10

years, maybe 20. So it becomes clear that a

big part of the answer is conservation, which

doesn’t have to mean people riding everywhere

on bicycles. It can mean things as simple as

checking your tires. If everyone in the U.S.

kept their tires properly inflated, we’d see a 5

percent reduction in the use of gasoline. That

might not sound like a lot, but we consume

20 million barrels of oil a day. Five percent

would equate to an extra million barrels of oil.

So when will we get relief at the pump?

I hate to be pessimistic, but as long as

demand for oil continues to grow worldwide,

we can anticipate higher prices. In China,

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every day. That’s not replacement cars, that’s a

net increase each day. And we are really on the

edge technologically. In Russia, they’re drilling in

Siberian oil fields that are only accessible three

months out of the a year because the conditions

are so harsh. But when prices are high enough,

that kind of drilling becomes commercially

viable. In the short term, any increase in supply,

regardless of where we drill, will drop the prices,

though it’s important to remember that there

really is no such thing as a domestic or world

market. That’s a fallacy; it’s all one market. So

we can increase tar sands production in Canada,

and that will get us enough oil so that China

can add another 70,000 cars to the road.

Taking a longer view, are thereopportunities for improvement?

There are a couple of possibilities that provide

some hope. One is biofuels. Researchers are really

starting to experiment with the growth of algae

and other things that could be burned for energy

— not to put gas in your tank but to generate

electricity so oil can be freed up to use for

gasoline. Also, we’re looking at a possible

revolution in natural gas. Ten years ago, if you

looked at natural gas, you said, “How long before

we run out?” It was a scary possibility. Then lo

and behold, in 2002 they perfected a technique

for getting gas from shale through fracking,

and it’s now estimated that the U.S. will be

self-sufficient in natural gas, and for the first

time since the ’60s become an energy exporter.

This is the most viable source of hope, because

other technologies are just too immature.

AskTHE EXPERTS

Will Pumped-Up Prices Persist?

“A big part of theanswer is conservation,which doesn’t have to

mean people ridingeverywhere on bicycles.

It can mean things as simple as checking

your tires.”JAMES J. COYLE, PH.D.,

DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL EDUCATION,

CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY

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CHAPMAN sports

By Doug Aiken ’99, ’09

“I honestly don’t know how that happened,” Brian Rauh ’13 says of his 24-win streak, compiledover his first 2½ seasons at Chapman.

MAJOR PLAYER

Photo by Richard Matamoros

He is the current in a long lineage ofdominant ChapmanUniversity aces, thelatest in a history that

dates back to former National LeagueCy Young Award winner Randy Jones’72. He is Brian Rauh ’13, and while he is the newest sensation, hiscredentials say he is also the bestChapman has seen in a long time.

Not only has the junior right-hander twice been a first-team All-American, but he was named NCAADivision III Pitcher of the Year as a freshman and led the nation instrikeouts as a sophomore. Along theway, he compiled a record of 24–0 in 2½ seasons before his record was finally blemished by a 2–0 lossto Rutgers-Newark University of New Jersey on March 11.

Ihonestly don’t know how thathappened,” a modest Rauh said ofhis unbeaten streak. “I owe a lot tomy team and my catchers. It’s niceto have those guys behind you that

you trust in. They’ve always picked me up.”It was an incredible streak while it

lasted, prompting unrealistic expectationsevery time he took the mound. Yet, Rauhhas maintained a simple approach. “I justreally want to win that next game.”

Expectations were not always so highfor Rauh, who was largely unheralded outof high school. It was his older brother,Jeff, who drew attention from pro scoutsand earned a scholarship to pitch for theUniversity of San Diego.

“We recruited the heck out of Jeff,”says Chapman coach Tom Tereschuk. Ayear later, the Panthers landed his youngerbrother and got more than they anticipated,aided by a growth spurt that saw Brian go from 5-foot-7 and 150 pounds as ahigh school junior to 6–1, 185 when heenrolled at Chapman in fall 2009.

Still, as the Lake Forest, Calif. nativeembarked on his first season at Chapman,he was not high on the Panthers’ depthchart. “Coach T. called me soft,” Rauh recalls.“That made me mentally tough. The word‘rattled’ is not in my vocabulary anymore.”

Sure, he won his first two starts and

even tossed a complete-game three-hitteragainst Pomona-Pitzer College in his thirdstart. But he didn’t become a regular inthe Chapman rotation until two-thirds of the way through his freshman year.

Now he’s projected as a pro pitchingprospect. And the first words CoachTereschuk uses to describe Rauh are“fierce competitor.”

For his first start of 2012, againstWhittier College, more than a dozenscouts showed up at Hart Park. As ajunior, Rauh is drafteligible for the firsttime since highschool and willlikely be one of the first Division IIIplayers selected in Major LeagueBaseball’s First Year Player Draft in June.

“It’s hard not to think about it becauseevery time I throw a pitch 12 (radar) gunsgo up behind home plate,” says Rauh. “Ithink about (being drafted) a lot becauseit’s always what I’ve wanted to do.”

He’s a business student, and a goodone. Last year, he was named to theCapital One Academic All-District VIIIbaseball team with a 3.57 grade-pointaverage. So how difficult would it be forhim to leave school early to pursue hisdream of playing pro baseball?

“It’s really not as difficult a decision asyou’d think,” Rauh says. “Organizationslike the Royals, Yankees and Diamond-backs have all talked about paying for myschool and housing when I come back.Plus, this is the year I have some leverage.If I wait until my senior year, they’ll giveme two grand and buy me a plane ticketand that’s pretty much it.”

It sounds like the business major hasalready figured out the economics ofbaseball — and the art of the negotiation.Plus, he’s spent time talking to formerPanther players such as Kurt Yacko ’11,who left Chapman after his junior yearonly to return and earn his degree on theColorado Rockies’ dime.

However, Rauh has some unfinishedbusiness on his mind before his Chapmandays are done. Last May, he led the Panthers

to the NCAA DivisionIII Championships butwas forced to exit theseries opener with anelbow injury thatshelved him for the rest

of the tournament. Without him, Chapmanreached the national championship gamebut had to settle for second place afterfalling to Marietta College (Ohio).

That loss is a particularly heavyburden for Rauh.

“I was upset that I couldn’t be outthere and be a leader,” he says. “It’s hardthinking that last game might have gonedifferently if I had been out there.”

Especially now that his career-longvictory streak is over, there’s one win that matters most to Rauh.

“I just want to get back (to thechampionships) and win that last game.”

When Chapman University softball coach Janet Lloyd earned her 500th career victory

recently, she reached a milestone matched by only one other coach in the program’s

history — her late father, Lisle Lloyd. So it’s no wonder that she was thinking of

him in the run-up to the achievement.

“Even though he isn't here, he was the one that got it going and I’m the one to carry on

the tradition,” she told The Panther newspaper.

Win No. 500 came Feb. 19, when the Panthers topped La Sierra University, 12–3, at

El Camino Real Park. Under her father, Chapman won 534 games from 1983 to 1998.

“He was a great coach, and I think about it as us doing it together,” she said.

Actually, the two did coach in tandem for four seasons, achieving 156 of their wins together,

including the 1995 national title victory. Lisle Lloyd passed away in 2002.

On the night of her milestone moment, Janet was the center of attention, though she quickly

shifted the focus back to her players.

“They were trying to do it for me, but I wanted them to do it for themselves,” she said.

“I’m glad it’s done, so now we can just keep going.”

For the latest news on Chapman sports teams, visitwww.chapmanathletics.com.

championship dreams and big-league aspirations.

Brian Rauh ’13 never set out to earn

24 straight victories, but he does have

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Panthers softball coach JanetLloyd holds the game ball afterher 500th career victory Feb. 19.

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During his 50 years at Chapman, Bill Hall has compiled scores of golden moments, and he sees more on the horizon.

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It was never Bill Hall’s intention to make thepope cry. Bringing the Chapman UniversityChoir to the Vatican for a concert wasprivilege enough, but then to have thepontiff ask for a private performance thatultimately brought him to tears, well thatwas something else entirely.

In 2001, after 39 years at Chapman and 10 years into histenure as dean of what is now the College of Performing Arts(CoPA), Hall was invited to conduct a gargantuan concert forthe most holy of audiences.

The Chapman University Choir joined 13 others — 800total singers — and the Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta in performingVerdi’s Requiem at St. Paul’s Outside the Walls. Some 40,000faithful turned out for the concert celebrating the Feast of St. Peterand St. Paul. Afterward, Hall and the choir prepared to leave, buta heavily armed guard asked them to stay. Out came Pope JohnPaul II, who put his arm around Hall and in his heavy Polishaccent asked, “Now won’t you sing something just for me?”

Hall led the Chapman choir in Palestrina’s Sicut Cervus, thepope’s favorite choral piece. Tears on his cheeks, the pontiff

said jokingly to Hall, “You leave your choir with me, and take mine with you.”“I wasn’t thinking,” Hall said in his mellifluous bass. “I said, ‘No thank you, I’ve heard

your choir.’ He absolutely died laughing.”For most people, this would be the singular, defining moment of a lifetime. For Dean Hall,

it’s just a memorable aria in a magnum opus-sized life.That life now includes 50 years at Chapman

University, with the golden anniversary to becelebrated Jan. 18–19, 2013 in Memorial Hall.Friends, colleagues and alumni will gather to paytribute to the man and his substantial influence. In the meantime, to see what the legacy of an iconlooks like, walk into his office, around the babygrand piano and shelves stacked with books andmusic, and take a look at the walls.

Peruse photos of Dean Hall on stage with Tony Bennett, performing with Carol Burnett andFrederica von Stade, posing with President Nixonafter leading the choir at Pat Nixon’s funeral. Thenexamine a letter from the premier of New SouthWales, Australia, gushing over a performance byHall’s group at the Sydney Opera House, as well as lifetime achievement awards from Arts OrangeCounty and the American Choral Director’sAssociation. Then there’s the image that standsout among all others: Bill Hall and the pope,sharing a laugh like old friends, which isn’t toofar from the truth — Hall performed for himseven times before John Paul’s death in 2005.

JOIN IN THE CELEBRATIONChapman University is planning a 50thanniversary celebration as big as theaccomplishments of William Hall, Ph.D.,founding dean of the College of PerformingArts and now dean and artistic director of theCenter for the Arts.

Events are still taking shape, but you can betthe celebration Jan. 18–19, 2013 in MemorialHall will include lots of music and stories. Sosave the dates, because everyone’s invited –especially alumni who have been influencedby Dean Hall over the years.

Event details will be posted to a special BillHall 50th anniversary celebration page onFacebook (www.facebook.com/Bills50th),where you can comment and post photos on the wall. You’re also encouraged to emailphotos to sandymcdaniel@aol.com, or mailthem to 8651 Palm Ave., Orange, Calif.92865 so they can be scanned and returned.

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Among the accomplishments of Dean William Hall during his 50 years at Chapman: leading a choir of 800 voices,including all Chapman soloists, in a concert for Pope John Paul II in 2001 and spearheading the drive to develop a new1,050-seat Center for the Arts, to be built on campus. To view more choir photos and other images through the years,go to www.chapman.edu/magazine

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Hall trades gifts with the Yugoslavian minister of culture before aperformance in 1973. From 1965 through 1989, the choir performedmany concerts behind the Iron Curtain. Among the students pictured are Pamela Burtin, Ron Doiron ’75, Pauline Asaro ’77 (MA ’82), Roger Lindbeck ’73 and Joyce Allan ’74.

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As the longest-serving dean at Chapman, Hallhas established a long list of accomplishments and a legacy of growth. “I look back and think, ‘We started with nothing here,’” he said.

It’s appropriate to credit Dean Hall with theprogress of Chapman’s performing arts program, butthe truth is he has done much more. He broughtprofessional experience, passion and fearlessness to what was then Chapman College. As the choralprogram grew, it brought Chapman with it.

AN EARLY STARTWilliam Dawson Hall knew from an early age

he wanted to perform. At age 3, Hall began pianolessons and was entranced, determined he wouldbe a concert pianist. By 12, the Whittier, Calif.resident had landed a lesson with SouthernCalifornia piano pedagogist Fanchon Armitage.

“I’ll never forget it,” Hall said. “She said, ‘You have magnificent hands. Too bad you have no talent.’”

Hall was crushed. “She said, ‘You misunderstood me. You’re talentedmusically, but you’ll never be a concert pianist.’ But I’m only 12 years old,”Hall recalled arguing. “She said great pianists are born, and in a sense she was right. It took me a long time to forgive her.”

Though dejected, Hall took Armitage’s words to heart and shifted hismusical focus. While a senior at Whittier College in 1956 Hall formed theprofessional group he would lead until 2003: The William Hall Chorale. Hewas 22 and already bringing artists together to rise through the ranks of thegrowing choral scene. The 1950s and ’60s saw an explosion in the popularityof choral music, and William Hall and his Chorale were right there alongsidethe likes of The Robert Shaw Chorale and The Roger Wagner Chorale.

How did a 22-year-old have the self-assurance to start a group of such a high caliber? He credits confidence gained from his piano background,“even though I had big hands and no talent,” he said with a laugh. “In myearly career, I knew I was destined to do something musically.”

After being signed by the William Morris Agency (followed shortly byColumbia Artists Management), touring the country, living the life of aprofessional musician, Hall still pushed the Chorale to new heights, and itbecame one of the most well-known and prolific groups in choral music circles.Over its 47-year history, the Chorale performed in 589 cities throughout theU.S. In China the group sang at the Great Hall of the People. In Lithuania,Hall was knighted by officials of the capital city, Vilnius. The Chorale performedwith the San Francisco Ballet, the Boston Pops and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.Recordings, collaborations, and awards — the list of accolades is encyclopedic.

All of this was accomplished while he pursued a parallel life in highereducation. It was a natural fit for a young man who had long cravedknowledge, especially as it related to his passion for music.

After graduating from Whittier College, Hall went to USC for his Ph.D.,and in 1963 he joined the faculty of a little-known institution in Orangecalled Chapman College. “I asked for a one-year contract,” he said. “I wasworking on my doctorate, with a big tour lined up. I said to myself, ‘I don’tthink I want to teach.’”

That quickly changed. “It was the excitement of the students, plus theatmosphere at Chapman. I realized that I loved to teach.”

Preparing for a 1965 concert, Hall confers with, clockwise from left, Franz Brightbill ’68, Al Brightbill ’68, John Miller, Mic Bell ’68, KayeGrobee ’70 and voice teacher Rita Cohn.

William Hall and Chapman choir members performed for Pope John Paul IIseven times over the years, including in 1992, when the pontiff shared a lightmoment with the group. Among those pictured with Dean Hall are John Nuzzo,Class of ’93 (far left), Alan Depuy ’94 and associate conductor Don Morris.

DOING THE HUSTLE Not just looking to grow the Department of Music but the

college as a whole, Hall began, in his words, “hustling.” Afterjust four short months of rehearsal with his choral students, he took them to perform at as many Southern California highschools as possible.

“It was greatest recruiting tool I’d ever thought of,” he said.“We’d let our choir kids talk to the high school kids about ourprograms. We got more kids this way than we did singing.”

He kept the choir busy with festivals, conventionsand competitions. “It was great for this little schoolthat was starting to grow. We could fail — and we did fail many times — but the times we succeededwere really fun.”

In 1965, Hall took the Chapman University Choir to Europe for the first time. The group testedits limits, performing 28 concerts in 31 days. But theexperience electrified the students. “We didn’t realizewhat we were doing, but the students would talk to their friends about the excitement of touring. Webegan getting mobbed with kids,” Hall said.

The European tour became a choral tradition — a particularlyimpressive feat considering the political climate of the time. From1965 to 1989, the choir repeatedly sang behind the Iron Curtain.

“They were awful times,” Hall said. “But as singers andperformers, we were blessed. No other group could go to those countries.”

On one trip, the choir toured a cathedral in Kiev. Realizingwho they were, an employee of the cathedral asked Hall and his students to perform. They began a Slavonic prayer. Withinminutes, a thousand people from the nearby houses and storeshad poured through the doors.

“We sang the same piece probably half a dozen times,” hesaid. “A woman came up to us in tears, and in broken Englishshe asked, ‘Who are you?’ I said, ‘We’re from Southern California.These are my students.’ She said ‘No, these are angels. Wehaven’t heard music in this cathedral in 62 years.’”

The group had 25 or more experiences like that, Hall said.After one concert at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the choir waspreparing to leave when the manager told them they had to comeback. The audience was stomping the floor and still applauding.

“So at 10 at night, we walked back on stage, and sang theconcert all over again,” Hall said.

DISTINGUISHED VOICESAmong those testing their musical mettle under Hall’s tutelage

was John Nuzzo ’89, a tenor who has performed with theMetropolitan Opera. Two others were Louis Lebherz ’71, whospent 16 seasons as the principal bass of Los Angeles Opera, and Stacey Tappan ’95, famed lyric coloratura soprano.

Gene Peterson ’99 (MA ’06), associate director of choralactivities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, remembersHall’s passion. “Bill saw the love of music in me and brought it

Throughout Hall’s half-century at Chapman,his enthusiasm has inspired generations

of choir members, his students say.

out and made it more so. He helped me realize my passion at adeeper level. He has a history of being able to see talent in people.”

Jonathan Talberg ’91, director of choral, vocal, and operastudies at Cal State Long Beach, calls Hall an old-school teacherwith exceedingly high expectations “It was a personal andprofound educational experience,” Talberg said. “He was awonderful teacher and mentor to me.”

Hall’s skill as a teacher and choral director translated toadministrative success after he was named dean of what is now

CoPA in 1991. He led the process that saw themusic, dance and theatre programs all gainaccreditation. He also oversaw the $8.5 millioncampaign that led to the construction of CoPA’s home, Oliphant Hall, completed in 2004.

His current goal is to build a world-class musicaltheatre program at Chapman, and Hall is confidentthat within three years the program will be among the largest and best in the West. All he needs now is a venue, and it’s already well on its way.

In June, Chapman will break ground on Hall’scrowning achievement: the Center for the Arts. The 1,050-seat, $64 million jewel will be one of

the most technically advanced venues in the nation. AcousticianYasuhisa Toyota, celebrated for his work on Disney Hall and otherhigh-profile venues, will bring his expertise to the Center

“Disney hall is great,” Hall said. “Our new hall is going to betwice as good.”

By taking on the challenges of his new role as dean and artisticdirector of the Center for the Arts, Bill Hall is adding to a legacymeasured by more than the building projects he has overseen, thenumber of tours he has taken or the volume of recordings he hasmade. Over his 50 years at Chapman, Hall has brought leadership,prestige and success, and the university will forever be in his debt.

He remains humbled.

“I’ve been blessed with music,” he said. “We’ve had incrediblethings happen here.”

That might be the understatement of the past 50 years.

DISNEY HALLIS GREAT.

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TWICE AS GOOD.

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“I want to take you through this so you can build your own processand your own tools,” Professor Ross Brown, a network TV veteran,tells his writing students as they work to create a sitcom on the fly.

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omposer Shaun Naidoo, DMA, is explaining how he wrote the sweeping fanfare for

Chapman University’s 150th anniversary last year. He taps out a few notes on the

piano in his Oliphant Hall office, mentions Aaron Copland and talks about style

and pacing. Then he steps back to his desk, pauses and reveals

something unpredictable about his work practice, something personal

and a bit abstract.

“I tend to look at a piece of music as a landscape,” the Chapman

University assistant professor of music says, spreading his arms wide

over his large gray desk, gazing down as if a blank sheet of scoring paper lay

before him. “I feel like I’m looking at the passage of time. It’s about time, really.

It’s about sound in time.”

In a seminar room, Chapman film and television professor Ross

Brown is “breaking a story” with his students, crafting a

sitcom plot on the fly. “What’s the complication?” Professor

Brown asks. He pushes for five possible plot twists. The

students dig deep for fresh thinking and riff on each other’s

ideas, learning fast that the exercise is hard work. “This is one

of the harder things to learn,” the professor tells them.

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Composer Shaun Naidoo, aChapman music professor, findsinspiration in landscapes andthunderstorms, but sometimes,he says, you just have to pick a note and get going.

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Forget blind inspiration, Chapman innovators say.

Dig deep, do the work and you’ll spark the kind

of ingenuity we need now more than ever.

The distinguished reputation of Chapmantheoretical physicist Yakir Aharonov, Ph.D.,winner of the Presidential Medal of Science andthe Wolf Prize, can understandably intimidatestudents. But they’d best be ready to work, notshy away, when he’s in the room. He has been

known to walk out of a classroom when students failed to askquestions. “The most important thing is to question,” saysAharonov, the James J. Farley Professor in Natural Philosophy.“Question everything.”

The creative act may be a delight, and the “Aha!” moment its reward, but the process is no lark. It is arguably the mostchallenging human endeavor, demanding heart and hard work,along with an endless supply of scratch paper and thoseproverbial back-to-it drawing boards. But it brings art, literature,new medicines and technology into our lives, not to mentionclever gizmos that make coffee faster or help an arthritic personpeel a carrot.

Yet many leaders, from business people to professors, arewondering if we aren’t losing our creative touch, made skittishby a brutal economy, jammed up with a national mood ofanxiety and stunted by a less-than-innovative “just survive”mentality. A fretful, hand-wringing national conversationsuggests as much. Researchers offer evidence that Americancreativity scores are falling, sparking a flurry of media stories likeNewsweek’s “The Creativity Crisis.” The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities cited the ability to create andinnovate as “central to guaranteeing the nation’s competitiveness.”Recently the networking site LinkedIn revealed that “creativity”

Theoretical physicist Yakir Aharonov can get so profoundly focusedon a problem that it’s like he slips into another level of consciousness.“I’m deep in my mind,” he says.

was the most overused buzzword among its 135 million userprofiles. (“Fast-paced,” a leader just a year ago, fell off the top 10list entirely.) This winter Education Week reported that severalstates — California among them — were considering legislationor reforms to standardized testing that would add a creativityindex to their school evaluations.

This burst of conversation is a good first step, says ElizabethRieke, executive director of the Center for Childhood Creativity,a think tank project of the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Thecenter has positioned itself as a creativity advocate, and will soon begin its own original research on the topic in partnershipwith the neuroscience department at the University of California,San Francisco.

“It’s a really hopeful sign,” Rieke says. And it comes not a moment too soon because just about everything is at stake.

“It’s the economic imperative,” she says. “The workplace is only going to get more complex, and complexity requiresproblem-solving, and problem-solving requires creativity.”

ACOMMONTHREADWhat is creativity? There are many answers, including

“making new connections,” “finding a use for new technology”and “solving an immense problem.” But there is a commonthread that runs throughout all the definitions: the imperative to ask questions.

And don’t think that’s a task just for dreamy-eyed artists, says Matthew McCarter, Ph.D., management professor in theArgyros School of Business and Economics. In negotiations,getting to “yes” is a master work of creativity, too. McCarter tells the story of working for a nonprofit agency in an EasternEuropean city where bribes were the modus operandi of realestate transactions. His agency wanted to purchase a buildingbut was reluctant to pay a bribe for the privilege. Negotiationsdragged on with city officials, the expected kickback becomingthe sticking point. Finally, one of the negotiators asked why the money was needed. As it happened, the city needed fivebuses to shore up its overwhelmed public transit system. Theagency donated the buses, skirted the bribe, won communityconfidence and bought the building.

“He asked the question no one else was asking. He asked the why,” McCarter says.

Such curiosity still drives Professor Aharonov, who at age 80is one of the world’s leading theoretical quantum physicists andteachers of the subject. Big questions push him to take on someof the greatest mysteries of the universe.

Sitting in the office of Chancellor Daniele Struppa, Ph.D.,who is also a noted mathematician, Professor Aharonov points to a clutch of formulas written on a corner of the white boardthat spans one wall. “I asked Daniele to explain something to me,” he says, unwrapping a bit of chocolate candy.

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“Question everything.”

Make Practice a HabitCreative behaviors should be practiced

in whimsical ways so that when real

challenges come, the brain is ready, says

Stefan Mumaw ’96, co-author of Caffeine

for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to

Wake Up Your Brain. One of his favorites

is to challenge a meeting room full of

people to repurpose an orange traffic

cone. How can that universal symbol of

caution be turned into an object of welcome?

The brain doesn’t care that the challenge is goofy. “All it knows

is that there was a problem and you found a solution.”

ASSUMENOTHINGEven the laws of physics should be challenged, says Jeff

Tollaksen, Ph.D., associate professor, and director of the

Center of Excellence in Quantum Studies at

Chapman. “You have to untangle all the

assumptions you have; that’s where

progress gets blocked. In physics, for

example, we assume A and B and C

are true. And maybe it isn’t always so.

For me, creativity is a process of becoming

aware of all the mechanisms in

your mind. They’re there for

protective reasons. But in

fact, they’re shutting off our

aliveness, our creativity.”

Whether you call it daydreaming,

meditation, prayer or deep

thinking, make time for it

every day, says the Rev.

Gail Stearns, Ph.D.,

dean of Chapman’s Fish

Interfaith Center and

Wallace All Faiths Chapel.

Neuroscience research finds that

contemplative practices help connect

both sides of the brain, Dean Stearns

says. It can be simple as “just sitting for

a minute and listening to sounds,” she

says. Or it can be profoundly focused.

Professor and theoretical

physicist Yakir Aharonov, Ph.D.,

says his best ideas come to him

when he is so completely

centered on a problem that he

slips into a state in which he is

uncertain if he is awake or dozing.

“Things are very strange … I’m

deep in my mind,” he says.

The formulas are a brief explanation of the profound mathematicaladvances made by one of the chancellor’s own mentors many years ago. It was not straight up Aharonov’s alley, but you never know when little side trips can lead to surprises, he says. That’s why he demands questions.Even the so-called “stupid questions.”

“Out of the effort to try to find something to ask, you start to do your own thinking. (Students) get the freedom, the confidence, after the firstquestion,” he says.

Over at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, questions are an essentialpart of the simmering process in Professor Brown’s class, deep in the seriousbusiness of trying to be funny. And while it may not be quantum physics, it’s still mental gymnastics, says screenwriting major Chiara Colicino ’13.

“It’s really hard to be creative. You’re creating a problem that didn’t existand then solving it,” Colicino says.

The class’ problem of the moment is sketching out a plot for the popularABC sitcom Modern Family. Brown gave them a bare-bones starter — it’s Lily’sbirthday and a party is planned. He peppers them with questions — What’sthe rising action? What’s worse than private humiliation? Public humiliation in front of your family, says one student. Good! Hey, how about if the ponyrented for the party dies? Dead pony, screaming toddlers? Um, maybe not for this show. They keep going, and that is the main thing.

“I want to take you through this so you can build your own process and your own tools,” Brown tells them.

EMBRACE RISKIf the questions unleash startling answers, quirky ideas and butterflies

in the stomach, that’s probably a good thing. Painter and photographer LiaHalloran, assistant professor in Chapman’s Department of Art, reads uneasyfeelings as sign posts on the road to creative moments.

“I would have to say that most of my projects that have come to fruition— that I end up feeling confident about — have come from this moment ofbeing embarrassed or being on unsure footing,” says Halloran, whose art isinfluenced by her fascination with motion, science and space, as well as her

lifelong love of skateboarding.As an example, Halloran describes

a time when she was starting to toy with a new idea for an experiment in long-exposure photography.

“I was out to lunch and someonesaid, ‘What are you going to do today?’I said, ‘Oh, I’m going to strap a lightto my body and skateboard in the

dark.’ And I was immediatelyembarrassed by what I had said.

I thought, ‘Oh, my God,this sounds so hokey.’”

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Chapman’s environment is uniquely ripe for creativecollaboration, says EnglishProfessor Anna Leahy.

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The eventual result, though, was Dark Skate, a criticallyacclaimed collection of long-exposure photographsthat were exhibited in Boston, New York, Miami, Los Angeles and London. The collection was cited

by The New York Times as “ephemeral, midair graffiti, as fun to look at as it surely was to make.”

For Chapman alumnus Stefan Mumaw ’96, co-founder andcreative director for Reign, a boutique advertising agency, a bit of fear gets his happy feet going.

“If it doesn’t scare you, then most likely it’s an idea that hasbeen around in some form,” says Mumaw, author of Chasing theMonster Idea (Wiley, 2011). “The truth is that original ideas arescary. No one’s done it, so you have to prove that it’s OK.”

But be sure to bring reflection to the bullpen of bold ideas,he warns. Mumaw tells two pizza stories to illustrate his point.One is a success story about Domino’s rise from the ashes whenit launched an ad campaign confessing that its pizza stunk andneeded revamping. “That was as brave and risk-rattled as youcan get,” Mumaw says. But it worked because it hit on a trutheveryone already knew — the old pizza was crummy, and topretend otherwise wouldn’t win over consumers, he adds.

Then there’s Mumaw’s pizza tale from early in his own career,when he was designing an ad campaign for a bug exterminator.He thought it would be kind of hip to use all those wide openspaces on pizza delivery boxes to plant exterminator ads withslogans like, “Bugs can hide anywhere, be prepared.” He planned

to give the boxes free to pizza parlors, and the exterminatorliked the idea. The pizza purveyors? Not so much. It was a dead-pony moment that got away.

PLACE MATTERSMumaw says his mistake was not showing the pizza box

idea to others early in the process and getting second opinions.He still enjoys noodling around with wacky ideas — to a point— but in an environment where collaboration can work out the bugs, so to speak.

“You have to be willing to fail often, but early in yourprocess. Then you can throw out ideas that are too far out there,vs. ideas that are durable. Fail often, but fail early. Failing late is how people get fired,” he says.

Good advice, says Rieke at the Center for ChildhoodCreativity. Her group also studies the research related to adultcreativity in the workplace, and researchers are finding that aperiod of free expression followed by one of deep thought is amighty duo. She describes the combination as a workplace thatwelcomes divergent thinking — “It can be informal around adoughnut cart, or it can be more formal in meeting rooms.” But such a workplace also provides, literally and otherwise, quiet spaces for reflection so good ideas can be polished andothers set aside.

Most of Professor Lia Halloran’s successful art projects have sprung from moments “of being embarrassed or on unsure footing,” says the painter and photographer.

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That’s precisely the environment Associate Professor of English Anna Leahy,Ph.D., found when she came to Chapman four years ago. Universities naturallybring together people with divergent ways of thinking, but she found Chapman’senvironment uniquely ripe for creative collaboration.

“I’ve taught at a lot of other places, and it’s way easier to try things outhere,” she says. “And it’s also easier to get a response like ‘Yeah, great idea. But it’s not going to work.’”

That’s OK, though, because at least it’s an atmosphere where ideas are consideredrather than left to wither in departmental silos or administrative murk.

“I think we’re actually the perfect size to encourage creativity,” ProfessorLeahy says. “I’ve only been here four years, and I’ve been amazed how manyconversations I’ve had with faculty outside my department that have actuallyled to something.”

I’m a big believer in trying to create micro-

environments of people who have audacious,

unconventional ideas and allow them an

environment in which ideas can thrive. That’s

why universities were created thousands of

years ago — to put people together to think.

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Create EWcitementSchool psychologist Libby Barnish ’09 (Ed.S. in school

psychology) says nothing boosts the creative spirit like

jumping into a hornet’s nest of trouble and getting plenty of

problem-solving practice. She works at Locke High School

in Los Angeles, which was one of the nation’s most troubled

high schools before it was transformed by the charter school

operator Green Dot. She credits the forward-thinking

curriculum at Chapman’s College of Educational Studies for

preparing her for the challenge of a place like Locke. “We’re

constantly creating a wheel that wasn’t there before,” Barnish

says, describing Green Dot’s system of overhauling a school.

“It’s easier to have change in an environment where people

are excited to hear what your part of the solution is.”

Help the

KidsPraise children’s efforts, says

Shari Young Kuchenbecker,

Ph.D., assistant professor

of psychology at Chapman

and author of Raising Winners

(Times Books, 2000). “Effort

is something a kid can always

make. Say, ‘I really love the time you spent

making your drawing. I really appreciate the details you put

into it.’ When you think something is genuinely creative, say

so. But don’t’ say it all the time. That makes them think they

have to perform.” Dr. Kuchenbecker says. “Tell them you

love the work they do and the time they invest. Honor their

process. That will keep them enjoying it.”

When students lament that they have writer’s block or just

can’t get started, composer and music professor Shaun

Naidoo, DMA, doesn’t stand for it. “I tell them, ‘How about

a G sharp? Write down a G sharp and take it from there.’”

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Among the happy results are Poetry Week, which includes programmingfrom schools and departments across campus, and Tabula Poetica, a series thatfeatures readings by guest poets and that branched out last year to add musicand art to its roster of activities.

But all the music, brainstorming, art, writing, collaborating and inventingwouldn’t happen at all if it weren’t for a welcoming atmosphere that allowsthem to flourish, says Chancellor Struppa. He is keen to enrich that atmosphereat Chapman.

“I’m a big believer in trying to create micro-environments of people whohave audacious, unconventional ideas and allow them an environment inwhich ideas can thrive,” Struppa says. “That’s why universities were createdthousands of years ago — to put people together to think.”

To think, yes, but also to create — music, pictures, poems, jokes, resolutionsto disputes and explanations for the many mysteries of the universe.

It all can be grand — “It’s play,” Struppa says.It all can be hard — “I was very nervous about that fanfare,” Naidoo says.It takes practice, work, time, courage, deep breathing and more time. All

that, and there’s no guarantee the results will succeed. But ultimately, is therereally any other work we do that matters quite so much?

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To sharpen your creativity, it pays to do calisthenics

with that big muscle between your ears, says

Stefan Mumaw ’96, author of Chasing the

Monster Idea and co-author of Caffeine for

the Creative Mind. Practice on little problems

and you’ll stay nimble for the big ones. Here

are a few fun challenges Mumaw has tossed

out at creativity conferences and on his Facebook

page, Caffeine for the Creative Mind:

• Design the ultimate desk. Think about the desk’sfunction. Neither money nor reality matter. One

group imagined floating in a giant bubble, with all

of their desk stuff bobbing around them. Cool, huh?

Well, it’s taken. Think up your own.

• Back at your real desk, grab whatever supplies arein reach and make a monster. Write, draw or color

the items as needed, but only use the stuff within

reach. The monster should be freestanding when

you’re done.

• Create a big-deal holiday for May. It must be fictitious,happy and come with traditional acts to be performed

or garb to be worn in honor of the holiday.

Original ideas are scary but also exciting, says creativeconsultant Stefan Mumaw ’96, author of Chasing theMonster Idea.

reative moments may feel like a surprise. “Something just clicked,” people

often say. But those breakthroughs aren’t lucky events that happen out

of the blue. The road to the best discoveries is paved with trial and error,

reading, study, research, life experiences, brainstorming

and even factors of physical environment, say creativity

experts. Consider the following paths that led to creative

moments for Chapman University thinkers.

The Rev. Gail Stearns, Ph.D., dean of the Fish InterfaithCenter and Wallace All Faiths Chapel, has long worked at creating

meaningful worship services and interfaith events. It’s a building process,shaping music, words and format, says Dean Stearns, author of Open YourEyes Toward Living More Deeply in the Present (2011, Wipf & Stock Publishers).At Chapman, she was literally inspired by the building in which she works.Impressed by the center’s design, Dean Stearns started studying the physicalexperience of being in the building, which features an award-winning design byAC Martin Partners. She noticed how the long, narrow hall produced a uniquekind of focus. And the sounds outside fell away, creating a natural transitioninto the chapel, which opens into a space of light and color.

That led her to wonder what it might be like to shape a service in the sameway. She tried it with the university’s remembrance on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The event opened quietly, transitioned to a period of wide-rangingreadings, music and stories, then closed with a hopeful act, inviting all inattendance to leave unsigned wishes for peace amid the candles and waterelements that had been incorporated into the service.

The architecture continues to inspire, she says. “We’re always thinkingabout how you do that with a program. That’s a huge creative process for me. I think a lot about how to use works, space and silence to create that inspiration.”

Film and television professor Ross Brown had been working hard. Asuccessful comedy writer and producer whose credits include The Cosby Showand The Facts of Life, Brown decided to try something new, so he went back to graduate school and wrote a play.

Stepping outside his usual genre was “liberating.” The play was a darklycomic exploration of dysfunctional family life in a thinly veiled setting basedon Brown’s own childhood and adolescence. When it was staged at ThePasadena Playhouse, he paced around the theatre neighborhood, fretting.What if members of his family showed up? What if they were appalled? Whatif they even leaped up on stage in protest and shouted that this wasn’t how ithappened at all? Right then Brown’s heap of worry morphed into a new idea,and the concept for his next play was born. Now he’s finishing up 99% True,a play in which the family members satirized do in fact rise from the audienceand take the stage.

Composer Shaun Naidoo, DMA, assistant professor of music, was boreddriving home to California from Montana, and things were getting pretty dullwhen he hit Utah. Long, straight roads are good for daydreaming — andstorm watching. He started paying attention to what appeared to be multiplethunderstorms playing about on the horizon.

“I started imagining: What if weather was intelligent and all these stormswere sentient beings? What if they were intelligent, interacting systems?”

Back home, he kept coming back to the idea. The result was the percussioncomposition Sentient Weather, a musical piece lush with thunderous and waterysounds. The work was premiered by the New World Symphony PercussionConsort in Miami and has also been performed at Chapman University.

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about how to useworks,

space and

silenceto create t

hat

inspiration.”Fail often, but failearly in the process.Failing late is howpeople get fired.

The road to discovery ispaved with trial and error.

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Working as one with El Sol Academy,

Chapman’s College of Educational Studies

helps dual-language students shine.

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Mano en Mano

Teacher Bertha Picasso-Luna ’03 sees the effectivenessof El Sol’s dual-immersion approach in students whoare “bi-literate” — able to think in abstractions inboth Spanish and English.

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The classroom lies in the heart of Santa Ana, and virtually

every word in the classroom — spoken and written — is in

Spanish, including the La Gallinita Roja (The Little Red Hen)

book Picasso-Luna is reading. By the time these students reach

fourth grade here at El Sol Science and Arts Academy, their

classes will be conducted half in English and half in Spanish.

When they reach Eighth grade, the final year at the school,

classes will be taught almost entirely in English, a progression

that will send students on to high school with academic fluency

in both English and Spanish, regardless of their birth language.

It is this dual-immersion approach that supporters of

El Sol credit with helping the 11-year-old charter school in

a low-income neighborhood post standardized test scores far

above public schools in the surrounding Santa Ana Unified

School District. The approach is heavily influenced and

nurtured by a symbiotic relationship with

Chapman University’s College of Educational

Studies (CES).

Seven of El Sol’s 32 teachers are Chapman

alumni, says El Sol executive director

Monique Daviss. This is the result of a

relationship in which Chapman relies

on El Sol for some student training

assignments while El Sol uses Chapman

faculty and programs for advanced

staff teacher training. El Sol’s academic

success has brought it recognition

within the dual-immersion and charter

school movements, and even among

visitors from overseas schools looking

to adopt dual-immersion programs

in their home countries.

“We consider ourselves a lab,”

Daviss says as she leads a tour

through the fenced complex of

portable classrooms and other

buildings a few blocks northwest

of downtown Santa Ana and

about four miles from Chapman’s campus in Orange. In that

sense, Chapman is a lab partner. “We think there are a lot of

opportunities for that relationship to grow, and to feed and

inform educational practice, teacher training — all of those

kinds of things. We want to demonstrate it’s possible for kids

to achieve at high levels when they wouldn’t necessarily do

so in another situation. It takes a whole bunch of work on

everybody’s part.”

Graduating teachers who specialize in bilingual education

is a niche within Chapman’s teacher-education program, says

CES education director Michael Madrid, Ph.D., who also chairs

El Sol’s board of directors. “The ones we produce are very,

very good,” he says. “They get picked up right away.”

t’s the end of the school lunch break, and two dozen kindergarteners enter the

classroom in a r iot of noise before quickly set t ling down on a thick rug patterned

with le t ters, colors and shapes. Teacher Bertha Picasso-Luna ‘ 03 takes her place,

too, on a low plast ic chair in front of them. Af ter a couple of minutes she opens up

a picture book and begins reading aloud, dramatically emphasizing key words and

meowing like a cat or snort ing like a pig when the characters call for it.I

Michael Madrid, education director at Chapman’s College ofEducational Studies, works closely with El Sol executive director

Monique Daviss and also chair’s the school’s Board of Directors.

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In SynchMadrid became personally involved in El Sol because the

school’s focus synched with how he believed bilingual educations

should be pursued. He first learned of the school about eight

years ago when one of his students referred him to her father,

who was then an El Sol board member. They had lunch, and

Madrid was quickly persuaded to become involved.

“It’s a place where, in my opinion, bilingual education is

done correctly,” says Madrid, who spent more than 30 years

in public education before joining Chapman. “It’s a model.

All the components are what they should be to produce a

good program.

“Academically they could probably compete with any

school in Orange County.”

Chapman’s link with El Sol provides a crucial connection

between campus instruction and real-world experience. For

instance, two Chapman CES faculty members — Margie

Curwen, Ph.D., and Anaida Colon-Muñiz, Ed.D. — are

studying the effects on student performance of El Sol’s

extended-day program, with about 400 enrolled students.

The school and after-care program are separate organizations

with different staffs, but they work together on homework

and other assignments so the care providers can help students

during homework time.

Madrid says Chapman hopes to increase its involvement

with El Sol. Already, Chapman students have worked in

developing thematic instruction at El Sol, while others

worked on an enrichment program in literature. “It’s more

a partnership program than us saying, look, we need a spot

to train our teachers,” Madrid says.

That has led to jobs, too. “A majority of their student

teachers who come through here, we wind up hiring them,”

Daviss says. “So now you have teachers who have a

relationship with the institution, the institution has a

relationship with the school, and everybody is talking the

same language. We can all elevate together.”

El Sol’s mission is to graduate eighth-graders who are

fully literate in both English and Spanish. Most of its students

are drawn from the surrounding neighborhoods but about

20 percent are the children of Orange County government

workers or other professionals — mostly of Latino heritage —

who want their children to be fluently bilingual. It’s good

for the students, too, Madrid says. “There’s an abundance

of evidence” indicating that students educated in dual-

immersion programs do better on standardized tests than

English-only students, he adds.

Some 70 percent of El Sol students have Spanish as their

first language, says Daviss. And, reflecting the community,

about 80 percent of the families have low enough incomes

to qualify their children for free lunch programs.

“The majority of the families here really struggle”

financially, says Daviss, who became executive director

seven years ago.

Measuring UpWhile use of standardized tests to compare schools invites

a political debate, El Sol’s scores on the California Academic

Performance Index (API) was 880 for the 2010-11 school year,

compared with 740 for the surrounding Santa Ana Unified

School District. The statewide average through grade six was

809 and for grades seven and eight, it was 778. That means El

Sol’s students were performing at much higher levels on those

standardized tests than most of their peers in other schools.

Charter schools themselves remain controversial.

Supporters point to the relative freedom such schools enjoy by

not being part of a larger, bureaucratic system, and that their

status as independent schools let them introduce programs —

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and use outside funding — not available to traditional public

schools. Critics, though, point to test results that show charter

schools often do no better, and sometimes worse, than public

schools. In some districts, they also tend to siphon off the better

students — and those whose parents are more involved in their

education — resulting in something akin to academic segregation.

Daviss says that’s not the case with El Sol. The vast

majority of students are drawn from the

nearby neighborhoods, where parents

treat El Sol as their neighborhood

school. Regardless, El Sol’s success is

clear. And key, says Daviss, is El Sol’s

focus on building community, and its

partnerships with Chapman and other

entities help it sustain programs, from a

legal clinic with help from the Legal Aid

Society of Orange County and the Public

Law Center, to a nurse-based family health clinic with the

help of Share Our Selves, UC Irvine and Hoag Hospital.

That enables El Sol to offer health care for families (most

of whom have no insurance coverage), legal assistance,

afterschool child care until 6 p.m., and evening and Saturday

courses for about 200 adults, both parents of students and

people from the neighborhood. One Saturday a month, Second

Harvest distributes food to about 100 families. And parent

volunteering is part of each student’s commitment. All of this

helps build strong links between school and home. And the

students thrive.

“We have a lot of things we can offer families,” Daviss says.

“We are maybe able to build a community, and be responsive

in ways that other schools struggle with.”

El Sol’s success also is fodder for the

debate over how much influence external

distractions, from family illness to kids

going home unsupervised after school,

have on students’ abilities to learn.

“If this is an issue, then let’s just take

care of it, and that way we’re all going

to rise to the occasion,” Daviss says. “We

have both the luxury and the challenge

as a charter school to be able to be responsive and be quick

on our feet. As wonderful as that is, it’s a lot of work and

a lot of responsibility. Once you take that on, you can’t walk

away from it.”

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‘ We All Grow Together’El Sol’s per-pupil expenditure for 2010–11 was $8,122,

compared with $9,060 for Santa Ana Unified, according to

Daviss and the California Department of Education. El Sol

gets the same per student rate from the state, but also has

been able to tap into parent volunteers for classroom repairs

and the partnerships and foundations for programs.

“Chapman provides us with staff development

opportunities that would be very expensive”

for El Sol to have to contract for, Daviss says.

“The expertise, the critical feedback, the

analysis that (other schools) hire

consultants for, we get through our

partnerships. So we all grow together.”

Picasso-Luna, the kindergarten teacher,

has been part of that growth. She grew up in

a Santa Ana home in which Spanish was the

primary language, and has vivid memories of

being told by Santa Ana Unified teachers in the 1980s

that she was not to speak Spanish in school. When she

decided to go to Chapman as a 31-year-old mother of two, she

knew she wanted to focus on helping young Spanish speakers.

“I looked back to when I was in third grade and struggling,

and was wondering why can’t the teacher tell me in Spanish?

I know she speaks Spanish,” Picasso-Luna says during a

morning break, with children zipping back and forth in the

playground. “I thought, when I grow up, I’m going to be

a bilingual teacher.”

She became a mother first, and took classes

sporadically at Santa Ana College, a local

two-year school. After her second child

was born, she began to get serious about

working toward her dream and entered

Chapman through a scholarship program.

While studying, she learned about El Sol

and enrolled her young son in the school’s

kindergarten.

Picasso-Luna believes she can see the

program’s effectiveness within her son, whom she

describes as “bi-literate,” able to think in abstractions

in both languages – something that would have been harder

to achieve in an English-only setting. “I had no idea we would

find a place like El Sol,” Picasso-Luna says.

“It’ s more a partnership

program than ussaying , look, weneed a spot to train ourteachers.”

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After doing her student teaching at Santa Ana’s

Washington Elementary, a year-round school in

which instruction is in English, Picasso-Luna

transferred to El Sol seven years ago. Since then,

she has had several student teachers from Chapman,

and other college students have visited her classroom

for fieldwork projects. Both Chapman and El Sol

emphasize a collaborative approach to thematic

teaching, using “a lot of visuals, and we do a lot

of organizing,” she says. “The students and I were

talking about the similarities between Martin Luther

King and Abraham Lincoln, that primarily they did

the same thing, they talked about equality. So you

try to make those connections.”

Picasso-Luna said she learned that approach at

Chapman. “It makes for a good partnership,” she

says. “Chapman says, ‘Let’s look out of the box and

what we can offer these students.’ Chapman has

been the biggest advocate for our type of programs.

In every way they support us.”

Both Chapman and El Sol emphasizea collaborative approach to thematicteaching , using “a lot of visuals, andwe do a lot of organizing.”

“Chapman has been the biggest advocate for our type of programs,” says teacher Bertha Picasso-Luna ’03.

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Chapman Professor Jim Blaylock had no idea he was helping to invent a genre when Unearth magazine published his firststeampunk story, The Ape-Box Affair, in 1978. Now, he allows,“I think the genre has inspired writers of a very high quality.”

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im Blaylock’s tiny office in the basementof Wilkinson Hall, bedecked with quirky art and barely large enough to contain his desk and packed bookshelves, is one of the more

modest professorial abodes on campus.The tall English professor welcomes youinto his lair with a friendly twinkle in hiseye, and in a moment you’re swept up inhis tale: a creation myth that’s no myth at all; an origin legend that is completelytrue; a story of places, people and machinesthat never existed and yet, to his readers,are as real as the floor they stand on andthe air they breathe.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s,Blaylock — along with his friends andfellow writers K.W. Jeter and Tim Powers— invented the “steampunk” literary genrethat has become a worldwide cultural,fashion and music movement. If you’veseen the 1999 movie Wild Wild West, or the recent Robert Downey Jr. SherlockHolmes movies, or the films The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or Van Helsing,you’ve experienced steampunk: It’s fantasyor speculative fiction that postulates analternate past (usually a Victorian setting) inwhich anachronistic machines are poweredby the technology available in that era,usually clockwork gears and steam.

Blaylock, Jeter and Powers met whilethey were students at Cal State Fullerton, all

in the orbit of the great science fiction writerPhilip K. Dick, who taught at CSUF. Jeter’sMorlock Night (1979), Powers’ The AnubisGates (1983) and Blaylock’s Homunculus(1986) pioneered steampunk before the genreeven had a name. It was Jeter, in a letter tothe science fiction and fantasy magazine Locusin 1987, who coined the term: “Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to bethe next big thing, as long as we can comeup with a fitting collective term for Powers,Blaylock and myself. Something based onthe appropriate technology of the era; like‘steampunks,’ perhaps ...”

Blaylock’s novels and stories havegarnered a legion of fans and much praise.His first steampunk novel, Homunculus, wonthe Philip K. Dick Award, and his second,Lord Kelvin’s Machine (1992), was a WorldFantasy Award finalist. Several of his othershort stories and books have also beennominees or winners of the World FantasyAwards, Mythopoeic Awards and otherhonors. Interest in his work has skyrocketedin recent years with the growing popularity of the steampunk movement worldwide.

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Chapman Magazine: Who or what were yourliterary influences at the time of steampunk’semergence?

Jim Blaylock: I’d been reading a lot of P.G.Wodehouse and Robert Louis Stevenson, soto a degree it was a mix of the two in myearly style. I was young, and I think I shedthat sort of mimicry later on. But I was soenamored of Victorian fiction that I wantedto play in that sandbox. K.W., Tim and I hadall read a lot of Victorian lit at CSUF, and weliked the extravagant trappings of that era.K.W. talked me into reading some interestingbooks about Victorian life — HenryMayhew’s London Underworld, for example,which is just packed with the coolest stuff.

CM: We read a lot about all three of youbeing mentored by Philip K. Dick.

JB: We all lived very near each other. Philhad an apartment in downtown Santa Ana,and K.W. lived across the street and aroundthe corner from him. Tim lived at 16th andMain in Santa Ana, and I lived in Orange.I hung out with Phil when I had theopportunity; K.W. and Tim much more so because they lived in the neighborhood.On Thursday nights lots of people wouldcongregate in Tim’s apartment on MainStreet, including Phil, and talk aboutwhatever came up. So I got to know Philvery well.

I often see references to Phil having“mentored” the three of us — but whenwe hung out, it was much more often thecase that we’d talk about cats and rock ’n’roll and stereos and cars and that kind ofthing — just pals. Certainly if we’d read a good book we’d recommend it to theothers, but it wasn’t as if we were alwayssitting around talking about the craft. Wealso spent a certain amount of time hangingaround O’Hara’s Pub in Orange, the threeof us. But our hanging around togetherwas mostly just fun and companionable,not scholarly. Nowadays, if I need tobrainstorm, I’ll call Tim and offer to buy apizza if he’ll drive out to talk plot. But inthose days, it was not so much of that.

CM: Did you even consider, in those days, thatwhat you were writing was a unique genre?

JB: No, we still didn’t consider it a genre atall. It never occurred to me I would writemore of it. But there were many people —and Locus magazine in general — whothought that because we were all friends,lived in the same area and had all publishedthis stuff, that somehow we were all up tosomething. After I published Homunculus, I suppose I started thinking in those terms.Then I wrote a novella called Lord Kelvin’sMachine, which grew into a novel that waspublished in the early ’90s. And by thattime the term steampunk was in wide use,especially in Europe.

CM: The Europeans seemed to pick it up first,and they were the ones who started expandingthe genre into fashion, music and lifestyle.Did you go to meet your fans in Europe?

JB: Yes, the movement ricocheted from itssmall literary beginnings here and reallygrew up in Europe. Everything seems to behip in Europe before it’s hip here! Around1993 I was invited to speak at the Universityof Bologna in Italy; their Department ofUtopian and Dystopian Studies waspresenting a conference on steampunk asrevisionist history. They actually dedicateda day to my work — which I thought waskind of funny. My books, I guess, are“revisionist history” because I was this kidfrom Anaheim who’d read too much

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One of the ships was the length of ayacht, and might have been completelybuilt for all I could see in that dim light,with a shape that reminded one of anoceangoing prehistoric monster — finnyappendages and convex, eye-likeportholes. The other vessel was smaller,just a shell, really, of a similar craft. Some distance away stood a third craft,exceedingly strange and unlikely, a sort of elongated orb standing on bent ironlegs — apparently an underwater divingchamber. It had nothing of the diving bellabout it, but was altogether more delicate,built of what appeared to be copper andglass, and probably capable of independentmovement, if the jointed, stork-like legsand feet were any indication.

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Stevenson and Dickens and got his idea of history strictly from the literature of that time, not from studying the era. Theyoffered to send me 8 million lire, which at the time was probably worth about $30, so I had to miss that. Tim and I dideventually go to Europe, where there wereserious steampunk contingencies thatwanted to meet us. But the movementdidn’t really pick up in this country untilaround 2008, when they held the firststeampunk convention here in the U.S.

CM: It’s become extremely popular now in the U.S. One of the fastest-growingcontingents at San Diego’s annual ComicCon, which is probably the biggest pop-culture gathering in the world, is thesteampunk fan group. They always show up in full regalia — goggles, leather jackets,bustles, buckles and all.

JB: Last year I was the guest of honor atSteamCon in Seattle, and there were morethan 2,000 people there. There were huge,beautiful art shows, robot dogs walkingaround — it was amazing. In fact I wasawarded their very first Airship Award, asteampunk award, and I also received theIt’s All Your Fault Award, which made mevery happy. But out of the thousands there,probably only a very small percentageknew of the literary origins of steampunk.Virtually everyone was more interested inthe art, costumes, weapons-making —stuff which, I have to say, is all exceedinglycool. I went around like everyone else,gawking at everything. But in the dealers’room, there was one dealer selling books,and 30 dealers selling goodies. When itbounced back to the U.S. from Europe,people just weren’t as enthusiastic about theliterature as they were about the products.

CM: Is that changing now — are peoplestarting to pay more attention to the books?

JB: Happily, now there are some young,really dynamite steampunk writers who areselling heaps of books, and they’ll be readwell outside the science fiction community.They’re bound for larger things: GailCarriger and Cherie Priest and a number ofothers. There’s an Israeli writer, Lavie Tidhar,who wrote The Bookman; he’s amazinglygood. I think the genre has inspired writersof a very high quality, very fresh ideas, to make use of the larger trappings ofsteampunk to write very interesting books.

CM: Your books seem so cinematic — have any been optioned for films?

JB: In 1999, when the movie Wild WildWest was coming out, I was talking with a Sony producer about Homunculus, whichhe thought would make a good film. Buthe made it clear that Wild Wild West wouldhave to be very successful if any moneywas going to be invested in steampunkfilms. And unfortunately the movie tanked.After that we messed around with the idea of a couple of other of my books, but nothing has ended up being produced. It’s very difficult to get any project to cometo fruition in Hollywood. But it’s reallyheartening to me to look at a book likeTim’s great pirate fantasy On Stranger Tides,which took 20-plus years before it becamea movie (Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean:On Stranger Tides).

CM: What’s next for you?

JB: I have a young adult novel that willcome out this summer, and the novel I’mcurrently working on, The Aylesford Skull,will be out in January 2013. Then there’llbe reprints of Homunculus in February and Lord Kelvin’s Machine in March.

CM: Do fans know you as the father of steampunk?

JB: Locus had a photo of me on the cover, and unfortunately they called methe Grandfather of Steampunk. I prefer the Godfather! But I have to put in adisclaimer: Tim, K.W. and I all cooked this stuff up together. I stole ruthlesslyfrom both of those guys.

During a recent book-signing event, ProfessorJim Blaylock is shown with fellow steampunkpioneer Tim Powers, who has taught as an adjunct professor of creative writing at Chapman.

Blaylock’s next book, The Aylesford Skull,will be published in January 2013.

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CHAPMAN in memoriam

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DONALD P. KENNEDYA globally recognized business leader and one of Chapman

University’s most ardent supporters, Donald P. Kennedy passedaway March 24. He was 93.

The generosity and leadership of Kennedy and his wife of 65 years, Dorothy, can be seen throughout the Chapmancampus. Their key support helped create the ChapmanUniversity School of Law, which makes its home in Donald P.Kennedy Hall.

A longtime officer and member of the Chapman Board ofTrustees, Donald Kennedy most recently served as a trusteeemeritus. He is also the namesake of the Donald P. KennedyIntercollegiate Athletics Programat Chapman, and he establishedthe Kennedy Chair in Law, nowheld by Dean Tom Campbell,and the Kennedy Chair inEconomics and Law, held byProfessor Bart Wilson.

“We have lost a champion,”President Jim Doti said inannouncing Kennedy’s passingto the Chapman community. “Ido not use the word ‘champion’lightly. Don Kennedy left an indelible imprint on ouruniversity. We are truly blessed to be the beneficiaries of his legacy.”

Beginning in 1948, when he joined Orange County Title Co., his grandfather’s firm,Kennedy also made an indeliblemark on the local, national and international businesslandscape. The company would become First AmericanFinancial Corp., and underKennedy’s leadership it grewfrom less than $1.5 million inrevenue in 1957 to more than $8 billion in 2006.

“When Dad started with First American, the company hadone office in one county, and now it has hundreds of officesthroughout the world,” said Parker S. Kennedy, First American’schairman, Donald Kennedy’s son and a member of the ChapmanBoard of Trustees. “He saw the opportunity for growth andworked tirelessly to create a great company. I couldn’t have asked for a better dad, and the company couldn't have had a better leader.”

Donald Kennedy, whose family roots in Orange County dateto 1873, attended Santa Ana High School and graduated in 1940from Stanford University, where he was a member of an NCAAchampionship golf team. After serving in the Navy during WorldWar II and taking part in landings in Southern France, he graduatedfrom the law school at USC.

Kennedy served First American in a number of roles beforebeing named president in 1963 and chairman of the board in1993. He was named chairman emeritus in 2003, a title hemaintained after retiring from the Board of Directors in 2008.Still, Kennedy consistently went to his office at First American’s

Santa Ana campus until age 90.

“I was truly privileged tosit on the Board of Directorsof First American Financialwhen Don was chairman,”President Doti said. “It was there that I began tounderstand the depth andbreadth of those attributesthat explained the caliber of his leadership: how healways insisted on quality;how he used humor tolighten up a tired discussionor tone down an argument;and perhaps most important,how he treated everyonewith the utmost respect.”

A committedphilanthropist, Kennedysupported dozens oforganizations focused onOrange County. In additionto the leadership he andDorothy have provided toChapman, Kennedy was a past chairman of the

Orange County Business Committee for the Arts and served onthe boards of South Coast Repertory and the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, among others.

In 1999, the same year Kennedy Hall was dedicated atChapman, Donald Kennedy was named “Man of the Century” by Orange Coast magazine.

Kennedy is survived by Dorothy; his son, Parker Kennedy;two daughters, Elizabeth Myers and Amy Healey; six grandchildren;and two great-grandchildren.

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ROBERT GRAYRobert Gray, a member of the Chapman

University President’s Cabinet for manyyears and co-founder of St. John Knits,died Feb. 28. He was 86.

President Jim Doti remembered Gray asa personal mentor and a dedicated friend of the university.

“I was privileged that he became a veryspecial friend,” he said. “Bob was also amentor to me. He was truly a man of wisdomwho helped inform my world view. Theleading entrepreneur, who with his wife,Marie, founded St. John Knits, was alwaysthere to give advice and counsel. I marveledat his entrepreneurial instincts and oftenreflected on the incredible success of St. JohnKnits under his and Marie’s leadership.”

St. John, was founded in 1962 by Robertand Marie, who saw it as a way to pay for aHawaiian honeymoon. St. John soon evolved

from a small family operation to the globalluxury brand known today, favored bySecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton andformer Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Robert and Marie gave generously to the university, supporting the scholarshipfund, the Robert and Marie Gray CollegiateRowing Center and the Robert and MarieGray Victory Way at the entrance to theLastinger Athletics Complex. When thecouple appeared on Dialogue with Doti and Dodge, the conversation was so full that two episodes were taped.

“While we’ve lost a very special friend,Bob’s legacy will endure at Chapman,”President Doti said. “At our next event atthe Gray Rowing Center, we will observe a moment of silence in his honor.”

In addition to his wife, Gray is survivedby children Michael, Guy and Kelly Gray;

grandchildren Robert, Matthew, Shane and Trevor Gray, Jena Gray Gunderson and Crystal Gray McGregor; and great-grandchildren Eliot and Ezra Gunderson.

The family asks that in lieu of flowers adonation be made to Chapman Universityin Gray’s memory.

THOMAS J. LIGGETTThe Rev. Dr. Thomas Jackson Liggett,

an internationally recognized leader in the Christian Church (Disciples ofChrist), former president of the ChristianTheological Seminary and a trusteeemeritus of Chapman University, passedaway March 27 at Pilgrim Place inClaremont, Calif. He was 92.

The Rev. Liggett was elected to theChapman Board of Trustees in 1988 andserved until 2000, when he became atrustee emeritus. President Jim Dotiremembers the Rev. Liggett — fondlyknown as “T.J.” — as a visionary adviser.

“Among his most notable contributionswas his integral involvement in crafting our mission statement. And when an earlierproposed mission hit a roadblock, it wasT.J. who helped give me not only a betterperspective of the situation but also astrategy for moving forward,” PresidentDoti said in a message announcing the Rev. Liggett’s passing.

The university’s spiritual pillar was alsoaided by the Rev. Liggett, who helpedformulate Chapman’s dean of the chapelposition. “In doing so, he inspired a newvision for what a spiritual leader can bringto our university,” President Doti said.

The Rev. Liggett was instrumental in the 1993 covenant between The ChristianChurch (Disciples of Christ) and theuniversity, which affirmed the twoinstitutions’ shared values celebratingdiversity, an ecumenical spirit and the belief that all people are of infinite worth.

President Doti said the Rev. Liggett oftenwrote to him following trustee meetings,offering both praise and candid comments,and that his unique perspective as a leaderin higher education was a particular gift.

“His wise perspective has been invaluablein helping us address various challengesfacing the university,” President Doti said.

The Rev. Liggett became president of Christian Theological Seminary inIndianapolis in 1974, leading that institutionas it developed a global perspective onChristian faith. He served there until 1986.

He is survived by his son, ThomasMilton Liggett, and daughter, MargaretLiggett of Laurel, Md.

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CHAPMAN in memoriam

RICHARD DOETKOTTHe was a charismatic professor, Lincoln

expert, nationally recognized public speakingteacher and textbook author. But whenProfessor Richard Doetkott’s passing wasannounced, it was his beloved trademarkgreeting that flooded the Chapman Univer-sity Facebook page and comforted many ata campus memorial service that followed.

Alumni from throughout the decadesposted their Facebook tributes with “A fullMickey Salute,” referencing the professor’swhimsical way of greeting students andfriends with hands atop his head in a mockMickey Mouse pose. At the March 3memorial, friends, alumni and colleagues

all joined in a Mickey salute in his honor.The salute was always more than a bit offun, said Lance Lockwood, who taughtwith Doetkott for 10 years and co-authoredIntroduction to Public Conversing with theprofessor and his widow, Pat Doetkott, Ph.D.

“Dick made sure to teach me to nevertake myself too seriously,” Lockwood said.

Professor Doetkott died Dec. 21 of aheart attack. He was 75. He joined Chapmanin 1964, and his many projects includedhelping launch the Department of Commu-nication Studies with the late ProfessorRichard Watson. Professor Doetkott also

helped initiate Chapman Radio, AmericanCelebration and the first audio-visualprogram as well as early film and televisioncourses. In addition, he was the technicalconsultant for the Rose Center inWestminster, coordinated the West CoastConference for Corporate Communicationsheld at Chapman in 1994 and made filmand television appearances.

A talented speaker, he was the featuredpresenter at two major events in spring2011, including the Wilkinson Collegelecture “An Evening with Abraham Lincoln:The Gettysburg Address, What You Didn’tKnow.” He also delivered a lecture in the

Town and Gown Lunch at the Forum series.He was famous for setting up his chair

and portable shade cover around campus,ever ready to converse with faculty andstudents.

In the classroom, he infused his teachingwith a flair for theatricality. It wasn’t unusualto see him dressed in a toga or periodgarments that would have been worn byClarence Darrow or Stephen Douglas. Hefrequently portrayed historical figures as he discussed different types of oratory.

“He was someone who made Chapman,Chapman,” President Jim Doti said.

The professor affectionately known as“the Speech God” told Chapman Magazinein a 2010 interview that his most importantmilestone was the development of hispopular Com 101 class 20 years ago.

“There’s always a method to mymadness, but there’s always madness in mymethod, too,” Doetkott said, explaining theenergetic exercises and impromptu danceroutines he put students through to helpthem build confidence and a natural style.

Alumni of his classes swore by thetechniques.

“Professor Doetkott’s Com 101 classmade me into the public speaker I am

today,” said Sharaf Mowjood ’05, now an assistant producer with Rock Center with Brian Williams at NBC. “I still use the tactics I learned in that class in my day-to-day life.”

Speaking at the memorial, MichaelImmel ’75 described Doetkott as “a masterteacher who helped students becomeeffective speakers.”

To honor the professor, President Doti announced at the memorial that therecording studio at Chapman’s PantherProductions will be named the Richard and Patricia Doetkott Studio.

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LOUISE BOOTHLouise Booth, a devoted friend of

Chapman University and author of theaward-winning history book Fulfilling A Dream — The History of ChapmanUniversity, passed away Jan. 24.

Booth, the wife of 54-year ChapmanProfessor Don Booth and mother ofalumnus David Booth ’82, was famouslyhospitable to foreign students, new facultyand campus visitors.

“Louise was a remarkable woman in so many ways. I will always have warmmemories of her spirit, intellect and senseof humor. Her candor was refreshing.” said Chapman President Jim Doti.

“Sharp of mind with a passion for localhistory, Louise was among my favorite

Chapman people,” said David Moore, directorof planned giving. “When I hear a name or historical reference, her book, with itsmeticulous index, is the first place I look.”

A graduate of Indiana State University,Louise Booth completed her postgraduatework at the University of Southern California.After teaching English, speech, drama andhistory for 35 years, she retired to devoteher time to historical research and writing.

As chair of the Centennial Committeeof the Orange County Historical Society,she worked for four years planning anarray of public events and was managingeditor of The Centennial Bibliography ofOrange County, California.

In addition, she published six historical

monographs, three of them on the CivilWar. In 2001, she published her Chapmanhistory book, which won the 61st annualWestern Book Exhibition award.

KATHERINE DARMERChapman University School of Law

Professor Katherine Darmer, a legal scholarwho was often at the forefront of marriageequality issues and a founding boardmember and chair of the legal team of theOrange County Equality Coalition, passedaway Feb. 17. She was 47.

In the days following her death, acandlelight vigil in her memory was held on the steps of the law school, andThe Orange County Register created a pagewithin its online site for reflections andcomments that poured in from the legalcommunity and friends throughout the country.

Professor Darmer will be rememberedfor both her passion in the classroom andher leadership in the community, saidChapman colleague Timothy A. Canova,the Betty Hutton Williams Professor ofInternational Economic Law.

“Katherine was a fearless colleague, afighter for justice and champion of civilliberties. As a teacher, scholar, public voiceand activist, Katherine gave her time andtalents to the cause of helping others. Shewas strong, determined, effective, brilliant.When she saw oppression and injustice,

whether in society or in her own workplace,she worked for justice. She was a friend,mentor, and inspiration to so many. Wemiss her already and will remember heralways,” Professor Canova said.

In 2004, Professor Darmer was co-editorof the book Civil Liberties vs. NationalSecurity in a Post-9/11 World. In addition,she co-edited the book Morality and the Law,published in 2007. Professor Darmer’s otherscholarship focused primarily on Fifth

Amendment and national security issues as well as marriage equality, Proposition 8and equal protection. She was a frequentspeaker and media commentator onProposition 8 and marriage equality and the war on terror.

Before joining Chapman’s full-timefaculty in 2000, she served as an assistantU.S. attorney in the Southern District ofNew York, where she prosecuted publiccorruption, violent gang and narcoticscases. In 1998, she served as lead counselin a three-month criminal RICO trial thatresulted in numerous convictions.

To honor the professor, Chapman’sStudent Bar Association has renamed its Professor of the Year Award the M.Katherine Baird Darmer OutstandingProfessor of the Year Award. The award is traditionally presented in April.

“Katherine was beloved by the studentsand was an excellent classroom teacher,”said Jayne Taylor Kacer, associate dean for student affairs and administration.

Professor Darmer is survived by her husband of 12 years, Roman ErnestDarmer, and their two children, Lia and Locke.

She chose Chapman in part because she didn’t want “to get lost in a big school,” and

because during a visit to the campus, then on North Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles,

“everyone we saw spoke to us!”

Mary Belle was Methodist, but most of her friends at Chapman were Disciples of Christ

students, including Bob Carter, the bright and handsome son of a minister.

“I was a song leader, and Bob would sit with me in the front row at basketball games,”

she said. “Afterward, we would go up the street for ice cream.”

Even after Mary Belle transferred to College of the Pacific to major in religious education,

she returned often to Chapman to socialize with Bob and other friends, and he drove up to

be with her for her Homecoming in October 1950. That’s when he proposed. They married

June 13, 1951, and enjoyed 46 years together until Bob’s death in 1997.

Throughout Bob’s working life as a Disciples minister and Mary Belle’s as a preschool

teacher, they maintained close ties with a host of Chapman friends, and those bonds endure.

Mary Belle still corresponds with about 20 of those friends.

Each year, Mary Belle travels to Chapman from her home in Calimesa, Calif. for Founders

Day, and in 2001 she was invited to participate in the

graduation ceremony.

Though Chapman’s enrollment has grown from

a few hundred in 1951 to more than 6,000 today,

Mary Belle said it’s really not that hard to stay

connected to the university community.

It’s still “like one big family,” she said.

‘Chapman in the Blood’By Dennis Arp

lthough Mary Belle (Taylor) Carter, Class of ’51,

ultimately earned her degree from another college,

she never really transferred her Chapman loyalties.

Along with her husband Bob ’51, daughters

Linda ’75 and Karen ’76, son Brad, Class of ’81,

and granddaughter Sabreena Rodriguez ’13,

Mary Belle has “Chapman in the blood,”

she said. Mary Belle and Bob Carter, by the fishpond on the Los Angeles campus, September 1950.

Carter family members show their Chapman colors in 1992:from left, Linda ’75; Brad, Class of ’81; Karen ’76; Bob ’51and Mary Belle (Taylor) Carter, Class of ’51.

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C L A S S N O T E S

ecotourism radio shows and

articles in Nicaragua, Mexico,

Panama, Switzerland and across

the U.S. She recently won

re-election to the Los Angeles

Community College District Board

of Trustees and welcomes support

of her nonprofit organization at

www.ecoprojects.org.

1990s

Alicia Vargas-Pharis, BA

public relations ’99, spent a

decade in sports marketing

and public relations. Now she

has settled down to start a

family, giving birth to Reily

Alexander Pharis.

Bhavna Ahluwalia, BS

psychology ’98, could have

“fashionista” added to her

impressive credentials. As design

director for Dickies Girl for nine

years, she launched new brands

in Curvey and Workwear and

has traveled to international

trade shows. She has also

designed custom clothing worn

by Pink, Madonna, Avril Lavigne,

Ashley Simpson and many

other celebrities.

Jai Naran, BS business

administration ’99, (MBA ’02) and

his wife, Shakti, recently welcomed

twins Khloe Asha and Kaya Mischa

to their family. Jaidan Kobe is set

to be the fun-loving but cautiously

protective big brother.

Marcelo Imbert, BA English

’99, and Cherise (Stack) Imbert,

BA English ’00, Chapman

sweethearts, have welcomed Riley

Bronx Imbert, born May 29, 2011.

RBI, as they lovingly call him, is

destined to become a future Panther.

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1960s

Priscilla Barboo Laney,

BA home economics ’69; Ruth

Harrington Dempsey, BA home

economics ’69; and Lynn Lovejoy

Vollgraff, BA home economics

’69, enjoyed a lunch reunion in

Camarillo. They roomed together

in South Morlan from 1967–1968.

Larry Beard, BA physical

education ’63, currently resides

in Germantown, Md., near

Washington, D.C., close to his

son, Chris, Chris’ wife, Farah,

and grandkids J.P., Sebastien

and Anne-Marie.

1970s

Candace Vickers, BA

communicative disorders ’75

(MS communicative disorders ’78),

serves as a clinical faculty member

in neurological disorders for

Chapman’s Communication

Sciences and Disorders program,

which was brought back in fall

2009. Candace initiated the

Communication Recovery Aphasia

program for people with chronic

aphasia at St. Jude Medical Center

in 1994, and continues to co-direct

the program with a Chapman

doctoral student and adjunct

faculty member, Darla Hagge.

Candace was an invited speaker

for UCI School of Medicine’s

Department of Neurology and

Chapman University’s Schmid

College of Science and Technology,

which co-sponsored the Orange

County Stroke Rehab Network

conference.

Nancy Sue Pearlman ’70 has

spent the past year traveling on

short press trips to present

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2000sMatt Duffer, BFA film and television

production ’07, and Ross Duffer,

BFA film and television production

’07, have sold a script titled Hidden

to Warner Bros. Pictures. The project

marks the brothers’ feature-length

directorial debut and is scheduled

to begin filming this year.

Derek Wibben, BFA creative

writing ’09, is producing an

independent short film titled Snow

Jacket. He is supported by a network

of family and friends, many of

whom are alumni of Dodge College.

Marcieanna Jasko, MFA film

and television production ’07,

married William B. Klaustermeyer

in August 2011 at The Hacienda

in Santa Ana. Marcieanna works

as a Development Coordinator at

Indomina Media Inc.

Tiana Cho, BA liberal studies

’05, married Gilbert Loo on

December 10, 2011 at the Hawaii

Prince Hotel in Waikiki. Many

Chapman alumni were on-hand

to celebrate with them including

Sara Yamamoto, BS business

administration ’07, Shelby Hoota

’07, Kristen Nemoto, BA sociology

’06, and Kristina Khau, BS business

administration ’07. Tiana is a

Counselor at Leeward Community

College, and Gilbert works for

Alakai Mechanical.

Becky Campbell, BA music ’07, got

engaged to Tom Odle Jan. 7, 2012.

They started dating in May 2009,

and plan to get married in summer

2013, after Becky completes her

master’s degree in education. The

couple live in Costa Mesa.

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Anna Mitchell, BFA creative writing ’08, and Alexander Lane,BFA creative writing ’08, weremarried Dec. 10, 2011 at the French Estate in Orange. Thewedding party included fellowChapman alumni AlexanderCohen, BA psychology ’08; Enrique Wallace, BFA filmproduction ’08; Jared Merback,BFA film production ’08; JavieraCartagena, BA political science and Spanish ’08; Savannah Lane,BS biological science ’10; and Nikki (Sepesi) Bachelor, BApolitical science ’08. Anna works as the admissions specialist inChapman’s College of EducationalStudies, and Alexander will beginwork toward his teaching credentialat Chapman this summer.

Janet Lloyd, BA movement andexercise science ’08, head coach of Chapman University’s softballteam for the past 18 years, achieved the milestone of 500 career coaching victories on Feb. 18, when the Panthers defeated La Sierra University at El Camino Real Park.

Brandy Beard ’06, BS accountinggranddaughter of alumnus LarryBeard, BA physical education ’63,was recently offered a senioraccounting position with Fox Studios.

Monica Shukla, BS mathematicsand communication studies ’06, MShuman resources and organizationalleadership ’08, recently took on a newposition at the Chapman UniversityOffice of Alumni Relations as thealumni networks and outreachmanager. She previously worked at the Chapman University CareerDevelopment Center.

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Grant Reed, BFA film production

’09, had his film Incest! The Musical

win Best Student Film at the Dam

Short Film Festival in Boulder City,

Nev. in early February.

Nadia Hamzeh, MFA film

production ’09, was selected for

the Berlinale Talent Campus in

Germany, a creative academy and

networking platform for up-and-

coming filmmakers, as part of the

Talent Stage program.

2010s

Brian Drummy, BFA theater

performance ’10, has been cast in

the North American national tour

of Damn Yankees! He is currently

touring through 60 cities across

the country. He plays Smokey, the

catcher for the Washington Senators.

Aung Aye, BS athletic training ’10,

was recently hired as an assistant

athletic trainer for the Seattle

Sounders in Major League Soccer.

Daniel Bury, BFA film production

’11, had his film The Science of

Death win the Best Narrative Short

Film award at the Festivus Film

Festival in Denver in January.

Alexander Gaeta, Class of ’11, has

had his thesis film, Shoot the Moon,

screen in dozens of prestigious film

festivals, including six Academy-

accredited festivals: Austin,

Bermuda, Cleveland, Krakow in

Poland, Encounters in England,

and the Clermont-Ferrand Int’l

Short Film Festival in France.

Known as “Cannes for short films,”

Clermont-Ferrand is the largest

and most prestigious short film

festival in the world. Out of

10,000 films submitted, only 75

were selected for the international

competition. Shoot the Moon also

won the Director’s Choice Award at

the Angelus Student Film Festival,

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Caroline Lucas, BA political

science ’09, helped launch a

women-owned small business in

Armenia, producing and selling

handmade stuffed bears. Sales from

the Berd Bear project allow local

Armenian women to work full-time

at the Berd Women’s Resource

Center Foundation. Additional

income provides training classes in

basic computer skills and business

for members of the foundation.

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at the Next Reel Film Festival in

Singapore, and Alexander just

signed a distribution deal with Short

Film Sales in Europe. For more

information, check the website

at www.shootthemoonfilm.com

Roxanne Civarello, BA

communication studies ’10, is living

in San Francisco and working as the

director of alumni relations in the

advancement office of an independent

school in Pacific Heights. She is

building on experience gained at

Chapman in Associated Students

and Panhellenic, including event

planning, board management, social

media communications, graphic

design and publication production.

Robert Starr, BS computer

science and business administration

’11, is working on his Master of

Science in High Performance

Computing from the University

of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is

participating in the one-year

program on a Rotary International

Ambassadorial Scholarship after an

18-month application and interview

process. The degree focuses on the

practical application of programming

techniques on parallel computers,

commonly known as supercomputers,

to harness the best performance for

a variety of scientific applications.

Gursimran Sandhu, MFA film

production ’11, had her short

narrative film Homecoming nominated

as a finalist in the 2011 Director’s

Guild of America Student Awards.

Her film was also awarded 2011’s

Best Short Film at the Bahamas

International Festival, and a 2011’s

honorable mention at the Fort

Lauderdale International Film Festival.

Christopher Fernandez, MFA

film production ’11, had his film

Beneath screen at the Big Easy

International Festival in New

Orleans in late February.

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Inever thought I would be up at 4 in the morning, sitting in mypajamas at the kitchen table, hours past exhaustion, working on aWilliam Shatner music video,” said Daniel Bury ’11.But there he was on his trusty laptop, manipulating the mouth of Capt.

Kirk himself, helping to make the iconic 81-year-old actor as close to a hiprock balladeer as is humanly — and digitally — possible.

Creating psychedelic constellations, angry goats and other quirky effects,Bury helped Shatner’s version of Bohemian Rhapsody climb the charts, withmore than a million people now having watched the video online.

For Shatner, the album of pop cover songs called Seeking Major Tom isanother interesting twist in an eclectic career that now includes a turn onBroadway. His first pop album was released in 1968, more than 20 yearsbefore Bury was born. And a year ago, the Chapman film production anddirecting graduate had no idea he would be helping to promote the newalbum, which features musical contributions from Sheryl Crow, BradPaisley and Lyle Lovett.

Bury got the gig after posting a link to some of his film and video workon Craigslist. Shatner’s video director saw it and asked him to join thegraphic design team. It wasn’t long before Bury became the lead designerfor the video.

Though he has yet to talk with Shatner, Bury heard from the directorthat the actor really liked his work.

After the intense hours spent on the project, Bury has refocused onpromoting the short films he created at Chapman. The Science of Deathrecently won Best Narrative Short at the Festivus Film Festival in Denverand was accepted into the Fantastic Planet Film Festival in Sydney, Australia.

But working on Shatner’s video was certainly quite an escape from reality.

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iss America contestant Noelle Freeman ’11

had advanced through every round of

the pageant and after she performed her

talent, ballet, she achieved her primary

goal of making the top five.

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Daniel Bury ’11 Boldly Explores aNew Frontier With Shatner VideoBy Sarah Van Zanten ’11

Miss AmericaExperience ‘a Dream’for Noelle Freeman ’11

MSo when she heard her name called as the fourth

runner-up, “I was sad, of course, but I was stillextremely proud,” she later wrote in her blog.

“As time passes, I become more proud of myplacement and even more proud to be Miss California.”

It’s been quite a year for Freeman, who graduatedfrom Chapman last May with a degree incommunications studies /advertising and publicrelations, won the Miss California pageant in June and was a Miss America finalist in January.

She said she has been buoyed by support all along the way, including from members of theChapman community.

“Every text message, encouraging tweet, commentor ‘like’ on Facebook keeps me energized to leave a lasting imprint as Miss California,” she said.

And the Miss America experience?“Living out your dream is a crazy feeling,” she said.

“It’s something I will hold onto forever.”

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PARTINGSHOT

To spark her creativity, ProfessorLia Halloran goes to great lengths— and depths. Caves of ancientcrystals inspired this untitledwork, one of 10 large-scale paintingsHalloran is showing in a soloexhibition at Martha Otero Galleryin Los Angeles through the end ofMay. This piece is 5 feet by 7 feet,done in ink on drafting film, andis part of a series that combinesfigurative elements with naturalforms, all influenced by the growthof crystals in nature. ProfessorHalloran regularly draws inspirationfrom the natural and scientificworlds. For a look at her creativeprocess, turn to our cover packageof stories that begins on page 18.